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The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1899-12-05
MICROBES THAT EAT CEMENT.
While They Purify the Water, They
Strip Reservoir Walls of
Cement.

At first sight it would seem hardly
possible for bacteria to be concerned in
he breaking down of a stone wall, yet
such would appear to be the case, ac-
cording to some ingenious observations
directed to the nature of the decay of
cement.
The gradual disintegration of the
cement mortar used in water supply
reservoirs is one of the serious troubles
met with by water engineers, and a
trouble which so far they have not
been able to avoid with any measure of
practical success.
Hitherto this action was supposed to
be the result of the solvent property
of carbonic acid and other mineral SUBJ
stances commonly present in a water
supply. The cement gradually disin-
tegrates and becomes a kind of mud,
which slowly detaches itself.
This strange process is due to the ac-
ton of none other than that bacterium
known as the nitrifying organism. An
examination of the mud shows it to be
teeming with these organisms.
The nitrifying organism is the one
upon which so much depends in the
publication of sewage and effete mat
ters. On this account its growth
should be encouraged, and it is curious,
therefore, to find that the organism ap-
pears as an Objectionable factor in the
attempt to supply and store an abund-
ance of pure water for drinking pur-
poses.-London Lancet.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1899-12-05
M>1 %, ~ |
G1GAyT23E 21K7'Y!I:TRSIaGISa
Still There Was No Resemblance.

Still There Was No Resemblance.
You don't seem to be able to make
such pies as my first wife made" re-
marked Snooper to his second, as he
shoveled huge pieces of the pastry
into his mouth.
do you look much like the first
Mrs. SnoOper?" asked the second,
rather irrelevantly, by way of reply.
do 1 look like her? That's queer
question. How can a man look like
a woman?''
81 don't know, but 1 thought per-
haps you looked like her, because-be-
cause"
Because what?''
Because you remind me so much Of
her."-Harlem Life.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1899-12-05
Crushed.

Spilkins is college graduate. The
other evening he was calling on a
young lady and they were talking over
the results of the Saturday football
games.
Were you football player, Mr..
Spllkins?" asked the young lady.
''Oh, yes, indeed. 1 was quite star
iin my day"
"Oh, you were. One of those fall
ing stars, suppose"
Spilkins went home early.-Detroit
Free Press.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1899-12-05
To Fit the Day.

Mother-For mercy's sake, what ar
you children doing?
Bertha-We are playing that Dora
is fashionable beauty, and we are only
just admiring her.
Mother-But you shouldn't play
plays on Sunday.
Bertha-Not if we regard Dora as 8
church ?-Boston Transcript.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1899-12-05
Learning Appreciated.

Cultivated Stranger-You advertise
for man who can speak 20 languages?
Mr.. Gotham-Yes, sir. The position
is still open.
MAY 1 ask concerning the matter of
its duties?''
Certainly. I own considerable prop
'erty in New York, and 1 want man
to collect the rents"-N. Y. Weekly.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1899-12-05
Tha Word Won Him

Sprockett-Wheeler seems to o.
stuck on that new doctor of his.
SkOrcha-Yes, he likes his up-to-date-
ness. When Wheeler was sick in bed
the first thing the doctor said wasi
"Oh, We'll have you on your pedals
again in few days. Catholic Stand
ard and Times.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1899-12-05
In Training.

Yabsley-The amount of time you
have put in lodging the fellow you owe
the five is worth more than the money.
NUDGE know it is, but have hope
that some day 1 will owe an amount
worth lodging for.-Indianapolis Jour-
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1899-12-05
9 Gotbam-You don't mean it,
So They Were Married.

Merritt - He was so absent-minded
that he proposed the second time to a
girl who had once refused him.
Cora-How embarrassing.
Merritt-But it turned out all right
She happened to be absent-minded, too.
Town Topics.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1899-12-05
Her Point of view.

He-That tall young man dancing
with Miss Dashing was originally IN
tenued for the church, understand.
She-Indeed! Judging from his ap-
pearah.A L could easily imagine that
he had been cut out for the steep1e.-
Chicago .laily News.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1899-12-05
A Change in Circumstances.

He-Don't you think that girl over
there is beautiful?
She (coldly criticaD-Oh, L don't
know. Who is she?
He-Mrs. Nuter. Just been mar
ried.
She-Yes. I think she is-Guite
beautiful.-Detroit Free Press.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1899-12-05
The Next Best Thing.

Flossie-Mamma, l want some wa
ter to christen my doll.
Mamma-No, dear; it's wrong, you
know.
Flossie-Well, then, want some wax
to waxinate her. She's old enough now
TO have something done to her.-Phila-
.delphia Times.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1899-12-05
Gave Them Their Due.

"They say that at some of those UNI
mer resorts the rooms are so small.
man can't have his valise in with him."
THAT'S not so; 1 got my valise in
all right; but, of course, had to go
out in the hall to open it."-Detroit
Free Press.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1899-12-05
Did YOU win?
Undesirable Remedy.

Jones-Had a tilt with the wife, eh?
Well, don't feel so downhearted over
it, old man. A thunderstorm clears the
air, you know.
Brownies, that may be true, but ii
don't help the man who has been struck
by the lightning.-N. Y. World.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1899-12-05
Her Comforting Reminder.

''Gradually the mementoes of the no
bile red man are disappearing" he eX-
claimed, with pathos. Soon there will
be no trace or memento of the Indian
left
Cheer up, Charley, DEAR" answered
young Mrs. Torkins. ''We will always
have the state of Indiana, you know
Washington Star.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1899-12-05
Poetic FOrethOught.

The poet wrote of summer heat
In verse with mad abuse replete,-
Those savage rawlings, coined to gold,
Bought wood to shield him from the cold.
Detroit Free Press.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1899-12-05
An Evasive Answer.

Banker-Before l accept you as a
.suitor for my daughter, should like
to know how you stand politically
Now, l am for gold.
Suitor-That's what I'm after, sir!-
Town Topics.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1899-12-05
A True Friend

A friend in need is a friend indeed,
When he grabs you by the collar,
And says: ''Old boy, it gives me JOY,
To let you have this dollar"
Chicago Daily News.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1899-12-05
.1ust the Patient for Him.

Young DIR. Fresh--Here comes that
Mrs. Tower. PositiN ely, there isn't the
first thing that ails her.
Old DIR. Sage Evidently you are just
the man for her case.-Boston Tran
sscr.pf.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1899-12-05
In the HurIy-BurIy.

But few can ever hope to have
A pedestal to stand on,
And most of us are lucky if
We find our feet to land on.
Puck.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1899-12-05
wbere a PuII counted.

''Those two dentists have had con-
test to see which one extracted the most
teeth in a mbnth."
''How did it come out?"
"Oh, it was a draw."-Philadelphia
Bulletin.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1899-12-05
Reason for Hi. Weakness.

Mrs. Church-Do you know my hus-
bands afraid to go into a dark room
even now.
Mrs Gotham-You don't mean it!
eyes, 1 do; he fell over a rocking
chair in the dark once."-Yonkers
Statesman.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1899-12-05
Distress.

Autumn twists the human visage
In a melancholy frown
At an unexpected rainfall
With umbrellas all downtown.
Chicago Record
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1899-12-05
A Matter of Regret.

sour daughters eloped with the coach
mani
Cried she, and he answered: How sad
He should thus run away for I'm willing to
say
He's the best one we ever had
--Elliott's Magazine.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1899-12-05
George WAS Slow.

Mae-You know l bet a pound O.
chocolates with George on the cleo.
ton.
.Ethel-Yes. Did you win?
Mae-NO, 1 lost, and the stupid fool
didn't have sense enough to suggest
that L pay him in kisses.-N. Y. Jour.
nal.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1899-12-05
AIack! Alas!

You may kick and you may cuff
The dudelet if you will,
But the odor of the cigarette
Clings round about him still.
Chicago Daily News.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1899-12-05
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The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1899-12-05

what! call this a blooming fares
You're far from a gentleman, mister
"Jusso; but I'm pretty close to q
BLACKBOARD. Ally Sloper.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1899-12-05

Mother Ito Fritz, who is being photo
sgraphed for the first time) cry
so, Fritz! Nothing will hurt you, and
it'll only take minute!
Fritz-Yes, but that's just what you
told me when we were at the dentists!
-Unsere Gesellschaft.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-09-09

find great beds of them in the valleys ard
along the foothills. They are not carefully
cultivated and grow almost Wild. j have
seen them in the cocoanut orchards, but no
where III very large quantities.
Pineapple Farms.
1t does not take a large farm of pine
apples to give a man a good income. In
Florida man can make from $500 TO 1890
year on two acres of piueappies, but il
will cost him at least 5000 an acre TO
get his farm into bearing. 1t is estimated
that you can do the same here for one
tenth the amount and the expense of taxi
ing care of the crop after that would be
nothing like what it is in Fl0risa.
Pneapples must be carefully cultivated.
They are planted from suckers. slips or
buds. which come out of the base of the
pineapple and upon the top. These slips
are set out about three feet apart. SO that
you can grow about $500 pines on one acre.
A pineapple field looks very much like
field of cabbages. 1t is of a salmon color
mixed with green. The whole ground IS
covered, the leaves or blades about the
pineapple reaching out and envel"ping one
another Every leaf is covered with
buckskin gloves in working the crop.
1t is much more expensive to cultivate
pineapples in Florida than in Porto Rico.
There the plants are shaded ny great ar
bors made of Stats laths SO that al a
distance the fields look like a fair ground.
Here the sun is not so hot. there are more
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-09-09

1t Saves Many People From Sickness
by Cleansing the System.

by Cleansing the System.
From the Chicago Chronicle.
In these hot days many people complain
loudly that they perspire too freely, little
thinking that to that fact they owe the
good health they enjoy and immunity from
heat prostration sunstroke. Precipitation
Is essential to health A person in good
health never suffers from the heat or the
cold unless unduiy exposed. One may be
Inconvenience. but it is a condition of
health rather to be sought than to be avoid
ed. Too much Of good thing, however, is
not desirable. Proper OF the body.
proper diet, proper exercise, with proper
bathing, will produce the normal condition
in which condition the heat will not OPP
press any one. Let me especially caution
against the too sudden checking of per-
SEPARATION. Millions of canals and tubes
from the inner part of the body open their
little mouths at the surface and through
these channels, as ceaSeless as the flow of
time, a fluid containing the wastes and i'm
purities of the system is passing outward
and Is emptied out of the skin.
This fluid must have exit or we die In a
few hours. If it does not have vent at the
surface Of the body 1t must have some in
ternal escape. Nature abhors shocks as
she does vacuum. Heat distends the
mouth OF these ducts and promotes a larger
and more rapid flow OF the contained fluid;
on the other hand. cold contracts them
anu eLc uuiu 10 dt arrested, IlSn DAM
med uD and then 1t rebounds If these
mouths are gradually closed nature has
time to adapt herself to the circumstances
by opening her channels into the great in
ternai waterways OF the body and no harm
follows: hence the safety and wisdom of
cooling off slowly after any exertion and
the danger of cooling off rapidly under the
same circumstances Encourage perspira-
auon, under proper conditions and with
proper precautions Always keep the sur
face of the body warm and clean and at
the end of the season You will be mentally
morally and physically sound
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-09-09
CHASED BY 4 TORNADO.
Engine Outruns the Wind in a Wild
Burst of Speed.

| From the Kansas City Star.
The time was May 30, 1879, between and
| Z O'Clock pm. The place was Jackson
county, Missouri, on the Missouri Central,
between Lees Summit and Greenwood.
| l was fireman and Quiet Jack was en-
gineer. We called him Quiet jack be-
cause he never spoke unless it was neces-
sary in the line of duty. He was sober
careful and brave. and was reckoned as
one of the safest men on the road.
On this particular day he running n
special passenger train with a good engine
ana three passenger cars all full. We had
| stopped at Lees Summit for supper, and
moved out about five minutes before e
o'clock. Some rain and hail was falling at
the time, but it soon ceased. We were on
a dawn grade and We're pulling along at
rapid rate, under a light pressure of steam.
We had passed DIR. Huntington 5 house and
the Elm Tree crossing. | saw Jack pull the
sand lever. Then he opened the steam pipe,
turning the steam into the smoke stack.
thus creating a fierce draft through the
firebox. The fire began to glow like the
sun at monday, and the coal melted away
like snow shoveled into river. Jack then
pulled the throttle wide open. and the
CINE sprang forward like hound let loose
in sight of a deer
fast enough now?" Jacks only answer was
a jerk of the head and glance backward
and another tug at the throttle.
l looked back, and there, not over twenty
rods behind us, | saw what made my heart
bound almost out of my body, and drew an
exclamation of fear from my very soul.
a roaring whirling tornado was following
us, tearing up the tracks, and whirlng
rails ties and earth high in the air. And II
ii overlook it W ould set off the track
in an instant, or, failing in that, would tear
up the track in front of us and leave us a
heap OF broken. burning wreckage. The
lives
For the first seven seconds the roaring
writhfng monster gained on US. l fancied l
could hear the hoarse, cruel laugh of the
demon of the storm, and see his huge arms
and red hands as he tore up the rails and
ties and hurled them toward US.
How fast one thinks at such times. Each
second seemed hour to then. Tha
race lasted fifteen seconds, but to Jack and
me IL seemed the half of day.
/ seized the shovel, tore open the firebox
door, and began piling in the coal, scatter
ing it with a turn of the shovel cover the
surface of the fire. just fast enough to make
the best fire and not smother 1t.
AT each push or pull Of the mighty arms
that urged the drive wheels around we felt
the new impulse given.
II seemed as if the engine was being urged
on by some almighty power to still great
er rate of speed.
The first half of the quarter-mile race
was past. We could feel the breath Of the
monster as not rod behind the last car. 1t
came roaring and tearing on Five seconds
more, and it was two rods behind, and, oh,
joy! 1t swerved and left the track.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-09-09
PARIS TO NEW YORK By LAND.
The Remarkable Itinerary of the
Proposed Journey.

From the London Standard.
Reuters Agency is informed that Mr.
Harry de Windt has completed arrange
rnents for an expedition from Paris t. New
York by land 1t will be remenl bered that
the explorer attempted this Journey in the
reverse direction some time ago but all his
plans were frustrated owing to the ice con-
dillon IN Boring straits, and IN the treat
ment which ne and his servant-both of
whom barely escaped with their lives, and
only after much northumberland at
ouIawaidJ-k at the hands ef the Tchuktchi
Chief hQari. Ii is Mr.. de Nindt's intention
70 leave Paris next year. accompanied by
MS vie and his servant Harding. The lat
Ter viii travel right through, but Mrs de
W 4Hut VIII, after accompanying her hus-
bahd as Tar as lrkutsk. in eastern Siberia
return to Europe, and subsequently, meet
-hr. de Nindt at Winnipeg on the concIu-
son Of his voyage in 1891 After leaving
t,dr1s Mr.. lie Nindt VIII travel to Moscow:
thence by train via Siata"lIsk osnsk and
hitsnoyarsk 80 Irkutsk. which place viii
be reached in September There Mr.. de
~ mat Will remain until the beginning of
November. when he viii proceed by horse
sieISh north 10 Gakutsk. There a stay of
tAree weeks viii be made to get together
the dog sleighs, &c. and on January 10 a
start viii be made for East Cape Siberia
on berlng straits, the most uortheasterly
point OF ASIA. The route thither VIII DE via
he
MISSION settlements. From kolvnsk the
Journey Will be due east along the shores
or the Arctic ocean, and by way of Tchaon
bay. Cape North and Wankarem to Easr
Cape which il is hoped Will be reached
about the end of March, 1891
Arrangements have been made for San
francisco whaling steamer 10 meet Mr.. de
what at Last Cape when navigation opens
at the end OF June, until which time he
WIZ I'VE with the Tchuktchis at East Cane
II the Ice conditions allow the Whaler will
convey the explorer TO Herscheu Island in
me Arctic ocean, near the mouth of the
mackenzie river. Entering the Mackenzie
seventy miles from HerschelI IsIand-late
N July, the river will be ascended AS far as
Fort Good Hope by open boat. At the lat
tef place II Is hoped to get a river steamer
Which plies twice year between there and
me lakes and to proceed via Fort Simpson.
treat Slave lake and Lake Athabasca 10
Edmonton, Winnipeg. and New York
reaching there IN October 1901.
In view of his previous experience in that
region, Mr. de Windt is purposely AVOIDING
OumWaidjik, and the chief kaori. Easf
cape, where he will remain for some TIM.
IS fuiiy hundred miles north of o,Inowaid
Jik, and the natives of both places are hos
tiie to one another. 1t is intended to keen a
sharp lookout along the Siberian coast for
any traces of Andree.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-09-09

mountains. They grew several years with
out replanting. | have seen stems As big
around as a mans leg 81 the calf with
leaves from six To eight feat long and over
a foot wide Bananas and TiantainS, OF
large bananas. form the chief food of Porto
Rico. II was the destruction of the banana
crop that has caused the present distress
here. II is the only crop IN fact. that
could he destroyed and create a famine
The poems eat bananas in the place Of
bread. They eat them raw and cooked and
the fat. round stomachs which Won now and
then see on the naked Porto fiC3n babies
are often called banana stomachs. because
they are being caused by banana gorging
How Rananns Pay.
Banana raising Is very profitable I met
q Chicago man in san Juan who told me
he had twelve hundred banana trees on
one acre, with twelve hundred pineapple
trees growing en- the same acre under the
bauaras. This story comes from Chicago.
but there Is no doubt you can really grow
600 or 10 banana plants an acre In
deed. one Of the Porto Iican authorities
states that eighteen acres will produce
llsT3 plants. which should bear annually
more than SS.H't bananas. Now. suppose
the bananas net onc-tenth Of a cent caCn.
which Is certainly low. and you have an
annual income OF $3.50 ont of every eighteen
acres of land. l have seen other figures
which seemed to prove that banana plaNta-
lions might net $685. per acre. bat | should
be afraid to assert this as q fact.
Among fruits which might pay to Guilt
waite are the sIayas. Factories have been
established for making ellava jelly for the
markets of the United States.
Vegetable Gardening.
The probability is that our eastern cities
will soon get their winter vegetables from
Porto Rico. The new potatoes. onions ana
cahhages which come to us from the Bcr-
mudas should be grown here. You can see
ali sorts OF fine vegetables in the Porto
Rican markets ali the year round. l have
seen egg plants in san Juan as big
pumpkins and luscious tomatoes the size
Of your fist. There are squashes of al
kinds ana in fact, every sort of vegetable.
] understand that the Agricultural De-
partinent Will soon establish an expert
mept station IL Porto Rico. II will test
the island to all kinds of fruits and
vegetables and will do everything to de-
Ve'op il along these lines Uncle Sam has
Il large amount of property here which has
come tn MIN from Spain. INCLUDING thou
sands Of acres of land Some of this lend
viii ne turned into experimental farms,
and Wi hin few years we shah know Just
what Porto Rico is and what il can do.
This letter has been written for The man
with small capital. 1t seems In me that
the best opportunity for him here is