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The Winslow mail., 1898-05-14
why We Lost Hair.

Our condition of hairlessness has
been subject of study by DR.. Exner.
a German biologist. Our ancestors, he
holds, were totally covered with hair,
and its disappearance may be accounted
for by the fact that its absence was
regarded as beauty, preference being
given in aboriginal mates to those
having the least of it. The hairs are
modified sense organs, which have
lost all connection with the nerves.
Primitive man was probably clothed
in an irregular covering Of hair, which
varied in length, color, structure and
thickness with the functions for which
it was intended. The hair now remain,
ing was left for a definite purpose.
Certain hairs serve as organs of touch,
notably the eyelashes, and in a less
degree the eyebrows. Both selNe to
protect the eyes. In animals the hair
serves to maintain and regulate the
body heat, but in man the hair Of the
scalp alone has such purpose. =
The Winslow mail., 1898-05-14
AT A CHINESE FUNERAL.
Elaborate Feast on the Grave for the
Spirits NOurishmeDt.

The musical instruments are of such
whimsical form as nearly to defy de-
scription, though they resemble in out
line our flute and violin; and the sound
which they produce being an almost un-
heard-of sound to us, we have no Eng
lish term that will adequately express
it, says Lippincott's. Chinese music has
a sort Of softness and melancholy in it's
tones that sometimes pleases, but it is
so intolerably monotonous that if pro-
longed it becomes exceedingly irritat-
ing to the nerves. They have no semi
tones; indeed, they seem only to blow
into the instrument or twang strings at
random from the inspiration of the mo-
ment. However, it appears they have
notes, though their compositions are
not Of much scientific value. You some
times hear something like simple mel
ody, not unlike that which runs through
the chants of savages.
The closing scenes may be said to con-
sist of four acts; that of the mourners
taking separate leave Of their friend,
each apparently trying to outdo the
other in loud lamentations; that of
gathering togetherall the silk and china
and packing away the musical instru-
ments; that of the undertaken and the
son of Erin still further removing the
traces, until only d mound marks the
scene; and that of the feast spread over
the grave. And it would be an elaborate
menu that would include the substan-
tials and deiicacies calculated to nour-
ish She spirit while Il fingers about the
body awai.icG rcsurrect:cn.
The Winslow mail., 1898-05-14
WASTED INpiGNATIOM.
Diner Makes a Migtake In us
Waiter.

A Diner Makes Mistake In us
Waiter.
The man with the forid face and the
bald head grew more and more uneasy
as he sat at the restaurant table, says
the Detroit Free Press. lie tried to read
a newspaper, but every now and then
would drop it, adjust his glasses and
glare up and down the room to find the
waiter to whom he had given his or
der. At last he managed to Getain him,
at the risk of being Scalded by tho
soup he carried, and inquired:
How about that dinner I ordered?'
at will be here Immediately, sir"
was the answer. :
The guest tried to read his newspa-
per once more, but as time passed his
uneasiness increased until he was glar-
ing up and down the room as fiercely
as ever He found his waiter again
and the same conversation was re-
peated. After two or three more sim
liar attempts he arose and went over
to another waiter who was gracefully
leaning against a pillar.
Look here" said the guest, 81 want
to know something.v !.
''Yes," responded the waiter.
"What l want to know is this: Am
ever going to get any dinner, and if I
do get it, when will it be?"
The languid young man looked at
him and replied:
Excuse me. I'm afraid you have
made mistake. / am only waiter;
not prophet"
The Winslow mail., 1898-05-14
only Clean House in the world.

The perfectly antiseptic house about
which physicians and others have spec
ulated is said to have been actually
built at Yokohama by DR.. Van der Hey
den. A description of it says: "The
walls of this building are plates Of
glass set in metal fastenings and made
air tight. Near the roof there is small
opening for the outflow of air from the
living rooms, so arranged that 10 air
can enter that way. Air from outside
can get in only through tube, whose
opening is at some distance from the
house. The air that enters is filtered
first through cotton batting and then
is sterilized by passing through glycer-
in
The Winslow mail., 1898-05-14
NO JAPANESE RECIPROCITY.
They VIII Discover Our Secrets But
we Can't Theirs.

we can't IhcfrS.
There is not word to be said against
a policy that affords educational facil-
tiles to all, regardless Of nationality,
religion or race, says Arthur's Mag
azine. BUT the Japanese enter our fac
tories and workshops. and when they
hnye mastered the secrets return to
their native shores and found factories
to compete with our own. All honor
and praise to those little Japs who will
contentedIy bear exile and dissimu.ate
the Unborn contempt in which they hold
US, that they may contribute to the
prosperity of their beloved Dai Nippon,
But what would be said of our manu-
facturers, who, while zealously guard
ing the secrets of their inventions from
their competitors by patents, expose
these results of their ingenuity to spies
whom no sense of honor or gratitude
will deter from using them to their own
advantage.
There is no reciprocity to be had from
a japanese. Let any American, even
though armed with letters of introduce
tion from the secretary of state, CT
even from the chief executive himself,
proceed to Japan and attempt to dis
cover the secrets of their lacquer or any
other industry peculiar to Japan. lie
would uniformly meet with a decided
if courteous "del1imasen; it can't be
done. No, the Japanese are only and
perfectly willing to profit by our good
nature, which, in their eyes, is moth
ing but stupendous folly.
The Winslow mail., 1898-05-14
ABOUT ire Rim S.
Correctness of the Theory That They
Denote Age Proved.

denote age RfOVe0.
Although forestry experts in Eu-
rope Tor more than century have held
the theory Of determining the age of a
tree by the ring markings to be abso-
lately reliable. many attempts have
been made in this country to disprove
it. To give its official support to the
theory the forestry division of the de-
partment Of agriculture has just is
sued pamphlet on ''The Annual Ring"
These yearly rings, in addition to be-
ing sufficiently well defined to be read
lily counted, are alternately bands of
lighter and darker colors, the former
being the spring wood" as it is known
to forestry experts, while the latter is
the summer wood" The rings in a
tree grown in park or under general
ly favorable conditions are in marked
contrast to those in trees which were
hampered when young-so marked, in
deed as to readily be noticed. In width
the rings vary from one-eighth inch to
three-eighths inch in hardwoods to
from one-twentieth inch to one-eighth
inch in conifers.
In the determination of the age of q
tree or of particular section it is de
sirable to make a clean. smooth cut;
and in trees like poplar and willow, and
even in birch, it is most convenient to
cut out the particular cross section and
allow it to dry before the counting is
attempted. In many woods, if of thrifty
growth, clean saw cut is sufficient and
the aid of the knife may be dispensed
with. Generally magnifyiIg glass of
some kind is helpful and in meny cases
indispensable, while with extraor-
dinary specimens even compound mi
croscope will be needed.
The Winslow mail., 1898-05-14
EARLY FRENCH EXPLORERS.
The Work of Cartier, Chnmplnin and
Others in the Great Lakes.

Jacques Cartier, who shipped from
st. Malo in 1884, explored the coast of
newfoundland and made the circuit
of the Gulf of st. Lawrence; and he
did much else, too, for New France, in
opening up negotiations with the many
tribes Of Indians who thronged thou
sands strong, and friendly, from all the
regions in and about Quebec and Mon
treal and Ottawa and Kingston. An
other mariner of st. Malo-Francis
Greve-began the colonization of the
land. About 1870, in France, Samuel
de Champlain was born; and when he
reached the age of early manhood, he,
too, joined in the new-world cxplora-
tion in the region above the great lakes.
The kings of France were much inter-
.ested in the new land, and did all in
their power not only to explore the re-
gion, but to colonize and develop it.
Champlain, in 1915, made an expedition
up the Ottawa river, and penetrated as
far as into Georgian bay, thus touching
the waters of Lake Huron,
In 1918 Etienne Brule, an old inter
prefer, came into Champlain's camp
with the news OF the discovery of Lake
Superior. Lake Erie, with Ontario, was
probably discovered some time earlier
than this. Nicollet, in 1854, started in
q canoe from the head of Georgian
bay, skirted the eastern and northern
shores of Huron, and at last found him
self at Sault Ste. Marie, or the Falls
of ST. Mary, now shortened to 500"
the first white man. it is believed, to
reach this key to the noble lake be-
yond. He went as far as Green bay on
Lake Michigan; and so the Various
r lakes at last came into the actual lznowl-
edge of the explorers, and were no
longer myths. --. <f
But as these French explorers con-
tinued to develop new and hitherto un-
dreamed-of possibilities of empires, the
English began to take deep interest in
the region-an interest little less
marked than that they were taking in
their schemes of colonization in Vir-
ginia and Massachusetts,. Again and
again through the years that follow,
the threads cross and recross, not
weaving a beautiful garment of har-
mony, but tangling in q wretched snarl,
a patchwork of disputes between the
nations.
ENHANCEMENT followed .entangle-
ment, wars harassed the land, until at
last the English were masters of the
northern lake region for all time-un-
less some day we shall see the. stars
and stripes floating from the heights of
Ouebec.-W. S. Harwood, in ST. Mich
nloC
The Winslow mail., 1898-05-14
The Trolley Cars Uses.

The trolley car has been utilized for
all sorts of local, announcements, with
excellent results, especially in small
communities. doing in its way much
Of the work that the old bell crier was
supposed to exist for, says the Pitts
burgh Dispatch. On rainy days a viii
iage car viii often save the school chill
dren useless tramp by carrying a
placard with the inscription on, No
School To-Day" and in some places the
local weather. bureau now notifies the
road of prospective meteorological
changes, and the cars, as they go out
of the car barn mount the appropriate
signal in the shape of a flag flying be-
tween the trolley pcle and the ear. Peo-
pie can thus tell by glance at the pass
ing car whether to carry an umbrella
or not, and what sort of an overcoat
70 put on, ----
The Winslow mail., 1898-05-14
An Easy-Going Chinese Prince.

The famous German traveller, Otto
Ehlers, tells about singular Chinese
-potentate whom he visited in Laos
States, while on his way from Siam to
Tenquin. The prince leaves the cares
of affairs chiefly to his wife. He has
had his throne placed in the palace
kitchen so that he can receive visitors
and watch the preparation of his meals
at the same time. The subjects seem
to be content with his manner of adj
ministration, and admire the demo-
cratic spirit manifested in his choice
of throne room. The dynasty, how
ever, promises to become extinct, as
the princes son and heir is confirmed
drunkard and at last reports unraar-
ried
The Winslow mail., 1898-05-14
NEW FAD FOR RICH WOMEN.
Wearing Diamonds on the Finger
Nails Ia Now the Thing.

Millionaire women have a new ec-
ccntricity which they are quite sure
they can reserve for their own exclu-
sive use, says the Detroit Free Press.
The initiating multitudes will be de-
barred from the sincerest form of fiat
terry by their lack Of ducats. They will,
therefore, be compelled to remain ia
the background to covet and admire.
The new millionaire fad is to wear
diamonds on the finger nails. This is
so very simply accomplished that one
wonders why millionaires have never
thought of it before. When one con-
siders how very easy matter it is
10 attach diamonds to the ends of ones
fingers, it becomes matter of painful
regret that finger nails have remained
unornamented so many thousand years.
The new fashion, which has nll the
glory and prestige of an invention
along more scientific lines, DEGREES that
the women with bank accounts long
enough to permit of this costly trifling
shall have tiny gold cap made for
each of their fingers. From the cap is
suspended on the outer side q big dia-
mond drop, which sparkles most satis-
factorily, there being one large sparkle
for each finger nail. Of course, the
sparkles are not so conspicuous as they
would be if large number of rings
were not worn at the same time, but
society is hardly yet ready for the great
sacrifice which the laying off of rings
would entail. Some day, perhaps, the
finger nail adornments may be allowed
to shine in undiminished glory.
The Winslow mail., 1898-05-14
ISAAC BELLS GENEROSITY.
How He Fed the Messenger Boys fu
Broad Street.


The late Isaac Bells popularity with
all sorts and conditions CT men and
women was large. In social, political
and financial circles he was esteemed,
and respected by all, but he was beloved
by men in the humber walks Of life.
lie dislikedI publicity in his chnrities,
but many stories could be told of his
generosity, says the New York Com
mcrcial Advertiser. He had a heart
as big as the side of a house, God bless
him!' said an elevator man in one Of
the big Wall street buildings, when be
heard of Mr.. Bells death. He then
told a few stories of Mr.. Bells kind
ness to more than one poor man. Years
ego Mr.. Bells popularity among the
brokers boys and district messengers
in Wall street was assured. 1t was due
to his habit of supplying them with
lunches. ,4s's.
MIR. Bell would approach one of the
itinerant veHders Of frankfurters and
ries in Broad street and purchase the
mans entire stock. lie, wculd thea
cause it to be spread On the sidewalk
and gather a crowd 81 boys about hiIc,
the smallest urchins in the front rank,
AT {. signal from Mr.. Bell the raven
Gus crew would precipitate Itself upon
the feast. Two men always watched
the scene with smiling faces--the
frankfurtcr man, who had done good
days business at enc stroke, and Mr..
Bell. His appearance in Broad street
was always the signal for excitement
among the urchins.
The Winslow mail., 1898-05-14
Snanfsh COnCeft.

The Havana correspondent of the
Washington Star, referring to the un-
bounded confidence of the average
Spaniard in the greatness and power of
everything Spanish, relates a story:
Recently an Englishman, half in ban
ter and half in earnest, was commiser-
ating an official of high degree on the
presence of the warship Maine. If
Uncle Sam undertakes to bulldoze you,
he said, John Bull won't allow it,
Thanks, Senior John Bull was the
frigid reply, but the navy of Spain is
able to take care of Mister Uncle Sans
boats, and of your English navy too !"
The Winslow mail., 1898-05-14
CRUTCHES, NOT SHOES.
War Veterans Needs Recognized and
Supplied by an Enterpris-
ing Drummer

A crowd of drummers were talking
in the corridor of a hotel the other day.
according to the Louisville Commercial.
when one Of them said:
speaking OF war "reminiscences puts
me in mind CT an experience had while
travelling through Indiana. I struck a
little town in the southern part of the
state. L don't remember the name. but
IT might have been Legtown. No one
but old soldiers live in the place. Not
man among them, even including the
mayor, had good pair of legs.
L was selling shoes and the first
place struck was owned by merchant
who had both legs amputated. Fe said
he didn't think he could give me an
order, because he was the only shoe
dealer in the place and there weren't
more than 80 men who had need for
shoes. Even these, he explained. had
only one Leg each and when they
wanted shoes they purchased only odd
single ones. Every man in the place
either walked on two crutches or one
and some had wooden legs.
ga great scheme at once struck me
because l made up my mind not to leave
the place without sale of some kind.
L wired to crutch mandatory and
told them had found place where l
could make big sale for them. They
accepted the proposition, and after a
canvas / sold $500 worth of crutches and
wooden legs.
This was one of Indiana's towns
that sent all of her citizens to the late
war and made the companies from that
state so numerous. also learned that
almost every man in the place drew a
pension and but few worked at all"
The Winslow mail., 1898-05-14
STEALING TRADEMARKS.
American Manufacturers Are Made
to Suffer Under the Laws
of Denmark.

The trademark of Boston firm has
been appropriated in Denmark, and
MIR. Jules Blom, the American vice
consul at Copenhagen, has made the fol-
lowing report of the case to the state
department:
The said firm has, for over a quar-
ter of century. been selling it's goods
(peerless gloss for shoes in Denmark,
and has built up quite large trade,
the article now being for sale in almost
every shoemaker's store throughout
the kingdom. A Danish manufacturer,
in the same line of business, recently
thought it good idea to initiate the
labels and also the bottles used by the
American firm, having found out that
it had not registered it's trademark
here, although it is registered in the
United States and Great Britain. The
labels used by the imitators are in
Danish, and bear his name, but other
wise they are identical with the Amer
lean firms labels and bottles. This
counterfeit was registered here at the
Danish trademark registration office
and, according to law, duly advertised
i'll the Danish newspapers. No objec-
tion was raised within the four months
after registration, as stipulated by law,
and the said trademark is now the Dan
ish manufacturers property"
Mr.. Blom also states that the Ameri-
cans wishing to register their trade
marks in Denmark must be represented
there by.an attorney. A Danish consul
in the United States must witness the
signing of q power of attorney intended
to be valid in Denmark.
The Winslow mail., 1898-05-14
when You Write 70 the eueen.

The paper on which letters to Queen
Victoria are written must not be folded.
No communication which bears evil
dence of having been creased will ever
fall into her majesty's own hands. The
proper method is to write on thick,
glossy white paper, and to dispatch the
missive in an envelope which fits it.
Any folded communication never
reaches the queen, for the simple rea-
son that she never looks at it. All
such letters are opened by the mistress
of the robes, and, as a rule, their con-
rents never get beyond her, or, if the
letter is of Importance, it is returned
to the writer with the directions how
to forward it.-N. Y. Herald.
The Winslow mail., 1898-05-14
Harhshfns of Wnr.

Capt Burdick's advice to the mem
bers of troop A in Cleyeland, O., to use
silk underwear in case Of war reminds
the Boston Journal of Artemus Wards
Touching Letter from Cory Member
OF the Home Guard" Broadway, De-
cember 10, 'G1.-Dear Father and Moth
er: We are all getting along very we'll.
We mess at Delmonico's. Do not re-
pine for your son. Some must suffer
for the glorious stars and stripes, and,
dear parents, why shouldn't +? Tell
Mrs. Skuller that we do not need the
blankets she so kindly sent to US, as we
bunk AZ the st. Nicholas and Metropol-
itap. What our brave lads stand most
in need Of now is fruit cake and u-sfIies.
DO not weep for me- ueEry Adolphus." :"
The Winslow mail., 1898-05-14
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The "BIack Deafb,v

An eminent Swiss specialist, DR..
Yersin, pupil of Pasteur, declares his
conviction that the plague which has
prevailed in southern China since 1894.
and in British India since 1896, is the
genuine black death of the middle
ages, and that it will in all probability
reach Europe in 4 year or two.
The Winslow mail., 1898-05-14
Beard1ess zngIish nnrristers.

Very few members Of the English bar
wear boards. Lord Justice Ropes, Sir
John Rigby and Sir Francis Jeune are
among the few who violate the legal
traditions of Great Britain by permit
ting themselves to appear otherwise
than smoothly shaven,
The Winslow mail., 1898-05-14
AII others Descended froln 0fiicers.

Miss Wellwood-Yes, l belong to the
Daughters Of the Revolution, and pride
myself upon being the most distln-
guished member of the society
Mr.. Hargreaves-Indeed!~ suppose
you trace your lineage back to some
man who was a lion in his day, eh?
''No, my great-great-gTandfather was
only a private, but from all that can
learn he seems to have been the only
one in the whole army."-Ceyeland
Leader.
The Winslow mail., 1898-05-14
Forest In a Former Lake Bed

Lake Rikwa, or Leopold. between
Lakes Tanganyika and Nyassa, in CEN
tral Africa, which when first discov-
cred, 40 years ago, was 1so miles long
by 80 broad, is reported by recent trav-
elers to have dried up completely. The
bed of the lake is now a plain covered
with thick woods Chicago Chronicle.
The Winslow mail., 1898-05-14
Destruction of Birds.

Birds are protected in northern Eu-
rope. but they are ruthlessly destroyed
in southern Europe, especially in Italy
And the Berlin Society for the Pro,
lection of Wild Birds has asked the pope
to speak in favor of the birds.
The Winslow mail., 1898-05-14
A NhnIe,s weight.

According to Nilsson, the zoologist,
the weight of the Greenland whale is
100 tons, or 224,00O pounds, or equal to
that of IS elephants or 440 beans.
The Winslow mail., 1898-05-14
bottles Gave Alarm of Fire.

The popping sound of bursting bot
ties led to the discovery of fire that
had started under the shelves of O.
closed drug store in Amite City, La.
The Winslow mail., 1898-05-14
CouIdn't Live with Him.

Arthur-They say, dear, that people
who live together get to look alike.
Kate-Then you must consider my re-
fusal as final.-London Tit-Bits.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1898-04-21

W. F. MCMILLAN, Genl Agt.,
214 8. w. Temple ST., saltiLake City
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1898-04-21
Really Big runs.

IT is difficult for the uninitiated
reader to comprehend the dimensions
OF the heavy artillery which have,
during the last few years, been made
for the heavy iroDclads and for coast
defense. The European navies have
a number Of guns that In force and
effectiveness far excel anything on
our W ships. Tie largest guns in
the United States navy are known as
14-inch guns, this figure representing
the diameter Of the bore; the weight
Of these guns is 6O,5 tone, $50 pounds
OF powder are required for each
charge. The weight OF the shot is
1,l00 pounds, the total length of the
gun from breech to muzzle, is 40 feet,
and the shot viii penetrate BIG inches
81 solid iron. The coastsfortiHcations
are provided with even heavier guns,
there being several is inch, requiring
LOGO pounds OF powder to throw a
shof Weighing -2,370 pounds, the
length Of the gun being 49.8 feet. The
governments of Great Britain and
Italy have I7.inch guns varying from
1915 to 1855 tons in weight. For
these enormous pieces Of ordnance
about 1000 pounds Of powder are
required for each discharge; the
shot weighs q ton or more, And will
penetrate an iron plate 80 inches IN
thickness.-Ss. Louis Globe Demo-
crat.