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The Winslow mail., 1897-04-17
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George w. Gable expects to sail fnr
England in few weeks He has made
arrangements to give public readings
from his works in London and the
provinces.
Dean Farrar quotes Tennyson as hav-
ing related to him the remark of far
mer who, after hearing a fire-and-brim-
stone sermon from an old style preach
er, consoled his wife by saying: Never
mind, Sally; that must be wrong. No
constitooshun couldn't stand it."
Mrs. Ernest Hart, who will be re-
membered by many Chicagoans as a
visitor to the Worlds Fair, has written
a book entitled Picturesque Burmah,
Past and Present" which she has also
illustrated. She writes in a chatty way
of the far-off country as she saw it.
A movement has been started to rec
ognize publicly Herbert Spencers SER
vices to philosophy and science, upon
the completion of his system Of syn
thetic philosophy. A committee has
been formed at the Athenaeum Club,
London, to decide on the form Of this
recognition.
Though site has been chosen for the
bust of Sir Walter Scott, there will yet
be little delay before it is finally set
up in Westminster abbey This is due
to several causes, one, though certainly
not the most important, being that the
money has not yet been fully subscrib-
ed.
Says the London Daily News: "a
new volume of the poet laureate?" One
forgets for the moment that Tennyson
is dead. Then one yawns at the recol-
lection of Mr.. Austin's name and the
announcement that his new book is to
be entitled The Conversion of Winckle-
man and Other POEMS"
There is to be published in Liverpool
early in the new year "a History of
the Liverpool Privateers and Letters of
Marque," by Conner Williams. The
greatness of the city, says the publish
er in announcing the character of the
forthcoming work, was sucked on the
twin iniquities of slave trading and
privateering, and the book is to consist
of an account of both.
In some remarks on the promised
Byron revival w. e. Henley says that
the public "has had enough of fluent
minor lyrists and hidebound Gf SUI
perior) sonneteers, and is disposed in
the natural course of things to renew
it's contact with a great English poet
who was also principal element in the
aesthetic evolution of that modern Ell-
rope which we know"
People who have seen manuscripts of
w. D. Howell's writing have been sur
prised that the work of a man who is
such a prolific writer should show SO
many changes. zone little sketch of his
that 1 happened to see," says an ad-
mirer of the author, was crossed out
and rewritten many times. And it was
a simple sketch, not a story-one that
l should have thought he would have
written at sitting without changing
word"
The Winslow mail., 1897-04-17

Some idea of the difficulties that a
progressive statesman has to combat
in land like China is revealed in the
fact that the railway which is to con-
meet Pekin with the cOaSt-700 miles
lOng-will not be permitted to enter the
capital. Tradition, religion. what not.
regards the purely Industrious as de-
grading in the sacred precincts of the
celestial city; the terminus must be put
where the serene ears of priests and
monarch shall never be disturbed by
the shrek of locomotive or the screech
of escaping steam.
The Winslow mail., 1897-04-17

New York is actually frightened over
the diminishing proportions of her eX-
port grain trade, and the trunk lines
are about to take a hand in its restora-
ton. As to it's contentious with Balti-
more and Philadelphia the West cares
but little, but the trans Mississippi
States have turned their traffic toward
New Orleans and Galveston and what
New York has lost from those grain
growing States it will never regain.
Commerce is certain to find the shortest
route to tide water, and this is the route
to the Gulf from the States which lie
west of the Missouri.
The Winslow mail., 1897-04-17
What Is a "Chtnook2"

A pioneer citizen, long a resident of
Clatsop County, objects to the warm
south wind, which takes off the snow,
being called a chinook" He insists
that the chinook is the northwest wind
which blows in the summer, and that
the name is only local, and belongs to
Clatsop County. This may have been
so when he lived there, but the use OF
the term "chinook" for the warm win
ter wind which takes the snow off the
ranges has become general throughout
the Northwest, and will doubtless re-
main general, despite all that may be
said against it. For years battle-roy-
al ragged in this region as to whether
the name of the river which flows
through this city was Willamette or
Wallamet. People insisted on calling
it Willamette, and the name so re-
mains. 1t took an act of the Legisla-
ture to put a stop to the argument
Portland Oregonian.
The Winslow mail., 1897-04-17
WINTER COSTUME.

Happy Conception in Dress for Cold
Weather Cycling.
To the enthusiastic cyclist who rides
his "silent steed" on a cold day the
question Of dress is most important
one. His rapid progress accentuates
the effect Of the low temperature on his
body, and unless he Is properly clothed
he will be very uncomfortable. The
old-timers who have ridden for years
in all sorts Of weather all agree on the
costume as pictured above as the ideal
one for cold weather. The cyclist should
wear a suit of medium weight under
clothing. Over the underclothing
The Winslow mail., 1897-04-17

Burglars are the great terror of
Nine PATHS life at Craig-y-nos Castle,
and she has had all the window shut
ters fitted with electric bells, which
start ringing at the slightest touch,
while by the same machinery gun is
fired and a number of dogs are let loose
IN the grounds, we are calmly told in
Casselrs Saturday Journal. Special
watchmen are told off every night on
''rOund'' duty. it is added.
The Winslow mail., 1897-04-17
A Snap Shot.

A little child often not only leads but
amuses by original descriptions of ordi-
nary events. Says the Pittsburg Chron-
icle:
A judges little daughter who had at
tended her fathers court for the first
time, was very much interested in the
proceedings. After her return home
she told her mother: Papa made a
speech, and several other men made
speeches, to twelve men who sat all to-
gether, and then these twelve men were
put in a dark chamber to be developed. y
The Winslow mail., 1897-04-17

their work told. The deathrate came
down slowly. 1t is to-day, at the end of
thirty years, quite % per cent. lower
than it was when the health depart
ment was organized, and New York
has been redeemed from a reproach
for which there was no excuse, for no
city in the world has such natural op-
portunities for good sanitation.
The immense stride it has taken was
measured by the mortality during the
unprecedented hot spell of last sum-
mer. 1t was never so great, as, indeed,
there never was an emergency like it
since records were kept. During the
ten days it lasted the heat craved many
more victims than the last cholera epi-
demic during it's whole season. Yet,
beyond those killed by the direct eff
fects of the sun, the mortality was sin
gularly low; the infant mortality ever
the finger that points unerringly to the
sore spots in a community, if auy there
be-was so noticeably low as to cause
a feeling almost of eXultation among
the sanitary officials. And it was
shown, by comparison with earlier hot
spells, that the population yielded more
slowly to the heat. Where it had taken
two or three days to reach the climax
of sunstroke, it now took five. The
people, better housed, better fed. and
breathing clean air in clean streets. had
acquired a power of resistance to which
the past had no parallel. The SANTA
rians had proved their case.-"Light in
Dark Places" by Jacob A. Riis, in the
Century.
The Winslow mail., 1897-04-17
Only Their Fancy.


'It is astonishing to find what queer
delusions sometimes take possession Of
people" says certain physician.
I'm the course of my practice l have
often come across persons who held
long conversations with perfectly imag
mary individuals.
81 have seen persons manifest the
greatest alarm at animals Of whose
presence and voices near them they as
sured me they were as positive as Of
my own, absolutely refusing to believe
that the creatures We're not really
there.
Zone young lady, who was frightened
by the sudden presentation to her of n
white mouse, has been troubled for
years by seeing this mouse running
about her, upon her clothing, upon any
thing she is handling, and even upon
her food; and, in consequence, she is
in a state of constant agitation, though
at times she is convinced that the ami
NAL is merely imaginary.
''She often washes her hands and
ClOlueS DeCducO 'ShO 10 sun IHAe 'HS
animal has dirtied them, and she can
not divest herself of the belief that it is
real
81 have been sometimes able to con-
vince persons that such fancied figures
were not real by asking them to push
one eyeball up little with the finger.
''This makes all real objects in their
neighborhood appear double, as anyone
can prove to himself, but it does not
double the false image.
''The young lady 1 have just men
toned derived much comfort by the
adoption of this simple device"
The Winslow mail., 1897-04-17

$10,OO0,000. If this is the case, Fair,
instead of being the richest of the bo-
nanza kings, died the poorest. Mackay
to-day is worth $40,00O,000. James L..
Flood died worth S2O,OO0,OOO O'Brien
had nearly as much to leave, while the
man who was the commanding genius
that paved the way to the gigantic
wealth these four amassed, in the end
was outclassed in the race. Should the
trust be knocked out, the direct heirs
will receive about $3,500,000 apiece.
The Winslow mail., 1897-04-17
A Plant AtOl1.

Professor Atkinson, the botanist of
Cornell University, has discovered near
Ithaca an example Of the very rare
phenomenon called "plant atoll." 1t
consists Of ring Of plants floating in
pond, with circle Of clear water with
IN the ring. The plants derive their
ncurishment from the decayed vegeta-
BILE matter that collects about their
roots, and these are gradually becom-
ing anchored to the bottom, so that in
time true ring island will be formed,
resembling the coral atolls Of the
southern oceans.
The Winslow mail., 1897-04-17
When Nebraska Was a Lake.

Extensive deposits Of ancient vol
canic ash in Southwestern Nebraska
have lately been turned to useful ac-
count as a source of pulverized pumice,
which has become an important article
of commerce. Professor Salisbury, Of
the University of Chicago, after exam
lining the localities where the ash is
found, concludes that it was deposited
in water at a time when that region of
country was covered by lake which is
supposed to have existed late in the
tertiary period, and the ash is believed
to have been borne thither by winds.
The Winslow mail., 1897-04-17

Mr. Edward Whymper, the noted
mountain climber, has carried the alp
enstock for more than thirty years, and
has scaled Chimborazo and the Matter
horn, besides hundreds of lesser peaks,
and. although he has had numberless
thrilling adventures, including fall
of GOO feet, he never fractured limb
or sustained any serious injury. He
did. however, tumble down flight of
stairs in England and fractured his
cOllar-bOne
The Winslow mail., 1897-04-17

constitution Of our institutions, the
bedrock of our civilization and liberties,
Is Christian, not pagan.-Rev. A. B..
Storms, Methodist, Detroit.
1ntellectuality.-All people in this
country are intellectual. All the edu-
Gated. They read the newspapers, and
keep posted on affairs. To be an Amer
lean Is to wear the badge of intellec-
tuality.-Dr. Mangasarian, Society of
Ethical Culture, Chicago.
Individuality.-This is an age of the
individual, and there is no danger that
the possibilities of individual express
sion will be lost. Gods purpose is that
every man shall stand absolutely on his
own individuaiity.-Rev. S. R. Fuller,
Episcopalian, Boston.
Spain.-Spain is robber. She has
appropriated to herself practically all
legislative and administrative powers
in Cuba. Her electoral laws are such
that Spaniards resident in Cuba are
always in the maj jority.-Rev r. G..
Hutchins, Presbyterian, Cleveland
Old Age.-There is something so fair
In calm old age that causes us to bend
the knee almost involuntarily and in
cline the head in respectful homage.
Age can be so beautiful. The passions
are held in check. The tempestuous
longings Of youth are stilled and Sc
renity sits upon the brow of him who
has grown old gracefully, upon whose
heart time has laid his hand gently
Rabbi David Philipson, Hebrew, Gin
cinnati.
The Turk.-The Turk is by instinct a
thief and murderer, and his path is
always marked by rapine and the she'd
ding of the blood of the innocent Cleve-
land should be praised for what he has
dared to say against the bloody work
Of the Sultan.-Bishop ]. P. Newman,
Methodist, San Jose, Cal.
Tramps.-A man willing to work and
not able to find it has right to live.
The human society that compels a
tramp to be is considered out of order.
Such a society needs prompt recon
struction. Such a society the twentieth
century will set in order.-Rev. NJ. w.
Reed, Independent, Denver.
Gambling.-The sin or crime of gam
bling has spread itself over society, and
is drawing down strong men. 1t is one
of the greatest crime breeders in the
land. There is nothing else that causes
so much crime and sin-except the one
vice of liquor.-Rev. W. A. Gardner,
Christian Church, San Francisco.
True Religion. Scorpions breed un-
der stones. So ceremonial religion Of
ten covers all manner of meanness and
vicious selfshness. True religion
means a life that is absorbed in the
person and teaching Of Jesus Chrust.
Whatever detracts from the sacred
life and mission of Christ is not Chris
tian, is no part of true religion,-Rev
DR.. Lee, Presbyterian, Cincinnati.
Heretics.-The real heretics are the
narrow bigotS who insist that no man
may have any part in the eternal sal
walton unless he swallows some creed
as impossible as Jonah was for the
whale. If 1 could excommunicate any
man it would be the man who pre-
sumes to deny ali grace to those who
live justly with mankind, but who do
not accept their clammy dogmas.-Rev.
Lyman Ward, Universalist, New York.
The Winslow mail., 1897-04-17
The Speed of Pigeons.

Experiments have shown that pigeons
are able to outstrip the fastest express
trains, although on the average they fly
at the rate of only about thirty-four
miles an hour Monsieur Rodenbach, in
France, believes they can attain We
locity exceeding seventy miles an hour.
They are said to be unable to fly long
distances in a perfect straight line; ap-
parently they are easily driven aside by
shifting air currents.
The Winslow mail., 1897-04-17

1t is all right to put ample confidence
in an employe whose life presents a
record of probity, because it encour-
ages zeal and inspires energy. But
when it takes the form of actual care
lessness the tendency is to incite rob
berry and the elimination is loss of
money On one side and of character
on the other. A duty of the employer
is to maintain at all times a keen scru-
tiny into the affairs of the firm. EN-
ployers who fulfill this obligation rarely
suffer loss from dishonest employees.
The Winslow mail., 1897-04-17
The Gold Beetle.

The most remarkable gold beetle in
the world are found in Central Amer
lea. The head and wing cases are bril-
liantly polished with luster as of gold
itself. To sight and touch they have
all the seeming of metal. Oddly enough,
another species from the same region
has the appearance of being wrought
in solid silver, freshly FURNISHED. These
gold and silver beetles have a market
value. They are worth from f5 to
flo oach
The Winslow mail., 1897-04-17

According to the San Francisco
Chronicle the children of the late Jas.
G. Fair are likely to be confronted with
the unpleasant news shortly that their
Inheritance has been heavily Overval
ued. The truth of the matter is that
the Fair estate has deprecated in value
since the death of the man who made
1t. To-day it is not worth over $15,000,-
coo. and if put under the hammer,
those conversant With the real condi-
ton of affairs say, il would not bring
$4,000, COO, ard possibly very little over
The Winslow mail., 1897-04-17
Not All BoIdnes=

Dick-Polly played a rattling good
game at poker last night. didn't she?
Dan (who lost some Of his money!
Yes, guess she did.
Dick-There's girl for you! No lack
of go about her! All boIdness and
dash!
Dan-Not all boldness. dear boy!
Polly was shy several times last night,
when she thought nobody noticed it,
New York Tribune.
The Winslow mail., 1897-04-17

heavy, closely-woven golf stockings, a
heavy, closely-woven sweater OF two,
If cold enough, and heavy cycle suit.
AS his feet, hands and ears will be
most susceptible, he should wear fur
lined gloves, or, if they are too expens-
i've, heavy woolen gloves, arctic over
shoes and close-ftting cotton skull
cap that may be pulled down over his
ears.
The Winslow mail., 1897-04-17

The high theater hat ordinance seems
to be a cruel piece of legislation any
way If lady happens to be bald, or
wears wig, or is prematurely turning
gray. there is no better way to disguise
the fact than by covering such defects
by tall hat, and the unfortunate wom-
an ought to have the right to do it. Of
course if there is no reason for wear
ing an eclipsing obstruction no thought
full woman will do so.
The Winslow mail., 1897-04-17
Fossils Found by X-Rays.

A curious application of the X-rays to
the discovery of unseen things was re-
Gently made by Monsieur Lemoine at
of France contain the fossil bones Of
birds, reptiles and mammals, and fire.
quently these are shattered in the at
tempt at removal. 1t occurred to
Monsieur Lemoine that the embedded
fossils might be photographed by the
aid Of the X-rays, since the latter pass
readily through chalk, but are largely
intercepted by the phosphates of bones.
1t is reported that his photographs clear
ly indicate the details Of the hidden
fossils.
The Winslow mail., 1897-04-17
Making Glass Resist Fire.

Attention has lately been drawn to
product called "wire- glass;" which, it is
asserted, presents an effective barrier
against fire. 1t consists simply of a
mesh-work Of wire embedded in a glass
plate. Even when licked by flames and
raised to red heat it does not fall to
pieces, and experiments have shown
that, employed in windows and sky
lights, wire-glass not only resists the
heat of fire, but also the shattering
effects of cold water poured over it
while it is yet glowing hot.
The Winslow mail., 1897-04-17

Scattered brains, poetic or other
wise, make poor janitOrs for the home;
and the high-fiown localities do less for
comfort, good living. and fair repute
than do the commonplace virtues. APP
pearances have to be studied, self-re-
spect has to be considered, punctuality
must be provided for, and the opinions
of others must be at the least respected,
If not always followed.
The Winslow mail., 1897-04-17

A real live English lord calling him
self Lord Cyril Athol has-been arrested
in Oakland, Cal, for the larceny of a
horse, buggy and harness. There is no
accounting for tastes, but if Mr. Athol
had appropriated burrO there would
be near approach to family astute-
ness and the brain power supposed to
belong to British "nobility."
The Winslow mail., 1897-04-17
Exhaustion of Natural Gas.

Recent statistics show that the supply
of natural gas in the United States fell
off one-half from 1888 to 1895. The de-
cline has been less in Ohio and Indiana
than in Pennsylvania, thu product in
the last named State being worth more
than nineteen million dollars in 1888,
and less than six million dollars in 1895.
Owing to the adoption of less wasteful
methods, the falling off has not been
so rapid since 1891, but it still amounts
to an average decline of five per cent.
every year.
The Winslow mail., 1897-04-17

Chicago, with population gathered
from nearly every portion of the globe,
is a city of many surprises and sensa-
tions, especially in the matrimonial
line. One of the recent legal cases in
that city is a suit for $500, brought by
a real estate man against a former
friend for introducing him to a widow
said to be worth $5OO,OOO, and whom
he subsequently married. The now
prosecuted husband admits that he
signed a note agreeing to pay the real
estate man $4,000 should a marriage
follow the introduction, and to show
that as lover, he was active, vigilant,
brave and successful, it may be only
necessary to add that the marriage fol-
lowed one month and five days from
the date of the introduction. The hus-
bands excuse for now refusing to pay
is that he looked upon the note as a
Joke. He did not imagine that the real
estate man was in earnest in demand
ing a brevet dowry. Moreover, he
claims that he did all the courting, and
that demanding pay for an introduction
is blackmail. The "satchen" or the
marriage broker is a recognized fea-
ture in some portions of Europe. But
in the Chicago case the parties at odds
are Americans, and cannot plead the
customs of their former home. And as
free and independent Americans, pub
lie sympathy will be with the man who
won the widow. To demand pay for
introducing couples who might possibly
marry is striking blow at the court
ship business, and may decrease the re-
ceipts of the Marriage License Bureau.
Besides, his wife advises him not to
nav
The Winslow mail., 1897-04-17

There is more heroism in the youth,
who resigns his dreams of ambition and
refuses the opportunity of distinguish
ing himself because an aged parent or
brothers and sisters need his
presence than in one who goes onward,
reaping triumph and fame at every
The Winslow mail., 1897-04-17
New York's Sanitation.

The appeal to the public conscience
told at last. With that attack in the
churt hes, which had not been without
blame, the new era began. That year
QS19) a public competition evolved the
present type of tenement far from per-
feet, but an immense improvement up
or. the wicked old barracks. The sani-
tary reformers got the upper hand. and
The Winslow mail., 1897-04-17

Prize Fighter Duffy, who died in the
ring, is said TO have 'succumbed to
overexcitement due to enlargement of
the heart" Close observers have MOTTO
ed that nothing tends to increase ones
excitement more than to pound him vio-
lently over the heart, whether it is en-
larged or not
The Winslow mail., 1897-04-17

That the gentler sex is fast becoming
emancipated is shown by the fact that
in 1896 there were in the United States
thirty-twO women woodchoppers, 141
bartenders, twenty-fOur hostlers, twen-
ty-nine sailors, four locomotive engin-
eers. twenty-three plastererS, fifty-nine
blacksmiths, and six bOilermakers.
The Winslow mail., 1897-04-17

Chicago Times-Herald: A Missouri
man has just been sentenced to the pen
itentiary for 102 years. Missouri would
get along much better if she would not
bunch her hits like that; four rascals
in the penitentiary, twenty-five years
apiece, beat one sent up for a century.
The Winslow mail., 1897-04-17

1t is not what we read but what we
remember that makes US learned. 1t is
not what we intend but what we do
that makes us useful. 1t is not few
faint wishes but a lifelong struggle
that makes us valiant.
The Winslow mail., 1897-04-17
Civilizations Work.

A man carrying an armful of fire.
wood would not ordinarily be made the
subject of comment. When, however,
the man represents a people who used
to think that such labor was degra-
dation, he is interesting from a socio-
logical point of view. A correspondent
of the New York Evening Post, writing
from Montana, tells of seeing a Chey-
enne Indian walking from the brush up
to his lodge carrying wood. By his side
was tiny girl with backload of little
twigs. A few years ago an Indian
would have been ashamed to be seen
doing what he would have called a
squaws work. To-day the tribes are
directly, and consciously, and Of neces-
sity adopting civilized ways. The little
girl at play represented the past; the
man, a promise of the future.
During slippery weather. fall easy,
if you must fall. 1t is a good rule iD
life: if you must fall, fall easy.
The Winslow mail., 1897-04-17
What 1t Means.

A primary teacher in a Wateryliet
Sunday school took for a subject, "The
Lord Ioveth a cheerful giver." She in
ouired If any one knew what it meant,
when a little 4-year-old boy said:
"Miss L, 1 know what that
means"
"Well, George Edwin, what is it?'
'It means give whole lot and don't
cry over it."-Troy Times.