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The Largest Electrical Power-House in the World.
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THIS PLANT SUPPLIES THE KLECTHIO t'OWKK FOB THE MANHATTAN EI.EVATEI) UAII.UOAIt,
,OF NEW YORK CITY. THE EXCISES EQUAL 80.000 HOUSE I’OWKIt, AND OPERATE Till ETY
SEVEN MILKS OF RAILWAY. —From lliii'imt'k Weekly.
THE GREATEST OF
ELECTRICAL POWER
HOUSES.:::::
HE groat electflenl l>owev
house of Ule Miililmttoll Ele
vated Railroad system at
Seventy -sixth street mid the
Bust River, in New York, is the largest
nf the kind iu the production of elec
trical units In the world. It hits the
capacity to supply tlilrty-sevon miles
uf elevated railroad, and will soon he
In full operation.
This (Treat power house contains
eight massive electrical generators.
mm are Intended, llaally. to sun
plant 310 steam locomotives, pulling
1200 ears, and carrying 200,000.000 pas
sengers a year. Each of the genera
tors produces as much energy as 500,-
000 men would produce working con
tinuously. Each generator weighs 270,-
000 pounds, and rests In frames forty
two feet high. The rotary part of each
Machine Is thirty two feet in diameter,
and revolves al the rate of 7540 feet,
or nearly a inlle ami a half, a minute.
These muehhtes are driven liy station
ary engines of 8300 horse power capac
ity.
The normal capacity of each of these
enormous generators is 5000 Kilowatts,
or 0700 horse power. When driven it:
their greatest s|veed they will each pro
duce T.'shi kilowatts, or 10,000 horse
power. There is also 111 the large pow
er house an extensive auxiliary ’plant
for the use of the power house alone,
employing unfit I polar generators, con
verters and transformers.
There are twenty six rotary convert
ers, each of lotto kilowatt capacity, at
eight (nth-stations of the system In the
city, and seventy-eight transformers,
each of 530 kilowatt capacity, to re
duce the electric current from a volt
age of 11,000 to 3to. The transformers
deliver an alternating current to the
converters, aud these in turn deliver a
direct current of c,gr. volts, through the
third rail, to the ear motors.
A MoUhti’ im<l Father*’ C luh.
The Mothers' and Father's Club, of
Boston, has a full library of books on
educational matters, and which relate
to the training of children.
Irclwml'* Lunatic*.
Ireland lias one lunatic for ever"
178 of the papulation. y
The *■ Olit-flo' ” Man.
Every illuming it dark, thick-set ntim
may be seen walkng up and down
Broadway, between Twenty-third and
Thlftv-tl|ird streets. Often lie pauses
several times to accost sonic of Ids
fellow-pedestrians, but sometimes lie
walks ills beat 'without giving more
titan it glance to tin* passers-by. Tills
man is a driller in old clothes, and
for the last fifteen years lit* lias done
most of his business in this particular
part of the city. A great many i.l' tlte
men In* meets arc his regular custom
ers. and lie never worries them by
look or word, knowing that they will
always come to hint whenever they
have cast-off garments to sell. 1 tut
if the dealer sees a stranger- and lie
has a faeulty for picking strangers
out of a crowd - lie immediately selects
that man for ills victim. Tin id
clo' ” man says that In addition to his
regular customers in* catches many
strangers, and altogether tin* business
in profitable. New York Post
A R.OW OF CARVED
FIGURES, EASTER ISLAND
Among the wonders of the South
Sens may be accounted the curiously
carved figures on the shores of Easter
QVHEII STAVES OX EASTEK ISLAND.
Island. They are monoliths, and some
of them are over fifty feet 111 height.
These figures terminate Invariably at
the h'ps and the back of the heads are
covered with pictorial Inscriptions.
The pictures of these strange figures
are reproduced from ihe Pall Mall
Magaziue
Germ an Canllnl in rorrlsn Uounlfle-
Until thirty years ago the German
empire was one of the weakest nations
financially, hilt now, iustend of being
in need of foreign capital Germany is
following the example of England and
France, and Is loaning and investing
money in foreign countries. According
to a recent semi-official statement there
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GRACE REFORMED CHURCH. \| ASHINGTON. D C.
are about $2,600,060,000 of German
capital invested in the United States
and Mexico, it is estimated that an
other 52.00u.000.000 are invested in
Central and South America, some
$250,000,000 ill Turkey, and about Sl.-
000,000.000 In Africa. Australia and the
Far East. Iu addition to this it is
| claimed that s*'>.ooo,ooo,ooo are invost
! ed in stocks and bonds in different
countries.
A Curl out* Affliction,
"Third-rail eye" is the term applied
to a curious affliction, supposedly
caused by the modern tliird-igiil elec
tric railway, it seems to tie due to the
entrance of tuinnte particles of steel
into the eye. and causes much anguish.
(oillon# of 9liery,
It is estimated that over 600,000 gal
lons of castor oil are manufactured
annually In the United States.
All one's life is music, if one touches
the notes rightly
THE BRI7NBfrICK DAILY NEWS.
Where the President
Goes to Church
By Gabrlelle Marie Jacobs.
THAT Theodore Roosevelt
should have chosen one of
Washington's smallest and
least pretentious churches ns
bis place of worship was characteris
tic of him as man and President.
Grace Reformed Church occupies the
rear portion of a valuable piece of land
at the northeast corner of Fifteenth
and O streets, just at the eastern bor
der of Washington’s most fashionable
residence section. In common with
many other small churches, whether at
city or village, it represents years of
supreme seif-denial on the part of it
few devoted souls—ill this case the de
scendants of tliose sturdy pioneers
who canto from the Rhine Palatinate
early in the eighteenth century, and
settled in Montgomery County and
other eastern counties in Pennsylva
nia. The adherents of this denomina
tion. later known as “The German Re
formed Church in the Fnited States."
spread upward along the Hudson and
downward into North Carolina, estab
lishing places of worship and found
ing institutions of learning, and other
wise so dreply taking root in the fer
tile soil of jt free country that at its
second general synod, held in Itayton.
Ohio, in 1860, the word "German” was
dropped front its name, and it became
known as the “Reformed Church In
the United States.”
Its worship is liturgical and its gov
ernment Presbyterian. The first of its
ministers who ennte to this country
brought with tlietutheliturglcs of those
sections of Germany and Switzerland
from which they emigrated; preference
being given to that of the Palatinate.
This, with a few modifications, contin
ued in use until 1800. when the present
order of worship was reported by a
committee appointed for Cue purpose.
Each congregation is governed by a
consistory, composed of pastor, elders
and deacons. The elders and deacons
are ordained by the laving on or hands.
The Washington congregation was
organized In 1877, and the church at
Fifteenth and •> streets was built two
or three years later. It is n small
building, of ret! brick, crowned by a
modest spire and cross. The sloping
ceiling is frescoed in a delicate shade
of lilae, with friezes in neutral tints,
and the windows ore of. stained glass
ill a simple, yet tasteful design. Over
the altar are three black tablets, hear
ing in gill letters the Cord's Prayer,
tlie Apostle’s Creed and the Ten Com
mandments. At the left of the altar a
slightly elevated inclosure forms the
choir loft.
Every Sunday morning, just at the
stroke of 11, a voluntary sounds from
the sweet-toned chape] organ. It ie
followed with an am hem by the choir
during which an usher rarer!* to the
second pew in tin* middle tier the Pres
ident of the Pulled States, usually ac
companied by one or two of his ohil
dren. He P aves tlu:. White House a
few minutes ilefore t/ and with raptc
strides passes up Sixteenth street
scarcely slackening Ids pace when Ik
gains tin* brick walk leading to tin
door of tin* church. Taking'his plnct
reverently in ids pew Mr. Roosevelt
follows the order of worship and sings
the hymns with a reverence befitting a
descendant of the sturdy Netherland
er* who fought kings, popes and the
ocean itself, and during their warfare
planted and nurtured the seeds of an
undying faith. When the benediction
lias been pronounced the worshipers
remain standing in the pews until he
lias left the church.
The present pastor of Grace Gliarcli!
Rev. J. M. Schick, D. D.. assumed liis
charge four years ago. Since iiis in
cumbency tlte membership has rapidly
Increased, and the little church is now
too small for even the regular congre
gation. Consequently, during the past
summer ground was brokeu for the
foundation of a very, much larger
house of worship, on the vacant space
which lies just south of the parsonage
and fronting the present church.
Woman's Home Companion.
The Marconi Syntcm Adopted.
The Marconi system of wireless tele
graphy lias entered the Hudson A alley.
A station for the transmission of mes
sages is now being erected in New burg
and another will soon be established
in Hudson. Yonkers, Poughkeepsie and
Albany arc also selected for stations.
ASIATIC MAILS HABO TO t'.'MVJZ.
Change* in the Seattle to Fa
cilitate Them.
Ferhnps the most difficult section <-
the duties of the foreign mails office
of the United Sta*es Fostofiko De
partment is that of Asiatic mails, says
the American Asiatic. Recently there
have been some changes In the meth
ods of the department, and particularly
toward quicker dispatch. Among there*
changes is the assignment i:> the Seat
tle office of the making up of inward
and outward mails for ail sailings and
arrivals of mail steamships of the
ports of Seattle. Tacoma, and Vancou
ver and Victoria, in connection with alt
territory north of Canton, in Fast Asia.
This includes alt, the vessels of the
Great Northern or Nippon Yiiscn
Kaisha Company, ihe Northern Pa
cific Steamship Company, and the
Royal Mail Steamship Company, sail
ing to and from Japan and Cbiaa. Tin*
territory involves China ami coast
pointer south. Japau, Siberia ami Korea.
Tin* duties of the foreign department
of tile Seattle poslotiice are particu
larly responsible in the proper assign
ment of mails to the Hast Asiatic dis
tributing points. And iu ii:e aiixciue
of Asiatic detailed g agraphia intelli
gence by tile general public, and also
due to the general ignorance of the
postoffice “gcog' apliy” prompt dispatch
is often impossible. Mall of tea vouches
this point from Interior I’u'.ted States
offices, being wrongly directed by the
addres-sor. which k::s ,o lie rcdirccli and
via New York.
This is particularly -tin* case vi.lt
mail for British India, the Hutch Fast
Indies, and other inipar.rnt trailCr
points not within it- ir:ms-P;re:ibmad
jurisdiction. Mails are runic up at
Seattle for Japan, whence Korean and
Siberian mail is distributed Shiingka .
Hongkong and Chinese ports depend
ent on Hongkong distribution. Mail
is also taken for the Pldli-mhirs when
directed by inis rouic. Irn at iuiert*:*-
tional rates, ail Philippine Islands mail
heiug usually routed at domestic, rates
via San Francisco on accouui of the
United S:aics transport • mail service
thence. San Francisco distributes mail
for trans-Pacific sailings and arrivals
at that port. New Yprfc sends mail by
as.era or Suez route to India.
Siam ami Dutch Fast Indies. This
mail goes direct to London for trr.ns'c
to British mail steamships.
WCTDS OF VVSOCM.
Sincerity is the secret of success. j
It lakes more than money to make
a living.
Self-surrender is the . rerei of soul- 1
satisfaction.
The tree of knowiciig ■ is not tlie
tree of life.
To break our mirrors will not mate*
us beautiful.
Tin* heart is only clean when it is :
wholly clean.
You cannot make an enc:u.t without
losing a friend.
Sympathy for others is a salve for ;
our own sorrows.
It is a vain hope that the chains cf
habit will rust off.
The supreme art of living may lie
summed up in giving
When a father is too cade: iiis sens
usually balance things.
Life is a man's opportunity for the
realization*of his ideals.
To he at our Lost to-morrow we
must be at our lies; to-day.
When ambition is the chib! of envy
it will lie the mother of sorrows.
The lights of the world are not il
lumined by the tires of controversy.
lie who has friends only to use .lira
will have thrisi only So lose tivm.-
Rmu's Horn.
At In Conversational Varro!*.
Do parrots understand what they
say 7 A correspondent writes tha. a
friend with a flue green Brazilian par
rot has been staying viih her. The
parrot is a fluent and accomplished
speaker. A gray parrot was intro
duced one day. but the Brazilian
haughtily declined to have anything <o
say to lie.* gray. Then another friend,
who had just been given a newly im
ported green Brazilian, brought the
newcomer to cal!. The moment the
parrots caught, sight of earn other tiiej
broke into a torrent of apparently nr-;
tieulate language, consisting, its it
seemed, of questions ami answer-. but
what tile language was no one present
could tell. The owner of the first par
rot hail never during tile years i, had
lived with tier heard it speak lids I
strange tongue. The two parrots
talked to each other without ceasing
all the time they wore together, and a
few days later, when they met again,
exactly the same tiling ha pin tied. Was
the firs- parrot—long i idled from >,s
native forests asking eagerly for a.-•
of its p. uple7 - London Chronicle.
Omuir in [lint,
1 Hist as a cause of pulmonary taker- j
eulosls, according to the ropor. of the !
imperial health office in Berlin, is dear
ly shown in the statistics of the pa
tients treated at the sixty institutions ;
of the empire for the <yar* of tuber- j
culosis. In 1005 cases, or more than i
half of tin* 2161 persons under conoid- •
oration, the origin of tile disease was
alleged to In* due to Hie continuous iu- ‘
halation of dust involved by their cm- j
ploymenf. as follows: four hundred ■
and thirty-one cases from the effect of
dust, 116 eases from the effect of wool i
dust. 111 cases from the effect >f wood j
dust, and 126 eases from the effect of
various kinds of dust. These facts \
suggest to hygienists and inventors
the necessity of devising dust eonsum- j
ers and dust preventers for factories, j
workshops, etc. This is a fact that
legislators should bear in mind.—Amec j
lean Medicine.
Her rrettir Teetli.
When a woman smiles it is a sign
she has pretty teeth. -New York Press.
SETTINC UP A_SAV'ACE,
How models Are M<t- t Hie Museum o'
Natural History.
A comparatively few years ago the
ethnologic .collections of the American
Museum of Natural History amounted
to but a few "Indian relies” under Gi..\
, custodianship of the janitor. To-day
! ihe museum's collection is oge of tan
; finest in the world, and presided over
! by recognized authorities in the fic-d
! or ethnology. A novel feature of tin*
exhibition jiall consists of statues o.
ethnologic types.
One is that of an Eskimo from the
I region about the west coast of Hu b
! sou Bay. and several others are now
in the hands of the artists and will
lie shortly compleled. These statues
are not mere doils or manikin* con
structed to look somewhat like the na
i tive. They are true life basis. A na
tive is either brought to the museum
or else a sculptor goes into the wilder
ness in search of him. when h.v dint
of adroit cajolery the savage is pet
suaded to allow bis hand to be cast iu
plaster of Paris. Thou his foot. leg.
arm, and so on.
Tlip task oDmaking a cast of a wiioic
live savage so as to construct there
from a perfect representation of■ tin
individual who is typical of his tritTc
is no small undertaking. First, the
whole body lias to he smeared with
grease, especially the hair, otherwise
Hi** piaster of Paris would .'ill!:ere so
firmly is to make its removal utterly
impossible. Then the piaster is mixed
with hot water so that it will set
quickly and a portion of the individual
to lie reproduced is covered. This has
to-lie arranged so that it will "draw.”
that is. gome off unbroken. During the
making of a life cast the greatest skill
and patience have lo he exercised,
for should the model move lip wi.l
throw all the previous work out of
line cud the statue will bp deformed.
Aficr'all the pieces of the l loiil are
thus made from the living individual,
they are fitted together and must form
a perfect negative. Into this mold is
poured liquid plaster, and after it lias
“set” hard, the negative is removed,
revealing a perfect reproduction of the
living man in glistening white piaster.
After some delicate finishing touches
by the sculptor to remove little irregu
larities the statue is handed over to tin*
artists, who accurately paint it like
the aborigine.
Next tin* wig man is called upon and
reproduces ns nearly as possible thoi
iiair of tlie subject. Finally, a suit of
clothing, as worn by flic native in daily
life. Is fitted upon the now completed
statue, and the plaster representation
of a true saYage gazes through plaster
eyes at throngs of curious citizens
who come 'to look and marvel. A life
cast of n Sioux Indian will soon he
added to the museum's plaster family.
—New York Times.
Ant# on Knr<bnck.
M. Charles -Meisseu, a French ex
plorer. iu traveling through Siam, ob
served a species of small gray ants
which wore new to him. rays the Lon
don Express. These ants, says the
Kobe Herald, were much engaged in
traveling. They lived iu damp places
anil went In troops. To his surprise he
noticed among them, froru&tlnu* to
time, an occasional ant vWleh was
much larger than the others and
moved at a much swifter pace, and
each of these larger ants, M. Meissen
saw, always carried one of this gray
ants on its back. While the main body
of gray ants were always on foot, they
were accompanied by at leas: one of
their own sort mounted on one of the
larger ants. It mouthed and detached
Itself now anil then from the line, rode
rapidly to the head, came swiftly back
to the rear, and seemed to be the com
mander of the expedition. The ex
plorer was satisfied that tills species
of ant employs a larger ant—possibly
a drone of the same species jus;, as we
employ horses to ride upon, though
scarcely more then one ant In each
colony seems to be provided with a
mount.
Tfir rope’# Llbrurr.
Dr. HughT. Henry, of Philadelphia
tile President of the Catholic High
School, said recently that when lie
sent to Rome a copy of his recently
Issued translation of tha Pope’s poems
the volume went unbound. "In the
pontiilciai library.” Dr. Henry c x
plained, “the books have a uniform
binding -white vellum and gold,
stamped with the papal arms. These
an* tin* Pecei arms, and consist of a
strip of green earth, a tr?e, a strip
of blue, and one star shining. The
motto is ‘Lumen in Coelo’ (Light in
Ileaveni. When President Roosevelt
sent a fu!! s - 1 of his books to the Pope
lie knew nothing of the uniform white
vellum binding, and the volumes were
brave with tree calf and tooling and
the finest skill of the American bind
ing were left intnet, and over them
was feared that all those fine covers
would have to be torn off. but a com*
promise was hit on. The America if j
bindings were left intact, and ovet
them like nil outer cover, the papal
bindings of vellum and gold were set."
—New York Tribune.
A Fontlirred HicliWiivnuin.
The new man-o'-war hawk is a some
what large bird and an expert fisher.
buPlio does most of his fishing in tin
air. When the booby bird comes home
troin abroad he find the man-o'-war
hpwk “Ir.yhfi for him,” and. however
persistently lie may seek to escape by
dashing flight, with much screeching
ami screaming, he finds that before
he can safely set foot on the land he
must disgorge a fish or two, which the
swift pursuer adroitly catches iu the
air. It seemed, however, to be gener
ally understood as a modus vivendi be
tween the fisher and the pirate birds
that their contentions were only on
the wing, and that once on land they
should dwell peacefully in their sep
arate camping grounds.—Century Mag
azine.
DECEMBER 7
CATARRH OF LCNfIS.
A Prominent Chicago Lady Cured
by Pe-ru-fia.
Misa Maggie Welch, Secretary of the
Betsey Rosa Educational and Benevolent"
Society, writes from 328 North State street,
Chicago, 111., the following glowing words
concerning reruna:
“Last fall I caught the most severe cold
I ever had in my life. I coughed night and
day, and my lungs and throat became so
sore that I was in great distress. All cough
Miss Maggie Welch.
remedies nauseated me, and nothing af
forded me relief until my doctor said
rather in a joke, ‘l guess Parana is the
only medicine that will cure you/
*1 told him that I would certainly try
it, and immediately sent for a bottle. I
found that relief came the lirst day, and as
I kept taking it faithfully the cough grad
ually diminished and the* soreness left me.
It is line/'—Maggie Welch.
Address the Peruna Medicine Cos., Co
lumbus, Ohio, for free literature on catarrh.
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HAD MET BEFORE.
The judge, stern and authoritative,
leaned out over his desk and looked
down at the young bellgerent, a boy
of about 9, who had been brought In by
a big policeman for Judgment.
Sizing the boy up and down over
his glasses, the Judge cleared his
throat.
“Young man,” he said, "do you un
derstand the ethics of swearing?”
“Yes, sir,” replied the urchin
promptly, "I caddied for you last sum
mer'”'
Judge, three minutes later —Prisoner
discharged.—New York Sun.
THAT, WISE DISCOVERER.
Columbus had been on his voyage
several tggeks when the sailors became
frightened by the vacations of the
compass.
"But how can you tell the way the
needle points?’ inquired the chief en
gineer, suggesting retreat.
"Sit on it!” roared the angry navi
gator’.
Satisfied by the logic of the answe*
the dissenters withdrew, while Chris
topher savagely boxed the compass.—
New York Times.
■ Another club woman, Mrs. ®
Haule, of Edgertoib Wis., tells
bow she was cured of irregulari
ties and uterine trouble, terrible
pains and backache by Lydia E.
Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound.
“ A while ago my health began to
fail because of female troubles. The
doctor did not help me. I remembered
that my mother had used Lydia E.
PinlrHa ill's Vegetable Compound
on many occasions for irregularities
and uterine troubles, and I felt sure
that, it could not-harm me at any rate
to give it a trial.
“ 1 'was certainly glad to find that
within a week I felt much better, the
torrible pains in my back and side
were beginning to cease, and at the
time of menstruation I did not have
nearly as serious a time as hereto
fore, so I continued its use for two
mouths, and at the end of that time I
was like anew woman. I really have
never felt better in my life, have not
had a sick headache since, and weigh
20 pounds more than I ever did, so I
unhesitatingly recommend Vegetable
Compound."—Mbs. May Haclk. Ed
gerton, Wis., President Household
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abcoe Ittttr proving genuineness cannot be produced.
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ham s V egetable Compound. Re
fuse to buy any other medicine,
you need the best.
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