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| So far the tale is II plain one Now
comes the complication. II seems that
long since Cyrus iced became cognzant
| of the method, aud beliefs of the Penn
| sylvania community and started his
| koresban scheme along the same lines
of celibacy and revelation He adhered to
! Rapp's plan with such fidelity and secured
such a following that when he visited
Economy the other day aired his preten-
sions and declared his mission. he was
hailed AS the immortal who was to con
| time and complete the task of establish
| ing n sexless race on earth
He has arranged to merge the rich Har-
monists with the poor koreshans, and to
inaugurate "A vast commercial and indus
| trial enterprise of which he is to be the
chief "Henrici & Duss'' will disappear as
a financial potency, and in their place DR..
| Cyrus iced will blossom out rs the CON
troller aud manipulation of millions Just
| how this tremendous earthly undertaking
will harmonize with the imminent trans
lation of the doctor to a celestial sphere has
not yet developed Perhaps, in view of his
good luck, the chief of the koreshans may
be induced to postpone for awhile his
| contemplated departure TO the realms of
beatitude. He indicates such course him
extract Is made:
81 will in the near future establish store
in Pittsburg on my system of equitable
commerce. | will establish a big central
house in Chicago and expect my coopeld
tive system to come into general vogue in
ten years. Eleven years ago prophesied
that would come to Economy in 1891
"'Vhe Economic institution has been
placed here for my especial use They will
do for me whatever | wish Their re-
sources are ut my disposal. OF course !
shall 90 slowly and cannot tell very much
that is definite. However. | did not come
here for their money. want their moral
support and credit
Through their influence | expect to
bring closer to me the other five celibate
societies in this country. There are about
10000 celibates in tine country outside OF
the Roman Catholic church The new
order Of things is approaching rapidly and
will come in time | am not going to die"
Perhaps the people who regard DR.. iced
and his plans with the most disfavor are
the tramps. They say that he is ''out for
the STUFF and that when he gets the reins
in hand his first move will be to abolish
the Economy palace" This palace is a
big structure near the village hotel, where
all wanderers are welcomed fed bathed
and lodged. Three thousand Migrants par.
took Of the society's hospitality last year.
III DR.. Teed does away with this charity he
is linble /. secure the enmity of n rather
useless but extremely dangerous class of
men, Indeed they may put his claim of
immortality to a decidedly disagreeable
test FRED G. DAYTON
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Russia. Home 10, Foandilns..

The car and general government OF
Russia shelters and provides well for at
least one portion Of its subjects, and the
Russian army will never lack recruits 80
long as the present system of foundling
homes is kept up, rs each day many bring
additions to this great army, who pass
muster III these institutions, where they
are tended with the most perfect care, not
infrequently by the very mothers Of the
waits themselves. These mothers, having
no way of providing for their unfortunate
children, bring them 70 the home, secure
the number placed around the neck Of the
child and then apply for the nurses posi-
ton, thus securing the care OF their own
babies, while many bring them here and
never sec or hear Of them again.
Tho government of Russia greatly en-
courages these institutions by providing
for them In q most substantial and com
Portable manner, We visited the home In
Moscow, where we saw 1000 Of these little
soldiers, none OF them ten days old, two in
each crib or In the nurae's arms, all ont In
the sunshine, and struggling for life that
had been no ruthlcssly thrust upon theiu.
They are brought into the institution mt the
rate OF sixty per day. That number was In
waiting in the anteroom TO have their
names and numbers entered in the book OF
fate for a home within its walls. Denver
News
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were brought out from their dusty place
of conceament, notu.ies were whitfield into
some, others were "triced up" until on
his ninth birthday Terry exhibited to his
| startled mother a rough "windmiil, about
two feet high, which when put upon
table or other level surface, would whirl
It's tans rapidly, the motive power being
supplied by stone attached to Il piece of
| strong Irvine. This so encouraged EN's
parents-they had previously believed him
deficient in intelligeuce-that they deter
| mined to apprentice him to a carpenter
But the boy appeared to develop so mau1
| traits of shftlessness that this plan was
| abandoned.
! Terry continued to whittle with his
)ackknife, and having seen some of the i'm
perfect affairs called clocks which Il Wind
sor man had made, he concluded that he
could do no worse and he accordingly set
TO work. Being out of employment at the
time he obtained permission to build the
little shanty mentioned above) on the
| bank of the Peunabuck river. which at
nrst served him both as workshop and
dwelling. His existence at this time was
a most precarious one. He started three
CLOCKS, and after "A good deal of patience
ana numerous setbacks, he had n good
timepiece embodying new principle.
which was that of the "windmill, which
he had made twelve years before. The
magnitude of Terry's original undertakinu
may be appreciated when it is remembe
that he had only some augers, a saw. ham.
iner and 1ackknife TO aid him in the con
struction of the rather complicated and to
MIN entirely new machinery.
The young mechanics clocks kent ssrooa
time," and he found little difficulty in dis.
posing OF them at twenty-five dollars
apiece, but as the number of persons who
could afford to indulge in such nm exnan.
slve luxury was extremely limited in those
days, Terry was obliged to make trims over
the state line into New York to disnose of
MS manufactures. He was able TO mako
Ten clocks a year, and he kept up this prin,.
l.iFe method for about eight years. whan
me demand becoming greater than the
supply he purchased better tools. emnlovad
two assistants and devoted mucp of his
time to selling the output.
IL required genuine "man of businassu
10 make success of tins department. for
the pay was seldom in cash, almost al,y.va
being made in butter, wool or other farn,
produce. \ sbrewd man like Eli 'parrv AZ
once saw the opportunity TO double nnn
on his profits, and he was not slow to avail
himself of it. He sought and obtainad
oruers Tor farm produce, and then tr,l.d
ms CLOCKS Tor what he wanted, ALWAYS re.
curing from the man of crons "A hiyhar
price on account of the lack of ready
money. In this way he not only made tho
proht on his goods, but also realized a Iarga
sum per annum on his exchange business,
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Some Excellent Work Dome.

The department of agriculture first in.
troduced the Russian apple which has had
such great success in the north and west.
1t Introduced the Japan persimmon, which
is largely cultivated in Florida and Cali
iornla. The celebrated Washington navel
orange OF California was propagated from
a tree grown in the dollhouse of this de
partmeut, Good judges have said that the
Introduction of this one tree was worth
more than the entire cost of Uncle Sans
work in the agricultural field. The orig
inal plant came from Brazil Three years
passed before success was obtained, and
then the result was but single tree,
From the progeny of this one tree have
come crops worth millions yearly.
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stores. to build six track railway across
the United States and in various ways to
cheaper communication and to lessen the
cost of life's necessaries.
Who Ia DIR. Cyrus Teedi Well, he is a
remarkable mana man who has founded
celibate society known AS the "kore-
shans;" a man who claims to be IMMORTAL
and who arrogates to himself powers usti-
ally associated with divinity alone. He
hns had varied career since he was born
In New York village ifty-two years ago
IA career that according TO common re-
por has been open to criticism.
After separating from his wife. who had
just given birth to a boy. Teed branched
out fthe date being 1870 on western ex-
perience that is without parallel in the his
tory Of creeds or credulity Buddha never
claimed greater purity, Confucius never
spoke more authorltatiyely, Moham-
med never laid down the spiritual law
with greater earnestness and Brigham
Young never had such revelations" as
this man iced. His Chicago college of
Life became the center from which the
koreshan doctrine spread Branches were
established at various points in the United
States, the San Francisco colony being the
most notable because of the earthly scan
dals that have Of late attracted to it public
attention.
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Teed's initial revelation disclosed the
fact that the world is hollow, that man
kind lives on the inside and that the sun
Is the center OF the globe As to his per-
sonal experiences they are thus recounted
by an enthusiastic disciple.
when he was baptized the Holy Spirit
descended on him as dove, and he heard
voice calling to him. Nobody heard the
voice or saw the dove but himself Subse.
quently he was caught mp into heaven and
lived for time among the angels. Won
derful revelations were made to him. He
learned that God became incarnate once in
each era of the worlds history. God or
divinity became incarnate first in Adam,
and subsequently in Enoch Noah, Abra.
ham, Moses, Elijah, Jesus aud others.
Each meridian covered a period of 1900
years, Christ came in under the sign of
Aries, the Ram or Lamb. After the era of
the Lamb came the era of the Fishes. The
Christian era has been under the constella-
ton of Aquarius Christ understood this
when he chose fishermen for his disciples
each dispensation overlaps the other.
The beginning of the last lap was when
Christ was born; the middle or meridian
line was the day he was crucfied; the end
OF the lap was the date of the destruction
OF Jerusalem. A similar overlapping of
the consultations is now going on. The
beginning of the lap was in 1870, when DIR.
Iced was caught up into heaven; the
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A sad case was that of u friend OF mine
who went to a gunsmith's to buy "a revolv.
er previous TO going abroad The man be
hind the counter handed him number OF
new revolyers To choose from, and my friend
kept ON trying the pulls. when one of them
went of, killing the salesman instantan-
eously. At the inquest it appeared that
the revolver was one Of a number that had
been sent ON approval to a gentleman. and
before sending them back he had evidently
overlooked "A cartridge IN one of the cham
bers, with this dire result,-London Tit
Iltfx
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A rich Englishman had 400 acquaint.
ances whom he deemed friends. When he
died all were hidden to the funeral. but
only twenty nine went. Eight DAYS after.
ward the lawyer of the estate announced
That, according to the will, each person
VINO had attended was entitled to a be.
quest 32o To each woman and 1000 tn
each man. There are several delightful
Things about the affar--the cynicism of
the testator who probably knew what
friendship generally means; the delight
OF the mourners and the sorrow of those
who did not grieve at the proper time.
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One of the hardest things TO reailze W "a, 4.
violin. never make much ct IN ~
vance ON such an instrument ~ ma
ago man brought in one and ass1u ala IA
what | would give him on II, anu ' he
him five dollars. He turned WINK, rs, n,,s
asked me if | knew what that WON ' ms
worth. | told him | did. ! knew ~. 4 h
worth about $500 But told mn. ~ tn shat
did not look any better than vlon1 ,n s
was worth ten dollars. No one o.lV -.
clan would ever know the diileren, Int
told him never could make any o,i sny
an old musician believe it was "o''' =
more than a poor violin. dollars
had rather advance a man yen Joilars
on fifteen dollar oyercoat than Nv. - know
on 500 violin, unless happened y. W. sI VIC
where / could get purchaser ior o.. WI What I
lin. might sell the overcoat ~ ,,st tho
advance on it, but never coula =, y;olia.
money or anything near lt on VI hoo
A violin in a pawnbroker's shop y
doo.-Interview in Chicago Irioun''
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blotch at the base of the alternate or outer
segments, measure each over four inches
across. They last only one day, but once
tne nowerlng season begins it extends over
long period.
Inc specimens at the Kew gardens
reached England twenty years ago, but
tne lack OF the subtropical conditions to
whlch they were accustomed kept them
from oisptaying their natural beauty
until of late
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l
poor ones too. in most cases) Of the rough
metal tinepeces imported from Europe.
| In that year. however, the art OF Amer
| can clockmaking was inaugurated by an
| individual as original in his way as the
| crude "chrouclers OF the flying hours
which he turned out 1t is the manufac
! ture of these first clocks which it is pro
| posed to commemorate.
Eli Terry was the person who may justly
| he considered the founder of the great in
dustrv which now forms SO large part OF
the wealth of Connecticut, and upon which
thousands of persons depend for their daily
bread.
| Eli Terry was not born with a silver
spoon in his mouth More color might be
| given to story alleging that he had mace
| his debut with jackknife in his hand, for
! it was to that homey but Indispensable In
strument tina: young Terry owed all OF his
| financial success and much Of his great
| ness as an inventor.
| II was Mt first intended that the celebra-
ton at Terryville should be to great ex.
| tent local in its nature, but this plan did
not meet with popular favor, and it is rea-
sonably certain that the affair will take
the form of Il great American clockmakers
exposition, to which all manufacturers in
America will be invited to send exhibits,
not only of their present output, but as
many of their old style timepieces as posi-
BILE
| This will serve to bring together sufli
Gent number of "odd things" to make the
exhibition attractive to the general public
outside of the trade 1t is believed that all
Connecticut people will do their utmost to
make the exposition success, inasmuch
as, Terryville not being now clock man
ufacturing town, there can be no local
jealousies on the part of rival cities. Be
sides, it is the most appropriate place that
could be selected, for it was there that Eli
Terry whitfield out his first clocks. That
he made durable, if crude, timepieces is
best evidenced by the fact that one Mt least
is still running in the hall of the residence
of his grandson. the late james Terry, at
Terryville.
The little shop scarcely larger than II
closet, in which Eli Terry began the mann
facture of clocks is still standing i'll an ex-
cellent state of preservation. IL is pro
posed to make this diminutiye factory a
feature Of the Terryville celebration. and
the entire exhibition will probably he
transferred to Chicago, to he there given a
conspicuous place in the Columbian ex
position.
Eli Terry was born in East Windsor,
Conn, in May, l772. From the time he
learned to talk he was engaged in making
his mothers life miserable by spiriting
away the sharp knife which was kept in
the kitchen its "A potato and apple parer.
The disappearance of this knife was always
sure to be followed by the appearance of
sundry i'll formed and only partly rounded
wheels which the youthful mechanic care
fully concealed under the house.
When he WAS about eight years old a
relative gave him jackknife as Christ
mas present. and this may be truly said to
have been the beginning of Terry's re,
markable career. His rough little wheels
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st. Patrick's Well.

AT the foot of Ardrass hill, by the side of
the Clane road, near the town of Colbridge.
Kildare. Ireland, is st, Patricks well.
rms blessed WELL" says a recent visitor,
is circular, built around with masonry
ana partially covered with large flag
stone. Some ancient ivy clad thorn trees
oVershadow it, and, to judge by the nu-
meroas pieces of rags tied to the bushes
ana brlars around it, is still held in high
veneration in the district. "-Philadelphia
Ledger
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While cross examining DIR. Warren, a
New York counsel declared that doctors
ought to be able to give an opinion of q
disease without making mistakes. They
make fewer mistakes than the lawyers. - re-
rponded the physician THAT is not SO. +,
laid the counselor; but doctors mistakes
are buried six feet underground, a lawyers
are not" No" replied Warren, "but
sometimes hung as many feet above the
ground. San Francisco Argonaut
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Alta dinner OF the London Thirteen clul
every visitor was told that they must con
form TO the rules of the club, and, il no
questcd, must walk under the club ladder
spill salt cross their knives and forks
shake hands across, wear peacock's
feather, open an umbrella in the dining
hall, and Ito other thugs deemed unlucky
and Of evil omen"
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At the Guinness brewery in Dublin an
attempt is being made to utilize the car
bonic acid gas liberated during the process
of fermentation. As some 25, 900, 900 900
gallons OF this gas are produced annually
in the breweries Of the United Kingdom, a
great saving will be effected II the new en-
terprise proves a success in IA commercial
way. The gas is to be condensed into the
liquid foru, in which form ii sells at eight
cents per pound. The makers of soda
water, mineral waters, wines with a
pop" and other like drinks will rejoice in
the prospects of cheap earbonic acid gas
in a convenient form.-New York Tele-
gram.
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In these days Of coeducaton and the
competition of males and females on the
plane of equality recent utterance of
President Adams regarding the feminine
students in Sage college, Cornell univer,
sity, is of interest. Mr.. Adams says, "a
vast minority of the young women are not
only earnestly devoted to the working out
of great and noble purposes, but are also
disposed on every occasion to exert their
influence in behalf of a cultivated and re
fined social life"
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There has just bloomed for the first time
in England II plant whose blossoms have
hitherto shed their fragrance only on Lord
Howe's island, a tiny spot of green in the
waste of ocean to the east of the Austria
Ian continent The plant belongs to the
Iris family, and is known us the wedding
flower. The blooms, which are pure white,
save for Il golden yellow, crescent shaped
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Growing In viii, ~. c,

Lieutenant Maxwell, of the United
states army, says the Dakota climate adds
10 ones stature. When ordered to that
country he was over twenty-one years old
ana had reached the age when growth is
supposed to Top, but during a residence
mere OF over year he grew 81 inches.
DaNotans say the climate often has that
etfect.-El Paso Herald.
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Among our industrious and frugal fore
fathers IL was maxim that young WON
an should never be married until she had
spun herself Il set OF body, table aud bed
linen. From this custom all unmarried
women were termed spinsters, an appel
lation they still retain In all our law pro
ceedings.- Tit Bits
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why Eplleptics Are pa,ssr,

Many epileptics, though perfectly sane
at other times, show destructive impulse
curing that form of the disease in which
the patient does not fall in conyulsions
Ihey may attack and kill stranger to-
ward whom they have not even a cause Of
annoyance and few moments afterward
oe whoily unaware of the act.-Exchanue
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, New Please, mum, while you're
down town, would ye be SO kind as to order
me pair o. shoesS
Mrs. DE Style--l--er-do not know your
size.
New Girl-Nor |. mum; but think if ye
get them about the size Of yours they'll do
Mrs. DE style (hesitatngly)-D you
think you could wear themr
New Girl-Oh, yes, mum. After new
shoes is wet they shrinks, New York
Weakly
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A MASTER OF MILLIONS
Here's a Man Who Can Give
Jay Gould Pointers.
sHREwDNEss OF AN APOSTLE"
How DR.. Cyrus Teed. Chief OF the Kore-
shans, Got Control Of the Vast Fortune
Accumulated by the Economites-Ci-
gantic Plans.

Fed, Cyrus Teedl
/ That Is the name
of a man who has
acc o m p ! $ b e d
more at one coup
than any Roths
child, Gould or
Vanderbilt b a $
achieved in a life
time of shrewd
financial scben
ing. He has got
his hands on $50.
UUO,UOO OF acctlinu-
lated wealth, and
he proposes to put
1t into circulation
He plans to estab
lish cO-operative
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IN some sections of this country there is a
superstition that when death occurs in !.
mousse the mirrors in the different rooms
must De carefully covered until after the
iuheral' lest the face of the corpse be pho
tographed in the glass. '0
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Paper Made of Corn Husks.

Corn husks boiled in eaustic soda are
oelhg utilized for the manufacture of pa.
per The cooking process results in the
formation OF spongy, glutinous paste
which is subjected to heavy pressure so as
To eliminate the gluten, the fiber remain.
ing telng made into paper in the ordinary
way.-lankee Blade,
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inc custom of throwing obstacles in the
pathway of the bridegroom ;ls prelude to
the marriage ceremony is of very ancient
origin Mythology has its tales OF suitors
whose courage and skill were tested before
they were allowed to take their brides: in
certain remote districts. even in civilized
i'hds' some form of such usages still exists
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Once Tommy was silent Mt the request Of
his elders for many weary minutes. and
when he could no longer contain himself
he was told that silence was golden. YES, y
quoth be, "but you know we want change
sometimes "--I.ondon Truth.
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Returned Traveller How do you do, my
little deari Is your father still the rector
Of this ehurchs
Little Girl-Oh, no, sir-not now. He's
been concentrated bishop. Good News.
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south Carolina produced more than one.
third OF the entire amount of phosphate
rock mined in the world in 1890. the outnnt
being 600, GOO tons.
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The Meyerbeer centenary does not occur
until 1894, but already there has been Il
preliminary celebration of the event at
Paris. Three years from now the anniver
sary of the great composers birth will be
commemorated throughout the civilized
world.