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Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-11-15
win Excel PhiIeas Enrr-

Already the achievement of Phileas
Fogg-the prophetic vision of French
savant-becomes as a tale that is told. for
within very short time, as has been
shown, we are to see the earth girdled
in fifty-eight days. But marvellous as all
this seems, the record is to be still further
reduced by nearly one-half, and there
will be nothing to prevent those who de-
sire it from making the trip from London
and back again in space of time that
will totally eclipse the record of Jules
Vernes hero, who, by dint of great effort
and unfailing ingenuity, completed his
journey and doubled the fortune he had
wagered on the result of his attempt.
With the completion of the Russian
Transcontinental railway, an enterprise
now well assured, the tourist NAV leave
London on given day and in ten DAYS
and nine hours arrive at Vancouver; he
can proceed thence to Vladivostock in ten
days and eighteen hours; he can push on
to st. Petersburg in eleven DAYS and
eleven hours and reach London again in
two days and twenty hOurs-a total Of
thirty-tive days and ten hours Walter
P. Phillips in The Journalist.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-11-15


Every trade has peculiarities about ID
that are inexplicable. A notable in
stance of this is the strange manner in
which diamonds and other precious
stones disappear when accidentally
dropped by dealer while handling them.
1T really seems, . said a jeweler to a
reporter, THAT these valuable stones have
the power of motion. A diamond
dropped at one end of room has been
found in the dust at the further end of
the apartment.
'On another occasion l saw a stone
that was dropped to the floor from a
loose setting, and, after hours of fruit
less search, this same stone was found in
the show window six feet from where it
fell.
ga friend of mine and customer of
his spent two hours in looking for a
diamond that flew from the tweezers in
which it was held for inspection, and
when they had given up the search in
despair it was found nesting cozily in
the thick black beard of the customer.
"Other precious stones seem to have
the same faculty for disappearing. A
short time ago q dealer allowed a fine
topaz to slip from his hand. The spot
on the floor where it fell, and in fact
every part Of the office, was thoroughly
searched, but the stone was never re-
covered Chicago News.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-11-15
Electric Lights in Africa.

An amusing account comes from
New Guinea relating the effect on the
natives when the steamship Nelson ex-
ercised her power. The foghorn was
blown and the electric projectors
flashed upon the village. The natives
thought the electric lights to be the
eyes of some great monster, and when
they heard the sound Of the siren they
Immediately concluded that it was the
voice of the monster, and, acting I'M
der this belief, numbers of them ran
away and hid in the bush in terror of
their lives.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-11-15
A Lucky Bricklayer.

A recent recipient at the court of Con-
stantinople of the Turkish Medal for Art
and of the Order Of the Mejidieh is the
mason who put up "A Russian stove in the
sultan's palace. 1t appears that the sui
tan was struck with the stove at the Rus
sian consulate at Constantinople, and had
a similar structure of bricks and tiles or
dered from Odessa. The Russian laborer
who was sent with it to put it up was a
simple moujik, but the sultan was so de-
lighted with the mans skill in bricklay-
ing-an art unknown in Turkey as ap-
Piled to the building Of firepleces-that,
besides money present of $3.50, he con
ferred the above distinctions on the peas
ant.-New York World
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-11-15
He Resolved to Rise.

Fifteen years ago, two poor boys from
the old town Of Plymouth in New Eng
land went down to lonely part of the
coast to gather a certain sea weed from
the rocks, which when bleached and
dried is sold as Irish moss for culinary
purposes. The boys lived in little hut
on the beach; they We're out before dawn
to gather or prepare the moss, which had
to be wet with salt water many times,
and spread out in the sun until it was
thoroughly whltened.
They had one hour each day free from
work One of them spent it lying on
the sand asleep. The other had brought
out his books and studied for that hour,
trying to keep up with his schoolmates.
The first boy is now a middle aged man.
He still gathers moss on the coast near
Plymouth The second emigrated to
Kansas, became the leading man in a
new settlement, and is now wealthy,
influential citizen.
'.No matter what was my work, " he
said lately, Il always contriyed to give
one hour day to my education. That
is the cause of my success in life. y
Youths Companion.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-11-15
Some Londoners Are Sensitive.

Some of the London newspapers have
been inconsiderate enough to harrow the
feelings of polite society by publishing
the tale of an East End tragedy whereby
a dock laborer died Of starvation. Mark
Vale was the victims name, and his
neighbors report him to be temperate.
steady man, who made every effort to
obtain sufficient work to support his
family, consisting of wife and five
small children. He had a little money
due him on Thursday, and dropped dead
at the paymastei = feet as he received it.
The doctor who made the post mortem
said death was due to starvation. and
the mans stomach was entirely empty.
The eldest boy told the coroner that their
father had eaten nothing since the pre-
vious Saturday, though the children had
had little stew twice since then. Their
father ate nothing in order that there
should be more for his little ones.
The West End was quite shocked when
The Pail Mall Gazette published this
story, and more than one good citizen
stopped the paper in order that his wife
and children might not be annoyed by
the perusal of such vulgar atrocities
Cor. New York Sun.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-11-15
A Ride in "A Barrel.

The latest amusement at Brussels is
riding on lie Chemin de Fer dc Ar
mour, or the "Topsy-turvy railway
1t consists of an enormous barrel opened
at the end, and grooved SO as 10 run
upon set of rails which slope il the
center. On each side of the barre IS a
seat, and on each seat three passengers
SIT, being strapped round the WHIST, AID
having their feet in straps, while with
their hands they hold on to the seats.
!he barrel is set in motion, and goes
down the incline and up the other si,,..
the passengers turning round and round
with it. The journey is short one, the
barrel rolling completely over only four
umes, and then stopping with its passcn-
GERS seated right side up again. The
fare is 80 centimes. Many women ride
IN it, their skirts fastened by strap at
The ank le-Nepy York Sun
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-11-15

Capt. T. J. Tucker, who lives just
north of this city, is telling remarkable
snake story among his friends around
town. 1t seems that the captain was
fishing in Lake Ivanhoe and had been
lucky enough to catch a pretty good
sized trout. Thinking he would clean it
before returning home he sat down on
the bank of the lake, and as he was
washing the fish, with his hand in the
water, he suddenly felt something pull
ing at one of his fingers. Imagine his
surprise and CONSERVATION when, upon
looking down at his finger, he saw a
large moccasin snake had hold of it.
With a sudden jerk he pulled his finger
out of his snakeship's mouth, the only
harm done being that considerable skin
was scraped off in the act.-Orlando
Record
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-11-15
Finding a Lost Dog"

Every day you see one or more "lost
dog advertisements in the newspapers
If owners did love their dogs they
wouldn't go to the expense of advertis-
ing for them. Most of these lost dogs
have been stolen. The thief sells them
to somebody else. Then his ''par' gnez
to the rightful owner and obtains hand
some reward for recovering the animal
Chicago Times.
The Louvre is about to become the DOS.
SCISSOR of MiIet's ''Glaneuses." which has
been bequeathed to it by Nine. Pom
merry, who died recently at Rheims.
The ''Glaneuses" was painted two wears
before the ''Angelus," and was first ex-
hibited at the Salon of 1857. 1t is a much
more important work than the more
widely known canvas, and is by many
connoisseurs considered to be greatly su.
perior to it.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-11-15
An Acoustic Tale

A special to The New York World
from Helena, Ark, dated April "a, says:
John R. Mcclure, of Modoc Landing,
says that during the high water he has
been compelled to fell trees in order that
his cows might sustain life by browsing
on the green leaves. The animals were
always hungry and he had great trouble
in driving them away to keep the oaks
from falling on them. Two days ago
there was Il thunder storm and before it
began to rain there was a clap of thunder
that sounded exactly like tree falling.
Mr.. McGuire's entire herd of COWS rush
ed frantically towards the spot where it
seemed the tree had fallen. Another and
another clap followed in rapid succession
and all of the cattle put to the hill coun-
try, where they supposed trees were be-
ing cut down. Not one of the1n has been
seen since.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-11-15
The First Cnlored Nurse.

Miss Minnie Hogan, colored girl, has
finished the two years course in the
Training School for Nurses of thG. Uni
versity of Pennsylvania, with great sue
cess. Her treatment while at the train
ing school was of the best. Miss Hogan
was a pupil of the Institute for Colored
Youth, and received a letter of indOrse-
ment from Mrs. Coffin, the principal, at
the time Of entering upon her course Of
study The colored people of the city
take great pride and interest in this, the
first of their race to graduate fro-a this
institution The opening of the doors of
the different departments of the Univer-
sity of Pennsylvania has served as a
great incentive to the colored young
men and women and each year more are
availing themselves of the advantages
offered, and they are succeeding credit
ably in their efforts at self improvement.
New York Telegram.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-11-15
Sufficient.

Have you family2" asked a west
ern judge of man who was making
final proof in United States land
Office.
Yes, sir, replied the man.
"Of what does it consist?"
well, said the man, evidently con-
fused, and looking up toward the cell
ing, as if to refresh his memory, 1t
consists of my wife, ten children, two
hired men, a gang pillow, seeder, a
Balm wagon and span of mules. |
believe that's all
That is enough, " replied the judge,
with smile, and the settler got his
papers without further questioning
Youths Companion
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-11-15
improvement in Artificial Limbs.

The latest improvement in artificial
limbs consists in forming the leg and
foot part of a single piece of wood, hav-
ing the grain curved naturally in its
growth, such pieces being procured from
the parts of the trunk contiguous to the
roots and branches of trees. Limbs made
in this way are stronger with the same
amount of wood remaining in them than
when made of parts and glued together,
and are made waterproof, which is val
liable feature when the occupation of
the wearer exposes it to constant damp
ness, or to water itself, as in fishing, min
ing, dredging, etc. BY making limbs in
this manner from natural curves in the
growth of the wood it has become prac-
ticable to make light and substantial arti-
fetal feet, adapted to partial amputa-
lions of the foot.-New York Telegram,
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-11-15
FRIGHTENED TO HIS FATE.
Story Connected with Laconic Entry
: in a Steamers Log Cook

Story Connected with a Laconic Entry
in a Steamers Log Cook.
A tragedy of the sea, full of pathos
and pointing an obvious moral, is made
known through the laconic entry in
the log book of the Brazilian mail
steamship Finance.
When the Finance touched at Per-
nambuco on her way to this port a
colored man ran up the gangway and
begged the captain to allow him to
work his passage to New York. The
negro was so piteous in his appeals for
a passage that'the captain finally con-
scented and sent him into the stoke hole
to work at passing coal.
His name was William Watney.
All that was known about him was
that he mad been stranded in Pernam-
buco and that he belonged in or some
where near this city.
On the evening of the third day his
name was written in the log as fol-
lows:
William Watney, colored, a coal
passer, while insane, jumped over
board and was drowned
! The Finance was boarded at her pier
by reporter, whose Investigations
showed that Watney had, in fact, been
driven to death How this was done
was related to the reporter by astoker:
''We'were short one man in the coal
hole, said the stoker. ''Watnev was
very strong fellow, and he went at
the killing work with vim and cheer
fulness that surprised us.
He was very quiet He had an
impeachment in his speech, and very
seldom spoke unless asked question.
He bore his hardships accomplishing
| ly, and won the admiration of the en-
gineers.
The second day after leaving Per
nambUco Watney was summoned on
deck by the second engineer to sign
the ships article so that he could be
paid for his work
Watney signed, hut hard4y com
pretended what he was doing. He
was ignorant, and he came down into
the hold again with a wondering look
on his face. Several times he shook
his head solemnly, and he seemed to
think that hA signing his name to a pa
per portended evil for him.
Finally one of the stokers, whose
name | don't care to mention, asked
| him what was the matter
'Watney shook his head doubtfully
and replied; 1 done sign a paper on
deck. What dat for2 You know he
asked
THE stoker thought he had chance
| for amusement So he cried out in
stimulated alarm: Great Scott, did
you do that? Why you've signed your
death warrant and you will be hanged
/ tomorrow.
''Watney never said a word, but
+ shivered from head to foot There was
not man who didn't feel sorry for
what our comrade had said, and we
all turned solemnly to work. Proba-
bly, our silence alarmed him still
more, for i'll a few minutes he asked
for PERMISSION to get drink of water
He went on deck, looked around,
and, seeing some of the officers APP
preaching, evidently thought they i'll
tended securing him for the hanging.
With a wild yell he rushed to the rail
and vaulted into the ocean.
He never rose once; the ship was
stopped and every possible effort was
made to save him, but it was fruit
less. He was never seen again.
I'VE in the stokehole felt like lot
of-well, don't like to say murder
ers, but ! for one wasn't able to sleep
for many "a night. New York Even
ing World.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-11-15
Salt on the Nuts.

Nuts are indigestible things at best
but if we eat them, a little salt taken
dry on the tongue after will prevent
any i'll effects. Nothing we eat needs
more thorough mastication than nuts
before being fit for the human stomach.
If swallowed in too coarse a condition
they are apt to make short stop in
some of the narrower passages of the
digestive organs with fatal results. -
Waverley Magazine.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-11-15
a Bird That Kills EnttInrs.

Riding in California one day my COM
panion called attention to a bird in the
road ahead of me. 1t was something
like a prairie chicken, but much more
slender and graceful in build. 1t was
not using its wings, but it moved very
rapidly, and we had to keep the horse in
a pretty good trot to keep up with it.
My friend told me that it was road
runner, bird that was noted there for
its pedestrian accomplishments, and a
peculiar habit they have is to walk al
ways in the center of the road.
When one of these birds meets a rat
tlesnake it behaves i'll such coy man.
ner that it leads the snake to think it
will become the victim of its charm, and
while it is keeping the snake in doubt as
to its intentions it runs about in the cac-
tus and picks off the thorns with its bill,
dropping them in a circle around the
snake until it has him completely sur
rounded by cactus thorns. Then it flies
to some elevation and sits there to watch
the snake stick himself to death on the
thorns trying to get out of the ring
j. S. NOrmile in St Louis Globe-Demo-
crat.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-11-15

The twenty-six letters Of the alpha
bet may be transposed $40, 448, 4O1, 1888, :
239, 439, 800, 900 times All the inhab-
Hants of the globe, on a rough calcu-
lation, could not in thousand mill
ions of years write out all the transpo-
sitions Of the twentysix letters, even
supposing that each wrote forty pages
daily, each of which pages contained
forty different transpositions of the
letters. Exchange.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-11-15
Interesting Postal Statistics.

The heaviest mail carried over any
mail route in the United States is be-
tween New York and Philadelphia.
The average daily weight of the mail
carried over this route in 1889 was
POI, 813 pounds. For trains carrying
the mails the best time is made on the
Lehigh Valley railroad, between East
on, Pa, and Metuchen Station, N. j.,
distance 54.20 miles. The average time
of all mail trains is 40 miles an hour.
The longest continuous run made by
postal clerks is from Omaha to Ogden,
distance of l,035 miles. Boston Her.
aid.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-11-15
Onions as SonOrific.

Frank Buckland used to say that he
found eating onions at supper the
surest help to sound sleep We used
to think this fancy of his, but we are
reminded of it by reading a statement
by an American magistrate, Mr.. ely
mer, of Reading, Pa. who says:
Onions inhaled cause sleep, rest and
repose. The soldier on his march and
the exhausted iron worker get great
strength from eating onions. Tie a
fresh onion around the neck and bruise
it to make its odor thorough, and you
secure sound sleep from its nightly in
halation. "-Christian at Work.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-11-15
FATE.
hillside

4 little brook on hillside
Once louged for the distant sea;
In its summer dreams there were strange. brigh,
CLEANS
OF waves that were wild and free
But the bold sun glttered its waters DER,
And the little brook was seen no more.
Then the flowers mourned on the hillside
For the dream that never could be;
Yet far away there were clouds Tat day
That Swallowed the heaving sea,
And 10. mid the thunders wild alarms
The rain drops slipped to the oceans arms
In every passionate longing
That burns meath the vaulted skies
Though it still may sleep or be hidden deep,
The germ of frution lies;
And the path, tho strange, and the way unknown.
Is leading ever unto our own
There are depths which we may not fathom,
There are heights which We cannot see:
In some unknown time, or uudreamed of cline.
Who knows what is yet to be?
The shuttle swings, but the threads lie straight.
In and out of the web of fate
Washington Post
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-11-15
Spring Song.

The swift Is wheeling and cleaning,
The brook is brown in its bed,
Rain from the cloud is streaming;
And the bow bends overhead,
The charm of the winter is broken!
The last of the spell is said.
The eel in the pond is quickening,
The grayling leaps in the stream;
What if the clouds are thickeningi
See how the meadows CLEAN,
The spell of the winter is shaken!
The world awakes from a dreaml
The fir puts out green fingers,
The pear tree softly blows,
The rose in her dark bower fingers,
But her curtains will soon unclose:
The lilac will shake her ringlets
over the blush of the rose.
The swift is wheeling and cleaning,
The woods are beginning to ring,
Rain from the cloud is streaming;
There, where the bow doth cling,
Summer is smiling afar off,
over the shoulder of spring!
Robert Buchanan
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-11-15

1t is proposed to use the spectroscope
to determine whether cesspolls, stables,
ETC., drain into neighboring wells. A
solution of carbonate or chloride of
lithium is poured into the suspected
sources of pollution in the aeighbor-
hood, and after a week or so the we'll
water is examined spectroscopically
for lithiun, which can thus be detect
ed even if the water holds in solution
less than one pint in million.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-11-15
Musk from Microbes.

Artificial musk appears to be thing
of the near future. The announcement
is made that at the laboratory of the
Gesundheitsamt in Berlin a Japanese
physician named Kitisato, pupil of
Koch, has isolated a microbe from an
infusion of hay which has the property
of producing powerful odor of musk.
The microbe can be cultivated in any
mart of the nutrient media, but thrives
best on the potato and rice preparation.
The cultures are at first reddish in color,
afterwards becoming rust or tile colored.
When the cultures are exhausted with
alcohol the latter possesses the color of
tincture of musk.-Montreal Star.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-11-15

A novel fad has recently taken pos
session of the Yale juniors, and is caus-
ing much amusement about the college.
Every afternoon and evening the mem
beers of the three upper classes gather
round to. r.. pective portions of the
new fence III front of Durfee and as a
new man strolls up to join group of
classmates he is suddenly bounced upon.
his vest is unbuttoned, and in spite of
his struggles the tab on the bottom of
his shirt bosom is cut off. This trophy
is then tackled up on an elm, where are
some fifty or more similar ones. The
custom is peculiarly a junior one, and
the members of the other classes look on
and cheer while the struggle is in pro-
gress. As many of the tabs so taken
have the owners initials embroidered
upon them they are easily recognized as
they hang upon the elm, and among
them can be seen the tabs once belonging
to the best known men in the class
New York Sun.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-11-15
An Unfortunate Man.

Luther Waring, of Plainfeld, N. j.,
has had a particularly unfortunate
career Some time ago he lost an eye
from gunshot wound; later he was
compelled to undergo severe surgical
operation, The other day he caught a
rouser leg in the spokes of his bicycle
and was hurled headlong to the pave
ment, striking on the back of his head.
de was senseless several hours and is in
acrltical condition. Philadelphia Led
ger.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-11-15
His Peculiar Economy.

l knew a mana country doctor
of ample means and real generosity,
who smoked the best of cigars and of
fered the same kind to his friends.
But when his guest asked for a match
to light the cigar or offered to help
himself from the filled box on the
smoking tray he would hastily re
monstrate, walk to a box filled with
the short stumps Of matches that had
been once used, and, carefully relight-
ing one of these, would hand it to his
friend. New York Evening Sun.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-11-15

Very small children, who are poets
in their way, have to draw their ideas
from their own experience. Little Ruth
is but 2 years old. The other morning
her mother, in dressing her, said, as
the child rubbed its waking eyes:
See, Ruth, how bright and beaut,
full the morning is"
Ruth looked out the window a mo-
ment
Eth, " she said, 1t got on its pity
red dress I'-Boston Transcript.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-11-15
Execution by Boiling.

1t may be of interest to know that
the English law formerly prescribed
boiling where the culprit had com
mitted a crime extremely revolving in
its nature. The last person 20 suffer
death by boiling in England was
Rouse, cook to the bishop of Roch
ester, who had poisoned seventeen
persons.-St. Louis Republic.