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supply the pressure. Put the second
finger across the middle of the top, with
the end of the finger nearly reaching the
further edge. Hold this finger perfectly
rigid and have 1t form a straight line from
the knuckle joint. Raise the other fingers
TO show that they are not in use, and by
exertlng slight pressure with the thumb
and little or none with the fingers raise
your hand and the glass will go up in the
air with 1t and stay there an hour If you do
not relax your finger joints.
A trick that is calculated to fool the un-
wary is the nine -glass-dia m0nd' arrange
ment This trick. as the title suggests, is
performed with nine glasses. These
glasses must be straight sided. but larger
at the top than at the bottom. The first
thing to do in this trick is TO arrange these
nine glasses. with the opening up. in the
form OF diamond, and it is compulsory
that each glass shall touch st least two
other glasses at the rim or top edge. Hav-
ing arranged the glasses according to diree-
tons the trick consists of removing four 6f
the glasses without moving the remaining
five out of position and leaving the FIVE
glasses perfectly clear of one another.
This is very simple trick, and for that
reason many will be all the more mystified
bv IT,. When you arrange your glasses In
the diamond form see that the two next TO
the corner glass tonch each other as we'll
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CURIOUS TRICKS
Which May Be Performed
With Glasses.
FUN FOR A PARTY OF DINERS.
How Some Feats of Skill Can Enter
tain Company in the Dining
or Drawing Room.

Simplicity in trick is to most people its
greatest charm. The oldest citizen, or the
man who. in his own mind. is the sharpest
citizen. can be fooled at times with the
simplest of tricks. In the case of the lat
ter sort of person his claim hat the trivial
ity OF the thing is good excuse for his
failure to accomplish it only accentuates
his lack Of sharpness. A small boy will
often come along and solve q simple thing
that the smart man could not do anything
with. Tricks and problems which call for
sustained mental effort sometimes hold the
attention of the gravest and wisest of men.
There is an arthmetical example about
the distribution of deceased mans live.
stock among his heirs which has to my
knowledge furnished two hours enter
talnment for dinner party com posed of
some OF the leading men of the country.
Propose some sort Of trick with sur
rounding obj-ets at a restaurant table
where the diners are all of one party, and
1t generally follows that, time permitting,
nearly every man CT them will persist Ia
trying 1t until success crowns his efforts
One evening lately, says writer for the
New York Herald, while seated at dinner
with friend, ne observed that this friend
had turned glass upside down and, with
his thumb on the side and his fingers Oh
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as the first glass. Then put down your
two side corner ones. then two more which
touch one another as well as the last end
one. Now pick out a glass which is
trlf1e smaller at the top than any OF the
others and put it close to either of the
pairs which join the end glasses. 1t will
now be seen that while this glass touches
two glasses it does not touch either OF the
side glasses. The diagram shows the cor
rect position. When you have removed
glasses numbered 2, 4, 7 and 9 all the others
Will be clear of one an nother.
Another trick with nine glasses is called
the 1892 trick. Take the glasses used in
the last experiment and put them in a
straight row. They must be distinguished
oy numbers, and the best way to manage
this Is by means of numbered slips Of
paper stuck in the glasses. The trick now
Is to produce the celebrated year 1892 in
which the iilustrIous mariner. Columbus.
struck the hospitable shores OF San SAL
vador. This tick was not invented BY
Columbus, however.
onr glasses must run one to nine con-
secutively, from left to right. You must
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Welcome, Yung Yu!

Kowtow Kowtow And, II you can, salaam
Yung lu has come among us
with his suite aud his madame.
He brings us eighty persons
And or baggage eighty ton.
And these Chinese men of station
Are mighty gorgeous guns.
Besides the stately Minister,
The small but portly hung,
There's a clever little Yale man,
The famous coxswain Chung.
Then there are Mrs. Ree ana Mrs. Hoo.
And Mrs Hwei and Mrs. Chang
Besidrs the pretty Mrs Chu.
Who wears her ptgtail in bang.
We bid these Orientals
Il welcome from our hearts,
And we trust they'll find it pleasant
In these distant foreign parts.
And we'll salaam all we're able,
And kowtow as we can,
But we hope they won't cut capers
AS they seem to on faD.-New y ork World.
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ID three moves of two glasses and two
only at time, never leaving an unoccu-
pied space larger than may be filed by
one glass, make the date 1892 at the left
hand end Of the row and have the glasses
In a continuous line and touching one
another. or al least not far from touching
when the task is done.
This trick is what may be called an easy
hard one. Most people will go to work
the wrong way. as is almost invariably the
case In things of this kind; and herein
will lie your amusement over their efforts.
The key TO this trick is the moving of the
two end figures first. You move No. a
space To the left aud at the same time
move Q into the place / left. You now
move another space TO the left while you
|. 4cu now move tG the space formerly
occupied by 4, while comes to the ace
just vacated by 5. This leaves the glasses
in compact row with the desired date in
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Caught i'm the Toi's

OF that lurking foe, chils and fever we often
struggle vainly to free ourselves from its clutch
Palliatives there are without number, but if you
want real remedy, of course you do If afflicted
with this ahominable malady. hasten to procure
and persistenty use Hostetter's Stomach Bitters
If you follow this suggestion, permanent restora.
tIon to health Will reward you. Every form OF
maIarial disease is permantly eradicated by the
Bitters, which is likewise a reliable safeguard
against maIadies of this type. Not alone on this
continent but throughout the tropics it is justlv
reg arded as a complete antidote to miasma poison
In air or water. No less effective is IL for dtsor
ders OF the stomach, liver and bowels. rbeuma
tfsm. kidney complaints and nervousness Noone
soiourning in malarious region. or who is sub
jected to outdoor exposure in rough weather or 70
excessive mental or physical strain, should be
without TINS nne defensive tonic. 81
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at the edges and one-sixteenth of an inch
thick at the center, and weighs about
eight hundred pounds. This great mir
ror is mounted at one end of the big
drum. the outer end OF which is furnished
with door consisting OF metal rim in
which are fixed a number of plate glass
strips hve-siXteenths of an inch thick hv
SIX inches wide. Inside this drum, and
sliding upon ways arranged on the bottom
is placed the electric lamp, the source of
the light which is reflected by the mirror
The upper or positive carbon is IL inches
In diameter and 221a inches long, with a
nVe-SlXteenthS of an inch core of soft car
bon running from end to end through its
center. The lower or negative carbon is
] u inches in diameter, is fifteen IN ches
long and also has a core Of soft carbon
running through its center.
The positive carbon is set a little In
front of the negative and thus almost all
crater is cast upon the reflector. The
maximum current at which this lamp
operates is 200 ampercs. and at this cur
ent the lamp has a luminous intensity
of about 10000 to 100000 candles,
the reflected beam a total luminous inten s.
lty Of about 375.000,000 candles. an intensity
which the eye cannot appreciate. In look
ing at he side OF the beam the specta to-
only distinguishes stream OF light of COM
paratiyely low Intensity, but in looking at
the beam directly its briliancy is fully
seen and the effect is absolutely binding
Before the proj6ctor was sent to the
Worlds Fair a public test was made at
Middletown, Conn. From the roof of the
works the great white beam of light shot
forth into the obscurity of the night,
and slowly swept the countryside for miles
around, bringing every object upon which
it was directed into brilliant and dis
tinct relief. 1t Illuminated the roofs of
distant villages and scared their inhabi-
tants and lighted up the sign-boards
miles away, so that they could easily be
read by means of q glass. The protector
was turned upward toward the sky, and
the beam, like supernatural divine finger.
wrote words upon the clouds-messages of
light to the starry populations.
1t was observed that the space within
the beam was violently agtated, and closer
observation revealed the fact that millions
of moths and minute insects were lowering
in it. attracted by the brilliancy of the
light. Next morning bushels of dead
moths, beetles and other insects and some
small birds were swept up from the roof
on which the protector stood. They had
been killed by the intensity of the light.
How far the powerful beam OF light of
This instrument can be seen is difficult TO
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MUST HAVE MOISTURE.
Queer Things About the Life and
Habits of Frogs.

Habits of Frogs.
Frogs are mainly juicy. If they try to
make more than a short journey away
from moisture. in drought, they will per-
ish for want of water. and then their
bodies will dry away. The frogs bones
are so soft that he scarcely leaves any
skeleton.
frog meets with remarkable changes
during his natural life. He begins as an
egg and matches out as fish. That is, a
tadDole, or pOlliwog, at first has gils,
breathing water alone. In his early days
however, the tadpole soon loses the out
side part of his gills and breathes air, so
that he has 10 come to the surface of the
water every few minutes, like q porpoise.
TO get fresh gulp of breath.
During tho first part of his career, saws
the September st. Nicholas, he swims by
sculling with his long tail. After a while
he begins to grow out, his tail becomes
shorter and shorter, and when he is a COM
Dlete frog he has no tail at all, but swims
by kicking. When half frog ana half tad
pole he still has good deal of tail and, In
addition. big hind legs and mere sprouts of
fore legs; so that he is a very funny
looking fellow. A Dullfrog- tad pole at this
stage seems neither of heaven nor of
EARTH"
Again, the tadpole eats water plants: !:
~
animal life. TadpoIes eat the green moss
or scum" that we see so often on logs
and plants in stagnant pool, and they
show good appetite for soft, decaying z
wa:er-growths. The fouler the pool, the
happier the tadpoles. As they are numer-
Gus, and thus devour a great amount of
matter that would make it very unhealth-
full TO live near a stagnant pond, they are
really useful creatures.
In captivity they will generally eat meat,
whether good or bad, as we'll as bread and
bran dough, and as special relish will
sometimes lunch on one another's tails.
The common frog gets his final shape in
the first season; but the bullfrog goes
under the mud for the winter while still a
tadpole. and it takes at least another sum-
mer and sometimes more before he has full
right to be called frog. He is some four
years from the egg in getting full growth
and does not become old for about ten
years more.
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DOROTHY.

Round cheeks and rosy, in the sun
Ripened through many a summer day,
With that soft hue from summer won
That tintS the peacn the SeIfSame way
Ana where through crimson bushes play
Like sunlight through a morning mist
swift reddenIng every golden ray
Soft cheeks that cry out to be kissed,
Has Dorothy.
Pump are her arms. and white her throat,
And satin-smooth her hands-and harkl
Her laughter trillS a sweeter note
Than thrills the Hitting of the lark:
Brown eyes, that in the daytime dark
In midnight moonlight flash so bright
That even the electric spark
Seems dull beside their living light
Are Dorothy's.
Downward along her night black braids
Ny eyes fall from where criSps ner hair
Above her forehead; slender maids
l sure may md hut none so fair
Below the scarlet founces where
Peep out the short and dainty snoes
My rowing glance becomes a stare
To gaze l cannot help but choose
At Dorothy.
The town may boast Its darling dame
VINO fears the rain and shuns the sun,
or golden purse and ancient name
do not care for such one:
For mine, since love for US begun,
With all her fresh and tender charms
All mine to Kiss till life be done
And mine to fold within mine arms
Is Dorothy.
FRANK PRESTON SMART
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LARGEST IN THE WORLD.
A Wonderful SearchIight at the
WORLDS Eair

w SIIG L dlTs
To America belongs the honor of con-
structing the largest and most powerful
electric searchlight in the world, now
at the Worlds Fair. Some idea of ite
size may be gained by the comparison
made between it and the men of ordinary
height standing by it, shown in the
Illustration from a photograph taken
when the searchlight was standing on
the roof of the factory. 1t stands about 10
feet inches high TO the upper side Of the
ventilator on the top of the drum, and the
total weight is about 5000 pounds, but so
perfectly is it mounted and balanced that
child can move it in any direction.
The rejecting lens mirror used in this
protector Is sixty inches in diameter. 1t
was manufactured especially for this pro-
jector in Paris, France. says the ST. LOUIS
Globe Democrat, and is most perfect
specimen of optical work, 3A inches thick
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state. The searchlight set up by the
General Electric Company on Mount
Washington. In the White Mountains. has
a diameter of only so inches and a reflected
light from the mirror Of about 100000
candle-power, yet a newspaper can be
read in its beam ten miles away aud the
light can be seen from points 100 miles
away. How much farther, then, could
this 375, 600, 900 candle-pOwer light be seen
in a clear atmosphere free from moisture If
The protector could be mounted upon an
eminencs sufficiently high to clear all sur
rounding obstacles?
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Uncle Saminy,s PRAYER.

1t was during the earthquake in Charles
ton. "Uncle Sammy" was very much ter
ri6ed. and falling on his knees he prayed
go Lord! we is in drefful trouble; come
and help us eff you can; eff you can't come
yu'self SEN your son, but eff you can come,
do, o Lord yu'self. for dis amt no time
for illun."-Boston Journal.
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larlv intractable temper, which she in
herited from her disreputable old papa.
Not long ago, while driving out with her
goyerness, she became sulky and refused
to return The salutes of the people in the
streets. Asa punishment she was ordered
to bed Immediately upon her return to the
palace. "What!' she exclaimed, Am l;
the Oneed of the Netherlands, to go TO bed
att o'clock? / won't do it. But she did
do it, being persuaded thereto by slipper
welded by the Queen regent, who brooks
no disnhndiancP
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lie Was Wrong.

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. I"
"Nein. my friendt: dis cornet is por.
rowed. Washington Star.
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INVITATIONS TO SMILE.

Artist-Woud l could paint you as you
are.
Pert MisS-Are what?
Artist-Are painted.-Detroit Free Press.
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How He Did 1t.

Mr.. Brickrow-1 don't see how you can
afford to pay such an awful price for a
country house every summer.
Mr.. .Sharpchap-Simple enough, old boy.
We can't get servants out there and my
wife has TO do her own work.-New York
Weekly
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A Problem.

Tommy-Maw. doesn't anybody but
good people go to heaven2
Mrs. Figg-That is ali, my son.
Tommy-But. nav. how does the good
people enjoy theirseves if they amt any
bad people there for them to try and
manage e?-Indianapolis Journal.
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1t Was Different Now.
Chicago Tribune.

Chicago Tribune.
And she rejected you?"
"Yes."
Are you going to commit suicide?'
''Not much"
"Ah, you still have hope, then-going to
try again?"
Mike"
''But you told me you couldn't live with
out her"
Yes, it was true at that time, but I've
had an inheritance OF my own since then. +"
A Texas man is said to have a calf that
Guns down chickens and eats them.
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She'd Read the PAPERS.

Uncle Hatch-W Wonder what that IA. d.
t." on all them boys caps stands for?
AuDtie Options-"Always Delayin' Tele-
grams" l reckou.-Puck.
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nope at Rome, Anyhow
Domestic Bliss.

Il wish," sighed farley to his wife.
that could get receipt for happiness. -
well, perhaps some time, if you will
give NE little happiness, I'll give you a
receipt for it," returned Mrs. Jarley.-
Harper's Bazar
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Subduing a Queen.

Pittsburg Dispatch
Little Queen Wilhelmina of Holland is
credited with the possession Of a particu-
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Law In England provides that no person
under Is years shall be employed about
shop for longer than seventy-four hours,
including meal times. in any one week
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He Went Away.

MY friend" he said to the hotel clerk,
"Pm purity tmid man. Couldn't You
gimme room with n fire escape TO il :?
You've got one, haven't you?"
"Oh. yes" replied the clerk. ''And
might remark that except In case of fire
we keep a bulldog chained at the bottu IN
of it,"
And the weary stranger took taothpick
and sauntered Observation-Disclosures Star.
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A Change of Color.

A Change of Color.
She was fair Yale devotee and he was
a handsome Harvard senior.
u am true Blue" she exclaimed "Yeu
can't convert me-"
MAY try ?" he asked,
"On. yes" she replied, disparagingly,
'you may try
Il love you" he said.
Aud she blushed Crimson.-Vogue.
Hope at Home, Anyhow.
New signs of hope appearing
Keep Still as any lnouse1
The local skies are clearing
just like the clearinghouse
Atlanta Constitution.
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A Parental Farewell.

She had Dade him goodnight in her tenderest
tone,
Had assured him. galore that her heart was his
own:
But her lover was loath to surrender such bliss,
And he fingered aud loitered for still ono more
kiss.
Till the paterfamllias. reused from his Sleep
Drew the curtain aside for a ciaudestine peep
Then appeared on the scene and-welI. you know
the rest
Mobile Register
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A Doubtful Honor.

Chappie-Deah boy, me fawchune is
made. Miss GotwOX awsked me faw me
phOtogwarh lawst Wednesday.
AChollie-Dnn't be too happy. deah boy,
| heard that she used it as the BOBBY pwizr
at the little euchre pawty she gave few
of her girl fwends the next evening.-Ir-
dianapOlis Journal.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-05-22
FAIR GATES CLOSED.
Fakirs Do Stirring Business
at Chicago.
Workingmen Advised to Force a
Decision of the Sunday Closing
Question-Women DiviHes.
Special to THE MORNING CALL.

CHICAGO, May 21.-Although a great
many visitors foated aimlessly along
Stony Island avenue and the cross streets
it was comparatively quiet to-day in the
vicinity of Jackson Park. Icecream sa-
looms. cheap museums and like edifying
establishments did a lively business. The
German village gave concert during the
afternoon to the other inhabitants OF Mid
way Plaisance.
At to-day's meeting OF the Trades and
Labor Assembly the Sunday opening of
the Worlds Fair was discussed.
President John Linehan declared that
many workingmen subscribed for Worlds
Fair stock on the representation that the
grounds would be open Sundays. linehan
declared that these men had as much right
10 have their wishes consulted as anybody
else. He declared himself in favor of giv-
ing the authorities certain time in which
to open the fair, and then if workingmen
are still denied admission they should
march to the grounds and take their rights
by force.
The assembly decided to hold a mass
meeting shortly and discuss the subject
publicly.
The attendance at the various meetings
of the Woman's Congress was very large
this afternoon. The greatest interest was
in the religious meeting, at which Mrs. E.
b. Grant, as president of the Social Purity
League. presided and delivered short
address. There were also a number of
other speakers. The Labor experience
meeting" did not have large attendance,
but the speeches were very interesting.
Among the speakers was Clara Foltz of
San Francisco.
Eighteen ordained women ministers sat
on the speakers platform at the religious
service held this morning by the Worlds
Congress of representative women. The
women who took an active part in the ser
vices were: The Revs. Mrs. Tupper
Sioux City. Iowa, Mrs. Florence Kollock
Of Pasadena. Cal, and Mrs. May Wright
Sewell. Rev. Jeannetta Olmstead invoked
the Divine blessing, and Rev. Emily Cor
don 1Scited the hymn, Rise Up. Rise Up.
rOh, woman" Rev. Florence Kolock
offered prayer and delivered short ad-
dress. The sermon was delivered by Rev.
Anna Shaw Other female divines par
ticipated in the service.
Boston. May 22.-Just after midnight
this morning the following telegram was
sent President Cleveland:
THE Boston churches, in union and
separate meeting. earnestly request an
executive proclamation relieving the dam
aging and dlshonorable suspense in regard
to the Sunday opening of the Worlds
Fair ordered in violation of the national
law by the directory and encouraged TO
such action by the Commissioners refusal
to declare the law of Congress final.
"The debates and divisions and delays.of
the commission have DESTROYED confidence
in its decision, which neither side will
now accept as decisive. In this serious
crisis we rely on the National Govern
ment to prevent notification through its
executive or its judiciary. We suggest a
proclamation that the opening will not be
allowed. except on the mandate of the
Federal courts.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-05-22
CANADA AND THE UNION.
A Blue Book on Trade Relations of
the Two Countries.

OTTAWA, Ont. May 2l.-The CONNER
cial Relations of Canada." Is the title OF
the blue book issued yesterday by the
financial department of the Dominion
Government. 1t admits that the Mckinley
tariff has caused large decrease in
Canadian exports to the United States.
In respect to recipr ocity, the Finance
Minister says: .'Since the abrogation in
1866 by the United States of the reciprocity
treaty, Canada time and again has made
advances for resumption of the old or the
Inauguration of new relations upon some
fair and equitable basis. The results Of
the Washington conferences, so far as the
trade question is concerned. may be briefly
stated thus: That any agreement for the
interchange of natural and manufactured
goods must be based upon preferential
treatment in favor of the United States
and upon uniform tariff for that country
and Canada as against the rest Of the
world"
As this involved discrimination against
Great Britain and practical control by the
United States. the Canadian Commission
ers declined to accept these conditions
How far the rerent change of administra-
ton in the United States will affect
Canadian interests remains to be seen.