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HERMAN SCHADK, T>30 Wells St. chlcago, ill. H A Future Ellen Terry. Richard Mansfield has discovered a girl in whose bosom burns the fires of dramatic genius, and he has the gra- clousness not only to say that she will some day make a great actress, but that £he may become to him what Ellen Terry is to Sir Henry Irving. This from Mr. Mansfield means much. He has never, been noted for his lavish commendation of the work of his fellow-artists, and when lie conde­ scends to voluntarity rise and remark that a second Ellen Terry is-On tlie horizon it means that the recipient of the compliment must indeed have more than ordinary talent. Alice Pierce is the name of the young woman who has won such high praise. She is a mere slip of a girl, just past MR. MANS FIELD'S 16-YE AU-OLD GENIUS her sixteenth birthday, and hails from Troy, N. Y. On the stage she looks the child she really is. Her slim, gaunt, undeveloped figure, with its serious face and big, piercing eyes, by no means reveals the fires that are be­ neath. Her early paths in the dramatic art were not different from those of ordw nary beginners. Amateur theatricals, little plays at school and similar enter­ tainments served to awaken in her a desire to do something serious. Mans­ field's company was in the city one day. and she went to his ,hotel and told him of her ambition. The famous acto:* must have been in a particularly gra­ cious mood, for he listened to her re­ citing and then offered her a place in his company. She has advanced with marvellous rapidity, and in his New York produc­ tion of "The Merchant of Venice" was cast for the part of Jessica. She has played the part before during the pres­ ent season, and the dramatic critics have taken to her most kindly. Mr. Mansfield personally coaches her in her work, and he certainly would not make the prediction he did unless the prospects held out rosy promises for its fulfilment. S. N. U No. 10-97 Current, Condensations. Cucumbers were originally tropical vegetables. There are 180,000 suicides yearly, and increasing. Palm leaves on the Amazon grow tliirty feet long. The giraffe has a tongue almost eigh­ teen inches long. In 1801 the country produced 8,279,- S70 tons of pig iron. Thirty-two thousand varieties of goods are made from wool. Ninety-one per cent, of the farmers in Utah own their farms. The thread of a silkworm is one one- thousandth of an inch in diameter. An entomologist estimates that there are 240,000 varieties of insects in the world. There is said to be but one British home remaining where the old feudal custom is observed of guests and ser­ vants all dining together on Christmas night and the dance afterward being led by the hostess with the gamekeeper. Those who declare that the earth is gradually drying out and that within a few centuries every drop of water will have disappeared from our planet, will find consolation in the announce­ ment that the water line has risen one foot all around the Gulf of Mexico since 18o0. According to some recent statistics on the cost of living, an Englishman spends on an average .$48 a year for food, a Frenchman $47, a German $42. a Spaniard $33, an Italian $24 and a Russian $23. Of meat the Englishman eats 109 pounds a year, the Frenchman 87. the German (54, the Italian 2(5 and the Russian 51. Of bread the English­ man consumes 380 pounds, the French­ man 540. the German 500, the Spaniard 480, the Italian 400 and the Russian 035. Limits of the Universe. Prof. Simon Newcomb, in a recent paper, discussed the question of stellar distances. He said the stars of small magnitude were evidently not as re­ mote from the earth as their faintness would indicate,uand this fact seemed to warrant the inference that the visible universe has a definite limit In spaea. Animals Imitating Plants. Not long ago Prof. Yen-ill exhibited to the members of the National Acad­ emy of Sciences in New York some beautiful examples of mollusks, dwell­ ing in the Sargasso Sea. that imitate not only the seaweed among which they live, but eveii the parasitic growths found upon the weeds. Music'ft r the Denf. At a meeting of the Royal Society in December Prof. McKendrick describ­ ed a method by which it was possible to stimulate electrically the sensory nerves of the skin "so that some of the elements of music rhythm and, intensi­ ty--might be perceived and even enjoy­ ed by those who had become deaf." A Gitrantic Pear-Tree. A famous pear tree, which had lived nearly six centuries, near Toulon, was destroyed recently by a violent wind­ storm. The trunk was nearly twelve feet in circumference. Monsieur Clia- baud, the proprietor of the ground oil which the tree stood, after correspond­ ing with nearly all the botanical so­ cieties in Europe, could learn of no pear tree equal in size and age to this one. How Fast Can Uuclcs Fly? While measuring the height and ve locity of clouds recently, Messrs. Clay ton and Fergusson, of the Blue Ilill Observatory, observed a flight of ducks passing across their base-line ' in the Neponset River valley. With tliel'.' theodolites they succeeded in measur­ ing the height of the ducks above ground, 058 feet, and subsequent obser vations enabled them to calculate the velocity of flight of the birds, which was about 47.8 miles per hour. Transmission of hlectric Power. The world-wide renown of Niagara Falls has lent peculiar distinction to the great electric power plant recently installed there, but the American Ma­ chinist says that "in so far as the Ni­ agara plant is a long-distance one the work done up to date has been sur­ passed in several instances, both in the distance covered and the amount of power transmitted." Many of the greatest electric power plants are among the Rocky Mountains and on the Pacific coast. At Fresno, Cal., a reservoir on the brow of a near-by mountain supplies the heaviest head of water yet used for such a purpose, 1,400 feet, and the power is distributed over a distance of thirty-five miles. In some of the Western1' Installations the water, after serving its purpose in generating electric power, is utilized for irrigating laud. i.vV'.-? Seeing Might-Side Up. The lenses of the eye produce on the retina an inverted image of objects looked at, and the question is often asked, "Why do things appear right- side up when their images are wrong- side up?" It occurred to Mr. Stratum, of the University of California, to try the effect of preventing the inversion of images on the retina. This was ac­ complished by means of an optical in­ strument which excluded from the eyes all light except that which passed Mirough the instrument itself. The in­ strument was adjusted to the eyes at 3 o'clock one afternoon, and was not removed (except at night, when the eyes were bandaged) until noon the next day. At first, to the person whose eyes were thus treated, everything seemed topsyturvy and illusory, and the mind instinctively tried to imagine objects to be in the posiion in whicb they ordinarily appear. After a time, however, the feeling of the unreality of what was seen passed away, and the person experimented on even began to imagine everything that lay outside his field of vision to be arranged in the same way as what he saw. This goes to show that habit and experience counteract the effect of the inversion of Images in the eyes. Animal Wars. Twenty-five years ago the mongoose, the great enemy of snakes in India, was imported into Jamaica to destroy the rats which were devastating the sugar-cane and other crops of the isl­ and. Having exterminated the rats the mougoos next attacked poultry aud all kinds of game, as well as snakes, lizards and turtles, and finally even began to feed upon sugar-cane, banan­ as. pineapples, etc. But at length, ac­ cording to the account recently pub­ lished by Prof. Duerden. of Jamaica, the tables were turned against the in­ vader. What its larger foes could not accomplish seems to have been done by ticks and other small insects. The natural euemies of these pests having been driven off by the mougoos the ticks multiplied enormously, until even liUman beings suffered from their attacks. The little pests tljen fastened upon the mongoos, which within the past few years has notably diminished in numbers. And uow, as the mongoos gradually disappears, the snakes, birds and lizards are beginning to return. traveler's dogs, though the baboons were ready to fight with any creature that attacked them, man only except­ ed; and he owed his exemption solely to the fact that the baboons could not ofte^i gain a point of vantage. The ^naturalist himself was once stoned out of a pass in a very tew min­ utes by these creatures, who sprang upon ledges and stones, looked down for a few seconds on the valley, growl­ ing, snarling and screaming, and then began to. roll down stones with so much vigor and adroitness that the in­ truders took to flight. The baboons evi­ dently knew the value of co-operation, for the naturalist saw two of them combine their efforts in order to set a particularly heavy stone rolling. One monkey, bent on making the most of his missile, was seen to carry a stone up a tree, that he might hurl it with greater effect. On the occasion when the dogs at­ tacked the'baboons, the baboons were crossing a valley, and as usual during a march, the females and youug were In the center, the males heading the column and bringing up the rear. As the dogs rushed upon them, only the females took to flight. i • The males turned and faced the en- emy, growling, beating the ground with their hands, and opening their mouths, so as to show their glittering teeth. They looked so fierce and ma­ licious that the dogs--Arab grey­ hounds, accustomed to fight, success­ fully with hyenas and ,other beasts of prey--shrank back. -By the time they were encouraged to renew the "attack, the whole herd had' made their way, covered by the rear guard, to the recks, one six months' old monkey alone ex­ cepted. „ This little monkey sat on a rock, sur- rounded by the dogs, but he was not long left in liis perilous positlou. An old baboon stepped from a cliff near by, advanced toward the dogs, keep­ ing them in check by threatening ges­ tures and sounds, -picked up the baby monkey and carried it to a place of safety on the cliff, while the whole crowd of baboons watched the act of heroism and shouted their battle-cry.-- Youth's Companion. OLD PRACTICAL JOKES. Scene of Confusion in King George's Court. A practical joke may be defined as one in which merriment is produced or sought not by words but by action, practiced upon a fellow-creature- com­ monly an offensive or annoying action. Even if harmless, it holds up the suf­ ferer to ridicule, aud intelligent human beings do not need to be told that such conduct is reprehensible. But if the joke be well contrived, sufficiently humorous in idea nnd neat­ ly executed, we do not care so much as we should if it fell under the "practi­ cal" class. Who would not have liked to be present at the royal masquerade when Heidegger, master of the revels to George II., was confrouted by his double? The-Duke of Montagu had obtained a cast of the great man's face. From this he caused a wax mask to be fash­ ioned and colored. Heidegger's tailor supplied a fac simile of the new and gorgeous dress he was to wear, and the duke engaged an actor to play the part. He told the band, at the last mo­ ment, to strike up "Charley Over the Water" at His Majesty's appearance instead of "God Save the King." They hesitated. But it was indubi­ tably Heidegger--features, voice, clothes, and also imprecations when the conductor demurred. So the king heard that treasonable air, perhaps for the first time, on entering. We can faintly imagine the tumult. Heideg­ ger rushed to the band, struck the con­ ductor, set him playing "God Save the King," and rushed back to apologize. Next moment he returned to the or­ chestra, equally furious--that is, his double returned--ordering the band to resume "Charley Over the Water," and the bewildered musicians obeyed. There was never such a scene in the presence of royalty. The officers of the guard in attend­ ance made a dash at the band with swords, but those iu the secret blocked the way. Heidegger, dancing round the king, made inarticulate protesta­ tions and excuses, whilst His Majesty stormed and threatened, making for the door. The situation became peril­ ous. So the counterfeit stepped ^fon­ ward crying, with passionate indigna­ tion, "Sire, the devil has taken my like­ ness to undo me! Look at him!" Heidegger saw his double, gasped, gibbered and fell senseless. One may think that louger and more compli­ cated "business" might have developed from such an ingenious hoax, but for a dramatic situation of its class this could not be beaten. In some parts of South America good folk store all the glass aud crockery broken in the twelvemonth, and at car­ nival time put it into a sack attached to the lofty balcony by a stout cord, not quite loug enough to reach the ground. When a desirable victim pass es beneath, the sack is quietly let go­ to be stayed, with a hideous crash, upon his very heels. It is credibly re­ ported that foreigners unprepared for this jest have tumbled headlong at the shock and others have taken to their beds with ah attack of fever. These are rare triumphs. Tide Force as Motive Power. The scientist and Inventor have long contemplated the feasibility of harness­ ing the tides in the service of man. No one doubts that it cgn be done. It is only a question whether the results and the cost would be commensurate. According to the Dally Mail, B. Morley Fletcher, aC. E., a young engiuee^of Westminster, England, has hit upon a plan of utilizing, if not the tides, at least wave motion, which seems sim­ plicity itself. While a guest on board of the yacht belonging to the Mersey docks and harbor board in the autumn of 1895 the motion of the great gas buoys which mark the channel through the bar of the Mersey attracted his at­ tention. It was a calm day aud a sea' to correspond; yet small .Is was the rise and fall of the swell it was suffi­ cient to lift these enormous masses of iron, weighing some six or seven tons each. t The problem was how could this rise^jtnd fall be utilized as motive power. Mr. Fletcher believes lie has solved it in this way: A tube is,placed in the sea. leaving a few feet, above the water level; attached to it a't a"cer­ tain depth below the surface is a plane or table; having attached' to it a pump barrel, which also works around the tube immediately below the buoy. The inventor; claims that by this simple contrivance it is possible, to develop electric energy, do tlie work of a hy­ draulic engine, raise water .for flushing sewers and cleansing streets, etc. The invention,will before long be practical­ ly tested on a sufficient scale, for St is stated that Maudsley. Sons & Field, Of Westminster Bridge road, have under­ taken the construction of the necassary plant. Always Asks the Woman's Age. Li Hung Chang has again furnished London with the chief amusement of the week. His principal entertainment has been to interview everybody who has tried to interview him. It is un­ kindly suggested that iu this matter he is geting into training for his meeting with American reporters, but as his quizzing of women is even more embar­ rassing than his questions to men, the impression has got abroad that the genial viceroy is slyly amusing himself at the expense of the despised conven­ tionalities of civilized society. Thus on being presented to the wife of Mr. Hi­ ram Maxim, his first question was as to her age, and tlie next was: "Do you believe in the efficacy of prayer?" Li has explained several times that the most polite inquiry one can make, ac­ cording to Chinese etiquette, is to ask a lady her age, and, he adds, without a trace of a smile, "she always replies truthfully."--Ijondon Letter. Don't Give Wny to Despair, Although you have suffered for a liyij; timo from malaria, dyspepsia, kidney trouble, nervousness or biliousness. Know that Hostetter's Stomach Bitters has cured Worse cases than yours, and Is potent to help you as.lt has helped hosts of others. Hut al­ ways remember that trite saying, "Delays are*dangerous." Mole hills grow to be moun­ tains In consequence of disregarding It. Check disease at the outset with this incom­ parable defensive medicine. Rope. A cOrk-core floating rope has been de­ signed. The inventor claims that his floating rope of one inch in thickness will stand a strain of more than 1.000 pouuds. The rope consists of a core of small, round,, corks, about three-quar­ ters of an inch long, placed end to end. round which Is a braided network of cotton twiue. This is surrounded by another layer of strong cotton twine, braided in heavy strands, which is about a quarter of an inch thick. 8100 Ketvnrd, SlOO, The reader of this paper Vill be pleased to learn that there Is at least one dreaded disease that, science has been able to cure iu all its stages, and that Is Catarrh. Hall's Catarrh Cure is tlie only positive cure known to tlie medical fraternity. Catarrh being a constitutional dis­ ease, requires a constitutional treatment. Hall's Catarrh Cure Is taken internally, acting directly on tlie blood and mucous surfaces of the system, thereby destroying the foundation of the dis­ ease, and giving the patient strength by building up the constitution and assisting nature in doing Its work. The proprietors have so much faith iu Its curative j)owers that they oiler One Hundred Dollars for any case that It falls to cure. Send for list of testimonials. Address. F. J. CHENEY & CO.. Toledo. O. CS^Sold by Druggists, 75c. Nerves and Teeth. Bad nerves and bad teeth will be found to go together in an extraordin­ ary number of cases. The bustle and bustle of our modern life, which is also trying to the nerves, has an equally detrimental effect upon the teeth. Baboon Soldiers. Man is not the only afcimal who car­ ries on his warfare by means of or­ ganized bands, and calls in the forces of nature to assist him. The German naturalist and traveler, Breton, wit­ nessed in Central Africa fights that were conducted in as orderly man­ ner as if the warriors had been really men, instead of only somewhat like them in form. - The actors "in the play were baboone, and their enemies were in one case the M & Tne "Soo Canal." The "Soo Canal," a familiar collo­ quial designation for the Sault Ste! Marie Canal, connecting the waters of Lakes Superior aud Huron, is famous in the history of canals and canal build­ ing:. Begun in 1855, by the1 State of Michigan, it was subsequently trans­ ferred to the United States Govern­ ment, since which time very great im­ provements have been made. One lock, said to be the largest in the world, is over .">00 feet long and 80 feet wide, with a lift of 20 feet. A much larger lock was projected and Is now nearing completion on the site of one made in 1855, the later structure being 1,000 feet long, 100 feet wide and 21 feet deep. The importance of this canal to lake navigation may be judged from the fact thai it transports every year a larger tonnage than the Suez Canal? between the Mediterranean and Red Seas. In the census year it bore 25,- 000,000 bushels of wheat, 2,500,000 tons of iron ore, 105.000,000 feet of lumber and great quantities of coal. One hundred drops from a medicine dropter make one spoonful. , Free Farm liabor Bureau. In order to assist the thousands of un­ employed men in Chiep^o, the \\ orking- men's Home, at 42 Custom House place, has established a Free Labor Bureau, and is prepared to furnish men to fanners and others in all parts of the country without expense to either. Employers applying should state definitely as to the kind of work, wages lo be paid, and if railway fare will be advanced. Address, Labor Bureau, Workinginen's Home, 42 Custom House place, Chicago, 111. Tel. Harrison 243. VQ The fall in the price of sugar, caused by improved processes of manufacture, and the enormous increase in the amount of beet sugar are, no doubt, re­ sponsible for this increase. When Ovid was in love with Nesbia he hoped that "this flesh would dissolve to dust" if he did not love her more than any man loved woman; which was a good deal to sa3T. Coughing Leads to Consumption. Kemp's Balsam will stop the cough a: once. Go to your druggist to-day and get a sample bottle free. Sold in 25 and 50 cent bottles. Go at once; delays are dangerous. Quito, Ecuador, is the only city in llie world in which the sun rises and sets at 0 o'clock the year round. The reason of this is that it is situated exactly on the equator. No-to-Bao for Fifty Cents. Over 400,000 cured. Whv not let Js'o-To-Bac regvijato or remove your desire f> r tobacco? Saves money.make- health and m nhood. Cur • guaran.eed, 50c and $1. :,11 urugglst-i Lane's Family Medicine Moves the bowels each day. In or­ der to be healthy this is necesaatr. on tbe * * * eadache. Acts Cures sick on the liver and kidneys. Price 25 and 50c. To close our hearts against a brother,, is 'to shut heaven against ourselves. 1 Plso's Cure for Consumption is the best of all cough cores.--George W. Lotz, Fa- baeher, La., Aug. 26, 1895. : ' • • , The man who controls himself, may. hope to reform other men. American Dressmaking. Felix says, A.npi*riean, dressmakers make better dresses thttn the French dressmakers,; put better, materials Into them, fit; them just jisj'well, sew them better, and then, lie siayjt, spoil thetn by- too. notriclraewing--much-of what L can't translate better^thau calling It "cut-and^driedness." The" French studj- effects,!and let-the details take care of themselves. But they pay a great deal : of attention todetails of one sort, if not those of another. The Frenchwoman doesn't ca^e whether the stuff is cheese­ cloth or^sarfh, side-plaited or gathered. so long as it makes her look well, but she dotes on ha'virig"vher lingerie, her gloves, her shoe«. "her veils, her entire j outfit, perfectly au fait. . J . j T- The French miind. adores elegancies, j -very thought, It goes into raptuyes over its own de^1 wor" an^ action vices iu garnitures. French workwomen takes vitality 'like to do decorative yyprk in dressmak- from the blood; every nerve; muscle, ing, but they hate tp^uish the inside of bone, organ and tissue depends on the a bodice as our American dressmakers • blood for its quality and condition, feel that they must finish their work, j ^ , J"\. Therefore pure- blood is absolutely Blood Anybody who has eycr tried to make a hat dr bonnet:kiiows that she not iufre- j quently secures^ good effect in the trial ( arrangement, and spoils it all when the ' sewing is done by making it look'stiff i and ugly. Thp French do hot believe ] in much sewing, .and by eschewing ;is ]< much of it as they can they do get j graceful, airy effects that are quite, their own. : *. -A • < \ . Shoe Soles. - A new shoe sole is being tried in tlie.j - German army, it consists, it Is said, of ] a kind of paste of linseed oil varnish, with Iron filings, with which the soles of the new shoes are painted. It is said to keep the leather flexible, and to tlieslioegreater resistance than the best nails. Already, in many regiments, nails made of aluminum are used, in­ stead of the ordinary iron qjiils, and are, apparently, found satisfactory. ' WHKN bilious or costive, eat a Cascarst. candy ca­ thartic, euro guaranteed. XOe, 25c. Spring necessary to riehfe Ifieuiune living and healthy bodies. Hood's Sarsaparilla is the great blood purifier and the best Spring Med­ icine. Therefore it is the great cure for scrofula, salt rheum, humors, sores, rheumatism, catarrh, etc.; the great nervine, strength „ builder,' appetizer, stomach tonic and regulator.; :vl JUST try a 10c box-ot CasrarMs, candy cathartic, fin­ est liver aud bowel regulator made. Sarsaparilla six for $5. Prepared only by C. I. Hood & do., Lowe'.l, Mass. Get Hood's and only Hood's.' - Hood's Pills taken after dinner aid digestion. PENSIONS, PATENTS, CLAIMS. JOHN W. MORRIS, WASHIN6TON.O.GL Late Principal Examiner V. 8. 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