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The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-01-31
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to the old French soldier who was liv- ing year ago near AuXerre. Born in l792, he took part in the battle of Wa terloo, and was shortly afterwards dis charged from the army on the ground of ''eonsumptive tendency" He, of course, is an exception--as all centena- rians are exceptions. There is no com mon denominator for the class. In the case of the individual we may assume that certain external conditions have contributed to the longevity, But we are at once confronted by other in- stances in which the prevalence of ex- actly opposite conditions has not pre- vented lt.-St. James Gazette.
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MIDE YISIBLE.

It was Sidney Smith who said during an extremely hot streak of weather in England that he would like to take off his flesh and sit in his bones tempo rarily, or words to that effect, and now here comes a discovery by which one can peer right through the flesh of ones hands and perceive clearly the skeleton bones thereof and even see what is going on inside of wood or metal to some extent. Perhaps it may prove of immense service, when further developed, as an aid to diagnosing cor rectly bone and other diseases, and re- vealing the exact nature of the diff1- culty which calls for healing. The world moves and the art of curing diseases is constantly gaining in effect iveness, as witness the highly impor- tant discoveries in recent years by which the terrors and destructiveness of various formidable maladies are greatly abated. By means of the Ront- gen discovery many objects invisible to the naked eye are made visible. In a letter to the London Photographic News it is said: 'By the kindness of Professor Schuster of the Owens College, Man chester, have been able to examine the photographs sent to this country, and obtain some particulars of the mar velous discovery they illustrate, made by Professor Rontgen of Wurzberg. As some of your readers may be aware, these photographs demonstrate the pos sibility of photogTaphing through sub stances which are opaque to ordinary light.
 It has long been known that in ex- perimenting with electric discharges through glass tubes, which have been exhausted more or less completely of air, there is produced strong phos- phorescence of hlorescence in the glass walls of the tube. Some years ago Heriz showed that these phosphorescent emanations would permeate thin metal, | and in 1893 Dr.. Lenard described be- fore the Royal Prussian Academy of
 Sciences at Berlin an arrangement by which the rays were made to pass through plate of aluminium .003 milli-
 meters thick. This plate, while quite | opaque to ordinary light, permitted the l rays from the Geissler tube to per
 meate it, rendering the air faintly lum- 1 inous and creating a strong odor of ozone.
 Professor Rontgen's discovery is that, i in addition to this phosphorescence, an- other radiation of a hitherto unknown nature is produced, which is capable of | penetrating through all bodies, though 1 not to the same extent. Wood and hu-
 man flesh are more easily penetrated l by it than glass. and, although it's ef- 1 fects do not make themselves visible to
 the human eye, they can be recorded
 photographically.
 Thin plates of metal offer little op- position to its passage, and can be pho-
 tographed through almost as readily ae
 can a pane of glass with ordinary day. light. The first photograph which Pro-
 lessor Schuster showed me was a half | plate print on albumen paper, exhib- fting the effect of interposing a hu-
 man hand between the source of light
 and the sensitive plate.
 The outlines Of the flesh were only | faintiy defined because the flesh was
 comparatively transparent to the radia-
 tfons; the bones of the fingers were very i plainly shown, with the knuckles clear
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COURIER FRIDAY JANUARY

ter is ended she will probably he pre- senting her case in full, and taking care that the high commission gets the ben eft of 1t, however much or little it may be worth,
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Mrs. E. w. Herr of Lexington has been elected enrolling clerk of the Ken lucky Senate the first woman ever cho- sen for the place.
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The Naval Photographic Office for Washington blames the Gulf Stream for the grounding of the St. Paul, the Brit ish ship Foyle, and the narrow escape Of the Campania and other vessels,
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that the artist sets before you there is a chance for this sort of reckoning, for 1t has deep yoke of cream silk guipure that may be removed, leaving an ele.
 gant otf-shouldsr dress, with the strap about the neck declaring that the whole
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Notice.

wecaunot accept anonymous or return re- jected communications. In all cases tne name of the writer will be required, not Tor publication, but as guarantee Of good faith'
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George Frederick Watts, the celebrat- ed English artist, whose eighty-second year will be. completed in February next. is still in excellent health. and works with characteristic assiduity.
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IS or the newest. Its bodice is taken from plain pearl-gray satin, it's godet skirt from the gray satin brocaded with emerald green sprays of leaves. Bre- telles of gold embroidered satin trim the bodice, the puffed sleeves are shirred several times at the elbows and the straps at the neck are studded with small jeweled buttons. Instead of using gray satin for the bodice dark gray mirror velvet with green and pink reflections may be used, or blue velvet shot with pink and green will be. equal ly handsome. FLORETTE.
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 One of the marked features Of the dip lomatic correspondence of ten or twelve years ago, says the New York Sun, was the indifference with which Great Brit ain repeatedly brushed aside the earnest arguments of Venezuela by the simple statement that she was unable to con- cur with them. We cited, the other day for example, Minister Seijas' communi- cation, early in 1884, in which arbitra- ton of the dispute was urged, and many instances of British approval of that mode of settlement were cited. The re- ply was simply that the British govern ment thought arbitration was not ap- plicable to the present question" But a reader of correspondence extending through series of years might fail to learn why arbitration was not applica- ble. except that England did not choose to apply it. It appears now, however. that we have arrived at a point where the sic jubeo of England is not an all- sufficient argument. Before the mat
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A Portland man recently distinguish ed himself by rowing a distance of six miles in an ordinary washtub. It was just large enough to enable him to curl @zhis legs up in and sit upon a small cushion of shavings. He carried a small mirror which enabled him to see the route ahead without turning. He also carried small sail a yard square, but his main reliance was on the small ca, with which he sculled
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v Professor Lukens, of Clark Universi- ty, has contributed to pedagogical psy- chology monograph on ''The Connec- tion Between Thought and Memory" to which the president of Clark University, Dr. HalL ,writes the introduction It is descriptive and metaphysical psycholo- gy. midway between the experimental psychology of Professor Scripture of Yale and the old fashioned metaphysi- cal psychology on the Be-ness of the When.
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In Johannesburg years ago the Boer law calling for fogging for drunken ness was rigidly enforced. It caused consternation enough among the hordes of adventurers and ''buns" who focked to the country after gold, but the Boers with dogged persistence refused to alter the law and fioggings were numerous. The Boers themselves are a strictly Temperate people. One of the most fla tai things in a climate like the Trans vaal is the tendency to drink too much That, together with bad food and lack of sanitation, killed off more English men in the early days of the Rand than any privation or hard work endured by the digger and prospector of those times.
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Mrs. Yang Yu, wife of the Chinese Minister at Washington, received her guests at a recent reception with her two little children standing at her side. The children's names are Tsue and sougonray They are bright, active lit tie things and not easily abashed. Mrs
 Yang Yu has a pleasing race, and her Oriental dress is very becoming to her.
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The appointment of Sir Frederick Pollock, Oxford Professor of Jurispru- dence, to prepare the legal points of the British case in the Guiana boundary dispute, suggests that one gain has all ready been achieved in the fact that John Bull is now compelled to use such arguments and methods with Venezuela as one country ought to use in dealing with another
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The house in Quincy, Mass, in which John Quincy Adams was born, and which is to be transformed into mu- scum, is probably the only building in America outside of the White House in which two Presidents have made their homes. And, such is the irony of fate, part of the house was at one time used by an Italian tenant for a chicken coop
The Red Cloud chief., 1896-07-31
THE MAN.

\ gasoline engine of three and n half
horsepower is also fixed within the
covered carriage. Around this engine
winds n network of wires and steel
rods connecting with the mechanism in
the interior Of the a At the rear
of the carriage is an elevated seat for
the engineer. A speed OF about ten
miles an hour can be attained. AS the
mechanical man walks or trOts up II
down the street the spectacle attracts a
crowd.
Perew Is jubilant over his success,
This. without doubt, is my greatest
invention" he said. The mcrry-go-
round is moi to be compared with the
wooden man, | have spent over IA
year of hard lalor and $4,000 on this
machine, but | feel amply repaid when
| think of what a big hit 1t will make.
How am ! going to get my money
back? Well, there has been a stock
company organized and a number of
outside capitalists are interested. We
viii place the machines on exhibition
ut fairs. We can use the wooden man
in a thousand and one different ways
to carr money"
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Married on sunday In "A Thc,ter,

The large audience pres-lt in Nc
Nicker's theater, Chicago, recently was
taken by surprise when Rev. DIR.
Thomas united in marriage c. Il. At
vel and Mrs. Jennie HarkiA. After
the sermon had been delivered and the
sacred hymn closed the people were
waiting for the benediction, when the
pastor signed TO a couple who during
the service had occupied seats near the
entrance TO the private boxes. Taking
their position on the stage, DR.. Thomas
performed the marriage ceremony and
they were pronounced man and wife.
The bride and groom were congratu-
lated by friends in the audience and
walked out of the building with the
others of the congregation.
McVicker's theater is used Sunday
f%orenoons by members of the PEOPLES
church OF which DR.. Thomas Is pastor,
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CROPPED blindly about in the dark with
both pairs of spectaCles on. But 10,
there was no hat. II was raining out
side; there was no felze on their bark
and there was nothing left for the Man
| Know TO do but go home with his
head bare.
AS they were crossing the Giudecca
canal II Of the gondoliers asked, with
Il suppressed grin, Was that the sig
nor's hat?" WAS what the signor's
hat?" Why, the hat with the domol-
ished crown, which had been kicked up
and down the middle aisle, all through
the lobby and finally out into the
water. And that is how Stanley-Thorpe
got even with the Man | Know. To
this day the Man | Know has not the
most remote notion who Thorpe-Stan-
ley was.
Some persons are born that way.
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THE LOST LABEL.
A Monumental Performance of Forget
ting spoiled tho Opera for Him.

The most monumental performance
Of the Man | Know in the forgetting of
faces and names was an exhibition he
made of himself at the Maliban theater
in Venice a few years ago, says Har-
pcr's Magazine. He thought he would
like to hear an Italian opera on IN
Italian stage and he purchased, at the
little ticket office in the square of st.
Mark, places for himself and his wife.
costing 30 cents each. and admission
cards for their %goadolicrs, at the price
of a quarter Of a dollar for the two.
The opera house was crowded and 1t
was late when they sailed up to the
door. They had not been able to secure
the aisle seats they wanted and, in no
very amiable frame of mind, they were
forced to push their way to the center
of n of the front rows of stalls. After
they were settled the Man | Know dis
covered that on the other side of his
wife was one Of the Stanley brothers.
who was then a resident Of the CONT
nent, and had much TO gay TO him
finally changing seats with his COM
panion for that purpose. She asked tc
be introduced to stanley, old Stanley
how we'll she knew and how much she
liked his sister, when the curtain rose
and all conversation ceased. In the
middle of the act the Man | Know
turned suddenly to his wife and whis-
pcrcd; My dear, that mar is not Stan
ley and | have not the slightest notion
who he isl During the next intermis-
sion Stanley said rather savagely to
the Man | Know that they had mis-
taken his name, and he seemed to think
that there was no excuse for his for
getfulnces. The Man Know explained
as best he could that his eyesight was
failing; that he had to wear two pairs
of glasses and that even thus armed
he could not see straight. But, OF
course, he recognized his friend now,
and with a flash of inspiration he called
him Mr.. Thorpe. Thorpe was reintro-
duced in due and proper form and the
lady helped matters materially by in
dorsing her husbands statement as to
his growing blindness, making the Man
| Know feel as comfortable as possible
by adding that her husband was an
idiot anyway. In the middle of the next
act the husband turned to her once
more and said, MY dear, he isn't
Thorpe Without remark she left her
place. he following meekly with his
overcoat and umbrella and without so
much as another glance at Stanley
Thorpe. They sat down in some vacant
chairs at the extreme back of the audi
torium; she was too angry to speak
and he too mortified to think, but try
ing to make out in his humiliation and
confusion who Thorpe-Stanley could
really be. At the close of the perform
ance he remembered that he had left
his hat under Stanley-Thorpe's seat
and he waited until Thorpe-Stanley
disappeared before he found courage
to so for it. And it was not there. He
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All Things to Her Who Waits.

The irony of fate forms a Strong leav-
on in the story which comes rom Kan.
sas about the luck of Mrs. II. II. Leon
ard. While engaged in the task of
searching among a lot of old letters she
discovered that her brother had de-
posted in a Trenton CTenn) bank. in
1868, $4,000. Not long afterward he
was killed in the civil war. Inquiries
elected the fact that the bank was still
in existence and had sought the do
positor's heirs in vain. In this story
we have first the tragic fate of tho
man who owned the money, and then
the ill-starrcd career of Mrs. Leonard's
husband, who, having only last fall So
cured Il divorce from her to enable him
to marry another woman, was MR.
dered within two months of his second
marriage. Mrs, Leonard, since the loss
of her husband by divorce. has beon
Obliged to adopt the arduous profession
or n washerwoman. Now she alone NJ
all the parties concerned, comes ont
ahead,
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Philip Pcrcw, Of this city, is the in
vcntor of the latest novel mechanical
device. 1t is made of wood, steel and
brass, and viewed from "A rod or two
away it is almost impossible to dis
tinguish ii from flesh and blood.
The first successful appearance of
the dummy was made on the streets
of Tonawanda last Monday evening,
and since then it has walked up and
DOM the pavement nightly.
II was about a year ago that Mr..
pcrcw conceived the idea of inyenting
a wooden man lie was possessed OF
ingenuity and necessary capital to
carry out his plans. 4 shop was built
expressly for the purpose and filled
with material to be used In the con-
struCtion Of his wooden wonder. After
securing the services of NJ. $. Loucks,
a master mechanic and experienced en-
ginoer, the work was Immediately be-
gun. Perew drew the plans and
LOucks did the rest. In about six weeks
Il man was finished and ready to APP
pear before the public. 1t appeared.
but was a failure. The joints were
stilf and the legs swung backward and
forward as though they were working
on a hinge joint instead of a ball and
socket. Everybody laughed and wink
ed at his %neighbor, saying:
What did | tell you?"
But Perew was not discouraged. He
took the dummy back into the shop
and smashed it to pieces. Then he
began the work all over. His efforts
seem to have been crowned with sue
cess at last. The new man is six feet
high, very stout, wears number ten
shoes and a smart cutaway suit OF
clothes. In the shirt front a small in
candescent light glitters, having the
appearance Of an immense diamond.
The figure draws, or appears to draw,
a heavy steel carriage, in which is sta
toned an electric battery which fur
nishes light for seven incandescent
lamps including the diamond in the
shirt front.
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Things Were Going 10 Turn.

In front of a Dakota sod cabin sat a
man about 80 years old who was
ragged and forlorn and hungry-look-
ing. \ few rods away lay the dead
body of a mule and beyond that was a
wagon with a broken wheel. There was
no smoke coming out of the cabin
chimney. no fowls or livestock about
and no other human beings to be seen.
Well quericd the man as | looked
about, things look sorter lonesome,
eh?"
Indeed, they do, sir. What's been
the matter with you?"
"Billyus fever"
Where is the wife,"
Inside the house with the same
thing.
And the Children"
Out thar behind the haystack shak.
in with the ager.
Il see you've lost your mule"
Died two days ago. sir. Cant
rightly say what allied him, but he's
gone"
II suppose you are dead broke on ton
of ALP | queried.
raven got a red cent. sir, and
nuthin' but cornmeal in the house" he
replied.
We'll don't blame you for feeling
blue over the situation
Who's "A fcelin' blue?"
why, ] expect you are
Then you make a big mistake
stranger. Things did look a little blue
last week, but three days ago | had
this ere farm cut up into 1000 town
lots and arranged with a %crittnr 10
boom it, and I'm feelin' like a steer in
a corniield. Two thousand lots at 500
apiece, six railroads to cross yearc.
three big car-works a-comin'. schools.
churches. factories, parks. hotels-why,
durn my hide. but | jist sot we're cal
kerlatin' on startin' five banks and
foundin' two or three orphan asylums
with my money
Then ] can't aid you?"
"Jist a pipe o. terbackcr and a min o.
whisky, stranger, and You tell everv-
body down the DAD that ole Bill John
son has founded the town o. Golden
City and is soin' to plant gold watches
for mile posts all over the staff. Feel
in blue? WAL, / should rayther gur-
gle 10 obsarye that he has to keen hold
Of the grass to prevent his nyln' away
fur jay and eXultashun!' ,
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W.C.T.U. MATRIMONIAL sURESv.
The Girls and Mems Characters VIII
he Investigated.

lie InNcstigateu'
The ladies of the Woman's Christian
Temperance union of Portsmouth, Va,
will soon organize a unique society to
be known as the Naples Matrimonial
society. says the Philadelphia Record.
They think that the organization or
this society will be followed by the or
ganization of similar societies by the
Woman's Christian Temperance union
throughout the United states n that
they will eventually take the place OF
various matrimonial bureaus now in
operation in various cities.
In Naples girls II and over assemble
once every year in one of the churches
of that city and the unmarried men
who 50 desire so there and choose
wives. The proposed society viii
carry out a similar arrangement here,
except that the girls who desire to as
semble in a church to be thus chosen
will have 10 register with the society
three months ahead of the date, that
the society may satisfy itself that they
are girls of good moral character. The
men who are to apply at the church on
these occasions to select brides will be
required to register three months prior
to the date of choosing, that the society
may investigate their characters for
the purpose of ascertaining If they are
industrious and temperate. Only men
who have these qualities will be allow
ed to choose wives. Those who regis
ter will be Informed fifteen days in ad-
vance of their standing. Men will be
required to pay a registration fee OF 81,
but girls will be allowed to register
free.
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An English physician has discovered
that %sunburn Is produced by penetrat-
ing light rays and not by heat at all.
The face Of a victim OF sunburn Is not
only swollen. but pitted, and at the
bottom Of each pit the microscope dis"
closes n freckle, The physician who
has made this interesting discovery
claims that sunstroke can be averted
by wearing a hat and clothes of an or
inge hue, No remedy is found to be so
satisfactory as the use of pigments. \
lady who wore a blouse with red and
white stripes had red stripes imprinted
on her shoulders by the sun under
meath the white, while the skin under
the red stripes remained normal in
color.