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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-04-11

treatment everywhere The subscription Is 81 a
year ana 70 cents extra for official guide giving
name or hotels, repair shops etc, etc, where lib
eral generally 10 per cent? discounts are allowed
The membership to-day numbers 10000.
The Touring Club de France has done since
,ts foundation for the announcement OF cycling
,,, France than any one other organization The
MONEY derived from the subscription is expended In
repairing the Departmental roadways and placing
notices danger sisnals) the crest Of all danger,
cities OF France representative Is to he found who
Will always willingly give his advice to strangers
and aid them In trouble. The headquarters of the
Coy-Heron Q, at which place applica tons can be
bershp.
There are other good clubs In France, such as
the Union Velo Francais Union Velocpedque de
France, 10 Rue des Bots Enfants. Paris subscrp-
ton per annum. 81 %; the Omnium IS Rue Spen-
uni Paris. entrance fee SEA, and annual sub
scriptiOn OF t24 Another Is the Rally Neo. Rue
de Charities Porte Maillot. Neuil]y Seine; an
nual subscription 500 for gentlemen so for ladies'
To his report Consul Chancellor adds the follow
ing:
A printed notice in the journals OF March IS
makes It known that 'tho French authorities Will
not put duty on cycles that are brought into the
country for a short time. return ticket, or card
OF membership Of some touring club Will he sufi-
cicnt evidence to the customs authorities that the
cyclst Ia bona-lde tourist though II is right that
he should know that the duty chargeable can be In
sisted upon but 1t would be refunded to him on his
return"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-04-11
THE NOBLEMAN A POLICEMAN.

Washington correspondence of The Chicago
Record.
The strangest Of all the many requests that have
been made Of Mr.. Hanna since he took up his
leadership in politics. came to him yesterday.
Baron Won Muegge young German, solicited his
influence TO obtain an appointment as Deputy
roundings are agreeable, at any saiary, or any
amount Of fees that might be offered. The appli-
cant who is well vouched for and is undoubtedly
all that he pretends to be. told strange story or
the will of mis- mother wealthy but eccentric Ger
man who stipulated that no should serve ten years
as a policeman before he should come into his for
tune her idea being to teach him sell control ne-
veiop his character and convince him Of the dignity
AS 81 Is difficult TO obtain a position the police
force in Germany and he did not wish to serve
In such a humble capacity among his former and
future associates. Won Muegge came TO the United
States TO serve his time. He has been on the force
In several cities. and Is now employed as watch-
man by the Big Four railroad company In CleYc-
land. 49,
The man Is personally known to Mr. Hanna
through a rather curious episode that occurred
A few nights after the ELECTION some OF Mr.. Hanna g
friends and admirers rendered him n banquet at
the Union Club in that city. and during the dinner
two of the walters got Into trouble. in which one
of them bit off portion OF the ear or the other.
The fight was fierce that "A policeman was sent
for TO take charge of the combatants, and that
Hanna recollects seeing him AT the Union Club on
that occasion and Won Muegges description OF the
surroundings and circumstances leaves no doubt
that he there.
His term Of scrvitude expires In November next.
and the baron is anxious TO spend the remainder
OF the period IN surroundings which will be more
agreeable than those in which he has been situated
for the last nine years He thinks II he could see
a little more OF American society II would be to
hts advantage when he returns 10 Germany to enter
into his fortune He would like 10 be deputy TO
The United States Marshal OF the District OF CO.
lumbia for the next six months, and has asked
Mr. Hanna's influence TO secure that position.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-04-11

School Boards have arranged to build storm caves
at each of the schoolhouses and they have already
advertised for bids These storm caves are 70 De
~ feet long and feet wide and 63 feet deep Tney
are 10 be a little wider at the top than at tno
bottom and the sides will be made by plassteri I'M
cement on the ground, cistery Is built me TOP
will be covered with brick arch which VIII be
commenced eighteen inches below the surface sS OF
the ground and will rest on a ledge or the side.
The earth which is taken out of the excavation
will be spread over the top of the brick arch SO as
fo make a mound and soping roof that will turn
off the water. The hole will be tight so that no
rats or snakesNan get In. Experiments nave peen
made with caves that were planked up, but they
have not been a success. because they fall into do
cay and are likely to be OF no use by the tlme q
had storm comes II may be years before another
storm visits any OF these townships. and Is use
less to put in caves that are likely 10 become
worthless by the time another storm comes.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-04-11
CYCLONE CELLARS FOR SCHOOLS.

lie Near QowO correspondence of the Chicago
Chronicle.
years have caused people Of many of the country
IA Yrsston rownsSips IlymSuth County. The
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-04-11
A QUESTION OF HEADS.
THE GOVERNMENT Is NOT PARTrcuLAR-Ir WILL
TAKE 10 FENG Tsrs OR THE ONE HE LOST.

THE GOVERNMENT Is NOT PARTrcULAR-IT WILL
TAKE 10 FENG TsIs OR THE ONE HE LOST.
From The Washington Post
painful story comes from Lin Ching Chow.
China concerning the serious embarrassment OF a
public official In that district. and the result or his
efforts to extricate himself will be awaited win
great anxiety. few months ago the village OF
CHEN Chuang In the Interior or CHINA, was raideo
by brigands, who broke into several houses, con
nscated a large amount OF property and Ola mucn
other damage. The Taotai OF that district com
manded 10 Feng ISL. local Mandarin. 10 use ms
best efforts to detect and capture the gang wnlci
was done The Mandarin was then directed 10 exc,
cute the leader and bring his head 10 the Iaotai
at Lin Ching Chow a sort OF voucher mat tns
work had been properly done 10 fsng 81 Thie
Chow with the head OF the bandit IN charge or ms
yayi, or orderly, who wrapped II In cerenents OF
cloth SO that 1t might have the appearance OF an
ordinary bundle, such as the natives are accus-
toned TO carry. " -,
Arriving at a village about midway OF his jour
ney the Mandarin stopped for rest and refresh
ments. Likewise the yayi. VINO left MS punoie in
started out to call upon some friends But, alas!
when he returned he discovered as may properly
be remarked. that he had lost his head That Is a
FREQUENT misfortune In Oriental countries but II II
unusual 10 Jose a head that belongs TO another
person The town searched. every suspicious
person was arrested. but tho unhappy Mandarin
up 10 the adyices had not been able 10 recover
The TaotaL like other Chinese magistrates lacks
the sense OF humor. and he does not see anything
funny in these extraordinary circumstance on
that the Mandarin. 10 Fsns Isl has been guilty
Of gross negligence and lack Of respect and should
he punished with the severest sort of penalty. He
has given him a certain length Of time TO recover
sndouSssdy b compsi,sd 70 eGsr bis own 70 supply
TIE vacancy
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-04-11
A FITTING PUNISH ENT.

From The Arizona Republican.
ct isn't SO hard TO obey the ant-street ordi-
nanceH" said Joseph Boise. an old soldier. yester
day. IAN Old soldier or sailor never splits the
sidewalk He has learned better In military post
or on a man of wars deck. haven't spit on
pavement for years. 1t is second nature for me TO
sten 10 the gutter when have 10 spit. That makes
me think of a discipning once had for whistIing
was walking In front Of the colonies tent whis-
whistle. ! answered that had been whistIinS
M keep mo whistiins TO the fish I'll they went
roost that night The guard was changed every
when my repertoire was exhausted wh,stlcd
somathinr ertxtnaL ! got 0ftssn minutes on once
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1897-09-24
SWiftness OF Things.

Below will be found list showing
how far certain things, animate and
inanimate, will travel in a second Of
time: The snail, one-half inch; a
man walking, feet; fast runner, %
feet; a fly, "a feet; fast skater, 80 feet /;
ocean waves, 10 feet; carrier pigeon,
81 feet; swallows, 22O feet; the worst
cyclone known, $50 feet; the Kraka-
toa wave Cat the volcanic catastrophe
of Aug. q, 1898, in the Sunda islands),
$40 feet; sound in the air, 1,O95 feet ;
the surface of the globe at sea level on
the equator, 1900 feet; the moon
$3.50 feet; the sun ST miles; the earth,
Is miles; Holley's comet in the peri.
helion, 235 miles; electric current on
telegraph wires, 1900 miles; induction
current, 1l,O4O miles; electric current
in copper wire armatures, q 600 miles
light 10000; discharge of a Leyden
bottle through copper wire of one.six'
teenth inch in diameter, 278, 100 miles
This last is the greatest rapidity 80 fal
measured.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1897-09-24
He Was Real Nice.

She sailed into the telegraph Office
and raped ON the receiving clerks
window. The receiving clerk remem.
bered that she had been there about
ten minutes before as he came forward
to meet her. He wondered what sh 6
wanted this time, says the Cincinnati
Enquirer:
"Oh," she said, "let me have that
telegram I wrote just now. forgot
something very important. wanted
to underscore the words perfectly
lovely in acknowledging the receipt
of that bracelet. Will it cost any.
thing extra"
"No, ma'am," said the clerk, as he
handed her the message.
The young lady drew two heavy
lines beneath the words and said:
cts awfully good of you to let me
do that. 1t will please Charlie &C
much"
"Don't mention it," said the clerk
eff you would like, will put o few
drops of nice violet extract on the tele
gram at the same rates."
"Oh, thank you, sir. You dom,
know how much I would appreciate it
Pm going to send all my telegrams
through this Office, you are SO oblig
ing"
And the smile she gave him woull
have done anyone good to have seen
with the possible exception of Charlie
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1897-09-24
WHOLE NUMBER 1858.

compared them under the vigilant
eyes of the committeeman, but at last
the number lis was responded TO by
the exclamation Prize" and the first
rattle was over. Then followed wild
skirmish for the owner of the lucky
ticket, and when found he was carried
to the front over the heads of good
natured crowd. The holder of the
winning ticket proved to be a thrifty
young man of the settlement, who had
long sought for the hand of the eldest
daughter, Hulda, whose husband he
was now to become.
Next came the rattle for the second
daughter, a rosy-cheeked lass of twenty
two summers. This time the winning
ticket was held by one of the richest
men in the town, but, unfortunately,
he was married man with q large
family. This caused a long delay in
the proceedings, during which the
audience entered into a heated dis
cussion as to what disposition should
be made of the ticket, but it was fin
ally agreed that the lucky number
should be sold at auction then and
there. This was done, and after con-
siderable spirited bidding, Miss Min
ME, the second daughter became the
prospective bride of a middle-aged
widower, who paid $50 for the prize.
Then came the rattle for the young
est daughter, and things were pro-
crossing smoothly enough, when an
error was discovered which caused q
bitter alteration between two ticket
holders, and came near precipitating
free-for-all fight among the spec
tators. Through carelessness the win
ming number had been duplicated,
and there were two claimants for
daughter No. 3. At length a general
row was averted, however, by the
adoption OF happy suggestion. The
two claimants resorted to a game of
freeze-out" for a determination of
the matter, and for two hours they
sat at card table, surrounded by an
excited crowd of friends, manipulating
the pasteboards for bride. Slowly
the stack of chips in front of the un-
lucky player dwindled to paltry few,
and at last his opponent swept the
board. and the game was decided in
favor of yenng man named Gustav
johnson, who labors by the day on
the farm of his father.
True to their promises, the three
girls will allow themselves to be led to
the altar by the three lucky winners
and the three weddings will take
place within a month, upon which oc'
casion grand dance will be given in
the schoolhouse to all the people oi
the settlement.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1897-09-24
LAMPS AND THEIR VALUE.
Less Injurious 70 the Eyes Than
other Artificial Lights.

Your eyes suffer most by the use,
for reading or working, of Pickering
gas. The lamp-fame is steady. soft
in color and grateful to the eyes.
Formerly the clumsy student-lump
was the only really reliable one for
reading, but the lamp craze" has
evolved a multitude of new patent
burners, all of them good, and all Of
them reasonable in price. For a
couple of dollars one can buy an ex-
cellent lamp, complete with green
porcelain shade; for three or four dol
lars really handsome one may be
had. Whatever the quality, in shape
the reading lamp should be low, with
a good broad base, so that it stands
securely.
There is no one article in the
house, excepting, perhaps, good beds
that can give as much solid comfort
as lamps for reading and working by.
Every grown member of the family
should possess one. There should be
one of extra lighting power on the
children's study-table, the library and
sitting-room tables.
We all do without many things that
would add to our comfort in life, not
because we are obliged to do so, but
from lack of knowledge or thought.
1t is not wise to coddle oneself, to
search for new wants, to make new
necessities which anchor us to- oAe
place because we cannot bo comfort
able elsewhere. But personal lamp
is a sensible luxury or indulgence, and
the sooner it becomes necessity, the
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1897-09-24

LUMBER OUTPUT INCREASES. - Ac.
cording to the West Coast and Puget
Sound Lumberman's statistics, the
shipment of lumber to coast and for.
eign ports during August from twelve
leading mills OF the State shows an in.
crease of 100000 feet each. The
foreign output was 19.437,26S feet
coastwise, 17,434 .499 feet. From Ia.
coma alone the shipments were 1885,.
735 feet. During the month 1857
cars of shingles were forwarded by
rail from Washington. The lumber
traffic since January, 1897, has been
on the continual increase and a com.
parison with shipments during the
corresponding months of last year il
very favorable.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1897-09-24
A Little Silver Argument.
Review,

NCNAC"s
The goldbug press of Seattle is still
talking a good deal about wheat and
silver and the causes of their relative
value in the markets of the world and
thereby trying to confound the free
silver people who yet believe that
their respective value is about the
same only that a temporary circum-
stance places one far above the other.
We commend the following illustra-
tion to our goldbug friends: On June
9th, 1889, lumber was worth in the
city of Seattle $6 per thousand feet,
brick on the same day 81 per thous-
and. Now, within two weeks lumber
went to $12 per thousand feet but
brick went to SIS per thousand.
Would any one say that the relative
value had changed so largely in two
weeks, that while one doubled the
price, the other nearly quadrupled?
No. Then how did it happen that
lumber lost its relative value to brick?
We will tell you. Seattle on June
9th, 1889, was visited by disastrous
fire, destroying all her business inter-
ests. Immediately her people began
to rebnild. But before they could
make use of both lumber and brick,
the City Council met and made what
is called fire limit, prohibiting the
use of lumber for buildings within
that limit. What was the RESULT At
once brick went from 81 to SIS per
thousand. Lumber also increased in
price, but it could not overcome the
effect of that prohibitive ordinance in
favor of brick.
The same with wheat and silver
silver cannot overcome the extra de-
mand made for wheat by the famine
Of India and shortness OF crops in
most other countries, and although
good to have, it cannot overcome the
pangs of hunger any more than gold.
Would gold be called deprecated if it
took a $40 gold piece to get a sack oi
-four ON the Klondike next winter
when silver dollar will do the same
thing in Seattle?
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1897-09-24

confirmed in every particular the con-
clusions OF Professor Young as the re-
suit of his spectroscopic observations
twenty-seven years ago. 1t is the
irony of fate that the distinguished
astronomer who, through all these
years, has taken the strongest ground
against Professor Young's reversing
layer" and "thin solar atmosphere"
theories, should be the one who at this
time furnishes the evidence of his own
undOing and the confirmation of the
views which he had combated. Both
these distinguished astronomers have
been engaged for nearly half a century
in the study of the sun and of solar
phenomena, and much of knowledge
of the central orb of the system is
based on their joint discoveries, which
lend additional interest to the later
revelation.
There is nothing, after all, surpris-
ing in the difference of opinion en-
tertained by the best of astronomers
regarding many solar phenomena. 1t
is, comparatively speaking, a young
study. 1t was not until 1S42 that the
solar protuberances, or cloud masses
in the solar corona, were definitely
noticed and positively determined as
distinctive solar phenomena. 1t was
not until 1870 that the study of these
prOtubcrances and other phenomena
on the edges of the sun was considered
possible except during periods of total
eclipse. 1t was then that Professor
Young discovered the uses to which
the spectroscope might be devoted, and
in the employment of which he made
the discovery Of which has been forced
to wait twenty-seven years for definite
confirmation. But this revelation in
itself opens up a new field of investiga-
tion for the enterprising astronomer in
the domain of the solar disk and its
surroundings.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1897-09-24
The Glorious Redwood.

The redwood, says John Muir in
The Atlantic, is the glory of the coast
range. 1t extends along the western
slope, in a nearly continuous belt ten
miles wide, from beyond the Oregon
boundary to the south of Santa Cruz,
a distance of nearly 400 miles, and in
massive, sustained grandeur and close.
ness of growth surpasses all the other
timber woods of the world. Trees
from 10 to Is feet in diameter and 300
feet high are not uncommon, and a
few attain a height Of $50 feet, or even
400, with diameter at the base OF Is
to 20 feet or more, while the ground
beneath them is garden of fresh, ex-
uberant ferns, lilies, gaultheria, and
rhododendron.
As timber the, redwood is too good
to live. The largest sawmills ever
built are busy along its seaward bor-
der, with all the modern improve
ments," but so immense is the yield
per acre it will be long ere the supply
is exhausted. The big tree is also to
some extent being made into lumber.
Though far less abundant it is, fortu-
nately, less accessible, extending along
the western flank of the Sierra in a
partially interrupted belt about 25O
miles long, at height OF from 1900
to 5000 feet above the sea. The enor-
nous logs, too heavy to handle, are
blasted into manageable dimensions
with gunpowder. A large portion of
the best timber is thus shattered and
destroyed, and, with the huge, knotty
tops, is left in ruins for tremendous
fires that kill every tree within their
range, great and small.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1897-09-24
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