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Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1894-10-19

The princes and greater magnates of Siam
prepare long toy boat with gilt prov and
ornamented stern and cross benches all
complete, and sometimes a pinnacled dome
incrusted with gold tinsel and pasoo w
els. On the benches are placed well dressed
dolls in the uniform of the owner armed
with mimic paddles. Instead of the hum
BILE taper large candelabra are fixed up,
blazing with waXlights and showing off
the splendor of the ship and its crew. Such
''katong" as these are launched in the royal
presence at one of the palace landings, and
float along between line of guard ships
flaring with oil lamps, amid the discharge
of rockets and fireballs and with limelights
shining upon them from some gunboat or
royal yacht.
The floating of these boats (for the word
loi means to foat) is not really ito the
dead" but only in honor of them, for after
a short journey they are recaptured and re-
stored to their princely owners. But they
add an imposing feature to the nights dis
play, and doubtless yield to their proprie-
tors, and to all who have hand in the
business, a comfortable conviction that by
the whole proceeding they have made
merit" as good Buddhists. 1t is rather
strange coincidence Qf it is coincidence at
alb that the date of the "Loi katong" cor
responds nearly in all years with the old
Catholic fete connected with the jour des
morts.-London Saturday Review.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1894-10-19

The popes have been drawn from all
classes of society Nineteen were sons or
near relatives of princes, and an equal num-
Der came from illusuious families. Many
came from absolute poverty and obscurity.
SiNtus VII was the son of avery poor fisher
man; Alexander V was the son of very poor
and unknown parents, the future pope
spending all of his young life in begging on
the streets. Adrian the only English pope,
was abandoned early in life by worthless
father and had to subsist on charity until,
going as a tramp to find an asylum in
France, he entered monastery or convent
as a servant. His real worth was soon
manifested in his diligence, and his virtues
and intelligence soon won for him the papal
tiara. Sixtus V had for a father a poor
laborer, a common servant for a mother,
and a laundress of vicious habits for sister.
Celestine V was the son of a farmer of no
means and little intelligence. Benedict XII
spent his childhood in a bakeshop. Urban
" learned the carpenters trade from his
father, as did also Gregory VII. Five of
the popes studied medicine before taking
holy orders. Julius III was the son of a IA
nous iursconsult Benedict XI was the
son of a poor notary. The father Of Pela-
gius was a project and the vicar of his
province. The father of Paul V was a pa
trician of Sienna. The fathers of Eugene
", Gregory XII and Alexander XII all be
longed to the patrician families of Venice.
st. Louis Republic.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1894-10-19

"You know John Habberton," said one
of a group of artists who were talking to-
gether lis doing the book reviewing for
Godey's now. a few months ago he had a
letter from an cditor-an editor mind you
who asked if Mr. Habberton could posi-
bly, secure him new novel by George Eliot
or one by Thackeray Said he would be
willing to pay almost any price if either OF
them would send him new story"
ooh, pshaw" said the rest, with I'M
bounded contempt.
"Oh, it's fact upon my honor!'
well, perhaps it is, said the second
speaker, "for know of a book dealer who
wrote to publisher here and asked that
he would send him new novel by Jane
Austen, for those he had were selling very
we'll Poor old Jane! guess she turned in
her grave Mt that"
Everybody laughed and the long haired
youth shook back his bangs and allowed
himself to look really intelligent
Your stories are bad enough" he said,
"but they don't equal one which | have
heard vouched for by good authority. 1t is
that AS You Like 1t was produced several
years ago on the stage of a New York the
alter, and part of the audience called for the
authorp'
That broke up the party.-New York
Sun.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1894-10-19

Brussel, a snowy, geometricaly bullt
city, with 4Ilcss straight avenues, cubic
perspecti .t. and well ordered suburbs; a
young and laughing capital vulgarized by
its imitation 81 every other capital, and
which an immuderate love of stucco has
led to the imitation of Paris in particular;
a modernized town laid out by rule, scraped
clean with pumice stone, deprived of all
the bric-a-brac of its antiquities, rebuilt
without any of its primitive originality; a
town which has sprung forth from the
Vitals of its ancient quarters with ready
made squares, symmetrical thoroughfares,
straight streets, stucco and bastard stucco
buildings, distorted houses, all the usual
Typographical peculiarities of European
ism.
1t is town which has laid aside its an
cient robes crumbled to dust its antique
plaster work, pulverized its venerable rel
les, cleaned out its sewers, aeritied its sinks,
desauamated its ulcers to make itself like
other towns; town of palaces, barracks,
academies and official buildings in which
is concentrated all the machinery of gov
eminent and which is the very heart of the
body polite; a town which, with its sparse
population altogether insufficient to people
its wide thoroughfares, and with its some
what paralyzing condition of well being, its
ostentatious luxury and wealth, calls up a
vision of another La Haye - Harper's
Weekly
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1894-10-19

To the layman it may be a matter of in
rerest to know that even the great glass of
the Lick telescope, with its 36-inch diameter
and vast disk, brings into view no discern
ible surface on any celestial object outside
of our solar system; it only maryelously in
creases the brlliancy of those twinkling
points that lie beyond the abyss which the
eye must traverse in passing from our solar
system to the distant worlds of space
Polaris, Capella, Alcyone, glow from their
remote depths only with an intenser bright
ness. They have never been drawn out of
their almost infinite remoteness so as 10
disclose to human eyes any appreciable sur
face. When will their awful secrets be
made known and the long silence of ages
be broken?
1t has been supposed that the large tele
scopes now in existence have nearly at
tanned the maximum of the size within the
possible reach of human skill, Here at
least on the frontiers Of the created uni
verse we must halt and wait until another
day may break and the shadows of the pres
ent may flee away.-EXchange.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1894-10-19

1t has been recently noted, especially in
the dahlia and the chrysanthemum, what
incidentally German author, Hildebrand,
has some years ago adverted to, that certain
forms of flowers follow the sexual differ
ences In most composites, for instance,
the ray torets of the tubular character are
hermaphrodte--have stamens and pistils
in the same flower. This is notably the
case in the dahlia and chrysanthemum. The
ray norets are strap shaped and are female
only. But under the hand of the florist
double dahlias and double chrysanthemums
are given to us, the doubling being in these
cases nothing more than changing the tubu-
lar horet into a strap shaped one.
But the purely pistillate condition fol-
lows the regulate corolla, and a purely
double dahlia has the whole flower consist
of pistils only, the stamens having wholly
disappeared with the tubular 1orets, Just
why these coincidents should exist has not
yet been explained by vegetable biologists
More attention is now being given to these
subjects than formerly, as it is believed
their study will throw much light on the
laws which regulate the production of the
separate sexes in flowers.-New York hide
Dpp1ant
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1894-10-19
Rn1es of Two Min owners.

A mill owner not long ago issued the or
der that the girls in his employ should not
wear laced shoes. The reason he gave was
that each ones boots became united at least
times day and took at least seconds to
retie. When these 25 seconds were multi
piled by 300-the number of girls in his en-
ploy-the loss of time was, he said, too seri-
Gus to submit to.
Another mill owner, talking over this
case, said that he had forbidden visitors be-
cause each of his hands" turned her head
to look at them. Computing 20 visitors a
day and 2 seconds for the heads turning to
each of the 600 employees, made over 6
hours daily wasted in that gesture. Sta
tistics are memorable things.-New York
Times.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1894-10-19
An Atmosphere In Outer Space. Maybe.

That extreme cold paralyzes every vital
function is of course a piece of everyday
knowledge. But it has been left to Profess
or Fictet, who has been conducting some
experiments on this subject, to discover
that at a temperature of $50 degrees below
the centigrade zero there is no chemical ac-
ton between nitric or sulphuric acid and
potash, between oxygen and potassium,
though under ordinary circumstances the
affinity of the latter metal for oxygen is SO
great that it will burn if thrown into wa
ter, owing to its combination with the oXy-
gen in that fluid
But if the electric spark is played on
bodies which have thus lost the power OF
chemical affinity some new and curious
combinations result. The latest investiga
ton, the conclusions of which, however
have been theoretically presaged for some
years past, may require us to reconsider the
question of the temperature of outer space
and the possibility of an atmosphere com
posed of gases in combination existing
there.-London Chronicle.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1894-10-19

1t seems a somewhat startling fact that
at this late day philosophers should be dis
cussipg the question, "What Is Sleep?"
and should announce entirely new views
and ideas on the subject
The human race has been sleeping nearly
one-third of its time for the last 100000 or
200, 600 years and has certainly had enough
experience with it, but it would seem that
we do not fully understand the matter-do
not quite know what sleep is, how it comes
about or even its effect. One thing, how
ever, Is now accepted as proved-that the
condition of the blood vessels of the brain,
and indeed of such tissue as the optic
disk, is an anamic one in sleep. As drowsi-
ness comes on, the surface of the brain
grows paler in color, and the lack of red
blood is noticeable when such conditions
are observed.
The theory of DR.. James Cappie of
Edinburgh and some other eminent scien-
fist has been to the effect that the veins of
the pia mater, the inner membrane of the
skull, are capable of congesting and dis
persing comparatively large quantities of
blood; that congestion produces vertigo
and "senselessness' or stupor, and that the
dispersion of blood from the brain cells
produces a slight compression on the sur
face of the brain, and thus brings about
sleep. The brain being less active, the cir
culation of the blood to the brain is sup
posed by this theory to be diminished, and
as the blood in the brain cells has passed
into the veins the effect will be to cause a
slight yielding in the brain and pressure
upon it.-New Orleans TimesDemocrat
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1894-10-19
AN EXPLANATION.

All, well know that just beyond the gate
Lies the long .ade where once | used to
stray;
Yet cease for .-ndship's sake, there urging
words
To tread this year the old accustomed way.
am afraid Of hat green hedge girt walk,
The silca an scorched field, the moist
dim ". .
And then, tile corner by the fallen tree
Oh, distg uurmur Of the ocean floodl
No memoi ur another haunt the place.
Yet. viii. whisper, pity and forbear,
Ills that o. not face my last years self,
The hapl host that wanders there!
Anne Reeve Aldrich.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1894-10-19
NEVER IDLE.

"a million people out of work" says a
newspaper, writing of these hard times.
Added to this misfortune are the physical
infrmities with which thousands have to
bear. But there is one thing that is never
idle; always at work, increasingly in search
of those thus deferred, it seeks to cure such
and help them to grasp a chance when it
comes. This is the mission of st. Jacobs
OIL. Among the millions there are thou
sands suffering with neuralgia. For this
it is positive cure. Use 1T and there will
be a thousand sufferers less and thousand
chances more to get work and hold it. Bet
ter times may soon come and there is moth
ing like the great remedy for pain to help
you out of painful troubles and into place
again.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1894-10-19
Inhsters md InvnIids.

The lobster and crab are not suitable for
an invalid or one of weak stomach. OF the
two, though, the lobster is less likely to
hurt The flesh in the claws is the most
digestible portion. 1t is more delicate than
that in the tail, which is lirmer The soft
part in the she'll which is the liver is much
more likely to do harm than the claws,
The gills, which ere sometimes called
dead mems fingers" should be avoided
but are really not poisonous, as they are
sometimes declared to be-New York
Mail and Express
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1894-10-19
Not Eligible Himself.

The retort courteous has seldom been
more aptly made than was done by Hon.
Frank Hatton of The Post. 1t will be re
membered that Mr.. Hatton held the posi-
ton of postmaster general during the
Arthur administration. Over year ago a
would be swell entered the editors private
room at the Office of The Post and voiced
his grievance that in the Dumblane lace
he was to ride the following afternoon at
Ivy City he found that young fellow en-
ployed in one of the departments was tc
have the honor of competing with him.
Reiterating that the sole objection to the
other gentleman entered for the race lay in
the fact that he was in the employ of the
government, the visitor left, urging Mr.
Hatton to attend the races and promising
to send tickets by the first mail. This was
done-or rather one ticket duly appeared il
n note--to be as speedily returned to the
donor with the brief message that the editor
did not feel himself eligible for the honor
conferred, inasmuch as he also had once
been in the employ of the government
Kate Fields Washington.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1894-10-19
SAFE, SURE AND SPEEDY.

No external remedy ever yet devised has
so fully and unquestionably met these
three prime conditions as successfully as
ALLCoCK's Porous PLAsTERs. They are
safe because they contain no deleterious
drugs and are manufactured upon scien-
titic principles of medicine. They are sure
because nothing goes into them except in
gradients which are exactly adapted to the
purposes for which a plaster is required.
They are speedy in their action because
their medicinal qualities go right to their
work of relieving pain and restoring the
natural and healthy performance of the
functions of muscles, nerves and skin. Ask
for ALLCoCK's, and do not be induced to
accept a substitute.
BRANDRETH's PILLS are safe and sure.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1894-10-19
LIFE OR DEATH

1t is of vital importance that it should be UNI
derstood by persons whose kidneys are inactive
that this condition of things is finally inductive
of a state of the organs where life hangs in the
balance. Brights disease, diabetes, albuminuria
are all diseases of very obstinate character in
their mature stage, and all have fatal tendency.
skill and the most approved remedies of mate
ria medicu. But opposed at the outset-that is
to say, when the kidneys begin to discharge
their functions inactively - with Hostetter 5
Stomach Bitters, the dangerous tendency is
checked. Very useful also is this household
medicine for those ailments of common oCcnr-
renee constipation, biliousness, dyspepsia and
nervousness 1t is safeguard against malaria,
and averts chronic rheumatism.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1894-10-19
ADeafnnd Dumb Telegrapher.

A telegraph operator of Sedalia, Mo, is
said to be deaf and dumb. He deciphers
the messages he receives, it is said, by read
ing the movements of the relay armature.
The manner in which he receives the dis
patches is to put his head against the in
strument at which he is working, so that
he can feel the jarring of the sounds.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1894-10-19
VANISHED.

She diol: this was the way she died,
And ben her breath was done,
Took up her simple wardrobe
And started fer the sun.
Her little figure at the gate
The angels must have spied,
Since could never find her
Upon the mortal side,
Emily Dickinson.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1894-10-19

The Spanish Escurial is built in the
shape of gridiron. The buildings form a
parallelogram, 640 by $50 feet, and at each
angle is tower 200 feet high. There are
three large churches in the Enclosure, one
containing the tombs of most of the Span
ish kings and queens
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1894-10-19

Perhaps you never wrote on the outside
of your sheet and then on the inside before
you discovered that you had a sheet within
a sheet, or blurred or blotted letter that
you were finishing with a flourish and had
no time to rewrte, Boston Common
wealth.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1894-10-19
Fannte's Spectacles.

Fannie's eyes were not strong, and the oc-
ulist that examined them advised the use
of prism One day lady asked Fannie
how her eyes were. "Oh," said Fannie,
"they are great deal better, but have to
look through prison every day."-Youth's
Communion
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1894-10-19
Spent Hundreds OF Dollars with M R.,..

NJ. J. COLEMAN Of IS
Mass, writes " After
suffering from dyspepsia
aud constipation with uu-
told agony for at least IS
months, am more than
pleased to say that after
using DR., Pierce's Golden
Medical Discovery and
Pleasant Pellets for one
month, l was entirely
cured, and from that day
to this l do not know,
thank God, what even a
slight headache is. I paid
a doctor on fremont St.
Boston, in one day for
his advice only, J the sum
of 5000 with $3.50 for
= - / ~ 49,.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1894-10-19

"Can see you apart for a moment| "You
mean alone, don't your ayes; loan-that's
il exactly. | want to borrow fye."
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1894-10-19

strong, plump, round and rosv nv l Ilade
ing, so effective as a strength ro Solh'
and flesh maker is known 10 medi iSI1'o n,
ence; this puts on heaihr ReH not 9TH ~. SCI
OF cod liver oil and its filthy com t CmS ias
1t rouses every organ of the bodpp y to
uvity; puTlhes' enriches aud yita al aS
and strengthened. If YOU are foo 't1t, ,!1
weak, too nervous, it may be fiat t tI,a loo
assimilation is at fault A certain ' a,,i 1000
of bile is necessary for the recentio, mum, ne
fat foods in the blood Too often tlo u H.; Tue
holds back this element which wonid i lsSl
digestion. Dr. Pierce's Golden NJ Ma5 aslp
Discovery stimulates tones up and inv slis
crates the liver, noutishes the blood w
the muscles, stomach and nerves get 9 tll
rich blood they require. - 81 Tue
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1894-10-19

Minnie-What is the subject at the Girls De
batting Society tonight? Mamie-Which is the
hardest to disconnect yourself from-a bicycle
or II hammock?
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1894-10-19


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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-07-03

IT" said au old schoolnaster % q
visitor. certain pupils used half a.
much Ingenuity and application in end.
ing oat facls a. they co in finding out
ways % Re vroag and excuses for them,
they would become excellent scholArs
There Tinkins. nr0y. gazing cut u the
window. be never cares % learn any
thing. bEt he Is always ready with .
more or less ingenious bluuder. Let
try him "
''Tinkinsr' exclaimed the teacher
YES. sir :"
"GstbeT IN your eves and your WIS
from the outer ernpyrcan for moment
ard tell u Whist is th8 difference b.
tween the meaning = the word granite
AID that q the wcrd 'poE.cgTzas's- -
mo diEercaCe. SIR.
Then why Do 10 r7netirn~s ssJ
'g-au!te' All Sometimes 'DoaegTAn-
AZ.
When ws are 81 = hurry. sir. -.
ssy ooIloquiaiiy granite, but z ws
have pleutv q fine we take pans q az
'pome2rznats.
LIT ne compliment yoa o-l ths To-
genui;y O your aGEtTl-. Ti1kiEs- E01
you may s. and look up fhs d~faifious
q those two w1rds IN tae uus,rislsed
and write down e2rh definition fcr me
10 times The cizss n raetcr}- FIii re-
turn - tisa.r sszss- - 5r.ia 3 oman
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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-07-03


them sent 10 him regularly. Moreover,
he has had the American laws On the
subject looked into, and has been in
formed that the prince could go es O
German governments student. The
emperor had quite conversation with
the late William Walter Phelps on the
6ubject-
Taking these facts into consideration
and remembering the oft-repeated wish
of the emperor to see the New World,
there is nothing extraordinary in the
repetition of the many rumors that he
Is coming to New York. The only in
definite thing about the visit is its date.
1t is highly probable that the emperor
himself does not yet know when he
will be able to land in America.