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The Winslow mail., 1899-02-25
AN UNHEALTHY JOB.
Door Openers I'm Big Stores Do Their
Work Between Hot and
Cold Air.

Door openers have the most un-
healthy job on the list of occupations.
During the holiday rush all the big
stores have from two to dozen such
employees. They run principally TO
boys. In the great pifice buildings men
co the work. Door openers are on
their feet from seven O'Clock in the
morning till business closes at six in
the evening. and it is pull and push
on the heavy doors all day long, al
lowing persons 10 enter or leave the
stores and buildings, without physical
effort or without coming into contact
with the cold latch handles. The work
is poorly paid for. The wages are
lower than those given to the ordi-
nary laborer, and the men and boys
engaged in it are supposed to keep
themselves neatly clad and immaculate
in linen. In some places uniforms are
provided for them.
Door openers are frequently miss
ing from their posts. New faces smile
on the regular frequenters or tenants
of buildings, who, passing in, inquire:
.-Where's john" or "Tim?" OF what
ever the missing door openers name
may have been.
pneumonia" is the general an
swer, and sufficient explanation.
For the door opener is exposed TO the
coolest blasts of winter and the COM
Portable heat that comes from within.
His temperature is subject to such
constant changes that lie cannot "dress
against" his conditions and sickness
comes inevitably.
The Winslow mail., 1899-02-25
LADDER ON THE CHIMNEY.
The Various Purposes That II Is De-
signed to Serve on Tall
Smokestacks.

Slender iron ladders are often seen
attached to great smokestacks, and espe-
cially to big lofty firebricklined stacks
of iron. Sometimes ip the case of twin
iron chimneys standing close together
a light spiral stairway is run up be-
tween them to the top, serving the pur-
pose of ladder and being more con-
yenient, says the New York Sun,
1t doesn't cost very much to build in
a ladder as the chimney goes up, and
there is then in place a permanent and
convenient means of getting at any
part OF the chimney, inside or out, fer
any purpose. Brick chimneys are
sometimes lined with fire brick, and
they are also sometimes built with a
SPACE between the hue and the outer
structure. If for any reason it should
be desired to get at the interior of a
chimney the ladder affords n ready and
convenient means of access to the top,
from which a man can be lowered in
bo'sun's chair. In the case of chimney
caps, built perhaps of number of
pieces, the ladder gives q convenient
means, already in place, for getting at
the top Of the chimney for any repairs
that may be necessary.
The more common uses of the lad
der, however, are those to which it is
primarily devoted on iron chimneys,
upon which it is most commonly found
to make more convenient the period
ical inspection of the chimney, and to
make the chimney easier of access for
its regular painting.
The Winslow mail., 1899-02-25
INSIGNIA ON OVERCOATS.
Naval Uniforms on shore Duty Sur
prise Some National Guard
Officers.

During the recent convention of the
pational guard officers at the Palmer
house several officers appeared wear
hanging down the back and bright new
shoulder straps gIaring on the shout
III 'U.'-- .s'-''] " 20 nn
e3ers- These officers seemed to be un-
conscious of the unusual display, says
4 Chicago exchange. Landsmen wear
insignia on the sleeves of their over
coats, narrow festoops of black silk
braid being all that is needed to tell
the grade. So as these officers entered
the ciubro ON with shoulder straps out
side their overeeats considerable COM
ment followed.
Whats the meaning cf that, do you
ihink?" was the question of one
grizzled colonel. who has participated
in two wars.
Give it up" his companion an
swered. Guess they are afraid we
won't know they are officers. First
thing you know some of these militia
men will wear shoulder straps on their
undershirts."
closer inspection revealed the fact
that the officers under discussion were
naval militiamen. The uniform pre-
scribed for naval officers on shore duty
calls for shoulder straps On the oyer
coat, and they were simply complying
with regulations. One of them ex
pressed his disgust because of the en-
forced display and consequent ridicult
from those acquainted with the law
but he was noWerleSS
The Winslow mail., 1899-02-25
VIII Sell Bismarck's Hair.

A brisk trade is likely to spring up in
Fismarck's hair. From May 1, 1890, till
March 8, 1897, the duty of coffeur to the
chancellor devolved upon Mr.. Rohring.
o: Bergedorf. He was permitted to
take away the spippings, which he in
closed in envelopes. These packets,with
TIE letters Of Bismarck's valet asking
him to attend his master, and his own
declaration of the facts upon oath, were
duly deposited with notary al Rein
beck, who attests their reception and
safe keeping. 1t is proposed to enshrine
the precious relies in scarfpins and sim
liar articles of personal adornment
with an enameled portrait of Bismarck.
--Frankfurter Zeitung.
The Winslow mail., 1899-02-25
TO BEAT SeALPERS,
A New "Safety" Paper VIII Be Used
by the Railway Companies
for Tickets.


The new safety paper for railway
tickets, which will be used by some
of the largest companies this year, is
expected to prove harder blow to
the dishonest ticket7sealper than any
national or state anti-ticket-scal lping
measure. The most ingenious wiles Of
the scalper will be of no avail against
this safety paper. In printing. style
and form the new ticket will be sim
liar to that now in use, the only diff
ference being in the material upon
which it is printed. The pew paper is
the result Of years of experiments by
railway ticket printers, and it has been
formally approved by the National
Association of General Passenger and
Ticket Agents,
The manufacturers guarantee that
this paper will retain anything written
on it in ink until the last particle of
the paper is destroyed. If a knife
eraser be used upon it, the fact will
at once be evident, since the surface
of the ticket will be destroyed, show
ing the inside of the paper, which will
be Of another color. The last point
however, is not of SO much Importance,
since the Knife eraser has already been
guarded against by the use of two
color tickets, with surface and inside
of different shades.
The new paper was specially invented
to defeat the scalper's acids. When the
dishonest broker wants to change D
name or date on a ticket he uses acids
which completely obliterate the orig
inal writing and leave the surface Of the
ticket ready for the insertion of the
new name or date. Soalpers have gone
so far in this direction as 10 change the
color of the entire ticket, leaving only
the necessary printing intact.
The new safety paper is said to be
absolutely proof against he use of any
acids. This condition has been reached
by the use of certain acids in the man
ufacture of the paper, which will coun
teract any which may afterW9rd be
used upon it. If acid is used to alter
a name or date on ticket printed on
the safety paper, the only effect will
be to drive the original writing through
'iN EAShE!' " Ia 8 itiS ~ pam y W lHt
surface on the opposite side. The
acids used in making the paper are
said to be strong enough to counteract
any which the most expert scalper
might employ.
The new safety paper will be used
at first chiefly for the printing of
through tickets reading over two or
more lines, which seem to have been
the kind of tickets most in favor with
the scalping fraternity, The most
skillful and varied ingenuity has been
shown in the manipulation of these
tickets. During two or three big So
cety gatherings held in Chicago last
summer the railways discovered a num-
Der of return portions of tickets upon
which the office stamp. dating stamp
and the autograph signature stamp of
the joint agent had all been forged.
With the new safety paper in general
use the passenger men say thet such
practices will result in promp, detec-
ton in the future.-Buffalo Express.
The Winslow mail., 1899-02-25
BanISruptcy to a savage.

A correspondent of the London
Times at Wanganui, New Zealand,
sends US this amusing extract from
local newspaper: "a Maori chief who
lost 6 40 through white storekeeper
going through the bankruptcy court
has given the following lucid exp0si-
ton of this particular branch of Brit
ish jurisprudence: The pakek. (whitc
man) who wants to become pakarapu
Gnsolyent) goes into business, and gets
lots OF goods, and does not pay for
them. He then gets all the money he
can together, say, $4,000, and puts all of
it, except e5, away where no one can
find it. With the C 5 he goes 10 judge
of the court and tells him he wants to
become pakarapu. The judge then
calls all the lawyers together, likewise
all the men to whom the pakeba owes
money, and he says: sfhis man is
pakarapu. but he wishes to give you
Gll that he has goi, and so he has asked
me to divide this 6 S among you ALL
The judge thereupon gives the lawyers
ga. and the remaining 6 to the other
men. Then the pakeha goes home
The Winslow mail., 1899-02-25
Gettinr PId CT Friction.

A novel invention has been exhibited
before large number of persons by >.
NJ. Alves. Russian civil engineer IN 81:
Petersburg With this inyent;on he
proposes to revolutionize wheel loco
motion. By attaching it 10 the wheels
of any vehicle friction is reduced TO
its lowest possible limit. To the amaze
ment of the spectator, an ordinary horse
easily drew a wagon loaded with "a
tons of goods. The mechanism CT this
device was kept secret, the wheels pc
ing covered with wooden framework.
This precaution on the part of the in
ventor. it was explained, was becauss
he had just applied for patent and dc
not wish his Invention made pubic un-
til it had been protected by the patent
Chicago Chronicle.
The Winslow mail., 1899-02-25
Iron Giving Place to Steel.

Steel has almost superseded iron in
the manufacture of pipe and tubing un-
til ii is estimated that almost rs per
cent. of the entire product of the coun-
try is now made of steel. Up to few
years ago wrought iron was used al
Tost exclusively. The lap-weld joint
proved a serious objection, and the
change to steel has been rapid and COM
Plete- Steel pipe is stronger, has long
,r life and is less liable to corrosion.
Steel tubing has enabled the bicycle
dustry to become revolutionized. and
7e forms a leading article in tonnage
the steel industry in this country
aud foreign markets.
The Winslow mail., 1899-02-25
UNLUCKY DAYS AND HOURS.
A German Statisticicn Has Figured
Out just when Accidents
Are Most Likely.

Only a painstaking, plodding German
investigator would go tc the trouble of
trying to find out BY statistics on what
day of the week most accidents occur
and at what hour of the day. This is
what has been done by DR.. Wolff, OF
Strasburg.
He bases his conclusions on 1,071
cases of accidents among the working
classes. 1t thus appears that Monday is
not less unlucky than Friday when il
comes % accidents. and for this fact he
accounts by the statement that the
dri- -. shops are most frequented by
workmen in Germany on the days pre-
vious, VIZ, Saturdays, Sundays and
Fewer accidents happen on Tuesday v
u N d" j." q tPO mOOG bO
than on any other day of the week, be
cause on no day are drinking houses 50
empty as on Monday.
He has also discovered the remak-
dinner and the afternoon rest, are sig
nalized by most accidents.
He attributes this to the lassitude
caused by the work of digestion, and
to the use made by men of intoxicants
during meal times.
factories where the meal hours are
greatly curtailed there is an excess of
accidents over the factories where the
men are more literally treated in this
respect
The Winslow mail., 1899-02-25
Not Always a "Pay Streak"

Tenant-You call our fat the Klon-
dixie because they are so cold N winter
and so hot in summer, / suppose. Ha,
hal
Landlord-No; because there's no
such money in them as people think.
Detroit Journal
The Winslow mail., 1899-02-25
Such Dear Friends.

Mrs. unnimune-Charles used to
tell me he was fond of music, but |
think he was only deceiving me. l
know he never asks me to play now we
are married.
Mrs. Sharpe-Heally, I don't see as
that proves anything, my dear.-Bos-
ton Journal.
The Winslow mail., 1899-02-25
40 Century Begins on Sunday.

There are some curious facts about
IT calendar. no century can begin on
@nesday. Friday OF Sunday. The
calendars can be used every 20
RS. October always begins on the
re day of the week as January, April
or July; September as December. Feb
mary, March and November begin on
z same days. May, June and August
"a. ways begin on different days from
each other, and every other month in
The year. The first and last days of the
year are always the same. These rules
10 not apply to leap year, when COM
parison is made between days before
and after February s9.
The Winslow mail., 1899-02-25
The Fourteenth Guest.

The most curious agency which has
been inaugurated in Paris for some
time past is that for the supply of the
fourteenth guest. Parisians, like some
other people. have superstitious oo-
lection to dinner parties Of 10. 1his
agency supplies fourteenth guess
NhCr desired,
The Winslow mail., 1899-02-25
Life IN san Juan.

The best hotel in San Juan, Porto
Rico, charges two dollars a day, but
the sleeping rooms all epeninto courts
have no outside windows, and are to
the last extremely hot. Under Spanish
law, in towns where houses join, no
outside windows are allowed. This Is
10 avoid the danger Of dirt from the in
terror blowing on to adjacent roofs and
contaminating the water, as all the sup
ply is collected from the rainfall on
the roofs and stored in cisterps.
The Winslow mail., 1899-02-25
OIOnl Of lpGm gS i pG (ES5[ZEd 2ll

proud OF them as IT he deserved any
credit. He had his boots made orde-
and kept them nicely polished and
otherwise sought to direct attention to
his cute little feet.
This particular day while the group
was sitting out under the tree at Bran
don DIR. Hart said:
Judge, that's a pretty fair under
standing you have there. isn't it?'
The court looked at his foot rather
admiringly and said:
"Yes, that is a pretty big foot. That
was remarked to me by hor$eman
that rode down from Nashville with me
,onth ago. He said | had big foot
and said: 'Den't you always fihd tha:
good horses-that is, blooded horses,
you know-always have big feet?'
she says. 'Oh, yes, that's the RULE
"'Well,' says, ism it true that jack
asses always have small feet?'
"And he says, oh, yes, that's true
too
After that DR.. Hart changed the sub
ject to the prospects for good cotton
crop, which were not encouraging
Chicago Chronicle.
The Winslow mail., 1899-02-25

@...............
Did you drive all these nails w it Ii
stones?" queried Sam.
'No, indeed" laughed Jim, shaking a
new steel-faced hammer perilously near
Sans nose, hut | shall never pc sorry
that drove the first ones So"
providence helps those who help
themselves, you see. Sam,' said Miss
Lamb.
"Yes," sighed Sam. "Jim struck it
rich before 1 even got started for
Klondike, and if | don't get some sort
Of move on me he will beat me getting
a bicycle yet"
Struck it rich-that's pretty good,
Sam. Yes, it was literally rich strike,
that Of the turri. 9 on the rusty nail"
Chicago Daily Record.
The Winslow mail., 1899-02-25
LARGE FEET.
A Mississippi Judge Who Thought
They Were an Indication of
Good Blood.

Judge Alonzo G. Meyers was sitting
under q big tree in Brandon, Miss, one
fine day exchanging experiences with
Dr.. Hart, the minister, and some Of the
folks of Brandon. Judge Meyers has d
circuit which includes 27 counties and
10 Of them are Off the railroad lines.
On that account things happen 10 him
once in awhile which he thinks are
worth recounting. This day il CHANGED
that Dr., Harris attention was attracted
by Judge Meyers feet. There was
something peculiar about them, TO tell
the truth. They were quite long, bu
they wide and the judge made no
attempt conceal the Dr. Har-
small e w L
The Winslow mail., 1899-02-25
Only once since the world Began.

= February, 1866, was in one way tne
most wonderful month in the worlds
history. 1t had no full moon. January @
had two full moons and SO mao March
but February had none. This remark
able state of things has never happened
before since the era we assign to the
creation. an India.
:. f.r-of India the assassin
Even nnknown. N The earl of Mayo
is nor no. General of India. was assas-
goveIn0ih govern he sbere Ali. o convict, in the
s'naeeu isles. in 1872, and an attempt
a Anu mode to assassinate Lord lyttoh
lille yicersy of India in 1919
The Winslow mail., 1899-02-25
JIMMIE'S AMBITION.
BY LESTER L. LOCKWOOD.

ELLO, jim! What's up now?"
II Chicken coop-that is, it viii!
80, 7 rnanare IN pet a few more
The Winslow mail., 1899-02-25
TURRILITE CHICKEN RANCH,
JAMES CONN.
PROPRIETOR

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The Winslow mail., 1899-02-25
I ""ll uDdO1rtODdna abe DeLSi4fd.

II can't understand" she persisted.
why ever you did such a crazy thing
Suppose you had been drowned? You
used to be truthful-even brutallY
frank Tell me why you jumped"
"Just to apologize"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-01-07
LUDL0W'S PROCLAMATION.
American General Calls on Havanese
to Give Up Arms.

HAVANA, January 7.-General Ludlow,
the military commander of the district of
Havana, has issued the following proclama-
ton to the citizens
1T is known that large quantities of
arms and ammunition are in store at num-
erous places in this city, greatly in excess
of any possible requirements. These accu-
mutations are the result of the war condi-
tons which have existed for three years,
and now that the city is in a condition of
profound peace and no member of the COM
munity has no requirement for deadly
weapons of the character indicated, it is
ism to dispense with their retention
''Actuated by those feelings many citizens
have for several days past been yolun-
tarily turning in these arms and have re-
quested the United States authorities to re-
ceivs them.
Castle La Punta has been designated
as an armory for their deposit, and receipts
are given for the weapons turned in
BY the same proclamation physicians are
required to report infectious diseases Sa-
looms and restaurants are allowed to be
opened until midnight, instead of closing
at IL.
To relieve suffering and stop professional
peggary the guards patroillng the streets
are TO take notice of cases of illness and
restitution, with the locality of the street
be issued In cases of illness special food
will be supplied by the doctors. The Cuban
generals Will meet today at Marianao to
decide upon the course they and their COM
mands will pursue. They will probably de-
eide to disband
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-01-07
FOR ALLEGED THEFT.
Arrest in New York of a Russian
Well-KnOwn Here

Marion de Zaremba, a Russian well
known in this city, and at one time a prac-
ucing physician here, has been arrested in
New York on a charge of larceny "a
remba Is particularly well known by a.
large number Of creditors. whom he is is
said to have left in the lurch when he went
to New York. For time the Russian
who styles himself count" was con-
nected with st. Elizabeth's Asylum for the
insane in the capacity of attendant.
de left the institution several years ago
ana set himself up as a practitioner of
medicine, opening an Office on street be-
tween 9Th and 7th streets northwest He
afterward moved into a larger and more
pretentious establishment on 18th street
near l. Patients did not materialize with
any great degree of rapidfty, and Zaremba.
1t Is said, became hopelessly involved In
debt.
He subsequently left the city Very little
was heard from him until an account of his
arrest was read in New York paper of
today.
While practdcing medicine Zaremba had
for a patient one of the under secretaries
at the Russian legation. and from this
claimed to be connected with the legation
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-01-07
Washington stock EXCHANGE.

Saiess ao call, II O'Clock m.-U s. 3s cou-
o. 81 900 ioa. $1,000 al 10 Gspta ha, TTsc
ton ton 20 at ssls, 10 at ssk 20 at sSls 20 at 81
100 at 81, so at 51I 80 at 51s, SO at 51s all al
ston Monotype, 100 at l6, at Is, 100 at 16 Amer
riage, 100 at 81 cents, 100 at 30 cents 100 at r.
cents MIS- ioo at IS cents, 100 at SO cents.
f 100 bid Is 1901, water stock, los bid. 365s
Miscellaneous Bonds-Metropolitan Railroad Is
u 4id, l2shs asked Metropolitan Railroad COW
u.s. LAG bid 1879 asked. Metropolitan Railroad
ndebt B, lis bid Connbia Ralr ra,iro "a
l261a bid, 1913 asked Columbia Railroad ID mort t'
series A, 6s 12o bid washington Gas ComnanR ny
ries b Is, 10 BID U. S. Electric Light deb. imp.,
Washington Market Company LIST 6s. lis bid. wasS
Han Association 5s, ITO bid. American GRAPHIC
National Bank sfocksNBanf Of washippto, 900
bid. Metropolitan, Ss9 bid Central, Ia bid ia
l45 bid Citizens. 100 bid Columbia. 1ss cP hid'
99spitai; ~ bid West End, 81 bid, 80 asked
ass io4 pid, ITO asked Lincoln, Ito bid lis
Safe Deposit and Trust Companies.-National Safe
Loan and Trust. 1856 bid 1861 asked. " AmerfeSn
Security and Trust, zIss bid. 'eA'
sss ss rli1si s sld d ss Saa
iumbia. ION bid. liz asked riggs. ~ bid ia asS-
cd. Peoples, 81 bid, asked. Lincoln, IoN bid
II asked. Commercial, IA bid. ~
Title Insurance stoeks.-Oolumbia Title. AZ bid
81 asked: District Title, 2 bid 3 asked
Railroad Stocks:-Capital Traction Company syz
bid, Ssls asked Metropolitan, 14s bid, 149Ih asked
Columbia, IS bid: IS asked. lexington, ri bid
Gas and Electric Light Stocks.-Washington Gas
Electric Light 125 bid
Telephone Stocks. chesapeake and Potomac so
bid, So asked. Pennsylvania, IS bid, so asked
. Miscellaneous Stocks.-Mergenthaler Linotype, 1Ss
bid. 1881 asked IAnston Monotype, 1876 bid 10
asked. American Gnphophone 125s bid i3E ask
ed. American Graphophone preferred, 13ls bid 13at
asked. Pneumatic Gun Carriage, .3S bid. 30 asked
bid, lbs asked.
xEx dividend. iFirst assessment paid
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-01-07
GEN. LUDLOW's REQUEST,
Military Governor of Havana Wants
COPIES of District LAWS

The following letter was received today
oy the District Commissioners from Major
General william Ludlow, the military gov
ernor of the city of Havana, at one fimA
Engineer Commissioner of the District:
nave the honor to request that If prac-
ucaoie you send to me three copies of the
a al u report OF the Commissioners of the
ID. C., with three sets of appendices and
also three copies each of the building
plumbing and health regulations of the
Distrlct. These books can be sent by mail
with the official frank
Ihey will be of great service to me in
oreahlzlng the city government under the
new regime. '-'o
Inc commissioners promptly directed that
Hen. LuoloM REQUEST be complied with