Chapter VI (2)

2. Pupils enrolled for the first time shall not be excluded from
any contest because of absence during the previous term. But a
student entering from another secondary school shall not be allowed
to compete unless he has done the work required in Section 1 as a
resident student for at least one term. Or he must show as
satisfactory a record as that required in Section 1 for at least
two terms' work or their equivalent at some similar school in the
preceding year. It is stipulated, however, that all candidates
under Section 2 must have been members of the school as regular
students, conforming otherwise to Section 1 from the first fifteen
days of the term in which said contest takes place.

3. A Senior considered by his faculty as a regular candidate for
graduation shall not be excluded from any contest because of
absence or failure during his first Senior year, provided he is
taking three full studies which he has not before completed. It is
understood, however, that a Senior who has completed a part of the
Senior work in previous years shall not be excluded from contests,
provided he is doing the unfinished work of his course.

4. No person shall be eligible as a contestant for more than the
minimum number of years required to complete a four-year course.

5. Before taking part in any contest a pupil must file with his
principal the written statement of a parent or guardian that said
pupil has permission to engage in athletics.

6. No less than five days before a contest there shall be exchanged
between the principals of the contesting schools the following
data: Name of each candidate, the date of his first enrolment, time
in years he has been a member of a secondary school, his age, and
studies, with percentage in each for the preceding term, and to the
first of the month in which these certificates are exchanged. It
must also be stated over the signature of the principal that the
candidates are eligible under these rules.

7. No person shall enter a contest under an assumed name.

8. The principal shall have power and is advised to exclude any
contestant who, because of bad habits or improper conduct, would
not represent the schools in a becoming manner.

9. Each contestant shall sign a statement that he is an amateur,
and that he is eligible under these rules. The definitions of
amateur and professional shall be those of the Western
Intercollegiate Amateur Athletic Association.

10. These rules may be amended by a vote of a majority of the
principals subscribing hereto voting on the subject.

11. These rules shall go into effect on and after January 1, 1897.

These rules have been adopted by twenty-eight high-schools in Wisconsin. Madison H.-S. has adopted all the rules with the exception of No. 5 under the administration heading. They obtained permission to do this in order that they might not be restricted from playing with schools outside the State.

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NANSEN'S ENDURANCE.

Dr. Nansen seems to have been born and bred for arctic exploration. The strength and hardihood which were his by birth were developed and confirmed by the robust austerity of his early training. One reads of his habit of swimming in the evening in the coldest pools of the Frogner River that ran by the door of his father's house, and is no less astonished at the story of his plunge in the sea in pursuit of his kayaks in the extreme north, and of his endurance of the various cold baths he got in fights with bears and walruses. The man who put his wet and frozen foot-coverings in his bosom to thaw out and dry at night while he slept with his companion in a bag was an extraordinarily tough person, with an astonishing physique hardened by Spartan exercises. In his teens, he says, he used to go off on lonely expeditions in the great Frogner woods, and be gone alone for weeks at a time. "I disliked," he says, "to have any equipment for my expeditions. I managed with a crust of bread, and broiled my fish on the embers. I loved to live like Robinson Crusoe there in the wilderness."

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THE WAY HE TOOK IT.

There is a neat bit of property in a town near New York that is owned by an Irishman whose nature embraces most of the characteristics of that nationality. He has for a neighbor a very penurious old gentleman who, for a long time, had cast covetous eyes upon the land, and daily devised schemes and propositions for obtaining it. Knowing that the owner, although reputed to be extravagantly good-natured, was nevertheless not to be fooled by any ill-concocted proposal, he desisted until he succeeded in preparing one which he thought would surely be unobjectionable. Carefully writing it out he delivered it to the owner of the property, requesting him to look it over. In a few days he called, and after being jovially greeted, he asked whether his proposition had been entertained. Much to his astonishment the Irishman broke into hearty laughter, crying out:

"Entertained! Ha! ha! Why, my dear sir, I haven't entertained the absurd thing; it's done nothing but entertain me ever since I read it."

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A MUSICAL SAILOR.

The Washington correspondent of the New York _Sun_ tells an odd story about a well-known violinist of that city. He says that the young man was shipped at Gibraltar by the executive officer of a vessel of our Mediterranean squadron as a landsman, the vessel having been short-handed on account of the return to this country of a large number of short-time men. As a landsman he did his work up to the top notch. He suffered a good deal of ridicule uncomplainingly. His messmates joked him because when he shipped his hair was chopped off in the back after the Russian muzhik fashion, and because he was generally a funny sight in the bluejacket "government-straight" uniform. Through it all the Pole was bland and smiling. He kept his bright-work well polished, and it was not found necessary to hale him to the mast when he returned from shore liberty.

One Sunday afternoon at Villefranche, when the Pole had been a landsman for about a month, an Irish marine, lolling below in one of the berth-deck alcoves, took it into his head to "break out" a really fine old violin which he possessed, upon which, to the intense misery of the whole ship's company fore and aft, he was accustomed at long intervals to saw "The Rose of Kildare," "The Rakes o' Mallow," "Bonnie Lakes o' Killarney," "Wind that shakes the Bailey," "The Meeting of the Waters," etc. These tunes the marine butchered outrageously; but being a mellow, complaisant Hibernian, he could not see anything wrong with his own music, and enjoyed it greatly. When he made the first scrape of his bow on this Sunday afternoon the Pole, who was on the spar-deck, was observed to cock up his ears and to betray some degree of excitement. He went below, and for a few minutes he nervously watched the big marine saw on the fine instrument. Then he impulsively reached out for the violin. The Irishman was so overcome with astonishment that he gave up the violin to the Pole without a word. Then followed an hour of music such as probably had never been heard on a man-of-war in the United States navy. To the writer it sounded every whit as beautiful as the performances of Sarasate, Ysaye, Remenyi, Joachim, Wilhelmj, and the rest of the masters of the bow who have inspired millions. This awkward, simple-looking Polish landsman was a violin virtuoso. He had not played two minutes before the officer of the deck had his head poked through a deck-light listening. There was a general exodus of officers from ward and mess rooms within five minutes. They all came forward with astonished expressions, and stood in the alcove taking in the Pole's music. All of the men who could get anywhere near the alcove crowded down the ladders. Pretty soon, unheralded even by an "Attention!" so enwrapped were officers and men, the commanding officer, who had heard the music from his cabin, tiptoed into the alcove. He remained until the musician was through. Absolute silence prevailed. There seemed positively nothing in the way of formidable violin technique that the Pole could not do. His bowing was dazzling. His chords were wonderful. His tones were perfect; his pathos so heart-rending that it made tough old tars gasp. He made it appear that playing triple chords up around the bridge of a violin was the simplest thing in life. At the conclusion of a Chopin Nocturne an officer weakly asked him to play the "Rhapsodie Hongroise." The Pole attacked the composition as Liszt used to attack it on the piano--with the pure fire and fury of inspiration. When he finally handed the violin back to the marine, who was in a stupefied condition, the man went forward and the officers aft without a word.

The Pole polished no more bright-work. A new place, unofficial, but not the less dignified and important, was created for him aboard the ship. He became musician to the commanding officer. It was a soft berth, such as even a haughty admiral's cox'un might have desired. The Pole's sole duty was to take the marine's violin into the cabin and play for the solace of the ship's commander. The commanding officer flouted some of his officers who suggested that so fine a musician as the Pole should be transferred to the flag-ship's band. He wouldn't hear of such a thing. He went ashore at Genoa and bought for the Pole a fine violin. When he had guests of distinction aboard the ship he would send for the Pole to entertain them, and the visitors went away marvelling. Once in a while, as a particular favor, the skipper would lend the Pole to his officers for a ward-room musical. The musician never got a higher rate officially than that of landsman, for there was nothing aboard the ship that the commanding officer would let him do, for fear he would injure his hands, but as a landsman he had absolutely no duties to perform such as fell to the lot of the other men of his rating. When his time was up, last August, the ship's Captain tried hard to induce the Pole to ship over, but he obdurately, and quite sensibly, declined. He was paid off in New York, and he came straight to Washington, where he has some well-to-do relatives, and hung out his sign as a violin-teacher. He has more pupils than he can teach, and more money than he ever dreamed of possessing. He resolutely refuses to say anything about his record, or to state how and where he got his musical education.

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A FAST TRANSPORT-SHIP.

One of the proudest achievements of the American clipper-ships that we have to look back on is that of the famous _Lightning_, built by Donald McKay for the English firm of James Bain & Co. The McKay clippers were known all over the world, and England recognizing their merit, many orders were sent from that country. The _Lightning_ was employed during the Sepoy uprising in India to carry troops and stores to Calcutta, and when she spread her snowy sails in the Downs and fairly had the bone in her teeth, she showed as neat a pair of heels to the steamer transports as any captain could wish for. It is on record that she beat the steamers every passage, and that not a sailing vessel under the British flag could keep way with her sailing side by side.

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WORDS THAT TROUBLE THE TONGUE.

Drimtaidhvickhillichattan is the name of a small hamlet in the Isle of Mull containing not more than a dozen inhabitants. How they pronounce it is a mystery only to be solved by some one acquainted with Gaelic, but the fact that the Scots are a nation of few words seems easy to explain, if they have many such words as the above in their language.

A sample of Welsh nomenclature is Mynyddywllyn, which is the name of a parish close to Cardiff, whilst another of the same kind is Llanfairpwllgwngyll.

Perhaps, however, the Germans may be fairly said to carry off the palm in word-coining. How is this for a specimen-- Constaninopelischerdudlelsackpfeifer? or this one, Jungfrauenzimmerdurchschwindersuchtoedungs?

The first means a Constantinopolitan bagpipe-player, and the last is the name of a young ladies' club which adorns the brass plate of the door of a house in Cologne to this day.

Rabelais gives the following name to a particular book which was supposed to be in the library of Pantagruel's medical student friend Victor--"Antipericatametanaparbeugedanptecribrationes Toordicantium"; whilst Anantachaturdasivratakatha is an actual Sanscrit word to be found in any Sanscrit dictionary, and the word Cluninstaridysarchedes occurs in the works of Plautus, the Latin comedy writer.

Now, most of the above words can be pronounced by ordinary persons with a week's training or so; so could this one, Kagwadawwacomergishearg, which was the Christian name of one of the Indian chiefs who died at Wisconsin a little while ago; but, studying long and hard as they will, not one person in a million will ever succeed in correctly pronouncing the name of Tschlsi, King of Wahuma. The best way to set about it is to sneeze violently, and to try to work in the _l_ sound towards the end.

This Department is conducted in the interest of stamp and coin
collectors, and the Editor will be pleased to answer any question
on these subjects so far as possible. Correspondents should address
Editor Stamp Department.

Two things fix the prices of all but the rarest or commonest stamps. First, the desire of the dealers, who make the catalogues, to obtain as high a price as possible for scarce stamps of which they have a supply on hand; and secondly, auction sales, which reflect the actual prices paid in open competition. During the last four months the new catalogues have appeared with increased prices for the majority of "medium" stamps, and during the same period the prices paid in the auction-room have in many instances been smaller than during the previous year. The result has been a comparative cessation of business in stamps, which will continue until the two factors have adjusted themselves. Speculators will not buy on a falling market, and it has been the speculative purchases in the past which have advanced the prices of so many stamps. Of course the real scarcity of unused stamps of most of the early issues has been demonstrated of late years, and an increase of value was inevitable, but, pushed too far, it frightens new collectors, and discourages many of the older ones whose purses are not large.

Each of the Portuguese colonies, Funchal, Horta, Angra, and Punta Delgado has a complete set of new stamps. The designs of all values and for all the colonies are the same, with the exception that the stamps bear the name of the colony in the label under the portrait.

2-1/2 reis, gray and black.
5 reis, orange-buff and black.
10 reis, light green and black.
15 reis, brown and black.
20 reis, violet and black.
25 reis, dark green and black.
50 reis, blue and black.
75 reis, rose and black.
80 reis, lilac and black.
100 reis, blue and black on blue.
150 reis, brown and black on buff.
200 reis, mauve and black on lilac.
300 reis, blue and black on pink.
500 reis, black and red on blue.

GEORGE HALL.--It is a Hungarian revenue stamp.

L. N. DODD, 2607 Thirty-ninth Street, Chicago, Ill., wishes to
exchange stamps.

W. R. WHEELER.--The 3c. "outer line," perforated, is the same stamp
as the 1851. The common perforated lacks the line at top and
bottom, as these were cut out of the plate to allow room for the
perforations. The Department stamps have been advancing in price
for years. How long they will continue to advance no one knows.
Some of the "specimen" stamps are rarer than the regular issues.

D. MCPHERSON, JUN., Cor. Church and Chestnut streets, Santa Cruz,
Cal., wants to exchange a kodak for stamps.

E. L. SMITH.--Your Spanish stamp is a revenue. The word "Cave" is
that of a large mercantile house in the East. It is not a
governmental surcharge.

F. O. S.--Your coin with inscription LUD. XV. D. G. FR. ET. N. REX.
(Louis XV. By the Grace of God King of France and Navarre), and the
other coin (from Bolivia), are no longer current, and hence are
worth bullion only.

D. MCPHERSON.--Your 12c. 1869 U.S. stamp is very badly centred, and
hence is not worth more than one-half as much as a perfectly
centred copy. This is true of all scarce stamps.

A. GREGORY.--An "Albino" envelope is one with the impression of the
die, but without ink, having been used on the same. It is found in
U.S. envelopes sometimes.

PHILATUS.

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Secure the highest class of trade;
The shoppers who are shrewd and wise
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The Voyage of the Rattletrap

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The story of three boy chums and of their cruise across the Dakotas
in a "prairie-schooner." The log makes amusing reading, even though
there are no very exciting adventures to chronicle. Mr. Carruth has
a genial humor in the telling of ordinary happenings that is
irresistible, and he even manages to impart a great deal of useful
information as he goes along. The new Northwest is a great country,
and the author tells us very pleasantly some things about this big
slice of Uncle Sam's territory.

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By KIRK MUNROE

_The kind of stories that healthy, hearty boys are apt to
like._--Independent, N. Y.

_Master of the art which keeps the young reader's interest at a
tension._--N. Y. Sun.

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A Story of the Northwest Coast. Illustrated by W. A. ROGERS. Post 8vo, Cloth, Ornamental, $1.25.

A capital story, brimful of adventures.... It is a good, clean,
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Snow-Shoes and Sledges

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A Cuban War Story.

The Rev. Dr. Conwell, a well-known Baptist clergyman of Philadelphia, recently went to Cuba. On his return he related the following incident to his Sunday-evening congregation:

"A planter, with whom I talked several times, told me that some months ago, on a very dark and rainy night, a light-house on the south coast of the island was captured by insurgents, and as the keeper was, of course, a government official brought from Spain, the insurgents took him prisoner. Some of his captors urged that the keeper be shot forthwith. The keeper bravely accepted his fate, and as he was being led out he requested as his dying petition that his captors would keep the light burning on that stormy night.

"The insurgent colonel, who since has himself been killed under Maceo, was so captivated by the brave keeper's thoughtfulness for the unknown sailors beaten toward shore in the terrible hurricane, that he ordered the release of the keeper, and presented him with some silver plate, which the insurgents had confiscated from some wealthy planter. One touch of nature," added Dr. Conwell, feelingly, "makes all the world kin."

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More Signs and Omens.

I live in the "Sunny South" too, and here are some of the signs
most often heard here:

Peacocks' feathers bring bad luck.

A black cat brings good luck.

Watch a person out of sight, and you will never see him again.

If you point at a grave, a member of your family will die.

Bring a hoe or other garden tool into the house, and it will bring
bad luck.

A good fire-maker will always have a smart husband.

A hard storm is often a sign of the death of some rather unpopular
man.

I don't know as these are strictly local, but all of them are very
common here.

CAROLYN SHERMAN.
ASH GROVE, VA.

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Queer New Orleans Customs.

New Orleans has some customs peculiarly its own. One of them, the
decorating of the cemeteries on All-Saints day, is not done in any
other place in the United States. On that day the cemeteries are
beautifully decorated with all kinds of flowers. The fronts of the
great white tombs (for there are few underground graves in New
Orleans) are often so covered with flowers that you can hardly read
the inscription. This is lovely while it lasts; but when the
flowers are faded and dead, it is rather pathetic than otherwise to
wander through the streets of the silent cities of the dead.
Metaire and Greenwood are the most beautiful cemeteries, and the
old St. Louis the most interesting. Here are buried the old French
people who died over a hundred years ago.

Another queer custom, but which is dying out, is the giving of
"lagniappe" (pronounced lan-yap) in the stores and markets. That
is, they give you an apple, an orange, or a few pieces of candy in
the grocery stores, in addition to what you have bought. They used
to do it in the old French Quarter more than anywhere else, and
often gave lagniappe of coffee, tea, sugar, or rice. But now they
give hardly any, except to children, and sometimes even they have
to ask for it.

Then the street-criers, too, are amusing. A familiar sight is a
dilapidated wagon and horse loaded with sacks of charcoal, while an
extremely dirty-looking individual screams, "Charcoal, two bits a
sack--charcoal!" "two bits" being used invariably, instead of
twenty-five cents, among this class of people, and even among the
better classes.

New Orleans has a most excellent system of street railway, although
it is but lately that it has had it. Before, there were only small
cars with one mule attached; so you can imagine the electric cars
are a great improvement on the old style of transportation, which
was both slow and uncertain. But it has taken away a good deal of
the quaintness from the city. There are only two mule lines left,
and these will soon be replaced by electric ones.

The city lost one of its old buildings by fire two years ago, which
has been replaced by a handsome modern structure seven stories
high. I refer to the St. Charles Hotel. There are very few handsome
public buildings here; about the finest are those of the Tulane
University. The soil of New Orleans does not admit of very heavy
buildings being built, although they now drive piles of sixty feet
for foundation.

New Orleans is fast coming to the front as a grain-exporting point,
the Illinois Central having recently finished an immense elevator
and dock. It has been for many years the largest cotton-exporting
port in the world.

The two public parks, Audubon and the City Park, could be made very
beautiful if they were improved. Their natural beauty is so great
that one does not mind their somewhat wild state. Little by little
they are being improved, but, both being large tracts, it takes a
long time. The trees in both are immense live-oaks, and under those
at the City Park many of the duels of the earlier Louisiana days
were fought.

West End, the one nice resort of New Orleans, is situated on Lake
Pontchartrain, about six miles from the centre of town. Here, in
summer, there is music every evening by a fine band, and trains run
at intervals of fifteen minutes. It is a most delightful way to
spend an evening, as there are no mosquitoes, and the breeze off
the water is always cool. The mosquitoes are a great pest here, and
even in winter they are quite bad, we being compelled to sleep
under bars a good share of the time.

This is a very easy place for visitors to find their way alone, as
the streets are all plainly marked and numbered. All the cars start
from Canal Street, and it is almost impossible to lose one's way.

As Canal Street is the starting-point for all the cars, it is quite
a feat to cross without risking your life. Policemen are stationed
on every corner, and it is very rarely that an accident occurs.

SOPHIE ELEANOR CLARK.

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What do You Think They Weighed?

Don't you think the following pretty good? I got it from an old man
who says he won $5 for answering it years ago.

A man had an article weighing exactly forty pounds. He let it fall,
and it broke into four pieces. But it was such a fortunate fall
that the pieces were afterwards available for sale weights, and
with them he could weigh any number of pounds from one to forty.
How much did each piece weigh?

J. LURIE.
NEW YORK.

We do think it good. You ought to be able yourself to tell a good puzzle, for you have won some of our puzzle-prizes. The TABLE will publish the answer in a week or two.

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Laid and Wove Paper.

Edward C. Wood, of Philadelphia, asked the difference between laid and wove papers of fine grade. The question was referred to a manufacturer of this kind of writing-paper, and he answers in the following interesting way:

"You have seen your mother roll out pie-dough with a rolling-pin. She rolls it out on a board into a thin even sheet with a smooth surface, which is like the surface of 'wove paper.'

"Now after doing this, if she were to take another rolling-pin, and place around it wires laid close together and parallel with each other and with the length of the pin, and bind them in place with other wires wrapped around the pin and about an inch apart, and then if, with the rolling-pin thus prepared, she were to roll the even surface of the thin sheet of dough, the impression of the wires would be left in the dough, producing a surface like 'laid paper.'

"In making paper a flat surface of wire-cloth corresponds to the board. The paper pulp or 'stuff' (made by grinding up rags very fine, and mixing them with water until the composition looks like cream), which is spread in a flat sheet over the surface of the wire-cloth, corresponds to the dough. And a roll (covered with wire-cloth for wove paper, and with wires laid parallel with each other and with the length of the roll for laid paper) corresponds to the rolling-pin.

"This roll, called the 'dandy,' covered with wire-cloth, rolling over the surface of the thin wet sheet of paper-stuff, smooths it down into an even regular surface, and produces wove paper.

"The dandy-roll, with parallel wires, rolling over the wet sheet of stuff, leaves its impression in the thin sheet, and produces laid paper.

"The lines at right angles to the parallel lines are called the 'chains,' and are produced by the impression of those wires which are wrapped around the parallel wires to hold the latter in place around the dandy-roll."

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The Name "Indian Summer."

Henry Osborn asks why Indian summer is so called. I have always
heard that it is the time of the year when the Indians laid in
their provisions for winter. During the summer they only hunted for
pleasure. Cold weather came before they realized it. Just at this
state of affairs the Indian summer came in and gave the Indian one
more chance to provide for winter.

HARRY RICHARDSON.

This reason is a new one to some, we think. Can anybody else give a reason popularly said to be the origin of the name? And will some one write out the scientific cause for the hazy atmosphere of this season? Is the cause well known?

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Advice to Boys of Fifteen.

"Mercer" asks the probable expense of two boys of fifteen going round the world on a bicycle; whether it is prudent to go; and if any publisher or publishers would perhaps accept and pay for an account of the journey a sufficient sum to reimburse the boys for their necessary outlay.

The expense of such a trip would not be less than $4 per day for each boy for the entire time absent from home. It might be less than this in the far East, but in other parts of the world it would be more. If this estimate errs, it does so in being too small. Is it prudent? We should say, with perhaps not as much emphasis as would the parents of the boys in question, no. There are many dangers, but if there were not, what substantial thing is to be gained? Prudence in a boy of fifteen demands that he shall be in training, save during the few summer months, which are not long enough for a world bicycle tour, for the future. There may be publishers who would pay a big price for such a manuscript, but they are not advertising that they will do so.

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Questions and Answers.

A member of the Camera Club sends the TABLE $1, and asks if there are other members who have old negatives, in perfect condition, of scenes of places of interest anywhere, size four by five inches. If any member has such will he write to the TABLE, describing the subjects of the pictures and the number willing to be given for $1? Do not forward negatives until requested.--W. Randall Spurlock, 3108 Highland Ave., Mt. Auburn, Cincinnati, O., asks if any one can give him the address of Capt. J. D. Randall, who is, or used to be, a Mississippi River boatman, whose boat ran, at one end of its route, to Memphis.--Chas. Henshaw, 432 North State Street, Chicago, wants to join a Chapter or some club somewhere that is interested in photography.--Chas. K. Russell, a Brooklyn member, asks us why coins are put into corner-stones when laid. We always supposed it was merely to preserve them for a future generation, the same object in view when records, newspapers, and memorials are enclosed. We can find no other reason. Is there any other reason?

Any questions in regard to photograph matters will be willingly
answered by the Editor of this column, and we should be glad to
hear from any of our club who can make helpful suggestions.

HOW TO MAKE ENLARGED NEGATIVES FROM SMALL PRINTS.

Though the rules for the photographic contest stated that no picture less than 4 by 5 in size would be admitted, yet the editor constantly received letters asking if pictures taken by the small pocket-cameras would be admitted. These tiny pictures, though often good in detail and well chosen as to subject, are on too small a scale to be admitted to any contest; but if one has a small picture which, aside from size, seems worthy of being entered in a competition, a large negative may be made from it, from which prints may be made and sent to the contest.

The first thing to do is to make as good a print from the negative as possible. Squeegee this print to a glass plate--a spoiled sensitive plate is the best for this purpose, as the glass is usually free from defects. If the picture is larger than the glass, squeegee the picture in the centre of the glass, and either block out the clear glass with Gihon's opaque, or cover it with black needle paper. From this paper positive is to be made the negative in the same manner in which one enlarges from a negative to make an enlarged print.

Choose a room which has but one window. It is better to take a room on the second floor where an unobstructed view of the sky can be obtained. If the room has two windows one must be completely darkened and the other covered, except a small space large enough to admit the glass plate on which the picture is squeegeed. On the outside of the window arrange a large piece of white card-board at an angle of about 45° so as to reflect the light through the picture.

The camera used for enlarging may be a 4 by 5 or larger, and a little practice will enable one to make excellent negatives. Take the focussing-glass out of the frame, and place the glass containing the picture in its place. The focussing-glass is easily removed by loosening the screw in the side of the frame and slipping out the piece of wood which holds it in place. Put the focussing-frame in the camera, and place the camera close to the window, so that all the light that enters the space left in the window passes through the camera. The lens is of course turned inside the room.

The camera should be supported on a table, and fixed so that it cannot jar. Directly opposite the camera, on the same plane, must be placed something to serve as a support for the sensitive paper, and a wooden box with the bottom covered with white paper will be found to answer every purpose. A convenient way of arranging the camera and box is to take a board, place the camera at one end, and the box at whatever point the clearest focus is obtained.

Having everything in place, shut out all the light except that which enters through the camera, and focus the picture on the plain white paper. Mark where the image falls, close the shutter, and by a red light place a sheet of bromide-paper on the space covered by the image, holding it in position by means of small thumb-tacks.

Open the shutter of the camera and expose for ten or fifteen minutes, according to the density of the negative. If the light is poor, a much longer exposure must be made. One can time the exposure by making one or two experiments with small strips of paper and developing.

For developing this enlarged negative use hydroquinone. Do not over-develop, clear with acetic acid, fix, and wash thoroughly. When dry the paper may be rendered more transparent by waxing, or it may be printed from without further manipulation. If the negative is inclined to curl, straighten it by drawing it over the sharp edge of a drawer.

S. W. HINES, JUN., asks if it spoils plates to cut them with a
glass-cutter; whether dark or light objects take quicker in
snap-shots; how to print lantern slides, and where an outfit for
lantern-slide-making can be obtained. Sensitive plates may be cut
into smaller sizes and used if great care is taken not to scratch
the sensitive film, though if one has plates too large for the
camera it is a better plan to change them for a size that will fit
the camera. See Nos. 798 and 799 for directions for making lantern
slides. All the outfit required is a box of lantern-slide plates,
some good negatives, a printing-frame, and a lantern. The
finishing, cover glasses, binding strips, and name-markers will be
required. We will publish soon another article on
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FUNNY HOW-DO-YOU-DO'S.

Most amusing are the styles of salutation in different countries, and also very interesting. The following are a few that have been recently brought to notice:

The Chinese gentleman, meeting a friend, shakes his _own_ hand, and inquires in the most complimentary terms about his friend's health. The friend shakes his own hand also, and answers that he is well, but calls himself the most abusive names he can think of, and they pass on.

The French and Italian gentlemen kiss and embrace their men friends when they feel great delight at meeting.

The American fool grasps his friend's hand at the level with his hat, and gently jiggles it.

The politician, just before election, meeting a voter, slaps him vigorously on the back, and shakes his hand at the same time.

The Gambier Islanders rub noses, and if their welcome is very hearty, they each hold their breath for a few seconds, and then give a most alarming sniff, thereby showing great pleasure at meeting you.

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HE HAD FALLEN OFF.

Patrick was a new man in the light-horse regiment, but his cheerfulness and witty replies had already established him as a favorite. He had one drawback, however, and that was his awkwardness when on a horse's back. Naturally his position required the opposite of this, and Patrick worked hard and faithfully to acquire the ease and naturalness of his comrades when riding. He congratulated himself that this was at last accomplished; but one day when on parade his horse shied and threw him with considerable force. When he regained consciousness he found that his arm had broken with the fall. With his usual characteristic good humor the poor fellow smiled in his pain as he said:

"Well, well, it's too bad. I thought I had improved in my riding a great deal, but instead I have _fallen off_."

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COULDN'T HEAR THE MUSIC.

Colonel Brown was a mighty fox-hunter, and loved the sport beyond words. He owned a fine pack of hounds, and, during the season, thought of nothing but his hunters, his dogs, and the weather. He was once entertaining a friend from America, whose ideas of hunting any animal involved the use of fire-arms, and who had never seen a fox-hound. He had been with difficulty persuaded to go forth one morning with the Colonel and some friends to a meet, and they were waiting impatiently for the hounds to take the scent. Presently there burst upon their listening ears the din of thirty canine voices in full cry. The Colonel's eyes gleamed, and as he settled his feet in the stirrups and stretched his arm towards the yelping pack, he cried,

"Major, listen to that heavenly music!"

The Major pricked up his ears for a second or two, and then replied,

"I can't hear a thing, those dogs are making such a noise."

The Colonel put his spur savagely into his horse's side, and dashed away, leaving his guest to his own devices.

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HE WANTED PAREGORIC.

It is a good thing to remember the right word at the right time, but it is not every one who does it by such a curious succession of ideas as the man who dashed into a Western drug store, and accosted the clerk with:

"Say--I want some medicine, and I want it quick, too! But for the life of me I can't tell what the name is!"

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"Yes, you can, too!" said the would-be customer, promptly. "What's the name of that bay on the lower part of this lake--eh?"

"Do you mean Put-in-Bay?"

"That's it! That's it! And what's the name of the old fellow that put in there once, you know? Celebrated character, you know?"

"Are you talking about Commodore Perry?"

"Good! I've got it! I've got it!" shouted the customer. "That's what I want! Gimme ten cents' worth of paregoric!"

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FRANKLIN'S LOAN.

We often learn by sad experience that it is a very unwise plan to _give_ money to the poor. It is much wiser either to loan or to require some slight return in work. This plan tends to raise the respect of the recipient, rather than to form the easily acquired habit of begging. In an old English magazine we find the following letter from Dr. Franklin to some unknown beggar; it is amusing as well as instructive:

"_April_ 22, 1784.

"I send you herewith a bill for ten Louis-d'or. I do not pretend to
_give_ such a sum; I only lend it to you. When you shall return to
your country you cannot fail of getting into some business that
will in time enable you to pay all your debts. In that case, when
you meet with another honest man in similar distress, you must _pay
me_ by lending this sum to him, enjoining him to discharge the debt
by like operation when he shall be able, and shall meet with such
another opportunity. I hope it may thus go through many hands
before it meets with a knave to stop its progress. This is a trick
of mine for doing a deal of good with a little money. I am not rich
enough to afford much in good work, and so am obliged to be earning
and make the most of a little."

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If your Majesty will kindly
Stop your funning for a while,
I will make a portrait of you
In the very best of style.

But if you keep on jesting,
I am very much afraid
Instead of as the king, you'll as
The joker be portrayed.

End of Project Gutenberg's Harper's Round Table, March 9, 1897, by Various