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DAILY ENQUIRER • FUN : C0LTTMBU8, GEORGIA. SUNDAY MORNING NOVEMBER 7,
The World Passing Through a Belt of
Meteorites.
Krlrnlifti- AtmljwM or the Miolit* Thnnilrrhrlta oT
Jovr riii' Strom?!' 1’irllrlrs niiil Mshii'i I lint
Flout In Tlrplww I’ronislnn \r»mn * tin* Sun.
FullonlFIrebulls.
In a few days the world will once more
enter that curious belt, of meteorites which
is known us the full star shower. Every
boy and tjirl is familiar with the wonderful
spectaclo which t he skies present twice a
year, when the heavens appear to be filled
with falling stars, and bright linos of light
cross each other in endless succession, un
til it seems, in tlie poetic imagery of the
Bible, tlint the slurs of heaven are raining
down upon the world "as a llg tree casteth
her unripe figs when she is shaken by the
wind.” Many a grown up person has sat
np through the night watching the impres
sive spectacle.
What falling or shooting stars aro,
where they come from, what becomos of
thorn, what relation they hoar to meteor
ites, what connection, if any, they have
with other denizens of the skies, are quos-
.tions equally interesting to scientists and
the public. Dr. Herbert A. Newton, tho
famous Yale professor, and the retiring
president of the Amerienn Association for
the Advancement of Science, ehoso the
subject of metooritcH to be the themo of
his recent ummal address. He summed up
all that we know, and he touched upon tho
numerous theories which scientific men
have advanced, hut which have not yet
been confirmed by observation or reason
ing.
All sorts of opinions have been held
about the origin of meteors. It has been
argued that they come from the sun, from
the moon, from tho planets,from volcanoes
on the earth. Some have argued that they
Were condensations of nebulous matter left
over, so to speak, when tho world was cre
ated. Others have supposed they were
fragments of a lost planet. Few of these
theories will stand the test of investiga
tion. It is difficult to bolieve that any
solid body—and we know that meteors are
solid—could have been projected from the
sun to the vicinity of our earth. It would
necessarily have been fused and vaporized
in passing through the enormously heated
atmosphere of the sung and if it
had escaped this peril it would un
der the law of gravitation, have shot
upward a certain distance and then
fallen back whence it came. Bo far ns we
know, none of tho lunar volcanoes are in a
state of activity. Meteors cannot have
boon ejected from terrestrial volcanoes, for
none of them possess tile energy necessary
to throw a mass of metal a hunderd miles
into the air. There is no probability that
they once formed part of a lost planet; it is
difficult to perceive how the materials of a
K lanct, once gathered together, could have
Ben dispersed. After reviewing all those
vnrious theories. Prof. Newton comos to
the conclusion that meteors, fireballs,
shooting stars, falling stars mid comets alt
substantially belong to one class—that they
are aggregations of primitive matter
which formed somewhere in the cold of
■pace.
Tho elements are known. Almost every
boy has picked up iu the fields a curious
metallic, stone, wuich he has taken home
to be told that it is a meteoric .stone, which
the ancients cnlled Jove’s thunderbolt.
This stone, when analyzed, is found to con
sist of silicon, magnesium, iron, nickel, n
little oxygen and a few other materials.
Prof. Newton supposes these elements to
have been floating about in tho night of
space ami to have come together—how lie
docs not explain. He assumes millions of
sueli aggregations to have taken and ho
taking place in all parts of the uuivorse.
The aggregations may bo of any size; from
a great comet, nearly as large as a planet,
to a Htone which a boy can hold in his
hand.
The moment a solid body came into ex
istence h,v these aggregations it obeyed
the lnw of tho universeand began to travel
toward the sun with cometary velocity. It.
must go round the central body of oiir sys
tem and thence return whence it came,
moving in a parabolic orbit. It starts from
t point in space so cold that the severest
Arctic weather seems torrid in comparison,
hut in the course of its appointed revolu
tion, when it approaches the sun, it passes
through a region whose heat glazes its sur
face and gives to meteorites the shiny,
wrinkled aspect which the inside ofan
overworked cannon wears after a long bat
tle. What adventures it lias on the way it
is easy to conjecture. When it approaches
within attraction of one of the planets Its
course is run. It cannot blit obey the law
of gravitation. Down it must
come. As it enters the atm os
f iliere of a planet the friction
s generally more than it can bear; it
breaks to pieces or fuses. Sometimes we
•ee it fall apart, what was one shooting
■tarbecomes two. Its light is almost in
variably extinguished at a considerable dis
tance from the earth, showing that its life
ended there.
Prof. Newton thinks that the meteors we
•ee are seldom farther away from us than
100 miles and seldom nearer than thirty
miles- Prof. Olmsted reckoned that the
great meteor which created such u scare in
the east twenty years ayo was 2000 miles
away, and the meteor ol 1SS5, which was
■een simultaneously in Pennsylva
nia, New York and Western New
England and Canada, was supposed
to be as (list an I. But it is impossible to
Uiko acturate astronomical observations of
h phenomenon which is unexpected and
generally instantaneous; it may be that
Prof. Newton is right.
According to the ordinary reckoning,
6000 meteors fall on tho earth every year,
the great bulk of thorn, of course, falling
into the sen. This is mere guesswork.
The data are entirely wanting on which to
base au estimate. The size of meteoric
■tones which are p eserved in museums
varies from a ton in weight to the size of a
child’s marble.
The stones which do fall generally come
from fireballs or bolides, which arc seen
to explode with a great noise and smoke.
The explosion is sometimes heard UH)
miles away, nod the concussion of tho air
■hakes the whole region like an earth
quake.
There is probebly no general law on
these matters. Most of the meteorites that
have been found were red hot, or nearly
»o ; but one fell iu the Punjab a few years
ugo which was so icy cold that the fingers
of those that touched it stuck to its sur
face. Scientific men explained this on the
theory that this one line! just come from
the uttermost distance of space, where tho
bun’s rays have no power.
Some philosopher, arguing that life was
omnipresent, once raised the question
whether meteors and aerolites could be in
habited by a race of beings specially creat
ed so as to be adapted to their conditions.
But the microscope fails to show the least
trace of either animal or vege
table life on these visitors from
the outer wotid. The planets may bo in
habited, though it is hard to understand
how. It is known that if the planetoids |
contain human beings i iey must be sixty j
leet high, lint it is pretty sale to say that
nobody lives iu a comet, which alternates '
between a heat that fuses metal and a oold
that no imaginable thermometer could re
cord; and which, moreover, lias the awk- '
ward habit of splitting up into two or |
three pieces on slight provocation.
But, inhabited or not, we must believe ,
that all snace is fall of objects, moving in
an ondless procession round the sun. Of
these the great bulk are minute particles,
star dust, which Isometimes get within the
earth's attraction and give rise
to tho showers of dust—red, block
and yellow—that have fallen from
time to time on the surface of the earth.
But a goodly number of them arc ponder
able bodies, some of them quite large—little
worlds in their way—all moving madly
through space at a rate which takeH the
breath away to think of. Prof. Newton
thinks thai these bodies are within a
couple of hundred miles of each other—
within speaking distance, so to say and
that millions of them dropout by the way-
side through planetary attraction, leaving
room for their succus-ors; for the work of
creation is never ending—it Is, and was,
mid ever shall be,
l.niislitcr bends * New Chnrm
To beauty when it discloses a pretty set of
teeth. Whiteness, when nature has sup
plied this element of loveliness, may lie
retained through life by using fragrant
SOZODONT. sat se tu tlufcw
THE FIRST OCEAN STEAMER.
Iliiw tho American Ship Crowed tho Atfcnllr— As
tonishment. iu Europe.
Hartford Timer..
East Bukin, Conn., October 27.—Dear
Sir: The following is a copy of my grand
father’s (Captain Mosos Roger’s) account
of the voyage of the first steamship that
ever crossed the Atlantic. It was pub
lished long years ago in ■oine of the mag
azines; but perhaps some of the younger
readers would be interested to note the
progress America has made in the present
century. Mbs. Emma II. Adams.
[The tea kettle is still iu the family and
prized as an heir-loom.]
Tho first steamship, ths Savannah, was
built in New York by Ficket & Crockett,
under the direction of Captain Moses Rog
ers. The engine was built by Daniel Dodd
of Elizabethtown, and Stephen Vail of
Norristown, N. J.
The Savannah sailed from New York for
Savannah, Oa.. and from Savannah to
Charleston, S. C., for tho purpose of taking
the president, James Monroe, to Savan
nah.
After successful experiments she sailed
for Liverpool. May 25th, 1819. She was a
full-rigged ship, of about 350 tons burthen,
with a low-pressure engine of 90-horse
power. She was a fast sailor, and with
engine power could go eight miles per
hour. She was commanded by Captain
Moses Rogers ol New Lond n. Captain
Steven Rogers was sailing master. She
arrived in Liverpool after twenty-two
days—on fourteen of which she used her
engine.
She was seen from the telegraph station
at Cape Clear, the southern part of Ire
land, and reported as “a ship on fire.”
The admiral at Cork dispatched one of the
king’s cutters to her relief: but great was
their astonishment ut their inability,
with all sail in a fast vessel, to
come up wih a ship under bare
poleB. After several shots were fired
from tho cutter, the engine was stopped;
and the surprise of the crew at the mis
take they had made, as well as their curi
osity to see the singular “Yankee craft,”
can only bo imagined. They asked per
mission to go on board, and were much
gratified by the inspection of this navai
novelty.
As the Savannah approached Liverpool,
hundreds of people came off in boats to
sec her. She was compelled to lay outside
of tho bar until the tide should serve for
her to go in. During this time she had
her colors all flying; when a boat from a
British sloop-of-war came alongside and
hailed the sailing master, who was on
deck at tho time—
“Where is your master, sirt” was the
pompous salutation.
“I have no master, sir,” was the laconic
reply.
“Where is your captain, then?”
“He is below; do you wish to sec himT”
“I do, sir!”
The captain came up and asked him
what he wanted.
“Why do you wave that pennant, sir?”
“Because my country allows me to do
it, sir.”
"My commander thinks it wns done to
insult him; and if you don’t take it down
he’ll send force to do it."
Captain R >gers then exclaimed to the
engineer, “Get. the hot water engine
ready!”
Although there was no such machine
on board, the order bad the desired efl'eet;
for Johnny Bull paddled olf as fast os pos
sible.
On approaching the city, the shipping,
piers, und roofs of the. houses were
thronged with persons cheering the ad- ,
venturous craft. Naval officers, noblemen
and merchants came down to visit her
and ascertain her speed and destination.
As it wns soon after Jerome Bonaparte
had offered a large reward to any one who
would succeed in taking his brother Na
poleon from St. Helena, many supposed
Unit to be the object of the Savannah.
Remaining in Liverpool twenty-eight
days, and visited by people of rank, who
treated her officers with marked attention
she lelt for Copenhagen, Denmark, where
she excited similar curiosity. She pro
ceeded then to Stockholm, Sweden, where
she was visited by the royal family nod
the foreign ministers. By tho invitation
of the American minister they dined on
board and took an excursion among the
neighboring islands. From Stockholm she
procetded to St. Petersburg, which capi
tal she reached in safety. Lord Lyudock,
who wns on a tour through thy north of
Europe, by invitation took passage on
board. She was boarded in Russia by
several noblemen and naval officers, who
tested her qualities by a trip to Cronstadt.
Valuable services of plate were presented
to her officers. A quaint silver tea-kettle
was presented to Captain Rogers.
From St. Petersburg she proceeded to
Copenhagen; from thence to Arundel in
Norway, then back across the seas to Sa
vannah, where she arrived in twenty-five
days.
Thus the first steam vessel crossed the
Atlantic, a specimen of American ingenu
ity and enterprise.
Bkown's Bronchial Troches for
Coughs and Colds : “1 think them the best
and most convenient relief extant.”—Rev.
C. M. Humphrey. Uratz, Ky.
nov4 dAwlw
He who knows how to return favors ex
tended receives more.
Moxie will give you a v.goroua appetite
and refreshing sleep.
Itcail amt Ki'iuemher.
The oath of the lover incurs no penalty. |
A lover, like a torch, flames the brighter |
by agitation. . \
Love, like a tear, arise* in the eyes and [
fulls to the breast.
'File wise man will command, the fool |
serve his desire.
Time, and not tho will, puts an end to j
love.
Courage increases by daring, fear by de
lay. |
His own disposition is a bitter punish- I
ment to the miser.
A miser bus no life but a longer death. I
He who interests himself in tho cause of |
another involves himself.
He who fears himself lives in continual
agony.
Rule thy desire lest it rule thee.
He who would be frugal must rule his j
desire and his passions.
Nothing belter can be obtained than a '
true friend.
No gain satiates avarice.
He who can not do kindness may not
await kindness.
Mothers worn out with the cares of ma
ternity should tak- Moxie..
POISONS.
Atropia is the most powerful poison yet
discovered. Next to atropia in point of
violence is the Indian arrow poison,eusare.
South American Indians dipped their ar
rows into a solution of this plant. Its ac
tion is entirely unique. It paralyzes tho
limbs and the lungs, but in no way does it
effect the heart or tho brain. Both of these
last remain cleur and active. If the lungs
be pressed upon rhythmically, and thus
artificial respiration be kept up a few hours
until the poison be eliminated, the patient
recovers surely and entirely. Lurking
beneath the golden hue of the jasmine,
hid in its delicate, refreshing fragrance,
a poisonous essence is ever
present Potent for good, but demand
ing a close observance of quantity to be
taken. The spotted salamander, a llz-
zard-smike, is endowed with the power of
ejecting from every pore in its skin a milky
Huid whenever it is touched by any object.
This fluid possesses the same chemical
composition as the poison secreted by the
glands of venomous reptiles generally. A
South American has recently discovered
that mungunato of potassium, when in
serted immediately into the bite of any
poisonous snake, and not too long after
the bite is inflicted, neutralizes the venom.
When, however, the poison lias had time
to get into the system, this local injection
avails nothing. It is at this juncture that
whisky is loudly proclaimed all powerful.
It is exceedingly difficult to define what
is poisonous. Death is produced by alum,
salt, aniline dyes, tobacco, opium, chloro
form and yet Ithese substances are not
grouped popularly among the poisons.
Any drug that is used is beneficial or dele
terious according to the quantity taken.
Arsenic is looked upon as the synonym of
destruction, while strychnine and hemlock
aro believed to be scarcely less dangerous.
All of these substances are administered
daily to thonsands of sick people much to
their comfort. Poisonous is entirely rela
tive. A baby a few weeks old cannot safe
ly take one-twentieth grain of opium while
a whole grain is the usual dose for anudult,
and a horse can easily stand sixteen grains.
Drugs, then, are poisonous relatively,
as they injure the system. Substances
that act in small doses are generally looked
upon as the most violent poisons. No drug,
mineral or vegetable is in itself iu proper
quantity poisonous, that is, prejudicial to
the well being of the body. Atropia, the
drug from belladonna and identical with
it, acts on the heart, making it beat fnster
even in the most minute doses. The
eighteen hundredth of a grain has an
effect perceptible to our eye on the frog’s
heart. No other known substance has
ever been observed to unfold its efficient
property in so small a quantity. Atropia,
then, is the most powerful poison known,
and yet it is one of the most used and use
ful drugs known to medicine. In addition
to this pulse-quickening effect, it alHo
dilateB the pupil of the eye, thereby taking
the action of the iris out of play.
There are other substances that have a
direct action on the heart, and curiously
enough they all come from the vegetable
kingdom. Veratrum I take to be the most
insidious of them all. Conium is like jt
but less effective. Stramonium is clihSe
akin to both, but still leBS powerful in its
action on the heart. Aconite is the
feeblest of them all. There is a compensa
tion in all nature if we can only fathom it.
Wherever there is plus electricity a minus
is too—positive and negative; come a
storm, a calm follows; day, then night;
after the harvest follow land; ebb
then flow; and so it is with poisons.
It one substance, ns atropia, make
the heart pulsate more frequently; musco-
riu, the poisonous mushroom, antagonizes
it and eauses it to beat slowly. These sub
stances are said to be antagonistic. Poison
ous mushrooms will cause the heart to
cease entirely, but timely instill atropia
into the blood and away it beats again. So
it is with opium; its action on the heart is
very similar to that of mushrooms, bring
ing the heart gradually to a stillstand—ar
resting the heart. Atropia here, too, takes
off the brakes and lets it resume its func
tion of pumping. Strychnia throws
the whole nervous system into
convulsions, while chloral quiets
the nerves and antagonizes strych
nia. Arsenic does not net on the heart,
but on the intestinal canal. There is strict
ly no drug that is antagonistic to arsenic
or any substance that unfolds its effect on
the stomach or intestines. In the case of
such poisons, antidotes are used. That is,
something that renders the poisonous drug
inert or benign. Turpentine in this way
is an antidote to phosphorous; prepara
tions of iron negative arsenic ; aikalies
neutralize all acids, but the cauterizing
effect of sulphuric, carbolic, muri
atic and "Uric acids is not over
come. The most obscure poisons discovered
only partially known, are substances that
look extremely like arsenic and strych
nin, and are found in decomposing ani
mal flesh. These arc called ptomaines.
The action of this poison is powerful and
related to arsenic. Ptomaines form iu
dead bodies, in decomposing fish especially,
in oysters and in any decaying animal
stomach. A knowledge of this substance
is highly important in medical jurispru
dence, as it can similate other poisons.
There can be no doubt that ptomaines
have often been mistaken for arsenic in tiic
stomach of persons suspected of having
been poisoned.
The Catarrh remedy, Ely’s Cream Balm,
hns proved most satisfactory. Prior to
two months ago I had not breathed freely
through my nose for three years; now 1
am but little bothered in that respect.
The paiu has left my head, as have most
other disagreeable symptoms. 1 confi
dently believe it to be a sure cure.—S. M.
Logan, Bynumville, Chariton Co,, Mo.
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In the misfortunes of others it is good to
leurn what must be avoided.
ECZEMA
And Every Species of Itching
and Burning Diseases Cured
by Cuticura.
I.^CZEMA, or Salt Rheum, with its agonizing
I j itching and burning, instantly relieved by a
warm bath with Guticuru Soap, and a single aj>
plication of Cuticura, the great Skin Cure. This
repeated daily, with two or three doses of Cuti-
curu Resolvent, the New Hlood Puriller, to keep
the bl )od cool, the perspiration pure and unirri-
tatiug, the bowels open, the liver and kidneys
active, will speedily cuic Euzcmn, 1 elter, Ring
worm, Psoriasis, Lichen, Pruritus, Scald Head.
Dandruff, and every species of Itching, Mealy and
Pimply Humors of the Scalp and Skin, when the
best physicians and ail known remedies fail.
IXKldlA.
I gratefully acknowledge a cure of Eczema or
Salt Rheum, on head. neck, face, arms and legs
for s venteen years; not able to walk except on
hands atid knees for one year: not able to help
myself for eight years; tiied hundreds of reme
dies; doctors pronounced my case hopeless; per
manently cured by the Cuticura Remedies.
WILL MCDONALD,
3542 Dearborn Street, Chicago, 111.
KCKEMA.
Some five months ago I had the pleasure to in
form you of my improvement in the use of the
Cuticura Remedies in my case of severe Chronic
Eczema Erythematosa, and today cheerfully
confirm all 1 then said. 1 consider my cure per
fect and complete, and attribute it entirely to
your remedies, h ving u«ed no othe»s.
FERN AN ES ENCH A RDO.
3.108 Penna Avenue, Fit. Txmis, Mo.
EUZU.WA.
I have suffered from Salt Rheum for over eight
years, at times so bad that I could not attend to
my business for weeks at a time. Three boxes
of Cuticura and four bott les of Resolvent have
entirely cured me of this dre adful riseose.
Mu. JOHN THIEL. Wilkesonrre, Pa.
CUTICURA HCMERIEN
Are sold by all druggists. Trice; Cuticura. 59
cents; Resolvent, (1; Soap, 25 cents. Potter Drug
and Chemical Co., Boston. Send for “How to
Cure Skin Diseases.”
T>T^ ATTTIFYthe complexion and skin by
U using the Cuticura Soap.
CAN’T BREATHE
Chest Pains, Numbness, Soreness,
Hacking Cough, Asthma. Pleurisy
and inflammation relieved in one
.minute by the Cuticura Anti-
Pain Plaster. Nothing like it. At
druggists. 25 cents. Potter Drug and
Chemical Co.. Boston.
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THE GREAT
Gray Legions.
Tireless as the Tide Thai Streets Oar Shores, Restless as t.fo
Vanguard of Some Mamnirering Army. Again Sweep*
Proudly Onward, and Thunders of Unrival
led Prices Mark Our March
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Towards Fame’s Great Camping Ground, imperative, suc
cessive, universal. The secret of success, especially of other
folk’s success, not hard to find. In llie case of GRAY, for
instance, one need only observe his methods, as disclosed in
his business, to learn the reason for his wide and increasing
popularity as the Dry Goods King of Georgia. The hour of
contest has arrived and we this week throw down our gaunt
let of defiance and cliallange the state to a mighty struggle
for commercial supremacy. Then you will see so called com
petitors bewail their woes and in mute despair gaze at the
daily rush always seen at the Trade Palace.
To say that we are doing the Dry Goods trade of the town
don't express it.
Lo!the PricesforThis Week:
5 Cases Best Standard Prints at only 4i cents.
10 Cases 36-inch Momie Suitings at 8 cents, worth 15e.
10 Cases Dice Fig Dress Goods at 5 cents, worth 10c.
,5 Cases Cashmerets Dress Goods at 7 cents,-worth 12i<*
5 Cases Two toned Robes Goods at 10 cents, worth 15c.
No one lies as yet been able for 50 cents a yard to match
our 40c Rlack Cashmere. We are selling at only 25 cents.
Have you seen it ?
All our 35c Dress Goods are now on our Big Bargain
Gomiler—choice only 12i cents.
See Our Imported Combination Dresses
For $7.50 and $8 50. They are worth double.
In Black Goods, Silks and all kinds of Velvets we beat the
town 50 per cent.
CLOAKS.
PRICE OTTJEOS FIRST.
New Stand
OUR MAGNIFICENT STOCK
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fiery
it will give you solid and
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Moxie Nerve F<
durable strungt h.
’Sl'lilitt Li.
|)E(H’1.AR MEETING to-morrow (Monday!
IX evening at 8 o’clock. Transient brethren in
good standing are cordially invited to attend.
Now on Exhibition,
All Ihe novelties in Felts,
Astrakhan and Plush Hats
can he found at our store.
We a re displaying the mosi
elegant line ot Fancy Feathers.
Birds’ Wings, etc., ever shown
in this market.
Special bargains in Ostrich
Tips and Plumes.
25 Dozen Misses' and Chil
dren’s Trimmed School Hats
at from 50 cents up.
Our Pattern Hats are now
on exhibition.
F. W. LOUDENBER,
J. F. WISE, N. G.
Sec'y. mh^sscly
There is no doubt that we have the largest and cheapest
stock of Underwear in town. See our Ladies’ 50c Vest;
cannot be matched for less than 90c.
Special sale litis week of fine Cloaks, Wraps, Blankets and
Tibet Shawls.
?. ee Ou r N ew Corsets,
A Do Motion and Hosiery Department.
Once again Gray’s skillful fingers hike up the chords that
thrill Ihe masses, and make sweet music 011 keys that eaa-
not fail to touch the people’s purses.
Our Excitement Opera this week opens with a grand
crash of silver dollars, thrown in such quantities on our
counters the tingle and rattling of same startles competition
and reverberates through the land in a rythmic measure.
For Big, Real, Live Bargains, fail not to call on
THE QUiCK SELLERS,
OIT-TOP-LIYE-HIOUSE,
P. GRAY & CO.
LARGEST BUSINESS CONNECTIONS SOUTH,
COLUMBUS. AUGUSTA, SAVANNAH, NEW YORK.
Prices by us always the Lowest, to suit the time*.
