The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1896-02-20

farm than he turned to look at her, ana
at the sight Of her pale and agonized
face, his laughter ceased. Then. as
ready as any trained knight or gallant
gentleman of@old, Dumb Dick respond
ed to her call, and he obediently
sleaped into the middle of the road and
awaited the onrush of the TERRIFIED
horse.
It was a grotesque figure, seen
3against the pale sky, crooked and
twisted as some bad dream Of a heath-
en- god; but the only godlike quality it.
held in Daisy's eyes was that it stood
between Frank and DEATH
Nearer and nearer came the horse.
and Frank swayed more and more in
the cart, until at last he was so near
Daisy could see the terror in his eyes.
Then. with series Of awkward leaps.
Dumb Dick sprang to meet him: his
two long arms swung upwards. there
was Whirl of dust "a wild bea ting Of.
hoofs, sickening crash, and all was
still.
| Is Then came a cry: s
"Help! Daisy! Quick.!'
1t was Franks voice! Thank Cod!
he was safe.I
Daisy ran forward and found Frank
bending over the notlunless figure; OF
Dumb Dick.
sQuick, Daisy! take my hat and run
and fetch some water from the near
est ditch.' @
Daisy obeyed; and then. kneelings in
the read, Frank opened Dumb Dicks
coat and coarse shirt and thrust in his
hand. The hunchback's heart had
| ceased to beat; but when Frank with
drew his hand he drew forth white
silk scarf stained with blood. He
quickly replaced it and then ran to
meet Daisy, who was returning with
the water.
He is quite dead, poor fellow" said
he.
Then Daisy seized Franks hands
and cried:
Who was it that I saw standing
over you as you knelt beside his body.
Frank? It looked like Dumb Dick
himself, but it was straight and beau
l.tiful?' @
1T must have been your fancy, Dali
sF. There was nobody there"
And, of course. Frank must have
been right; for what had Dumb Dick
to do with straigktness or beauty, eth.
er in life or in death ALBERT e. Hoop
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Heating Railway Travellers in Eu-
a. rope.
The way in which travellers are
brought to a comfortable degree of
heat in European railway cars is from.
the feet upwards. The traveller, in
fact, has to be warmed instead of the
car. The absurdity Of the inversion
Of the common-senSe. process strikes
the American quite as much as it's
inconvenience and inefficiency, but the
natives take it as a matter OF course
that the only way to keep a man from
freezing in a railway car is to give
him foot-warmer. An English paper
complains that the antiquated and
troublesome system of warming with
water pans is still employed, especial
4 ly on local and suburban lines, while
on the other side of the channel the
French are becoming actually scientific
in their car-heating methods. 1t ap-
| pears that an innovation has been
introduced on many Of the French
lines, to the great satisfaction of the
travelling public. It has been found
that hydrated baryta, is a better re-
| tanner of heat than the acetate Of Soda,
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of railway trains and omnibuses on:
the Continent. The acetate Of soda
can be supervised and remain liquid
1 at: a lower temperature than it's fuh-
ing point, without rendering back it's
heat; but the baryta never misbehaves
in this way, and weight for weight
with the acetate of soda, it stores up
a larger quantity of heat. Its point Of
| fusion is, moreover, higher than that
of the acetate Of soda. The difference
in the power of retaining heat between
the English zhot-water pan, and the
| New, French foot-warmer is shown by
the fact that whereas a warmer con-
tanning water. cooled from 100 degrees
to 80 degrees Fair, in about six hours
the hydrated baryta pan took fifteen
hours. In other words, the baryta pan
remains hot twice the time that the
water pan does. The pan is simply
filled with the baryta once for all, and
then sealed air-tight.& 1t is heated by
plunging it i'll boiling water for d time,
and is then ready for use.
| ElectrOcutinE the Crow.
A few years ago there was a great
demand for the plunlage Of the swal-
| low, the wings and head of which il