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SUNDAY MORNING. The Largest Electrical Power-House in the World. §K Ifrijfc fjllj $ 'j£rf Jgju|j '" - *y%‘X&j ' ?'s■ 'ffiQpv&t&yvs?& 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 - 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. Afllft AIIBI For Cobl* .Unlria--Uv 1111 I■■llkl ■_ *2 Groin Quiiiu 1 Pi. a wot Ij ii § § 5 |M 5 |vl P postpaid or on r <Jip Hißlr. yuiniiiL 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 Club ‘ ~ *5OOO forfeit if original of abcoe Ittttr proving genuineness cannot be produced. Women should remember there r,e d and true remedy for all female ills, Lydia E. Pink ham s V egetable Compound. Re fuse to buy any other medicine, you need the best. CATHAIiTIC^^^ Genuine stamped CC C. 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