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The Republican., 1899-10-26
NOT HIS BUSINESS AT ALL.
Frame Bicycle, But She Had
Him Arrested.

Bewildered, indeed, must have been
the man with views about women and
diamond frame bicycles when he found
himself hauled before a magistrate, as
sailed with a judicial warning to mind
his own business and fined five dollars,
and all because he told a wheelwoman
that no respectable woman would ride
astride a wheel.
1t is and has been since the dawn of
life so much the habit of men to admon-
ish women in general as to their upris-
ings and downsit tings, it is not surpris-
ing that when a man with clear-cut
opinions as to just how girls should go
a-sporting meets with young woman
who is so radical as to prefer a diamond
to drop frame bicycle that he should
condemn an exhibition which to him
savors of immodesty.
Have not he and his fellows for
countless generations defined modesty
for women, who, as sex, meekly ac-
cept their DEGREES; but here this upstart
of nineteenth century girl not only
did not graciously receive his rebuke,
but she declined even to argue the mat
ter. Audaciously she mounted the for
her-indecorous steed, thus affronting
his vision, and away glided she, not
vouchsafing him so much as a look.
She went, however, only to return
with an arm of the law, that grabbed
the rebuker and forced him tribunal
ward.
This dictator will in future probably
confine his offensive remarks to the
women whose misfortune it is to be re-
lated to him. One lesson in public man
ners at a cost of five dollars will prob
ably suffice him.-Nogue.
The Republican., 1899-10-26

fort to reach the sentry box, ran his
head and neck between the soldiers
legs just as the pursuer was on the
point of Selling it. Fortunately the
guard could use his bayonet without
making disturbance, and he did this
to such good advantage that the pur-
suit was soon ended.
The rescued goose, evidently ami.
mated by the liveliest gratitude, rubbed
it's head against it's deliverer's legs and
performed various other joyful and kit
ten-like antics. Then, deliberately TAX
ing up it's residence at the garrison
post, it walked up and down with the
sentry while he was on duty and thus
accompanied each successive sentry
who appeared to patrol that beat.
About two months later the goose ac.
tually saved the life of its particular
friend in a very remarkable way. The
soldier was again on duty at the same
place, and on moonlight night when
the moon was frequently obscured by
passing clouds the enemy had formed
a plan to surprise and kill him. His
feathered devotee was beside him, as
usual, when he paced his lonely beat,
challenging at every sound and then
standing at ease" before his sentry
box. The goose always stood at ease,
too, and it made very comical picture.
But some undesirable spectators-at
least of the soldiers movements-were
stealing cautiously toward the place
under cover of the frequent clouds and
line of stunted pine trees. Nearer and
nearer to the post they crawled, till one
of them, with uplifted knife, was about
to spring on the unsuspecting man.
Then it was that the watchful goose
covered itself with glory by rising un-
eXpectedly from the ground and flap
ping its wings in the faces of the would
be assassins. They rushed blindly for
ward; but the sentry succeeded in
shooting one of the party and bayonet-
ing another, while the goose continued
to worry and confuse the remainder IN
til they fed wildly for their lives.
The brave bird was at once adopted
by the regiment, under the name of ia
cob," and decorated with gold col
lar on which his name was engraved, in
appreciation of his services. Ever after,
during his life of IL years, he did sentry
duty at home and abroad, fer he was
taken to England at the close of the war
in Canada and greatly lamented there
when he died. His epitaph reads:
"Died on Duty" and no human senti-
mel could have been more faithful
than poor old Jacob.
AS it may occur to some readers who
have not made a study of the interest
ing and almost human ways of many
animals to doubt the truth of so re-
markable story, they are referred to
the gold collar, with Jacobs name and
exploit engraved on it, which may still
be seen at the headquarters of the horse
guards in London.
The Republican., 1899-10-26

charge of Russians and Frenchmen con-
nected with political missions and a few
French missionaries. 1t was very hot
work crossing the Hawash plain, and
most of our travelling had to be done
late in the day and into the night,
Afterward the ascent of the central
plateau made the conditions more
pleasant.
"The Abyssinia capital is about five
miles square, and is simply an agglom-
Grafton of round, thatched huts, made
of bamboo and grass, without windows
or chimneys. There are no roads of any
description. The better class houses
are surrounded by stockades. Meme
lik's so-called palace is merely a collec-
ton of Somewhat larger houses Of the
same type. He is now having a few
stone houses constructed by Indian
workmen. For the past two seasons
Capt. Harrington, who formerly resided
at Zella, has lived in the capital. The
British residency consists merely of
couple of large tents with a number of
smaller ones all inclosed in turf-walled
compound. Beside Capt. Harrington,
the one British subject living there is
a man named McKelvy, who has had
an extraordinary career. Formerly an
officers servant, he was one of the
original prisoners of Magdala, and was
tortured among the rest. He elected
to remain in Abyssinia, and for 81 years
he has lived as an Abyssinian. He has
adopted their dress and customs, and
when Capt. Harrington first went to
Adds Abeba he had actually forgotten
his own language. This, however, soon
came back, and he is now employed as
an interpreter at the residency. He
lives in the capital with his Abyssinian
wife, and has lost all semblance of his
own nationality"
The Republican., 1899-10-26
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

The art of starching linen was
brought into England in 1853 by Flem-
ish woman.
The lightest tubing ever made is of
nickel aluminium. Three thousand feet
of this tubing weighs only one pound.
Chill is going to fit up a vessel with
the products of the country, to be taken
to the principal ports on the Pacific for
exhibition.
The English walnut is said to be the
most profitable of all nut-bearing trees.
When in full bearing they will yield
about 300 pounds of nuts to the tree.
The nuts sell on an average at about
four pence per pound. If only 27 trees
are planted on an acre the income
would be about 135 per acre.
The manufacture of carbons for elec-
trio light is very interesting. The
plastic mass is driven out through a
small aperture with the aid of a hy-
draulic press. They are then baked in
furnaces and are automatically electro
plated with copper. The plating oper-
alton is particularly interesting.
At the Paris exposition special effort
will be made to make a striking exhibi-
tion of Indian corn and it's food prod
ucts. 1t is intended to establish in con-
nection with the American agricultural
exhibits a corn Kitchen" in order that
the visitors may be furnished with all
kinds of maize foods. 1t is hoped that
this will increase the market for Amer
lean corn.
According to the Papier Zeitung,
where it is desired to avoid black specks
in paper made in the smoke-laden at
mosphere of manufacturing district
the only effective remedy is the filtra-
tion of the air through a woven fabric
of fine texture. At Scherings works in
Berlin, where Photographic sensitized
paper and plates are made, a circula-
ton of air is maintained by drawing
in air through cloth filters and expell-
ing the same through powerful venti-
lators in the roof.
The Republican., 1899-10-26
GOOD MORNING,

When have slept the night away,
And wake to see the light of day,
rise and dress, and down the stair
trip, and hear from everywhere,
Good morning! Oh, good morning allw
From every lip the same words fall.
And yet learned in school last year,
They do not greet as we do here,
In countries far across the sea,
For children in old Germany
Say: "Guten Morgen! and I'm sure
In sunny France they cry: Bon jour!
And boys and girls in Naples say,
In such pretty, pleasant way:
"Buon Giorno!" and my dear Aunt Jane
Who Travelled long ago in Spain,
Says little Spanish children greet:
'Buenos Dias!" clear and sweet.
And so it is the wide world through.
In Russia, and in Holland, too,
The queer old Turk, the Swede, the Dane
Not one can say: Good morning. plain;
But some strange gibberish instead,
That does not seem to me well-bred;
And only English folk and we
can speak 1t as it ought to be.
So now I'm thinking up plan
To go abroad when I'm a man,
And teach these foreigners TO say
Good morning. in a proper way
-Zitella Cooke, in Youths Companion.
The Republican., 1899-10-26
SAVED BY A GOOSE
Bird Gives Timely Warning to a Sens
try Who Had Saved Her own
Life Before.

Ella Rodman Church tells a very
Strange Story of Goose" in st. Mich
olas-a story that recalls the legend
of the Roman capitol and the cackling
geese that saved it from surprise: This
goose made its first appearance near
Quebec over so years ago, when some
British troops had been sent out to put
down rebellion of the colonists. A GER
tain farm in the neighborhood suspect
ed of being a resort for the insurgents
was surrounded by sentries placed at
some distance apart, and one day the
sentry whose post was near the gate
of the farm heard a singular noise. A
fine, plump goose soon appeared on a
run, making directly for the spot where
the soldier stood, and close behind, in
pursuit came a hungry fox.
The sentry's first impulse was to
shoot the thievish animal and rescue the
goose; but, since the noise of the report
would have brought out the guard on a
false alarm, he was obliged to deny him
self this satisfaction.
The fox was gaining on his intended
prey, when the goose, in frantic ef-
The Republican., 1899-10-26
PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS.

Watts-"What was the worst stern
you ever encountered?" n. Peck-"I
think it blew at the rate of about 300
words a minute. indianapolis Jour
nal.
Bill-"Bob opened one of his wife's
letters" Jill-"Does she feel hurt
about it?" Does she? No; but he
does. You ought to see his head."-
Yonkers Statesman.
Parker-'A man doesn't have to die
in battle to save his country" Collins
No; that's true. Some could serve
it just as well by dying quietly and
peacefully at home. Town Topics.
Squire's Daughter-"Good morning,
Marjorie. How are the twins and what
names are you going to give them?"
Marjorie-"Well, miss, we've decided to
call one Kate and tn other 'Dupli-
kate Punch.
The Motive Power-'What makes the
autocar go, papa?" asked the boy. "At
present" replied the capitalistic par
ent, sit is the good, stiff capital that is
being poured into the concerns. Phil
adelphia North American.
Mrs. Beenwed-'I could never under
stand how Mrs. Spadeface managed to
marry such a handsome man." Mr..
Beenwed-"I should think you would
be able to figure it out from your own
experience. ."-Columbu (O.) Journal.
Prison Nisitor-"Remember my man,
always try to do right" Convict FILA
THAT'S what brought me here" I'm
possible!" mo, sir; l knew fellow
named Wright, and 1 tried to do him.
Now I'm doing time. ."-Philadelphi
Record.
Dick-"How neat Tom always is! His
linen always looks as if it had just come
out of the drawer. And yet | am told
that Tom can't get the money together
to pay his laundry bill" Jack-"That's
the reason he can put on a clean collar
every day. He couldn't do it if he had
to pay for his washing. boston Tran
script.
The Republican., 1899-10-26
PROGRESS IN METALLURGY.
Great Achievements in the Works
of Great Britnin-Many New
Metals.

Of the achievements in metallurgy
which have either been actually effect
ed or are in immediate prospect, Prof.
Sir w. Roberts-Austen recently gave
the following collective statement in
his presidential address to the Iron and
Steel institute of Great Britain. There
are, he said, blast furnaces which will
produce 800 tons of pig iron in "a hours,
with a consumption of little over 15.4
hundredweight of coke per ton of iron,
and the gases from blast furnaces are
used not only as sources of heat, but
directly in gas engines. There are Bes-
semer converters which can hold so
tons of metal, and open hearth fur
naces which will also take so tons, while
lOO-ton furnaces are projected. The
open hearth furnaces are fed with one
ton of material in a minute, by the aid
of large spoon worked by an electro
motor. There are gigantic mixers"
capable of holding 200 tons of pig iron,
in which, moreover, a certain amount of
preliminary publication is effected.
Steel plates are rolled of over 300 feet
in area and two inches thick, and there
are girders which justify the belief of
Sir Benjamin Baker, that bridge con-
Meeting England and France could be
built over the channel in half-mile
spans. There are ship-plates which,
buckle up during a collision, but re-
main water-tight. There are steel ar
mor-piercing shot which will penetrate
a thickness of steel equivalent to over
81 inches of wrought iron. The points
of the shot remain intact, although the
striking velocities are nearly 2,SO0 feet
a second. There are wires which will
sustain load of 10 tons per square
inch without fracture. Hadfield, whose
labors he hoped to see continued far
into the twentieth century, has given us
manganese steel that will not soften
by annealng; while Guillaume has
studied the properties of certain nickel
steels that will not expand by heat,
and others that contract when heated
and expand when cooled. Nickel, GRO
MUM, titanium and tungsten are free
ly used alloyed with iron, and the use
of vanadium, uranium, molybdenum,
and even glucinium, is suggested.
Huge ingots are placed in soaking pits
and forged direct by 12O-ton hammers,
or pressed into shape by 14,OOO-ton
pressers, and there are steel castings
for parts of ships that weigh over 35
tons.-Cassier's Magazine.
The Republican., 1899-10-26
IN MENELIK'S REALM.
A Strange Country Which Affords
Some Odd Contrasts.
Telephone Line Is the Only Sign OF
Civilization in Abyssinia-NO
Roads of Any Description in
the Empires Capital.

A party of young Englishmen, or
ganized by Mr.. Well-Blundell and Lord
Lovat, started last November on, a
sporting and scientific expedition
across Somaliland, says a London let
ter to the New York Sun, through Abys-
sinia, or Shoa, and the country to the
west hitherto quite unknown, thence
to the Blue Nile and back by way of
Khartoum. One of it's members, DR..
Kottlitz, has returned with an inter
esting account of Emperor Menehk's
dominions. He says:
There is a telephone running be-
tween Menelik's capital and Harar, a
distance of about 300 miles. This line,
which is the only sign of civilization in
that portion of the country, is kept by a
FrancoRussian company, in which
Menelik is a shareholder. The stations,
which are about two days march apart,
are mere matched huts surrounded by
strong, high stockades. The dirty
eastern hut, with it's Abyssinian at.
tendant, affords a striking contrast
with the telephone and the instructions
to ring up Adds Abeba.' At one of
these stations, when about half way to
the capital, we heard that Menelik had
left there with his army to receive tho
submission of Ras Mangascia. We then
tried to telephone through to Capt.
Harrington, the British resident at A6'-
dis Abeba. A Frenchman at the other
end of the line tried his best to prevent
this, and it was only through hearing
one of the British interpreters talking
on the line that we succeeded in get
ting through. During the months jour-
ney between Harar and the capital we
were constantly passing ivory caravans
going to Harar. We also met parties in
The Republican., 1899-10-26
MOUSE WAS SMART.
Ate WAX Candle, and That Was
Easy Enough, But How Did
He Get at 1t.

At the end of the bathing season of
1898 candle was left on the mantel-
piece of a family in Pouliguen, France.
When they returned this spring they
found, according to La Nature, that a
mouse had done these things:
Climbed somehow a marble chimney
piece, there being no piece of furniture
near enough to leap from and no way of
descending from above;
Climbed the candlestick itself, which
was of highly-polished silver, over ten
dnches high, with broad flare at the
cup;
Climbed the candle, began eating at
the top, eaten evenly all round down
to the base, leaving the bare wick stand
ing up perfectly straight.
If the mouse had begun at the base
of the candle its weight would have
caused it to topple over. 1t must have
taken the mouse a good many days to
eat the candle down to the bottom.-N.
Y World
The Republican., 1899-10-26
THE YANKEE IN GERMANY.
He Is Regarded by the Germans In
Anything But an Envi-
able Light.

How does the Yankee look in the
German language only three things are
usually connected with the adjective
American; the Germans speak of Amer
lean stoves, and mean a kind of stove
which | have never seen in this country;
secondly, they speak of American duels,
and mean a crazy type of duel which
was certainly never fought on this con-
tinent; and thirdly, they speak of Amer
lean humbug, and mean by it that kind
of humbug which tiourishes in Berlin
just as in Chicago. But the American
man is of course very well Known. He
IS haggard creature, with vulgar tastes
and brutal manners, who drinks whisky
and chews tobacco, spits, fights, pats
his feet on the table. and habtually
rushes along in wild haste, absorbed by
a greedy desire for the dollars of his
neighbors. He does not care for educa-
ton or art, for the public welfare or for
justice, except so far as they mean mon
ey to him. Corrupt from top to toe, he
buys Legislation and courts and gov
ernment, and when he wants fun he
lynches negroes on Madison Square, in
New York, or in the Boston public gar
den. He has his family home Usually in
a sky-scraper of "a stories; his business
is founded on misleading advertise
ments; his newspapers are filed with
accounts of murders, and his churches
with hypocrites.-Pro Hugo Munster
berg, in Atlantic.
The Republican., 1899-10-26
Rabbit Hatches Two SQUADS.

From London comes story of rab-
bit that hatched doves eggs and thus
became the proud foster mother of two
little squads. The rabbit was captured
while very young and put among the
doves because there seemed no better
place for it at the time. 1t at once
made friends with its feathered compan-
ions, and for some reason or other in
sisted upon getting into one of the
nests. So the sitting dove let the rab-
bit attend TO the incubation of her eggs,
but after the young doves came the
mother bird again assumed control and
attended to feeding them.
The Republican., 1899-10-26
CENTER OF POPULATION.
For Another Ten Years 1t VIII Prob
ably Remain Within the BOr-
ders of Indiana.

There stands in lonely rural spot
in Decatur county, a few miles south
of Greensburg, Ind, large granite
movement marking the center of popu-
lation as shown by the census of the
United States of 1890. This monument
was erected by western newspaper
and unveiled and dedicated on May 10,
1891. The accompanying picture of the
shaft is from photograph recently
taken and is at this time of peculiar in
terest, in view of the fact that the CEN
ter of population probably will move
further to the west after the compile
ton of the government census next
year.
Just where its next location will be
no one can tell. Speculation is rife as
to the extent of the shift of the center
of population of the country. Many are
of the opoinion that the western move
ment will be less than heretofore, and
some even declare that the east has out
stripped the west during the past ten
years in the matter of increase of pop
The Republican., 1899-10-26
MARKS CENTER OF POPULATION.

ulation, and that the marker of the CEN
ter will start on return course toward
the horizon of the morning sun. Gov
ernsnent officials, however, who keep
well posted on the affairs of population,
believe that the shaft will continue
westward and that during the next ten
years it will remain in Indiana. Near
Terre Haute has been selected as the
most probable point.
In 1850 this center was at point al
most due south of Parkersburg, w. Va.
Ten years later ii moved over into the
southeastern border of Ohio and for
80 years remained in Ohio, coming, in
1870, to a point near Chillicothe, and
in 1880 it dropped down to almost the
center of OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Com
mercial Tribune
The Republican., 1899-10-26
AnimnIs Tint Change Diet.

Instances of carnivorous animals
turning TO a vegetable diet are rare.
One noted instance is a Scotch deer
hound, which is so fond of peaches that
it will stand on its hind legs to reach
them on the trees. In New Zealand a
parrot took to sheep-killing and eating
and some pigs evinced a preference for
diet of young lamb, while some Aus
tralian sheep become not only car
nivorous but cannibal.
The Republican., 1899-10-26
Country with One Policeman.

There is one country in the world, and
probably only one, which gets along
with single policeman; that is Iceland.
Iceland is peopled by the descendants of
Vikings, including many famous war
riors and heroes, but they are so law
abiding that they have no need of po-
licemen. The solitary officer, in spite
of his great responsibility, has an easy
time. lie is maintained more for orna-
ment and dignity than for use. The Ice
landers think it would not do to have
capital without a policeman, and so
they keep one. This police force is
large in one sense. Its member is six
feet high, oad-shouldered, and hand
somely uniformed.
The Republican., 1899-10-26
Sold Her Art Treasures,

Princess Helena of Orleans, wife of the
duke of Aosta and sister of the duke of
Orleans, has sold considerable part of
her valuables in her Turin, Genoa,
Milan and Paris houses and placed the
money thus realized at the disposal of
her brother, to be used in the Orleans
cause. The pictures and stationery
have been purchased at the various mu-
seums and by English and American
collectors of objects of art.--N. Y.
World
The Republican., 1899-10-26
Ten tongues in one head,
Nina Iin.in n M 4 nnA H. 4
How to Live Under Wafer.

Joubert has solved the problem how
to provide person placed in a confined
space with the practical means of pre-
pairing a respirable artificial air neces-
sary for life. The chemical substance
which he has discovered will purify the
yitiated air of its carbonic acid, it's
watery yapor, and all the other impuri-
ties of eXhalation, and will also restore
to him in exchange just the quantity of
oxygen he requires. Experiments by
the French admiralty have confirmed
his assertions. Six to eight pounds of
the new chemical will insure life to an
adult FOR "a hours in diving bell or SUBJ
marine boat.-Chambers' Journal.
The Republican., 1899-10-26

The Blencoe Qa.) Beacon relates tha,
one of Blencoe's smart youngsters,
while at the home of neighbor re-
Gently, was asked how the baby at his
house was getting on. "Oh, all right" f"
replied the boy. But just think. He
is only three months old and has got
away with nine dollars worth of con.
densed milk. He has cost us enoagh
already to buy good horse"
The Republican., 1899-10-26

Women Little EAfeemed

The Corean woman is so httle es.
teemed that she has not even a name.
In childhood she has a nickname be-
slowed upon her, by which she is known
to her family and intimate friends, but
after she arrives at maturity she is
called thus only by her parents. To the
rest of the world she is simply "the
daughter" or "the sister" of So-and- so.
The Republican., 1899-10-26
Uitlanders.

The various ideas of the number of
aliens in the South African republic are
amusing. Mr.. Chamberlain thinks
there are 100000, of whom $780, 900 are
British. The Times recently went to
the trouble of ascertaining how many
persons are registered on the books of
the Johannesburg Field-cornet. There
were S9.727. of whom a number were
burghers.-African Times.
The Republican., 1899-10-26
XilInge of Rifle Shnts.

Attinghausen, village in the Swiss
canton of Uri, as one of the homes of
William Tell tries to keep up its repu-
tation for good shooting. Out of 500
inhabitants 1S4 men and women are
skilled rifle shots. The first prize in
the last contest was carried off by
15-year-old girl. Her father, seven
brothers and three sisters all shot, the
family taking nine prizes.