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Entered according to Act of Congress, in June. 1869, by J. W. Burke & Cos., in the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the United States for the So. District of G eorgia
Vol. 111-—No. 52.
Written for Burke’s Weekly.
ARTIFICIAL FOUNTAINS.-
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< N artificial fountain is a ma
chine by which water is forced
upward in the form of a jet,
by the power of compressed air. You
have, many of you, seen fountains play
ing. flow beautifully the water rises
and spreads out, dropping in a shower
all around. There is quite a pretty
little fountain in Macon, and one, con
siderably larger, in the Park at Savan
nah, which is supplied with water from
the Savannah river. Do you know why
the water is thrown up by those foun
tains ? for they differ from the artificial
fountains I have just told you of. I will
tell you. The fountain in Macon is sup
plied with water from several springs
that flow out of a hillside, which is con
veyed in pipes, and the fountain throws
a jet of water just as high as the spring
from which the water is brought to it.
11 is the nature of water to seek its level,
and the water in the pipe tries to get on
a level with that in the spring, and is
thus thrown up as high as the spring on
the hillside, and this makes the foun
tain.
The fountain I have told you of in
Savannah, however, is not supplied in
the same way. There the water of the
river is pumped into a reservoir, or ba
sin, which is built on the top of a tower
eighty feet high, whence it is carried all
over the city in pipes. The fountain
is supplied through these pipes, and the
jet of water is thrown as high as its
source.
But in the artificial fountains the jet
of water is thrown up by the force of
compressed air. The most interesting
instrument of this class is known as
Hero’s fountain, so named from its in
ventor, Tlero, of Alexandria, born one
hundred and twenty years before Christ.
Avery pretty form of this fountain is
shown in the picture. r l he following
description of it is from Peck’s Ganot s
Natural Philosophy, and will interest
our little readers :
“ It consists of two globes of glass,
MACON, GEORGIA, JUNE 25, 1870.
connected by two metallic tubes. The
upper globe is surmounted by a brass
basin, connected with the globe by
tubes, as shown in the figure. To use
the instrument, the tube which forms
the jet is withdrawn, and through the
opening thus made, the upper globe is
nearly filled with water, the lower one
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containing air only. The jet tube is
then replaced, and some water is pour
ed into the basin.
“ The water in the basin, acting by
its weight, flows into the lower globe,
through the tube shown on the left of
the figure, as indicated by the arrow
head. This flow of water into the low
er globe forces out a part of the air in
it, which, ascending by the tube shown
on the right of the figure, accumulates
in the upper globe. The pressure of
the air in the upper globe, acting upon
the water in that part of the instrument,
forces a part of it up through the jet
tube, giving rise to a jet of water which
may be made to play for several hours.”
Written for Burke’s Weekly.
A HUNT ON THE WAKULLA;
on, JACK DOBELL IN FLORIDA.
By the Author of “ Big-Foot Wallaceand
“ Jack Dobells or, A Boy's Ad-ventures
in Texas."
CHAPTER VII.
THE INDIANS IN CLOSE PURSUIT —THE
BOAT FIRED INTO —THE ISLAND PRE
PARATIONS FOR A SIEGE —THE RAFT AND
WHAT BECAME OF IT —GATHERING THE
TROPHIES AFTER NIGHT-FALL —ESCAPE
IN THE DARKNESS —CONCLUSION.
iPSuTHOUI’ halting a moment
to catch their breath, as soon
'£s£7%s: as they reached the boat, they
commenced hurriedly throwing our
camp equippage into it ‘ belter skelter.'
“ Hello, boys!” said I when T got in
speaking distance, “ what’s the matter
now ? Are vou going to move camp?”
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“Yes,” said Jimmy, “ if the Indians
will only give us time to do' it, but the
the woods about here are alive with
them.”
“ Oh, shucks!” said I, for Jcouldn’t
resist the temptation to pay them back a
little for what they had said to me the
night before, “don't get scared before you
are hurt? There are no Indians here
—the rifles we heard ‘ were fired by
some party of hunters like ourselves,’
and we’ll be laughed at all over the
country if we run off in this way from
them. Don’t let’s break up the hunt
merely because we heard the reports of
a few guns last night in the swamp.”
“ Well,” said Tommy Hughes, as he
bustled the tent and tlie last of our
“traps” into the boat, “ anybody can
stay here that wants to ; but as for
me I shall get out of this hammock
just as soon as the winds and the waters
and the Indians will permit, for the
woods are chock full of them.” And
saying this he tumbled into the boat, and
we all followed him, for of course we
were quite as anxious to get away as he
was.
And in truth we had but little time to
spare, for scarcely had we reached the
head of the stream that flowed from the
southern end of the pool, when a fear
ful yelling was heard behind us, and in
a few moments the dusky forms of a
dozen savages were seen hurrying
through the woods on our right, who
evidently iutended to get ahead of us,
and to intercept our retreat below.
“What are we to do now, boys?” asked
Wiley Sparks. “The Indians will get
ahead of us and intercept us at some
point below, where the river is narrow
and where they will kill us all before we
can pass them.”
“ There is but one point on the river,
about a mile below here,” replied Bob
Harris, “where the Indians can ap
proach it, on account of the deep cy
press swamps that extend back some
distance from the banks. And if we
make baste, we may reach it before they
do. At any rate, it is our only chance
to escape.”
We all thought Bob’s suggestion a
a good one, and laid to our oars with a