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them are growing on, or in q kind OF
Jelly, made ont of isinglass with a little
beef Juice, and poured into the tube
while it was warm and fluid, and allowed
to cool and become solid there. After
the soil, If 1 may call it SO, had been
thus prepared, the point Of fine needle
was dipped into a drop of fluid contain
ing some of the organisms which we wish
to grow, and then the surface Of the
potato or of the Jelly was
prioked or scratched with the point OF
the needle. You could see nothing on
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prick or scratch was colosis.
made, there appeared a little stain or
spot about as big as a very small pin
head, and this rapidly enlarged. One
organism made white speck, another
gray one, while some produced yellow,
blue or rose colored spots. The growth
of one of them has nearly covered the
surface of the piece of boiled potato on
which it was planted with thick, red
slime, looking like blood, and few
hundred years ago such growths some
times caused great terror among the peo-
pie by appearing in large numbers on
bread aud other substances, giving the
appearance as if ram of blood drops
had occurred during the night.
In several of the tubes the jelly has
been liqueied into dirty, grayish mud,
and the organisms in these tubes have
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-06-19

very important work
to do i'll the world.
They are the unbdild-
ers, whose business u.
is to decompose dead
plants and animals
and change them into
simple combinations
which can be used by
new plants to build up
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this needle point, for
these organisms are so
small that 8 ey era |
thou.s and OF them
placed sid 9 by side
would hardly make a
line long enough TO
cross a pins head. In
two or three days, at
the point where the
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-06-19
a QUEER KIND OF GARDEN. ,

" IN aV"1I UTIeU Nt1teI
Army, Director of the Army Medical
Museum ut Washington.
Copyright, lSgJ, ny the Author.l
l have before me, in q box ab0ut nm,
foot square, n garden IN hich several
millions of each of about fifty diffsrar,
plants are growing rapidly. Most o..
them were planted about a week ago. o.
rather l should say that about 100 N
each kind were then planted and ALREADY
each group numbers millions. II tb-y
were to go on multiplying at the same
rate they would I'LL this great room in
less than q month, and that would be
very bad piece of business, for while
some of them are very useful, there
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however, as it has to be in real lassoing.
When you can guide the moose surely
at the first range, increase your distance
from the post little by little. In time
you will be able to "bag" the post
every shot at thirty-fve feet. Then it
is time to begin practice on moving OBJ
jects-sn accommodating chum, for in
stance. Let him run slowly aud pursue
him, whirling the moose overhead as you
run, until you can make a throw. 1t
will take longer to learn TO calculate his
speed and where TO throw in order to get
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-06-19

CHAPTER TH.-(Conoluded THE
HEAD OF A FANNY.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-03-21
Scenes I'M Coal REGIONS,

The homes of many cOai-miners in
Pennsylvania are said to be dirty, and
no larger than ordinary gOat-sheds, so
poverty-stricken are the labOrers.
Most miners in Pennsylvania coal
regions are foreigners, and are pro
nounced to be specimens of the lowest
types of humanity. Women and chill
dren are subjected to barbarOus cruelty
by those acquaintances whom they
number as friends.
The children born IN the mining re-
gions either grow up to be criminals
and assassins or are killed before they
grow up by their drunken fathers and
brothers. The Pennsylvania laws pro
vide fair schools for them, but their
parents are so poor that they can send
their offspring to them.
Miners are never paid for their serv-
ices in cash. The companies they work
for own all the stores and houses, and
their employees are compelled to buy at
the prices the capitalists fix. These
estimates are usually extortionate. The
food furnished Is the poorest, but the
poor miners are unable to remove to
another place, as the checks in which
they are paid are good only at then
employers stores.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-03-21
A Senatorial EDisode.

If the police viii please look the
other way moment we Will slyly slip
in the following communication sent to
us by yOUmOrist, who appears to have
been marveIOusly inspired by the ma
iestic scene that lay before him as he
sat in the Senate gallery the other
day. He entities his prose epic "A
Senatorial Episode" It cauters along
thus:
Sitting in the press gallery of the
Senate recently 1 saw a Moody Senator
Beck to the Gray Butler, who seemed
to understand the signal, for he prompt
Iy proceeded to Call the Stewart, who
hastily procured for the aforesaid Sen
atOr a Berry and a Plumb. Very soon
thereafter he was seen to clasp both
hands over his Vest, from which it was
evident he was suffering great Payne
Thereupon a Sawyer suggested that
the best remedy was a little Bate taken
out of a black bottle, which was prompt
" administered, and in a short time the
patient was as Hale as country Squire
doing in his Pugh during the Sunday
morning service.
"By George" said he, chat little
Bate was worth a kings Ransom. Now,
when get the Barbour to give me q
nice shave, and take a stroll on the
grass Platt and down through the Pad
dock to the Quay, I viii feel as happy
as the bank Teller who has escaped to
Canada with his pockets full of Doodle
| Then when 1 get to my quarters and
Frye any fish caught in the Quay over
a good Coke fire, I viii be ready to go
to bed and bid FarwelI to earthly
cares.
Now, he who cannot see the point Of
this story should procure a tallow-diP
from the Chandler, by the light Of
which he may be able to Pierce the
darkness that envelops his under
standing. Washington Post.
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was observed IN churches that it was for
hidden the people ito sit at ease during
the services of the church.
When the clergy had provided them
selves comfortable seats in the chancel
they found 1t difficult to forbid seats in
the same quarter to laymen of high de-
gree, especially to those who were pat
rOns. Then the next thing was the pro
viding Of benches for those who were
suffering under bodily intrmity. Then
others who were regular attendants de-
manded and obtained the right of bring
ing with them the movable benches which
they used at home. The common people
were allowed to kneeI at prayers on
sledge mats or on little stools, which
they brought with them, carrying them
home again after service. The
patrons seats and benches gradually
changed into pews, and when the
Puritan commonwealth came in the serv-
ices, or rather sermons. were so much
longer that seats became a necessity.
Meanwhile the patrons and Weather
laity were SO much troubled by the con-
slant observance and remarks of their
humber neigbbors that the pews were
made high so as to shut them out from
view. Comfort and privacy were their
chief objects, and some of the pews were
very gorgeous.
The development of the growth Of the
chair in church worship had an analogous
growth in the homes OF the better classes.
At first the chair had the same symbolism
of dignity, and was reserved for the head
of the household. With the chair was
the fOOtstoOl, on which the children were
often allowed to sit, that they might be
petted y their fathers.
Then more chairs were INTRODUCED as
seats for hOnored guests, but the idea of
comfort was wanting, and the chairs were
simply fiat seat, with straight up-and-
down backs, which need not be illus
trated here, because the modern craze fOI
the antique has caused very good imita-
lions to be placed in almost every ones
parlor.
Within the present century some few
nations of the world have gotten an idea
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monastery was one Of these sanctuaries,
and the bounds Of sanctuary began mile
from the monastery on every side. With
in the church was large stone seat called
the "fr tn stool, or sanctuary chair.
Firth means peace and @stOl" means
seat. The dignity given TO the chair is
shown by the relative amount OF punish
ment measured out to those who should
enter the sanctuary bounds and carry
away q criminal The boundaries we're
marked by four crosses placed on the four
roads leading TO the monastery. each a
mile away, and the penaf ties for violation
of sanctuary were graduated as follows;
A party seized inside OF the four crosses
meant Tia the aPprehendera should pay
e2O0; If apprshended IN the town that
surrounded the abbey, ez00; if within the
waits Of the church-yari, E600; if within
the church itself, 81, zoe; If within the
choir, then EI. 500, besides penance, IS in
the case Of saeriIege; but If he presumed
to take the runaway delinquent out Of the
holy chair or firth stool the OHense was
irredeemabIe by money, and had become
bcteless CboOtless). EeRd called tn not
~ the utmost church
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The Story Of a Tragic
Life Drama.
CHAPrER vT-Continued.
By 3. NJ. DAVY.

Il have already told you" she said,
that George had a severe attack of brain
fever after her fathers unhappy death two
years ago. He was thrown from his
hOrse-in the hunting field. She was
present. She saw it. That will account
to you for-for-you understand the
terrible shock to her nerves. My dear
husband only TecO. cred cOnsciousn ess
half an hour before he died. He wished
then to alter his will He feared that his
daughter-sO beautiful, so charming
might fall a prey to fortune hunters.
To avoid all chance of this he left
everything to me, cOnjuring me with his
dying breath to hold it in trust for her
to devote my life to watch over and guard
her. Her illness was terrible; the results
lasted long. The physicians ordered
constant change of scene and the utmost
quietude. had promised helping
me-tO devote my life to her, and, ac-
cOrding to my light, I have kept that
promise faithfully"
She leaned back in her chair, breath
ing with apparent pain and difficulty, and
pressing, as 1 had seen her do before
her hand tightly to her side. I regarded
her with compassion. 1t seemed to me
the task she had undertaken was quite
beyond her strength; the responsibility
weighed too heavily on a mind that, per-
haps, never very strong, had now become
warped by a kind OF religious MANIA
with which, confess, mad little sym
pathy. But pitied the woman, and would
help her if I could.
Mrs. Hargreave, said, going close
to her, you must not allow this sense of
responsibility to trouble you any longer
I am here to sh re it with you. By and
by will take it all on my own shout
ders. Would that day were cOme!"
1T is nearer than you think, perhaps, 3"
she said, turning on me her weary, faded
looking eyes. DIR. GascOigne tells me
L am a dying woman. But, remember,
not a word of this TO my daughter"
felt awed-almOst as though I were
even then in the presence of death.
L took her hand, just touching it rever-
emily with my lips. Trust me. Com
mand me. 1 will do all I can for you.
1 said with some emotion.
Il do. L viii. L look upon it that the
Almighty has sent you in answer to my
prayers. Now leave me, Mr.. Dudley;
need rest. But join US at luncheon; it is
absolutely necessary that L should see all
I can of you in the brief time left me. I
must assure myself by closest Observa-
ton that L am resigning her fathers
treasure into worthy hands.
And 1 went out from her presence
more happy and confident than I had en-
tered it-at the same time more puzzled,
more amazed.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-03-21
New York Rambling Dens.

1t has been a commonly accepted be-
lief for some time that New York was
free from gambling dens. But as a
matter of fact there are gambling re
sorts in full blast all over the city.
They are not classified as "de2s," how
ever, but merely as establishments, %
and that was the mental distinction
probably made when Superintendent
Murray, Of the police force, announced
that all the gambling dens in the city
had been suppressed. just why these
establishments are allowed to run I'M
checked is not otherwise apparent IN
less on the suppositiOn that the pro
DrietOrs stand solid" with the custO.
dams of the law.
These establishments are neat
places. They meet the requirements
of the 50 clerk, the professional gam
bier and the business man. The faro
chips vary in price from 80 cents to $25
each. Here college students get rid Of
their surplus cash around the roulette
table and business men I'LL an Occa-
siOnal check that they would not wish
to have made public. The cost o.
maintaining one of these places is enOr
nous. Liquors are always "On tap
and are free to patrons. In nearly al
such places a fine supper Is served ey
erv night and expensive cigars handed
round. Jim Days place is perhaps
one of the best equipped New YorI
establishments. 1t Is a brown stone
residence, SEEMINGLY private, and i
alongside the Thirtieth street polio,
station. Jim is worth some $500, 900
and the cost of running his establish
ment for a year Is about so, goo. Be
side this those interested IN this estab
lishment count their yearly profits a
from $50, 600 to $50, 600.
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knelt and presented their petitions.
There is no picture of this throne in ex-
Istence, but this Assyrian picture Will
give very good idea of Oriental thrones
in general.
Although chairs were thus known and
used as embIems Of dignity and as part
of pageants, they by no means came into
common use, and were not q part of the
furniture of home; indeed, their use for
insignia of Office or position tended to
prevent their general use, They were not
necessary in state Of civilization where
squatting or reclining were the ordinary
pOstures.
The wider use of chairs gradually grew
from it's adoption by the church as the
symbol of authority by the bishop. The
chair was called the cathedra. This
word, in use by the French, was shortened
to chair, and was adopted into English
use from the French. The oldest chairs
in existence are probably certain chairs
! OF seats cut in the tufa stone in the cata-
combs, and supposed to have been the
cathedra of the bishop when persecution
compelled the Christians to hold service
there. It is possible, however, that the
chair known as st. Peters and carefully
| preserved as the Episcopal seat of st.
Peter, IS still older. 1t was originally a
heather throne, is Of wood, with inlaid
ivory work representing the labOrs of
/ Hercules. It never was submitted to gen
l CT III LIS DCClAOu lL4L4L lCOOs hA-L II " as
| closely examined and its character clearly
| ascertained. It's extreme antiquity was
| thus shown at the same time that its rep
utatiOn as the actual chair of st. Peter
was badly damaged.
In ancient Christian art the Episcopal
/ chairs are frequently represented with
/ lions or dogs heads as ornaments and
/ with various designs in carving. The
next step was to provide seats for the
/ clergy, which were usually of a much
| humber character, being placed on each
! side of the bishops chair. They were
! called stalls. These were generally made
/ of wood, but sometimes of stone or mar
/ BILE. It seems to have been the general
rule that the seats should be the index Of
/ spiritual rank. Hence great care was
/ taken that the lower orders of the clergy
/ should not sit with those of higher rank.
/ No chairs or seats were provided for the
| people in church, but stools were given
! to the church officials. In the poorer
/ churches benches were used instead of
stalls, and the clergy found the seats to
| be of so much advantage that they be-
| gan to use them in their cells. Gradu-
ally the chair extended beyond the church
! to secular use, and here is q specimen of
a very ancient stool, which shows their
/ primitive method and style.
Out of the idea connected with the hOli-
ness Of churches grew the practice known
rs seeking sanctuary" that is, going tc
| place for refuge from some aYenger Of
from some process of the law. Hexhan
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CHAPTER VII.

Next day 7 attended to my duties at
the bank, went to my lodging, packed up
all my effects and returned to Wexham by
q late afternoon train. The bus was
waiting outside the station. I had my
luggage placed on 1t and set of to walk to
Glendale House.
1t was between six and seven o'clock
a cold November evening-the fog so
dense you could not see three yards
ahead; but the road was familiar to me
and 1 walked along in buoyant spirits,
cheered by the thought that every step
took me nearer to the charming girl whose
image was now never absent from my
mind How many ages instead of hours
it seemed since We had said Goodnight"
How would she greet me? There was no
dull sameness about this incompatible
creature. Time could not wither, nor
custom stale her infinite variety" And
again I thought of her as my ideal Cleo
patral
walked faster and faster, and began
singing low to myself on the solitary road
the first song she had ever sung to me:
Should he upraid, III own that he prevail.
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Married Witlout Knoming b.

Tt is not often that a young woman
is married without knowing 1t, says the
Chicago Herald, but that is what hap
pened to Miss Belle Woods. a young
lady at Schuyler, Neb. She was one
Of the guests at the wedding Of a
young lady friend few days ago, and
so was George Poole, a young man vino
had long been enamoUred with her
beauty. She was to oficiate as bride
maid and young Poole as best man
Just before the ceremony Poole called
the clergyman aside and told him pr
vateIy that he and Miss Woods were to
be married, too, and suggested that a
change IN the order of the ceremonies
would be an interesting surprise for
the audience. The guests, as he had
surmised, were completely astonished
when he and Miss Woods came forward
and went through a regular marriage
ceremony. The other wedding followed
Immediately, and then every body want
ed to know what it all meant. 0 be
ing told that she was POOle's wife
Miss Woods becominglY tainted, and
on coming to" said that she had sup
posed herself to be merely going
through the performance Of her duties
as a bridemaid, and that she should
never, never be the wife of the wicked
Poole Nothing has since changed her
mind, and a legal separation has been
applied for.
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se3 from inc saVages O to-day very
g0od picture of the original savage, and
all the steps of the progress toward civil
ization can be traced in natiOnOlties who
now live all along the scale.
A chair of any kind was symbol Of
dignity, and in order to specify the royal
throne 1t was necessary to add a modify
ing word like the rome of the kingdom,
so often mentioned in the Old Testament.
The throne of Solomon is described as a
throne of ivory, Oyerlaid with pure gold.
1t had arms, or stays, and on the steps
were a pair of lions. It is recorded TO
have been round behind, probably mean
ing a circular lack. and fastened 10 the
throne was a footstOOI of pure gold. 1t
was before this footstOol that suppliants
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that comfort is of some Importance, and
hence we have chairs in q thousand forms,
and some with very luxurious fitting pos
sible.
Probably the most celebrated chair in
existence is that coronation chair in
Westminster Abbey, in which is set the
stone known as Liza Fail. 1t is an oblong,
rough stone brought from ScOne in Scot
land. In this chair all the reigning
sovereigns of England have been crowned
since Edward 1.
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but the heaviest punishment OF tne se5U5ar
power.
The stone chair, engraved above and
still preserved at HeXham, is the identi-
cal firth stool which for ages was the
sanctuary chair of the famous Hexham
monastery. Tt is the only one known 10
exist in England at the present time.
Until the fourteenth century the rule
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THERE'S nothing like fame, and even
che children recognize 1t, as IS Illus
tTated In this dialogue: BOb-My
dads a squire and gets his name In
the paper every day, Tom contempt
uousIy) -Thats nOthin'. My dad took
Jink's liver pills and got his picter in
the pa
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-03-21

NE of the most curl
Gus pages In human
history is the process
out Of which is de-
velOped the modern
chair. a primitive
man had no such
thing. If he was a
savage, as so many
claim, his seat was a
log or the ground, or
else he would sit,
'squatting upon his
heels, like the Amer
lean Indian. We can
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SLOW STA GEs BY WHICH THEY GRE "
TO FILL THEIR PRESENT OFFICE.

An Interesting Evolution since They We're
Used as Indicative OF Dignity and Honor
From a Starting Point in Churches
Many Centuries Ago They Have Steadily
Developed.
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a CanYasses.

Want a position selling books 2"
81 do, sir.
@Did you ever canvass 2"
"Yes, sir. ="
Where 2"
"In ham factory. I canvased 'em
for two years
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THE ENGLISH sOyERETGy.
4 800 - d oaeen -.

%sS@S2ay e5 after break
SSSSS-sSzzzzz2z fast reads
- and answers her letters
@|IIL4 - and transacts business.
II Il She Is fond of the opeu
air, and If the weather
81, be favorable often has
her papers taken into
tent or summer-houss
upon the lawn, which commands an
extensive and most lovely view Of
LOchnagar, its surrounding mountains,
and the Valley of the Dee.
After this comes 81 walk or a drive In
a pony carriage, and then luncheon, at
which no one Is ever present except
members of the royal family.
During the afternoon the Queen
takes a long drive, often extending to
over thirty miles and always in an
open carriage. She dimes late, never
before s 80 a. m. An hour spent In
the drawing-room talking with the
guests who may have been invited, fin
ishes the day, and the Queen retires to-
est.
No question of state is ever decided
finally until her Majesty has been con
suited, and she is such a sensible and
clever woman that she has often put
her Ministers right and settled a diff
cult point, and generally for the best.
The Queen Is faithful to her old
friends and thoughtful for everybody
with whom she comes in contact, re
Numbering the smallest details about
them, their families, and their occupa-
tions, and giving evidence of this at
most unexpected moments. A circum-
stance which happened to me iustifes
strongly the truth Of this. Four years
ago I was singing at the Royal Opera
at Berlin, and was not even aware that
the Queen knew of my engagement
there. /, soon after my debut, W S at
a large dinner party at the English
Embassy, and sitting next to me was
one Of the gentlemen of the Crown
Princess household. During dinner
he put into my hand a telegram, telling
me to read it. This was from the
Queen to her daughter NOW the En-
press Frederick, recommending me to
her and desiring her to do all she could
for me. Needless to say that after
this L was so excited that L could eat
no dinner, and L insisted on keeping
the telegram, one Of my precious
souvenirs.
Her Majesty Is fond of music and Is
| q good musician.
The Queen herself looks after the
welfare of all her tenants and servants,
and if any one Of them is sick she is the
first one TO pay them a visit and take
them little comforts.
During her stay in Scotland she takes
a pleasure during her drives in stop
ping at various cottages to ask after
the welfare of the inmates. When so
occupied the Queen is as kind and SIM
! pie as any ordinary lady could be.