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DREYFUS CASE IN TATTOO.
A tmtb Coichuitn i Bklu Hear* 1*0
Seeae* In the Cato.
A French coachman in Paris la a
walking illustration of l'affaire Drey-
fus. Some time ago he was in one of
the punishment companies in Africa,
and an artistic comrade killed time by
tattooing him all over his body and
l«gs with no less than 120 Illustrations
of the prominent scenes in the case,
including portraits of the leading per-
sonages connected with it and various
allegorical and emblematic devices as
well. Black, blue, red and green col-
ors have been employed, and the work
has been executed with much skill. One
of the surgeons of his regiment offered
him 400 francs for his skin, explaining
that he could remove the surface with-
out pain or risk, and that a speedy re-
covery would follow. The soldier, how-
ever, preferred to keep his hide and
the sketches tattoed on it, and there-
fore declined the offer. So, at least, lis
avers, and the wonderful success of
the performance, which took about
twenty months in the execution, is
calculated to confirm the idea that the
proposal may really have been made.
What may be styled the two "pieces
de resistance" are to be found on the
back, and on the portion of the body
on the other side, which afforded the
most space for the flights of the artist's
genius. On the former the terrible
ceremony of degradation at the Ecoli
Mllltaire is graphically depicted. Three
moiths were devoted to it, and it is
surmounted by a number of allegorical
designs, with hosts of figures personat-
ing goddesses, among whom may be
seen one representing France, pointing
out to the ill-fated captain the distant
lie du Diable. The other ambitious
production gives the spectacle of the
•court-martial by which Dreyfus was
■condemned. Above it, on the left
breast, a dagger pierces a heart, from
which blood is flowing, and on the
■other side Is beheld a serpent in the
act of strangling a man. The arms
are chiefly dedicated to counterfeit
presentments of the generals whose
names were so much before the public
—Mercier, Billot, Zurlinden, De Bois-
'deffre, Gonse and so on—and also to a
portrait of the late President Felix
Faure. Innumerable flags and other
patriotic emblems garnish the thighs
•and legs, and there are other sketches
as well,—New York Commercial Ad-
vertiser.
When iiflby Travel*.
The difficulties of travel with &
•young baby, or "infant in arms," as
the old-fashioned phrase goes, have
not been exaggerated. In summer time
the difficulty often becomes a danger,
because the food supply of a young
•child is a problem, indeed. It is not
■easy to carry milk or prepared foods
•on a railway train; there is always the
■danger of milk souring in hot weather,
or of its becoming contaminated from
^various sources. You can not trust to
Juck to obtain fresh milk at railway
restaurants, and now knowledge of
bacteria and microbes lurking in im-
iperfectly cleansed utensils steps in
to add a fresh terror to existence. The
Ibaby bottle basket prepared for use
In traveling with young infants is use-
ful at all seasons, but becomes especi-
ally so in summer weather. It is a
new device, and comes in four differ-
ent sizes, adapted for journeys of dif-
ferent length. It is also useful as a
nursery refrigerator in summer hotels,
boarding houses, or the home nursery,
and can be used for Invalids or mature
convalescents. It is nothing less than
a compact, portable hamper, strongly
built, a traveling ice box, in which bot-
tles containing prepared food or pure
milk for baby's use can be carried by
hand in train, steamer, or carriage
with convenience. A basket arranged
for travel with four quart bottles meas-
ures 10x10 inches. The bottles stand in
a metal open box, with separate com-
partments for ice. It is said that it is
.only necessary to refill with ice once
in 24 hours in extreme summer heat.
A strong leather strap is passed about
the outside of the little hamper. The
basket has a flat, square bottom, and is
not likely to be upset.
Woman Collector of Custom*.
The only woman collector of cus-
toms in the United States—probably in
the world—is Mrs. A. J. Harris, who
acts in the capacity named at Fail-port,
Ohio. She recently succeeded her hus-
band when the latter became ill and
was taken to a Cleveland hospital.
During her husband's incumbency Mrs.
Harris assisted him with his work.
When he was obliged to give up his
position it was impossible to find one
more conversant with the duties than
Mrs. Harris, and she was named to
succeed him. In addition to being col-
lector of customs Mrs. Harris is man-
ager of the Postal Telegranh company,
manager of the telephone exchange, a
freight agent, and a writer. She makes
a three-mile trip to the Freeport ele-
vator daily, where she checks over all
bonded freight. She has never missed
a day since she was appointed and is
said to be giving complete satisfaction
as collector.
Farmer Tingle says he intends
to put in a crop on his farm this
fall. He has about decided that
wheat will be the proper thing.
EXPLORING ARIZONA RUINS.
ln*Mtl|atlag FrehUtortc Settlement* for
Keoer«t« e# American Antiquity.
Work has been begun upon what,
from an archaeological point of view,
Is one of the most important and In-
teresting undertakings of late ytars.
Situated four miles east of Phoenix,
Aria., are the ruins of what was once,
doubtless, a great prehistoric settle-
ment. One immense pile, about 25
feet high, and 100 feet wide, by 200
feet long, is sur 'ouniied by lesser
mounds, which extend for half a mile
northward and fade away in the river
toward the south. Some of these
smaller heaps have been explored by
relic-seekers and an immense quan-
tity of ancient pottery, stone tools, and
cooking utensils has been taken from
them, while in several instances skel-
etons have been unearthed.
Evidently the walls in these ruined
heaps were all of adobe, a building
material still extensively used, and
the decay and we-thering of hundreds
and perhaps thousands of years have
piled the debris around the lower
walls, which are still intact. The
walls where perfect, protected by the
fallen adobe, are from 12 to 18 inches
in thickness, and the great piles of
debris would indicate original build-
ings of 30 to 75 feet in height, while
the largest pile must have been of
much greater proportions. Authori-
ties who have examined the ruins be-
lieve them to have been built by the
Aztecs, a people thought to have come
up from Peru, across the Isthmus of
Panama, and from whom the Zuni
and Hopi Indians of northern Arizona
are thought to have descended The
ruins, as they lie, help corroborate the
theory that the original buildings were
of a style of architecture still em-
ployed by the Zunis and Hopi* great
houses built in terraces, which are
reached b" way of ladders. The ruins
east of Phoenix are by far the larg-
est of any of the many traces of pre-
historic settlements found in the Salt
River valley, and it is believed the
city once reached further south, until
a large part of it was washed away
by the floods from the mountains, or
covered by the deposits from the floods
of ages past.
SMALL HOR8E8 FOR WAR,
r ay of Heitvj Cavalry on Ul| Chargers
Is Over.
The recent experience In South
Africa proved to the intelligent Eng-
lish mind that the day of heavy
cavalry mounted on slxteen-hand
chargers was almost as much over as
that of the knights of Aglncourt. I
have myself more once discoursed
upon this very theme, and insisted on
the necessity of producing a war horse
capable of more durable service on
worse rations than any now bred in
England, advocating, too, precisely Sir
Walter's plan of breeding from Arab
sires. Nevertheless, the pronounce-
ment of so high an authority on horse
matters as is Sir Waiter Gilbey is an
event of importance, for there is no-
body the English public listens to more
willingly, nor by whom it is more
ready to be convinced. The argument
for small horses in war is one capable
of almost mathematical demonstration.
In every campaign horses have neces-
sarily to put up with short rations,
often with semi-starvation, and the
horse that can do with the least md
worst food lasts the longest, and he
longest lasting wins. If, then, a small
horse can maintain himself where a
big one starves, doing equal or nearly
equal work, the small horse is demon-
strably the better. Apart from artil-
lery and transport, where heavy
draught power will always be needed,
a pony of 14.2, if properly bred—It has
been proved in South Africa—will do
all the work of a horse of 16 hands,
and on equal rations (where these are
scanty) will last twice as long. The
small horse, too, is easier managed;
he is less troublesome to mount under
fire and to dismount from on the
march. This last is no small advan-
tage when men are weary. The
Bedouins on their raids are constantly
up and down, on and off their mares,
running beside them half the night,
and so easing and saving them. The
small horse, too, is a smaller target
to the enemy, is easier hidden in the
folds of the ground, and is easier
stowed on shipboard. He needs a less
stout rope to tether him, a scantier
shelter to screen him in rough weath-
er. It is not necessary to have been
to the wars to know this.—Nineteenth
Century.
The Growth of the Kara.
A scientist has discovered that the
older one grows the longer his ear.s
grow. The systematic examination of
more than 40,000 pairs of ears in
France has demonstrated that the
ear continues to grow in the later
decades of life; in fact, it appears nev-
er to stop growing until death. If one
will take the trouble to look around
in any assemblage of people he will
discover that the old folks have ears
considerably larger than those of the
middle aged. A woman who has
small, shell-like ears at twenty years
will be very apt to possess medium-
sized ears at forty years, and larger
ears at sixty.
Give us your job work,
INFANTILE ACTIVITY.
What Clue Itah? Did In tho l'erlod of
Five Mlnuten.
Small Kathryne, aged 2, left alone
one day 'n her mamma's bedroom,
said to herself: "Oh. won't I have a
great time?" And she certainly did.
She began by taking her papa's neck-
tie-box out of the bureau drawer and
displaying all the neckties on the bed.
where she thought they would be seen
to much better advantage. The box
wasn't interesting, so she threw that
under the bed. Next she took a toy
lamp to pieces, but as that wasn't
quite exciting enough as a lamp-study
she followed it up with even greater
attention to the regular one, threw its
wick out of the window, and poured
the oil down the front of her dress.
Then she picked off the wall about a
half yard square of paper, and pow
dered the bits on the floor with the
I contents of a talcum powder box. The
i pin tray on tlie bureau didn't suit her.
so she broke that in two pieces, and
added the pins and trinkets to the
scraps of paper and talcum powder.
Next she turned lier attention to a
bottle of vaseline and rubbed it on
her face and into her hair. She knew
vaseline was made to rub on, so she
used it that way of course. The con-
tents of a box of cold cream were put
into the paper, powder and pin mix-
ture on the floor. A small bank full
of pennies was going to go in next,
but in getting it down from a shelf it
stuck in a groove, so that had to bo
left out. A shower of photographs lay
around the room in a fashion that
would have done credit to the ambi-
dexterous skill of a Keller or Herr-
mann. This done, Kathryne was just
about to lay hold of her mother's shoes
when that lady herself appeared. The
baby tossed the pair of shoes over her
head backward and said, "See them
go." There was plenty of "go," in-
deed, and all in five minutes' time,
too. Tills is a true story.—Philadel-
phia Times.
Wonderful Suflpenrieri KohiI.
The most remarkable railway in the
world is being projected at 1 xjs An-
geles, Cal. It will be suspended in
midair 3,500 feet above the level of the
sea and will be five miles long. It will
extend from Mount Lowe to Mount
Wilson, two towering peaks of the fa-
mous Sierra Madre range, twenty
miles from Ix>s Angeles. The original
plan for making the ascent of Mount
Lowe was conceived by Prof. Lowe,
the scientist, who established his re-
nown in navigating war balloons for
the federal government. It seems only
natural that such aerial constructions
should find chances of success by ap-
plying the knowledge of the scientist
in one method to that of another. A1
though his first plan wa! considered
impracticable for some time, yet the
end was all realized, and now it gives
promise of more than was claimed for
It by the originator.
Chlnefte Mourn In if.
If a son, on receiving information of
the death of his father, or mother, or
wife, suppress such intelligence, and
omits to go into lawful mourning for
the deceased, such neglect shall be
punished with 60 blows and one year's
banishment.. If a son or wife enters
into mourning in a lawful manner, but,
previous to the expiration of the term,
discards the mourning habit, and, for-
getful of the loss sustained, plays up-
on musical instruments and partici-
pates in festivities, the punishment
shall amount for such offense to 80
blows. Whoever, on receiving infor-
mation of the death of any other rela-
tive In the first degree than the above
mentioned, suppresses the notice of it,
and omits to mourn, shall be punished
with 80 blows; if, previous to the ex-
piration of the legal period of mourn-
ing for such relative, any person casts
away the mourning habit and resumes
his wonted amusements, he shall be
punished with 60 blows. When any
officer or other person in the employ
of the government has received intel-
ligence of the death of his father or
mother, in consequence of which in-
telligence he is bound to retire from
the office during the period of mourn-
ing, if, in order to avoid such retire-
ment, he falsely represents the de-
ceased to have been his grandfather,
grandmother, uncle, aunt, or cousin,
he shall suffer punishment of 100
blows, be deposed from office, and be
rendered incapable of again entering
into the public service.
A Four-Day Voyage to Rurope.
It would require according to recent
calculations printed In the Scientific
American, steamship 935 feet long, 87
feet wide, drawing 30 feet of water
driven at 30 knots by engines having
110,000-horse power to make a four-
day voyage to Europe. Each one of
the triple screws would need an engine
of about 37,000-horse power. The daily
consumption of coal would be about
1,700 tons, or 6.800 tons for the voyage.
The coal bunkers would be filled wtih
a provision of some 9,000 tons. It is
not at all likely that a four-day boat
will ever be built on such a plan. The
newly devised steam turbines give 37
knots to torpedo boats and promise
great speed when applied to large ves-
aela.
American Hoy and His NUt.r,
The American girl is rapidly prov-
j Ing that she is superior to the Amer-
I lean boy iu a great many respects when
It comes to getting an education. It
may not be true that girls are brighter
j than their male fellow students, but it
is undoubtedly true that they are more
j conscientious, to begin with, and that
j counts for much. Then they take pride
in their work, and that is a wonderful
spur to effort. Every high school com-
mencement furnishes proof of the fact
that girls work harder and to better
purpose than do the boys. Almost al-
ways four-fifths of the graduates are
girls, and the great majority of them
go through the twelve years of school
work without missing a single promo-
tion. Some boys are compelled to drop
out of the high schools to go to work,
but in many instances the dropping
out is due to indolence. The American
boy should stand up and give an ac-
count of hi- self. Is he willing to
admit that lie cannot keep up with
the American girl in the race for edu-
cation. either because of inferior man-
tal power; or because he Is lazy and
indifferent to the opportunities that
are presented to liini?—Cleveland
Leader.
Revival of Simple Craft.
Wood mosaics are not by any means
modern in their origin, but the inven-
tion of veneering machinery makes
possible a wider application of the
work which should recommend it. The
method of producing the wood mosaic
pictures is not difficult after the wood-
en blocks are secured. The latter are
thin and narrow, varying from one-
twelfth to one twentieth of an inch,
and the narrow edges of the blocks
must be finely finished and polished. If
one secures tne necessary supply of
different kinds of woods and takes
them to the veneering factory, the cost
of cutting them into the proper sizss
will be small. The woods most com-
monly used for mosaic work, because
of their colors and comparative ab-
sence of sap, are mahogany, the plum
and tulip, the American birch, tho
American and Spanish walnut, rose-
wood, snakewood, bird's-eye maple,
Hungarian ash, box, peach, mulberry,
and laburnum. Others are occasional-
ly employed to produce certain effects
of sky and land.
MAKING IRON NA1I.S.
GREAT SKILL AND ENDURANCB
REQUIRED OF WORKMEN.
Lightning Statistics In United Mates.
About five hundred people are killed
by lightning every year in the United
States. Twice this number are more
or less seriously injured. The num-
ber of deaths from lightning has in-
creased considerably during the past
few years. The greatest number of
fatalities usually occurs in the open.
Some 45 per cent of all such deaths
take place out of doors. Thirty-four
per cent occur in private houses.
Eleven per cent of all the deaths oc-
curred under trees and 9 per cent in
barns. According to these statistics
one of the most dangerous places in a
thunder storm is near a wire or other
metal conductor. A number of women
were killed while taking in clothes
from wire clothes-lines. A line of
this kind should not be stretched with-
in thirty feet of a house. Another rule
is to keep away from chimneys and
open windows during thunder storms.
—Toledo Dee.
■{Hiding the Kent.
There is a little two-story house in
West Philadelphia occupied by two
families, one on each floor. Of late
there has been a marked coldness be-
tween them. The family on the lower
floor sought out the landlady and of-
fered to take the two flats at a consid-
erable increase in rent if the family
above were put out. The landlady com-
plied with alacrity and gave notice for
the upper family to get out. They re-
torted with a counter proposition to
pay more rent than the family down-
stairs and take both flats. So the low-
er fiat family were oruered to vacato,
Then the first family "called the
raise," and again the landlady has
changed her mind. The neighbors are
curious as to the outcome.—Philadel-
phia Times..
- Rone Tree's Great Growth.
In a Ventura garden in California
there is a great i^amarque rose tree
which has made remarkable growth
since it was planted more than 25 years
ago. Its trunk near the ground is 2
feet 9 inches in circumference, while
the main branches are not much small-
er. In 1895 the tree produced over 21,-
000 blooms. There is a great production
of roses at Los Angeles and Pomona,
and rose t.re«s that bear between JO,000
and 12,000 blooms at a time are said to
be common In southern California. At
Royton, in the Oldham district of Lan-
cashire, there are three giant Marechal
Niel rose trees at Stockfleld and Street-
bridge belonging to Mr. Mellor and L.
Baron respectively, from which 30,(100
roses were cut. From Mr. Mellor's tree
at Stockfleld, which was the largest
of the three, 15,000 roses were cut and
sold in one season.
Conducting Oriental Studies.
Professor Hinckley (J. Mitchell of tho
Boston University School of Theology,
has gone to Palestine, where he will
spend a year as director of tho Ameri-
can School for Oriental Study and Re-
tea rch.
Work of the Pnddlara—A Gtlnipa* of
the "Squeezer" and the "Murk Rolls"
Iron at Welti Ing Heat Is i'assud to
the "Plate Rolls."
One of the most important industries
in Central Pennsylvania, both as re-
gards excellence of product and num-
ber of persons employed is the Wll-
liamapart (Pa.) Iron and Nail Worka,
on the South Side. The market for the
output Is the world. The visitor to the
Wllliamsport nail works sees tons
upon tons of steel and pig iron piled
about outside the buildings. The first
I stage of the process in the manufac-
ture of Iron nails is the taking of
| some of these pieces of pig iron and
throwing them into several puddling
; furnaces, in which great fires burn.
The fires are produced by gas and they
j are always burning excepting when
a furnace needs repairing. Above the
furnaces Is an arrangement which
converts the gas that goes up through
tho pipe into power for running the
machinery of tho works. In one of
these furnaces tho pig iron is melted
to a liquid, when the impurities run
off. leaving only the pure Iron, which
is supposed to he without fle"k or flaw.
The puddler who tends a furnace has
a job which requires great skill and
endurance. With a long iron bar
which he inserts through the doorway
of file furnace he separates pieces of
metal as they become lumpy, and com-
poses them fnto lumps of the s'ze re-
quired for the next process. This man,
Just as the others who manipulate the
heated metal, is lightly clothed, but
the sweat pours from his body In
streams, and the great muscles in his
arms and chest swell and recede with
the laboriousness of his task. Yet
these men are all excellent specimens
of strength nnd health. The most re-
markable thing about the work is that
it does not destroy or even impair the
eyesight of the employes. The process
of melting iron in a furnace corre-
sponds closely to the boiling of taffy
on a kitchen stove, and when it gets
lumpy the taffy process Is carried out
still farther, and only the pulling is
done while the iron Is red hot. One
of the lumps, weighing about 200
pounds, is dumped out into a truck
and taken quickly to the "squeezer,"
a corrugated cylinder revolving within
a drum, which shapes the metal into
cylindrical form about three feet long
and one foot in diameter. Then the
piece of iron, still red hot, Is grasped
by a pair of tongs suspended from the
ceiling and shifted over to the "muck
rolls," a series of rolls of different dis-
tances apart, which gradually roll the
iron as it Is passed through them Into
a long, slender stick of wrought iron,
called a muck bar. The muck bars are
passed on and are cut by a great pair
of shears, propelled by machinery, into
proper lengths for piling. The lengths,
now cold, are tied into piles in the
form of cubes, which in turn are
thrown into the great heating furnace
to be heated to a welding heat and pre-
pared for tho "plate rolls." The muck
rolls transformed the crude Iron into
a bar; now the plato rolls will trans-
form the pile made up of pieces of the
bar into long, thin plates. The proc-
ess is the same as making the muck
bar, except that the rolls here are
broader. With a pair of tongs sus-
pended from the ceiling and manipu-
lated by a skillful pair of hands one
of the piles is taken from the furyftce
when it lias been heated to the proper
consistency and run through the vari-
ous rolls, until it emerges at the other
side, squirming and undulating like a
flaming serpent. It is now the thick-
ness of the nail for which it is Intend-
ed, about 14 inches wide and 12 or 15
feet long. The plate hardens quickly
and is passed on immediately to an
automatic plate shears, where It is cut
into proper widths, corersponding with
the various lengths of nails. After be-
ing weighed the pieces are taken in
wheelbarrows out to the nail factory
proper, where they are cut into nails
from three-fourths of an inch up to
nine inches in length and proportion-
ate thicknesses. Before being put
through the nail cutting machines the
pieces are heated In another furnace
which makes them yield more easily
to the strong steel knives which cut
them up into nails at the rate of any-
where from 60 to 160 a minute, according
to the size of the nail. These machines
are operated by men and boys, but
they require little tending, as, except-
ing for the very large nails, they aro
self-feeding and almost entirely auto-
matic. After being cut 'he nails are
placed in a revolving metal drum,
called a "bluer," which is heated red,
and by this simple means they are
given a fresh blue color.—Pennsylva-
nia Urit.
Notwithstanding the report that Alice
Neilsen Is under contract with Charles
Frohman for next season. Frank L.
Perley claims that he still h is the little
prima donna's voluntary signature to
an agreement that is to hold good so
long as the Alice Nielsen opera com-
pany is maintained as an organization,
the title to which Is the property of
Williams & Perley.
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