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Current Humor.

Suitor-Your daughter, sir, is all the
world to he.
Father-Bumph! Young man. you want
the earth.-Phadelphia North Ameri-
can
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Main office-Siandard Building. Ana
conda. Telephone No. i.
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Daily and Sunday. one year Sl1 60
Daily and SUNDAY. six months. 500
Daily and Sunday three MONTHS $50
Daily and SUNDAY. one month. .... 100
Sunday. one year ............... 200
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George, father has failed"
~ hats just like hi.ai / told you all
along, darling, that lie vas going to do
all he could to keep us from marrying
Tit-Bits.
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"Why do you make such a row about
that umbrella YOU lost? Haven't you ever
lost an umbrella before?"
Yes but this one was mine. '-Chicagc
Record.
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Personal Information.

Verdi, the composer, is in Milan arrang-
ng church music and psalms for pubiica-
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MusTAcHE GUARD.
Queer Apparatus Made of Gold md
with Ear Hooks Like Spcctacles.

Queer Apparatus Made of Gold md
with Ear Hooks Like SpcctacIes.
81 had mighty odd experience on
my last western trip, said q New Or
leans drummer the other day. 1T was
at little town not great distance
from New Orleans and net necessary to
name, rs far ms this story is concerned.
had stopped over for the day and went
to the principal hotel to get my dinner.
While I was seated at the table tall,
solemn looking man came in and took q
chair opposite. From his general ap-
pearance judged him to lie one Of the
heavy swells of the village, and, by the
way, afterward learned that such was
the case He worea long tailed coat and
a bright hlre cravat. and had very
heavy, carefully groomed black mus
tache
"As soon as be seated himself he felt
in his vest pocket and drew cut SIN
GUAR apparatus consisting Of strip of
Gilt metal, about an inch broad and six
inches long, slightly curved and fur
nished at each end with hooks, like
pair Of Gpcctacles. While | was wonder
ing what the deuce tie machine was, he
deliberately brushed back his niustache
ard fastened the plate over his upper
lip, putting the hooks around his ears.
Then he began solemnly to eat bis diu-
ner. The effect of that extraordinary
contrivance clamped around his coun-
tenance was so strange and startling
that | couldn't take my eyes off him,
but 10 paid 20 attention to my stare and
finished his ineal i'll dignified silence.
Tie apparatus was Il mustache guard,
but where he get it and whoever con-
ceigcd such q weird idea are mysteries
too deep FEY ne. One thing was certain,
however and that Was that its owner
evidently believed it tn be an imple-
ment in use ii; the hest society. New
Orleans Times Democrat.
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in diameter The steam pressure is 1870
pounds per square inch. There is drop
front frebox, l1l3a inches long and
5O3a inches wide. and the fire CRATE
area is 30. IS square feet. There are 277
dues, III feet long, each 2 inches in
outside diameter. These flues furnish a
heating surface Of l,655.65 square feet.
the total heating surface being 1912. "a
square feet. The driving journals are 8
by 9 inches, the engine truck journals
So by 1923 inches, the tender truck
journals Az by inches, and the driv-
ing wheels 81 and 90 inches wheel GEN.
tiers.
Young Mr. Vanderbilt's locomotive
presents no radical departure from the
standard type Of motive power in use
on the New York Central. 1t simply
embodies some personal theories of Mr..
Vanderbilt of development along given
lines, and the results, Mr.. Buchanan
says, justify the theories. Mr.. Wander
bilt has some original ideas concerning
various points III the mechanical opera
ton of railroad which he is now
working on. Mr.. Depew remarked a
few days ago, Cornelius Vanderbilt,
Jr., is quite mechanical genius. !"
Since this young man turned his atten-
ton to the mechanical branch of rail-
reading he has developed two or three
ideas of practical value. One of these
ideas relates TO car ventilation and an
other to locomotive firebox.-New
York Times
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vANDERBILT's NEW ENGINE.
Cornelius Iunior Works Ont nm Idea
to Save Coal Consumption.

Cornelius Junior Works Ont nm Idea
to Save Coal Consumption.
Cornelius Vanderbilt, .Jr., who is en-
ployed as mechanical engineer in the
office of William Buchanan, superin.
tendent of motive power and rolling
stock of the New York Central railroad
system, has paternal interest in the
great new freight locomotive No. 1877.
He prepared the designs from which
this locomotive was built, and he has
recently had the satisfaction of seeing
the embodiment of his mechanical
theories successfully undergo a severe
practical test.
This engine is Of the mogul type, and
hos proved economical in fuel consump-
ton and capable of handling load 20
per cent greater than the type in use
heretofore. The weight of the locomo-
tive is la, GRO pounds, the weight on
drivers 1876, go pounds. The cylinders
are 10 by 26 inches in dimensions, and
the boiler is of the extended wagon top
type, the smallest ring being 90 inches
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Canine Chicken TnIcveH.

The cleverness of negro boys in At
lanta has been perverted to teaching
dogs to steal chickens. When this ex-
PLANTATION of the disappearance of poul-
try was made .Ly the losers, the police
were skeptical, cut all doubts vanished
when On the arrest of four suspected
boys dog with chicken in his teeth
followed the patrol wagon to the police
station. The boys confessed and explain
ed their method of operation. They
would get chicken in the old way, by
theft from the roost, and then teach a
"likely" dog to catch and fetch it, Aft
er little practice of this kind the dog
would be taken through premises where
chickens were at large and would be in
cited to attack. Soon thereafter the dog
could be depended upon to do purveying
without assistance or suggestion Two
of the trained dogs were captured by
the police and were condemned to death
as dangerous to the welfare of the COM
nrunity. ATLANTA Constitution.
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robacco ut the E1ysce.

The Partisan journalsare commenting
on the fact that President Felix Faare
was seen the other evening smoking Il
cigarette at garden party in the
Champs Elvsees 1t is said that be is
the first French president to smoke 1t
is recalled that NJ Thiers not only did
not smoke, but in appointing his mill
tary officials took care that the ord
nance officer should be captain who
was a stranger to the use of tobacco
Marshal MacMahcn used to smoke. but
be gave up the habit after passing
through severe illness, and when he
was president he was never known to
smoke. NJ Jules Grevy used to be an
inveterate smoker. but he ceased to use
the weed when he found he was losing
his memory NJ Sadi Carnot never
smoked, and his secretaries abstained-
at the Elysee at least NJ Casimir-Pe.
rier used to smoke, but only a little,
and not at all after he became president
1t is now limited that M Faure does not
only burn cigarettes in public, but loves
in private q pipe, the preserr of Rus
sian grand duke We also know that
NJ Faure can smoke cigars when pre-
sented by czar Paris Messenger
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AMERlCAai WIRE NAILS.
Urca ia ;,sn1ifcai'y Every Country
1. ,4,I L..


oa :':c= Globe.
We are furnishing TIC whol5 world
with wirena 7,cse.la them to t J
grand divisionof the globe and to every
civilized ard half civilized country
even to Germany, France, Belgium. and
Great Britain, where the iron trade is
supposed by popular failacY to be fur
ther advanced than il the United States.
We send them also to Italy, Turkey,
Holland and all the other St tes Of Eu-
rope, to all tho Centra I'd South
American states, to Asln..d Russia,
British Australasia, French Oceanica,
British and Portuguese Africa, to the
Beers and the Sudanese, to Korea and
to China, aud, strange 20 say, our lar
Gest customer is japan.
Nearly one half ot the entire export
OF wire nails from the United States
last year went to the land of the milla-
90. This is practically u now industry,
although Alex.aidor Hamil il his
report to congress az creta-. If the
treasury il 1891 with commendable
pride, called attention TO the fact that
the United States arc y. G great meas
ure able to supply themselves with
nails and spikes, which ut that time
were all made by band, and most Of
them in chimney corners. Machine
made wire nails appeared in the mar
ilet for tho first time in 1882. In 1888
they gained popularity and began to
take the place of cut nails. In 1892 the
manufacture reached total Of 471,-
G52, 600 pounds. In 1897 it jumped to
500, 72l, 500 pounds and i'll 1898 the
figure will show corresponding in
crease.
Tie export of wire nails may be said
to have commenced i'll 1888, when we
shipped l,547,0 9S pounds to foreign
countries. The popularity Of this new
product developed SO rapidly that dur
ing the fiscal year of 1898, ten yeara
later, the exports had reached %, 1884,
099 pounds. The price has been run
ming down with equal velocity. In 1888
wire nails sold for 10 cents pound; in
1898 they sell for 2 cents II pound, or
about the same price that tho manufac-
turers Of Great Britain ask for steel
rails. III Chicago in 1890 the average
price was 81 81 keg; in 1898 it Is
81. 3G.-W e. Curtis in Chicago Rec
cr1
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c.nuih.!ism liz RunsIn.

About two months ago | reproduced
in this column extracts from the letter
of Russian friend charging n Russian
community with caunibalism The ex-
tracts were extensively copied by some
of your contemp oraries, and were stated
in one instance to be untrue The con-
gress of the Russian church at kiev.
however, has had this very matter un-
der consideration during the last few
days The Bishop OF kazan admitted
that cannibaiism was rife in his do
cese. and that no means had been found
of graduating it The cannibals OF Ra-
zan Kill and eat people who have been
pursued by worldly misfortune. under
the impression that their action will
propitiatp the gods The confession OF
the bishop is a significant commentary
upon the usefulness of the Russian
church as an evaugelistic organization
-Snscpy News
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SPLENDID CAVALRY CHARGES
Frenchmcn Exhibit. Their Skin II
Three Days Maneurers.

Frenchmen Exhibit Their Skill Ia
Three Days Maneurers.
In summing up the recent French
maneuvers most OF the critics seem to
agree that the cavalry did splendid
work, and some of their charges, if at
times suggesting the impossible, were
nevertheless magnificent This was par
tioularly the case at St Pourcain,
where an extremely dashing, but abso-
lutely forlorn, charge took place right
under the eyes of the president. How
many Balaklavas the latter was re-
sponsible for during the three days
maneuvers he would be sorry to say,
but it was extraordinary what a stimu-
lating effect the presidents presence
had it was only necessary for him to
come within half mile of cavalry to
start them off charging at something,
no matter how impossible the ob]ec-
tive In this charge at st Pourcain q
whole brigade, issuing suddenly from
behind some farm buildings, whittier,
unnoticed by the opposing cavalry, 1t
had been skilfully led, swooped down
on the enemy's guns. though tho latter
were strongly supported By infantry
How, in the dust they kicked up. suo-
cessive squadrons got across road run
ming ct right angles deep bitches on
either side) without single man down
was little short of miracle, and can
only be put down to the catlike agility
displayed By the horses, why little AMI
mails of the Arab type.
A new idea of the director was to
make the cavalry charge home one
squadron passing through the other in
stead Of the conventional halt some dis
lance apart. True, they steadied up very
considerably. on nearing each other, and
the squadrons opened out, but even then
man must have often needed oil his
wits about him, and perhaps a little
luck to avoid getting into difficulty
One thing very noticeable about the
artillery was the extraordinary way the
teams were left exposed right behind
the guns, no attempt being made ap-
paEeully u Se1 Co'oi HA' We"
done here and there, but was Invariably
the case, and was the SUBJECT of much
comment, as it was expected after the
first day that the matter would receive
the attention of the umpires. 1t is i'm.
possible to explain why this should
have been so, us the teams were extraor-
dinarily fit, had not been at all over
worked and could not have needed nurs-
ing at the expense of tactical considera
tions or reality There was no attempt
at massing the guns. What chances
there were of a fine artillery duel will
be understood when it is mentioned
that 200 guns went by the president at
the review on the day in question.
Paris Messenger.
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New ZeaIand's Rabbit Export.

The expectation of rabbits from New
Zealand has assumed such dimensions
that it has quite got beyond the expert
mental stage, and has now become an
important industry One exporter is al
the present time in receipt of between
Is, 1000 and 10000 rabbits per day. and
is paying to trappers in wages between
$4,000 and $4,000 per week. He has
$4,000 traps out, giving employment to
about 500 trappers Last year his ex-
port of rabbits was about 700, 600, while
be anticipates sending away about
1900, 900 this season By this exporter
alone about eight trucks of timber are
used per week to make the boxes in
which the rabbits are frozen and export
ed, while In carriage he pays over $500
g week.
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Tnr i,crcIyn Situation.

Recent news tends to confirm Tho
theory advanced by tie New York
World the other day that England Is
arming in preparation for tie announce
ment that her occupation of Egypt is to
be made permanent y French diplo-
mat in Washington says, There is not
the slightest chance that Fashoda alone
will lead to war. He adds that III
there is to tie an issue at all it will DO
on the larger question of Egypt in gen.
sral. The situation is further compli-
Gated By the clearing for action" OF
the British warsbips in Chinese VS.
tiers, apparently to resist the rumored
purpose of Russia to seize the treaty
port OF Newchwang.
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rhe co1d production For 1897.

According to the report of the director
of the mint. just published. this coun-
try's production OF gold in 1897 in.
creased by 81, 275, 600 over that of 1896
The South African mines scored the
great increase of S13, 654 1872, and those
Of Australasia made gain of $40, 502,
249 over the previous year
The total product for 1897 was for
the United States S57, 963, 900; for
South Africa, SOS, BOG, 600 for Austria
lasia, $50, 6S4, 900 and for the whole
world s237, 504, 500, or about $50, 00O'
600 more than in the previous year and
about double the yield Of 1850 The
prospects, that the year 1898 will show
a much greater production than even
that of 1897
There are some interesting facts re-
vealed in the reports Hcvv many people
know thus % CT our states and terri
tories have gold mines: Even Vermont
and Tennessee ard Iowa and Maryland
are gold producing states 70 the extent
of $500 each
Colorado leads all the states with Q
product CT ai9.l04.2 California
comes next wits,>a record 81 $.l4.Gl8,
500 These ivn states ere tbs only ones
whose r:1dG2, is @rii.ea IL eiGh: fs
ures.-Ncu York s5c.ld
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WILL REST ABOVE GROUND.
Amesbury Mans Body VIII Be Bur-
led Ia SnrcophaGus.

Amesbury Mans Body VIII Be Bur-
led Ia SnrcophaEus.
Reuben J. Smith, an old resident Of
Amesbury, Mass, has recently had
completed at Mount Prospect cemetery
sarcophagus, or private tomb, In
which he will be inferred when dead.
The sarcophagus is located on the brow
of the hill at the extreme southeast cor
ner of the new portion of the cemetery.
a solid rock foundation was first laid.
Upon this is erected houselike tomb
Of brick, laid in cement. the walls Of
which are one foot thick. This brick
structure is incased in marble of three
inch thickness, the roof on the outside
being pitched.
The marble slabs, or panels, are in.
laid into the corner pilasters, as are sew
eral five inch marble pilasters at each
side, the latter being set into the brick
sides, so that it is impossible to pull the
marble from the brickwork without
taking the bricks with it. The joints
are all perfect, as if made from one
solid marble block and are all laid in
plaster of paris and cement. At the
front swings all inch thick steel door.
upon solid patent hinges. The dimen-
sions of the sarcophagus are 10 feet &
inches by feet inches on the outside,
and feet inches high on side walls
and feet inches to pitch of roof
The floor is of Portland cement, and
over the door appears: "1S2S-R. }.
Smith,. with place to put in the year
OF Mr. Smith death
1t is said that MIR. Smith proposes to
have himself buried in chair instead
Of the usual casket. The chair, it is un-
derstood, will he reclining one, and
his body will be placed in it and taken
to the cemetery. and the chair and the
remains placed i'll the vault. The en-
trance will then be sealed up with a
foot wall of brick. the steel door will
be locked, and the key destroyed. Mr.
Smith has always had a dread OF being
buried in the ground, and says that the
erection Of Il lnausoleum us his final
resting place Las Teen contemplated by
him for many years. Special Cor. Bos
ton Herald.
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10 purposes hiring
men for tho working
nen-of-war.

advantages of it will induce people not
primarily out for instruction in naviga-
ton to 60 OH its cruises and enjoy tho
benefits of such educational voyages rs
these will be. TO enlarge the sphere OF
the ships usefulness he contemplates
the installment of courses in astronomy,
perhaps literature and other of the
higher branches, some Of which would
appeal and be of service to the class Of
patrons whose object in taking the cruise
was other than to turn its primary ia
oilities to mercantile account
Women in Great Britain and in
America have taken up yachting on
their own account, and Captain Slocum
believes women would enjoy the oppor-
tunity to equip themselves as yacht
masters in this way In fact, just as
once Oh his voyage in the Spray he re-
fused to stop at an island he might
have made, although then IS days out
because they wouldn't have women
there, so, he says, he wouldn't have
anything to do with the scheme he has
originated if women could not be in
cluded III its benefits. New York Sun.
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83llimU G, Chesapeake + Atlantic
Railway Company.
PASSENGER DEPARTMENT.

We are now collecting matter
for our "Guide to Summer
Homes for 1899. To make-1he
book complete, I would be glad
if all ersons, who intend taking
Summer Boarding, would advise
me, giving all particulars dis
lance from wharf or station,
number Accommodated, rates, etc.
If you have a picture, J. would
be glad if you would send it to
me. I wish To make this Guide
the most complete the company
has ever issued, hence this early
start coi;tcting matter
Address T. Murdoch, q 2. a..
lii E. Baltimore ST.,
baltimore, Md.
Oct. 90, 1898
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TT7isharts Point
Tran spor tation Jo

On and after July LIST daily
trips will he made to { b nee
league from Rloomtown Station.
Hacks will leave station about
l p. m. daily, connecting with
Steamer Winnie at Wisharts
Point, arriving at Chincoteague
about 81 p. M, returning to
Wisharts Point about 6 o'clock.
Steamer Winnie will also leave
Wisharts Point for Chinco-
league daily at Z M, leaving
Chincoteague at 81 am.
Fare each way rs cents. Extra
charge for baggage
S. w. MATTHEWS,
President.
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TRAVELLING POSTOFFICE,
Mail Wage" 20 Collect and Deiive
,..o.,, 49,, :, Ty,trtx VILE ROufp

Mail Wage. 20 Collect and Deliver
Letters CA IL Thirty Mile Route.
The postci.ice department decided the
other day to make new experiment IN
the rural free delivery system which Is
in effect tie establishment of travel
ing postoflice. Some time ago resident
If Westminster, Md, wrote to the de-
partment Offering to build such post
Office. to he drawn by two horses and
TO establish a system between West.
minister and the surrounding villages,
covering distance of 80 miles, for
s1,375 year The plan was accepted
recently.
The wagon will be similar to the
postofiice wagons in use in the cities.
The postman will start from Westmio-
ster in the morning and visit number
of small towns in the vicinity, collect
ing and delivering mail en route. Any
farmer living within two miles CT the
road along which the wagon passes will
be allowed to place letter box at t::s
roadside. in which his mail can be de.
uosited by the carrier, ard from which
the carrier will take tho outgoing mail
At several small places where there Is
no postofiice number of boxes will tic
put up which will practically form an
automatic postotfice.
The inventor of tie scheme will act
as postmaster and will sell stamps,
money orders. etc., stamp letters and
assert them for the mails. While driv-
inc out in the morning. he will assert
tbs mail for delivery, and when return.
ing he will pr, rato it to be placed Oh
the rain. IIa expects to barely make
expenses. but the government will pay
lin royalty cn MI similar wagons
shcnld The srhsne tie put in general
operation x is bri;evcii that by this
r.tnmt nu.a more work can be done
t:,an Ly glt, carrier. York
Deb.
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EACH NATIONS STRENGTH.
Great Brit:,in's nnd Rusria's War
Power Contracted.
The following is the war strength Of

The following is the war strength OF
Russia and of Great Britain:
Great Britain's rayy: Battleships
61 other ships OF the lire, 81; cruisers,
1874 coast defonse, co. torpedo craft, 31S.
Great Britains army: Officers, &C
tive, 4,9lS; noncommissioned officers
and men, active, 215, 2Sl; officers and
men, reserve, III, Goa. Total, GTS, 603
Russia 5 ravy: Battleships, 20; other
ships of the line, 10; cruisers, 30; coast
defense, 27 torpedo craft, 1885,
Russia's army: Officers, active, 49,
700; noncommissioned officers and men,
active, l,lI6, S24; officers and men, re-
serve, 3,S92.76O Total, 5,OO6. ISL
Philadelphia Press.
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Kite Flying Experiments.

W. A. Eddy, Of kite flying fame. yes
terday performed experiments on Lib
erty island with Il view to ascertaininS
the effect of the immense amount of
bronze in the Liberty statue upon the
electrical condition of the surrounding
atmosphere. An electrical collector was
sent up by means of kites, and it was
found that the statue did not absorb the
electricity from the atmosphere beyond
100 feet away.-New York Tribune.