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StanIey's Name a Talisman in Africa.

Herbert Ward, who was with Stanley
part of the time during the explorers
last trip in Africa, describes in the Led
qsr Journey on the Upper Congo: We
make this extract:
In the night, about 10 p. M.,we got
into narrow channel; all was silent and
dark, when several hippopotami rushed
for the water from the narrow, reedy
banks, where they had been doing.
Some almost rushed upon us in their ef-
forts to gain the river, whilst the water
surged and rolled about until I feared
one of the monsters would take it into
his head to charge us. Such an event
would have been the end of our. canoe
journey About midnight, as we passed
some villages on the north bank, the.
alarm drums beat, and a very gruff voice
challenged US.
esWe are friends, children of Stanley,
going to Bangala; we are peaceable,
said we. I told them we were Stanley's
children, for Stanley's native name, Bula
Matadi, "The Stone breaker" acts as
talisman throughout the Congo country.
By millions of these savages his name Is
uttered with respect almost akin to fear.
It was evident that the natives did not
believe our declaration, for the gruff.
voice replied:
eff you are what you say, why do you
travel in the dark. You lie, and we will
come to you presently and fight, for you
are like thieves, travelling in the dark"
We laughed at them, and went OF, but
the night was intensely dark, and being
anxious lest we should miss the right
channel, we made the canoes fast along
side the bank until daybreak; passing the
night without interruption from the ma
tives-who, on reconsidering the matter,
probably had believed our assurance that
we were children of Stanley.
Atvery earliest streak of dawn on the
following morning we were off again, and
passed many villages on the north bank
that had grown up in the interval since
my stay at Bangala in 1886.
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Secret of His Iron Constitution.

Four young mea were sitting in Del
monico's eating dinner which might
have been prepared for feast OF Lucullus.
One of the best known men in New York,
man about sixty years old, whose for
tune stands monument to his ability
and unceasing labor, came i'll and seated
himself at the table next to them. lie
was straight OF figure, keen Of eye,
rugged and vigorous. His order was
simple soup, piece of beef, coffee and
cigar. Hc had finished his dinner be-
fore the young men had we'll started.
As he went out one of them said: "That's
". Constitution of iron to work as he
does" But the simple dinner, an en-
ample of the old mans mode of living
no one apparently thought OF that.-Ae~
York Tribune
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AgorT ADULTEHATEp LIQUORS.

Is it true, asked DR.. Howard Crosby in the
Arena, that it is the adulterated liquor that
ruins the drinkers? Is not the pure whisky
the fiend that ruins body and soul: Can
adulteration add anything to make it worse?
Would the cure of adulteraton cure drunken,
ness? We have the testimony of one of the
most distinguished chemists in New York,
that he collected promiscuouSly from Il hun.
dred groggeries i'll that city, via!s of the
whisky they sold over the bar, and in each
case the whisky was pure or diluted with
water The hard drinks are not adulterated.
1t is the expensive wines that are adulter-
ated, of which the saloons have no sale. Be
assured Mr.. George and Mr. Townsend that
the stoppage Of adulteration in liquors would
have no more influence in preventing the
deadly evils of intemperance than the clean
ing and polishing bayonet would prevent
IFS fatal mower
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Spread of the English Language.

At the opening of the present century
there were, in round figures, 25, $780, 900
people who spoke the English language.
They were chiefly in England. We
were only a few millions in America.
The French-speaking people at that time
numbered about 81, 500, 900, and the
Germans exceeded 3O,00O,00O. The
Russian tongue was spoken by nearly
81, 100000, and the Spanish by more
than rs, 100000. These four languages,
Fr.>ch, German, Spanish and Russian,
were, therefore, very nearly equal in the
number of their users, and were all far
beyond the English in that regard.
Even the Italian had three-fourths as
large a constituency as the English, and
the Portuguese had three-eighths as many
users. OF the 161, 800, 900 people who
are estimated to have been using these
seven languages in the year 1901, the
English speakers were less than Ii per
cent, while the Spanish were 16, the
Germans 1874, the Russians 1879 and
the French 1876 This aggregate popula-
ton has grown to nearly or quite AGO.
0OO,OOO, of which the English speaking
people number close upon 125 900, 900.
From 13 per cent. we have advanced to
81 per cent. The French speech is now
used by 50, 100000 people, the German
by about 10000, 900, the Spanish by
somewhat more than 100000, 900, the
Russian by about 70,OOO,OO0, the
Italian by about 30,000,000 and the
Portuguese by perhaps 13, 100000. The
English language has enormously out
grown its competitors. 1t is used by
nearly twice as many people as any one
of the others, and its relative growth is
sure to continue. Neither the French
nor the German has much room in which
to expand, while the English has taken
as it's own the North American continent
and nearly the whole of Australasia
North America alone will soon have
1OO,OO0,O0O English-speaking people.
There are 40,000,000 in Great Britain
and Ireland. Australia will, a genera
ton hence, have as many English people
as England now has. South Africa IS to
be the seat of an Anglo-Saxon republic
with millions of people. The English
language is having marvellous growth
in India, and it will ultimately replace
the myriad dialects of the native popula-
ton. There IS serious talk in Japan of
a national adoption of the English
language. InEgypt the English occupa.
ton is resulting in the substitution OF
the English for French, and throughout
the Orient there is a growing eagerness
to learn the coming language. ."-Minne-
apolis Tribune.
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Signaling by the HeliOgraph.

For signaling during the day time, by
whatever code, if the sun is shining, the
heliograph may be used. This instru-
ment, which is simply u mirror lor two
mirrors rather, for the suns rays are re-
flectcd from one to the other, and then
thrown upon the opposite station), is
especially adapted to long distances, as
the distance at which the reflection can
be seen if with 4 sufficiently large mirror,
and when the atmospheric conditions are
the best, is only limited by the curvature
of the carth's surface. This is overcome
to some extent by eevating the stations.
The United States Coast Survey, which
has made exclusive use Of the h%llotrope,
or hcliograph, in its trlgonCmetrlcal
work, has succeeded in establishing com
munication over the greatest distances
ever attained. This was in California,
where the reflections from twclvc-:nch
mirror were made and observed between
Mount Shasta aud Mount Helena, 19O
miles. and between Mount Shasta and
Mount Lola, 169 miles. Of course, these
observations could only be made under
the most favorable atmospheric condi-
tions, and the stations at Mount Shasta
and Mount Helena had to represent be-
tween them an altitude OF about ~, ,OOO
feet, in order to overcome the curvature
of the surface Of the earth.
Foggy or smoky weather, ii very thick,
would render all of those methods use
less, though, with the intense lights now
in use, fogs may be penetrated tina:
would heretofore have cut off commuai-
cation cntircly.-Cosmop0litaa Nrgt=ine.
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on top and so on through the long route.
Then the mail carriers slung their sacks
over their shoulders and with hands full
OF newspapers filed out into the street
and disappeared from view. That letter
that came for YOU from Chicago yester-
day afternoon was in your Office within
forty minutes after its arrival at the Post
office.
There is a floor in the Postosfice sell
dom seen by casual visitors. 1t is deep
down below the surface Of the street.
Here it is that the great newspaper mails
are made up. There is little ventilation ,and
the place is not as sweet smelling as
health demands. But nevertheless in
this immense basement, hlled from end
to end with great, towering distributing
cases and long, smooth chutts from the
floor above, work fully 500 men from
morning to night constantly hurrying,
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ALCOHOLIC LUSAcY INCREASING IN FRANCE

ALCOHOLIC LUNACY INCREASING ~ FRANCE
Recent Investigations conducted by NJ.
Paul GARNER and embodied in a report to a
convention of French doctors gives startling
facts as to the increase of insanity in that
country, and especially as to the increase OF
that form of insanity due to the excessive Use
of alcoholic drinks. From 1871 to 1893 in
sanity increased in France by thirty per
cent. Fifty-six per cent. Of the insane are
men and forty-four per cent are women.
The increase during the last seventeen years
has been almost entirely in the branches OF
alcoholic insanity and of general paralysis, or
paresis There has been very little increase
in mania, melancholia. and chronic delirium.
Alcohol and overwork are therefore he'd re-
sponsihle for the greater part OF the increase
of insanity during recent years. The Ire
quency of alcoholic insanity has doubled IN
fifteen years, and the cases have increased
twenty-five per cent. in the last three years
Fifteen years ago the proportion of women
among the cases of alcoholic insanity was
one-sixth. Now iti one-fifth. A singular
fact noted is that the number of'new cases ot
insanity is greatest in the spring, and that
this is especially true of general paresis, OF
which the month of May seems to inaugurate
annually all epidemic.
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TEMPERANCE NEWS AND NOTES.

In the new State of Washington tie license
fee ranges from $3.50 to $1,000 year.
Every year Germany spends 430, 09O, 0oo
marks for its army and 406, 900, 900 marks for
its alcoholic drinks.
There were 6S4 arrests for illegal liquor
selling in Boston last year, SO4 seizures anu
$500 gallons Of alcoholic stuff were forfeited'
Neal Dow's testimony is to the effect that III
the old rum days Maine was the poorest
State in the Union: now it is one OF the rlcl-
est.
Young Harvard graduate is getting up
series of five and ten cent concerts at Boston
to keen the poor out of the saloons. The ad-
mission tickets entitle the holder to bun
and cup of coffee.
A temperance society has been formed at
Berlin under the patronage OF members OF
the Imperial family and the city arlstocracy
Members are described as knights OF tho
Blue Cross" The President Is Colonel Won
Knobelsdorf.
There are less than 1000 licensed saloons i'll
Philadelphia. anu, according to the l'm!eS'
there are 1000 Others that worl; the police,
and pav no license These latter go BY the
instructive name of ''Speak.easleS eS--tnht Is
you must not make too much noise While you
drink.
A prize Of fifty dollars fof Tue pesI essay
on the relation Of the temperance question to
political economy, has been offered for the
competition Of college undergraduates Dy the
National w. C. T. u. department OF organ
ization and instruction In the higher institu-
tions of learning.
Henry Kepp leaned against the bar in St.
Louis saloon and confidently wagered that be
could drink half beer glass Of gin and then
put seven ponies of whisky on top Of 1t. as
successfully carried out bis part of the pro-
pramme to the amusement Of many cTonies,
and was then carried home, where be DIED
Within thraa hnnra.
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A COMPARISON.

Mr.. Frank Hyatt, the general superinten-
dent of Barnum and, ,Bailey's ''Greatest Show
on Earth, ," in comparing English with Amerl-
can laborers says:
Zone of the chief reasons why the work
ing classes fail to get on in England Is be-
cause they pay too much money for and too
much attention to beer, and do not WORK
steadily enough between American ano
work is concerned there is no comparison:
Mr.. Hyatt informs us that the EnglSh
workmen he employed in London regularly
stopped for beer five times day in addition
to meal times.-W. C. T. u. Bulletin.
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do as an expert can possibly accomplish
in given number of minutes, they had
kuo time to become curious or to wonder
at was about to be photographed. In
Let, none of them seemed to know what
was to be done until the binding flash
of magnesium was set off for the first
picture. Then the head of one of the
departments, known technically as a
time keeper, rushed into the room where
the light had been flashed and looked all
around. He thought an electric light
wire had burned out. This would have
been dangerous, for the interior of the
New York Postoffice is perfect net
work of electric light wires.
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Ancient and Modern Coins.

From the coins of ancient times we
gain much of what we know of the ap-
pcarance Of various kings and heroes, we
learn the lengths and much OF the history
Of royal reigns, VIC gain ideas of costume,
Of architcctre, of heraldy and of language
itself. What can our present American
coins give the future as a record of his
tory9 There is upon them no portrait
urc, nothing to mark our Governmental
administrations, nothing on earth to in
terest any one beyond the fact that it is
pleasant to possess them for the sake of
what one can get in exchange for them.
-NeW York Sar.
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A Pretty ParlOr Experiment.

A very simple apparatus for obtaining
an electric spark is made by German
physicist. Round the centre of CON-
mon lamp chimney is pasted a strip OF
tin foil, and anotherstrip pasted from one
end Of the chimney to within quarter
of an inch of this ring. Then a piece
of silk is wrapped around brush, and
the interior of the chimney is rubbed
briskly. In the dark bright, electric
spark may be seen to pass from one
piece of tin foil to the other each time
the brush is withdrawn from the
chimney.
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TEMPERANCE:
MARCHING on.

MARCHING on.
Our land is full of weeping, while this curse
goes marching on.
Teniperance men, the watch are keeping,
while the curse goes marching on
While the demon we pursue with the VIC
tory close in view,
There is work for all to do, while this curse
goes marching on.
Goes marching on, goes marching on, goes
marching on, goes marching on.
Oh, the good we should be doing while this
curse goes marching on.
Poor drunkards, they are dying while this
curse goes marching on; go
Their wives and children crying while this
curse goes marching on.
Kind words NAV some one win from these
wretched paths of sin;
We may bring the wanderers in while this
curse goes marching on.
Goes marching on, goes marching on, goes
marching on, goes marching on;
Oh. the good we should be doing while this
curse goes marching on.
Let us strengthen one another while this
curse goes marching on, 49,.
Seek to raise a fallen brother, while this
curse goes marching on.
This is work for every hand, till throughout
our happy land
Temperance armies strong shall stand, whm
this curse goes marching on.
Goes marching on, goes marching on, goes
marching on, goes marching on,
oh the good we should be doing while this
curse goes marching on.
Our friends strong drink pursuing, while
this curse goes marching on,
Are daily led to ruin, while this curse goes
marching on.
Now let one and all turn out and put this
demon rum to rout,
And then we'll all join in and shout, while
the year goes rolling on.
Goes rolling on, goes rolling on, goes rolling
ON. goes rolling on.
Oh the good we shall be doing while the
years 60 rolling on. .,
CIV. Cook, IN battle A1e for Temperance"
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A Baby Camel.
chimney.

A bright, new attraction at the Phila
delphia Geological Gardens is Adam, the
baby camel, now about three days old.
Little Adam is beautiful baby. He is
about the size of a Newfoundland dog,
with long neck and the expressive feat
ures of his family. His fur is dark
blush gray. shading to white on the
breast, and long, slender legs. His
mother is so careful of him that it Is i'm
possible for any person but the keeper to
enter the shed.-Mep York. World.
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gone a block the superintendent of the
department from which its mail had
been taken knew just what it had on
board and to what train it was destined.
So the work goes on every day in the
year. There are no htchcs, no waits,
but everything has = place, its time and
it's men to do the work, and it is always
done when it should be. It is the
greatest workshop in the metropolis
Mem York Sun,
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THE i. S. MAlL.
HOW IT IS HANDLED IN THE
LARGEST POSTOFFICti.
4 Daily Scenes at the New York OF.
flee \ Canccling Machine
Which Handles 10000
Letters an Hour.

A visitor to the Postofficc, through the
courtesy of Superintendent Morgan, was
permitted to take number Of .'..<hlight
photographs of the men at work in varl-
Gus departments. Superintendent Bovine
conducted the visitor through the entire
building and away down into the lower
easements where the tons Of newspaper
matter arc received and sent out. AS
the clerks who work for Uncle Sam IN
this great workshop have just is much to
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Two Views.
no ]! MON 'ucm pIo 'GpS,,
essay, old woman, I've got headache. y

France claims the honor Of utilizing a
higher water pressure than that which
has becu put in operation in the Choilar
shaft on the Comstock lode in Nevada.
At Brignoud. Il turbine nine feet ten
inches in diameter was put i'll operation
in the year 1875, utilizing head OF 1858
feet; this is still working, and gives a
force of 1900 horse power, with Il flow
of 800 litres of water per second.
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BROKEN UP BY STRONG DRINK.

The Rev. DR.. Dixie, special student of the
divorce question, found that of 29,665 di.
vorces granted in forty-five counties OF
twelve States, little more than twenty per
cent. were caused directly or indirectly by
drunkenness. This statment, appalling as it
is. indicates but part of the havoc made
with the home by strong drink. Such an
enemy of the social well being Of the nation
should be abolished by enlightened public
opinion crystalized into law.
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A French miser named Durand died i'll
Paris. leaving fortune of $500, 900 to
Mere Noueraud, a fisherwoman who
sometimes cooked his food believing him
to be miserably poor.
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Hard Hit.

"Why do you always ask, my dear.
Such foolish questions"' said De Lancer.
Because they seem,r replied the fair,
--Judge.
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III the Millarbor Plains, Australia, two
enormous caves have been discovered
large enough to hold 200. 900 persous.
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works are employed sixty Chinese, sevenl
ty-fve English and nearly 1000 natives1
Many native women are occupied with
the lighter work, as at the strakes and In
the amalgamation rooms.
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tendent, Mr.. Chalmers. A general view
of the place brings into prominence
huge water course and iron siphon COM
ing down a hill to the extreme left or
west. The driving power is water, in
troduccd in fumes, and this one is seven
miles in length. Then you see, at the
north, the quarter where the married
laves reside, a ID, some dis tance above it
on the hillside, the abode of the bachelor
miners, appropriately styled "Timbuc-
too." The stamping mills, with their
rock -crushcrs ana the strakcs, are in the
center, tucked in a little valley; nearer
are the huge mill wheels, sixty feet in
diameter, one Of which furnishes power
for working the pumps. The great store
house of the company covers the hillside
to the south of the casa grande. Here
arc collections of everything likely to be
needed in the works or mine, from candles
to machinery. BY the by, eight gross of
candles are every day used in the mine.
The upper story of the store-bouse is
filled with corn and beans for the con-
sumption of the miners. The mine keeps
busy five great stamping mills, ono Of
them being like those l have seen in Cal
ifornia. The others are huge, clumsy
affairs. though answering their purpose
very we'll. l followed all the various
processes of the works, from where the
rough ore leaves the shafts mouth until l
saw the gold bars ready for transport to
Rio md shipment to England. Employed
in s1cavating and hauling the mineral
and tirnbcring the niue are some 400
men, the uationalities embracing English,
Brazilians, Portuguese, Italians, Germans,
Aus:riaus, Spanish and Chinese. In the
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-31
mo, l36. !

Observation-Disclosures THE
IA grading. paving and curbfng of Carver
street from st. Andrews street to Larimer ave
nue. -
Whereas, 1t appears by the petition and aft.
davit ON file In the Office of the Clerk of Coun.
ellis that one-third in interest of the owners Of
property fronting and abutting upon the said
street have petitfoned the Councils of said city
to enact an ordinance for the grading paving
and curbing Of the same, therefore,
Section l-Be it ordained and enacted by the
city of Pittsburg in Select and Common Coun-
ellis assembled and It is hereby ordained and
enacted by the authority of the same That the
Chief of the Department of Public Works be
and is hereby authorized and directed to ad-
vertise in accordance with the acts Of Assem-
bly, OF the Commonwealth of PENNSYLVANIA and
the ordinances of the said city of Plttsbur0 re-
lating thereto and regulating the same for pro-
posals for the grading, paving and curbing of
Carver street from st. Andrews street to I,ar1-
mer avenue, the contract therefore to be let In
the manner directed by the said acts Of Assem-
bly, and ordinances
The cost and expense of the same to be
assessed and collected in accordapce with
the provisions of an act Of Assembly of the
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. entitled "An
act relating to streets and sewers in cities of
the second class" approved the 18Th day Of
May, A. d. 1889.
Section 2-That any ordinance or mart of
ordinance conflicting with the provisions Of
this ordinance be and the same Is bereby "a
pealed so far as the same affects this Ordinance
Ordained and enacted into a law in Councils
this 9th day Of October, A. D. 1890
h. T. FORD, President Of Select Council
Council. GEO. L. HOLIDAY, President of
Common Council. Attest; E. ]. MARTIN.
Clerk of Common Council.
Mayors office. October 30. 1880. Approved:
OsTERMA1ER, Mayors CLERK. % 0h"i
Recorded in Ordinance Book, vol. !. page 547
SOth day Of October. A. d. 1890