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The Yale expositor., 1894-09-21
The DeN Time Register.

questions This basis is furnished by
the records OF the Time Register.
Armed with these. the executive head
can put just those queries which are
most crucial, can satisfy himself abso-
lutely with regard to every movement
which has been made during the day.
week or month and can do justice to the
employees and to the business for which
he is responsible and for which the en-
ployes are responsible In a word. he
has the materials for n bird's-eye view
OF everything which has been done. is
being done and which shall be done.
The Yale expositor., 1894-09-21
EIcctrIcnIly-PrOpeilea vehicles.

l. is Il long time since experiments
were first begun In connection with
electric vehicles for use on an ordinary
street or hard road, but IL is only re-
Gently that they have been carried to
Il point of success. The difficulty has
not been to get vehicle that could be
moved along the streets ut any desired
rate Of speed and in any desired direc-
ton, but in supplying the motive power
ut price that would permit successful
competition with horSefesh The diff
Guilty is now said to have been over
come. New types of batteries have
been introduced which take UP little
room and which may be kept charged
ut Il small expense, with sufficient pow
er to meet all the necessities OF the
case. For the new vehicles it is claim
ed that they can be propelled along the
thoroughfarcs at any rate Of speed thar
may be desired and without making
any 1oise. No difficulty is experienced
in making them thread their way
among the mass of other vehicles or
in keeping them under perfect control.
Those already built have broad tires,
but it is proposed To introduce pneu-
matte tires, which will be lighter and
more satisfactory The Electrical Re
view.
The Yale expositor., 1894-09-21

The emperor of China has issueL a
long proclamation declaring his rights
as suzerain over Corea and ordering
all his maritime provincial governors
TO 'make every effort to fire at the
Wojen ships if they come into the har-
bors and to utterly destroy them =
This means war with a vengeance,
and in view of their early warning TIE
Woien or Japanese will probably keep
their ships out of Chinese harbors and
thus save the worshipful governors
the exertion of making every effort
to fire" at them.
The Yale expositor., 1894-09-21
A Mechanical Fluid.

An ingenious device is the invention
of G. w. Hunt, an American engineer.
1t is mass of hard steel balls of two
sizes, one eighth and one-fourth of an
inch i'm diameter, respectively. Under
pressure this mass moves and trans
mits pressure in all directions like q
fluid. The device is calculated for use
wherever fluid pressure is desired with.
out leakage. and II has already been
employed for tightening the brasses
of connecting rods. a pocket at the side
being filled with the balls and pressure
applied with set scre-.-Engineer-
ing.
The Yale expositor., 1894-09-21
PAPER POLES.
They Are Lighter. Sitter and Stronger
Than Monsien Ones.

They Are Lighter, Sitter and Stronger
Than WoeIien Ones.
One of the la&estNses to which pa
per has been turned is the making of
telegraph poles. The paper pulp en-
ploycd is saturated with a mixture of
borax, tallow and other substances
The mass IS east in a mold with
cone in the center, forming holiow
rod of any desired length, the cross
pieces being held by wooden keys
driven in on either side of the pole.
The paper poles are said to be light COR
and stronger than those of wood
and to be unaffected by the many
weather influences which shorten the
life of a wooden pole.
1t is doubtful, however, wt ether the
paper pole will come to be anything
like rival to the iron pole, which is
now high i'm favor for the carrying of
all kinds of wire lines. The value Of
iron telegraph poles has been well
tested under the most trying
conditions on the lines between
Europe and India, and again across
arid stretches of country in Australia.
Insects that eat out the core of
everything in the shape of wood,
leaving the she'll only, and bird borers
that drill holes in the toughest of
trees, let the iron poles pass, and
even wandering tribes cannot chop it
up for fre-vood, although down in
Australia they have not yet quite got
over their trick of making arroIv
heads of the iRsulators it carries.
The Yale expositor., 1894-09-21

The proposed change in the fash
ION OF passenger cars, substituting
depot platforms for car platforms,
may be realized in the next few
years. Already the Illinois Cen
trail has adopted such platforms for its
suburban service. To step from the
depot platform to the car as one passes
from one room to another without even
a threshold to disturb the dignity of
the walk seems among the comforts of
the near future. The expense Of de-
pot platforms would be apt to fall con-
siderably short of that of car platforms,
The element of economy will be apt to
make the change inviting to railroad
managers.
The Yale expositor., 1894-09-21

DR.. CYRUS EDsoS OF New York an
tnounces a discovery by DIR. Koch OF
Berlin of a cure for .diphtheria which
never fails when appalled, within thirty
six hours. The announcement is
made on authority of DIR. Briggs, the
bacteriologist of the New York board
of health, who was sent to Berlin to
investigate this subject. He found
between 5000 and 4 200 well-attested
cases that had been cured by this anti
toxine. The New York bOprd of health
asks an appropriation for the purpose
OF bringing this remedy into general
use in this country. It s. probable
that the health officers of all our cities
will try TO secure the new remedy and
that it will soon be within resch of all.
The Yale expositor., 1894-09-21

No GOLD mine ever discovered on
the continent possessed a tithe Of the
value discovered in the hitherto lmre-
garded cottonwood; and if well man
aged and husbanded the placers will
not give out as those OF the gold mines
do. 1t is pointed out, however, that
the woodpulp man has begun his raw
age in these riparian groves, anG that
if he is let alone he will destroy them
as he does every forest on which he
alights.
The Yale expositor., 1894-09-21

A YOUNG woman ranking third in
a class Of sixty-one members in a Scot
tish university, who stood first iH her
class in zoology, practical chemistry,
anatomy, history, physiology, surgery,
medicine, pathology and midwifery,
has just had the honor of bachelor of
medicine oand master of surgery con-
ferred upon her. She is one of only
three women who have had this honor
in Scotland.
The Yale expositor., 1894-09-21
How the Intensity of Light Is MEMS
ured,

The measurement of the intensity OF
light IS called photomctry. and the in.
struments used phtometers. from the
Greek phos light, and metron measure
The methods by which the intensity is
measured are mostly based upon the
fact that IL is easy TO approximately
detect by the eye when two similar
surfaces are equally Illuminated, saws
London Tit-Bits. The illumination ON
a given area Of n screen from any light
is inverSely proportional to the square
OF the distance between the light and
the screen, and this is the foundation
OF all photomethc calculations. Rum
ford's photometer consists Of screen
with a cylindrical rod placed a short
distance away. Each of the two lights
which are TO be compared throws n
shadow of this rod on the screen, and
the lights are moved until the two
shadows are equally Illuminated The
ratio of the two lights is obtained by
calculating the distances Of each from
tine screen, and taking the ratio OF the
squares; naturally, the brighter, light is
the farther away. Bunsen's photome-
ter consists of n screen made OF two
parts, the one being more transparent
The Yale expositor., 1894-09-21

ONE of the things which ii seems diff
acult for the public mind to grasp is
that there is a decided difference be-
tween the knot and the mile. It's GER
tainly about time to have it thoroughly
understood that the two are not the
same thing. 1t seems easy enough TO
remember that mile is only about
eighty-seven per cent of knot, the
latter being approximately 6,0S2 feet
in length, while the statute mile meas
ures $3.50 feet.
The Yale expositor., 1894-09-21
nurlod ln thc same draw.

In the violet calm of evening, just
as dusk was deepening into darkness.
and the pail of night was settling
over the world, she spurned his snit
NO" she said calmly but firmly.
''Then | will be avenged" he Kissed.
Presenting her little brother with a
toy pistol he swallowed phial OF
prussic acid. They were buried in
the same grave.
The Yale expositor., 1894-09-21

THE New York police captains we're
not as gilt-edged in their briber'ies as
the officials OF Ward McAllister's town
might be expected to be. Captain Ste
phenson, for instance, was bribed with
huekleberries.
The Yale expositor., 1894-09-21

IT has been proposed 'that stations
be erectediin convenient localities in
cities and lar4q towns where physi-
clans may 60 e'be thoroughly disin-
fected Immediately after they have
visited case of infectious disease, and
before paying any further visits.
The Yale expositor., 1894-09-21

AS SHOWING how competition is af-
fecting the business of the electric
compa1 les, it is noted that complete
trolley car, including two motors, six
years9ago cost 1850; four and half
years ago it cost $500; two years
ago, 50, $50; a year ago, $4,000, and
now it can be bought for 81 200 tR
$3.50.
The Yale expositor., 1894-09-21

A MASSACHUSETTS woman has in
vented an envelope which it is impos-
sible to open and reseal without de-
lection. That womap's ingenuity
will bring down upon her devoted
head the maledicti0ns of all members
of her own sax Who are married and
most of those who hope to be.
The Yale expositor., 1894-09-21

The posr king Of Siam doesn't seem
to kow whether he is 6ead or alive,
He and the king of Corea are not having
just the pleasantest time in the world.
The Yale expositor., 1894-09-21

Mr.. WnLIAM'K. VANDERBILT, being
tho son of his'father, no doUot resents
the idea that the public should be
made acquainted with hls family af-
fairs and outside matter incidental
thereto. Tho public be -.
The Yale expositor., 1894-09-21

IT is difficult TO understand the OBJ
ject to which the king of Abyssinia il2-
tends to devote the elaborate postage
stamps which he is now having en-
graved and printed in Paris. There is
no postofiice and no postal service il
Abyssinia, and the Ethiopians have
not yet developed the civilized mania
for stamp collecting.
The Yale expositor., 1894-09-21

THE Canadian Pacific railroad re-
ports falling-offin receipts in the
last six months of about 81. 200. 600,
showing that the railroads OF the
states are not alone In feeling the
stress OF the hard times.
The Yale expositor., 1894-09-21
Machinery Driven by Mouse Power.


A gentleman in Scotland has trained
n couple of mice and invented ma
chinery for enabling them to spin yarn.
The work is done on the treadmill prin-
ciple. 1t is so constructed that the COM
mon house mouse is enabled 10 make
atonement to society for past offenses
by twisting and reeling from 100 TO l2o
threads per day. To complete 1t the Ut
tie pedestrian has TO run 1Ola EIiles.
This journey it performs everJ day
with ease An ordinary mo tSe weighs
only half an ounce. \ halfpenny worth
Of oatmeal at Is. Sd. the peck serves
one Of these treadmill culprits for the
long period Of five weeks, says London
Tit-Bits. In that time it makes 10
threads per day. being an average OF
$3.50 threads of % inches, which is
nearly nine lengths Of the reel. a penny
is paid to women for every cut in the
ordinary way. At this rate mouse
earns Cd every five weeks, which is one
farthing per day, or IS Cd. per annum.
Take Cd. off for board. and Is. for ma
chnery, there viii arise Gs clear profit
from the mouse yearly. The mouse en-
ployer is going 10 make application for
the lease Of an old empty house. the
dimensions OF which are 100 feet 10y 30
feet and fifty feet in height which, ut
moderate calculation. win hold 10000
mouse mills. sufficient room being left
for keepers and some hundreds of spec
tators. Allowing E200 for reNt and
taSkmasterS, 100000 10 erect machinery
and $500 for the interest, there will he
left balance Of 1880 per annum.
The Yale expositor., 1894-09-21
TABERNACLE PULPIT.
"HoLY CONFUSION" AS A SER
MON TEXT.

Dr. TaImage Relates Some of His Per
sonnI Experiences--Lights and Shadows
of IA Christians Eife-Luxuries ef the
Plain People of To-day.
The Yale expositor., 1894-09-21
SCIENTIFIC MATTERS.
NEW INVENTIONS AND DIsCOV-
ERIES.

A Machine for Registering Both the
Movements of Employers and EN-
pIoyes-HOw the Intensity of Light
Is Measured.
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Base hull Notes.

Pittsburg and Washington each have
eight pitchers signed and with one more
pitcher would be able to play a game with
different pitchers for each inning.
Joe Quinn has signed with the st. Louis
Browns.
The Louisville players have been ordered
to report March 20. kilroy signed yester-
day.
The Western League managers are: j. II.
Manning of Kansas City, VIM. Sharsg of In
dianapolis. w. II. Watkins of Sioux City.
]. S. Barnes Of Minneapolis, Chas II. Cush-
man of Milwaukee w. S. Wright of Grand
Rapids, G.. A. Van der Beck of Detroit John
j. Carney of Toledo.
Charley Farrell was in Boston last Satur-
day and was looking fine. He is highly
pleased to get away from Washington and
to be with a winne-.-Hoston Globe
The Cincinnati team opens the season on
March - and plays every day until the
regular league season opens.
The Boston men are practicing every day
and getting into trim for the coming sea son.
AS soon as the weather will allow Yhey will
begin thei- work at Sportsman's Park New
Orleans. During the rainy season they
have been using the Young Mems gymna.
SUM.
A fine team could be made out OF the fol.
lowing players, who have been on the Wash
ington team i'm the past two years and al.
lowed TO go: Donovan, Larkin, How Mill.
gan. Dowd, Richardson, Knlen. Kn;er XII.
roy, Gastrtght, Twitchell, Farrell and Meek
I'm.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-03-07
DOMAIN ASNS MERCY,
The Letter Writing Crank BeSs the
President for Mercy,

Joseph DOMAIN, who was sentenced to
eighteen months in the Maryland oeni-
tertiary for sending a threatening postal
card to Vice President Stevenson. has
written to President Cleveland asking Tor
pardon. as follows:
Begging pardon for addressing You So
but feel dull, only one who is innocent
can feel. The old question over again :
Why, if John Sherman is honest did lie
not appear against me, or why was l not
tried before the Senate Now, for Justices
sake. read over letters written by me- to
the different Senators, also to yourself and
say if l was not willing to prove with
legal evidence anything that looked like a
charge. l say now cursed he the hour
when l enlisted myself in such service
l say cursed be my own brains for having
thought themselves more intelligent than
the thoughtful population of the United
States, and l say devil do L care
how many Crokers, Shermans, etc,
move this country when intelligence
is worse crime than stealing a
million. VIII l also find an obli.,ng
President, that will let me c when
humble and degrade myself so :. That
am willing to swear l shall never try to
serve this God-forsaken and sacred. so
ciety-blessed country of liberty. I'll promise
never to write a newspaper article, or will
I otherwise bring myself in the foreground
unless il is to serve my own interest with
ont disturbing other people. Liberty is
health to me. Confinement will soon prove
my destroyer. | ask mercy"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-03-07
Army Orders.

First Lieut.. Charles Wilcox, assistant
surgeon, will be relieved from temporary
duty at Boise barracks, Idaho. and will re-
turn 10 his proper station 0he Preside of
San Francisco, Cab.
The following changes in the stations and
duties of officers of the quartermaster s
department are ordered:
Capt. Medad G. Martin, assistant quar-
termaster, will report in person to the COM
handing general, department of the Colo
RADIO, for duty as assistant to the chief
Quartermaster of that department, reliev-
ing Capt. William W. Robinson, jr., assist
ant quartermaster
Capt. Robinson will proceed to Buffalo,
n. Y, and relieve Maj Ezra b. Kirk, quar-
terrnaster, OF his duties at that place.
Maj. Kirk will settle his accounts retain
ing station at Buffalo.
The extension of leave of absence granted
second Lieut.. Eugene l.. Loveridge eley-
enth infantry, is further extended three
months.
Leave Of absence for one month on
surgeons certificate of disability, with
permission to apply for five months ex-
tension, is granted Lieut. Col Abram C..
Wildrick. first artillery.
Leave of absence for four months is
granted Capt. Henry /. Raymond, assist
ant surgeon.
The leave OF ebsence granted Major
John ID. Hall, surgeon, is extended one
month.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-03-07
A SENSATIONAL CASE.
Suit Against n Baronet for Breach OF
Promise After Twenty-Five Nears.

A London special cable dispatch to the
New York Word says: Action for breach VI
promise has been brought against Sir Fran
els Cook, who married Tennie Clafin of New
York. sister of Victoria Woodruff.
This case will be perhaps the most extra
ordinary one of its kind.
Sir Francis Cook is one of the merchant
princes of England. He is head of the great
firm of Cook & Sons, dealers in silk ana all
kinds of stuffs. and is several times d mil
lionaire. He Was created a barcnet by
Gladstone in 1886. after giving his house at
kensirgton, valued at tsc,oou, for roy ~
school of music
him has been married seven years. and the
alleged promise to marry was given twenty
five years ago. when Sir Francis first wire
was still living. He married Miss Clanin
nine years ago. Sir Francis Is now sessA-
ty-seyen years Of age.
The World correspondent went to Dough-
ty House, Richmond, today, where the yea-
cradle baronet resides. 10 ask Cor his Ver-
sion of the strange charge. Doughty House
is the finest of the houses on the famous
terrace at Richmond, and commands 4
grand view of the Thames valley. The pic
ture gallery contains one Of the finest cob
lections of old masters in the country.
Sir Francis said he was too tired and un-
well to talk, but Lady Cook and her secre-
tary unfolded this tale:
Twenty-Five years ago Sir Francis met in
a train coming from London to Richmond Q
handsome young woman. He asked permis-
sion TO call upon her, which was readily
granted, and after each call he gave her
money, usually five or ten pounds. Shethen
went by the name of Mrs. Richmond"
Since then Sir Francis had learned that she
had been the mistress of man named
Richards, and that her maiden name WAS
Susans After a short time Sir Francis en-
deavored TO drop her. but she continually
bothered him for money. He therefore paid
her one pound weekly. Sir Francis declares
that he never promised to marry her and
that he never entertained any idea of sucn
thing.
After pursuing her evil ways for several
years she married one Holland. This man
repeatedly came TO Sir Francis. on behalf
OF his wife, for money, causing painful
scenes at the door OF the Cook mansion.
About six months ago she threatened the
present action. Sir Francis, though old and
in need of rest thought il his duty, said
Lady Cook, TO fight this attempt at black
mail.
The case is set down to be tried this week
in the court of Queens bench.
Mrs Holland claims fl2.Wo damages In
addition to breach of promise to marry her,
she alleges that Sir Francis caused crimi-
nal operation to be performed
Sir Francis has retained as his counsel
Mr.. Lockwood, q. c. and NJ. T., the most
eloquent and daring lawyer in England, and
the trial is sure TO be one OF the most anus
ing in English history.
Lady Cook steadfastly sustains her VEN
cradle husband.
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SENATOR TELLERs ATTITUDE.
He Will Make a Dignined Fight
Against Tariff Revision.

Senator Teller gave the Senate a broad
hint yesterday that he could not be de-
pended upon to obstruct the passage Of the
tariff bill beyond his mere disapproval and
its expression. He was talking about the
seigniorage question, which was under a
desultory discussion, and he took occasion
to announce his program in the following
terms: Il am willing to Join the opponents
of an improper tariff measure in any rea-
sonable opposition to it, but L am not willing
that the silver question shall be made sub
ordinate TO it, or that IL shall be made a
foot ball by those who are not in favor of
a proper monetary system, from my stand
point for the purpose of defeating what
they think TO be a bad tariff bill. The SUBJ
ject is too great and too sacred to be thus
treated and thus handled, and so far as
am concerned, l shall confine my opposi-
ton to the revenue bill within the strict
rules of parliamentary opposition. i shall
not feel, for myself under an obligation to
contest that bill as / contested the repeal
of the Sherman law, because the evils that
will result from it, even from my stand
point, should it become a law, are not any
thing like the evils that have followed and
are to continue to follow the repeal of the
Sherman law"
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LARGER DEATH RATE.
Various Causes bring About an Iu-
crease in the CITY,

There was a sudden jump in the death
rate last week as compared with that of
the several preceding weeks, according to
the report of Health Officer Hammett
From 81 in the previous report the number
OF deaths arose to 145 last week. The re-
ports of causes of mortality do not disclose
the presence of any especial disease with
the exception of those of the lungs. Over
one-third of all the deaths were caused by
attacks upon the lungs and respirato tory or
gans. Twenty-seven fatal cases of pneu-
monia We're reported. Most of these We're
acute IN their nature, having consumed
from but three to seven days duration in
the last Illness. The contagious diseases
cover a remarkably limited field. there hay-
ing been only II zymotic cases out Of the
whole llS deaths. There was not a fatal
lty from typhoid fever, nor from m9laral
ieNers, anu but one death from diphth
Five new cases of The latter were reported
and seven OF scarlet rash. with no death
therefrom. Infant mortality is normal
while aged people over sixty years old
furnished nearly one-third of all the list of
the departed.
DR.. c. NJ. Hammett, health officer, pre-
sents the following report for week ending
rch 3, 1884:
Number of deaths, 145; white, 81; colored
IS. Death rate per 1.pU per annum: White
2l.S: colored, 1854. Total population, NJ !:
Al were under five years OF age, "a were
under one year Oil and Al over sixty years [;
% of the deaths occurred in hospitals and
public institutions. -
The deaths oy classes were as follows:
Zymotic, L.; constitutional, 81; local. ~; de-
velopmental H. violence; 1.
The principal causes OF death were: Group
/; diphtheria, 1; consumption, Is; diarr1 zeal,
>; maarial fever, L; pneumonia, -; con-
gestion of the lungs l. brurichitis, Z:
whooping cough, =: kidney diseases. Z; can
GERS, I.
Births reported. % white males, "a white
females, "A colored males and % colored
females. '...-.. .....-.--.. ..-...
Marriages reported: IA white, colored.
Still-births reported: white, colored.
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Naval Orders.

Lieut.. r. G. Davenport has been detached
from the Castine and granted three months
leave, with permission to go abroad. Pay
master j. A. Rain. from the Kearsarge, or
dered home to settle accounts and granted
three months leave. Chief Engineer ID. c.
Gowins, from the kearsarge ordered home
on waiting orders.
Passed Assistant Surgeon ]. P. Lumsdcn
from the Kearsarge and ordered home n
wait orders Naval Cadets ID. V. Allen w
BAH, h. B. Mccormick. T. s. Borden and T.
L. Stitt from the kearsarge to tempora "
duty on the Vermont. pending examine tion
May /.
Cadet n. c. Thompson from the Mime.
sofa TO temporary duty on the Vermont
Ensign II. q: Gates from the kearsarge
ana granted three months leave.
Ensign T.. Magruder. Lieut. +. r.
Brainard and Lieuts John s Hood "a r.
Wa,lings and c. T. Forse from the Rear.
sarge, and placed on waiting orders.