The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-11-27

j. Bennett Smith, of Sassafras fame,
has scheme for disrupting the coal trade
that Is unique, to say the least you all
know, he says, that the temperature of
the earth Increases about two degrees ev-
cry 100 feet downward, and all you will
nave TO do Is to bore hole deep enough TO
give you boiling water, say 5000 or 5000
feet, and the problem is solved"
But say, old man, how are you going
to get your water down and steam up?"
"Oh, that's easy. Put down a 1O-incn
hole and an S-inch CASING let the water
go down the outside and the return steam
come up the casing, which you connect
with your boilers, which drives your en-
glnes, runs your dynamos, heats and
lights yoLr house, or any thing you wish"
That, of course, would mean good by to
anthracite. But j. Bennett is "a curious
Smith He's always joking.
That is a capital idea of Douglas, the
Brockport, Mass, shoe man, who has pro-
vided every employe with slips calling
for free medical attendance during i'll
ness. Douglas will get his moneys worth
back In free Advertising but | don't be-
grudge such an action that recognition.
Do you?
1t was suggestive coincidence that in
yesterdays Tribune the two pictures
printed were of new church and a new
school. These are the twin guardians of
our liberty. May both flourish and null
tiply In the land
Into handsome 256-page quarto edition
Charles d. Blake, arranger Of that popu-
lar book, "Harmonized Melodies" has
N nct innl 81,
title "Melodious Harmonies' (published
by f, Trifet, SO Bromfield street, Boston,.
One of the most valuable features of this
book is an arrangement for the piano of
all the national songs of the world. OF
these, the most mastery Is the Austrian
National Hymn, by Haydn; and the least
original Is our own pirated America"
The national hymn of China and also that
of Japan are uncommonly good and to
most ears both will be entirely new.
"Melodious Harmonies" would make an
excellent Xmas gift,
Another blow has been struck at foot
ball, in the refusal of the mayor of AL
toona to permit the game to be played
within the city limits. He claims that IL
the law requires him to prevent prize
fighting on account of its brutality, il i'm
pllto tqudl nOSNliiNS " ulullS VI
| foot ball, hence the ban. Candidly. the
| mayor is right. Foot ball undoubtedly
can be civilized: but that has not been
done as yet And while it remains in the
barbaric state, it must expect TO get hard
knocks from common sense.
This is how Dana said farewell: 1.-THE
| political Cuckoo, the Cleveland Cuckoo
the Cuckoo Congressionalis, has dlsap-
peared. He is gone: we shall never see
him more; he Is extinct, deletus est. The
| Cuckoo is beyond the reach of political
game laws. Except as a curiosity for the
political naturalist to be exhibited in a
glass case, the Cuckoo will not again see
the light of day. The deluge of Republi-
can votes. and Of Democratic votes for
| the Republican ticket, ended his career,
transferred his chrp from the category of
ever-present annoyances. to the short Sc
res of dead-bird idioms. Some excellent
| specimens of stuffed Cuckoo, of prospcc-
| tive future value as curlosties, are to
| be found in Buffalo, N. Y; Charleston, w.
| "; Albany, N. Y; Boston Mass; Green
wich, Conn. and Madison Wis. Like the
| Columbian stamps, drawn off by collec-
| tors from circulation, there will soon be a
premium on Cuckoos: and there is ver-
table appropriateness, considering the
origin of the bird in politics, In the fact
that hereafter all Cuckoos will be stuffed"