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ON A TROPICAL PLATEAU.
kit be am or as at■
tehnooh nr Mexico.
Cumbersome Mexican Vehicle* Fif
teen Feet High— Market Women
—A Ranchero and Hia Dress.
Thomas Wallace writes from Zacate
cas. Mexico, to the Detroit Free Press as
follows:_ The air is clear and cool,, and
the sky is set with a few bright, fleecy,
floating clouds, such as the artist is won’t
to paint in his pictures. The cloud
shadows are passing over the canyon,
along the Talley and up the mountain
side. He e they present that bright
contrast .and many beautiful combina
tions which nature forms by means of
sunshi :e and shadow. The mountain
slopes far and near are covered with the
thorny ch parral, the century plant, the
many wild Cowers of the tropics, and
the wild tuna (prickly pear) which is
now laden with the most delicious and
wholesome fru'.t which we have yet
found in the tropics.
i Here, too, we see a flock of goats quietly
grazing under the care of a paHarchal
looking shepherd, who is seated on nn
ancient boulder be-ide his dog and crook.
Another flock, preparatory to early milk
ing time, is wendiug its way down the
mountain to the goat corral. On the
summit we see a number of lame and
galled back burros, which, because of
their age and infirmities, hive been
turned adrift to die in the mountains.
In the distance wc see a long freight
train moving across the plateau. It is
Composed of cumbersome carts, each
drawu by six mules.
These carts aro sometimes ten feet
wide, with three shafts made of hewn
timber about six in hes square. The
wheels are about as high as those of the
old-time log cart, and are often run
without tires, but in this case each felloe
is from six to ten inches square, so tires
are not needed. One form of wagon bed
is unknown here, but in p!a eof it they
build a single room house on a balan e
over the axle, using the rear half of the
shafts for sills. It is built of square tim
ber or round p >les, with foors and walls
made of green cow skin. They are some
times fifteen feet high, and are usually
covered with a kind of coar c bagging.
There is no door to the structure, hen e
everything must be loaded in over the
top, at the gable ends. When a long
caravan composed of these carts is seen
moving slowly over the plain, ea, h
loaded with almost eve y class and kind
of products known to the tropics, one
can then form a be;ter idea of the re
sources of this ountry, but when we
look at the tack'e of the mules and th;
odd and ancient garb ot the drivers and
the ranchero, we can form a still better
idea of the harness fashions of an
tiquity. Well, I ha-.dly know how to de
scribe this procession, but, in the lan
guage of the Arkansaw Traveler , every
thing “appears wonderfully out ot
kilter.”
In the distance beyond wc see a great
xdoud of dust rising in the plain. This
is the signal that the evening stage will
soon be here, and also that it is lightly
loaded, and that the mules are coming
“in full tilt.”
It is the evening hour, and the market
women are passing out of the city. One is
riding a spry little donkey that seems
anxious to get home. She is closely
wrapped in a shawl and carries a baby
in her lap, while her husband follows on
behind, driving the donkey. The whole
is a tine representation, recalling pi tures
of the flight into Egypt.
i A peon on board his burro is passing
out to the distant hacienda. Now he
dismounts to take his drink at the way
side pulqueria; but there is no hitching
post. What shall he do? Ah! he is
equal to the emergency, for he has
hitched his donkey to its own hind foot.
Over the way there is a humble jacal. It
has but one room, with a dirt floor and
decayed canvas roof. The chickens are
■picking each other for their respective
positions on the roost in one end, while
the family and a pet goat are taking their
supper in the other. Hoon the front en
trance will be closed by means of sus
pended gunny bags, after which the
happy family will bid adieu to all things
external unt.l day.
Now the ranchero of the caravan it
passing. Ho is mounted on a fine horse,
which is prancing under a silver-mounted
saddle. Th : s is made so strong and
fastened so tight that we often see a pair
of horses draw a heavy load when
hitched by the saddle horns. The fend
ers and panels are very large and richly
embroidered with colored thread and
silver tinsel. In place of saddlebags
there is a pair of baguerillos. These are
long, black, hairy appendages fastened
to the rear of the saddle, and hang half
way to the ground on either side. They
have long po ket3 on the inside, and the
whole in the distance resembles a half
side of undressed bear skin. The rider
is dressed in the popular garb of the
country, and carries a belt of cartridges
around his waist and a largo revolver, a
lasso and a breech-loading ri’c on one
side and a long sheathed sword on the
other. In his appearan e and mode of
life among his peon stibjc ts he mig't
be thought a fine representation of n
feudal lord of the middle ages. To look
at, he appears a formidable ob ect, yet
he is not at all dangerous, neither in
peace nor war. His sons, following in
I)is footsteps, are the would-be Vexican
knights of modern times, but their race
is nearly run, and until this much tc ded
but sickly flower of ancient ancestry < an
find a more congenial dime in which to
bud and bloom, it must soon fade and
die from the sheer neglc t and cruel
treatment it continues to receive from
the foreign tribes of the north.
Federal Losses at Gettysburg.
The losses of the Federal troops at
Gettysburg, according to olciil data
recently issued in pamphlet fo in by the
War Department, were as follows:
Kill*o,
yumbrr IT o iniinl.
Prone ut Captu red
('orps for Duty, or Nirein'j.
First 10,85 1 It lo>t <1,024
Hecond tß,oott It lost 4.‘TO
Third It lost 4 f 210
Fi th 13,211 It Ist 2,1*7
Sixth t 0,710 It lost 2W
Klaventh 10,Mil It lost ,<><
Twelfth H.BW7 It lost I,<Wl
Cavalry 10, ltJ It lost S-t'.t
Artillery 9.888 It lost Mi
Total ttT.llW Total SK/JUtl
Wheat is the only crop which can b >
produced in Southern California without
irrigation.
some Costly New York Dnlldlnga.
The cost of sum : of the big building*
which now so olieu attract attention
in New York may be given thus:
Tribune Im Mlui 11,00(1,000
Drsxsl biuhtiuu l.Mo.taw
O, H I'otUff building V,uoo,*
Slesarl I*ll Idlug MOO.UW
< yru* W, Fi*bl wMidlng, *,,*
fin it ii> building . k.ftou.wa)
pr<du>* l.okting* mK6
In I'ddition to the above are man*
other liusuisse * d(flees of lergroost. nod
11 .11k >e e the greet *p#wnt< I<m WP
Ur loan • of whicii * teh ©oet
‘ MV |, thau # villi >o If, It if
Captain C. Thomas Swift.
I presume no person will deny that Swift's Bpe
cldc is more widely beard of than any medicine
that ever ctalmed the attention of mankind.
True, Its manufacture and Its active operations
sre yet restricted to America, but that only makes
Americatbe heart from which this vital Quid
is pulsed out through the arteries of a sentient
world.
Yes the sun never sets on Swift’s Specific, and
it< ‘ going forth” may be compared to the move
ments of that Oriental bird which Is said to feed
and sleep and live forever on the wing.
Crider these circumstances we find no cause for
surprise in the universal inquiry: “Who is
3 *i!t;'’ and do reason why the question should
remain longer unanswered.”
I hare known “Bwift” ever since he buttoned on
his first suspenders. I knew his parents and kin
dred in the long ago, and f njnyed tha hospitality
< f Ms father’s home when “Tom" was but a “broth
of a boy.”
I also lived in Houston county when the Indians
wi re coming and going, saw them occasionally
and slept under the roof where, I was afterwards
to and, they led the formula of S. 8. 8. I waa told
this by a person who had no connection with Cap
tain S*ift, and no interest in his fortune.
I know the biography of the man and the history
of the medicine, and without reward or the hope
thereof, without any solicitation from him or any
reference to the S. 8. S, farther than it Dears upon
toe story of hi life, I now comply with the earnest
and universal demand of the public and furnish
ibis brief
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF
('ATTAIN CHARLES THOMAS SWIFT.
C. T. Swift was born near Madison, Ga., in Mor
g*u county. His grandfather, Thomas Swift
moved to that county from Virginia many years
ago, and, after a protracted life devoted to heroic
struggles and Christian dntiea, died, leaving his
family in comfortable circumstances. Judge Wm.
V. Swift, his eldest son, is the father of Thomas;
hi. mother's maiden name was Elizabeth Furlow;
she is a sister of Colonel T. M. Furlow, of Ameri
ca-, who, in 1863, was a formidable competitor of
'he Hoa. Joseph E. Brown for governor of Geor
gia.
When Thomas was three years old, his parents
moved to Alabama, and settled near Salem, where
they remained seven years. At this place, at the
age of five years, tbe callow pharmacist buckled
•m his first satchel and started to school to a Mr.
Dodson, who made his academy a Babel by tbe old
fashioned plan of studying aloud. It was under
the inspiring music of Mr. DodEon’s switch that
"Tom" took his first lesson in dancing, and so
vivid were the impressions of those early eveDts
in at even now he sees the benignant face of that
beloved teacher every time he goes to sleep on an
overloaded stomach. On such occasions he gen
erally wakes to find himself singing:
“Thy bright smiles haunts me still,’’
Mr. Dodson taught two years and was succeeded
by a Mr. Lyons, who kept school but a short time.
He was followed by Miss Yates, a northern lady
who Is yet living.
Judge Swift then owned a tanyard in partner
ship with Mr. Nathan Aldridge. The tanyard was
three miles from the judge’s residence. He rode a
mare to the tanyard every morning ; sometimes
leaving her six months colt in the pasture and
sometimes letting it follow. Tom had petted tbe
colt, lifted its fore feet and led it about by the
mane until he considered it a model of ductility
and submlsslvenesa. One day,in his seventh year,
be fouad tbe colt alone in its usual grazing quar
ters and decided to introduce anew feature in the
programme by making a tour of the pasture on
horseback. With no bridle, no saddle; nothing to
hold on to but a duck-legged undeveloped sample
of a mane, he sprang from a stump and
lauded ou the back of his pet. The
colt was surprised at this performance. “Surprls
ed” does not express it, nor do all all the words
In all the languages express the astonishment of
that “leetle hoss.’’ He leaped thefence like adeer
and without inquiring about the roads broke
through woods and fields, over ditches and logs
broke, yea, shot himself at the tanyard. Tom
pressed bis little stomach to tbe colt’s withers,
tried to tangle his feet in its flanks, and tried, or
would have tried to tie his arms in a hard knot
around its neck. To let go or to hold on os equally
daugerous. In either event he had no leisure to
calculate where he would probably land or where
he’d sail to. Fortunately the little fellow never
thought of praying. He only knew two prayers,
“Now I lay me down to sleep.” and “Lord, make
us thankful for what we’re about to receive.”
Neither of these would suit his case, and it was
fortunate that he was no at this critical moment
embarrassed with the necessity of religious, on tbe
top of other very active exercises.
On, on, on went the hurricane colt, and where
the ground was hard and unobstructed bis rapidity
was such that his legs looked like so many knitt
ing needles.
Tom stuck closer than a postage stamp or a po
rous plaster, and the only danger was that a collis
iou would occur or the hide ot the colt would slip.
So, after what seemed to be about fifty years, Tom
heard the friendly svhinny of the mare aud p o
feedings were amicably adjusted by the "wkoas”
of the workmen at the tanyard. Tom never after
wards wanted to join the cavalry; for on that occa
sion his lather mustered him out of service with a
mustard that burned.
From Salem, Judge Swift moved to Perry, Hous
ton county, Georgia, where he yet re-ides. Tom
went to school here five years to Mr. Jim Dunham
aud two years to Professor J. E. Croslin.
There is but lit* le of interest to the readers in
those years of study, when the mind was awakened
to the great duties of life and all Its energies silent
ly enlisted in preparing for the important tutnre.
To the student, that period is full of excitement,
with its struggles, its triumphs and Its disappoint
ments; to the observer, it is fall of monotony.
Thomas was now storing his mind with useful
knowledge and laying thelouadatiou of a remark
able and most successful career.
During this time he grew to be a stout, healthy,
boy.
Had Captain Swift lived In pbscurity, had hls
late been to pass through the Horn Gate, instead
of ihe Ivory, he would still have been a man to
r-umumud attention, a man to be looked at and
iUieav.l to, a man toattract, to move, to impreaa.
IIP father waa in easy circumstances, but young
Swift was ambitious and whilst yet a boy oom
iLeiired to battle for himself. Kor awhile he
clerk.*! for Messrs. Qranberry & Kawton of Amerl
ru, afterwards fo Mr. Joel Mann of Perry, and at
ih- i.reaklngoutofthewarhe waa with Messrs.
N..r turn A Shivers in Sparta. In all these en-
M*imeut be made a reputation as a youth of
j'liUaislii, practical sense, a talent for drawing
trad... an aptneaa in learning the details of busi
ness sinl an unfaltering davotlon to Utn Interests
of hi. employer*.
In Mil Mr. awift enlisted uiprivate la the Pint
Ueii.fi* Volunteers, under Colonel Hemeer. of Oo-
Imohus. end remained In ranks until Utn real
man I was mustered oulofaerrlee In im. Ha then
I nuad the Montgomery Bouillon (ArUllery)wham
ha earned fo the end of th* war with the rank of
rapisU.
After iba surrender Captain N return ad to Perry
and Iwgsa a small grocery husiuaea on a aaphal of
UM la the back rum of ibis spot In a now moo
eaal. ppt during IMt, bain* Uegaa bis ataoufae
tSU uf th* * h- . To# leader wilt poMMy thlah
I evshi to pa hank as* relate eeerptalng eon ape
red stih th* arifts and sate* *d*. t i.iatnn uf this
a.rdir.ee header tat SM rstaled pw that I has
GEORGIA HOME JOURNAL: GREFNESBORO. FRIDAY. OCTOBER 22. 1886.
not sow advertising il. A lam bat writing a
biographical sketch of Captain 8.. the man who
has brought and still brings that great Elixir before
the public. The 8. 8. 8. with It* wonderful, won
derful history, will be commented on, not because
it Is for sale, but because it is interwoven with the
•ketch. lam writing "interwoven” with so clo •
a texture that, like the image of Medusa on the
shield of Phldiss, to eraie the one would be to ruin
the other. The grocery proved to be a success.
Trade increased, business became brisk and every
Indication pointed to the necessity of more house
room But the medicine outgrew
the store. Drummers from every quar
ter of the country tasted It, tested it and
went away to spread abroad the story of Its
vl- tues. A negro presided over the wasbpot and
*5.00 per quart wss tbe price, end yet tbe demand
was soon lmmessu rably ahead of the possibility of
supply Under the circumstances the store was
abandoned and oaptaiu Swift moved eight miles
from Perry, procured a syinp kettle aud devoted his
whole time to the manufacture of S. 8. 8. But peo
pie would advertise tbe medicine anyhow and the
blood would be purified and tbe patients would be
cured and soon tbe capacity of tbe syrup kettle was
found altogether inadequate to supply tbe popular
demand.
Captain 8. was now at the end ol his row. To in
crease the number of syrup kettles would but in
crease existing embarrassments and advertise bis
inability to meet tbe wants of the people in the
sale of his own medicine.
He tried long tnd earnestly to interest men of
capital in giving the medicine a larger sphere and
a more extensive manufacture. With this pur
pose in view he made propositions to quite a num
ber of moneyed men, North and Booth; and vis.
ited New York and other financial centers. HU
efiorts were unavailing. The medicine was fated
to remain in the background until it became tbe
arbiter of iu own destiny. It was not the repre
sentations of Capt. 8., but the tame of 8. 8. 8. that
invoked the aid of Messrs. Rankin & Lamar.
Swift had about ceased to hope for assitance from
any source whatever, and was hovering over his
kettles when the eyes of the present company were
directed to the marvelous effects of the medicine
and its phenomenal popularity.
That was, I think, in 1879. A laboratory with
tbe machinery necessary for a rapid manufacture
of the medicine was erected ata cost of *IOO,OOO.
Steam, with its tremendous energy, now reaches
out to the affltcled thousands of bottles every day,
and still, I understand, the demand calls for jet
additional means of manufacture. Tweniy jears
ago Capt S. was poor and needed to struggle; now
he Is rich and might well afford to rest, but that
the suffering of this and other cations look large
ly to him for relief.
One circumstance causes metopredict that Capt
8 is now but In the beginning of his fortune, his
medicine only in tne moruing of Its history.
Every where Igo 1 hear of unadvertised and re
markable cures effected by “Swift’s Specific,” and
this Is compelled to be the experience if every
man who travels and talks. For example, I was
going in a buggv to town (Senoia) a few nights ago
with Mr. John McKnlght, when the conversation
turned to the possibility of curing cancers.
"They can be cured,” said he. “I cared one, a
genuine, well developed, longstanding cancer,and
It’s been well several years, and tbe iormei victim
Is stoat and healthy.’’
“How did you cure IK" I asked.
"I cured it with 8 8. 8.”
"Did you inform Swift of the cure?”
“Why, no; what’s the use? Bwift knows his med
ic’ne will cure cancers.”
This incident Is one of the numberless prophe
cies that are dally predicting the future of Swift’s
Specific. I might go much further with this branch
of the subject—might show the wonderful growth
of tbe business-might show the expense in 1879 at
030,000, and in 1886 of *250,000. I might enlarge
upon these andmanyotber Gets, were I writing an
advertisement, which 1 again assert I am not. I
am not wrltiog an advertisement and though the
medicine Is a vital part of Captain S.’s biography,
I shall now bid adieu to that vital part and “throw
physic to tbe dogs."
On May 4th, 1880,Ciptain 8. was married to Miss
Lena Burckbardt, oi Atlanta, a lady of rare ac
complishments, tnd more than all, a handsome,
pure, lovely woman. "She is the daughter ofG.
A. Burckharit, Esq., one of AtUnta’a oldest cud
best citizens.” Their union has been blessed with
three pretty, interesting little girls. I speak the
words of soberness and truth when I say that earth
has not had a happier home than theirs since
Adam left the bowers of Eden.
Silence rests upon these happy wtdded years.
There is no hum of the bees while they gather
hoaey; and so u y task Is completed
I shall not submit this manuscript to Captain S.
If after publication he sees fit to adopt it in the
family oi Ms advertisements, I will not object. If
he becomes offended, I sball regret that It has
been written. If he pursues neither course, I will
at least enjoy the satisfaction of knowing I have
contributed my mite towards the gratification oi
public curiosity. Good-bye. “Kit” Wap.rin.
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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
‘FOR.SUBMARINE WARFARE j
TBIP OT A NEW TORPEDO BOAT!
UNDER WATER.
S ivigoting the Depths of the Hod- !
son River in a (Jneer Craft—Be- j
cret Motive Power.
The Peacemaker is the name given to 1
the newest specimen of submarine naval
architecture. It is claimed for her that
she distances all her predecessors in her
availability for purposes of submarine
warfare, and in the course of a trial ex
hibition she did some remarkable things.
Tbe exhibition took pla: e in the pres
ence of a number of gentlemen on board
a tag moored in the North River, off
Eighty-sixth street, and of a large crowd
of persons who lined the shore. Besides
her pilot and engineer—ihe only two
hands necessary to work tho boat—the
first voyagers under water in her were a
Herald reporter and Dr. Sloane, a scien
tific expert.
The boat is described as a submarine
monitor. She is thirty feet long, with
seven and a half feet depth of hold and
eight and a half beam. The lines
of the lower half of the hull are not un
like those of other boats. The deck has
a sloping surface. The boat is constructed
of iron and steel. The pilot looks out
through a dome one foot high and four
teen inches in diameter, with narrow slot
lights on each side through which he can
see in all directions. This dome is well
forward; near the stern is the turret
hatchway, the only entrance into the
vesscL Horizontal rudders on the sides
near the stern cause the boat to ascend
or descend at the will of the pilot, and a
common rudder bak of the screw guides
her laterally. Water tanks that can be
filled and empt ed in short order lower
and raise the monitor vertically without
the use of the rudders. By a chemical
device the air in the hold m iy be purified,
and Professor J. 11. L. Tuck, the inven
tor of the boat, claims that the crew
might remain in her for several days
without a fresh suppiy. Pipes to store
compressed air, however, are provided
for ordinary use.
Though all its parts are protected by
patents the most jealously guarded se
cret of the Peacemaker is her motive
power—the chief problem to be solved in
the construction of such craft. The
power is obtained through some chemi
cal composition, of which caustic soda is
an important factor, and by a purification
proc ss, it is alleged, the same “fuel”
may be used over and over again. The
distinguishing advantage of the boat, it
is claimed, consists in the ease with
which its Captain can sail under an en
emy, and by a device in the roof release
dynamite torpedoes at will, controlling
their discharge by an electric wire when
they have been lodged under the enemy's
keel.
The Peacemaker sailed as well under
as above water. The Herald reporter
was preceded into the cradle lit interior
by John G. Holland, the pilot—no rela
tion to the inventor of the Nautilus—
and John 11. Klyne, the engineer. These
are both young men of intelligence, who
are thoroughly conversant with the
boat's working. The reporter dropped
down through the hatchway. Before he
had become accustomed to the dim light
Engineer Klyne closed the hatch in the
turret and turned a wheel which screwed
it down tight. Men on the tug cast off
the hawsers.
“Give it to her 1” sang out Captain
Holland from his place under the pilto
cage. A simple motion of the engine
lever started the engine. It worked
smoothly and well. The monitor plowed
its way toward the middle of the Hud
son. She sped along entirely sub
merged with the exception of the two
turrets.
A steamer passed. The pilot gave the
information, for he was the only man on
board who could see out; but in a mo
ment more the reporter felt the Peace
maker rocking in the big swell like a
cradle.
“Give her some more,” came from the
pilot.
Another motion of the engine lever.
The boat darted ahead at a speed of eight
miles an hour. Then the pilot grasped
the lever controlling the horizontal rud
ders and gave it a pull. A slight pitch
forward was the intimation the reporter
bad that the boat was making a dire.
She was headed up stream. The swash
of tbe water on the deck became hushed,
the light filtering through the slats in
the pilot cage grew dim and went out.
Only the candles lit up the interior and
threw fanta-tic shadows of engine pipes
and of the deadly torpedo machinery
upon the side walls of the hold.
“Fifteen feet, going North,” called
Pilot Holland. “Give her more speed.”
Fifteen feet under water and going at
the rate of eight m les an hour!
Asked his sensations, the Herald re
porter would have said he was in the
engine room of a river steamer. No un
pleasant effc ts were noticeable, there
was no more heat than that caused b X
the working of the machinery.
The speed of the engine was increased.
“Thirty feet. We're now going south, ”
said the pilot for the benefit of the re
porter.
“When did we come around?” asked
the latter.
The turn had been made so easily and
sttreiy that only the steersman knew of
it. tic was guided by a compass in front
of him.
“St.ip her! ’ was the order given shortly
a ter, and in obedience to it the engine
ceased to work. All was still. Three
seconds after,daylight shone through the
glass in the pilot dome and the rippling
water at the surfa-e lapped gently upon
the steel armored deck. The monitor
had been under water nineteen minutes.
She came to the top more than half
a mile from the place of submersion.
The tugbort was away down the river.
On the w.iy to rejoin her another dive of
Urn minutes’ duration was made, and a
depth of twenty-five feet whs attained.
The diver* landed in three-quarters of
an hour nnd received a warm welcome in
the shnp- of a cheer and a handshake
from th.* sightseers who “didn't care to
go down ”
Decently the crew took the boat fifty
feet under water an I . ante to the surface
without her. She was raised by a der
rick. They did this to show that if
everything else fafle I those on board
could still escape unharmed. —Ntio York
Ut nhJ.
Superstition Attached to Gem,.
( f the superstitions that attach to
gems and ornament*, a writer in the New
York Commtrti'il sgya: “King* are worn
as lal .man*. The turquoise ring is said
to poaaesa ipeeial prop rite*, a supersti
tion to which I r Donne alludes:
A . ottipu a mint*. tu quoi u that doth tall,
lly lo -airig pale, lie waier is not woll.
Th< carbuncle among other propgrtfcM
is said to give out a u itural light. A
piece of superstition makes it unlucky to
wenr an b|ml. although it i( a most beau
tiful stone the diamond is hello. and to
counteract poison, an aui.iald ring in
sure# purity of thought, and a loadstone
ring i* an amulgt to lutvent now-born
cbihtr. n and their nec*her* Isom fairies,
a n< chief e ut amber i* said C> > ore a w#u,
and tike n <n*uu. is loaded ilasa widh
•UpefstiUOM.'
SCIENTIFIC ANB INDUSTRIAL.
In • paper to the London Entomolog
ical Society, Mr. J. W. Slater showed
that all brightly-colored insects do not
live upon flowers, as Mr. Grant Allen
has asserted, but that many species are
carnivorous.
An immense quantity of jewelry is now
made from the layers of gold alloy upon
an ingot of brass, formed while it is hot.
On the ingot cooling it is formed between
steel rollers into a long thin ribbon, each
part of which is of course still covered
i with the gold alloy, incalculably thin,
j but which wears .for years, and can be
molded into any shape.
If the levels of the Atlantic and Pacific
oceans at the Isthmus of Panama are the
same, there will be no need of locks in
the Panama Canal; but locks will be re
quired if there is a difference of level
between the two oceans. Mons. De
Lesseps has been assured by a scientific
commission, who investigated the ques
tion for him, that the levels are the same,
but he wants a committee appointed by
the Paris Academy of Sciences to make
further inquiry into the matter.
The amount of matter in solution an
nually poured into the Gulf of Mexico by
the Mississippi is estimated at 150,0 )0,000
tons, at which rate one foot of land over
the whole basin would be removed in
4,000 years. Similar calculations applied
to the St. Lawrence, La Plata, and the
Amazon reach the result that 1(10 tons per
square mile are removed from the Ameri
can continent every year. Again, it is
calculated that not less than one cubic
mile of earth is deposited every year in
the Atlantic from America, Africa, Eu
rope and Asia.
Ac English newspaper states that evi
dences of a post-glacial forest have been
discovered on the western outskirts of
Hull, about a mile from the Humber,and
one and a half from the river Hull.
Workmen engaged in a brickyard in the
locality named, on cutting through the
clean warp clay about twelve feet, have
come across a forest bed on an irregular
surface of the drift, on the top of which
is a greenish san iy clay, with pebbles and
stones. The roots of the trees arc stand
ing where they grew, and from their
clo eness represent the remains of a dense
forost. Thu forest bed is now at the low
water level of the sea. A stone imple
ment has been found on the surface of
the drift.
>lr. A Sanson, in an article in a recent
number of the Recue Scientifique, states
that, from a comparison of animal and
steam power, in Franca at least, the
former is the cheap r motor. In the con
version of chemical to mechanical energy,
ninety per cent, is lost in the machine,
against sixty-eight in the animal. He
finds that the steam horse power, con
trary to what is generally believed, is of
ten materially exceeded by the horse.
The cost of traction on the Montparnasse-
Bastille line of railway he found to be
for each car, daily, fifty-seven francs,
while the same work done by the horse
cost only fortly-seven francs; and he be
lieves that, for moderate powers, the
conversion of chemical into mechanical
energy is more economically affected
through animals than through steam en
gines.
Chestnut, pea and buckwheat coals,
formerly allowed to go to waste in the
huge piles of “culm” which accumulate
near every mine, have, within the last
fifteen years, been successively separated
from the worthless material by processes
that have been invented to meet the need.
The ne plus ultra seems to have been
reached in an air-blast, which not only
transports the waste from the breaker
to the refuse heap at one-sixththecost of
the old method by mule carts, but before
depositing it in its final resting-place,
by means of a graded series of screens,
takes from it and sorts out into the dif
ferent sizes all the good fuel. The
“buck wheat” is found to be just the
stuff for making steam on the Hudson
River boats. The cost of carrying the
culm from the breaker to the dumps has
heretofore been, at a low estimate, $20,-
000 per day in the anthracite region of
Pennsylvania.
WISE WORDS.
Strong character, like strong muscle,
come from activity, from warfare, not
retreat.
I was neyer happy till I gave up trying
to be a great man, and was willing to be
nobody.
Nature is frank, and will allow no man
to abuse himself without giving him a
hint of it.
Contentment is a good thing until it
reaches the point where it sits in the
shade and lets the weeds grow.
He who is the most slow in making a
promise is the most faithful in the per
formance of it.
You must love your work, and not be
always looking over the edge of it, want
ing your play to begin.
A man protesting against error is in
the highway toward uniting himself with
all men who believe in truth.
Wickedness may prosper for a while,
but in the long run, he that sets all
knaves at work will pay them.
Genuine cheerfulness is an almost
certain index of a happy mind and a pure,
good heart.
Some are brave one day and coward#
another, as great captains have told me,
from their own experience and observa
tion.
Burning Banknotes.
In 1806, 'Turner determined to nuke
Liber Studiorum , or “Book of Studies.”
It was issued in a series of twenty num
bers, containing five plates each, and thn
subscription price was ii 17 10s. Them
were endless troubles with the engravers,
and it was not paying well, and waai
abandoned after seventy plates were is
sued. It seemed to be so worthless that
Charles Turner, one of the engravers,,
used some of the proofs for kindling pa
per. Alter tho artist became famous,
however, this Liber S'uliorum grew to
be very valuable. Before Turner died, a
copy was worth thirty guim as, and more
recently a single copy has brought three
thousand pounds, or nearly fifteen thous
and dollars, Colnnghi, the London pr.nt
dealer, pa and Charles Turner fifteen hun
dred pounds for the proofs which he had
not destroyed; and when the old engra
ver remembered how he had lighted hU
fires, he exclaimed: “I have been burn
ing banknotes all my life.”— Bt.Meholas.
& Wonderful Indiana Dog.
Dr. Allen, of New Mayeville, lud.. ha*
e wonderful dog. It i* a large black
anil white Newfoundland. This faith
ful animal performs its daily wot k with
the utmost promptness and reg darity.
Thi'consists in keeping the kiuhen
wood box filled At intervals through
the day it will report to the kitchen end
view the wood-box. Whenever tbe sup
ply of fuel le getting low he pro<eed
to tbe >ard. grubs a flick in his mouth
•"d tak< ■it to tbe kitehen, repeating
the operation till the box is filled strain, ■
It keep, a special lookout on waah days,
and at other times when an unusual
quantity of wood is being used, and
nee!. >t* lira box empty as long
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