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land.
"Mysophobia’’ is one of the latest ad
ditions to the English language. It 1*
the name of a complaint which most
people will recognize. Probably its
commonest name is morbid fastidious
ness. Persons who suffer from myso
phobia, says the London Hour Glass,
become very faddy in their manner.
They are very particular that there ia
not even a spot on the tablecloth’*
snowy surface. Every plate and dish
and glass that is brought to them is
sagerly scanned for any trace of dirty
ttngers. Everything must be unsoiled
and immaculate. In the advanced
stage of mysophobia the sufferer is
unable to resist the temptation to wipe
every article that is placed before him.
Ft does not matter how clean or pure It
may be, the wiping process has to be
gone through.
"Unclnlariasls” Is anothr novel com
plaint, or, rather, It Is a novel name for
an old complaint. Itisthe disease which
eauses the existence. In certain states, of
degenerates known as “crackers," or
“poor whites;" in fact, It Is the germ of
laziness which has been isolated. In ad
vanced stages the sufferer eats clay be
sides being unusually lazy. At one of
the London police courts the magistrat e
was sorely amazed by a witness describ
ing the prisoner as a "trance." It turned
out eventually that a “trance" is a man
who Is given a Hft from the country in a
market cart in return for which he as
sists the cartman to unload. “A dead*
homer” was another curious expression
used In a London police court The de- ,
tective said It was a well-known expres
sion used by a person when he could not
very well free himself from a charge
which was hanging over his head. In
the case In question the charge was thai^
of stealing lead. It was unfortunate tot
the prisoner that he was a “dead
homer.”
A “gawkrodger,” “scrammy,” “caggy,”
and a “cuddypaw” are all different Eng
lish names for a left-handed man. But
a “jambiste” Is about the latest name.
This came out In a case In which a per*
son was sued for lessons given In danc
tng. The defendant denied that he re
solved any lessons, but said that he sim
ply attended the dancing classes as a
jambiste. A jambiste. It Is explained, Is
a young society man who occupies his
leisure hours by acting as as auxiliary
at a school of dancing. He is thers far
the purpose of daneing with any of the
women who are la want of a partner.
It appears that he furnishes his services
at ths danoing school gratuitously. His
hope of reward usually Is that he may
meet a rich young heiress at the school,
ana De aoie to marry ner.
“Electrofannite” is a peculiar kind of
Indisposition produced by the draught
from an electric fan or ventilator.
A "kitchen piano” is a name which
might puzzle a good many people. It ap
peared In a case tried at the Clerkenwell
county court that among furniture mov
ers a wringer or mangle Is Invariably
known as a “kitchen piano.”
The "dotter” is an Instrument which
has now been adopted by the admiralty.
By the use of this instrument the firing
accuracy of the weapon Is enhanced
greatly. With its aid a gunner has been
able to hit a target at 2,000 yards eight
times with eight shells in one minute, j
After all, the dotter has a good homelj
ring about it.
A terrible new name is "Thymace
tlnoxaethylacetamldothymol.” It la
highly recommended as a medicament to
people who suffer from “nerves." It has
beea found, however, that In a few cases i
It fall* In its effect, in which case an ex
cellent substitute is stated to be Acety
tlmtdcoxyathyhymol. An excellent
thing for the nerves!
Starting “Run” on Bank.
While a woman was waiting to de
posit five dollars in a New England
savings bank she saw a man draw
out 6900. She had never before seen
to much money at’once, and concluded
that the bank could, not stand such ,a
heavy drain on its resources. She told
her friends about it, and the news
spread that the bank was in danger.
A “run" followed, snd the depositors
were not satisfied that the bank was
sound until between t^n snd twenty
thousand dollars had been withdrawn.
The men who read this paragraph need
not say that the thing would not have
happened If it had not been for a stilly
woman. Full-grown men, with years
of business experience, do just as silly
things when they get frightened about
losing their money.—Youth’s Compan
ion.
Euroki’a Name.
Several French soldiers, survivors of
the Chinese expedition of 1856, are re
sponsible for the statement that Gen. j
Kuroki is in reality half French. His
name, they say, is properly spelled
Curique. According to the story of
these soldiers, a French officer, Capt.
Curique, while serving in China in
1S56, married a Japanese girl. A son
was born to them, who was given the
Japanese name Kuroki, corresponding
to the French Curique. This son, it
is said, is Gen. Kuroki. Capt. Curique
died last year in France.—London
Hour Giass.
Wouldn’t Give Him Time.
Brokeleigh—I did think of ordering
a suit from Cutts, but I couldn't get him
to promise to give it to me on time.
Newitt—Why, he's usually very
prompt
Brokeleigh—Oh, yea; but he wanted
me to be equally proa**,—Philadelphia
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STARTLING PROJECT.
ENGLISHMAN WOULD DIG HOLE
TWELVE MILES DEEP.
Would Solve Many Questions Un
known to the Scientific World—
Estimated Cost $25,000,000
and to Take 85 Years.
Experiments to be tried in the Wash
ington monument by officers of the geo
logical survey to try to determine the
compressiveness of the earth’s mass,
has awakened widespread interest .n
scientific circles. Coming as it does on
the heels of a project broached by
Charles Algernon Parsons, of England,
to bore a hole 12 miles into the earth,
the scientific world has much food for
speculation.
Prof. Parsons estimates that to stnk
a shaft 12 miles deep would cost $25,000,
000, and that it would require 85 yeara
to accomplish it. This shaft, cut down
into the earth, would represent the
equivalent of a hole one foot deep in a
mas3 666 feet thick. It would solve
many questions that the scientific knowl
edge of the world has left unanswered,
yet it would investigate only the cru3t
and leave thousands of miles of the in
terior mass still untouched.
The amount of compression at the
globe’s center should, to some extent at
least, define the character of the mass
of which it is formed. It is argued that
the great mass of the interior of the earth
is solid. Against the contention that
the planet, under a crust 25 miles thick,
is a mass of fiery liquid is arrayed the
fact of the known density of the globe
That density in the earth’s entirety Is
about 5.5 times the density of the water
that covers three-quarters of the sur
face.
The assumption of a comparatively
thin crust requires, according to Sir
William Thompson, that this crust
should have a rigidity possessed by no
known substance. The sun exerts such a
strain upon the substance of the earth
that the planet could not maintain its
shape as It does, he maintains, unless the
supposed crust were at least 2,000 or
2,500 miles in thickness.
There is a gradual increase in the tem
perature while penetrating the surface
of the crust. This increase in some lo
calities is as rapid' as one degree for each
56 feet of descent; in others one degree
for 75 to 85 feet.
In the Comstock silver mines of Ne
vada, at a depth of 3,065 feet, water has
a temperature of 170 degrees, Fahren
heit. The deepest excavations in the
earth are at the Calumet and Hecla cop
per mines in Michigan, where the longest
perpendicular shaft goes down 4,900
feet, while one of the standing shafts
is more than 8,000 feet in length.
There are in these mines 250 miles of
lateral galleries. Colossal engines are
required to ventilate the immense sub
terranean city and to keep the tempera
ture endurable in the lower levels. All
deep mine borings prove how stupend
Aliol ffioill4 nrmiM kn 4k n 4/t nlr rv# /I n
scending below the mile level.
At the lowest rate of Increase in the
temperature in penetrating t.heearth. the
heat at the depth suggested by Mr. Par
sons, 12 miles down, would be 800 de
grees Fahrenheit. This heat, though far
from the fusing point of wrought iron,
(3,280 degrees), would render the use
of tools, even if the lower borings of the
shaft were constructed as they are in oil
wells, a difficult process. It would defy
the most colossal scheme of artificial re
frigeration to render such depths avail
lble for entrance by human beings.
No considerations of commerpial ben
efit enter into the plans of Mr. Parsons
in suggesting the 12-mile boring into the
crust of the earth. It is a scheme purely
is the interest of scientific knowledge.
ODD WILL OF RICH MAN.
Nephew Will Inherit Fortune from
Uncle ^After Serving Three
Tears as a Soldier.
“That he shall serve at least one full
term of not less than three years in
the ranks of the United States army,
at the expiration of which, if hie dis
charge shall read: ‘Service honest and
faithful, character excellent,’ and shall
have reached the grade of a noncommis
sioned officer and bring to the executors
I herewith appoint a letter of com
mendation from the officer under whom
he served, I bequeath to the said CreOrge
O. Travis the sum of $130,000, knowing
that, after such service, he will have(
had enough experience of the world and
disciplinary training to insure the
proper disposal of what has taken me a
lifetime to accumulate."
Such are the terms of the will of the
late S. Houston, a wealthy man of Chi
cago, made to his nephew, George O
Travis, a telegraph operator of Okla
homa. The other day the young man
became of age and appeared at the Unit
ed States army recruiting office and en
listed for the purpose of carrying out
the dying request of his uncle
Mr. Houston was an old soldier, hav
ing served in the civil war in the Fourth
United States artillery. Unable to con
tinue an army career, Houston, having
no sons of his own, was determined that
his next of kin. his nephew, should be
come a soldier.
Young Travis said it was not neces
sary for his uncle to make that clause
In his will which makes service in the
United States army compulsory for him,
as he had always intended to enter the
army as soon as he was 21.
A Hole with a Future.
An English engineer proposes to find
out what is in the interior of the earth.
He will do this by digging a hole 12 miles
deep, provided with air locks and cool
ing apparatus. The work will require
85 years and cost $5,000,000. What pa
tience and effort those foreigners do ex
hibit, remarks the Chicago Record-Her
ald, in getting at the bottom of thing*
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ONLY A RIVER WHITEFISH.
Story of Man Who Knew Fl»h Whoa
Ho Saw Them, Alao a Bail
road “Ad.”
William C. Harris, angling ed
itor of Outing, and rightly called
the Izaak Walton of America, ie a
man who can come pretty near to
telling exactly what fish you will
find in Blank brook, in Blank
township of Blank county, Idaho,
Texas or Rhode Island. New fleb
ee and new facts about them, he
lores as a miser loves gold, only
he doeB not hoard them, but gath
er* them to give out again.
One day Harris chanced to be in
8t. Paul. He was talking with
General Passenger Agent Charley
Fee, who said Harris should go tf
Montana to catch grayling in a
stream at that time much advet*
tiaed.
Harris said there were no gray
ling in the stream. The railroad
man laughed at him as a New
: Yorker who pretended to know
! more about a certain Montana
river than a man who had fished it.
The dispute waxed warm. Har
ris was due in New York on ■
certain day, and by taking the first
train west he could have six hours
on the stream and still keep his en
gagement. In 36 hours he was on
the stream with a local represen
I tative of the railroad. He waded
: In, made one cast, and was fast to
| a silvery thing that tore about
j mightily like that of a grayling,
i It came to the net, and the local
representative of the railroad
fairly shouted:
‘There, there; it’s a grayling?"
“Pack this carefully in moss,"
said Harris. “Send it to vour gea
i eral passenger agent.” Then h«
walked to the telegraph office and
: wired that official:
“Am sending one of your gray
| ling. It’s an infernal old rivef
whiteflsh."
Then he took the train for New
York and kept his engagement.
A MAN AND HI8 SHOES.
Th* Thicker the Soles He Wears the
Larger the City from Which
He Kails.
“You can almost tell from
what country a man comes by the
weight of his shoes," said J. W.
Davy, of Chicago, who represents
1 a shoe company, to a Milwaukee
Sentinel reporter. “You might
not believe it,” he continued, “but
the thicker the soles of his shoes
the larger the city from whisfa be
comes. In New York it is almost
a fad, and the soles of the shoes
there are exceedingly heavy.
They are almost as heavy in Chica
go. Men there wear shoes to pr<v
tect their feet. They have not
flmff enough, it seems, to bothes
with rubbers. So they make one
pair of shoes do the work for all
kinds of weather. Here in Mil
waukee and in other cities of this
size, I notice, the men wear light
■hoes and rubbers. I suppose
they have time enough to wear the
overshoes. Up in the country ,1
And that in many places leather
boots are not worn at all for sev
eral of the winter months. They
wear heavy socks and then put
rubber overshoes over these.”
Strata “Sunday Sc ho* la.”
In England the term “Sunday
school” has a definite meaning,
and is exclusively used to denote
a place of religious teaching. In
Germany, however, the race tot
commercial supremacy has led te
the establishment of Sunday
schools at which mechanics are
given practical instruction in
their trades. There is, for exam
ple, a school for masons, at whieh
the students, many of them tr
chanies who work during t. .
week, spend several hoars on But
day morning in learning the high-1
er branches of their craft. Sim j
llarly there are Sunday schools fo* !
tailors, ironmongers, bookbind |
ers, and followers of other trades j
—even barbers and blacksmiths.
(fold In New South Walw.
Preliminary returns issued by
the department of mines, New
South Wales, show a big increase
In the gold production of that
state for 1903, as compared with
the output for 1902. The yield for
1903 is valued at £1,080,029, which
represents an increase of £395,OSS
ove* the total of the previous year.
Th* Adjutant.
The adjutant, or marabout, la
a tall bird of India, about six feet
high. The wings expanded m«*»
are about 15 feet from tip to tip
It readily swallows a cat or a haft
vfcola.
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TOR’S SALE.
Notice is hereby given that the undersigned as
anc'llary administrator of the estate of Isaac
Scott deceased, will offer for sale at public auction
to the highest bidder on a credit until October 15,
1905, at the front door of the Courthouse in New
port, Jackson county, Arkansas, between the
hours of ten o’clock in the forenoon and three
o’clock in the afternoon, on
SATURDAY, THE 18TH DAY OF MARCH 1905
all the lands belonging to the estate of Isaac Scott
deceased, lying in Jackson County, Arkansas, to
wit: The a e L-4 of the s e 1-4 of sec. 12, the n w
1-4 of the n e 1-1 of sec. 13. all in Township 12
north range 3 west: also thirty acres off the rtorth
side of lot 2 of the n w 1-4 and ten acres off north
side of the e 1-2 of lot 3 and the w 1-2 of lot 3 all
in the n w 1-4 of section 7 and the w 1-2 of lot 3 of
the s w 1-4 of sec. 7, all in Township 12 north
range 2 west.
Said sale being made by virtue of the order of
the Probate Court of Jackson County, Arkansas.
Purchasers will be required to give note with
approved security and a lien to be retained upon
the land to secure the payment thereof.
Possession will be given January 1st, 1906.
Given this 16th day of February, 1905.
J. R. COX,
Ancillary Administrator of the estate of Isaac
Scott, deceased.
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against the Merrill-Sellmeyer Lumber Company
of Corning, Ark., within ninety days for the pur
pose of sharing in the assets of such corporation.
Please verify the claim and file with me or the so
licitors. Respectfully,
W. W. TOLER,
Receiver of Merrill-Sellmeyer Lumber Company,
Knobel, Ark,
JONES & JEFFERY, Solicitors,
40w4 Newport, Ark.
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