The morning news., 1891-02-20
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

| a CORRESPONDENT of the Boston Transcript
recalls this anecdote Of Father Taylor: Seeing
| in his audience at one time a weIl-knoWn
clergyman OF the Baptist denomination, he left
/ his pulp and passing down the aisle to the
pew where the reverend gentleman was seated,
invited him TO occupy the pulpit with himself
/ and make the opening prayer The visiting
preacher declined, giving as a reason that a
| Unitarian had occupied the pulpit the Sunday
| before. Father Taylor was not the man to
| waste time or words on such material so.
TO the pulpit, and on reaching it said: let US
pray-oh, Lord, deliver us from bigotry and
bad rum; Thou knowest which is worse; don't.
Amen"
THERE were couple of westerners, pioneer
railroad men, entertaining themselves and
appreciativs audience by telling stories of the
\ wild and woody west. zone of the funniest
| things ever heard was the story Swede told
/ OF his experience down in Oklahoma" said one
| OF the pioneers. He had saved about Sl50and
went down into the land of promise expecting
70 make his fortune. He hadn't been there
| many hours, however, before some smooth fell
| low secured his cash, and the poor Swede had
to beat hls way home. Some one asked him
how he liked Guthrie. No good at all, he said
Whole town tents Stores all tents, hotel tent,
postoffice tent. Goat eat up the postoffice, and
lnJun get on tear and make pair of breeches out
of hotel Oklahoma no good"
/ IT HAS OFTEN BEEN CLAIMED that tattoo marks
may be removed by pricking over them goats
unlk- lnlS Is q MI 5taken lQed. Chemists and
Others have for years experimental with vari-
Gus preparations in the hope of discovering
some agent to wholly remove India ink marks
from the human skin Nothing however has
as yet been found that will remove a portion
even of the Objectionable marks unless posi-
bly,, the attempt be made Immediately follow
ing the tattooing process. At Mount Washing
ton University hospital, Baltimore, an expert
ment was some years ago made in presence OF
the writer upon the forearm of a noted
character of that city who died there.
h1G AlnF Nhn .A1I
permission to the students of the
university to experiment they saw fit
with his dead body. One of these students, Gu
rlous to learn everything possible connected
with the practice of tattooinz cut from the
dead mans arm strip of skin upon which a
coat of arms appeared Beneath the skin the
design remained visible BY degrees the flesh
was removed, the design in India ink still re-
naming in sight until finally the bone was
reached. After a thorough sponging for the
purpose of removing the blood and pieces of
flesh still remaining, it was found that the rep
resentation still appeared After cutting away
small section of the bone the India ink mark
was found not to have penetrated beyond.
REPRESENTATIVE ELIJAH ADAMS MORSE Of
Massachusetts knows what is meant by "a rec
ognition by the speaker with a string to it" He
related an incident the other day to illustrate
the point. Some days ago he asked Speaker
Reed to recognize him to call up bill locating
iife-s saving station on the coast of Massachu-
sets, and the speaker agreed to do so. When
Mr. Morse arose he produced a photograph of
vessel floating quietly at sea, and began to give
an object lesson to show the needs of the life
saving station. He had shown it to Speaker
Reed and told him long story to the effect
that this vessel had been wrecked off the very
point where he wanted the new station, because
there was no light. He wanted something done
before any more vessels went down.
He was going to repeat this story, when
MIR. Cannon objected, and Mr.. Morse sat
down; Some one told him a little
later that Speaker Reed had sent a note down
to Mr.. Cannon asking HIM to object. AS soon as
recognition was granted Mr.. Morse went to
Mr.. Cannon and asked him If this was true.
| Il never told any one it was true" replied Mr..
| srue?' went on Mr.. Morse. "And tell you, as
a mani replied Uncle Joe, that it is true"
| Then Mr.. Morse went to the speaker Say,
Reed" he whined, what made you send down
| that note to Cannon, asking him to object to
my bill?" Speaker Reeds face assumed
| customary drawl: We'll, wanted to get rid of
you" This, said Mr.. Morse, lis what call
| a recognition with a string to it"
| TRAVELLER who has recently visited Jerusa-
iem-his name is not Talmage-tells of the SEN
sation produced there last month by the intro
duction Of the electric light, just four years
| after gas light was first seen there. The cleo
| trio plant is used in a large -four mill adjoining
| the supposed site of Calvary and close to the
Damascus gate. If the Arabs and Jews were
| 1887, they are confounded when they see the
| light of electricity in 1891. Many of them are
SO alarmed that they hardly dare to look at it.
and the Mohammedans call upon the prophet
for safety They ask what it is. where It comes
from and how the magicians make it. When
told that 1t Is the same thing as lightning, they
can be caught or held and take
care to keep at a respectful distance
from it. Perhaps" says the traveller,
the day is not far distant when the streets and
| houses of Jerusalem may be lighted by cleo
tricity, aud even when Palestine, long desolate,
shall blossom like the rose'' There Is reason to
believe that, with the completion Of the rail-
road line from Jaffa to Jerusalem, and with
| the construction of other new lines Palestine
| will attract far greater multitudes Of pilgrims
than have been seen there since the time of the
crusades. According to a recent dispatch in the
| New York Sun, a steamer put in at Jaffa on
Tuesday of last week with 226 passengers who
proceeded to Jerusalem, accompanied by band
of musicians. In course of time the children of
| Israel who once held Palestine, and who vet
| chant the songs of Jerusalem all over the
| world, may be induced to try and revive the
prosperity of the Holy Land.
MRS KATE SMITH, 'the Queen of the Census
Office" is now an active chief of division, in
| charge Of the work of collecting data on mort
cages on homes and farms, says the New York
Sun. She is the only woman chief of division
IN the government service, and her salary is
81, 800 year. Mrs. Smith has been RAPIDLY pro
NOTED, as it was only year ago last October
that she appeared in the office as clerk at $50
| month. But she early manifested remarkable
adaptability to the work. and made so MANY
Successes Inat IL Is not surprising that she
| attracted the attention of her superiors and was
advanced in rank and pay. Her first success
| was in experiments with the Holle~ith popula-
| ton counting machines, which she operated
| with more skill and speed than any one else
She demonstrated what the machines
could do, and the inventor offered her
| large salary to go to Australia to
help introduce the machines there. Mrs
Smith, who is from New York. and related to
General Manager HaiD of the elevated railway
| gave evidence of the possession of so much
| ability in mathematics and other difficult work
that she was frequently asked to go to one or
another division where intricate work was to
be done, and in this way she became one of the
| best-informed and most useful employees of
| the office. Her division, which gives employ
ment to eighty clerks is the banner division
of the bureau, and it is the one generally called
| uponwhen special feats of difficult or rapid
| work are to be performed. Mrs. Smith had
| charge Of the recount of st. Paul and Minneap-
| oils. Her division was called in to help adjust
| the accounts of the thousands of enumerators
| When SupJ. Porter wanted circulars sent to all
| of the 10000 postmasters in the United States
and want ed the letters prepared and addressed
within twenty-four hours, he asked Mrs
Smiths division to do the work Supt
| Porter promoted Mrs. Smith to a 81 200
post, but beyond this he did not have authority
to go. The first application to Secretary Noble
| for promotion to $1,000 was not granted, the
secretary thinking it unwise to set the prece-
dent Of giving woman a chiefs salary He
did consent, however to having his chief clerk
Mr.. Dawson. make special investigation of