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Evening star., 1898-04-08

Ladies very fashionable two-clasp KID
gloves. in the very newest shades With
embroidered tailor-stitch back-fcr Csc
pair. This is the identical glove which
we have sold all season for 81 So and
even though we let them go for 9Sc pair,
We try them on and guarantee their wear
Evening star., 1898-04-08
Confirmation suits

Boys fine suits-in sizes 6 to II years.
all black, blue and fancy cheviots. for
confirmation or dress wear-all wool and
with silk-sewed seams and button holes
and Italian cloth linings-$6.5O values for
$39S.
Evening star., 1898-04-08

line of ladies' neckwear-fn string
ties. bows. etc.-the newest and swell
est things for the neck which have
been Csc. and Soc. go tomorrow for 25c.
for your choice. All the novelties In neck
wear are here-those which gay New York
ars wearing.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1898-08-30
Gladstone Was Ready.

A we'll known London clergyman
tells this characteristic story OF MIR.
Gladstone: Another time some of us
younger men, growing overbold, had
the impudence to chatf Mr.. Gladstone
(rather timidly) about his devotion to
Homer. We We're all smoking. He was
'hunbly abstinent, as he put it, but he
sat in the midst of the cigars, chatting
and laughing with us. Homer?' he
said. L believe could go on at almost
any place you could start me- | was
next him. He turned to me, with his
eyes blazing, and said, Try!
II was never SO taken abaclS in all
my life. He had paid me out for my
cheek in chatting him. Ihad not looked
at Homer for 20 years-and to be put
on at moments notice and by Mr..
Gladstone! However, l pulled myself
together and by good luck remembered
two lines, which l repeated in rather
faltering tones L know! | know, sixth
book of the Iliad-somewhere about the
three hundredth line, or something like
that. Then he shut his eyes, as before,
and poured forth five or six lines of
thunderous Greek verse. Isn't that it?'
he asked. had to confess that had
no notion whether that was it or not.
But l looked it up when l got home;
that YVES it,
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1898-08-30
A Chinese Dainty.

The soles of pigeons feet was star
thing feature of a banquet given by a
millionaire of Picking, China, to CO.
terie of British merchants. A CORE
spondent writes of the feast:
"The dinner lasted for three hours.
There was no stiffness in the feast, it
being quite courteous, after you had tax
en- the birds nest soups and the shark
fms, to toy with chopsticks affect an
appetite and smoke in direct, profuse
British fashion while the attendants
stood over you waving peacock fans
"You begin with cake, with apricot
kernels and watermelon seeds washed in
salt for relish. Then came a group of
courses Ham garnished with bamboo
sprouts, smoked duck and cucumbers.
picked chicken, shrimps with leeks,
spiced sausage with celery, fish with fir
tree cones and sweet pickle After this
came peaches in honey, pomegranates,
water chestnuts, fresh thorn apples and
honey gold cake
In my list of the 20 courses notice
that we We're proffered birds nest soup,
roast duck, shark fins, mushrooms with
pigeon eggs baked white pigeons, lotus
seeds, ham IN honey, Il fat duck, perch,
tWeetmeats, the stomachs of fat fish,
pears in honey, whale sinews, soles Of
pigeon feet, lotus seed soup, sliced flag
bulbs, sailed shrimps, prune juice and
almonds with bean curd. I"
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1898-08-30
Anecdotes of "Dizzy.s

In G. w. E. Russell's "Collections
and Recollections'' are these anecdotes
of Disraeli:
The atmosphere Of court naturally
suited Lord Beaconsfeld, and he had a
quaint trick of transferring the grandi-
ose nomenclature of palaces to his own
very modest domain of Hughenden. He
called his simple drawing room the
salon; he styled his pond the lake; he
expatiated on the beauties of the terrace
walks, the 'Golden Gate'' and the
German forest. -
His style of entertaining was more
snowy than comfortable. Nothing could
excel the grandeur of his state coach
and powdered footlnan, but when the
dessert came up melting one of his
friends exclaimed:
"At last, my dear Dizzy, we have
got something hot.
And in the days when he was chan
cellor of the exchequer some critical
guest remarked of the soup that it was
apparently made with deferred stock.
When Lady Beaconsfield died, he
sent for his agent and said, 81 desire
that her ladyship's remains be borne to
the grave by the tenants of the estate. I"
Presently the agent came back, with a
troubled countenance, and said, 81 re-
greet to say there are not enough tenants
to carry cotfin.''
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1898-08-30
Anmstaetic Fror, South America.

The latest thing in this line is named
eucaine, prepared from a South Ameri-
can plant, and in its local action similar
to cocaine, but without any of the poi
sonous effects Of the latter, even though
employed i'll much larger Doses The
severest test as yet reported was the
amputation at the lower third of the
leg of man GS years old without the
use of chloroform or ether, followed by
rapid and painless healing of the stump.
As much of the eucaine was put into
two or three tablespoonfuls of water as
the water would dissolve, and with a
hypodermic syringe u few drops of the
solution We're injected under the skin.
About an inch from the center of the
injection another was made, then an-
other, until the limb was girdled by
them at the place where amputation
was intended. After waiting five min
utes to allow OF the superficial tissues
becoming insensible the needle was
thrust deeply into the muscles and in
jections made. In few minutes all
that portion of the leg, including three
or four inches above aud below the ring
of injections, was found to be destitute
of feeling, and the operation of cutting
off the limb was proceeded with exact
Tvs with chloroform. When the deep
ef t1ssues were cut into a slight smart
ing sensation was experienced few
times, but Immediately relieved by the
application of Il little more of the solu-
ton to the seat of the discomfort.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1898-08-30
sIetallizing Wood.

Still another method of metallizing
wood, one by which it becomes very
solid and resistenJ and assumes the ap-
pearance OF q true metallic mirror, is
described in the Paris Monde with much
detail. Briefly, the wood is first i'm.
mersed for three or four days, as may be
its degree of permeability, in caustic
alkaline I've, and thence passes immedi-
ately into bath of hydrosulphite of
calcium, to which is added, after "a or
36 hours, concentrated solution of sui
phur in caustic potash. The duration Of
this bath is about 4S hours, and it's tenn
perature is from 90 to 90 degrees. Fin
ally, the wood is immersed for 80 or 40
hours in a hot solution of acetate of
lead. The wood prepared in this man
ner, and after having undergone prop
er drying at moderate temperature,
acquires under burnisher of hard
wood a polished surface and exhibits a
very brilliant metallic luster-a luster
still further increased in it's attractive
ness if the surface of the wood be rub
bed thoroughly, in the first place, with
piece of lead, tin or zinc and after
ward be polished with glass or porce-
lain burnisher.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1898-08-30
Won Ills Bet.

1t is one of the proud boasts of Lord
Charles Beresford that he can ride or
drive anything. One day he may be
seen tooling a fourth hand, the next
scurrying across country on hunter or
riding a bicycle. Perhaps the most curl
GUS ride Lord Charles ever had, how
ever, was on a water cart, and thereby
hangs tale. He had wagered that he
would drive down Rotten row in broad
daylight, and, as our readers know, We
hicles are forbidden in the row. At the
appointed time the other party to the
wager, with few friends, took up a
position to see if Lord Charles would
attempt the feat. While they waited a
water cart came along, and some of the
party were literally sprinlled with none
too clean water. The victims protested
IN forcible terms, when, to their I'M
bounded establishment, the oilskins of
the driver We're pushed back, revealing
the merry features of the popular sailor.
Hand over that hundred, old fellow l'
he remarked calmly. Lord Charles had
squared the driver of the water cart
and had won his wager. -London An
SwprS
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1898-08-30
Firecrackers In China.

In China firecrackers can be purchas-
ed at cost of G2 cents for 10, 600, al
though the best quality commands twice
this price. This is but little more than
the actual cost of manufacture. The
straw paper used is of the cheapest
grade. The powder is also of cheap and
inferior quality, which probably ac-
counts for SO many "sizzers" in every
pack.
Most of the firecrackers are made by
women and children at their homes, and
rapid workers are able to earn from s
to cents per day. An expert can earn
10 cents, while II novice receives only
his board for the first four years. The
wages paid in this trade are about the
same as those paid the common laborer
Besides being unhealthy the work of
making firecrackers is more or less dan
gerous yet the hours of labor are from
a. N. to IL p. III. seven days in the
~a,aeL
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1898-08-30
an Island of Iclowers.

The scilly islands may very Justly
be termed flower islands, for Il large
part of their surface is given up to the
cultivation of flowers, and the great
majority Of their people spend their
lives in attending to the plants, from
which all the wealth of the islands is
drawn.
The inhabitants have had other occu-
pations before they settled down to
flower growing. AT one time they were
wreckers, and at a later period they
went into a more legitimate business
and devoted themselves to the raising of
early potatoes. There was money 70 be
made out of them, and the islands pros
pered until prosperity bore it's usual
fruit i'll the shape of competition. Che
Channel islanders took to growing pota-
toes, and the potato trade of the Sicily
islands was killed. Thereupon the is
landers betook themselves to flower
growing, giving the greater part of
their attention to the narcissi. In st.
Mary's alone nearly a quarter OF tho
cultivated area of the island is devoted
to flowers. = Youth S Companion.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1898-08-30
a Thrilling Scene in the Field Hospital
at Guasiuas

Ihere IS one incident of the day which
SHINES out IN my memory above all
others now rs ! lie Ia Il New Work
hospital writing. 1t occurred at the
field hospital About a dozen of us we're
lying there. "A continual chorus OF
moans rose through the tree branches
overhead. The surgeons, with hands
and barred arms dipping, and clothes
literally saturated with blood, We're
straininS every nerve to prepare the
wounded for the journey down to Sb-
ony Behind me lay Captain McCln-
took with his lower leg bones literally
ground to powder. He bore his pain as
calamity us he had led his men. and
that is saying much. | think Major
Brodle was also there. 1t was doleful
group. Amputa;ion and death stared
Its members in their gloomy faces.
Suddenly voice Started softly,
My country, It's of thee.
Sweet land of liberty,
OF thee sing
Other voices took it ~:
Land where my fathers died,
Land Of the Pilgrims pride
The quivering, quavering chorus,
punctuated 10y groans. and made spas
modic by pain, trembled up from that
little group of wounded Americans in
the midst of the Cuban solitude-the
plucblest most heartfelt song that
human being ever sang.
There was one voice that did not quite
keep up with the others. 1t was so
weak that dit! not hear IT 'unlil all the
rest had finished With the line,
Let Freedom ring .
Then hating, struggling, faint. it a.
pealed slowly,
"land-of-the-P Pilgrims -pri,lp,
Let Freedom
The last word was woeful cry. One
more son had died as died the fathers -
From "A Wounded Correspondents
Recolections ofGuasimas, . by Edward
Marshall, in the September scribner's
The Princeton union., 1898-10-27
Potato Flnnr

u - . q
One Of the manufactured vegetable
products Of Austria. an article prob-
ably altogether unknown on this side
OF the Atlantic, is potato flour. United
States Consul Mahin, at Reichenberg,
calls attention to it in one of his re-
cent reports, and says that it is used
there IN many lines Of bakery and
where we use wheat
Hour, besides being employed il cases
where corn starch, which is not known
IN Austria, a is made use Of by us. 1t is
admiralty E adapted to cake baking. as it
comes out beautifully white and light.
IIt is considerably cheaper than wheat
Hour, selling for about So SO per 100
pounds, whereas wheat flour costs
about S5. The process Of manufact,r-
ing this article is quite simple. The
potatoes are washed, put in rapidly ro-
stating machines set with teeth and
then crushed in such manner that tho.
I starch l'eeh IS separated from the cells.
which contain it. Water sweeps the
lextricated starch into vessels. where
lit settles on the bottom. Then II aoes
through a refining process, and i An
jally dried in a machine specially con
3structed for that purpose. wbat 8
~
The Princeton union., 1898-10-27
We" Gave Them Fits.

A small Canadian boy whose LOYALTY
to the British flag has got him into no
end of scrapes with patriotic American
youths of equally tender years came
up to his father shortly after the bat
tie of Manila was fought and, with q
Woebegone expression, said: "say,
father, didn't the English ever lick
any other boats without losing a
man?" The father was forced to con-
Tess they had not sWell.' said the
youngster, II guess the Americans
aren't SO bad, after all, are they?" On
the fourth of July when young America
was celebrating the naval victory at
Santiago the youthful upholder Of
Great Britain was in the midst of A
band OF ultra-patriotic boys setting off
hrecrackers and cheering with the best
OF them. Here, boy! What are YOU
cheering for?'' asked his father.
Cheering for? Oh, say, father, didn't
we give those Spaniards fts,n-hew
York Commercial Advertiser.
The Princeton union., 1898-10-27
SCI IEN N Z B { G Z OPIGS
CURRENT NOTES OF DIscov-
ERY AND INvENTIoN.
The Concentration OF Power - How
Potato Flour Is sMade-Factories with
out Chimneys-A Floating Drydock
Skill Of the Japanese.
Concentration Of power.

&
The close OF the present century Is
marked ma by a tendency in the engin-
eerlng world toward concentration
OF energy and material. "A quarter
OF century since a craft 200 feet
long was almost rarity on the great
lakes, and when the locks OF the Wei
land canal were extended 235 feet 1t
was supposed that they would fully
meet any demand to be made upon
them In the succeeding hundred years.
loday there are more large craft on
tnese e waters approaching 400 feet in
length than those of 800 feet and less,
an1u anu many exceed the greater figure
running, some of them, even up to 460
feet.
Inc same increase and concentra-
lion is also witnessed among the rail-
foaus. Heavier roadbeds and rails,
ana more capacious rolling stock, are
everywhere observed, and the locomo-
1--WE has reached a degree Of deyelop-
(. ment as regards size, weight power and
economy little dreamed of a generation
ago. Al
A very striking illustration of this
concentration Of power was afforded
recently by train hauled over the
pennsylvania railroad between Altoo-
ma and Columbia, which consisted O:
$50 cars, was nearly three-quarters Of
a mile in length and that weighed $3.50
TONS. 1t was madesup as follows: Lo-
comotlve, l18 tons; other rolling stock.
l'ols tons; freight (coal), 1893 tons.
The Princeton union., 1898-10-27
left OF the potatoes is fed to the cat
tie and swine. and is said to be also
available for sundry uses in distiller-
les, breweries and sugar factories.
A Scientific Picture Book.

~
One Of the latest Partisan scientific
toys is picture book in which the ear
as as we'll as the eye is appealed to. 1t is
Dook OF animals. and each animal ut
l'es ters Its own characteristic cry. The
Title Of the book is the ..Livre d'Images
lParllasntes = L or book Of speaking pic:
lures. M. Leroy contributes to La Ma
ture description Of this new toy.
The pictures represent the most fa-
ml1liar domestic animals and each ami
NAL speaks its own language. To
cause It to break silence, nothing is
necessary but to pull little string at
the edge Of the book.
. In the book are to be seen rooster,
a cow, a lamb, little birds in their nest,
a donkey, cuckoo, goat. On the
last page are children who are vel
coming their parents. !.
By pulling the string at the right
page, the cry Of any particular creature
Is ELECTED. The listener hears the dom
key heehaw and the rooster crow. The
growing is very well initiated. The
string is pulled again, and the lamb
.bleats, the birds twitter, the cuckoo
sings, the COW moos, or the little chill
sdren call out papa" and mamma
These interesting results are obtain
ed very simply by the aid of small bel
lows placed in a box hidden in the
book. When the string is pulled, the
salr enters the corresponding bellows,
and is thence expelled by spring.
4 The air makes its exit through a spe-
scial tube appropriate for each cry, and
at the same time the bellows meet with
certain obstacles placed on the wire.
These arrangements have been careful
ly studied with view to producing the
proper effects.
The Princeton union., 1898-10-27
OF the Atlantic liners Of the North
German Lloyd company.

OF the Atlantic liners Of the North
German Lloyd company.
The principal dimensions are.
Length over all, $40 feet; extreme
breadth, 10 feet inches; height from
bottom OF pontoon to top Of walls. 43
feet inches. The internal width is
sufficient to allow vessels up to 81 feet
beam to be docked and the depth over
the keel blocks is "a feet. The maxi
mum lifting power is about 12 900 tons.
Inc dock is what is known as the
self-docking type, that is to say, access
TO all external surfaces is possible for
painting or repairs. Longitudinally it
consists of two side walls, between
which are connected three pontoons.
the center one being 240 feet long and
the two end pontoons 1876 feet The
pumping and controlling machinery
consists of eight horizontal centrifugal
circulating pumps, placed four in each
wall OF the dock. These pumps have
large vertical shafts geared by means
OF beVel wheels and horizontal. shafts
to two sets of compound engines of
l25- horsepower each, which are placed
on a deck near the top Of the walls.
There are four engines in all and each
OF them drives two fifteen-inch centri-
fugal pumps, the whole machinery be-.
ing capable Of lifting a ship Of about
1000 tons displacement clear of the
water in about two and one-half hours.
The dock is divided into thirty eight
Wiater-tight compartments, each emp
TED or filed by separate valves. Each
engine eng ne is supplied by a large. horizont-
al mult1-tubular marine boiler which is
placed in the walls in close proximity
to it.
The Princeton union., 1898-10-27
FOR THE YOUNG LADY"

denly. Session done; charwomen In
the house; chief sucking sulphur at
Bath. Holidays to the weary, lady.
Isn't it worth firing to rest? New
food, loose clothes, primeval comforts
as in the beginning" -.
You're very glad to go?" she ask
ed.
Il could fling my cap to the stars
Petitions, bazaars, deputations, 'stitu-
ents, and all the wheels of Hansard
go pot and hang. And to be Pagan
again. Shut my eyes and dream pur-
pie wonders; that the world is brave
with smlllng flowers; and spin nv
top in the sun-just for the spinning
sake.'
He was thirty something, and creas-
ed in the face, and somewhat puckered
in the eyes, but his tongue cut at the
cords of youth and swept beyond the
reach of logic He was fitfully youth
ful-in his visiting hours-so his
friends called him "The Boy"
She bade him the cheeriest of good,
bys, smiling till the door closed Then
she fell back on the sofa, and cried as
child might-from the heart.
You see, although she married. she
had never husband.
On the morrow, then, Wynram.s in
ulster and soft shirt, gathered papers
at Victoria bookstall to while the te-
dunn of the 800 to Queenboro'. there
to join the "ram-you, damn-you'' Ger
man boat to Flushing.
He, being of a versatile turn, rolled
in quaint company-the Guardian ard
the Sporting Times. Afterward he
strobe up the platform. There were
the usual loungers- ladies who are
for every hurrying from cottage after
shells; the rush of trolleys. and all the
means and machinery for whisking
tired peoples from scots to southern
sunshine.
Wyngram tossed his pouch and pa
lpers on his cushions and settled him
self in his cap. A hand touched his
shoulder from the door.
The Princeton union., 1898-10-27
The Japanese Idea.

The Japanese are just famous for
their skillful arrangement of flowers,
by which the poorest Of blooms are
made to look their best, by being so
displayed that their full beauty can be
appreciated. Most Of these good eff
fects are produced by placing the flow
ers very sparsely in bamboo tubes, no
attempt at crowded bouquet being
ever made. The latest Importation
from Japan for the purposes of floral
decoration consists merely of long
strip of lead, which is crinkled and
crumpled up into as many folds and
f1utings as possible. These crumples
must must be so managed as not to inter-
fere at all with the firm base, which
The Princeton union., 1898-10-27

The The fan has a wheel fifty-four inches
IN n. diameter and runs at almost any
rate OF speed desired. The draught is
something prodigious and makes it
! possible posi- to employ fuel of a lower
grade than any heretofore used. In
stead y! Of the best Cumberland coal. a
mixture OF Cumberland and screenings
4 mas as been tried. The cost of operating
the ian, even with imperfect apparatus,
is something like $500 per annum. The
= smoke k stack is scarcely taller than the
roof of the building, and of less capa-
city than heretofore used for such pur~
poses.
The Princeton union., 1898-10-27
Largest Meteor Known.

AdESoSC NloC0OE hnOWQs
A meteorite, described as half the
size of St. Paul's Cathedral, London, is
said to have fallen at Port Alfred,
South Africa. It made a hole in the
ground fifty feet deep, 12O feet long and
sixty feet wide, which would make it
the largest known meteorite on record,
says the Independent. Being single
piece. apparently, it was probably solid
iron, like other meteorites known,
some of which have weighed number
OF tons, but none of this size is record
ed. And yet there is no reason to be-
lieve that multitudes very much larger
may not be travelling in the celestial
spaces; and it is only good luck that
prevents our falling in with them.
There is no inherent impossib bility that
a meteorite or little asteroid as large as
some of the multitudes that revolve be-
tween Mars and Jupiter might come
within the sphere of the earth's attrac-
ton large enough to cover an entire
State. They may be even moving in
the track of comets, although we know
perfectly well that the bulk of the ma
terial Of comets is very inconsiderable,
and the earth has more than once
passed through the tail Of a comet
without any more effect than shower
of falling stars. What the effect would
be of striking the head of comet we
do not yet know.