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At the opening of me Baltic Canal, he kept kings, princis. diplomatists and visitors up all night in order to have the trium- phal entry of the new waterway take place before dawn. He visited German war-ships in the harbor of Kiel with- out warning and set everyone to won- dering what he Would do next. His vacation journeys are conducted in the same way. He dislikes to be embarrassed with appointments and engagements and prefers to keep his time at his own disposal and to follow his mood. While he was recently at Cowcs he paid visits when his royal relatives were not expecting him. Early one morning he left his yacht and astonished his brother by calling upon him on the battle-ship \Vorth, which was at anchor in the Solent. It was a genuine surprise. Neither the royal commander nor the crew were anticipating a call from the Emperor. He was on the battle-ship and ordering the crew to be mustered before the officers knew what he ‘was about. Then followed one of his character- istic addresses. He reminded officers and men of the great battle after which the ship had been named, and which had been fought on that very day twenty-five years before; and ex- pressed the hope that the heroic valor of the German soldiers would be a source of ins iration for them if they should ever called into active ser- vice. Every one else had forgotten the anniversary, but he had remem- bered it and had found delight in tak- ing every man on the ship by surprise. Activity so abnormal as his is uncom- fortable for attendants and ’officials but it promotes habits of vigilance and self-possession. There is method inhis restlessness and caprices. He has the idea that in a military empire with a million of soldiers either under arms or in training, every one should be con- stantly on guard. ly his own example 5 ho enforces the necessity of unremit- ‘ing vigilance. l ._.___...â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"-â€"- THE INTOXICATING BO‘VL’. Stupefics and besots.â€"Bismarck. That beverage, the mother of sins.â€" Southey. ' The evil is in the drinkâ€"David Lew-- is, J. P. The devil in solutionâ€"Sir \Vilfrid! Lawson. ‘ Liquid fire and distilled damnation. â€"Robert Hall. I consider all spirits bad spiritsâ€"Sir Astley Cooper. The dynamite of modern civilization. â€"1Iou. John D. Long. He has paid dear, very dear, for his! whistleâ€"Benjamin Franklin. Every crime has its origin more or less in drinkingâ€"Judge Gurney. Grape juice has killed more than grape_shol.â€"C. H. Spurgeon, D.D. \\ hile you have the drink you have the drunkard.â€"Goorgc \V. Bain. Drink is the mother of want and the nurse oborune. â€"l.ord Brougham. .Dl‘ll'ik is the greatest obstacle to the diffusion of educationâ€"John Bright. Drink, the only terrible enemy whom England has to Iainâ€"Prince Leopold. Nine-tenths of_ihe cases to be tried arlol caused by drmk.--Chief Justice Bo- vn . Ninety-nine cases out. of every hun- dred_are caused by drinkingâ€"Judge Erskine. . Choose rather to punish yOur appe- tites than to be punished by them.â€" Epicletus. To drink well is a property meet for a spongeâ€"Demosthenes. Every inordinate cup is unblessed, and the ingredient is a devil.â€"Shake- speare. LONDON VAULTS. Great Precautionsâ€"Those “110 Enter Arc Photographed â€"- Registered Keys -- ('89- ‘ .- 5} rural mn- ora holorloun Thlcr The R euer requested us to take charge of a Presentâ€"Some Pccnllnr Incidents. "Few people are aware that a safe. deposit is one of the most interesting the manager of one of London's great- treasures, and secrets. Before relat- ing some of the extraordinary incidents which have come under m: notice, how- lever, it is necessary to explain a little of our system. “For instance, the moment a person enters the establishment an electric 'bell rings in the identification lobby, and the facial experts minutely, though unobtrusively, examine the newâ€"comâ€" er, who is also requested to give his signature and password, if not very well known. “The doors of the strongholds cost £500 each, weigh nearly three tons, and are. fitted with thirteen automatic bolts, which are controlled by chrono- graph time-locks. "These are set every night for a certain time next morning, before which it is absolutely impossible to open the door, even with the keysâ€"a fact which led to the following amuse- ing, though extremely awkward, inci- dent :â€" THE SHERIFF'S PRESENT. "A certain wellâ€"known city sheriff was to be presented with a massive silver inkstand, which was placed with us for a few days. At a quarter past six on the night of the banquet an offi- cial called for the gift, but was horri- fied to learn that the great door was closed, and the time-lock set for nine o'clock the following morning, so that access to the room was simply impossi- ble. The Presentation Committee had a cardboard dummy made as quickly as possible, and this did duty for the genuine article. "Just after the death of a famous general who had deposited a number of valuable papers here, his widow came to me in a state of great excite- ment, saying that the key was lost and her husbands' will was required at once. “Of course, it is utterly impossible to open a strong-room door in the or- dinary way without the renter's key, so I recommended the lady to make a. further search for it, as many, deposit- ors make the same complaint, and. curiously enough lace their keys in such queer places or safety that they themselves are frequently unable to. find them. "This particular key, however. could not be found, so we gave notice to a firm of safe-makers that we required a door cut open, and they sent two ex- pertsâ€"legitimate ones, not burglarsâ€" who_ cut a hole tcn inches by-five, after havmg worked for THREE DAYS AND NIGHTS. That little operation cost the widow considerably over £20. "After this incident we introduced a system of registering keys by means Vof numbered labels, and one of these brought'about the capture of a. no- torious International thief in the fol- lowmg singular manner:â€" "One day a lady and her daughter entered the shop of a great Parisian jeweller, and decided to see some dia- mond tiaras. After having been shown several, they left, saying they were undecided, and some hours after their departure a number of pearl and ruby necklaces were missed, where- upon the police were communicated With, and handed a small bunch of keys, bearing our label, which had beexpfound near the counter. "Finally, we were consulted, and gave the name and address entered against the number of the and her daughter' Were apprehended at King's Cross in their proper char- acter of expert male thieves. “Here is a Mr. Astor’s strong room, the door of which cost £2,000 and is fitted with golden keys. He is very particular, by the way, and always has a man stationed in the corridor to or- . sure perfect privacy while he is in the safe among his millions. est institutions, to the writer recently. the most marvellous mechanism .cver "vet it is the storehouse of heirlooms, invented, turned rnto a menagerie or safe key at the muzzle of a revolver. \Strango to say, the very next day his . tell-tale : keys, the result being that the 'lal'ly" Judge. This one contains the Shakes- arian manuscrips collected by the ole Halliwell Phillips, and valued at £00000. while its neighbour holds a hu're family Bible and an elephant's foo ." QUEER DEPOSITS. "You see we have some queer deâ€" 'posits, but our correspondence reveals something more remarkable. One trav- pair of fully-grown tigers, while a lady asked our terms for the weekly maintenance of a number of prize Hamâ€" and romantic plaCes imaginable," said 5 burgh and cochm cwks‘ Laney thls subterranean palace of steel and mar- ble lit by eelctric light, and fitted with poultry run. “The most unaccountable thing I know of, however, is that we have at least fifty deposits whose owners have mysteriously disappeared. In such cases the rent is paid for some little time, and then ceases suddenly, though. of course, we never break open the boxes or chests, and are entirely ignor- ant of their contents. "A most amusing sight was witness- ed in the genral writingâ€"room, one day, when a gentleman and his wife met, both having had safes here for four years unknown to each other. The lady was in the habit of depositing her diamonds here, and usually wore a paste set, which had deceived her most intimate friends; quite a large number of society dames do the same thing now. "Some deposits are made under very PECULIAR CIRCUMSTANCES. For instance, a very well-known peer, who has a magnificent strong room in his countryâ€"house, recently depoaited over £20,000 worth of jewellery and plate with us, simply because he had dreamed that a burglar entered his bed-room by night, and demanded his house was burnt down. “There can be no doubt as to the absolute security of the deposits, for not only- are there from ten to fifteen locks to open, but armed watchmen patrol the vaults at ni ht, and their rounds are checked y a tell-tale clock. _ _ “Such precautions induce even Con- tinental diamond merchants to deposit their gems here to becalled for by their London agents. A curious fact about these dealers is that their pockets are in most extraordinary places, such as up the back or under_ the arms, and their tailors are continually devising means whereby many thousands of pounds' worth of stones may be car- ried Without the least risk of discovery even in the event of a. personal invesâ€" tigation." STRANGE POST OFFICES. The Curious Places in Which They Are Established. Until quite recently the postal sys- tem in Persia was very loosely con- ducted. It was under the superinten- dence of a. Minister of Posts, who, how- ' ever, does now work the system himself. iEach‘ road is farmed to some merchant :or wealthy person, who pays a cer- {tain sum to the Minister for the pri- lvilcge. and makes as much“ money out :of the business as he can. On the south coast of Patagonia is the most : remarkable postal service in the world. iClose to the shore is a. large sign ipost with the inscription, "Postoffice." lAttach‘ed by chainls to the foot of the 1 sign post is a strong chest, which served 38.5 a postoffice, master, clerk, all in 29110, for many years. The ships passâ€" 5mg through the Magellan Straits send an. boat to the shore to fetch any let- gtcrs that may be. addressed to their places of call. and at the same time lto leave any letters they may wish ‘ to have taken in other directions. In .a small group of islands off the south .coast of Iceland the islanders have a bottle post, which depends mainly on the wind. “'hen the wind blows from ‘the south they put; their letters into well-corked bottle. To insure de- livery, a plug of tobacco or a cigar ut inside, and people on the mainâ€" and are usually on the lookout for and . ready to deliver the letters so dispatch- ;ed, in return for the inclosed remuner- ition. l ..._... EXPLAINING HIS REMARK. ; Do you mean to tell me, sir, that I lhave no proper regard for the truth? I Ihaven't said so; but I will say that ‘if you went into politics the other side mime GIlUL IN SUMMER. NOVEL DEVICES T0 RELIEVE THE SUFFERING OF MANKIND. A (‘oolcr in the (‘ellnr rennet-ted “'flh Ill? Furnace Fluesâ€"Passing Mr Through a flatbed of Flowers, Thereby Cooling, Purifying and Scciillng the .\Ir in the House. \Vlw do we feel warm in the sum- mar i The meteorologists lately made are- velation which mvolutionizes our stand- ards for measuring the heat which we feel against the surface of our bodies. “is do not feel cool or warm in pro- ,portion to the reading of the ordinary thermbmeter. The difference in the temperature~which we feel is really the difference in the temperature of the perâ€" spiration evaporating against the skin. Just as the evaporation of ammonia makes water freeze, the evaporation of our perspiration make us cooler or warmer. This temperature which we actually feel is known as our sensible temperature... If we want to know how hot we feel, not how hot the weather feels, according to this new theory, we must take our readings from a special form of thermometer, whose bulb is always kept moist and in a state of evaporation. ' '1 Thus to keep cool in summer we must create evaporation against our bodies. If this cannot be accomplished by a na- tural breeze, an artificial one may be created... Another method is to lower the temperature of the air by refriger- ation and to receive the coolness by radiation through the air to our tem- perature nerves. ' Summer should be made of material freely ad- mitting the passage of air. \ Besides this exterior heat, man’s average food in twenty-four hours is found to create a supply of heat, which, if applied to a steam engine would lift a. pound throughspace for 6,000,000 feet. 0n ex- tremely hot days the avoidance of fats and other heat-generating food is on this account advised. VALUABLE LESSONS in the art of keeping 0001 may be learn- ed from the specifications of recent pa; tents granted to hundreds of inventors, ingenious and otherwise, who have struggled with the problem for com- mercial purposes. Electric fans are now made more cheaply than ever be- fore, and there is satisfaction in the fact that the energy which an industriâ€" ous person expends to cool himself with an ordinary hand fan, if stored up‘for some regular work would pay for the electricity required to run an electric fan during the same. time. Of course the ideal plan for keeping cool isto have a cooler in the cellar connecting in summer with the pipes and fines employed for distribut- ing heat in the winter. Many minds are stewing over a means of per- fecting cheap and compact coolers for lsuch Success will doubtless re- sult in the line of coolers, utilizmg ev- aporation processes, which may be op- erated as cheaply as heaters in winter, 'and which may be placed in mdiViduâ€" at dwellings. A \Yestern inventor recenin patent,- led a scheme by which he claims he can ’artificially cool a wholccommuimty at llitile expense), At certain intervals he iwould erect skeleton towers, like Wind- mill towers, each hauling an electric ‘trolley wire running from bottom to top. The wire transports peculiarly ,made bombs toashoot at the .topnvhere lthey are exploded. by electricuy. The lbombs contain liquefied carbonic acid igas, which, when liberated by the exâ€" lplosive, will instantly evaporate and se- lvsrely chill the surrounding atmos- phere. . . A Canadian inventor patents a uni- que system by which air passes through 1a conservatory or hotbed of flowers be- lfore being cooled and circulated through the house. By this means the air is not only cooled, but purified by the natural )I‘OCBSS of the plants and scentâ€" ed with be sweet odor of violets, hyac- iinths, lilies of the valley, or what not. Another inventor, claiming to have .SOlV'eAl _ I ‘ V THE HOT-W'AVE PROBLEM. .m - _ - ., l , - ., lhis room contains over £l0,000 ,would have a busy time guessmg be- would construct a large gas envelope wwth ofunique paintingsâ€"a little art gallery, in factâ€"the property of a itween what you said and what you §meant. View or GROUNDS AND BUILDINGS ron ms ronoxro INDUSTRIAL EXHIBITION 10 BE HELD AUG. mm are seer. arm. at. shaped like the section of an orange. Along the lower edge runs a thick pipe of aluminum thickly perforated like the rear spout of a street. sprinkler. To this is connected a hose of light rub- ber or other material which may be screwed to a fire plug or spigota At the ends of the gas envelope are cables fastened to carriages at either side con- taining pulley atuiclnnenls. In dry weather this contrivance may be sent aloft, against the wind, if there be any, being controlled by the vehicles below. iIt can be directed over the t0ps of high . trees. , A person owning sul-hadevice might :go about the sir-eels of the country roads lpeddling rainstorms at rates regulaled 'ai-cording to the length of time the shower lasted. For smaller and cheaper devices pa- itenfs are even more plentifuli An enâ€" terprising inventor recently patented a conirivance by which any person suf- Ifermg from the heat may convert him- self into a living,r fountain of cold, cry- stal water. The conlrivance consists of a loosely fitting collar of rubber and a large basin or dish several feet in dia- meter. The collar fits over the neck and shoulders. It. contains many per- foraiions on the under side. To keep cool by its means the wearer sits himâ€" self in a chair placed in the middle of the basin, connects a hose to the col- lar, and enjoys the continuous passage of a slowly flow' current of any tem- perafure over his imbs and body. The same may be utilized as A SHOWER BATH for cleansing as well as for cooling [nir- poses. But for a shower bath proper, the most tempting dmign depicted in modern specifications is a cylindriral frame of pipes covered with a curtain of some waterproof material. The user alcprl in the centre of the frame, draws the curtains, turns a faucet, and re clothes» celvm against his body the delightful spray of a thousand little water jets protruding from every pipe in the frame â€"np, down,- diang lly and on all sidu. The effect is realLv a cold vapor bath. while sitting upon your lawn in the evening you enjoy the invention of a citizen who utilizes the water power in an ordinary garden hose to turn a rat- ary fan at a high spoile The fan is mounted upon a metallic pedestal, and may be turned to create a current in any desired directionl \Vhile riding up- on your wheel you may further enjoy the breeze from a small fan revolvuig in a guard of network between the handle bars. A friction wheel beneath rubs against the tire of your front whle While driving in your carriage you may enjoy a similar adaptation to your wheels. In fact, you cannot. get outside the realm of automatic fans. It you are in the country, where no elec- tricity is to be had, you may enjoy the comforts of a combination rocking chair and rotary fan or may wear a new-fangled hatâ€"recently patentedâ€"â€" having in the top a fanwheel to be so: tuated by clockwork. ICE CREAM. British lnstlmle of Preventive Medicine Says It Is Deadly. The British Institute of Preventive Medicine has dealt a. deadly blow to ice cream. A very exhaustive en- quiry regarding the nature and adul- terations of this toothsome substance has just been completed by Dr. Man Fadyen and Mr. Collyer, F. I. C. These gentlemen tell us that ice cream has only 26.5 per cent. of solids,.the rest being water; that the solids cons sist of fats, 4 per cent.; sugar, 12 per cent.; starch, 6 per cent.; albuminoids. 4 per cent, and mineral matter, 1-2 per cent. This all sounds well enough, and would lead the unwary reader to think that ice cream was all right, but the denoumcnt comes in the result: of microscopical research. The micros- cope shows thc presence, in London ice cream at least, of bed bugs, bugs" legs, fleas, straw, hair, coal dust, woolen and linen fiber, tobacco, epithe- lial scales and muscular tissue. Even the microscopical examination, how- ever is delectable compared with lhc results of bacteriological studies. Thesi- reveal in street-barrow ice cream t maximum number of 7,000,000 microbe; per cubic centimeter, while the ice cream of the shops has only 1,000,000 . er cubic centimeter. The character of he micro-organisms is extremely mix- ed. There are the bacteria coli com- mune, besides spirillae and putrcfaclive microbes of various kinds. “’0 find no account of a chemical analysis, which would perhaps add the final touch to the pathological picture of the ice cream of the shops. In this country it is known that ice. creams chemically contain a poison known as tyrotox- con. But in London it seems, what with the bugs and the microbes and the filth generally, there is no par- ticular need of further research to prove that the ice cream of the ped- dlers and the streets are not good things to eat. It would be a _mnnifest injustice to the ice cream industry, however, to suppose that the supp y which is furnished to the American public is at all comparable to that which has been investigated by the English authorities. QUICK BUTTER-MAKING. .â€" An Invention That Will ltevolullonlzc the Industry. A new process of butter-making; whereby butter can be produced in a minute, has been invented, and some dairymen cf experience, who have given the matter some study, assert that it will revolutionize the industry on this continent. The inventor is l-Ierr Sal- enius a Swedish-engineer, and is now in successful operation in Sweden, Fin- land and England: The butter is made from sterilized milk, the milk being heated to a temperature of 50 degrees, by means of small cooling frames through which iced water is constant- ly run. The cream which rises is tak- en by a skimmer, and raised to the churning chamber of the machine. The cream is then forced into a tub, which is perforated Willi liny holes, and em- erges with great force onto each fresh layerof cream as it rises, converting it into butler by concussion: The but- ter is then in the form of granules, and is drawn into a; tub, where it is mixed with buttermilk. After a thorough mixing, it is put under pressure in a butler worker and almost all the but- termilk is squeezed. oul .‘ The butter is then place on ice, where it is kept. for two hours. It is then worked over again and made up. VOCAL GYMNASTICS. “It is quite true, said a throat spec!- alist, "singing is very good for- the lungs, and it has, indeed, a beneficial effect on the whole Eyelch For one A thing it expands the lungs as no other form of exercise does. I. say :cxer(?im' adv1sedly, for Singing brings into play a great number of inuydes. You will often hear rmving remmmended as a splendid means of expandin the chest. Vocal exorcism, when carri on in pure air, effect this purpose far more satis- factorily. Besides, the more taking in of so much fresh air must tend to en- rich the blood and so slrrenglhen the whole lxxly.- Therefore, I my, I no mat- terliow poor or small the voi<-e,indulge in at least 10 or :10 minutes’ vocal gym- nastics every dav. YULU' neighbours Won't. like if, I dare say. but we ain't pleas} everybody in this world." TURKEY'S PRESS CENSORSIIII’. The Sultan of Turkey not only has a rigid censorship of the press, but he has ordered that no newspapers be publishn ed until the afternoon. so that the Con- nors willnot have to forego their morn- mg nap in order to supervise them. AN EASY CASE. On what ground do you want a di- vorce! asked the lawyer of his client. My wife graduated from a (“Jklnx mhool and 18 doing her own work. llThere will be no trouble alout it at a , sir. . i_nl_-k-__ln-___ l '1 4 4 l l 4 4 4 ‘1 l 4 4 4 l 4 4 l 1 l l l l l l 1 l AAAAAAA . AMANAAAMMAAA A