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THE TIMES SUNDAY SPECIAL JULY 4, 189T. 27 SUNDAY MOENING, PRINTS A WORD AT ONE STROKE LOOK OUT FOR THE GIANT SQUID THE RADDATZ SUBMARINE BOAT MYSTERY OF THE NORTHERN SEA THE LARGEST STEEL CASTING SIXTY MEN IN SIXTY MINUTES THIS IS THE RECORD CLAIMED BY LAMAR FONTAINE AT NASHVILLE. NEWEST' THING IN GYCLE NOVELTIES A SUCCESSFUL CIRCUS ON WHEELS GIVEN FOR CHABITY. wmW GYMKHANA THE CURIOUS TYPEWRITING MACHINE THAT HAS JUST BEEN INVENTED. GOOD THING IF SUCCESS Will 'Save Typewriters a Vast Amount of Work How the Kin-chine is Constructed and Operated.

Smaller Than the Ordinary Machine. The typewriter girl will be saved a heap trouble if the invention of George K. Anderson, of Hrooklyn, who has just patented new typewriting machine, proves a success. In the past numerous attempts have been made by Inventors lo devise a practical machine which would rite words at one stroke instead of single letters. Much clever work has been done in this direction, but up to WORD AT A SINGLE TOUCH this time there lias been no machine in the market which will accomplish the work.

Karly in the history of the typewriter there were also many schemes for making machines which would do stenographic work. Some of these were embodied In metal, and others got only as far as drawings, which mnv or mar not have reached the Patent Office. Others still never got outside of the heads of the inventors. That there is a held open for each of these classes of machines there can be no doubt. The machine invented by Anderson Is meant to take the place of ordinary shorthand writing, at the same time making a record which can be read by any one.

Mr. Anderson says that In ids studies. 1 1,1 ml. aue p.epa 'hine, be found he speed of opc ng ordinary typewriter was eleany limited by the fact flint but one key could be touched at a time, and but one character printed at a time, while with each of these operations the feeding and shifting mechanism had to be moved. Hy a fingering system which would bring all the fingers Into play these operations might lie hastened, but not enough.

On the other hand. If all the lingers could he niiule available at once to select the letters for a word and then the word be printed with a single stroke of the hand, he believed thai the necessary speed would be obtained to take speeches, testimony, or correspondence from dictation instead of having to use pen or pencil and shorthand characters. This is the kind of machine lie has made. The whole all'air occupies a space only six Indies square and goes into a case which is only two inches deep, after the roll of paper is removed and its holder folded down. The machine and its case weigh only about two and a half pounds.

All the letters nnd characters that are to lie printed are to be found marked upon the sixteen keys, which lie next to one another within the four outer keys. If you press upon any of these keys without touching either of the outer keys, you will find tli.it. von have printed uie n-iu-i which is marked on the end nearest the ope- rator. Now. if you want to print any on-! letters In file second line, you can do it by pressing at the same time upon one of th" cuter keys, which are marked "con's line or "vows line which bring forward either the consonants or vowels as they may lie wanted.

So, also, with line Figures are printed by using the lingers of the right hand whiie pressing a lever at the left of the head of the machine. It will lie noticed, also, that the sixteen keys are so arranged that they can be readied and operated in pairs, so that one ting can press clown either one or both keys of each pair. At work the palm of each hand rests upon the outer shifting keys, the little lingers upon the next shifting keys. Hie third, second and first fingers in order upon the next keys, and the thumb upon those which are cuisiered at the front of the centre of the machine. It is not contended that accurate spelling can always be done, or that writing can be produced' which would do for correspondence: but it Is always possible to do phonetic spelling, and at each stroke to print either the whole of a word or a great part of it.

The printing apparatus is cast on segments of a circle, like those used In the Hammond typewriter, but very much smaller. These segments lie Just over the back ends of the kevs, with one line of letters over each key. Tiie shifting keys merely turn those segments to expose the proper line of type, and then when the keys are pressed they bring the paper nnd Ink ribbon up against the typo and make the imprint. With each movement the paper is fed forward the width of a line. Settling the Hoy's Career.

An old Dutchman had a beautiful boy, of hom he was very proud, and he decided to tind out the bent of his mind, lie adopted a very novel method by to test him. He slipped Into the little fellow's room one morning and placed on his table a Bible, a bottle of whisky and a silver dollar. said he, "ven dot hoy comes in. ef be dakes dot dollar, he's goin' to be a beesnlz man: ef lie (lakes dot ltlble, he'll be a lireaclier; ef lie dnkes dot whisky, lie's no goot he's goin' to be a drunkart," and he hid behind the door to see which his sou would choose. In came the boy.

He ran up to the table and picked up the dollar and put it in ills pocket; lie picked up the nnd put It under Ids arm; then he snatched up the bottle of whisky and took two or three drinks, and went out smacking Ids lips. Tho old Dutchman poked his head out from bc-l and exclaimed: "Mein gracious he's going to be lioil- Her lteason. Maud "When we were out riding on our Idcyelos yesterday Harry put his hand on my shoulder a moment. He pretended lie wanted to help me along. 1 made him take it away Immediately." Irene "That was right, dear." Maud "Yes.

It was the only thing to do. His hand is so large and ugly, you kmVv." Chicago Tribune ruralyzins Coolness, "Your pocket-book, young de- mantled the footpad, as he reached forward. "Haven't any," said the young woman, "this Is a hand-book." And she walked away leaving him para-lvzed by her coolness. A Solemn Warning. "A I.elpslc professor tins discovered that Ink contains a dangerous quantify of pathogenic bacteria." "Gimme that Item.

I'll save It for tho spring poets." Cleveland Plaln-Dealur. mam-- IT IS A SEA MONSTER THAT TURNS UP EVERY NOW AND 'THEN. HASARMS ONEHUNDRED FEET LONG It is the I. Sea Animal In Existence, Though Little is Known About Him Found in All Sens, But Most Common In the Indian Ocenu. There is a monster in the North Atlantic waters which would well-nigh depopulate the summer residents of any seaside resort if it should turn up off shore.

It i not semi-mythical like the sea serpent, hut a marine creature well known to science. At the same time, it has not been known at all until recently, which seems strange In view of the fact that it is the largest aniiii.il in exist- i''i5 THIS MACHINE WILL PRINT AN anno brwinrr Ipnrtll when full irrowil of not I less than lisi feet. Such is the calamary, or giant sepiM a monster so enormous and so incredibly fero cious that the scientific data respecting it might well furnish material for a child- haunting nursery tale, without any addition iio.i.-tiotrl.ot It ha roliulillcd until i unknown, bv reason of its habit of dwelling in the deeper seas. 1 litis the stories told about it have been received it tl increnuiiiy. cm.

now mm iu specimen ot tins strange ano leaiim gemii" docs approach the land. An instance occurred on October 'Jtl. 1-7. when two fishermen were out In a small boat near the east of Uelle I land. in Conception Hay, Newfound- Tliey saw a strange object floating on the water and struck it with a galT.

instantly Immense ann-s over the boat, trying to seize its assailants. One of the men. Tlieoplnlus Picot. cut off both arms with an ax. whereupon the creature moved otf rapidly, darkening the water as it went with an inky fluid.

A piece of tentacle severed by ihe ax was obtained from the fishermen and presented to Yale College, where it is now pn-served. It Is seventeen feet long and one foot In diameter. From careful estimates it is judged that the calamary to which It belonged must have had a body ten feet long wllli tentacles thirty-two feet In length. On September 111'. 1.V77, a giant squid of about equal size was stranded on the north i s-horo of Trinity Pay.

me I'nited States National Museum secured a I cast of It in papier macho, which now hangs from the roof of that institution in Wash- ingtou. painted, it looks just as the animal did in life, of course it was hut a baby, its total length being only uixty feet including the tentacles. The huge greenish eyes, each a foot ill diameter, had to be 1 made expressly for the paper-pulp monster. The giant calamary has eyes larger by far than any other existing annual, nej are 1. I 1 ie aigest llllllicr iinnMli-M intinded for seeing in depths, where light Is scanty.

Figure to yourself a pulpy animal weighing about tive tons, with a lnly length of fifty feet. Provide it with eight tentacles thirty feet long, which are used for carrying prey lo the nimilli. Furnish it with two additional tentacles K' fed in length for purpose of attack. Don't forget the greenish than dinner plates. Give the creature a gigantic siphon, with which it propels Itself backward by cupeling water; from Its body.

Furnish it with a bagful of inky fluid, by means of which it is enabled to darken the water when frightened. Add, a diabolical disposition and an Inclination to attack human beings on fight, and you have fair description of the dreaded giant equitl. "Dreaded." do we say? Dec idedly; the i term Is scarcely strong enough. True. It; is ini-clv that the animal turns up in North-j cm waters, thought it haunts them; but in trunkal sens it Is a terror, Indeed.

Itsj favorite habitat is the Indian Ocean, where! fishermen al ways have to lie on their guard i against attacks by such creatures. The' lonelv toiler of the sea knows not at what moment he may sec a monstrous cica.ure i with huge goggling eyes rise out of the depths and fling across liis boat a gigantic I tentacle armed with scores of suckers so powerful that nothing short of horse-power 'can pull thein off from an object to which thev have hi-cn once attaihcd. He lias In I readiness a keen-edged kn'fe, with which to! slash off lie tentacle before it can seize him; hut he must work quickly, for the frightful beast has another arm lo help him in the attack, and it Is scarcely an even light between one or two men and a sea devil will an arm reach of feet. The poor once grabbed and held fast by the horrible sucking tentacles, is drawn Into the closer embrace of the beast's eight other arms, likewise provided with suckers, anil the creature sinks with Its captive to the bottom, where it tears him to nieces at leisure with its powenui par- rot-like beak. Should it be alarmed 1 1 i 1 engaged at It a quantity of hideous meal, it discharges -ink from iis ling and thus iter as black as night for htin- renders the dieds of yards around, thus effectually concealing Itself.

One of the most remarkable encounters with a callmiary on record was that of the French dispatch steamer Alecton, commanded hy Lieutenant Houyer, which, oh November lstil. between Madeira and cnnie upon an enormous specimen floating on the water and apparently asleep. The vessel was stopped, and many bullets were fired at the animal; but they passed through Its pulpy tlesb wltliuut doing it much harm apparently. It seems not unlikely, judging from Its' behavior, that the creature was dying, or at all events disablid. Harpoons were thrust into it: but they would not hold, nnd finally a rope with a running noose was slipped over the tail.

An attempt was made to hoist the beast on deck, but the enormous weight caused the rope to cut through the mass, and it fell back into the sea and disappeared. On January 10. 1S77. affidavits were made by the officer and crew of the American hark Pauline to the eflect that on July 8 of the previous year in latitude (i degrees 1 'i north nod longitude de grees west they saw three large sperm whales off the lee bow. Suddenly some sort of monster appeared just ahead, and.

throwing an! arm Km feet or more fu length around one i of the whales- it encircled the cetacean three times-l'tcrally dragged the whale head-j foremost to the bottom. Subsequent ly, what was thought to be the same monster was; seen by the snuie observers lo uplift an arm sixty feet above the surface of the ocean. Tim Kngagemcnt Is Off. She "What do you think of my portrait?" He "Sincerely, it is not beautiful but the likeness is perfect: "-Ex. A It of a ENTIRE i I 1 i i I I i i SUCCESSFUL TEST DURING WHICH IT WAS UNDER WATER A HALF HOUR.

A VESSEL PASSES OYER HER Dnrins the Time the Craft Was Submerged It Traveled Iore Than a Half Mile The Experience of One of the Passengers. For several years a modest young man. a native of this' city, a graduate of the State Normal School and an expert machinist, has boon developing and perfecting a vessel to navigate beneath the surface of the water. The name of the ambitions Inventor is Ilich-urrl Umhlatz. and he is 'JO years old.

His labors have been conducted with great secrecy, and, while in a general way it was knwii that he was attempting to solve the dUlioult problem of submarine navigation and was meeting with encouraging results, the vessel itself was never beheld by more than half a dozen persons until within the past two weeks, during which period all doubt as to its success has been removed. So Jealously did the Inventor guard his treasure that even kodak fiends were kept at bay and no picture of the ship has ever been taken until within a few days. At various times last year tests of the vessel were made and though its practicability was demonstrated it also became evident that it was not large enough and that it lacked propelling power. Some weeks ago Mr. liaddatz raised the iron double cone from the bottom of the F'ox river, where It had lain all winter to avoid curious Inspection, and put in a middle section and stronger engines.

Kcently the ship was completed and in the presence of a deeply interested throng occurred her second launching and trial trip. Mr. Itaddatz. his assistant nnd the writer made the descent. The start was made from the United States shipyard and when the cigar-shaped mass of iron sank from sight beneath the surface of the Fox river a re sounding shout went up rroni me vast assemblage on the river bunks.

Previous lo the descent Mr. Raddafz stated that he would be gone no longer than fifteen minutes. When twenty-five minutes had gone by ami still the river gave no sign the suspense became awful and the quiet that succeeded the disappearance of the boat gave way to a murmur that betokened the fear the people experienced. Finally, after th boat had been given up for lost, there was a slight commotion about the middle of the river and up came the submarine vessel and headed for shore. The descent was really a voyage.

The boat travelled listance of half a mile and re- mained stationary several minutes in the r.i of he ohl'o and Nort lwesteru Kail road bridge. This was done to test its iuaciiiner since uie ciiro-m is t-i, sum, and Mr. liaddatz desired to prove that the boat could be held stationary In a rapid current. The appearance of the bridge piles tliinv feet below the surface the river is SU3MARINE BOAT sixty feel deep at this point Is something not easily forgotten. While thus anchored a river steamer pissed through" the draw.

Sic could be seen distinctly. The test was eminently satisfactory. It demonstrated that submarine navigation is wholly practicable. The vessel will be taken soon to Milwaukee, where she will lie given a trial on Lake 1 must confess that it was not without misgivings that I stepped within what looked like a minting cotiln, and the sensations of that voyage I will never forget. Alter the party became seated the inanhead was closed down and secured, shutting out all sounds from outside except a vague murmur, which It was hard to believe was all that could be heard of the shouts of the spectators on the hank.

Immediately on discovering that 1 hermetically seahd within the iron vessel the fear arose that the air supply, being completely shut off. there would be didicuity in breathing, if not actual suffocation, and I anxiously awaited ilie tlrst sign of closeness, ill spite of the assurance of Mr. liaddatz that none would follow. Forgetting in my anxiety for the moment to watch the movements (if the vessel, I failed to note that she was already submerged and was surprised u'hen it was announced that fifteen feet of water was above us. My anxiety regarding (lie air supply soon left me and did not return during tiie trip.

My attontlou was soon wholly taken up In peering out into the depths of the river through a bull's eye in the pilot house. A laughable feature was the way the fish acted. If (lie boat was merely sinking they appeared inquisitive and came close to tin bull's eye to take a look. When it started ii Iii-miI they tied Suddenly there was an ouilnotis clack under my elbow. With my heart in my mouth and my hair standing en end.

I looked to the other side of the boat, believing some accident had occurred, but before 1 had time to call out the noise had ceased. It was one of the automatic machines which had started and stopped of itfclf to correct some irregularity in the ship's movements. After a while I got used to my surroundings, confidence returned, and I enjoyed the voyage. 1 was fully aware of all the movements of the boat when she sank, when she rose, went ahead and turned, in all these inacoeuvres there was no hesitation or uncertainty on the part of Mr. Kaddntz and tile vessel appeared to be under perfect control.

At the same time I cannot deny a folding of relief when sunlight again streamed in through the bull's eye of the pilot house and a moment later when the manhole was thrown open and I once more breathed the natural air and stepped out upon land to grasp the hands of my friends who had given me "up for lost. New York World. In Illustrious Company. The door of the corner saloon suddenly opened and a greasy vagabond shot out through It with great violence, apparently moved by some strong impelling force be-; hind him. lilslng slowly from the gutter Into which he had rolled, he picked up ills hat.

ad- justed it on his head and turned stiffly to tho solitary bystander who had witnessed the scene. "I presume I remind you," he said, "of some unfortunate Kuropean ruler. "I aui the victim of a bum-tlirowcr." And lie moved with heavy dignity down tun street. Chicago Tribune. Not Prepared.

"That young photographer is very Insulting." "What's the matter?" "I went down to have him photograph my larynx It's quite the fad now to have your larynx photographed and as soon as I opened iny mouth lie said he'd hare to go nut and borrow a larger camera." Cleveland Plain-Dealer. Irreconcilable. "Aren't you afraid your husband w-lll lie fascinated by that pretty widow next door?" "No danger; he likes a garden and she keeps chickens." Tit-Bits. i i THE BODY OF A GIRL FOUND IN THE CABIN OF A YACHT. INDIAN DIVER'S GRUESOME FIND The Schooner's Name is I nknoven and Xo One Knows From Whence She Cnnte or How She Was Sank.

Surprising Story Told by a Trader. A weird story conies from the Northern Sea of the body of a sweet-faced, hlonde-liaircd girl floating about in the cabin of a luxuriously furnished yacht sunk on the treacherous reefs of Man-o'-war Hocks, in Chatham Straits, Alaska, says the New York Herald. This story is brought by Charles J. Stewart, a trader for a long time connected with the missionary station at Iloohah Hay, who arrived in Portland after a long and dangerous canoe trip, which he was obliged to make In order to reach the "steamer City of Topeka at Juneau. Iu 1770 a Russian exploring ship, the Ydas-nlk.

sank on the treacherous reefs of Man-o'-war Iioeks. in the Chatham Straits. Now, lying beside the wrecked nian-o'-war. having hcou dashed upon the break of the reef, has been found the dismantled hull of a schooner yacht, possibly of sixty tons burden. The reef on either side forms a hollow a cradle-In which both vessels lie safely protected from the wild winds and heavy seas in the straits.

For more than a hundred years past lias the man-o'-war thus reposed. The wildest of storms have raged in the straits, but so well is it sheltered in its rocky couch that the fiercest gale has still left standing the spars and rigging as they stood when the Russian cruiser went down. Whence came the yacht? It is shrouded In mystery. Naught Is known of its history, only the story that (he Indian divers tell of a glimpse of a young girl's form, with long floating hair, confined In the cabin of a sunken yacht in the Northern Sea. For a hundred years or more, when the spring tides come, the divers of the Hoona'i and Killsnoo Indian tribes have prepared to search for treasures aboard the sunken uian-o'-war Ydasiiik.

This is ever a diltictilt task, but already the Indians have been able to float ashore with log rafts, by the tides, thiee of the brass earionades from file deck of the Vdasnlk. This year they again prepared for flic renewal of the task, and on April 1, when the tides were on the Increase with the new moon they launched from the i beach In front of the Indian village, and, crossing the straits, anchored over the wreck of the man-o'-war on April 10 the first diver went down. The water is very 'cold in this half Arctii current, and it is almost impossible for diver to remain under longer than a few minutes. He was to attach a line to one of the guns of the, starboard battery of the man-o'-war and then another was to bo fastened, so that when the tide ebbed the whole power of the raft would be put to raising the cannon. S0 THE RADDATZ Hut the diver did not fasten his line.

Instead, In a moment he bobbed up again. wildly excited, with the news that a schooner was lying astern of the man-o'-war. Then another Sivvash took the plunge, and he likewise brought back the tale that af'cr all these years of loneliness the niau-o'-w ar Vdasiilk had a companion. This Information created the wildest excitement among the Indians. Perhaps the cargo and tiltinss of the schooner were of mucu value! The next diver prepared to go down Inputting oii extra weights and taking with what is an old device of the Indian diver-n seal's Madder filled witli air by the means of which they are enabled to remain longer below.

This Siwash stayed below a minute ami caught a glimpse of the body of a woman. The parting of the waters by the diver made a motion sufficient to sway the body back and forth' in the cabin. Other Indians followed, anxious to see the strange spectacle, nnd each told the same story that the body was that of a young woman, with long, fair hair, but in each case the diver could only reaeh the companionway of the yacht and view the body without being able to reach It, and the Indians possessed no diving apparatus that could lie brought to rescue the body. The Indians then returned to their lllihee and reported the mutter. Man-o'-war Hocks is about twenty-two miles from Kilisnoo village.

Whence hulled the yacht? Who were the people aboard? To what nation did fhey belong and what were they seeking In these northern realms? Of all this at present there is nothing known. Only the bare fact that the Iloonnh and Kilisnoo Indians, in search ing for the treasure of flic man-o'-war, have discovered this wrecked yacht and the body It contains. According to the desi-Biption i thej give of tile yacht, its possessor mut have lieen a person of wealth, all its fittings being described as in the highest degree luxurious. How is It that nothing lias ever been heard of a yacht being tilted out for a cruise in northern seas? I A I I a i i II IS THE STERN FRAME OF THE WHITE STAR STEAMER OCEANIC. WEIGHS FORTY-ONE TONS Nothing Like It Before Has Ever Been AccoinpHslied-The First Time That the Stern Frame of a Vessel Has Been Cast All in One Piece.

There has just been made at Belfast, Ireland, a steel casting which weighed in the original -41 tons. It is the cast steel stem frame of the White Star steamer Oceanic, now under construction by llarland Wolff, Belfast, Ireland. Its rough weight was, as stated. 41 tons, and it weighed tons after being completely machined ready for erection. like this has ever before been accomplished.

Those who are famtlair with the stern frame of a modern steamship can understand what a tremendous task has been successfully completed. Let those who do not know drop down to the North river and look at the stern of one of the great liners. Then an adequate idea can be gained of the Immensity of the undertaking which has Just been brought to a successful con-clution. The steel casting of the Oceanic Is "5 feet ia height by 24 feet 3 inches over the keel piece. The' post section that is.

the stern pest-is 2 by 11 inches in size. Attached to this stern frame are what are known as the after brackets. These are also cast in one piece, weigh So tons each in the rough, and i' tons when finished for erection. The height of the flanged part of each bracket is -'d feet and the width from centre to centre of the bosses or side supports is i'i foot, the bosses themselves being 4 feet 3 indies in diameter by fret 7 inches deep. The forward brackets which lie entirely inside the plating of the ship will weigh tons lion erected.

l-'roni this it may be Imagined that the Oceanic must be a large vessel, and in fact it Is an open secret that the White Star people Intend that she shall be the most comfortable boat that crosses the Atlantic. While the Oceanic will bo a fairly fast boat it Is not intended that she shall rank in the list of flyers unless her speed can be gained without discomfort to the passengers. The Majestic. Britannic, ami the Teutonic are considered as good sea boats as there arc. The White Star officials say the Oceanic will be infinitely the superior of any one of the three.

This is the first steamship building time In the history of that the stern frame of cast in one piece. The a vessel has been Idea of doing so is not altogether new. In fact It has been discussed among the modern eleamship builders for some years, but no one dared make the attempt until the Belfast llrm took the bull by the horns and succeeded on the first trial. It took months to plan Just exactly how to carry out this gigantic undertaking. It was necessary that every detail should be attended to.

for in casting it only requires a trifle to cause an imperfection. It can be imagined therefore what keen de- light it was to the ship builders when the easting process proved successful. If the Oceanic is all that her architects hope for her she will certainly be a model in every way. Of one tiling she can surely boast and that is of being the only steamship in the world whose stem frame Is one piece. LARGEST DOG IN AMERICA He is a Thoroughbred Mastiff and is Owned by Jlr.

Kniley, of Kiithuid, Vermont. The largest dog In this country is the property of Wayne of Kuthmd, Vt. When welshed the other day he tipped the scales at 2in pounds. When the animal weighed 244 pounds a prominent dog fancier declared him to lie the largest dog In the world. Iiepeatedly Mr.

Ueiley has been urged to put Nero on exhi- 1 1 i cj ii at the big dog si jt advisable. -(,) is a' shows, lint he has never Nero is a handsome half German and half Knglisli mastiff, fawn lirindle in color, his huge head being of a tritie darker shade, lie sets up firmly on bis legs and is renin rk- nlily well proportioned, lie is as agile and lively on bis feet as a cat and the other day caught a big rat in bis master's barn. He makes a splendid watchdog, but i withal a kind and att'i ctionate animal. Mr. ltailey bought him at West Hut land when he was (i months old lie is now 4 years old.

At the time ot ptiretiase weigueu cm The animal Is a product of Mr. Winchcl's kennels at Fair Haven. Nero is provided with a strong leather harness, as he cannot wear a collar. The animal stands up from the greunu mom and girts tiny Inches, llie nogs in unusiiallv large, measuring thirty Inches, nnd froni tjp to tip he measures six feet five and a ha if inches. Not So Stupid.

The dining room of one of the hotels at Santa Cruz was nearly full when a beautiful young woman entered with her escort and was placed opposite a French official from this city and his friend from Paris. Immediately they began making comments In French on the young lady's appearance. "Isn't she a beauty?" remarked one. "Chic and pretty as picture," said the other. "Ami her complexion.

Its like is seen only in California." "No; you don't see that delightful natural tint in Paris. All Is art there-even complexions." Hut is her hair a natural shade?" "Oh. yes; no bleach in that." "Though her face appears bright I think she must be stupid." "Why?" "Heeain-e she must know that I want the si'gu- and she will not pass It." i nst or 1 1 the young lady placed the sugar bowl befu're the last speaker, but he did not stay long enough at the table to use it. The young lady had been educated in Paris. Sau Francisco Post.

MV THE LARGEST A CONFEDERATE SHARPSHOOTER He Has Certificates Pnrporting to be From General Lee and Stonewull Jnckson Wounded in Sixty-Seven Places He Claims to lie an Anthor. One of the most interesting figures st the Confederate reunion in Nashville, is grizzled, one-legged man, who Is credited Willi having killed more men and having bad mure hairbreadth escapes than anybody who went through the war of the rebelliou. Lamar Fontaine is his name, and lie hails from Mississippi. He says that he received sixty-seven builet wounds In the war, which almost makes an even tally with the sixty-eight years be has now lived. But it is not so' muVh on setting shot that Mr.

Fontaine prides himself. His forte in the war was shooting othpr people. He bears with liim what purports to be a note written by Stonc- wall Jackson and containing this interesting statement: "1 believe that during his service with me as sharpshooter Lamar Fontaine killed more of the enemy than were kilted by any company in uiy command." Besides tins, Fontaine nas wiin mm a certificate from General Robert E. Leo to the effect that he i Fontaine) killed sixty Federal soldiers in sixty minutes. "The great captain had heard of Fontaine's skill and sought him out to witness his work.

With his field-glasses General I.ee was enabled to get a good view of the men as Fontaine picked them out for slaughter. A battery was pouring a continual stream of tire into the building, occupied by the Confederate sharpshooters. "Train your glass on No. 1 at gun No. 1," Fontaine said to the commander, 'and you will see him lump into the air in a minute and another man will nave to take nis place at me gun In this way Fontaine picked out ail his men for General I.ee and didn't miss one of them.

When he had killed sixty I.ee told him to quit the deadly work. Among other little things Fontaine did was to carry dispatches and percus-! slon caps through the Yankee lines inlo be-' leaguered Vicksburg. (in his way back lie ran into a guard, and led gun muzzles were turned on him. He did not halt; lie daohod ahead. One bullet shattered his right leg.

another shattered hi right arm and another i penetrated his breast. But he got away. All told, Fontaine wits In twenty-seven pitched battles, fifty-eight skirmishes and over a bundled "Individual skirmishes," lie calls them. Of the sixty-seven shots he received thirteen went through his lungs and twice ids breast was grazed, (in two occasions lie was able, by the aid of a mirror, to look into apertures in his breast made by Yankee bullets and see his own heart beat. Fontaine has documentary evidence of this, as well as of the various other! astounding things, lie Is well fortified with documentary evidence.

He takes a good deal of pride in his artificial leg. Its core is the rifle barrel with which he killed sixty Yankees in sixty minutes. Hut about his exploits of dare-devil conr- age Mr. Fontaiuc is mod'-st. He admits their rut li when pressed home, and lie produces nls documentary evidence.

But he regards those things as mere trifles. His literary gift is the thing In which he takes real pride. He says he wrnle tile beautiful poem, "All Quiet Along the Potomac," and he gives an interesting version of how the inspiration came to him. While lying in camp in Virginia, he says, about the middle of the eoniliet, he got hold of a copy of a New-York newspaper one day, and the leading headline, "All Quiet Along the Potomac" appealed strongly to his poetic fancy. So lie just sat down then and there and "dashed otf" the touching verses which have siii'-c become a war classic, and.

set to music, have gone every whore the Knglish language is spoken. It is unfortunate that Colonel Fontaine has not documentary evidence to establish I hat he really wrote this poem. He has claimed It with coutideuee, however, for a number of years, and In pagan's collection of Southern war songs he is credited with the authorship. Now. while Colonel Fontaine's snapshooting exploits may very well have connected him wMh the subject matter of the poem to the extent of having fired the smoking shot which laid the picket low as he was dreaming of home and wife and children, it is a little too ninch for the colonel to claim the ni'thorship of the poem on that ground alone, to say nothing of his giving nil the painful particulars of how lie came to write it.

As a matter of fact, "All Quiet Along (lie Potomac" was written by Mrs. Kthellniia Kliot Peers, who was born In Goshen, N. In and tiled at Orange, in the same State, in It first appeared In Harper's Week ly on the of November, lsfil, under the title of "The Picket Guard." This little divergence from the hard line of fact in the matter of literature might have raised painful (luetics about the aiithen-1 ticity of some of the colonel's gory military exploits were it not for tho documentary cvi- deuce on this point with which he comes provided. New York World. "So I'se.

"My mother-in-law- Is the most persistent would-be matchmaker you ever saw, and yet she never made lint one match." "I understand." "Yes, that's all right. I can't break her of the habit. I told her that matches were made in heaven." "Yes." "And I offered to send her there." Cove-laud I'lalu-Pcaler. An Amateur. Husband "Hew do you know that the fellow was not a professional tramp and fraud?" Wife P.eeause he mowed the Inwn and split a lot of kindling to pay for his il inner.

"Detroit Free Press. ef I 1 i i DETAILS OF THE COSTUMES The Entertainment Opened With a Parade. After Which Came a Potato Race, Fancy Hiding, a May Pole Fes-tlval and Other Circns Novelties. The word "gymkhana" comes to us from India and means something very like a circus, although the latter word fails to suggest the grace and dignity to be seen In a bicycle gymkhana, where the steeds are of steel and wheel. Such an entertainment has been recently given In British Columbia for sweet charity's sake by amateur wheelmen, and proved most successful.

A gymkhana could be as readily given in eny part of the world where there are men and maidens who ride their wheels well and ore not timid at sharp turns or sudden stops, and are ready to give a month's time to the rehearsals. A large hall or drill shed should be secured where the weather cannot affect the sawdust track, nor keep spectators away when the date for the gymkhana arrives. The men taking part should wear white knickerbockers, red coats, red and white jockey caps, red stockings and white shoes, the girls white dock skirts, red and white striped shirt waists, red leather belt, white sailor hat with red band, red stockings and white shoes. To carry out the effect the costumes should be Identical. The entertainment opens with an overture by the band, followed by a musical ride by sixteen ladies and gentieinen.

mounted on wheels, which have boon decorated with red and white ribbons. They circle slowly around the hall once, then down the centre in twos, then in fours, then eight in a row. and lastly sixteen straight across. When the lines are kept true the effect is delightful. Then they wind like the letter in single tile from the top of the hall down and back.

then the ladies start from one corner, the gentlemen from the opposite, and they cross each other, one at a time, near the centre, forming a letter They end by forming a ring in the centre and winding in and out until the leader has been i to the centre and out again. Then they ride out to the dressing rooms and that completes the musical ride. Next on the programme comes a potato race. The leader comes out and places at in- tervals down the hall three potatoes on the right and three potatoes on the left, the same distance apart. "When the signal is given a girl on a bicycle staru down the right side, a man rides down the left side, until they reach the potato which Is furthest down the line.

They dismount, pick up the potato and carry it on their wheel back to the loader, dropping it at his feet. They turn, ride back, dismount for the second potato, ride with it back to the leader, and so on, until they have each gathered up their row. I'sually a girl will mount more quickly than a man. and I is, therefore, more apt to win in a potato race. Two more couples try their skill in this direction, and then there is a final heat for the winners.

Next comes an overture by the band, when fancy riding may be introduced, and a clown and possibly a stuffed figure tied on to his bicycle will make a little extra un. me me wmiiing oi a poio i m-m- nine girls in white dresses and garlands on their heads, and their bicycles also bedecked with paper roses. Then follows an obstacle race. Two long benches are placed across the hall, another at the extreme end of the hall, on which rests a box of soda crackers, ami at the upper end of the hall a table containing several glasses of lemonade. When all is ready a signal is given and four young men on their wheels ride down the centre, lift their bicycles over the intervening benches, mount again, ride up to the cracker box.

dismount, eat one cracker and return as they came, pausing at the lable to drink a glass of lemonade, after which fhey make a complete circuit of the hall before the race is ended. Next the lancers, "danced," If one may be allowed that word, by sixteen men and mald-ftns on their wheels. They form in two sets and go through the figures of the lancers, circling around each other instead of "turning partners," and ending with the grand chain, making one of the prettiest items of the evening. The thread and needle race consists of font- young ladies riding down the hall and each i presenting a young man with a spool of thread and a needle. He must thread the needle while she waits on her wheel.

When it is returned to her she rides back with It to the leader. Tilting at the ring is the most difficult feat for the amateur bicyclist to attempt. It means being able to' carry a long spear hile riding at full speed and putting this through a series of rings, which are suspended from a gibbetlike arrangement, over the rider head. This can be arranged In three heats, with a prize for the If one has tried to see how slowly one can go on a wheel without actually falling off one will know how difficult it is to win in a tortoise race, where the victor is he who comes In last. New York Herald.

An Accommodating Officer. A prominent physician, Dr. Gildea, was arrested at Colorado Springs recently for leaving his horses on the street without hitching them. When taken to court the Judge ordered the doctor to nppear at 0 I o'clock the next morning to plrad to the charge. Turning to the City Marshal the doctor said: "I can't be here to-morrow." "Why not?" asked the Marshal.

"Because I am to he married to-night and am going awav." was the reply. "All right," said the Marshal, "I'll appear for you and plead guilty to-morrow." "Very well," said the doctor: "you do that, and pay my flue. Send the bill to my aollice and I will pay it on my relnrn." The Marshal assented and the doctor left the court room greatly relieved. Denver Times. THE BICYCLE a i i I I I ft DOG IN THE WORLD.