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The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1897-05-16
Science Breyities.

'It has been found by M. J. Puluj,"
says the Electrical World that SUBJ
stances which fuoresce most brightly
under the visible cathode rays give off
the greatest amount of Roentgen radi-
alton NJ. Puluj believes that Roent-
gen ether-waves originate in the bonn
bardment by negatively charged mole
cules from the cathode, and in the alb
rupt loss Of charge in these. He finds
that these Roentgen ether-waves may
cause f1uOrescence Of calcium sulphid,
but believes that invisible as we'll as
visible radiations emanate from a
screen of this substance. NJ Puluj
states that vacuum tubes of all kinds
glow when subjected to the action of
Roentgen rays.
The birth rate is decreasing not only
in European countries, but in America
also, as statistics show, says the "Medi-
cal Times In 1880 the birth rate per
200 in the United States was 3095.
while in 1890 it was only 266S, a de-
crease of APT per 1000 of population
in ten years. The decrease was great
est in Massachusetts, 1I67, next in
Virginia, 7.16 and even in New York it
crease in the birth rate is an evil after
all. Horticulturists do not believe that
tree loaded with fruit gives as fine
results as when the culture and the
strength of the tree is centered in a
smaller amount In the latter, the fruit
is larger, richer in flavor and more val
liable than in the former. SO long as
the nation is increasing year by year
in population, we need have no fear of
a near extinction, even if the families
are smaller than a half-century ago.
Parents who bring into the world more
children than they can properly care
for are by no means to be commended.
Quality is much more to be commended
than quantity"
Our German contemporary Chuck
auf mentions an instance of the igni-
ton of coal-dust by the suns rays"
says the Engineering and Mining
Journal" THE surface works Of the
Maybach Colliery, near Friederichsthal,
in the Saar District, are chiefly of iron.
On certain girders, the floating dust,
due to the tipping of coal on to the
jigging screens, became, in course of
time, deposited in a layer more than
an inch thick. On a mechanic burning
his hand-while repairing a pipe run
ming through the corrugated iron form
ing one of the south Walls-the official
inquiry showed that the layer of coal
dust had been formed along the whole
length of the wall. Although the dust
contained a proportion of pulverized
rock, the metal plates heated by the sun
had ignited it. the layer of white ash on
the top proving that 1t had burned for
a considerable period. This circum-
stance affords, in addition to fresh
proof of the remarkable ease with
which coal-dust may be brought to ig-
milton, a possible explanation of fires
| at similar surface works.
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1897-05-16

He was elected to the Chamber of
Deputies by an Athenian constituency
in 1915, and since then has been contin-
uously reelected. Since his first ap-
pearance in public life NJ. Rail- has been
conspicuous for his courage in attack
ing what he considered abuses and for
his opposition to royal extravaganza.
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1897-05-16
Like and Like

WifAZWell, I suppose the doctor
found fault with your sedentary occu-
pations.
Husband-Yes. but he recommended
another sedentary occupation
Wife-How's that?
Husband-He told me to get a wheel
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1897-05-16
She Loved Dogs.

Hell had my picture taken alons
with Nero, my big ST. Bernard. yol
know. May 1 have the pleasure O.
presenting you with a copy?
She-Oh, 1 guess so. I always did ad
,nire a handsome dog.-Fun.
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1897-05-16
Worth of Her Diamonds.

Reporter-So your diamonds We're
stolen again. How much are they
worth?
Actress-I think they are worth al
least two columns
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1897-05-16
Located.

Weyler-Whip Spain? Why, Senior,
where is your standing army?
General Lei guess you haven't
seen our New York street cars
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1897-05-16
A Good Wav.

Herdso-Did you get guide to as
cend the Matterhorn?
Ben. A. Broad-Just So Paid him Is
francs to go up and tell me how it
looked.-Figaro.
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1897-05-16

A French savant says that many
perfumes aid health by destroying dis
ease microbes. Thyme, lemon, mint,
lavender, eucalyptus and other scents
prove very useful
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1897-05-16

Two miles from Milan, Italy, is the
most remarkable echo in the world. 1t
is at the castle of Simonetta, and re-
peats the shot of pistol sixty times.
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1897-05-16
Alas, Too True I

A prophet is not honored in his own
country.
This is also the case with some
checks
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1897-05-16

country about a quarter of century
ago, the effect is stiff and ungracaful.
Two shorter ones, however, pendant
from the hair massed in the middle of
the back of the head, have the APP
pearance of escaped locks, are less set
and premeditated, and consequently
much more picturesque.
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1897-05-16

There is a decided effort just now
toward introducing curls into the Golf
fure. When it is one long ringlet hang
ing down the neck upon the shoulders,
q revival of what was popular in this
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1897-05-16

Evolution is the central thought of
modern science, which takes up into it
self all the results of astronomy and
geology and biology, and every other
science that delights the human mind. -
observes the Christian Register
Onit) of Boston. And it is this CEN
trail thought which has for the dog
matte system of theology a transform
ing energy far transcending that of any
special science. How so? Because
fixedness is fundamental to the dog
matte system, and change is funda-
mental to evolution. A religion of
doctrinal finality is for the evolu-
zionist an example of arrested devel-
opment, and arrested development is
but another name for death in life In
a world where everything is flux, theo-
logical fxedness has no permission to
exist. The results of modern science
affront the traditional dogmas at a
hundred different points. But that in
which their doom is clearest written is
the general doctrine of evolution, which
is as pervasive as the air and light. For
men fully possessed of this doctrine. or
possessed by it, dogma is frankly i'm
possible.
The hills are shadows, and they flow
FROM form TO form, and nothing stands
They melt like mists, the solid lands
Like clouds they shape themselves and go.
How not mems visions of the solemn
truth of things? There is that in the
doctrine of evolution which makes a
marching music in mems blood, and
the old camping grounds cannot re-
hai h
steps the dews away they go to meet
the sunshine of a higher dispensation
on truths upland lawn"
THE great doctrine of the resurrection
and Immortality of man is confirmed by
the scientific axiom that there can be no
waste in nature" says the New York
"Churchman" P. Ed. Nothing can be
lost or annihilated III the visible world
around us. " 1t is quite iupos-
sible to think that an exception to this
law should he found in the highest or
ganiZed being that tenants earth, T. e.. in
man. For man has something which
has never been found to exist in the
flower and the beast. He possesses a
spiritual nature. He is, according to
ligious animal. He is conscious of the
existence of God, he proposes a longing
after Immortality he has a sense OF
right and wrong, and is compelled to in
terpret the government of the universe
by the standard of justice and injustice
The possession of all these qualifications
is connoted in the term a spiritual ma
ture. Yet this spiritual nature never re-
ceives either full and perfect develop
ment or complete satisfaction in this life
1t would sometimes even seem to be in
consistent with the material comfort
and progress of a mundane existence.
1t is out of place in a creature that is
born merely to eat and drink, to trans
nit species, and then to die. To endow
an organized being with the religious in
stinct, which is constantly at war with
the animal instinct: to instil into an
ephemeral the restless and perturbing
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1897-05-16

An umbrella dealer cautions against
the double use for sun and rain of a
rain umbrella. Silk wears he says. as
long as its oil lasts, then it splits and
cracks and is gone. The sun dries out
the oil-hence its harm. A folding UNI
brella is TO be found at some of the
shops which will pack in an ordinary
fourteen-inch satchel
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1897-05-16

People should never go in the early
morning to get boots and shoes fitted.
In the latter part of the day the feet
are at their maximum size. Activity
and standing tend to enlarge the feet.
If people would remember this rule.
there would not be so many complaints
of shoes being tight when worn, which,
when fitted seemed so comfortable.
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1897-05-16

Planked shad is easy of accomplish
ment TO the housekeeper of the mo-
ment, for the housefurnishing shops
provide a hardwood plank" with wire
attachment to keep the fish in place
and the gas or coal range does the
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1897-05-16

Small hand towels can be bought
at many of the dry goods shops for
very reasonable prices in very good
quality, and are a convenience to the
housekeeper. who has many guests.
The size is 16 by "A inches, and is more
convenient for the guest who uses a
towel only once. The small size makes
q great saving in laundry work
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-04-23
Fresh and Salt Water.

A striking illustration of the differ
ent effect of fresh and salt water on
the bulls Of ships was recently af-
forded by the steamers which ply on
Loeb Lomond when undergoing their
annual overhaul. The woodwork of
the vessels, as usual, showed signs Of
active deterioration, but so well does
the fresh water of the loch preserve
both iron hulls and boilers from corro-
sion and pitting that the makers mama
upon the material of one of the vessels
built thirty years ago was found intact
and perfectly clean and sharp. The
inside of the boilers also was found
extremely free from the deleterious
sea water upon iron and steel is ex-
coating of any kind. The effect of the
actly the reverse of this, but the saline
properties of the ocean tend to improve
woodwork
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-04-23
Merit Wins.

The invention of Alabastine marked
a new era in wall coatings, and from
the standpoint Of the building owner
was most important discovery. It
has from small beginning branched
out into every country of the civilized
world. The name "kalsomine" has be-
come so offensive to property owners
that manufacturers of cheap kalso-
mine preparations are now calling
them by some other name. and at
tempting to sell on the Alabastine COM
pany's reputation.
Through extensive advertising anC
personal use, the merits of the durable
Alabastine are so thoroughly known
that the people insist on getting these
goods and will take no chance Of spoil
ing their walls for a possible saving of
at the most but few cents, Thus it
is again demonstrated that merit wins.
and that manufacturers of first-class
articles will he supported by the
people.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-04-23
Arms Of starflsb Thrown or.

There is found in the Mediterranean
and in adjacent seas a starfish which
has been noted to have when young
six arms, whilst the adults only have
five, and sometimes three of these arms
are much smaller than the others.
DR.. e. Won Marenzeller has observed
that the arms are actually thrown Off,
a not uncommon custom of echino-
derms, while the disc that remains will
often bud out fresh arms. The reason
for this Subdivision he gives as fol-
lows: "The animals are affected by a
certain parasite called Mysostoma,
which, passing in at the mouth, takes
up it's quarters in the blind extensions
of the stomach that pass into the arms.
Here it grows, and occasions such in
convenience to it's host that the latter
takes the heroic course of getting rid
of the arm in which the parasite re-
sides. At first the creature is endowed
with its full complement Of arms, and
should parasites get into them all, they
will all in turn be dispensed with and
re-grown; but most cases only five are
thus renewed, and occasionally only
three"
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-04-23
THE PROPOSED CANAL.

instructions to his engineers to study
the possibilities of maritime canal
to connect the Baltic with the Black
Sea; this canal to be constructed with
dimensions sufficient for the transit of
the largest war vessels. After thor
ough study of the various possible
roads, one has been selected as the most
practical, running, as it does, entirely
through Russian territory. On the
plan selected there are no great diff.
culties of level to be overcome, al.
though the European watershed sum-
NIT has to be crossed, but this last
takes place at one of it's lowest points.
The proposed canals entrance will
be on the Gulf of Riga, at the mouth
of the river Duna. 1t will follow the
course of this river up to point above
Dunsbourg. Then, leaving this valley,
it reaches the Berezina river by a
straight cut and passes through Bah
rouisk. This brings it into the Dnie-
per, and, following this natural decliv-
ity, it reaches the Black Sea, opening
into a magnificent roadstead below
Kerson. The total length of this colos-
sal waterway will be something like
1000 kilometres (about 1000 miles,,
and it will be eXcavated to a depth of
S1s metres about q feet. This will
allow the largest ironclads to navi-
gate 1t freely from one end to the other.
The estimated cost is put down at f100,-
100000.
Its strategic Importance does not
need demonstration. BY the selection
Of course running at a safe distance
from the frontier it places back of the
Russian forces stationed in Poland an
unassailable base of operation. Fully
protected already by a whole network
Of Notifications and railways. this
canal is intended to act as a feeder for
all the war material. AS to the con-
centration of the whole Russian fleet
in the Black Sea, this means an abso-
lutte control Of Constantinople and the
Straits.
But if this enterprise is of utmost
Importance in military point of view,
it will also prove unquestionably very
beneficial to the agricultural and indus
trial interests of the country. 1t places
vast grain producing regions in cheap
communication with Odessa, the chief
point of export, while the immense coal
fields of southern Russia will come into
easier connection with the industrial
districts of Poland. There are reasons.
too, to believe that new factories will
develop along the canal on account of
the cheapness of this new mode of
transport. If this scheme has been
adopted, there is no doubt that the Rus
sian tenacity will bring it to success.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-04-23

Every other man who gets mar
rage license wants the probate judge
to keep the matter secret. One man
recently requested that his license be
Kept dark for month. If man ex-
poets to get married in public at
leading church, he insists that the
probate judge shall not give away the
remarkable fact that he procured Ii
cense. The fact is that when man
goes to get license he is the biggest
fool on earth, and hasn't sense enough
to know how to conduct himself.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-04-23
Hunting In Burmab

Burmah, the largest province of the
Indian Empire, is beautiful and very
varied country, covered in many places
with forests which in the month of
March are bright with the many colors
and sweet with the varying scents of
thousands Of Towering trees and
shrubs. This country is traversed by
many rivers the largest of which is the
Irawadi, with course of probably
eleven hundred miles from its un-
known source among the SHOWS of
Thibet, down to the Bay of Bengal.
These rivers during the rainy season
(Which lasts for a long time) overflow
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-04-23

At the request of a number of young
women living on Nissan street in
Cleveland, O., the name of that thor
oughfare has been changed by the city
board of control to Ellandale avenue.
When the street car conductors sang
out "Kissam" it had sort of sound
which the men passengers were al
ways in danger of installing for a COM
mand if there were any pretty girls in
the car.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-04-23

their banks and spread over the plains,
the food water of the Irawadi often
flowing over the country for ten or
fifteen miles on either side to depth
Of from four to fourteen feet. The in
undated villages, however, do not suf-
fer as the natives, knowing what they
may expect during the rainy season,
are prudent enough to build their
houses on piles, and the food waters
move but slowly. But one can easily
imagine how unhealthy the flooded
country must be, with great heat
and burning sun. During the time
of the floods, all hunting operations
are carried on by the natives from
boats; these boats which are very
light, being manned according to their
size with spearmen, paddlers, and
steersmen. Hunting in this manner is
an occupation of great danger, as it Is
impossible to guess what animal may
be encountered in the flooded country,
and Burmah has a long list of wild
animals, including the elephant, rhin-
oceros, tapir, buffalo, many kinds of
deer, tigers, leopards, and bears. But
the Burmans are an excitable, impul-
sive and courageous people, and they
really seem to enjoy this sport, not
withstanding the risks they run. They
are also anxious to secure a hog or
deer; for although their staple food is
rice, which is as cheap as it is in India,
the inhabitants of Burmah eat fish or
meat daily, and in all respects live
better than the lower classes of India.
Therefore, in going out to hunt over
the flooded country, these men are in
search, not only of excitement, but of
to-morrow's dinner.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-04-23
The Prince of Armenia.
paris Letter.)

Guy de Lusignan, prince of Armenia,
Cyprus, and Jerusalem-such is the
proud historic title which has descend
ed to it's present bearer from the chiv-
alrous De Lusignan of the twelfth CEN
fury, who was the foe of Sultan Sala-
din, and the last Christian king of Ar
menia. The Prince de Lusignan of to-
day is Partisan, by adoption, and
lives up to his hereditary title by devot-
ing his fortune, as well as his personal
energies and influence, to the succor of
the oppressed Armenians. Born and
reared in Constantinople, he was ex-
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-04-23

A young man who loves to smoke a
good cigar bought 1000 extra fine CT
CARS and had them insured for their
full value, smoked them up and then
demanded his insurance, claiming that
they had been destroyed by fire. The
insurance company then had the young
man arrested for setting fire to his own
property, and the same judge ordered
that he pay fine and go to Jail for
three months.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-04-23

PEELED from the sultan's dominions
many years ago on account of this ac-
tive sympathy with his Christian COM
patriots. His home at Neuilly, in the
environs of Paris, is the headquarters
of latter-day refugees from the late
reign of terror of the Butcher of the
Bosporus." The General de Lusignan
of Napoleon's army in Egypt was the
present princes grandfather. His late
wife, the beautiful Prineesse de Luz
signan, and the mother of his two sur
viving children, was the Comtesse Ma
RE Godefroy de Goupik
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-04-23

A messenger took great pains to
break gently to a New York woman
the news that her husband was at the
point of death. "Then 1 viii go up
stairs" she said, land pray that he
may die tonight, so that 1 may collect
his life Insurance."
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-04-23

This Ia often felt in every joint and muscle of
the body by turns, by people who, experiencing
the earliest twingcs Of rheumatism, neglect to
arrest the malady, as they may easily do with
Hostetter's Stomach Btters, a professionally
authenticated remedy for the agonizing COM
plant Recollcct that rheumatism unchecked Of
ten lasts lifetime. or abruptly terminates 1t
when the malady attacks the heart The Bitters
also remedies chills and fever, dyspepsia and
liver complaint
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-04-23

1t is hard to be satisfactory TWAS
recently charged that a Pennsylvania
preacher was not social enough; it is
being charged against another preach
err that he is too social.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-04-23

A Michigan girl confessed to her
pastor that she had received attention
from several young men and that fif-
teen of them had kissed her. The
chief point of this profession seems
to be that there are two mighty lucky
young men in Michigan.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-04-23
SENT FREE TO PROVE ITS POWER.

action OF the Kid
neys. European
physicians pro
nounce it the great
est medical boon
since the discovery
of quinine, which,
like the Kava-Kava
Shrub, was first
found in use among
the natives by
Christian mission.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-04-23

the Russian strategists as n source of
great weakness that the naval forces
Of the empire should remain divided in
such way that one-half only, either
the Baltic or the Black Sea fleet, could
be available at one time. Between the
north and the south there is no way
for naval concentration, communica-
tions being blocked in the north by
climatic and in the south by political
instructions. In his dealings with his
grandmother government his Majesty
the Gear is never so warm and concili-
atory as when the Baltic is frozen. To
this actual thermometric condition may
be ascribed his recent expressed desire
for peace in the east.
There is motto in maritime affairs
that nothing can be improvised; every
thing has to be foreseen. 1t was with
a clear understanding of this truth
that the late Car, Alexander III, gave
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-04-23

There is solemn warning to the
tonsorial profession in the case of the
Kansas City barber who was recently
compelled to submit to an operation
for lumpy jaw.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-04-23

Delightful as women are, they are
all to extravaganza when it comes to
building new house, or rebuilding an
old one
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-04-23

When it comes to the morality Of onr
ancestors, none of us can crow; the
records do not show that Adam and
Eve were married.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-04-23

The excessive use of the bicycle k i'll
ed schoolmarm in Buchanan, Mich,
who might have died of dyspepsia had
she neglected to take exercise. There
is something in the old notions that
persons don't drop off before their time
comes.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-04-23

Locomotive Building in the United States.
In 1896 there were built in the United
States LIE locomotives, an increase of
"a over 1895. OF these 3O9 were for
foreign countries. South America came
first, Russia next and then Japan. In
1894 only so were exported. For 1897
Japan has already placed orders for 10
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-04-23

The st. Louis people are tioclsing in
great droves to the Moody meetings.
To feel the need of salvation is really
the first step towards it's attainment.