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ASH SPORTING NEWS PURCHASES KRUG Formf Crack Third Baseman of the 8cranton Team is Bought By Johnstown. STATE LEAGUE GOSSIP "Heinie" Krug, who played such av phenominal third base for the pennant winning Scranton team in 1906, and who was purchased by Indianapolis in the American Association at the close of the season, has been purchased by the Johnstown Tri State League team of which Eddie Ashenbach is manager. Besides Krug, AshenDacn also landed Outfielder Himes, who played a fair game for Indianapolis last season. Though Manager Carr of the Indianapolis Club, who completed negotiations with Manager Ashenbach, of the "Johnnies," refused to state the reason for giving Krug away it is thought he was Induced to do so owing to the marked trouble which the former Scranton player had with his legs last season. He was compelled to miss a number of games on this account and his general alertness and speed were greatly decreased as a consequence.

With the willow he showed his usual effectiveness and stood high among the American Association batsmen. Manager Carr of the Indianapolis team has decided to retain "Johnny" Seigle, formerly with the Wilkes Bar re team, and who was sold to Cincinnati by Manager Sharrott. Seigle fell off in his batting last season but Carr believes his speed and good Jieadwork are valuable essentials in Keeping his outfield one of the most reliable In the league. "JacK way den, who formerly played in the Tri State, ana later iu duiuu has been bought from Rochester on the money netted through the Johns town deal. Manager Dooley of the "Pent tTps," has signed Edward Long, a Troy 'youngster, who played in the Northern League last season, to play first fcase on next year "utes.

jLong is expected to fill the position' made vacant by the departure of "Jimmy" Kane, who was drafted by the Pittsburg National League Club. Frank Carroll, left fielder of the "Utes," speaks highly of Long's ability and urged Dooley to hook him on his roster. "Mike" Doherty is busy preparing for next season and expects to line up bs strong, if not a stronger Senator lal outfit than he did this season. The i EVEN in this age of miracles it Is hard to realize that wireless communication across the Atlantic ocean has become a matter of prosaic, everyday occurrence. Yet the facta are too obvious and conclusive to permit of any doubt on the subject.

One may file a dispatch at any Western Union or Postal Telegraph, offlce and have it transmitted promptly across the ocean without the use of cables and at rates much under those of the old cable companies. Up to the 17th of October last there was no regular commercial transatlantic wireless service Messa been sent across frequently in the sars intervening between that time and 1901, wheo the first wireless signals between the continents were exchanged. But the inventor as not ready to make practical use of his discoveries across, so wide an expanse as the Atlantic. Marconi and his associates were busy in perfecting the wireless service between shore and nip ana getting ready for a rei w.Miuciumi service entirely across the ocean. Persistent study of me prooiem and one experiment nftr other enabled them to improve appai iiiciuuua ana remove nil stacles to the institution of the facifi iies ior wireless communication proi ieu io me community in general.

The Present Plant. iu oiituuns now in use for the transatlantic service are at Ciifden, Jm ine coast of Ireland, and at Glace Tt. on the Cape Breton coast. Nnva sd tia. The station at Poldhu, Wales, fis usea ior communicating with ships bt co.

vuuia De employed for tre transatlantic service in an mi but the station has not at the preseht time sufficiently powerful apparatus iui me purpose or satisfactory tranl atidnuc communication. The station at South Well Fleet, on the Cape Ced Coast, is SOOn to be omilnnari tr.r Jn receiving transatlantic messages aid transmitting them. 1 Storms do not interfere with the cf Braiiun oi a wireless service across ocean, ine Importance of thin will be appreciated when one remel ubib now a Dig diow is apt to derarge me systems or the ordinary land te. a rapn companies. Neither mounta nor the curvature of the earth ran pede the progress of the mysteries nenzian waves.

Between the potit ui departure or a message at G. Bay and the point of its reception ite muen me curvature of the earth np resents a mass of land and wateil a nunared miles high. The site of the station on niaoA Is a slight promontory about seve xeet aoove the sea level. Thera twenty four pine masts 180 feet hth arranged In a circle of 3.000 feet ameter. The masts are wired and cA peciea with the four towers form me center or the circle.

The towels, wnicn are of wood and 215 feet hi are surmounted by masts fiftv feet height. The main purpose of the tl lo support a network of wir suspended in the air. This multipli THE RdJND Half the Brazil. world's Coffee comes film It IS quite Possible to cn nnmt World and touch on British territoryLll mo way viz, irom England to (ax (Nova Bcotia), across Canada ucross'tne jpaclfle to Hot The Triumph I Senator leader has a. big job on his hinds to replace Raldy, Fox, Fairbanks and Kockill, all of whom have been drafted by ciubs in higher leagues.

Doherty also lost Third Base rran Ingerton and Pitcher Woods but Ts thought the Cleveland management which owns these players, will consent to their return to Albany. It is also expected that "Bill" Clymer of the Columbus American Association team will send Shortstop "Joe" Raidy back to Doherty's outfit as It is said he intends to "stand pat" on his present infield. Doherty as a number of exceptionally promising who 'will be given a trial some of whom look good to him. It is now believed to be a certainty that the management of the Chicago Nationals has decided. to give "Dick" T.

ainor, catcher on the Syracuse team, a trial next spring. Frank Shulte, who resides hear Trainor, and who is a close friend of his, has recommended him to Manager Chance and it is almost positive that the young fellow will accompany the Cubs on their siring training trip. a few days it is believed Manager O'Brien, of the Trojans, will announce that he has arranged with Manager of the Boston Americans, by which "Rube" Kroh, the eccentric southpaw, who was recalled by the Pilgrims last season, will fling for the Collarmakers next season. Waivers pn Kroh have been asked and will without a doubt, be granted so that unless some Class A league club gets the sensational left hander be fore O'Brien, it is assured that he wlil perform along the State league circuit next year. Did it ever occur to baseball fraternity that the New York State league has been doing something in graduating plpyers to the major leagues? In looking over the vraious rosters it is easv to pick out a handsome roster.

With Detroit there are Payne and Fir.t Baseman Rossman; with Philadelphia Americans, "Jimmy" Dygert; witlr New York Harry Nlles, Tom Hughes, Conroy and Jack Neuer; with St. Louis Americans, Arthur Brown and Sweitzer; with Boston, Pat Donahue and' Wagner; with Washington, Bob Ganley and Jim Del ehanty; with Cleveland, Outfielder Birmingham, Outfielder Bill Hinchman and Infielder Bradley; with Chicago Americans, Nick Altrock. And then add the large outlay which has been furnished the higher class organizations by the same underated state league this season. As the time for the beginning of hostilities approaches, more cities for the J. and G.

franchise spring up. The latest to send In a request for the Jags Is Rome, and it Is rumored that Bloomsburg, Duryea, Minooka and Jermyn have some fans who are figuring on sending letters to President Farrell, asking for the franchise. Messrs. Barnes and Coleman are in the same class as Garry Herrmann when the selecting of a manager is THE SCR ANTON REPUBLICAN. THURSDAY.

JANUARY 2, 1908. of Marconi and 107, Nicol, 8 to 5, won; Holy Lass, 107, Lloyd, 15 to 1, second; Arionette, 107, F. Swain, 6 to 1, third. Time, 35 8 5. Cunning, Tolano, Alice, Sain ward, Anna McGee, Chalice, Jessie McCane, and Lightning Flash also ran.

Second race Six furlongs, Al Mul ler, 115, A Minder, 1 to 3 won; Blue Lee, 113, J. Lee, 10 to 1, second; Evelyn, 102, Dubie, 40 to 1, third. Time 1:14 5. Gee Whiz, Hollow, Bucking Boy, Needmore and McAtee also ran. Third race One and one sixteenth miles.

Ace High, 101, A Minder, 11 to 2 won; Orly 107, Mountain, 7 to 5, second; Lancastrian, 108, McDaniel; 16 to 5, third. Time 1:47 2 5. Bright Boy, Okenite, Grenada also ran. Fourth race One mile, Chapultepec, 126, McDaniel, 7 to 20, won; St Ilarlo, 107, V. Powers, 15 to 1, second; Wood lane, 115, J.

Lee, 10 to 1, third. Time 1:40 3 5. Ed Kane, Banridge, Jennies Beau, Feast and Dew of Dawn also ran. Fifth race Six furlongs, Ray Thomson, 102, Warren, 11 to 10, won; Cooney 107', A. Minder, 14 to 5, second; Han Bridge, 92, Dubie, 20 to 1, third.

Time 1:13 4 5. Humo, Don Hamilton, Dr. McCleur and Charley Eastman also ran. Sixth race One mile. and seventy yards.Beau Brummel, 103, J.

Lee, 10 to 1. won: Gambrinus, 106, V. Powers, 3 to 1, second; Delphie, 109, McDaniel, 5 to 1, third. Time 1.46 3 5. Tudor, The Clansman, Glamor, Gold Way, Glow Away, Clara Huron, Alpen marchen, Alagra, Pride, of Woodstock and Terns Rod also ran.

BARRY WANTS A FIGHT. Mr. James McLaughlin, of Pittsburg, who formerly ran the Iron City Athletic club, is in the city in the interests of Mike Barry, of Chicago, whom he wants to match, against George John eon, the colored boxer, or Billy Ryan of Syracuse. Barry tips the scales at 136 pounds and has a number of victories to his credit. He recently fought a fifteen round draw with Jim Donovan, of Syracuse, and defated Tony Connelly of the Saline City in seven rounds.

BASEBALL NOTES. Harrisburg failed to secure Outfielder Jack Hayden from Rochester. Manager Heckert still hopes to get Zimmerman and Pattee, his infielders the Brooklyn club took last fall. Eddie Wheeler, the old time pitcher, may manage a Central league clubnext season. Tom Fleming has several offers to manage clubs next year, and will decide upon one this week.

Trenton Is making a big effort to get away from the Tri Stat league to take the Montreal franchise in the Eastern league. Manager Brown of the Washington club expects great things from Mc Crory, the kid pitcher he got from the Greensburg club last fall. Thayer Torreyson is quite a hockey crack. He and the East Pittsburg contingent pick the pirates to win the pennant. Formal agreement has been made between Southern league baseball Wireless Plaything, but a No tion of wires is necessary in order to obtain a more powerful accumulation of electric energy.

The distance the message may be sent depends upon the extent 'of this accumulation. The electric current is generated by alter nators, and the tension is increased by use of transformers. The building in which the transform ers are located also contains the in strument rooms. From this section of the station a cable runs out and ex pands into fifty two strands. It car lies electricity at a very high potential, and when the operator in the receiving and transmitting room presses a key a roaring crackle is heard in the In strument room.

The sound Is like that of thunder, and the men in charge of the apparatus in the Instrument room have to wear in their ears "devices for the protection of the eardrums from the shock of such a volume of sound. With each pressing of the key electrical oscillations are sent surging out on to the wires and thence into the ether. It is these oscillations or waves, as the wireless experts call them, Which make the recording impressions on the in struments at the receiving stations. The Process a Thriller. It gives even the man who knows little about electrical science a thrill to witness the sending of a transatlantic message.

As the operator presses the key the sharp musical reports heard In the instrument room, accompanied by vivid lightning flashes, form themselves into the characters of the Morse code. One realizes that something remarkable is happening, but it is difficult, Indeed impossible, to take in the fact that slgnala are leaping across the 2,000 miles of space between the continents with literally lightning speed. It has been calculated that only the ninetieth part of' a second elapses from the time when the sending operator in the Glace Bay station touches the key to the time when the instrument in the station at Ciifden begins the making of the record. Such a division of time is so infinitesimal as to be beyond appreciation by the ordinary human sense. In essential particulars the Marconi station at Ciifden, Ireland, is similar to that on the coast of Cape Breton.

The site embraces about 300 acres, principally, bog land, and peat from tne bogs is used In the dynamo house for fuel. The Marconi station at Glace Bay cost about $100,000, exclusive of the expense of experiments incidental to perfecting the apparatus' employed. The service is now in use, generally speak Ing, up to its full capacity. One of the WORLD. kong, thence to Singapore, Penang, Cape Town, St.

Helena and back to England. Tho first touch of cold depresses tho vitality of wasps and often deprives them of the power of flight. In place of the bridal wreath of considered. Though the Scranton magnates have had ample time to look over the assortment of eligible leaders, Tike Herrmann, they have put the matter off, so that the team is still without a manager for next season. Bobby Lowe, of the Detroit Tigers, has been prominently mentioned as tha most likely candidate and Howard Earl who managed the Jags for several years, has also been named as a probability.

Earl, if selected, would surely place Scranton among the sure championship contenders. Wllkes Barre News. REULBACH WILL STAR. 'iChicago Pitcher Center Role in Play Written by Scranton Man. Thomas Aldrich Barrett, formerly a reporter on The Republican and the Truth, has written a play dealing with the national game which is said to contain much merit.

The following dispatch is from Chicago: Chicago is to be honored shortly by the presentation of "The World's Series" with Pitcher Ruelbach of the Chicago Cubs as the central figure. This new play is from the pen of Thomas Aldrich Barrett, author of "The Big Bugaboo," "The Merry Morgue" and other plays. In the latest creation the author has conceived and constructed a plot, and story unequalled. It is said, in modern dramatization. It breathes the great free air of America throughout, is palpitating with American life and American humor, the very counterpart of our people, today with theif greatest popular amuse ment happily featured.

It is said that the Frohmans have accepted the play and will be behind Its presentation. CHAPULTEPEC WAS AN EASY WINNER The Gerolstein Colt Had No Difficulty in Winning the New Year Handicap. NEW ORLEANS, Jan. That Chapultepec is without a doubt the best race horse ever been In this section of the country since the days of LeCompte was evidenced today at City park, when the Gerolstein colt shouldered 126 pounds and won the New Year handicap, the. feature of a fair half holiday programme In commonest sort of a canter.

So ordinary were the odds opposed to the Burlew and O'Neilt colt that it was considered no race from a betting standpoint, the layers nojding him a 1 to 3 favorite. McDaniel sent the colt along at the start and when straightened away for the run down the back stretch he cut out of lead of six lengths with Mc Daniel's body being almost two feet from the saddle. The further the field went the further Chapultepec Increased his margin and won pulled to a walk in 1:40 3 5. The race for second place was more Interesting, St. Ilario and Woodlane fighting it out, and the former getting it.

Summaries: First race Three furlongs, Irfaneh, Longer a illustrations portrays one of Mr. Mar coni's best operators, Mr. Tracey, receiving the first messages at the Ciif den station, wearing a headgear similar to that of the ordinary telephone operator. The inventor has been fortu 'nate in having the enthusiastic cooperation of his skillful associates in the labors, often long and strenuous, connected with perfecting the processes and devices employed in the system he desired to establish. In than a month's time from the completion of the stations at Glace Bay anl Ciifden the wireless telegraph had become a potent competitor of the cabio companies In the quick and accurate transmission of foreign messages of commercial and news character.

At present, even though hundreds of Wireless messages pass every day be orange blossom Germany uses myrtle, Italy white roses, Spain red roses, Greece vine leaves and Bohemia rosemary. More wax comes from Corsica than from any other country of Europe, if not of the world. In former times tho islanders paid their taxes in wax, Aluminium ean now be rolled into on tween Europe and America, these are but a fraction of the total number of transatlantic messages, and the old cable companies have not yet begun to feel the inroads upon their business made by their young rival. But as showing the value of the service already from the practical and commercial standpoint it may be stated that a recent Sunday a New York paper published an entire page of foreign news which had been forwarded by its correspondents through the Marconi transatlantic wireless service. This serviceable sheets so thin that 4,000 laid together measure only an inch in thickness.

The Caspian sea surface, gradually lowering, 13 now eighty five feet below the level of the Black sea, adjacent. Elephants sleep standing in captivity, lying down in their native Jungle, the reason adduced by natural managers embracing the eight club circuit composed of the largest cities in the south to cut salaries of players ten per cent, for the 190S season. Old players are being offered contracts in some instances which show a cut of twenty five per cent. New men are being offered amounts regarded by players as far in arrears of the scale that heretofore prevailed, and as a result few signatures have been attached to contracts. According to players the managers decided on this, course after the league officials had adopted a salary limit of 12,700 monthly, which, by the rules, must not be paid out to more than fifteen players.

The Sporting Life is authority for the statement that a deal has been made between Trenton and Wilmington by which "Sunny Jim" Sebring will be seen in a Trenton uniform next year and Harry Barton goes to Wilmington. Trenton has been wanting Sebring for some time past and he has been anxious to get away from Wilmington. Both Sebring and Barton are good men, Sebring when in good physical condition being one of the best outfielders in the country, a hard hitter and a fast runner, while Barton Is a reliable catcher, a hard worker, a good sacrifice hitter but not strong at the bat Catcher Roger Bresnahan is said to have made a direct appead to Garry Herrmann, president of the Cincinnati club, to make a deal with the Giants by which he could go to the Reds. Bresnahan has sent word to Herrmann that he wants to get away from McGraws' team, and that if he gets a chance as manager of the Reds he will make good. Herrmann, however, still fears public opinion in the event of letting Schlei and Lobert go to Mc Graw's team and has informed Bresnahan that he cannot come to Cincinnati unless some other deal with the New York manager can be arranged.

Stage money is also taint it money. All plain, blunt men do not use stub pens. Steam Heating and Plumbing. F. M.

T. Rowley, 233 Wyoming Eleven hundred fine fowls on exhibition at the Poultry Show. Liederkranz Hall, Lackawanna avenue. It4 a A full supply of the wellknown and popular No. 14 leases on hand and for sale at The Republican office.

9 tf Dyspepsia is America's curse. Burdock Blood Bitters conquers dyspepsia every time. It drives out impurities, tones the stomach, restores perfect digestion, normal weight and good health. FISH yCUT IN TWO LIVES HOURS. Strange Experiments of a Russian Physiologist as to the Nature of Death.

A curious series of experiments on the persistence of life in fishes has been conducted by. Prof. Konliabko, physiologist at Tomsk, from which he Telegraphy; alone meant the transmission of about words. But with the establishment of a regular wireless service across the Atlantic the final word in the science of wireless communication has by no means been said. Mr.

Marconi is now going oh to the institution of a service across the American continent from the Atlantic to the Pacific and of another across Europe and Asia to the farthest limits of the orient. Then will come transpacific communication. Already others than Marconi opera ists being that the "pachyderm imprisoned is always longing for freedom. A medical paper insists the high silk hat Is accountable for numerous minor ailment's and is usually worn in circumstances when the wearer is least able to contend with its shortcomings. What the average man feels about a POL MISS MABEL McKINLEY Great American Sopraao an Kleee of Our Late Prealdeat.

Mr. aad Mr. Gardiner Crane, Agnes Mnhr, Motrin and Morris, Hal Mer ritt, Klrla Ott Brothers aad Klrholnon, Electrvgraph. ADDED FEATUKEi McMaaon's Musical Comedy Offering. i Watermelon Girls and Minstrel Maids POM'S PRICES Evening, 10, 20, Ladies 10c.

Not reserved. New Year's. Evening LYCEUM FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY 3. Denman Thompson's IE Oil HOMESTEAD The Greatest of All New England Plays TWENTY SECOND YEAR. Presented With all the Advantages of the Original Production.

CAST OF TWENTY FIVE PEOPLE THE FAMOUS DOUBLE QUARTET. Priren: 2To to 91.00 Seat sale now on. deduces that even decapitation does not produce instantaneous death of the tissues, but merely cessation of functioning for lack of nutrition and" oxygen supply conveyed through the blood. His most conclusive. experiment was performed by cutting a fish in two just below the heart.

The two parts of the body showed signs of life for two or three minutes in the form of muscular contractions in both parts and attempts to breathe by the upper one. Then they became motionless, but even yet the upper section was far from dead. The professor had reacty a nutritive solution strongly charged with oxygen, and using this he started artificial circulation in the upper section of the fish. The heart began to beat and the gills to vibrate; the muscles became active and the mouth opened and shut. In a wdrd the functions of all the organs seemed to be completely restored.

The fish had not been dead at all, but had merely been suffering from extreme anaemia. This stimulation was maintained for several hours, the fish exhibiting, but in a diminishing degree, all the characteristics of life. Real death gradually took possession of the organism. The cells became diseased or old. The power of the heart, however, was marvelous.

It retained its power to beat. Prof. Konliabko asserts, sometimes for an entire day after all sensitiveness had disappeared from the nervous cen ters. These died themselves after different periods of resistance, the more highly organized ones in the surface of the brain losing power long before the deeper seated ones. The professor hopes to formulate from his observations important the Great Public Utility tors have been "butting In" and "picking up" the transatlantic messages.

Peter Cooper Hewitt in the tftwer of the Madison Square Garden, New York, has listened to the chatter of operators on shore and ships far out at sea, and Professor R. A. Fessenden has picked up messages from Ciifden from his station at Broad Rock, while a boy of twenty in New Jersey, Walter 1 J. Wiilenborg, has done better than any and has actually had the audacity to break in and listen to what Ciifden and Glace Bay, across a space of over 2,000 miles, were saying to each other. More than that, he proposes shortly to institute a transatlantic service of his own, from Hobokeh to Paris, getting his power from an electric light company, and ho promises to send messages as fast as they can ordinarily bo transmitted by wire telegraphy.

silk hat is that It Is often inconvenient, and he has an uneasy presentiment that at the first gust of wind, It will be blown off. The ordinary horse's strength equals that of seven and a half men. The alphabets of the world vary from 12 to 202 letters. That of the Hawaiian language has only twelve let ao and 50c. Matinee, 10 aad 20c Prices will prevail at the Mail 'ACADEMY.

Thursday, Friday and Saturday. Matinees Daily Mittenthal Bros. Present THE CONVICT AND THE GIRL Monday, Tnesdur and Wednesday. Vance and Sullivan Great Story of Adventure and Heart Throbs. "The Card King of the Coast" A Magnificent Picture of Life in the Great Klondike.

Prices. Matinees, 10c, 15c, 25c, Evenings, 15c, 25c. 35c and 50c. COLUMBIA SMOKING CONCERTS DAILY. JANUARY 2, 3, 4.

BOSTON BELLES FEATURING EDGAR BIXLEY. 4 PEOPLE 10 ories as to the essential nature of lift, and the causes of death. He thinks they may help physicians where the general tissues of the body have not lost vitality or organic lesion or a condition of disease which can be eradicated if life can be maintained long enough for the purpose. A Reliable Remedy FOR CATARRH Ely's Cream Balm is quickly absorbed. Gives Reliei at Once.

It cleanses, soothes, heals and protects the diseased membrane resulting from Catarrh and drives away a Cold in the Head quickly. Restores the Senses of Taste and Smell. Full size 50 cts. at Druggists or by mail. Liquid Cream Balm for use in atomizers 75 cts.

Ely Brothers, 56 Warren Street, New York. The question Is sometimes asked, "What gives the wireless message direction after the Hertzian waves art set in motion by the electric energy stored up and released for the pur pose?" Even Marconi cannot tell yott that. The message Is sent into space, and it reaches its destination, but how and why that is still almost as mysterious a problem as the origin of lit itself. EDWARD HALE BRUSH. SOME MORGAN STORIES.

An amusing story is told of Mr. Mor gan's Interest in art. He was stand" ing in front of a picture in an exhibition when a well dressed woman asked him a question as to the subject and the artist. Mr. Morgan chatted freely on the matter and then left the gallery.

Soon afterward the lady said to the proprietor of the exhibition: "I have been much interested in what that man has told me. He must be an art critic, I think, and as art critics don't make a fortune I should like to send him this check." The proprietor replied, "My dear madam, that was Mr. Pierpont Morgan," and later he told the Incident to Mr. Morgan. "I wish you had allowed her to send me the check," said Mr.

Morgan. "It would have been the first money I had ever made out of my hobby." Mr. Morgan is not exactly a handsome man, but he is as big and strong physically as mentally. Some disease which has made his proboscis abnormally large has greatly embarrassed the financier, not only detracting from his physical beauty, but aggravating the apparent ferocity of his manner. Some persons think Mr.

Morgan arrogant, and he is the bete noire of metropolitan reporters, but approached in the right way. he is affability Itself. A "cub" Journalist assigned to Interview Mr. Morgan as one of his first important tasks was so overcome on being suddenly ushered Into the great man's presence as to be rendered absolutely speechless. Mr.

Morgan looked up with a curt "Well?" and still the reporter's tongue refused to work. He stood dumb for another minute, and the "Well?" was repeated. Then the young man stammered i Is MM" and stopped. "What is your business, young man?" Mr. Morgan demanded.

With the genius of desperation the reporter answered, "I I am a a a an el el ocutlonlst." Mr. Morgan roared with laughter and not only told the newspaper man all he had been sent to find out, but chatted with him for an hour in the friendliest manner. Mr. Morgan Is hot always so quick to see the point of a Joke. Soon after the formation of the Mercantile Marine company a printer on the steamship St.

Louis in getting up a programme for an entertainment aboard thought it clever to run a line announcing that the show was given "for the benefit of J. Morgan," not knowing that Mr. Morgan owned the ship. The Jocular printer spent the rest of the voyage in the privacy of his apartment, and when the vessel docked he left it and the company's payroll simultaneously. ters, while that of the Tartars is at the other end of the list with 202 letters.

A very curious Industry which la carried on In China Is the manufacture from tin of mock money for offering to the dead. The pieces are only halt the size of the real coins, but the dead are supposed not to know the dUwr enc 'N mm.