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The St. Johns herald., 1899-06-24
The Caroline Islanders.

AS a rule the Caroline islander is fairly honest. Once lay his suspicious to rest and win his confidence, and he will prove himself faithful friend and an excellent host. courteous and just in all his dealings. as 1 have very good cause to know On the other hand, when dealing with his enemies, he calls into play talent for intrigue, lying and chicanery that would delight Machiavelli-
 In his private life he is unselfsh. frugal and economical, a man of care ful. small habits Like all folk of Mel anesian admixture, he is liable to fits of dangerous sullenness when he con- siders himself sighted in any way. He is inclined to be revengeful and will bide his time patiently until his oppor- tunity comes. Yet he is not implacable and counts reconciliation noble and princely thing There is fcrm of eti- quette to be observed on these occasions "a present (katom) is made. an apology offered. piece of sugar cane accepted by the aggrieved party. honor is satis- fled. and the matter ends.
 The Ponapean is stout warrior, a hardy and skillful navigator. fisherman, carpenter and boatbuilder, somewhat of an astronomer and herbalist. but very second class planter and gardener. = Geographical Review
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DEADLY LIBEL BULLET.
It's Enormous Penetrating Force as
 Shown by Recent Use.

It's Enormous Penetrating Force as
 Shown by Recent Use.
 The writer of an article in the "Echo de Paris" referring to certain disad- vantages offered, as alleged, by the British magazine rife bullet, argues that the bullet fired by the Lebel rife renders all the services required, and does not stand in need of improvement or of any such notifications as those in- troduced in the Dum-dum bullet.
 At 5000 meters the Lebel bullet trav- erses the fieshy portions of the human body and shatters the bones of the limbs. The penetrating force of the bullet Is enormous. During the Da- honey campaign a Lebel bullet was found to have passed through a tree and through the five natives who had taken refuge behind it. The French officers who have been able to observe the effects of the bullet in Dahomey, Tonkin and Madagascar declare that the men struck by the Lebel bullet in full trajectory fall at once after a con- vulSive leap.
 When the camp of Gen. Dodds, dur ing his march on Abomey, was the ob- ject of a surprise attack the terrible effectiveness of the Lebel bullet was proved in the most signal fashion. The asSailants received the bullets almost immediately after they had lefl the rifles, and entire files of the native war riors were seen to have fallen, one on top of the other, traversed by the same If the bullets had not stop ped the natives forthwith Gen. Dodds' forces would have been wiped out. Oe- caSionally, no doubt, a man struck by a Lebel bullet is not put hors du con- bat immediately, but thIs event is rare, and such cases notoriously occurred in the past when bullets of larger caliber were in use.
 The writer concludes by saying that the French have no reason to feel at the complaints made of the inefectiveneSs under certain conditions of the British magazine rife bullet of small caliber. If the Lee-Metford rihe," he says, ''has given unsatisfac- tory results the blame does not lie with the small caliber bullet" ."-London Standard.
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A new product known as "devitrif1ed glass"-broken glass brought to a de- sired molecular condition by a special process of heating-has made its ap- pearance in France, according to the re- port of the United States consul at Lyons. It possesses all the properties of glass except its transparency, and 1t can be made to assume any form, from paving blocks to the most artistic designs, and to resemble any variety of stone used as constructive material. In the form of variegated blocks, 1t has been tried in paving one of the main thoroughfares of Lyons. The test has been satisfactory. The glass Is more durable than stone, Is as cheap, and is less liable to gather and retain dirt. Architects are already suggest ing its use as material for house-build- ing, and thus the ancient saw which inculcates the injudiciousness of stone throwing by people who live in glass houses may, ere long, find basis in substantial fact, in place of what has heretofore been purely rhetorical ad- monition.
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An Ancient Town.

The ancient town of Rye, in Sussex, proposes to celebrate this year the 600th anniversary of its municipal ex- istence. The little borough must have possessed the privileges of local self government for much more than six centuries, for it has been Cinque port since the time of Henry III., and some of its charters date back to Edward the Confessor. But the possession of a complete list of 600 mayors has prob ably induced the burgesses to rest their claim to incorporation upon no earlier grant than that of the twenty-seventh year of Edward 1. Rye has struggled pluckily against difficulties before which many communities would have succumbed. The sea has retired and left it high and dry, and 1t has lost its parliamentary representation. Yet the little red-brick town still looks cheery and mfortable.-London Chronicle.
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Curiositfes of the Pole.

"At the North POle,"' says a corrC- spondent of the English Mechanic, "!f the wind blows at all 1t must blo'V from the south." He might have adde1 that at the same time it must blow tr)- wards the south, seeing that to a per son standing on the polar point all di- rectiOns would be south except straight upwards. At the pole, too, it is every hour of the day at once. If we stood with our face to the sun it would be noon in front of us. midnight at our back; on our left hand it would be 6 a. m., and on our right hand D. m. "lf a circular table were spread over tue pole, and twentyfOur explorers sat around it to dine each would sit in a different hour. For instance, if the chairman sat in 12 o'clock noon, the vice would sit in F o'clock midnight: and the sixth gentleman to the chair- mans right would be in 6 o'clock morning, and the sixth on his left i1 6 o'clock evening""
The St. Johns herald., 1899-06-24

The harder one tries to approach a high ideal, the more it seems to recede from him. But the virtue is in the striving, not in having attained. Not the fruit Of experience, but experience itself is the end" wrote Walter Pater That diIigent student who worked at logic and mathematics for more than forty years. the author of Alice in Wonderland" once wrote: "I hope that in the next world all knowledge will not be given to me suddenly. but that l shall gradually grow wiser, for the acquiring of knowledge is to me the real pleasure" And a wiser man than Lewis Carroll wrote: 'Not as though l had already attained, either were al- ready perfect; but I follow after-I press toward the mark"
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That we are upon the eve of the de- velopment of a mighty mechanical force for the manufacture of power, greater than either steam or electricity, seems evident. This new force is liquid air. Chas. E. Tripler, of New York, has demonstrated In a series of expert ments the practicability of the applica- tion of this new force to tae develop ment of power. Mir. Tripler takes 800 gallons of ordinary air, and by con- pression and cold reduces 1t to one gal lon of liquid that looks like glycerine. 312 degrees below zero. On the same principle that water becomes steam on the application of heat, and under a greater degree of heat superheated steam, so liquid air as it warns ex- bands into vapor and then into air. By controlling this expansion a new mo- tive for the use of transportation con- panies on sea and land, for factories, furnaces and for every other purpose for which steam and electricity are now used is developed. The expansive force of this new power is equal to 2,000 pounds to the square inch, and without an exhaust pipe the pressure is so great there is now no material of sufficient strength to restrain 1t. Un- like water, however, 1t needs the appli- cation of no artificial heat, but on ac- count of its intense cold contact with the atmosphere causes it to boil and evapOrate like water on a hot plate. While this may seem much like lifting ones self over a fence by ones boot straps, or perpetual motion, at the same time MT. Tripler has demonstrated that this new power will reproduce Itself without the application of any outside agency. The first gallon or two is made by the use of coal or any other ordinary fuel, just as ice is made in a factory, but thereafter he is able to Fe- produce ten gallons of the fluid by the expenditure of two. A railway locomo- tive or steamship will therefore create its own power from the atmosphere as 1t passes along, and the factory en- gineer will simply turn the key on an air pipe, start his machine and manu- facture this power as he needs it with no other cost than the wear of the ma chinery.
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AN ARCHITECTURAL PUZZLE.
Monasteries Built In a Wildly Inac-
 cessible Locality.

Monasteries Built In a Wildly Inac-
 cessible Locality.
 The famous monasteries of Meteora crown the summits of vast rock pima cles rising from the plain of Thessaly
 By what strange means the first cun- ming architects of these airy perches succeeded in reaching the scene of their labors is a matter wreathed in mystery The cliffs are far too smooth and per pendicular for any man to climb by band and foot. and history guards jeal- ously the secret of the monasteries- All that is known about them is that the monks and wandering friars of the mid dle ages found sanctuary here when first the crescent and scimiter ran red with Christian blood Visitors to the monks abode announce their presence by shouting until some one far above looks out and lets the net, which is worked by windlass, come down.
 The sensation of the ascent is dis tinctly novel. Seated on the ground in the center of the net, the meshes are one by one looped on to large iron hood. AS the rope becomes taut the cords press uncomfortably hard upon various points of ones body. and with a strong wind blowing it swings to and fro and bumps it's human load against the cliff. The rope, as it slowly winds on the drum up in the monastery. kinks occasionally, and the jerk gives one the impression that the rickety con- cern is giving way.
 The journey. however, ends safely ITO feet above the ground, where the monks promptly extricate the visitor and give hi11>a pleasant welcome.
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This Man I. In Trouble.

Some queer letters find their way to an editors desk And here is one of them, which is warm with life and feel ing and means business
 To the Editor:
 SRI sent you three weeks ago come Sun- day a sketch of poetry which was wrote by my wife on her birthday. 1 told you to print 1t on Sunday and send the bill to me; but nary 8 sketch of it or bill has seen. You has placed me in sRmagin perdicament by nSt printin 1t 'cordin to instructions, for my wife thinks I either didn't mail it or got full" and lost It. Will you please drop me line and set me right about it? know mailed it to you in the postoffice, but l ain't got no witnesses. If you will set me right in the matter, will write piece for you myselfl
The St. Johns herald., 1899-06-24
NO CIGARETTES WANTED.
But the Worst in the Lot Got a P1ac
 After All,

But the Worst in the Lot Got Place
 After All.
 The boss inserted an advertisement boy, and he got down to the office hali an hour earlier than usual to receive the applicants for the place.
 There was long line of them in the hallway in front of the office. He call ed the boys into his office one by one and subjected each of them to a search. ing examination as to experience, fit ness, etc. He invariably finished uI with the question: Do you smoke cigarettes?" The boys invariably de clared that they did not.
 Never smoked one O ther dope sticks in me life," declared the first boy called in.
 Didn't, ehY' replied the "old man. 'Let me see your fingers" They were stained deep, dirty yellow. He was told that he was not wanted.
 Oats not cigarette stain, dat ain't, " insisted the second boy. Oats paint off me fader's house."
 The excuse didn't work, and he was ushered out, as were several more young aspirants for office honOrs.
 Finally, a bright-eyed, red-headed youngster entered and answered all the questions propounded to him in a satisfactory way.
 'Now, my boy" came the final test, tell me truthfully, do you smoke cigar ettes?'
 What's them? Those little paper cigars?" answered the youth.
 'Yes, exactly"
 "Nope; neveh drew one uf them inter me lungs in me life"
 Let me see your hands,"
 The boy poked out a chubby fist at him. The man examined 1t critically, but failed to detect the slightest evil dence of tobacco stain.
 You're engaged" he finally said.
 Bully for you," said the youth. "So long; I'll be ter work in de morning." He then went out whistling, There's Only One Girl in the World for Me-" and joined his anxious comrades in the hallway.
 "Youse fellers can all go home," he said.
 What yer givin' us? Did yer get der job?" piped half dozen voices.
 "Bet yer life," replied the urchin.
 There was loud murmur of surprise from the crowd, and finally one of the exclaimed:
 How'd yer do it, Chimmie? De ol man said that he didn't want no dope stick smokers, an yer knows yer de wurstest dope fiend in der push"
 "Oh, youse fellers was so slow dat yer make me tired" replied "Chimmie" in a disgusted tone cf voice. Course 1 hit de dope sticks, but dye t'ink 1 wasn't cute 'nough to keep 1t from de ol' manY
 Guess yer had pull or yer wouldn't have fooled his joblOts," said one of the 
 Easiest ting in de world" answered "Chimmie." "As soon as I read his ad- vertisement in de papier I kuode dat he wus agin dOpe-sticks. so what does 1 do but soak me fingers in terpentine all night, an in de morning dey wus as clean as a newborn babe s."-New York Tribune.
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What may not be the result of the practical application of wireless teleg- raphy? In answering that question the dreamer will have an opportunity to let his imagination run riot. When wires are no longer needed how much will the cost of establishing and main taining q telegraph system be lessen ed! What effect will it have on the postoffiee department? How many letters that now go by mail will then go by telegraph, especially in the busi- ness world? And what effect, if any, VIII it have on the ong-distance tele- phone! These are all pertinent ques- tions now, for the experiments made by Guglielmo Marconi between Eng land and France have demonstrated that the commercial use of wireless teleghaphy is something that we may confidently expect at an early date. To AIareoni belongs the credit of develop tng and applying the principle discov- sred by NikOla Tesla and explained by
The St. Johns herald., 1899-06-24

That old song Comrades" will have a new significance in the light of the fact that its words were sung by the gallant American soldiers who were wounded. in the advance of MacAr- thurs division as they were carried back to the hospital. Comrades in- deed they were. pressing onward in the face of q deadly fire and under trop- ical sun more deadly than rebel bullets! And proud indeed must Americans be of the men who sang Comrades" at such a time.
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him in a pamphlet issued eight or nine years ago. The scientific world was the pamphlet, became interested in the subject and worked out the details, with the result that he has sent mes sages across the English channel. a distance of thirty-two miles. If this can be done it follows that the Allan and then the expensive cables may be abandoned. In a commercial way the possibilities of this discovery are cer. tainly almost Hmitless.
The St. Johns herald., 1899-06-24
Luck.

Luck.
 Mir. Timpkins-Well, my dear, you look as happy as a girl who has just received three proposals. Whats hap pened?
 Mrs. Timpkins-You see, I invited your aunt Henrietta to the reception which 1 am going to give.
 MT. Timpkins-Oh, yes. We've got to keep on the right side of aunt Hen rietta. She's worth $100,O00, you know. Of course she's little queer, but people have to put up with such things. She's coming, is she?
 Mrs. Timpkins-No; she writes that she has a lame ankle. Now, you see, we've got the credit of asking her and won't have to have her around. George, isn't this a perfectly lovely world sometimes?
The St. Johns herald., 1899-06-24
Must Be a False Report.

'Tt is hinted that Miss Tenspot is in- debted to the druggist for her complex ion," said Miss Gazzam.
 "Oh, can't credit that, for I know her we'll" replied Miss Ricketts.. "In fact, am her dearest friend"
 "Then she doesn't use cosmetics at allY'
 "Oh, yes; but she pays cash."-De- troit Free Press.
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An Iron Constitution.

'I should think you would suffer, standing out here all day in that spring suit, after wearing such heavy over- coats," said the Wooden Indian.
 "Oh, I'm all right, thank you," re- piled the clothing dummy. q am of a wiry frame, you know."- w."-Indianapolis Journal.
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The Hit of the Play.

First Actor (pulling the trigger of a revolver six times)-Die, you miserable villain!
 Second Actor-Your pistol has missed fire, Sir Rudolph; but am smitten with remorse for my many crimes, and will die, according to your wish.
 Then he rolled on the stage in agony, while the curtain slowly descended, amid the cheers and i;fdgnter of the au- dience.
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No Use in This Country.

-"My patriotism and my wish for wealth." said the inventor, 'are just now at outs."
 "Oh, we'll" said the cynical listener, ''it is easy to see which will win. What have you in mind?"
 "A device for stopping shot holes in warships. I hate to sell anything like that to foreign country, and our own ships seem to keep the other fellow so busy that we don't need it."-Indian- apoliS Journal.
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Men Who Wear COrset..

More men wear corsets than is gener, ally believed A certain London corset maker states that he makes hundreds every year and recently had in hand one pair of pink satin decorated with Aower-de-luce and another of nile green satin adorned with lotus flowers. one of these being for an officer in India.
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It Made Him Angry.

"Fosdick received a valentino Iaas made him very angry"
 "One of those outrageous comic things, suppose?"
 ''No; it is a pretty valentine, but il was sent by express, charges to be col lected. d."-New York World.
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It Is a curious fact that it's only the men who have ill-treated their wives who think that they have the right to murder them. Within the last few weeks the news columns have had numerous instances of this sort of fhinO
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Mere Guesses.

'It is said that if man were to live as long as the sun endures he would, at the end, be learning still"
 "Yes, and the office boy would prob ably think he knew more about the business than the old man did, even then"
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zangwin Answers Chnate-

During the February blizzard Am bassador Choate and Israel ZangwilI found themselves snowbound between Boston and New York. If we may be- lieve all accounts, the exchange of epi- grams and repartee was something sparkling. Here is one of them:
 Could an apple tempt youT" said MT. Choate, sampling the lunch coun- ter at one of the way stations.
 'T wouldn't be human if it couldn't" |" replied Mir. Zangwill, with a smile.
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A 5-year-old boy in Philadelphia fell from a third-story window and es- caped injury by lighting on the head of man wearing a high hat The usefulness of the high hat may now be regarded as demonstrated, even though its beauty may be questioned.
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The loss of a $300,000 home Is almost as serious a matter for a Vanderbilt as the thoughtless acceptance of Cana dian quarter is for the majority of his countrymen.
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At the Table.

MT. Wedding darling, see you have prepared something new with your own little hands. It's luscious too, dear. What is it?
 Mrs. Wedding - That - that Is b-bread!'-Judge.
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Another good old superstition shat tered. A woman has been poisoned by the scratch of a rabbit, and is will Ing to admit that there are some things luckier than the left hind foot of the picturesque rodent.
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IInEind.

''There's something fascinating about the chatter of telegraph instrument to me-" said Borrowe.
 Because 1t always runs on tick, suppose" remarked Tyson whitening ly.-Philadelphia North American.
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LET US ALL LAUGH.
JOKES FROM THE PENS OF VA
 RIOUS HUMORISTS
Pleasant Incidents Occurring the World Over-Sayings that Are Cheer full to Old or Young-Funny Selec. tiens that You Will Enjoy.

Uncle Joshua-We'ye got ter have some more coaling stations.
 Uncle Jedediah-What do we need 'em fer?
 Uncle Joshua-Why, ter accommo- date our navy. We're goin' tAr have bigger navy, ye know.
 Uncle Jedediah-A bigger navy? We don't need that, either.
 Uncle Joshua--We don't? How'd we defend our new coaling stations, then? Judge.
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Discussion Postponed.

She-Pm very sure you could get work if you wanted it.
 He-Mebbe so, ma'am. 1 make 1t a rule never to argy before breakfast New York World.
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Good Warrant.

Investigator-You say you buried the beef. Tell us why, please?
 WitneSS-I suppose because 1t was embalmed and ready for the last sad rites.-Philadelph North American.
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What He GrowIed At.

Mr. CrimsOnbeak-YOU never heal me growl at the table.
 Mrs. Crimsonbeak-What, then, were you doing at breakfast today?
 'T wasn't growing at the table, but at your biscuit"-Yonkers Statesman
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Misconstrued.

"You're funny" said the editor.
 "I'm glad my jokes strike you favor ably" replied the humorist.
 "I said nothing at all about youl jokes, sir" grunted the editor, relaxing his smile.-Philadelphia North Ameri. can.
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Soon to Be Over.

Watts-I understand the Chinese are the most lightly taxed people on earth.
 Potts-You needn't worry about that We shall probably civilize them before ong.-Indianapolis Journal.
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A Good Ta1ker.

"Fister Is sure to make a success as C pugilist."
 "Why SO"
 "He used to be a professor of Gra tnrv."-Providence Telegram
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First impressions go long way to- ward shsping ones success or failure Iii iife.1azsse1 1impression made upon business firms by the quality of print ing upon the stationery used by an ap- plicant for credit or for some other fla vor often determines the fate of the ap- plicatlon. Neatly printed stationery is the only sort that any business man can afford to use.
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The total length of the worlds ca bles is now 17O,000 miles. With a wire from San Francisco to Manila via Honolulu the circuit will be com
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A woman gave her fiance a gold mounted whisky cup and a laundry bag, and still he proved faithless. Such base ingratitude is past belief. She must have sent him cigars.
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The Cheerful Idiot,

'T have been looking at pictures to- day." said the artistic boarder, until my neck is dead tired"
 "Rubber-tired, so to speak," said the Cheerful IdiOt.-IndianaDOlis Journal
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The public may expect to see another of those pure reading matter, top-of- column prOspectuses from Nikola Tesla on wireless telegraphy any fine 1,nn.rlfnn
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It seems only fair that when man Is ''half dead with fright he should be able to collect $500 on a S1,0OO life insurance policy.
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Anything but That.

Benevolent old gentleman-My good man, are you looking for work?
 Tramp-NOt if I can find anything else to dO.-Tit-Bits.