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The Republican., 1900-11-29
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

The number of men employed on
British railways is nearly 100000
Relatively to its population, Hart
ford, Conn, is the richest city in the
union.
The cost of carrying a pair of shoes
from New York to London by English
steamers and railways combined is
less than the cost of transit by rail
from Liverpool to London.
At present the greatest distance over
which electrical power is being trans
mitted by wire is IS miles. being car
ried from waterfall at Redlands, Cal,
to the city of Los Angeles to run a
street railway, to light the city and
to furnish power for several municipal
undertakings. The plant was set up
in 1897. 1t has a capacity of 400 horse
power and $4,000 volts.
The cutters of the great glove houses
at Brussels and in France earn even
higher wages than the cutters of the
most fashionable tailors in London and
New York. So difficult is this art of
cutting gloves that most of the prin-
cipal cutters are known to the trade
by name and by fame, and the peculiar
knives which they use in the business
are so highly priced that they are hand
ed down from generation to generation
as heirlooms.
Some wrought-iron girders in a
building in Chicago had to be cut dur
ing repairs to make room for a steel
column, and it was decided to use cleo
tricity instead of the old method of
saving. The girders to be cut were
six in number and IA inches deep. with
one-inch web. To accomplish the
work it was necessary to melt about
225 holes in the girders, and the actual
time spent in cutting all was three
and one-half hours.
Tree planting in the streets is to be
encouraged in Baltimore. The munic-
1pal board of estimates has determined
to abandon the absurd charge of 25
cents for the privilege of planting trees
along the public streets, and to encour-
age the improvement by growing the
trees, presenting them free of cost to
those desiring a tree before their
home, planting them and keeping them
trimmed and in order This plan has
worked successfully in Boston.
The Republican., 1900-11-29
THE WHITE HOUSE IS RICKETY
Staggering and Threatening to Col
lapse Result of Its Use
as an Office Building.

In the plan for building a new house
for the president elsewhere than on
the present site it has been proposed
to utilize the present mansion for Of
fees, writes Col. Theodore A. Bingham,
L. S. A., in urging the adoption of Mrs.
Harrison's plans for enlarging the
house, in Ladies' Home Journal
One plea therefor has been that the
historic building should be left as it is.
This is certainly to be insisted on. But
it is said the mansion is too pure a
piece of architecture to be marred by
additions. This, however, is a specious
argument, since the original design
contemplated side additions, and if the
building in its present state were used
as offices it would be wrecked in five
or six years. Those who have no ex-
perience with public buildings or with
this building in particular have no con-
ception of the wear and tear on pres
ident's office. 1t surpasses that on any
other Office in the country. The pres
ent executive mansion was lightly buist
and is already expensive to keep in
proper repair. Its floor beams are rot
strong enough to endure office use.
Great difficulty has arisen in the past
with the few rooms now used as the
presidents executive offices, and great
watchfulness has to be constantly ex-
ercised. Several times the floors have
threatened to break through. The
stairs have already broken down, one
flight being now supported by chain.
Still, to remodel for Office use only, the
whole interior of our historic executive
mansion would be not only a very ex-
pensive matter, but would fail to meet
the requirements of the case, and also,
it is believed the approval of the coun-
try at large.
The Republican., 1900-11-29
KAISER'S PRESS BUREAU.
Expert Readers Clip What He Reads
Each Day from the News
papers.

There is in Berlin a so-called literary
office" attached to the Prussian min
istry of the interior, which for the last
two years has been under the manage
ment of Herr DR.. Won Falok, a Russian,
or rather a Baltic German. from the
Russian province of &urland, who was
formerly chief editor of the Silesian Ga
zette at Breslau. His chief occupation
is to read the newspapers and make
extracts and cuttings from them, which
are pasted into book, the more impor-
tant or interesting articles being un-
derlined with red or blue pencil to
catch the monarch's attention. This
book is placed on the emperor's desk.
The cuttings oontain articles or ex-
tracts from articles taken from the
whole of the home and foreign press.
The emperor watches the foreign
press in Paris, London and New York
more closely than he does the German
press, says the London Mail. Everyone
acquainted with the German court
bears witness that he has a perfect
knowledge of the standing and general
attitude of the foreign newspapers,
particularly of those countries that in
terest him specially, for political or
other reasons. They are certainly more
familiar to him than are the great ma
jroity of the German papers. In this.
as in many other respects, William III.
resembles Frederick the Great, who
thoroughly mastered the international
literature of his time ia the neUleet of
Prussian publications.
The Republican., 1900-11-29
Daughters of Inebriates.

The second installment of Marie
Bashkirtseff's memoirs falls rather
fiat, though in no way inferior to the
first. Her peculiarities as writer can
be thus explained: She came of race
of inebriates, for Russians drink deep
and strong. Her nervous system was
out of gear. She was never young from
infancy to the day of her death This
is a popularity of the inebriate's child.
Nor had she any receptivity. The sense
of self was so overweening as to block
out all views of the outer world. Her
dresses, notions, dances, fine acquaint-
ances, prospects of cutting a DASH. of
winning fame. absorbed her whole
mind. Charlotte Bronte was also the
daughter of an inebriate (albeit a
Parson); but her nerves were held down
by hard circumstances and she had
the Celt's clear perception of the outer
world. Still, she was unhealthy sub
jective and had fancies. - London
Truth.
The Republican., 1900-11-29
TWO AND oNE-HALF OUNCES.
That Quantity of Alcohol Taken Daily
VIII Make n Drunkard of
Any Individual.

l am assured from observation ex-
tending through so years of profess
sional life that 21s ounces of alcohol
or the equivalent in the finest BRAN
dies, whisky, wines or ales, used daily
for a period of time at all extended,
will not fail to make an alcohol hab-
itue of the most finely endowed man
or woman in the world. The nervous
system surely registers the abnormal
impression, no matter how carefully
the 21a ounces of alcohol may be
taken. Once an habitue and under
the control of the alcoholic mania, the
strongest man or woman becomes inn
potent to escape from the tyranny of
its power.
Thirty-siX years ago two of the
noblest physicians, men of fine native
and physical powers, commenced the
use of two tablespoonfuls of whisky
to induce sleep when overworked.
They were younger than myself. One
gradually lost his standing and prac-
tice and died four years ago. filling
drunkard's grave; the other, pos
sessing great native hardness of con-
stitution, fingers yet, hopeless and
helpless alcohol habitue, whom the en-
tire medical pharmacopoeia nor the
strongest moral aid has availed to
save. = = Two and one-half
ounces of absolute alcohol are equal
in volume to five tablespoonfuls. This
amount of alcohol is found in ten ta-
blespoOnfuls of the purest whisky or
brandy. [ have recently secured the
services of two eminent chemists, who
have analyzed six varieties of the
finest wines, native and imported. [
give the result of these analyses by
volume in common measurements,
each being somewhat less than the
measure stated, to avoid fractional
reckoning: Two of our finest Califor-
mia wines contain six tablespoonfuls of
alcohol in a pint. One much-vaunted
American wine has a little over eight
tablespoonfuls of pure alcohol in one
pint. One brand of port contains seven
tablespoonfuls of alcohol to a pint.
One French wine, imported and much
advertised, contains five tablespoon
fuls of alcohol to pint. The Hghtest
wine. California brand. contains four
tablespoonfuls of alcohol TO a pint
DR.. Greene, in Medical Record.
The Republican., 1900-11-29
THEY NOW KNOW BETTER.
GeOlOgists Have of Late Discarded
the Old Notion About GIa-
cial Movements.

Anew years ago geologists confident
ly asserted that at one period of the
worlds history a great ice CAP came
moving down from the polar regions
and swept over North America as far
south IS latitude 80, carving with it
great bOwlders-which lie about on
slopes and hilltops to this uay to
prove it-and scratching the record of
its movement upon cliffs and lodges.
Then this ice cap kindly melted and
disappeared. This was taught in the
schools, and to doubt it was heresy;
for science, when it takes up with a
theory, is dogmatic, and all biologists
said: Behold, how wonderful is our
knowledge; what secrets we can
wrest from the past!" After awhile
science rather gave up the polar ice
cap theory and land down new dog
ma-that of a single continental ice
sheet for North America.
The recent Investigations of officers
of the Canadian geological survey
prove that the scientists evolved their
glacial theory out of vivid imagina-
ton. 1t has been found that in
northern Alaska there is no evidence
that that part of the country was
ever covered by a glacier-in fact,
conclusive evidence exists that it was
not. At the mouth of the Mckenzie
river is plenty of evidence OF glacial
action, and also that the glacier
which left its records came from the
south. On the western snores of Hud-
son bay are marks of a glacier which
came from the west, and on the east
ern shores of one which came from
the east. East of the Canadian Rock.
les is long belt which shows no evil
dence of ever having been exposed to
glacial action.
These and similar discoveries have
put the geologists 'all at sea-" and
they now have evolved a new theory
regarding the glacial period. 1t is
that one big glacier did not at one
time cover all the North American
continent, but that several glaciers,
moving at different times from dif-
ferent centers of distribution, made
their way in different directions and
left the glacial records which are now
found. They have cen given names
to these glaciers, such as the "Cor-
dilleran glacier" the "Labradorian
glacier" and the 'Keewatin glacier"
Prof Lawson, of the University of CAL
ifornia, in writing on the subject in
the International Monthly, says that
as yet it cannot be said that the sue
cession of these great glaciers in time
has been established well enough to
warrant an unqualified acceptance,
but he seems to have little hesitation
in accepting the theory of different
glaciers moving from different points.
The Republican., 1900-11-29

+. A movement is now on foot among the
IGuor organs of the country to discard
the term saloon as applied to the liquor
business. The reason for this move
ment is given in the following brief
paragraph from an editorial in the
Wine and Spirit News, published at
Columbus, Ohio. The editor of that
paper says:
Through the fanatical agitation
against the liquor traffic the term (sa-
loom associates itself in the general
mind with the word groggery, which
the Older of us remember was in pretty
general use at one time, and sounded
as harsh as saloon does now. We can
institute a reform in this matter.
Let's not recognize the word saloon
at all. 1t isn't recognized in any other
country, and it ought not to be here.
Let's say liquor store. as we say drug
store, hat store, ETC.; say liquor mer-
chant or liquor dealer"
The Republican., 1900-11-29

could be turned asked Fountains
opinion. The Canadian thought for a
moment, and said he thought it could
be done. There were ready hands
which loaded the wheelbarrow, and a
good many bets as to the success of
the effort. When the last of the
bricks had been carefully piled on the
wheelbarrow Fountain. stripped to the
waist, bent to the handles. The mus
cles of his broad back and mighty
arms strained as he lifted them, and
he staggered slightly as he shifted his
grip and braced his feet for the start
off. The wheelbarrow creaked under
the load. but Fountain pushed it
along, now and then wabbling slight
ly to right or left, but never losing
his balance for the prescribed dis
tance, and one foot farther, in order
that there might be no dispute.
On another occasion, quite infor-
mally, Fountain lifted a curbing stone
that weighed 61O pounds. He did this
with comparatively little trouble.
But it was contended by some who
had lost money on his wheelbarrow
feat that there was a good chance to
get grip and a purchase on a curb
ing stone. Afterwards. in harness,
Fountain lifted a weight of LIS
pounds.
1t is claimed that on November 1S,
1881, Fountain defeated an unknown"
from Meriden, Conn, in a lifting
match for the championship of New
England. Fountain keeps his muscles
in working order by swinging a dumb
bell that weighs 1731a pounds, and he
handles it with ease and positive
grace. He weighs 145 pounds and
stands five feet four and one-half
inches. He is an all-around athlete.
The Republican., 1900-11-29
FACTS AND COMMENT.

Noah, who could face the world, was
overthrown alone in his own vineyard.
Rams Horn.
The school savings bank system has
been introduced into the public schools
Of Adrian, Mich, largely through the
efforts of the W. c. T. L. The deposits
for the first week were SAT.
Northern Europe contains the fol-
lowing estimated number of total alb
stainers: Sweden, 100000; Norway,
100000; Denmark, 100000, and Finland,
10000; an aggregate of $4,000 adher-
ents.
Light wines-nothing so treacher-
Gus! They inflame the brain like fire,
while melting on the palate like ice.
All inhabitants of light wine countries
are quarrelsome.-Sir Edward Bulwer
Lytton.
If a dog wants to bark, you can keep
him quiet by holding his jaws shut, but
the bark is still in him. So when you
give a man morphine, he may not know
that he is in pain, but the pain is still
there.-Good Health.
\ temperance restaurant has been
opened in connection with the Jerry
McAll mission in Paris, and reli-
gious roof garden, with daily and Sum
day prayer-meetings has been in
augurated in New York.
Lord Shaftesbury, writing on the
necessity of temperance associations,
said: Il am satisfied that, unless they
exist, we should be immersed in such
an ocean of intoXication, violence and
sin as would make this country unbear-
able"
Reading Mich, which has been with
out saloon since the defeat of local
option in the county. the council put
ting up the bonds to $4,000, seems deter
mined to remain dry. The council has
voted to prohibit the sale of liquor in
the village under the state law giving
Local option to villages whether in pro-
hibition counties or not.
The Republican., 1900-11-29

A liquor dealer of Boston recently re-
ferred to depressing features in his
business as follows: ITO begin with -
he said, there is the multiplication CT
saloons, but OF even more moment in
my mind is the fact that the younger
generation is not drinking as the old
did in the past. No matter how good
socially men were they thought moth
ing of setting in for drinking bouts
at tables or at the bar. Now the av-
erage man, if he drinks at all, either has
it at his house, bought in bulk, so that
the retailer is cut out, or else he drops
in for a drink in hurry and gets out
again. 1t hurts my business. y ia ms
Horn.
The Republican., 1900-11-29
PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS.

No Transfer Issued. - Riggs
''Where did you get that black eye?"
Jiggs-'Told the conductor 1 was
travelling on my face, and he punched
the ticket. Baltimore American.
Snifter-"That Jones baby is the
most restless youngster l ever saw"
Swifter-"Yes; have you heard what
they call 2" Snifter-''No." Swift
er-"Perpetual Motion Jones. Ohio
State Journal
Dusty Roads-"I say, Weary how
did you feel when that dog came at
you" Weary Waggles-"I felt fiat
tered that even he was glad to see
me; but l endeavored to hide my
feelings as much as l could. Boston
Transcript.
Doctor-'I put mirrors in my wait
ing-rooms instead of magazines"
Friend-"How does it work?' Doc
tor-"Fine. People are so fond of
looking at themselves that they come
early so as to have a chance to wait"
Town Topics.
"These are my jewels" said the
mother of the Gracchi, pointing to
her children. With a soulless laugh
Tertius Ballonius, the pawnbroker, re-
fused to lend any money on them,
saying they would eat up the inter
est.-Baltimore American.
Near Enough-Tommy-"Pa, what
does disagree mean?" Pa-"WeII,
when two peop4e think alike they are
said to agree. Now, you can guess
what disagree means" Tommy-"Oh,
yes; that's when only one people
thinks alike. .'-Philadelphia Press.
a Sweeter Parting.-'So you wish
to take my daughter away from me-"
remarked her doting father. well
ah-that wasn't just exactly my
thought" stammered the nervous
young suitor; my folks could per-
haps spare me with fewer pangs."-
Philadelphia Record.
Awkward for -1Im.-Tam-'rm say
in, man, my CART O. hays fa'en over.
VIII ye gle S haund up wi 't?" Jock
-" Deed will l, But yen be in nae
hurry till l get tae the end O the
raw?" Tam-"Ou no. I'm in nae hur-
ry, but l doot my father IL be weary
in" Jock-"An' whaur's yer fai-
ther?" Tam-"He's in below the
hay!"-Punch.
The Republican., 1900-11-29
GENUINE STRONG MAN.
Canadian Athlete TrundIes 300 Brick,
Weighing 1900 Pounds, in
Heavy WheeIbarrOw.

Joseph n. Fountain, who was born
in Quebec, Canada, but has been a
bricklayer and plasterer in Webster,
Mass, for some years, has consider
able standing as strong man. One
of his most remarkable feats was the
wheeling of load of 300 dry, hand
made brick, weighing a little more
than 1900 pounds when the weight of
the wheelbarrow is counted, a dis
tance of 100 feet. An ordinary wheel
barrow load is 55 or 90.
The feat was performed on a wager
Somebody said it could not be done;
somebody else said it could be done.
The man who claimed that the trick
The Republican., 1900-11-29
Not n Wife Benter

"Ihere," said Mr.. Meekton's wife.
81 have won four games of cribbage
and three of bezique."
well" answered he, "that is as it
should be-"
you haven't beaten me a single
game"
81 don't care, Henriette. You know
what little things set people talking.
/ wouldn't for the world have the
reputation of wife-beater. ."-Phila-
delphia Star.
The Republican., 1900-11-29
FREDERICO DEGETAU.

old autonomist party, while the fed
eral party consisted of the democrats.
Mr.. Degetau is lawyer, having
studied in the university of Madrid
He is a member of several scientific
and philanthropic societies and was
one of the founders of the Societe
Franchise pour L'Arbitrage entire Ma
tions. Mr.. Degetau has written sew
eral books.
lie has always bee8 a republican in
politics and since 1882 has taken ac-
tive part in the principal events of his
country. He was one of the four
commissioners sent to Spain in 1896
to ask for autonomy. He was elected
a deputy to the cortes in 1898, and is
president OF the local board of educa-
tion at San Juan.
The Republican., 1900-11-29

Mrs. Hingso awoke suddenly.
"John?"
"Whashyouwant?" ?" sleepily.
There's burglars in the house"
'Let 'em burgle."
you're coward. They'll steal all
the silver"
"Um-um."
They'll take my jewels"
"All right"
Silence for a moment.
"John."
Cant you let me slesp?"
"They aren't in the dining-room. in
an awful voice; they are in the cellar,
stealing the coal"
What" leaping out of bed. "The
scoundrels! Where's my revolver?"-
Syracuse Herald.
The Republican., 1900-11-29
REGULATING A RATTLESNAKE.
A Parable Which illustrates the FOIIy
of TempOrizing with the
Drink Evil.

A farmer once found rattlesnake.
Having caught it and put it in bag,
he carried it home and called his neigh
bors together, saying:
Behold, l have captured a snake,
and it is big and strong; now, what
shall l do with it?''
Then one of the men said:
'This is very harmless looking rep
tile. L think he might be allowed to go
wherever he pleases.'
Another said: My friend, do you
know that this harmless looking SER
pent has sting? Now, therefore, l
move that all people, and especially
The Republican., 1900-11-29
FREDERICK DEGETAU.
First Delegate to the United States
Congress Elected from the Is
land of Porto Rico.

Federico Degetau, of San Juan, Por-
to Rico, has been elected the first
delegate to congress from the island
of Porto Rico to the United States.
The election was held several weeks
ago, and two tickets were in the field.
The republican ticket. on which Mr..
Degetau was elected, represented the
The Republican., 1900-11-29
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WHO'LL BUY?

suggested on seeing the advertisement
of wholesale liquor dealer)
Forty casks of liquid woe
Who'll buy?
Murder by the gallon. Oh
Who'll buy?
Larceny and theft made thin,
Beggary and death thrown in,
Packages of liquid sin
Who'll buy?
Foreign death imported pure
Who'll buy?
Warranted not slow, but sure
Who'll buy?
Empty pockets by the cask,
Tangled brains by pint or flask,
Vice of any kind you ask
Who'll buy?
Competition we defy
Who'll buy?
Dye, to make the soul jet black;
Dye, to make the conscience slack;
Nothing vile do our casks lack
Who'll buy?
National Advocate.
The Republican., 1900-11-29

He-Just as was leaving your house
last night your father met me face to
face.
She-Did you bow?
mo, ducked."-The King.
The Republican., 1900-11-29
Fums-Generating Romh.

Prof. Camphausen, of Amsterdam, is
out with bomb generating fumes that
will make breathing difficult or impos.
sible for distance of 100 yards around
the center of the explosion.
The Republican., 1900-11-29
cities That Grow Most RaDidIv.

The census bulletins confirm the
truth of the statement that the grow
ing American cities are those where
manufacturing can be carried on eco
nomically,-Chicago Chronicle, =
The Republican., 1900-11-29

THERE WAS DEATH IN THE DRINK.
young people, be warned faithfully to
keep out of the way of the serpent lest
they be bitten
This counsel seemed to impress the
assembly favorably.
Then third speaker began in this
wise:
''Since the bite of this reptile is so
very dangerous. | would submit that
it might be well to make certain rules
and regulations; as, for instance, that
he is not to go abroad on the day called
Sunday; that he must not be allowed to
sting anybody who is not of age; more
over, that he shall not be let out of his
cage at all until a council of citizens
shall decide.
''And, finally" said the wise and
thoughtful man, Il suggest that an
oath be administered to our neighb Dor
the keeper of the snake, that he will
faithfully carry out these provisions. :"
Now it came to pass that all the
neighbors were so moved with these
words that with one voice they cried
out: 80 let it be- And so the snake
still lives.
The Republican., 1900-11-29

Some time ago in India an officer who
was parched with thirst was travelling
with his Indian servant where water
was scarce. 1t was evening time, and
in that country the moon throws pc
culiar light upon many things. The Of
ficer saw at the side of the road a pool
of water that looked very clear. He
was STOPPING down tS drink when his
servant called to him: NAY. nay. sa-
hib, lend me your sword" Going to the
pool the servant put the edge Of the
sword into it, when up came the head
of cobra, the most dangerous serpent
in India. The, servant then brought
the weapon down upon the reptile. and
cut off his head. Had the officer drank
of the pool, he would have been a dead
man. There was death in the drink.
How many the serpent drink is de-
stroying every day in our g.eat cities!
Let us be servants for them and show
them the work of the serpeut. AT Last
it biteth like a serpent and stingeth
like an adder" says the Bible-Na-
tional Advocate.
The Republican., 1900-11-29

Milly-I understand that Miss Elder
ly is getting to be very fast.
Willy-Yes; but she'll never make up
the time she has lost.-Smart Set.