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The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1895-05-18
D5.-CoNUNDRUM.

O5,-CONUNDRUM.
What is the difference between a bird mem
toned in well-known proverb and drum?
WICKED WILL.
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5os.-sCATTERED PRoyERB.

5Os.-SCATTERED PROyERB.
Zone word In each of the following sentences)
1. Better to be poor and honest than have
great riches gained through dishonesty.
2. poor paymaster is never satisfied with
his workmen
8. Those who boast the loudest do not always
accomplish most.
A. Seek for opportunities or you will seldom
find them.
5. 1t was not the fault of the ship that the
helmsman run he aground.
6. One who does not know how to invest his
own money should not be trusted with that of
others.
Z. Fools names like their faces are always
seen in public places.
s. 1t is dangerous to play with edged tools.
5N.-WORD SQUARE.
LET us make a square," said Johnnie;
PROPRIETOR for first wen place;
To ENTwINE will do for second"
BELONGING TO SHIPS for third" said Grace.
What shall he the fourth" said Johnnie
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ECHOES FROM PUzzLE-LAND.

[All communications relating to this depart
nent should be addressed to Echoes from
Puzzle-land,' and mailed to w. H. EASTMAN,
East Sumner, Mel
501.-CHARADE.
whole two lovers straying
Upon the pebbly beach;
what are the wild waves saying"
She asked, in silvery speech.
They say It's just the weather."
The youth In haste replied
For me to ask you whether
you'll first my bonny BRIDE"
He last her hand and waited
The answer came so slow
He stock with breath abated-
If she should answer, mot"
And she. with blush delicious
Made this demure reply;
THE weather is propitious.
What lovely sea and sky!"
CELIA Sam.
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his approach.
cit would just upset everything
"What would? You look as if you
were deciding the fate of nations"
20, it's crazy notion of Maud's,"
answered Rob, who was perched on
the railing, tapping his foot with his
tennis racket.
"Why, you see, Tom," Maud ex-
planned, II went down to the village
to call on Miss Munroe, that old ac
quaintance of mothers, who has come
to board at the hotel. She was not
we'll when she came, and has taken
cold, and now she has neuralgia
awfullyl There she is, alone in that
noisy hotel, with her head just split
ting, and crying baby in the next
room. And SO l was wondering
whether we might bring her up here
till she gets better. We could bundle
her up SO it couldn't hurt her."
"And none of us want her one bit,
broke in Sue.
Il say it will spoil all our fun" Rob
grumbled. "She's sure to be cranky
if she has neuralgia, and we'll have to
walk on tiptoe, and whistling will be
a deadly crime"
eyes, and we can't even play ten
mis- with any comfort, for she will
have to be in mothers room, and the
court is right under it. Our singing
in the evenings will be stopped, too,
suppose"
"It would be bore, that's fact"
said Tom. 81 say, don't let's bother
about her; most of us never even saw
her, and she can't expect us to invite
her upwhen mother isn't here"
s'But just think how you would
feel, Tom," pleaded Maud, "if you
had to lie there in little room with
only one window that makes a
draught over the bed; and the piano
going, and children racing through
the halls, and no quiet till late at
night"
30, we'll, if you want her SO much,
go ahead. l can stand it,"
Il don't want her for the fun of it,
answered Maud. Everybody says I
am lazy, and don't enjoy the pros
pect of carrying trays and waiting on
an invalid. What do you say,
Agnesi"
II was just thinking" the eldest
sister replied slowly, shat 1 have
heard mother say there would not be
so many crooked lives if more were
laid out by the Golden Rule"
20, if you are going to measure us
off by the Golden Rule, I'll give up"
Rob said.
Good boyl" exclaimed Maud, Civ
ing him an approving pat.
"Agnes, do you happen to know
whether this lady is wealthy" Tom
asked with twinkle in his eye.
mo, she is not, you mercenary
creature! So you needn't cherish
any hopes of having a fortune left
you. Now, are we all willing?
There's no denying that it will be
more or less of trial. 1t is not so
much the extra work; it's the having
a stranger among us to break up our
jolly times"
"And that's good deal, after being
scattered in school for a year" sighed
Sue. "But I'm willing; I'll do the
cooking for the invalid. We made
OF of dishes for the SICK at cooking
school,"
"Rob and / will relieve Maud of
that tray she breads, and we'll try to
keep quiet" Tom said, springing up.
"Come, Rob, let's have one good
game before she comes"
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---SoUIE.ERN ILLINOIS,
DELTA
OLE MISSISSIPPI

lying along and owned by the Yazoo & Missis-
sippi Railroad Company. and which that Com
pany offers at low prices and on long terms.
Special inducements and facilities offered to 20
and examine these lands both in Southern I'LL
nois and In the .'Yazoo Delta" Miss. For fur
Their description. map and any information, ad.
dress or call upon Z. p. SKENE. Land.Commis-
sioner. No. Park Row. Chicago. Ill.
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power IOr tnelr guests comfort ana
pleasure, Mays self-appointed duty
being to lay blossom by her plate
before the tray was sent up stairs.
And the boys, Maud said. behaved
beautifully. They not only carried
the tray, but frequently did what
they called "girls' work." in order to
give their sisters time for rest or
short drive. In the evenings, Miss
Munroe, contrary to their gloomy ex-
pectation, liked to have them all sing
on the verandah, insisting that she
could enjoy the music better when
she was entirely alone. So rollick-
ing college songs, interspersed with
the sweet, pensive strains of the old
songs their mother loved, rose to the
windows above, and recalled to the
listener the long ago days when she,
too, was young and gay. Sometimes
she talked of those days, and once
she told of the long years spent in
caring for her invalid father, and how
lonely she had been since his death
And when the gentle little lady could
sit out, watching their games of ten
mis-, the terms of which were pro-
found mystery to her, and had a
rather profane sound, her evident
enjoyment of their youth and good
spirits gave each of her friends an
underlined feeling that it was a good
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"Oh ELUDE will do quite well;
Now fifth and 1t is finished,
"0h." said Grace, II can teli
LEASE AGAIN. that just completes 1t,
We have made a perfect square;
made two words. you three, johnnie,
What smart puzzlers we are."
CELIA SAUN.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1895-05-18
5o2.-ENIGMArICAL NAMES.

O2.-ENIGMATICALN NAMES.
(FEMININE)
/. Did make and cord
2. Geulle and color.
8. A market and an exclamation.
A. Noise and exclamation.
s. A vowel, poor and conjunction.
6. Part of violin and a letter.
Z. To act. skin, aud a vowel.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1895-08-10

brick. and three times as much for
sandstone. This Is for warming up
of $50 degrees.
'The oscillation due to wind Is easily
understood except that everybody Is not
aware the wind acts In gusts even when
TO the ordinary observer 1t may seem
to be steady. The pressure OF wind for
every square foot OF surface that Is eX-
posed TO 1t lperpcndicularly) varies
from little more than nothing up to
some 10 pounds for the highest possible
wind velocity In this part of the world.
''rhe third kind, due to ground trem-
blings. Is the least except ut times Of
earthquake shock, but il none the less
fact. Observations with large transit
telescopes tend To sustain the theory
that any particular section OF the
earth's surface continually Is changing
In position of level, the same In princi
pie, though vastly less In extent. than
the change In level Of the surface of q
board that IL floating on u sheet OF
water the surface Of which Is ruttied
by the wind"
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1895-08-10
1Are in the Colorado Desert.

Salton had one OF the largest salt
works on the Pacific coast. All the
r,roprietOrs had to do was to scrape the
salt from the surface Of the soil ana
clean It. Few white men could do the
work. as the temperature was some
times as high as 125 degrees In the
shade and 145 degrees In the sun. Says
. man who has been there:
II man makes the least eXertiOn,
Precipitation pOurs from him like water
Yus Cross the room. ana your clothes
Will he wringing wet. yet N ten minutes
all this water has evaporated. To KEEP
yourself alive you are forced to drink
wafer by the gallon. II you have No
-sater, your tongue swclls. you sun \
.,lse torrents OF the damned. and II
wafer does not reach you In twelve Ol
fourteen hours you will perish mlsera
bly,. The Indians can stand the heat
,.nnrh longer without water. The Gus
tom Is to keep Il small pebble In thu
mouth and only take an occasiona
swallow OF water. In this way the!
rrovel forty or fifty miles day. go.n;
Jn "A dog trot. The Indians are very OK
Crayagant, and those who work M I'll,
. salt mill, though they earn good wages
never have anything. They spend nj
on canned fruit and other costly arti
clcs. rs well as on gaudy clothing fo
themselves and their squaws.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1895-08-10
A DanRerous lcc.Chcst,

The northern fishing vessels are nc.
custOmed to rely for their supply Of Ice
upon the icebergs themselves--a dun.
gerOus, II convenient. resource. An
Iceberg IL IN uncertain quantity. and
very narrow escapes are related by the
crews returned from the fisheries. The
schooner ElwOOd lately arrived from
Alaska with twenty tons Of hallbut
packed In Ice. She smiled from Seattle
northward, and went to the Muir Gla'
cIer for Ice.
A big Iceberg was encountered while
passing through Icy straits, and select
ed for service. Thirty tons Of Ice were
whitfield of the berg aud transferred
to the schooner during the day. A. the
tide fell, the berg began to roll. the
reef forming a pivot on which 1t re-
vOlved. Then suddenly the vessel listed
heavily to starbOard, and 1t was dis
covered that 1t had been anchored over
spur Of the iceberg. Night was com
Ing and the situation grew more dan
gerOls.
The crew were ordered into the boats
Resting on their oars at safe distance
all hands watched the schooner, expect
ing every moment to see 1t roll over ant
disappear. As the tide fell, q smal
peak Of Ice showed itself OH the Othel
side OF the vessel, ana 1t was fOunt
that the berg had caught and hemmet
the schooner in.
For three-quarters OF an hour thu
fate of the schooner hung In the bal
ance: then without any apparent rea
son, she plunged suddenly forward int
the sea, came right side up, and an
chored out of reach Of the foe.
The crew rOwed back to the vessel
and lost no time In getting away frOn
the rolling mountain OF Ice. At mid
night the spur which had 80 nearl,
caused the destruction of the ElwoO'
was the highest peak of the berg
which had performed complete revd
luton.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1895-08-10
Centuries Old.

'of all the quaint and curious customs
oil the House of Commons, none Is more
amusing than the strange ceremony
which marks the termination of its ey-
cry sitting. The moment the House Is
adjourned. stcntorian-voiced messen-
gers and policemen cry out In the lob
bies and corridors, "WhO goes homer
These mysterious words have sounded
every night for centuries through the
Palace Of Westminster. The perform
ance originated at time when 1t was
necessary for members to go home In
parties for common protection against
the footpads who infested the streets
OF London But, though that danger
las long since passed away, the cry of
-.Wbo goes homer" IL still heard night
after night, receiving no reply. and ex'
,,ecting none.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1895-08-10

women being thus employed. Lace.
making forms a part Of female educa.
ton since the mandate Of Charles v.
to that effect. and there are 1900 lace
schools In Brussels. The thread used
In Brussels lace IL of extraordinary
fineDess. The finest quality Is spun In
dark underground rooms. for contact
with air causes the thread to break.
A fragment Of lace in the collection
ut the Worlds Fair was worked with
the needle upon muslin. leaving few
meshes unfinished. 1t Is an heirloom
VI the Bonaparte family Of Baltimore.
Napoleon III. was a great lover NJ
luce. The hounce In the trOusseau Of
Eugenie. Empress Of the French. was
valued at $4,000 francs ana took forty
women eighteen months to complete.
The Duchess Of York II great admi.
rcr ana cOnnoisseur Of lace, using the
pillow herself. One notable piece sent
by her belonged to a descendant Of
Lord Ammo Hamilton. who was the
grandson Of Queen Anne. Another
specimen of historic interest was an
apron given by Queen Elizabeth to
Lord Fairfax: still others, gown
manufactured for Queen Adelaide. and
Princess Charlotte's christening robe.
In the year Of the great famine In
ireland. 1S47. when thousands Of chill.
dren were left orphans In the hands Of
the landed prOprietOrs. the Irish ladies
mt once bethOught themselves Of Occu.
patiOns whereby they could be made
to gain their livelihood. Lady De We're
was first to teach the mistress OF a
school ON her own estate the prt Of
lacemaking. Irish point and Carick.
macrOss. Limerick. ana HonitOn laces
are great favOrites with Queen Vie
tOria and her daughters.-N York
Churchman. -
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1895-08-10
Lace and LacemakinR.

Brussels was the favOrite lace at the
court Of the first empire, and when
Napoleon and the Empress Marie Lou
ise made their first entry into the Bel
gic capital they gave large orders for
lace of the richest point. The city gave
TO the Empress collection Of It's finest
laces, also a curtain of Brussels point
for draping the cradle OF the King Of
Rome.
Lacemaking Is great source Of ma.
tlonal wealth to Belgians, over 100000
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1895-08-10

MIR. +. J. HeAly. Of Lyon 4 Healy
has returned from his Eastern trip
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1895-08-10

other. the latter to serve Us platform.
plunge the stick into the water. as
shown in the cut.
The weight should lie heavy enough,
IN keep about three.fourths OF the stick
snn'lar water. Having done all this. get
:. 4 haif-Ounce. an ounce and a two.Ounce
weight you may borrow them from
'yOnr druggisb, and placing them. one
: n n time. upon the platform Of your
sscaic. carefully mark on the stick the
water level In each case.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1895-08-10
American Cotton Factories.

The Southern States have now near
~ one-fOurth of the cotton factories OF
the country ana the great increase Of
this industry In that section during
the last few years gives rise to the be-
lief that at no distant day the seat Of
the cotton factories will be as close as
possible to the cotton fields.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1895-08-10
MUSICAL NOTES.

August is usually u dull month with
the retail piano houses. Business has
bren at an almost standstill for some
months back. aud the dealers are pa.
ticutly awaiting the passing of the
clouds over the business horizon. Re-
ports show marked increase In sales
during the last week or two over the
corresponding period of last year.
which gives promise of the expected
boon" setting In earlier than was
anticipated. and the dealers look for
Increased sales from now on. Every
body seems happy over the prospects.
Competition Is decidedly keen, but 80
long as IL is confined to the regular
houses and our department stores are
not selling pianos the trade will pros
PER.
Stcger Il Company intend putting In
n new 13O-horse power engine In their
factory a; Columbia Heights.
Mr.. Mueller. Of Julius Bauer & Co..
il sojourning In Wisconsin.
Mr.. +. J. HeAly. Of Lyon 4 Healy
has returned from his Eastern trip.
The ChautauQua Literary and Scien
.itic Circle. of Cmutauqua. y. u. will
have no other pianos or organs In
their institute than those manufac
,ursd by the Mason X Hamlin Com
pany. During the season over twenty
pianos are I'm constant use. and the
.yrands and concert grands as well a.
she organs are In daily requisition
They have been using them over ri,
years. This is not surprising. cOnsld
ering the enviable reputation Of the
Mason 4 Hamlin pianos and organs.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1895-08-10

A CIllNNEY's sruNVS VI '"c '""e''
VIBRATION. Some Of these towers
sway more than others. but they all
sway. A man to whom a reporter put
the question said. substantially:
III such an object I'D not have that
vibratory movement It would fall.
There IL no such thing known In mathe'
matics Us rigidity. The earth Ii In con.
slant motion. I have tested that and
proved II, and so have others"
"What causes this oscillation In a
tower or monument or smOkestack|'
"rhree things--the condition Of the
earth upon which It stands, the effect
Of the heat and cold and that effect de-
ponds upon the material out Of which
the object Ii constructed. ana. third. the
wind. And then. again, the manner In
which the object IL constructed has
something to do with the movement OF
which you speak. The expansion by
heat IL about In 500 for wrought iron,
nearly the same for steel. In 500 fOt
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1895-08-10

-.some folks maintain" remarked
Bass between puts, that In the next
world we shall follow the same occu.
nations as In this" "And In this
world" said Mrs. b.. ''you are smoking
.kucessa ntly ."-BOston Transcript.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1895-08-10
no Won Know This?

Lamp chlmneys should never be
washed In cold water and should al.
ways he thoroughly dried before use;
after washing. or II new. they should
te warmed before the lamp Is lighted
10 prevent cracking.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1895-08-10

People who know all
about the subject ex.
planned It to themselves
or to others. but "there
are Others" who did not
know whether move.
ment was actually In tho
object or In their own
eyes.
Well, such objects d.
move. Take the till
chimney Of the West
Chicago street railway
power house. Of which
there Is u cut In this ex.
PLANTATION. 1t has IN o.
citation equal to about
two feet. which II indi'
Gated by the dotted
lines. The oscillation be
gins ut the center OF
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1895-08-10
TO WEIGH LETTERS.
\ BrOomstick, . Water Jar, and Few
Marks the Only Requisite.

Marks the Only Requisite.
A very good scale for weighing let.
,ers may be made by anyone without
expense. Get the handle Of a WORKOUT
broom and cut OF about Is inches Of It.
Four water into wlde.mouthed jar I'M.
Ill 1t Is nearly full. ami. having attach.
cd n weight to one end Of the stick and
hacked square Of cardboard to the
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1895-08-10

1.-TWO heads are better than one" they
say;
But It does not always work that way.
There's an instance, though. on which
there's no quarrel
Two heads are better than one In a
barrel.
Judge.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1895-08-10
TALL TOWERS SWAY TO ANorRo.

a Rigid Structure wouid Inevitably
Collapse.
Every person who has looked upward
OH tall smokestack or monument or
shot tower has been impressed with the
idea that the object had an oscillation.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1895-07-19

| took him IN when he was first chosen to
! parliament because he was Conservative
In politics. That he is a brave man in
the best sense was proved by Mr.. Bur
dett-Coutts in 1877, four years before
his marriage. when he was still Mr.
| Ashmead Bartlett The war between
Russia and Turkey was on at that time,
and the baroness, then his employer
only, raised big fund, termed the
| Turkish compassionate fund, for the re
lief of Turkish refugees As commits
sioner of this fund he ran the gantlet of
many dangers, which wound up by his
falling i'll of typhoid fever in the au-
tumn Of 1878. so greatly were his serv-
ices valued by the sultan that the Turk
ish potentate conferred the imperial Or
der of the SIedjidie upon the young
American. After his return to England
he went into the Irish relief work with
great vim and enthusiasm, and since
his marriage he has rendered all sorts
Of public services.
Though n Conservative, he is one of
the idols of the British masses, and his
wife, whose great wealth was inherited
from long line of immensely rich bank
ing ancestors, is another, for her chart
ties have been extensive almost beyond
calculation and generally of the practi-
cal sort
Burdett-Cout IS said to be of dis
tinguished appearance and pleasing man
ners, an excellent speaker, an earnest
politician and Il regular attendant at the
house, to which he was first elected in
1885. He has done some writing, has
fine stud of horses, mostly haclneys,
keeps dogs and is considered a true
sportsman - Despite the disparity as to
age between himself and his wealthy
and aged wife, he now looks almost as
old as she
The older brother of Burdett- Coutts,
Sir Ellis Ashmead- Bartlett, has been
more of a success on his own merits than
has the husband of the baroness. He has
been in parliament ever since 1885 and
has also served as a civil lord of the ad-
miralty, and it is this Office from which
he derives his title. Some four or five
years ago he was named correspondent in
q divorce suit, all the interested parties
to which, saving himself were members
of the British aristocracv. He was de
cidedly unpopular III London before that
and has been more SO since. Although
no part of his unpopularity is due PROC
ably TO his American birth. it is I'M
true that both brothers have
made themselves somewhat odious by
their persistent attempts 10 give casual
the impression that they
are English born.
Like his brother, Sir Ellis Ashmead-
Bartlett is ''true blue Conservative.