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Sitting in the rotunda of the Alexander
hotel of Louisville, Proctor Knott told this
story:
st was the most remarkable scene ever
witnessed. 1t occurred during nv early man
hood, when was attorney general of Mis-
souri,. Robert Stewart was then governor of
that state. One day l was in his private
Office when he pardoned n steamboat man
for some crime. What it was have forgot
ten, but that does not mntter The man had
been brought from the penitentiary to the
governors Office He was Il large, powerful
fellow, with the rough manners Of Ills class.
The governor looked nt the steamboat
man and seemed strangely affected He
scrutni2cd him long aud closely Finally he
signed the document that restored him to
liberty, but before he handed il t. lin sail:
y on will commit some other crime, and be
in the pcnitentiary again, fear TIE man
solcnnly promised that he would not. The
governor looked doubtful, mllsed d few mo-
ments, and said: @ .a".@Ia @0@ma@
"'You will 70 back on the river ana be a
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THE san FRANCISCO.

teen knots per hour; for every quarter Of q
knot in excess of that the government will
pay premium Of $4,000 aud exact q pen
atty of like amount for every quarter OF q
knot she falls below it The contract price
was 81 ,42sooo.
Quick work has been DONG on the San Fran
cisco. The contract was dated Oct. 26. 1887.
and She is required to DO wholly completed
by April, 1890, and five months delay was
caused by some material changes in the en-
G,nes and boilers directed by tic navy de
lEirtncnt. Consequently the construction
may be said TO have been begun Auri /,
lSSs. The Philadelphia, Il sister cruiser to
The san Francisco, launched two months be
fore. was begun Oct. q, 1857 MI thc newly
invented appliances for increasing the steam
generating capacity, ventilating tic hull and
protecting the locomotive machinery nre
provided for
The San Francisco is vet officially known
as Cruiser No. j." and her main battery viii
consist OF twelve 6-inch breech loading rifles,
mounted Oh central pivot carriages support
ing scgmcntnl shields, two inches in thick-
ness, for the purpose Of protecting tho guns
crew rs well rs the mechanism OF the gun
carriages from machine gun fire. Two guns
forward are mounted on the forecastie deck
one on each side, and train from G5 to l1;i
degs. 1t Is only the forced dranght that is
calculated to reach 1880 horse power, the
natural draught being 1900 The rig is that
of a threa inastetl schooner, without head
boom, tho sal being mere auxiliary mouve
power.
The protective deck extends tho length of
the vessel, and nmidships is twenty-one inches
above the water line. This is a feature OF
modern cruisers designed to protect the boil
ers and machinery from stray shots which
may penetrate the sides or openings; for it is
now Il recognized fact that no cruiser. in
deed no vessel for general service, can be
protected as whole. No armor of practica-
BILE application can protect vessel against
guns already in use. All that can be done is
to protect her vitals,' and leave the rest to
the chances Of war.
A worse day for the launching could
scarcely have been devised, yet it was II
perfect success, and Was attended by NIL the
naval disnitaries i'll the port, oil the officials
of San Francisco and a very large concourse
of Indies and gentlemen. Just at noon the
signal was given. II chrsten thee San Fran
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Indian ScalnS In Demand.

A Monroe street hair dealer; 'If you know
where can get any Indian scalps shall be
obliged to you for that information. Indian
scalps, like buffalo heads, are becoming
mighty scarce You never can account for
peoples tustes, Now, about the last thing in
the world that some people want is an Indian
scalp, and yet there are people who want
just that sort Of curiosity. had on Indian
belt not long ago which had nino scolps hung
to it, and sold it to a man on the north side
for $35. l have a bunch of hair here--it isn't
a scalp, as there is no skin attached to it, Just
q handful, as it werc 1t is worth IS. In
dans are not scalping as much as they used
to, md that is why scalps are high. In fact
everything which Indians used to make is be-
coming scarcer aud more valuable Take the
common Indian basket that used to sell for
s. dozen, now you can't get one for that
money. There are two reasons for this One
is that travellers buy them first hands as curl
osittes and pay the Indians just .snat they
ask. Another reason is that since tho gov
ernment has got to taking such interest in
Indians, taking care of them, tho Indians arc
lazier than ever aud make less than former
ly."-Chicago Tribune.
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that OF county commissioner, civil engineer
OF the board, etc.
He united with tho First Congregational
church in 1870 and was clerk and member
of the committee for twelve years. He is
now tho oldest living member of the church
and the Oldest man in town He was elected
president of tho North Drookfield Railroad
company at its organization in 1875, and
has held that position ever since.
Mr.. Eye is believed to bo the Oldest Mason
in tho state, and one Of the Oldest in tho
United States. He joined Meridian Sim
lodge, Of Brookfeld, in 1916. In personal
appearance Mr.. Nye is rather below the me.
dium height, erect and with an elastic step
His habits have been throughout life tenl-
perate and regular. A moderate user of to-
bacco for fifteen or twenty years, he aban-
doncd its use over forty years ago, believing
it to bo injurious to his health. AS an illus
traton of his vigorous constitution may be
cited his election, when 50 years of age, to
the presidency of the North Brookfield rail
road, in 1875. This was position requiring
much energy, and would not have been con-
ferred upon man at an age when most are
past their usefulness unless he was of excep-
tional vigor. When the surveys and con
tracts had been completed, it was President
Nye who Justify welded the pick and moved
the first earth, one summer day in 1875.
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Common and Chemical Names

The following list Of common and chemical
names Of substances may he Of assistance:
Aqua FORTS lsnltrlc acid. Aqua regia is nitro
inuriatlc acid. Blue vitriol is sulphate of cop
per- Cream of tartar is biturtrate potassium
Calonel is chloride of mercury Chalk is car
Donate Of calcium. Salt Of tartar is carbonate
OF potassa Caustic potash is hydrnte potas-
SUM. Chloroform is chloride of formyle
Common salt is chloride OF sodium. Con-
peras, or green vitriol, is sulphate of iron
Corrosive subllmate is bichlori,le of mercury
Dry alum is sulphute aluminium aud potas-
SUM. EPSON salts is sulphate of magncsia
Ethiops mineral is black sulphatc of mercury,
Fire damp is light carburetted hydrogen.
Galena is sulphde Of lead Glauber salt is
sulphate of sodium. Glucose is grape sugar.
Goulard water is basic acetate Of lead Iron
pyrltcs is bisuphidesof iron. jewelers. putty
is oxide of tin. Kings yellow is sulphide of ar
senle. Laughing gas is protoxide OF nitrogen.
Lime is oxide of calcium. Lunar caustic is
nitrate Of silver. Mosaic gold is bisulphide
of tin. Muriate Of lime is chloride of cal
cium. Nitrate of saltpetre is nitrate of pot
ash. Oil of vitrol is sulphuric acid Potash
is oxide of potassium. Realgar is red sui
phuret Of arsenic. Red lead is oxide OF lead.
Rust Of iron is oxide of iron Salammonac
A' IAi 4tAlS VI tbIllilolIA toldCkcu Is ny
drate calcium. Soda is oxide of sodium.
Spirits of hartsllorn is ammonia Spirits of
salt is hytlrochloridc of 1nuriatic acid Stucco,
or plaster of Paris is sulphate of lime Sugar
of lead is acetate of lead. Verdigris is basic
acetate of copper, Vcrmilion is sulphide Of
mercury. Vinegar is acetic acid diluted. Vol
atile alkali is ammonia. Water is oxide of
hydrogen White precipitate is ammoniated
mercury. White vitriol is sulphate of zinc
Iron
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OF the total railroad mileage of the world
the United States now possess nearly one
half At the end Of 1883, the aggregate
length of all lines in the country was 156, ,OS2
miles, all built in sixty years, the average
mileage per year being nearly 1900 miles
But this record of sixty years, wonderful as
it is, fades into insisniticance when compared
with the achievements Of the past twenty
three years. Tho total mileage OF our rail
roads ut the close OF 1865 was 80, ,OS5 miles,
In the twenty-three years since then there
have been constructed 121 600 miles of new
road, an average Of $3.50 miles per annum
During these twenty three years the coibtry
has experienced three great waves of railroad
construction, which were checked only by
extraordinary financial revulsions.
The first of these great construction waves
occurred within the eight years previous to
the panic of 1878, i'll which time the mileage
increased more than 100 per cent. The de-
preston which followed extended through the
years 1S74-'7s. During 1870 matters began to
improve throughout the country, and this
feeling was reflected through tho railroads.
In that year construction increased nearly
100 per cent. over the preceding year. In the
third wave Of construction, during tho years
1SsG-'Ss, the new construction aggregated
2s, 140 miles, OF within tifty-eight miles Of the
extraordinary record of the three years,
1SS1-'S3-Poor's Manual, 1889.
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ELEVATION

dous" ana all the old words in the diciionurv
which have served this purpose have become
tune, The designs have increased in size,
each succeeding one, over its predecessor,
till they are now so great that all previous
structures on the earth's surface, including
the Eiffel md the Babel towers and tho pyra-
mitis Of Egypt, have become mere pigmies in
comparison
Mr.. George W. Cooley, of Minneapolis, Is
the lust candidate. with design which
eclipscs nll former ones, He proposes mas.
sive stone pyramid Of granite, each side of
whose base is to be $50 feet long, 800 feet
vide, 900 feet high and 100 feet square at
tho summit, where is to stand a statue Of
Liberty 200 feet high giving Il total elevation
of 200 feet
IN tho center OF the pyramid, . says The
Minneapolis Tribune, twill be circular
chamber 80 feet i'll diameter, the sides to be
Of polished granite and rising in the form Of
u Gothic arch to the apex. which is 700 feet
from the pavement Leading TO this central
chamber are four passaseways Or corridors,
with III archni roof, the keystone Of the arch
beng 100 feet above the surface level The
entrances to these corridors will be on the
middle OF each size Of the pyramid and will
he constructed with q view tp ornament as
well as utility. Abou. midway hctween the
cxtreniities Of each corridor will be un oc-
ta@onal chamber somewhat higher than the
corridor itself. At each outer corner Of the
pyramid is square to"er 100 feet in
height, to be surmounted by Il statue Two
statues only have been decided upon by Mr.,
Cooley. those Of Columbus unl Washington.
The others will probably be those Of the
president OF the United States md some
other prominent character in the nations
history-"
Some pretty big pieces of work for the fair
have been laid out, but nothing that COM
parcs with this. Its base will cover 1G1 acres,
or quarter section OF land The time re
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ters in Nav En,lan1 T., ,e7o s,s,,, ,,,r,.;,,
married Mr. ,red in Portland ond thav
afterwards resided there Mrs paad i a..
scribed us being n cultivated and rot;nod ,vo-
man, who would well fill the nrominent soc;oI
position falling to the wife of the sneaker az
the United States house Of renrosentativ.s
AS to personal appearance Mrs. Reed Is of
medium height, with dark hair and ewes. Sb,
has daughter, who. since she i but X years
old, would scarcely be able to assist her
mother in position Of social prominence
Mrs j. G. Burrows, of Michigan, was a
girl at the Kalamazoo academy, where Mr..
Burrows was d teacher. She was Mary Pnck
her father being one of tho early settlers of
Michigan when it was territory. When tho
civil war broke out MIR. Burrows left bjs
young lady pupils for stcruer duties Ha went
away to the war, but seems to have carried
with him the heart Of Mary Peck When
peace came he returned to Michigan and bo
gan to practice law. He vas made pros,n,,t.
ing attorney in 1865 and in the sa,no yoar
was married to Miss Peck.
Mrs Burrows entered Washiuptnn socatv
wien her husband went to congress in ls73
She ut cIce became very ,,,n,,lar Shn Il
very accomplished, being skillful with the
artists brush, and has given a great deal of
her work to l,e sold for cbaritable nurnoses
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II wcGh! rot surprise Inc to sec some fearful
catastrophe happen i'll the near future by
reason Of the general, might say pcrnicious,
employment of electricity as M agent of civ
iiizaton, think we have reused up a force
that We may be unable to control. Take the
electric overhead railroads. They are driven
by power impossible to compute, and vet
that force sometimes subsidies for hours to-
gctllcr, and the nblest electricians are neither
able to awaken it again CT tell why it ceases
to operate, and yet it will start again rs sud
deniyas IL stopped, apparently independent
Of human control. Within u few days
have seen an electric light wre set on fro by
becoming wet, aud burn as brightly rs car
bon, and some such accident happens during
every rain. The laws governing this mighty
force are but little understood, and there is
reason to fear that it may yet become dan
gerousy defiant Of conlrol.--lntervicw in St
Louis Globe Democrat
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lowed, extending through all parties and
ranks Of society, and even ugitating some cir
cles III the United States. The house Of com
moas refused to let him affirm, on the ground
that such exemption was only provided FOR
Quakers and other Christians Of like faith
The Gladstone government attempted to have
the law amended to include agnostics, but
failed, this being the first defeat for them,
Inc seat wns declared vacant MIR, Brad
laugh was asain elected, and this time offered
to take the oath, having declared TO his con-
stltuents that lis had changed his mind, and
now looked upon the oath ms mere form of
words, of no significance. But the house
had changed its mind too, and refused to let
him take the oath at all. he insisted on en-
tering the house and prououncing the oath,
and was removed by policeman. This was
repeated several times. But parliament had
gone too far, asserting in effect that no man
should take the oath unless they knew him
to be IA believer. There was popular PRO
test, and, at the opening Of parliament i'll
lSs;3, Mr.. Bradllush took the oath without
opposition and entered parliament, where Ee
soon proved himself Il useful member.
He suffered somewhat in public estimation
by his political alliance with Mrs. Anne Be
sAnt, n woman Of extraordinary capacities
and radically advanced" ~ews She was
prosecuted for publishing book on the sex
ual relations and caused sensation almost
equal to that produced by Mr.. BrAdlaugh
Soon after, he published his Impeachment Of
the House of Brunswick'-in one respect a
most extraordinary composition, 1t is tri-
nnlph of skill in presenting most revolving
facts and relations Of the most obscene ma
ture, without a word on which prosecution
could be based This was his last notable
performance. The rest OF his career Us Icon
oclastf-n title he assumed-has been com
paratively tame
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a doctor prescribing for n baby was sadly
vcxed by the oiiciousncss of the child's fcnli-
nine relatives, who tried all sorts Of home
remedies for it, saying III apology:
I'VE thought If rlley did 10 good they
would do 10 hnrin, ,loctor.n
At the end of his patience the doctor one
morning called fora bowl, Il spoon and son,o
fresh butter, and began stirring the latter
round and round with an all, of grave impo,-
tancc. The lhtiies gathered about him inquis-
itivcly, but be gave them no attention until,
at last, cu' tosity becoming rampant they
cried IN chorus:
oh, doctor, do tell us what you are sotng
to do with tho butter!"
Hero was his chance. Facing them SOL
emily, he said: Il nm going TO grease the
baby's elbow with it, 1t may not do any
good, but it won't do any harm. ''-London
Tul Fits
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RAILROAD JACK,


lately those who carried him off were q band
Of Italian railroad laborers, and they tied the
cog beside the tracks, and Jack was enabled
to hail his friends as they passed on the
trains by howls with which they had been
long familiar. Finally he was noticed BY q
tralnmah OH ali express train, who tele
graphed back to the boys aboard an accom-
mediation train which followed
When the slow train came to the lahorers
camp sally was made by Jacks admirers
and rescue was effected. Jack was the hap.
piest dog in America. 1t is hoped that the
Intelligent animal will learn to writo some
day, when he can publish novel based on his
own experience and make himself tho hero.
"Railroad Jack, or Trainmen to the Rescue,n
would be good title
Jack has figured at quite number of dog
shows, but being accustomed to the road be
gets nervous when absent from it, After
these shows he usually takes a long trip.
When the show at Toronto closed recently he
proceeded at once to the station, and instead
Of taking an Albany train took draw
lng room car for Chicago. There be
remained long enough to look over the pro
posed sites for the Worlds fair and then
took train for home. But Jack didn't wish
ito be known among his friends in the bag
gage room at Albany that he was putting on
airs in drawing room cars, 50 he hoped into
abaggage car and contented himself to re-
turn in tho station in which he had been
brought up. During the ride coffin with a
weishty corpse inside dropped on his toe and
amputated it without the MD Of q surgeon.
II the officers Of Jacks road don't put him
on the retired list after this and take good
care of him for the rest of his life, they will
simply display the ingratitude of corpora
tions.
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SA"H 4 l. ! f-i-'' Oh EuFoIIG--A lanu
in which they located all their accounts of
pygmies, dog headed men and mysterious
princes with palaces finished in gold, and ele-
plants with housings of silk and silver
When however, the Mahometan Arabs had
overrun Egypt and northern Africa, they
soon made inronds to the southwark and
from very remote times have had routes of
travel far into the Interior. At this day the
interior trade is wholly in the hands of
Arabs, who even cross the continent to An
gola and st. Paul &c Loando, on the west
coast
Within quite recent times people of the
same race and faith have crossed the great
desert from Northern Africa and builtup Il
connected line of half Arab half negro
kingdoms entirely across tho broaelrst
part of the contincnt--Senegambia Tim
buctoo, Houssa, Bornou, Darfur, kordo-
ian and Sennnr, According to Winwood
lteade, latest full authority on the Soudun,
the line OF Mahometa1lism has been carried
some 400 miles southwnrd. South Of it is a
thin strip Of half pagan half civilized ne
groes and south of that is the vnst savage
land where Stanley, Emin Bey and others
are contendng, and in the very center of
which Europe is now striving to establish the
Congo free state. To abolish tho slave trade
tonullify ''the nalign influence Of the Arabs"
nc +hou ,,,,t H. =, ,;,-;l;no ~, ,>.z-... -,
realize ~, .ho r,,. - oe1 itlo
try 10 tho oyn,yo,1 ,',,,nosa 'a ~ - H .ousl
Evroneans and l., ~ -pooo,s ~ a, s aeasueo
ollv ,ruch io,lo,sv bot n,ao,, r,a,;s,,
mans, French and Bclgiuns, BY this in NIL
probability, DR.. Peters and party camo to
n, rar, pot,r, mn. ,,tho, ua,,,.,..,.
ca,,,o,, .,,,a1sa -. -,ue .,. pieeosious
d.att 49, o., ,.',a' oe ~ suo .'ai' u ms
in ,,,nnv 1;no: ~, not,;ana, 80, sa "a .s.o,Aee.
No,hn,s ~, ~ Elho ,,n,,eaa - nas,so "
tho parl; ,,'i.,o.s;t,' ~ from
u ~ nn',|,a a+;.,,a, aacno e n'eu '"nA Al
v,tod his t.lo,,ts ~ tho na,,so - as.;an 49, J a
,a,o,,,,a,,. .,h " nv 7o =. 1.ii1csa1 ue-
he ras;,o, in En1lona .o' .n;ee sea,s
Of her system Of deyc,oninc md rovarning
colonies, He then Obtained from Risn,orcs
IN imperial charter under which he formed
tho German East African company. of which
he was elected presi,lcnt IIa rnnid,v die.
patched several expeditions TO gain footholl,
on the east coast near Zanzibor
At this time, be it noted Stanlav,na othors
under tho nominal direction Of Enr eo,,nld
of Belgium but for the combined nowers
wero working from, the west coost IN Tia
east there wnS no sucb extensive cmnb;n,tion
ENGLAND md Germany nre rivals and FroncL
Italians md others in comn,n;as nv n. ,;,,n1a
merchants denl directlv with the enltan ~
Zanzibar In Septe,nbcr 1896 Dr Petors
convened at Berlin the first Germon colonial
congress. md the next sn,ino went tn Zoryi.
bar and made a comprehensive treatv With
Sultan Said Burehash. Returning to Eurono
he pushed forward the ruovement for Ger.
man colonization and then ORGANIZED The ox.
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The czir of ull the Russias still lives but
it is only by the merest good luck. Tho latest
attempt to make him shuttle off consisted of
the explosion of chest of dynamite at tho
railway station of Peterhof, u small place
near st. Petersburg. The stuff went off a
little too soon and killed signalu,an. In
the meantime the czar was far enough nway
for safety, as lie nearly always contrives to
be when anything unpleasant is taking place.
1t is evidently unnecessary for him to remain
shut up within tho stone walls of Gutschina
now. He can walk and ride about In the
open world without having the least fear of
INJURY, unless, indeed, some Of these internal
machines happen to 80 off at an unlucky mo-
ment for him some day. But the chances of
such catastrophe are very small, apparent
ly-Pittshurr Bulletin
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WHOLE NO. 1868,
CHARLES BRADLAUGH.
The EnslIst, Liberal Whose Health Has
Broken Down.

The English Liberal Whose Health Has
Broken Down.
The career OF Charles Bradlaugh has been
rs remarkable as any recorded in civil life, and
almost from its very beginning his life was
stormy one. He finished his education at II
years of age because his parents were too poor
to carry it farther, harangued ths crowds in
the streets on politics when be was but Is.
and became an exile from his fathers house
soon after because Of his becoming an infidel.
He Is, indeed, a born agitator-one of those
whose apparent function is to attack all
abuses and seeming abuses leaving to diff.
ferently constituted minds the task of recon-
struction.
He was born in London Sept 20 1888, and
enlisted in the service of the East India com
pany as soon us his age would permit He
had been for some time on his own resources
and earning scanty and precarious living.
de saved trifle in tho service and somehow
managed to purchase his discharge aud enter
the office of solicitor in London. It was
not in the nature of the man, however, to do
quiet Office work; he talked SO fluently on the
popular side of all questions and welded such
II callstic pen that the law was gradually
given up for politics, lecturing aud writing.
He edited The Investigator, Radical paper,
during its existence In lS5S-;59, and for many
years edited The National Reformer
In 1868 he entered on bis famous onslaught
on parliainentar restrictions on relioio,,s