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Is the all-but-finished. artificial eye, requ1r-
ing only to have the edges made smooth:
When 1t has been inserted in the eye socket
of the person who is to wear it 1t Is moved
in a natural manner by the muscles of
the root" of the real eye that has been
destroyed. The glass employed in the
nary glass, it may be reheated and re-
nodded without breaking. Thus the OPP
tician is enabled to alter the shape OF an
artificial eye, If necessary. when he fits It.
affair, and that is the reason why they
cost so much. The profit Of the retailer Is
great but the job Of fitting is apt to re-
quire no small amount of work and atten-
ton.
As to Human Eyes.
What may be termed freak of the bust
ness of making artificial eyes is the manu-
facture of sets of glass eyes which are In
tended to represent various conditions of
disease, from cataract, liberation, or what
not. They are designed for demonstration
in the teaching of students of medicine.
1t need hardly be said that they are very
unpleasant. and to look at them is enough
to make one nervous about his own eyes
for week.
The German eyes cost IS each at retail.
But the finest artificial eyes fetch Sl5 each
and are luxury for rich folks. These
latter are made in France. The processes
employed are kept secret, and nobody
knows exactly what the material Is, except
that 1t Is a superior kind of porcelain.
Eyes of this kind cannot be reheated and
reshaped.
Ordinarily no pain is incidental to the
wearing of an artificial eye. Some people
wear them all the time, both night and
day and forget about them. They do not
last indefinitely, but sooner or later crum-
BILE and break. Their endurance varies
with the occupation of the person. One
individual may get along with the same
eye for five years, while another will
need three or four in a twelvemonth. The
Industry Of the stonecutter is particularly
hard on false eyes. Sharp stone dust in
very small particles get in beneath the
lids which lose their constituencies when
while unnoticed. cut the glass or porcelain.
More artificial eyes are used in winter
than in summer, because may people adopt
them rather for protection against cold
and wind than for looks. When an in
dividual has adopted false eye he must
always continue to wear it, else the lids
and parts of the empty socket will shrink
together. 1t Is apt to be best, when the
sight of an eye has been destroyed, to
remove 1t entirely by surgery. else it may
at any time cause trouble with the other
eye by sympathy. Under such conditions
1t Is regarded by nature as foreign body,
and Inflammation is likely to be set up.
Once In while one hears of wonderful
surgical operation by which the lost eye
OF human being has been replaced with
the world in the newspapers and every
body marvels Nothing is said of the fact
that the operation is interesting only from
the medical point of view, the transplanted
eye being absolutely blind of course
RENE BACHE,
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that prevail daily,
and often stands for
half an hour at a
time to watch the
fluctuations of the
thermometer and the
barometer, the shift
ing directions of the
wind. and the other
elements. which are
graphically recorded
on cylinders by clever
automatic devices. 1t
Is one of the familiar
sights in the vicinity
of the marble room
to see Senator Haw-
ley bending over the
machine that tells
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little weather bureau.
and there he asks no
questions and con-
suits no authorities,
except the small map
that is issued twice
a day from the but
reau. He silently
scrutiniZes the $50
thermal lines. the
isobars. the high and
low areas, the wind
directions and the
other different fac
tors that go to make
up the weather. and
then. with a grunt of
satisfaction. he puts
the manor aside and
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the story of the force and direction of the
wind and the duration of sunshine, appar-
emily fascinated by the wonderful mechan-
ism that is the result of so many years of
thought and effort. He studies the maps
too. with intelligence. and in blizzard days
or sizZard seasons he is to be more often
found by the side of the instruments than
in the Senate chamber.
Senator Morgan of Alabama shares his in
terest in the machines, but he does not
spend quite as much time in their contem-
plation. He is wonderfully impressed how
ever. with the great advances that have
been made in meteorological science and
will often discourse nuently and charmingly
on the subject with the representative of
the bureau. He is more greatly concerned
I'm the weather of Washington than in that
of Alabama. and is especially Interested
whenever this city is visited by severe
storm. In this Indifference TO the climatic
conditions i'm the south he differs somewhat
from many of his colleagues from the gulf
states. who are always very much concern
ed whenever a storm swoops out of the
Caribbean sea and endangers the crops in
the tier of states just north of the warm
gulf.
Keeps Well Posted.
Senator Platt of Connecticut Is probably
the best forecaster in the Senate He
never fails to make a trip each day 20 the
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InapDrOpriate-Very.

From Der Schalk
Baron-'I am in immediate want OF lou
marks"
Usurer-''You can have it at once,
baron"
Baron-"Bravo, old chap! Q1ooks at the
money and the note Of handy Thunder!
Why, you have only given me a hundred
marks and written down two hundred!'
Usurer-"Of course! Does not the Herr
Baron know the old proverb, He who gives
quickly gives twiceT
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Why They Are Interested.

One Of the chief
delights of Senator
Coke of Texas is his
daily study of the
maps. He has large
interests in the state
and oU ms considera-
BILE ranch property
therein such wealth
er as this he is in a
high state of ankle
ty. although he is
one of the most per-
sistently placid men
that there is in Con-
gress. Nothing could
be more restful than
to watch Senator
~ - l. - IL o~x-tEi-r
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Properly Characterized.

From the Utica Observer.
A petty swindler of Syracuse, who COW
cred a Jar of sand with about an inch of
butter. and sold it to an italian, has been
sent to the penitentiary for four months
for his crime. This wholesale adultera-
tion of food products cannot be permitted
to go unpublished!
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busy man and SPENDS
little time in his in
spection of the fore
cast documents. He
steps briskly to the
map and putting his
eyeglasses on the
bridge of his nose in
a nervous fashion he
pokes his head for
ward, aiming at the
brass hook that rep
resents the city of
Albany, much as
though he proposed
to hang himself upon
that projection. No
other part of the
country has any in
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A Cautious Guest.

From the National Hotel Reporter.
Lay off your overcoat, or you won't
feel it when you go OUT said the landlord
of a Texas hotel to a newly arrived guest
who was sitting by the fire.
That's what 1 am afraid Of" replied the
stranger. 1.-The last time I was here laid
off my overcoat and 1 didn't feel it when
1 came out and / haven't felt it SINCE"
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goes back to his seat in the Senate. In
two or three minutes he has made a sur
vey of the country, sized up the condi-
tions to the west and south of Washing
ton and has made his own deduction from
the state of things. With the wisdom of
a shrewd proGnosticator, he does not con-
fide his forecasts TO any one, but he is
never caught mapping by storm. never
chilled by being without an overcoat when
q cold wave drops upon the city and, al
though he pays no attention whatever to
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Statesmen Keep Posted in Regard to
Meteorological Conditions.
WEATHER BUREAUS At FHE CAPITOL
The Relation Between Politics and
the Climate.
THE POIN OF VIEW

T HAS BEEN SAID
by some one or other
that there are no
people on earth 50
deeply interested in
the weather as the
Americans. S o m e
European critics aver
sneeringly that this
b &c aus e I h e
weather is so like the
American character.
because it is tickle.
That is doubtless a
vile Islander. L h e
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ture Of artificial eyes
is a far more extern
sive industry than
most people imagine.
Only a small part of
1t has to do with the
making of eyes for
human beings who
have lost their nat
ural organs of vision.
Taxidermists u s e
vast quantities of
eyes incidentally to
the mounting of
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To ward off an incipient cold in a child
give it good, hot bath in a warm room:
Then rub the chest and throat with coal
oil, and heat it in. Over that put liberal
rubbing of vaseline. Then roll the child
up in a nice, warm flannel that will cover
it all over, and tuck it in bed. Generally
this will break up cold that has just
started, and also symptoms or Group. II
the hoarseness is of a croupy nature, a
half teaspoonful of vaseline given inward
ly is not bad.
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terest for him. Mr.. Jones, the clerk IN
charge, who has made as much OF study
of the peculiaritieS of the different Sena-
tors as he has of the weather conditions
knows precisely what is wanted the mo-
ment Mr.. Hill appears through the door
way and the Senator is given his dose or
weather information in homeopathic form
and with neatHesS and dispatch. AT cleo
ton times he is especially concerned, now
ever. about New York weather generally,
and if he happens to be here at such
time-which is less likely than otherwise
he develops sudden and unwonted con-
Germ about things meteorological
In this Mr.. Hill is like Mr.. Irby of South
Carolina, with this exception, however,
that Mr.. Irby is utterly oblivious to the
weather IN all other occasions. But when
ever there are primaries conventions or
elections to be held Mr.. Irby studies the
maps with almost feverish anxiety. The
North Carolina Senators are almost always
concerned in weather matters and Mr..
Pritchard. the latest conner from the tar
heel state, is one of the most enthusiastic
advocates OF the weather bureau
Why They Are Interested.
1t might be supposed by those who think
of Mr.. PETER as the representative of the
agriculturalists of the west that he would
be one of the most frequent visitors to
such an institution as the Senate weather
bureau; on the contrary. however. he is
seldom, if ever, seen around the instru-
ments. He has a supreme Indifference for
the weather conditions that surround him,
and he knows that Kansas is in the track
of everything diabolical that comes out of
the weather factory, and that the bleeding
state Is going to suffer just so much every
year anyhow. and life is too short to worry
about the inevitable while there are finan-
Gal problems to discuss and Secretaries of
the Treasury and Attorneys General to
watch.
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A Comfortable Berth.

From the Buffalo Courier.
$50 Rusher has got job at last, Ell? I
wonder if it is that one with the sleeping
car company"
II guess not At least. he told me he'd
struck a comfortable berth"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-02-16

From Life.
Cholly Chumpleigh-"Yes Miss Coldeal,
theosophy is a subject to which I have not
be en- able to give any thought"
Miss Coldeal-'I can readily understand
that, Mr.. Chumpleigh."
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shown to a remarkable degree. That IS
why Senators and members of the House
are as a rule SO deeply absorbed in the
weather maps that are displayed in the
Hobbies of the two houses of Congress.
There have been fitted up in the loDbleS
at the north and south ends of the Capitol
sung little weather shops, with huge
maps and all sorts of recording .instru-
ments. so that the vagaries OF the climate
Of this city are made very apparent, as
well as the conditions that exist elsewhere.
Clever and obliging young men have
charge of these miniature bureaus, F. J.
Randolph at the House end and j. IL. Jones
at the Senate. They have their fingers
the pulse of the elements. so to speak. and
grind out great deal of information daily
through the medium of their scientific in
struments at their elbows. and the data
furnished by the central office, the weather
bureau. The forecasts of the officer in
charge of the predictions are spread
abroad. the conditions in the various sec
lions of the country are tagged out on
great maps, and everything is made just
as snug and graphic as possible.
On the senate Side.
Over on the Senate side. where there is
less hustle and rush, the statesmen make
frequent trips into the nook at the east end
of the marble room where Mr.. Jones and
his charts and recording machines are To-
Gated. Some of them watch the thermome-
ter as closely as others do the stock ticker
To them. indeed, the range of the Temporal
ture means more than the fluctuations of
railroad quotations or sugar stock. In some
seasons certain Senators transact import
ant business the basis of the weather re-
ports. Wheat is sold, cattle are bought,
crops are harvested, vessels are embarked
on voyages or held in port. The Pacific
slope Senators are especially interested in
the climatic conditions. Mr.. Perkins of
California is elmost daily visitor to the
maps. In dry seasons he is as much con-
cerned in the probabilities of rain on the
coast as he ever is in the latest twist in the
financial situation.
But the Senator who has the greatest in
tereSt of all in the weather records and in
struments is MIR. Hawley of Connecticut.
He is a great student of the conditions
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-02-16
A quiet way of teaching child to be

A quiet way of teaching a child to be
observant is a little game called Il see."
You can play it and yet attend to your
sewing or any other work that does not
require the use of anything but your fin,
gers. Say to the child that you see
Something in the room. A chair, for in
stance, then describe it, and make the child
tell from your description what 1T is you
have seen, then let the child tell
you something that 1t sees. ana you
guess It is a game that trains a child s
brain in numerous ways, and you will find
it will help your own thinking powers to
keep up with it, too, if you play the game
often.
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Sterling
Silver
CONTINUED AT SPECIAL LOW PRICES.

The above goods warranted solid sterling
silver, and every article Is extra heavy weight.
We also carry large variety Of articles suitable
for prizes for whist parties, ETC.
We make speciality of Solid lax. Gold Ladies'
Watches, Elgin Waltham movement, full jew
eled, SIS.
Solid lax. Gents Hunting case Watches with
adjusted full jeweled movement, $35.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-02-16

Steel that is badly rusted may be fairly
well cleaned by applying several coats of
kerosene Apply and let stand for few
hours and then rub and apply again.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-02-16

If your child has habit of sleeping
with it's mouth open, in order to breathe,
attend to the matter at once, before that
most loathsome of all diseases, chronic
catarrh, sets in. Any child that breathes
through it's mouth habitually certainly has
something the matter with its nasal or
CANS, and early treatment will probably
correct it, but it will take patience and
unwearied application to accomplish it.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-02-16

Run a lighted match rapidly around the
top of a fountain pen which refuses to I'M
screw. 1t will generally succumb at once.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-02-16

Teach a child to say Eyes. SIR" and mo,
sir" please" and thank you," as soon
as it can talk, and never permit 1t to for
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-02-16
NOT FOR SEEING
Artificial Organs Of Vision for Human
Beings and Animals.
HOW And WHERE THEY ARE MADE
The Manufacture of Human Eyes
in Germany and France.
FOR DOLLS AND FIGURES
HOW And WHERE THEY ARE MADE
FOR DOLLS AND FIGURES

Written for The Evening Star.
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The Documents iu the Case.
From the Chicago Record.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-02-16

An authority that cannot be questioned
says that when sending cheese to the table
you should always lay it on fresh napkin.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-02-16

For chamber windows long curtains of
cream cheesecloth are pretty and mex
pensive A wide hem along the front edge
and at the bottom is all that is necessary,
though, If you care to go to the expense.
narrow wash lace makes a neat finish.
These curtains will last indefinitely, and
launder beautifully. 1t can be done at
home and is so much less trouble than the
Nottingham lace curtains, which have to
be sent to the cleaners unless you have
infinite patience.
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"sHE MANUFAC-
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Peter Il. Feb. I, 1895.
Couey.
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Don't try to keep white petticoats on
your little girl. Soft red flannel should
form the underskirt. and you can en-
broider that or crochet a silk or zephyr
edge on it and make it very pretty. If a
second skirt Is necessary, get fine black
Saline and feather stitch it with two or
three rows of bright-colored wash silk.
You can have three rows each of differ
ent shade, if you like.
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Name of When
Patient. admitted.
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Keeps Well Posted,

Senator Platt of Connecticut Is probably
the best forecaster in the Senate. He
never fails to make a trip each day 20 the
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-10-29
HOW YOUR BLOOD Is KEPT PURE.
Health Comes From Pure Blood.
Pure Blood Depends on Your
Filter Inside You.
Your Kidneys Keep Your Blood Pure
IL They Are Well. A Few Facts
About Them, and How to
Make Them Well when
They Are Sick.
Your blood is what nourishes your

Your blood is what nourishes your
body.
New blood Is made every minute. 1t
goes to the lungs, gets fresh air.and then
passes through the body. In passing,
it deposits new flesh, fat, bones, ETC.,
and takes up worn out matter.
This worn out matter goes to the kid
neys. The kidneys filter il out OF the
blood and throw ii out of the BODY.
That is, when they are well they do.
When your kidneys are well, they act
as perfect filters, to keep your blood pure.
When they are sick, they act imperiectly.
They leave the bad matter in. Some
times they take out che good.
There is nothing more poisonous than
bad blood.
proof OF this is rheumatism. 1t ia
simply a blood poisoning caused by the
bad matter left in the blood by sick kid
neys.
Bright's disease is the kidneys work
ing the other way-taking the good food
out of the blood
Both kinds of kidney sickness are dan
gerous.
Both can be cured by DR.. Hobbs Spars-
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One OF the most wonderful facts OF our
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Our kidneys are very important organs.
We don't take enough care OF them.
We are sick oftener than there Is any
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Sick kidneys show their effects in many
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Rheumatism and Bright's Disease are
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Gravel, Diabetes, Sleeplessness, Nervous
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The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-10-29

new Grosvenor building, is boss rig
ger, John Strangford, better known under
the sobriquet OF "JacK the Rigger, and
is acknowledged to be one Of the most
competent men in the country. lie ia
a modest young man and was surprised
when NEWS reporter called upon him
yesterday afternoon, but after some per-
suasion he consented TO be interviewed.
From his boyhood he has always been
interested in the erection OF buildings,
especially the part with which he is con-
nected, and at an early age entered the
business and has practically grown up
with II.
Not knowing the meaning OF dizziness,
II is hard for him TO comprehend why a
man should experience this feeling on
plank 90 feet from the ground any more
than he would on the same plank span
ming ditch. As he whimsicaily puts 1t,
"the plank is Just as wide.
"Men in our business" he continued,
"are always on the lookout for an ac-
cident; they always keep an eye and
hand for their own safety a<Ad 1t is this
constant watching that prevents many
fall.
"During my career / have had five
falls, all more or less due to my own care
lessness. For instance, when L was work
ing in New Haven in 'SS / had nasty
fall of so feet from the top of a derrick.
Interested IN n gfrf ON the side
walk and somehow forgot where i was
sitting and over i went, turning a COM
plete somersault and landing in pile OF
loose sand. was pretty well shook up,
but was on hand the next morning with
a brand new resolution to confine my
fiirtations to terra firma.
At another time he had narrow es-
cape while working in Wood bridge,
Conn, on the New Haven Dam, where
he was in charge OF the pumping engines
which were pumping the water from
the foundation ground. blast under
the pumps had broken lot of slate rock
and he had stepped upon the staging
with the intention of going down TO ex-
anime it. A slight rain had made the
boards slippery, and a misstep sent him
whirling downward along the face of the
rock. He had q mirac nlous escape from
receiving a severe cut in the abdomen
from sharp and Jagged piece OF stone
by his watch. which he carried in the
change pocket of his trousers; as ii was,
both cases of the watch were passed
through.
Mr.. Strangford, during his everyday
work, superintends the erection of the
again walking a three-inch plank well up
in the air.
A crowd invariably gathers when he
swings rounu from point TO point in
"bo's'n chair" examining the work.
In conclusion, Mr.. Strangford said
that every day accidents are narrowly
averted which are not evsn suspected by
the crowd watching from the street.