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Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-12-29
Scientific Training.

Prof. Won Helmholtz, In recent add
dress to the students of Columbia col
lege in this city, said that the recog-
nized method of scientific work now
was collection of knowledge, retention
of that knowledge and its communica-
ton to mankind. There has been
more accomplished by science during
the last two centuries than during
1000 years previously.
Careful observation makes the artist
and makes the brilliant scientist
Trace the connection between events
and the laws that govern that connec-
ton until doing so becomes intuitional.
Train the mind so that the strongest
impressions will be made by the most
important events until this also be-
comes intuitional. Following the adj
vice of scientists of the last two centu-
ries and go on by careful, accurate,
complete observations to great discov-
cries and great successes.-Scientific
American.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-12-29
Wanted to BE Unmarried.

A young Polish woman, whose maid
en- name is as unpronounceable as her
married name, which is Katerouwske,
appeared at the Camden city hall this
morning and asked City Clerk Varney
for divorce. She declared that her
husband had basely deceived her and
that further union with him was a
martial mpossibility.
''iow long have you been married,
madam inquired the clerk.
"Since yesterday" came the answer.
what has occurred to disturb your
nuptial joy?"
"Why my husband told me he had
81, 900 in bank owned any quantity of
real estate and was going TO let me
live in clover. found on getting home
that if there was any clover pasture
for me I'd have to find it myself His
stories of bank accounts are fables,
pure and simple, while the real estate
yarn is q hollow mockery."
Mrs. katerouwske was very indig-
nant when told she could not get di-
vorce outside the chancery court, which
would not grant such a document for
the reasons detailed by her.
"Humph!' she calculated as she left
the hall, its very funny that the man
that married me can't unmarry me- -
Philadelphia Evening Bulletin.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-12-29

his record of visit to the bank the
following note: "A well-known New
York banker had given me letter of
introduction to Mr.. +. May, cashier Of
the bank, whose signature, by the
way, is better known than that of any
other person in the world, tor on every
Bank of England note is printed fac
simile of his name in his own hand
writing; and l may say here further
more, that Bank of England note is
the safest piece of paper in the world.
Mr.. May received me cautiously. He
is rather good-looking Englishman,
with high forehead, clear eyes, short,
thin, curly hair, firm mouth and
somewhat of the appearance of a stu
dent, although he was a famous oars.
man in his day and Il good all-round
cricketer."
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-12-29
INGENIOUS DEVICES.

The triployraph is the name of a
combined typewriter, cash register
and calculator invented by young
man at Ellensburg, Wash
Seamless steel boats, each made OF
only two plates, each plate riveted to
a bulb keel bar, which forms also the
stem and stern posts, are being made
by firm in London.
the flags TO be hoisted at one time
in signaling at seq never exceed four.
1t is an interesting arithmetical fact
that within eighteen variously color
ed flags, no fewer than 1862 signals
can be given.
w. Ii. Preece, the well-known cleo
trician, has succeeded in sending a
telephone message from the shore of
the British channel, near Cardiff, to
the island of Flatholm, three miles
off, without the Intervention of con-
Meeting wire.
The telephone is now used by deep
water divers. A receiver and trans
mitter combined is affixed to tbs in
side of the helmet near the divers
ear. BY slight turn of his head he
can speak into the phone, and he can
hear readily from it at all times.
Formerly the only communication
was by a system of pulls at cord.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-12-29
SELECT NONSENSE.

Prisoner beg you, judge, not to
condemn me-not on my account, but
so as not to injure the prospects of my
counsel"
"How does the political situation
strike you?" said one man to another
on the train. II here hasn't any struck
me yet" was the reply. I've been
trying ever since election to get
enough influence to get one"
Fond Mother - And has mammals
angel child been peacemaker to-dayP
Mammals Angel Child-Yes'm; Tom
my Turf was licllin' Willie Whimpers,
an when 1 told IN to stop he wouldn't,
an jumped in an licked the stuffin'
out % both of 'em.
WELL" said a facetious stranger to
a member of the brass band, there
is one thing for you to be thankful
for" "Vat is dose?" inquired the
musician. "You can always blow
your own horn" "Nein, my friendt
Dis cornet is borrowed"
DO you remember Miss Smith,
whom we met at the seashore?' RE
member herl Well should say 1 dol
What beauty she wasl" II saw her
the other day and she couldn't think
whoyou were when l spoke of you"
what was her name, did you say?
Smith? oh, don't know any Smith
girl thought you said Jones"
YES" said the old man addressing
his young visitor, I'm proud of my
girls, and should like to see them all
comfortably married; and as I've made
a little money they won't go to their
husbands penniless There's Mary,
enty-five years old, and real good
girl. l shall give her 81, 900 when she
niarries. Then comes Bet, who won't
see thirty-hve again, and shall have
e2,000, and the man who takes Eliza,
who is forty will have R3,0O with
her." The young man reflected a
moment or so and then nervously in
CURED; You haven't one about Atty
have your"
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-12-29
MOON AHOY"
An Incident of tho Recent Trip OF the
Cruiser AN Francisco.

An Incident of tho Recent Trip OF the
Cruiser AN Francisco.
Regarding the seamanship of one
OF the members OF the Massachusetts,
Naval Reserve: The incident oc-
Cured during the recent trip on the
cruiser San Francisco, and. volumi-
nous as was the commendatory re-
port of their doings which was sent
to the navy department, the Boston
Home Journal says, it did not in
clude this incident:
On the second night that the re-
serves were at sea one OF the amateur
tars was on the watch He was a
Boston man. The night was clear
and beautiful. Myriads of stars
twirkled in the heavens. but there
was no moon. Suddenly the reserve
sang out:
Light ahovn'
where awayP" said tho officer OF
the dock.
"Far, far away" replied the would
be man-o'-war's
When the officer had recovered
from the shock occasioned by tn IS
unseamanlike answer he looked over
the rail in tho direction pointed out
by tho man from Boston. Then he
had another fit. The stern discipline
which prevails on a cruiser at sea
did not allow him to swear, but there
was a world of meaning in the way in
which he growled out: What's the
matter with you; can't you recognize
the rising moon when you see it?"
Moon! NOON" stammered the
embryo seadog. II beg your pardon,
sir. Then he shouted. as If making
amends for his error: "Moon, ahoy"
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-12-29
Part of the Recital.

Tennyson's wonderful poem, The
Revenge" was first published in the
Nineteenth Century in 1873 or 1879.
On the eve of its publication, Tenny-
son invited between thirty and forty
of his most intimate friends to his
house in Eaton Square. in order that
he might recite this patriotic piece
to them. AS the poet proceeded in
his rich and sonorous tones, the
favored few hung upon his words.
When he reached the last lines
"And the whole sea plunged and fell on the
shot shattered navy of Spain,
And the tile Revenge herself went down by
the island crags,
To be lost evermore in the main"
the feelings of all present were
strung up into excitement and en-
thusiasm, when, to the amaze.
ment of all, the laureate added, with,
out the slightest pause and without
the least change OF tone in his voice,
"and the beggars only gave me three
hundred pounds for it, when it was
worth at least five hundred pound:
or more. ;" -Argonaut.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-12-29

Is a prisoner, and il the tide comes up
and he is unwilling to chop his fin
gers off he has to die under the
waves.
There sre beautiful fables and
traditions about shells. aud some are
told about the nautilus. They are
not like the argonaut or the ahalone.
The coil is more compact AMI the in
terror is divided into chambers con
nected by tiny tube that affords air
and keeps the shell in healthy con-
dition. It's shell, like all the mol.
lusk family, grows whether the size
of the animal keeps pace with it or
not, on the same principal that ones
finger-nails grow. 1t has the most
exquisite coloring-from a pearly
white to the most varied motley.
Some are striped like the zebra
An old Dutch naturalist sailed
away into the Indian seas many
years ago to study shells, and he
brought back the story that the nau-
titus sailed in troops over the sea
and at will were able to I'LL them
selves with water and sink to the
bottom. This was not true. Tho
nautilus lives in tho unexplored
depths of the OCEAN, and probably
never sees the Light
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-12-29
The Hot wind, of Epypt,

The most pernicious winds are the
samiels or hot winds Of Egypt
They come from the deserts to the
southwest and bring with them in
finite quantities of fine dust. which
penetrates even the minutest crevice.
The thermometer often rises to 1875
during their continuance. and thou
sands OF human beings have been
known to perish from suffoca ton in
tho fiery blast 1t was one of these
samiels that destroyed the army OF
Sennacherih Alexander the Great
nearly lost his whole force in an
other, and the army OF Cambyses was
utterly annihilated.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-12-29
Whaling EireMorIks.

One OF the features at the Crystal
palace London) fireworks display re-
Gently was whistling pieces, which
in burning give a wild, screaming
noise. There is some mystery about
how this noise is produced. Messrs.
Brock themselves are unable TO say,
and do not know anybody who can
tell them. The firework consists of
a stout paper tube 21< inches
in length, and with bore of
about q inch. About . inches
of this little tube are stuffed with
picrate of potash, leaving = inch or
so empty. When lighted by means of
fuse it does not explode, but burns
away with great violence, and with
the uncanny shrek which gives the
thing its interest. Pyrotechnists have
tried many other compositions and
many other kinds and forms of tubes.
but picrate of potash is the only thing
that will give anything but the faint
vt trace of a whistle.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-12-29
Destroying Bank of England Notes.

With the bank of England the de-
struction of its notes takes place
about once a week. and at p. IN. 1t
used to be done in the day time, but
made such smell that the neighbor-
ing stockholders petitioned the gov
errors TO do it in the evening. The
notes are previously cancelled by
punching hole through the amount,
in figures, and tearing of the sigma
ture of the chief cashier. The notes
are burned in a closed furnace, and
the only agency employed is shaw
ings and bundles of wood. They
used to be burned in a cage, the re-
suit of which was that once a week
the city was darkened with burned
fragments or notes For future pur-
poses of reference, the notes are left
for five years before being burned
The number of notes coming into
the bank of England every day is
about $4,000, and $4,000 are de-
stroyed every week or something
like 1S,000.000 every year. The
stock of paid notes for five years is
about 77,745, 900 in number, and they
fill -, 400 boxes which, if placed
side by side, would reach two and
one-third miles. If the notes were
placed in pile they would reach TO
height of five aud two-thirds miles;
or, if joined end TO end, would form
ribbon y, 455 miles long.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-12-29
A Oneer Electrlo Clonx.

Z. I. Hudson. a convict in the
Maryland penitentiary, has construct
ed real Theological oddly in the
shape of an electric clock. The dial
is semicircle of white marble with
twelve marked at each corner. the
other numerals for the hours being
figured along the arc. 1t has one
hour hand and two minute hands,
the last two set opposite to each
other, and in such manner that
one is seen at noon and the other at
midnight, and at no other time. The
seconds are marked on a dial that
turns from right to left, while the
pointer or second hand is stationary.
Hudson is born genius, and nearly
every room in the prison is adorned
with a specimen of his ingenuity.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-12-29
CASHIER LAY.
HIS Signature Is the Bost Known In the
World.


The Office of chief cashier of the
Bank of England dates from the com
mencement of the banks business, in
July, 1894, and Mr.. f. May, latterly SO
prominently before the public, is the
thirteenth in order of succession, but
he is already the sixth in order of
length of occupancy of the position.
OF his predecessors the shortest reign
was that of Thomas Kenrick, the first
chief cashier, who for some reason not
now known-perhaps overwhelmed by
his sibilities-retired after only
twelve days service! The longest
reigns were those of Thomas Madockes,
forty-one and three-fourths years, and
of Abraham Newland, twenty nine and
three-fourths years.
almost as head permanent official of
a state department, upon whom falls
the duty of perpetuating the traditions
of great and historical institution.
Mr.. May has been instrumental i'll in
Producing many reforms, and is well
known to be IL strong supporter of the
policy of ada pting, as far as rs consist
ent with safety, the procedure of the
Bank of England to the requirements
of modern methods of business.
His name is known most widely,
outside the bank and the city, in con.
nection with the issue of Bank of Eng
land notes, and an American puts in
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-12-29
CHANCES or GETTING KILLED
La Twenty-Four-Mile Railroad Ride
They Are 1 to 1,401,91O.

ya Twenty-Four-M Mile Railroad Ride
They Are 1 to 1,40I,91O.
If man takes ride OF the aver
age length, which is twenty-four
miles, in a railway train in this coun-
try, what is his chance of getting
killed? asks the PittsbUrg Times.
According to the interesting report
of the interstate commerce commits
sion. il is one chance in 1,49l.9l0
II a young man OF 90. Tilted
by his sweetheart, should de-
termine to commit suicide without
sin by getting accidentally killed in
q railway accident he might do it.
Certainly he might do it. III he were
to get on train Us passenger and
ride, ride, ride at the rate of thirty
Eve and one-half miles an hour, day
and night, every hour of the day and
every day in the yea, II he had aver
age luck he would eventually get sur
cease from the gnawing pain at his
heart somewhere in the course of
passing over 35, SAP, 2S2 miles, for &C
cording to these official figures, one
passenger is killed for every 50, 542,-
1872 miles that a passenger is carried.
According to the same he would be
injured in some way eight and three
quarters times, or eight times and
bad scare. l. is little better than
one chance in three that he would
come TO an untimely grave in conse-
quence of @ collision, but if he pre-
ferred to have the train run of the
track to kill him he would have only
one chance in nine to be satisfied.
His possible journey would have
taken him around this weary world
and past the place where she went
to housekeeping with the other fell
low ! ,421 times, and would have cost
him, at the rate OF three cents
mile and 81. 80 night for sic sping
berth, 81, 0S7, Ole As. In this melan-
choly state OF mind he wouldn't care
how his shoes looked, and the porter
needn't disturb his grief for daily
quarter.
And when, after all his journeying
TO his death, and glowering out OF
the window at every unsym pathetic
rock that might have fallen before
The engine, and cursing every vagrant
browsing COW that might have tres
passed on the track and didn't, he
finds at length 1.-THE golden key that
opens the palace of eternity" it is a
bigger chance than there are figures
for that lie will not be ready to go.
For the scenery of this world be-
comes interesting after awhile, even
to one smitten with disappointment
and angry with all creation. There
are many pretty acquaintances to be
picked up in the course of long
Journey, also. and time is a great
healer of love-sickness, even though
slow one. He would be in his
135th year by the time his desperate
purpose was achieved, and he would
have more sense than he started
with. He would have had leisure to
reflect from time to time on how his
false sweetheart's false teeth became
her now; how her rheumatism was,
whether gray hair and spectacles
changed her much, and how she
managed with those great-grand-
children of hers.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-12-29
VocAeULARIEs OF ANIMALS.
They Have Language which Gives Them
Power OF CommunicabIlity.

| rover OF comm unicabllity.
Certainly one who believes in evo-
luton cannot deny the existence of a
language OF some sort which enables
the lower animals to communicate in
more or less intelligent degree,
says Mrs. w. A. Kellerman in Science.
Even my 5-year-old little girl feels
assured that animals can talk, "but
not in our words" Only yesterday l
sent her to the barn with an armful
of fresh corn husks for our pony.
She came running back with beaming
countenance, exclaiming: Daisy WAS
so glad she wanted TO kiss me-"
Several years ago / took great.
interest in some fine Brahma chickens
we had raised from puffy little chicks.
There was one fine old grandmother
hen which we bought to start with.
She came recommended as a "good
mother" And good mother she
proved to b., but she had her way Of
training a family. She vent at it.
10 earnest. She clucked, and
scratched, and pointed out the best
things TO eat. She was fully I'M
pressed with the fact that she had a
duty to perform, and she had the
courage to devote herself entirely 30
this duty. But she always insisted
upon early independence. She did
not approve OF chicks clinging to her
and depending upon her when they
were able to scratch" for them
selves, and hence she made it rule
TO ''wean" them early. She always
gave them a parting lecture. She
looked very wise and solemn and "ca-
cawed" in peculiar tone, while the
chicks stood about her in a sort of
dazed, sorrowful way, wondering no
doubt what would become OF them.
One talk" ended the matter She
went off to roost alone aud the
deserted chicks huddled together,
vaguely thinking: What cold
worldr
Another interesting characteristic
about this old grandmother hen was
her solicitude for young hens who
were just beginning to experience
the first inclinations to set She
would stand before their nest and
talk" in the IN ost earnest subdued
tones; her vocabulary must have
been quite extensive. for she could
continue without hesitation for such
long time. 1t always seemed to me
that she was relating her own ex-
perience and giving advice to the
ooung and inexperienced of her kind.
Certainly the young hens appeared
to listen with all the respect posi-
BILE; they no doubt Thought" that
she magnified the cares and respon-
sibilities; at least she never dissuaded
young hen from her resolution to
sit.
agree with the writer in the last
Issue of Science who says: There
is no need Of going beyond the barn
yard to hear a definite animal vocab-
ulary Of a considerable number of
words" If our language is the re-
suit of evolution, it has come up
through lower forms; and it is only
| legitimate to credit animals with a
varying degree of power of commune
cabilitV
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-12-29
Electro Chemical Effects on Magnetic.
ing Iron.

In the proceedings of the Royal So
cietv, Mr.. Il. Andrews calls attention
to the electro-chemical effects on mag
netizing iron. From a long, finely
polished rod two steel bars were cut
adjacently, so that they were prac-
tically alike in general composition
and structure. These bars were both
weighed, and then immersed in equal
quantities of cupric chloride So
luton, one of them having previous
ly been magnetizcd. After a certain
time (six TO twenty-four hours) they
were taken out of the solution, freed
from deposited copper and carbonace-
Gus matter, then dried, and again
weighed. 1t was found in every case
that the magnetized bar had lost moro
in weight than the unmagnetized bar.
For instance, an average of twenty
nine experiments showed an increase
of corrosion in the steel due to mag
netic influence of about per cent I'M
der the conditions of experiment. 1t
may be mentioned that the bars were
not highly magnetized.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-12-29
Reformation in Mxsore.

The maharajah of Mysore has do
cided, il possible, to put an end to
marriages between children, or
rather infants in his kingdom. He
issued an order recently forbidding
girls under years and boys under
IA to marry In the future no man
aged 80 or more dare wed a girl
under IA. The edict has aroused
much opposition in Mysore, but the
ruler is said to be an energetic man
and capable of executing regulations
which he is pleased to p-omulgate.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-12-29
This Boy a Philosopher.

Tommy-Are you going to whip
me, mammaP
Mamma-Yes, am, Tommy.
Tommy-You said the other day
that whipping never did me any
good, didn't youP
Mamma believe Ibid.
Tommy-Then what's the use OF
whipping me again?-New Orleans
Picavune.