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THE MONROE
VOL XXXIX.
Tl KN ON \ Ol RNIAGARA
ELEVATORS IN NEW YORK MAY
BE RUN BY NIAGARA POWER. j
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Th® Great Work of the Niagara Power !
Company _ and the Changes Et.ctnc- , |
.ty The Will waters Produce. of the four greatest j
lake nf North America and of the |
ivorl-1 turlnilenHy descend, in rapids :
iiru! falls, a height of over three bun
tired feet, in a distance of aliout i
eight mi! Only less wonderful
than the falls falling a height, of
167 feet, are the rapids above and the
rapids and whirlpool below.
Her<* is all t be waterHow from a
dozen Stales and half Canada strug¬
gling for a front scat at the biggest
show on earth, and hurrying away
through a chasm that looks as nar¬
row as a canal when you gaze at it
from above. It is a stream which
Dover shrinks or swells.
In this descent of many waters is
a force that could drive twice the
machinery of the American conti¬
nent if there were means of applying
th one to the other. Talk of 1am
ing that power! A ml yet part of t he
great stream is already harnessed,
and more is to be put to work, But
there'll never he tin* day when the
falls will he one whit less grand than
now. Man may cut and carve again,
steal 5.»MM> horse-power here and
1 1 > i>i>i> there; there will always be
plenty left.
It is an old story to apply tho force
of falling water to machinery near at
hand. AN hat now awaits develop¬
ment on a large scale is to convey
this force to long distances. Shall
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this force roach Albany, distant 530
miles? Shall it reach New York,
distant 5<M) miles?
To convey electricity to Buffalo,
distant twenty miles, will prove an
easy task, for it has already been car¬
ried as far in Kuropo. An electric
plant transmits electricity from
Tivoli to Borne, the same distance,
and lights the seven-lulled city of
immortal fame. In Germany there
are longer currents, and from the
halls of l.auffen, Switzerland, a cur
rent is carried to Frankfort, a dis
taucc of 112 miles.with a loss of only
24 per cent.
AA'ork is to commence in Juno with
the generation of electricity to the
extent of 15,030 horse power, when
the (’ataraet Construction Company
is to turn over to the Niagara Falls
Bower Company the plant it has been
under contract to produce. That
Power t ompanv is a company of
powers in finance, too. William
K. A underbill. Chauneey Al. Depew,
J- Pierpont Morgan, D. O. Mills,
Morris K. Jessup, Charles I.anier,
Isaae N. Seligman, Edward D.
Adams. Edward AA inslow, Hamilton
McK. I wombly. Francis Lynde Stet
son. Edward A. AA iekes, AVilliam B.
K an kino and (feorge 11. Kent have
been in it. Mr. {stetson is the presi
dent.
The most difficult part of the work
has been to tunnel through rock over
a mile and a quarter. The tunnel
carries away water after it has been
used on the turbine wheels, emptying
it into the river below the Falls,
In section it is a horseshoe, 10 feet
wide and 21 feet high, and is perfect
Jy straight in a vertical plane. The
tunnel can carry away water enough
to generate llMUMtO horse power. At
the opening of the tunnel are three
turbines of 5.000 horse power each,
1 hose are horizontally placed, side
by side, at the bottom of the “wheel
pit. Ihe wheel-pit extends nearly
2<X) foot perpendicularly down from
the level of the ground. Each turbine
is geared to a hollow steel shaft that
reaohes up that 2W feet and is con
necked with a dynamo. The
pit can be enlarged to accommodate
s< \< n more turbines of the same size,
and it is the intention of the com
pany to construct later another
*1 16^ •p’t that will also accommodate
ten turbine.-. and thus utilize to the
full 'm extent ihe tunnel. I hat tun
nel »t $3,000 ,(mx). T would be a
pity not to use it all.
AVater is conducted separately to
tach turbine by a pipe from the
above. The water enters the
FORSYTH, MONROE COUNTY, GA, TUESDAY MORNING, AUGUST 14. 1894.
turbine underneath and helps sup
port immense weight of each shaft,
So Niagara does everything in its
own original way. It even works bot
tom side up.
The canal to the wheel-pit is, on
the American side, 350 feet wide, 12
feet deep and 1,500 feet long, eon
nectlng with the river a m jl„ and ft
half above the falls.
Right of way has been obtained
for another tunnel on the American
side of the same capacity. A con
cession has also been granted
utilizing the Horseshoe Falls on the
Canadian side, and this will proha
bly provide 250,000 horse power.
Fifteen hundred acres of land have
been bought by the company,
which it is intended to build a matin
fact uring city. Already Niagara has
the largest paper mill in the world,
and is the centre of the aluminum re¬
duction industry of t hr* United States.
Its transportation facilities are ex¬
cellent.
It is claimed for Niagara electric
power that “it, is so cheap that no
other power can compete with it. In
a well-managed plant, one-horse
power generated by steam costs for
working days of ten hours from $36
to $lo a year. When a small
is wanted t he expense is greater. Ni
agara will furnish power fer a day of
twenty-four hours for an average of
$15 a year, and at much lower rates
under largo contracts. The Paper
Company has contracted for 6,(MM)
horse power at the rate of $8 a year,
The cost of developing 1,500 horse
power by steam for a factory
day and night would be at a low
culat ion $105,000 a year, The cx
pense of the same power supplied by
Niagara at the contract price of $8,
would be $12,000, and at the average
of $1.) would be $22,500."
G. W. G. Ferris, the constructor of
the Ferris wheel, and an eminent
bridge builder, has recently said:
“The condition which will determine
the relative expansion of towns and
cities in the next decade is the pres
once of water power. The whole
j problem of electricity is one of cheap
generation. Any cityor town of this
country which has a waterfall within
an available distance has, so to speak
a gold mine. AVater power means
the minimum of cheapness in the
generation of electricity.’‘
The use of electricity in propelling
canal boats has been demonstrated,
Its use on a largo scale on the Erie Ca
mil would cheapen transportation,
and this is the key to commerce. It
was the Erie Canal that made New
York the greatest of American cities.
Turn the Erie Canal into an elect ri
cal highway and it would greatly in
crease the strides of New York city
i toward undreamed of triumphs of fu
tare commercial greatness. Deepen
the canal, too. That must be done.
Interest is added to Niagara Falls
by this utilization of its power. This
is an age when “romance has be
come scientific, and science lias be
come romantic.”
AA'hat is being done at Niagara is
starting similar enterprises in other
1 parts of the country. There is a 1.200
foot dam across a portion of the St.
Lawrence River, from Ogden's Island
to the mainland, at Waddington,
which, it is said, can be made t*o
yield 50,000 horse power in electricity
without change, and by contemplated
alterations it is expected it will have
a capacity of 200,000 to 300,000 horse
power. Chief Engineer George B.
Burbanks, who built the Niagara
tunnel and wheel.pit, has been en
gaged for the construction of a plant.
The active prosecution of many en
terprises of this character is waiting
on the result of conducting the 10,000
horse power from Niagara to Buffalo,
: Success seems assured, but there is
( no doubt much to learn concerning
1 the best method of doing it, and the
later enterprises can benefit by the
experience.
Sanguine engineers believe that
with the improved methods of trans
mission Niagara Falls power can be
sent to New York. Chicago. Cincin
nati. Pittsburg, Philadelphia and
Boston at a price that will make it
more economical than steam. Nikola
Tesla, who has an electrical reputa
tion that is world wide, goes further
than this, and believes that before
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A REMARKABLE SEi ^’NCE.
How Judge Pronounced the^eath %
a
Penalty.
At Santa Fe, N. M., during the
past winter, while looking over the
records of the District Court, the nt
tention of a Detroit Free Press eon
tributor was directed to the following
sentence of the court in a murder
the crime having been eoinmit
ted in a most cruel and barbarous
manner: Sentence of death pro
! nouneed by Judge Kirby Benedict on
Jose Maria Martin, convicted of mur¬
der. Judge Benedict said: “Jose
Maria Martin, stand up. You have
been indicted, tried and convicted by
a jury of your own countrymen of the
crime of inuroer, and the court is
about to pass upon you the dread
sentence of tho law. As a usual
thing, Jose Maria Martin, it is a pain
! fill duty of the judge of the court of
justice to pronounce upon a human
being the sentence of death; there is
something horrible about it, and the
mind naturally revolts from the per¬
j however, formance of such a is duty. relieved Happily, all
your case of
such unpleasant features. The court
I ! takes a positive delight in sentencing
you to death. You are a young man,
j. Jose Maria Martin, apparently of
good constitution and robust health;
I ordinarily you might have looked for
ward to many years of life, and the
court has no doubt you have and ex
pected to die of a green old age: but
you are now about to be cut off in
consequence of your own act, Jose
Maria Martin; it is now the spring
time; in a little time the grass will
be springing up green in these beauti¬
ful valleys and on these broad mesas,
and on the mountain sides flow ers
will be blooming, birds will be sing¬
ing their sweet carols, nature will be
putting on her most attractive robes;
life will be pleasant and men will
want to stay; but none of this for
you, Jose Maria Martin. The flowers
will not bloom for you, Jose Maria
Martin; the birds will not. sing their
sweet carols for you, Jose Maria
Martin. AY hen these things come to
gladden the senses of men you will
occupy a space 6x2 beneath the sod
and the grass and these beautiful
flowers will be growing green above
your lowly head. The sentence of the
court is that you be taken from this
place to the county jail; that you be
there safely kept and securely con¬
fined in the custody of the sheriff
until the day appointed for your exe¬
cution—be very careful, Mr. Sheriff,
that he have no opportunity to es¬
cape and that you have him at the
appointed place at the appointed
time—until—Mr. Clerk, what day of
the month does Friday, about two
weeks from this day come? ‘March
23d, your honor.’—Very well; until
Friday, the 28d day of March,
when you be taken bv the sheriff
from your place of confinement to
some safe and convenient spot within
the county, and that you there be
hanged by the neck until you are
dead.
“And the court was about to add.
Jose Maria Martin, may God have
mercy on your soul, but this court
wiil not assume the responsibility of
asking- an allwise Providence to d'
that which a jury of vour peers have
refused to do. The Lord could not
have mercy on your soul. However,
if you affect any religions belief, or if
you are connected with any religious
organization, it might be well for you
to send for a priest, or your minister,
and get from him—well, such conso
lation as you can, but the court ad
vises you to place no reliance on any
thing of that kind. Mr. Sheriff, re¬
move the prisoner.”
The gequel to the above remarkable
sentence is interesting, in that Jose
Maria Martin escaped from the county
jail and several years afterwards
peacefully met his death in Lincoln
county, bv falling backwards out of a
wagon and breaking bis neck,
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Only one person in 15.000 reaches
the age of 100 years
COLONEL CODY TALKS.
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HE BELIEVES IN WOMAN SUF
FRAGE.
He Enjoys the Life He Leads--Pur
sued by Autograph Hunters-
Ideas on Other Subjects.
men” Big men are always gentle to wo
so 1 was not afraid to interview
BufTalo Bill, pke xhe good boy at
school, he answered up according to
his size—which is saving a good deal,
Six foot three responded affably to
tive foot nothi j, evidently recogniz
ing the fact tlfat the pen is mightier
than—not only the sword, but the
rifle as well.
“Now,” said the Colonel, after in
troducing me to his stalwart busi
ness manager, Major John Burke,
“what do you want to know?”
“To begin with, Colonel, do you
consider this life of yours the ideal
life—I mean is it the life you would
choose in preference to any other?
I do not, of course, refer to the ‘show’
part of it, but to the outdoor exer¬
cise, the hunting, riding, etc., in
short, the open-air life.”
“I wouldn’t lead any ohetr kind of
life,” answered the cowboy chief;
“no other kind of life on God’s earth;
no, sir!”
The Colonel went up one in my es¬
timation after this confession. You
seldom meet a man who has had the
gumption to grasp the life he likes,
or to confess it if he has. The AA'all
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tion,” SAID MAJOR BURKE.
street broker tells you that he longs
to live “far from the madding crowd,”
in the middD of a ten-acre field; the
actor x‘ it ome'remote little
back parlor behind , shop; the trades¬
man would sell his soul to be a pro¬
fessional. Buffalo Bill chose his
mode of life and is content.
“Would you prefer the life, if it
were not for profit?”
Before the Colonel could answer
Major Burke interposed:
“The Colonel preaches this life,
shows the public how it’s done—
‘they that preach the Gospel shall
live by the Gospel,’ you know—there¬
fore the Colonel has a right to live
by it.”
‘Do you think,” I proceeded,
“that the type of man produced by
this sort of life is a pet with the wo¬
men?”
“ AA r hy shouldn’t women prefer
men that are brave and strong?” ask¬
ed the Colonel; “my boys have to be
brave—why, they literally take their
lives in their hands every day.”
w . Do you find that sport and exer¬
cise supply the place of women’s so¬
ciety? Some horse lovers aver that
it does.”
“Emphatically no. A hardy out
door life makes a man value women’s
society intensely. The men out AYest,
where there are few women, have the
greatest respect and admiration for
women. No men think as highly of
women as the Western fellows.”
AA ell, sir, have you any ideas on
woman s suffrage. This is the ques
tion of the hour, you know, other
wise I wouldn t thrust it on you.”
Col. Cod> confessed that he had
not thought much about it. “But,
now that you speak of it, he said,
“lam in favor of women voting.
AAhy not AA omen are developing
wonderfully just now, and can do
many things which they couldn’t do
twenty years ago. I think its a good
tiring for women to have something
to occupy their minds. Times have
changed, and, whereas, a woman
would have been hooted a few years
back ii she had dared to workman
office along with men, now we recog
nue that bo long as she does her
work well and is woman!} , she is far
better there than wasting her time at
homo playing vuth the cat. My wife
doesn't care about-rating, but .I she
"anted told let her trot right up
to the polls every time.”
‘•Do you think the majority of
women capable of voting?”
loritv ”}es of quite men. as much as the ma
“Hurrah! Colonel, you’re on our
side! ”
“Of t course, I t am.” >>
“Then vou don’t condemn women’s
clubs?”
“Far from it. I’d a good deal rather
feel that my daughter was at a club
along with intellectual ladies than
out with some men. In fact I think
it is a capital idea.”
“Do you approve of physical cul
ture for girls?”
“Certainly, it makes them grace
fuf, ’
“I would like to know something
about your boys. Are they the ter
rors painted by the dime novelists?”
The Colonel smiled. “They're the
best hearted, pluckiest, most-faith
ful fellows anywhere. AA'ili stick by
me and each other till the last,
T hey're a bit wild sometimes, after
they've been in the saddle for a few
days at a stretch and not a drop to
drink—nowhere to get ife—miles from
anywhere. Then they have a wild
ADVERTISER.
‘ s P elI > The reaction is perfectly
I ural. Men who drink every day never
! experience this. ”
“AA'hat will you do for buffalo
in the future. They say that the
race is dying out. Will you
them yourself?
‘ There are not enough left to breed
^'^rence. V' 1 * 1 '' but T!) teat show won won't t make shut any
e up
because of the buffalo."
^ thi* point in the interview an
hitorioption . occurred in the form of
‘‘Wogruph hunters—ladies of course,
seieiai times during the
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saw that you were talking J to some
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1 ie process > as gently as lie might
of manicure or chiropody.
A\ ell, then, will you write us
so so^mn5 much. rap i ” Te Sh ° U d ValUC lt: '
The hero of the saddle complied.
And then I heard, “Thank you so,
so, so very, very, very much ! !!! ”
And they went home delighted.
Then the interview went on where
it had left off.
Here I caught sight, of a peculiar
and handsome ring which the Cow¬
boy Chief wore, and as I admired it
he told me tlie following story:
“This ring was given me by Prince
Luitpold, Regent and heir presump¬
tive to the Crown of Bavaria, who
will probably become king now, Jle
came to see my show several morn¬
ings in succession, and was skeptical
about my bucking horses. He thought
that we put tacks under the saddle
or otherwise irritated them in some
way to make them buck. He told
me that he couldn’t believe it was
genuine.
“AYell, Your Royal Highness,” I
said, “come round one morning and
see them brought out, saddled and
mounted for yourself. Then you’ll
be convinced.”
“He made an appointment for the
next morning at 8.
“However, it turned out that he
had to review his men that morning
at 8, so he came at 7, and, of course,
I was not there, However, the
horses were brought out just the
same, Prince Luitpold observing
everything narrowly. He asked who
was going to mount it. Thought
there might be something in that.
He was told that any of the boys
would mount, it didn’t matter which.
“One of the boys was mounting
when the Prince objected to the
spurs. ‘Take those off,’ he said.
“A Prince has to be obeyed. They
were taken off.
“All this time he was standing
dangerously near the bucking horse.
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Langdon my bio- one-armed cook
was standing near, and knowing the
danger, begged him to come further
“But he wanted to see everything,
and, before there was time to pre
vent it ’ the horse had given a violent
p} Prince’were uno - e an d hor«e rider cook and
in a heap on the ground.
I me t a man riding up to me in great
excitement.
“ ‘Make haste Guv’nor the Prince
is killed, we think.’
“AA’hen I got there he was insen
But he is a game old fellow
70 years of age and he was
soon up again. He was quite con
yinced about the ^ genuineness of the
buckin ho a d gave K ]iand some
presentg both to La ngdon and
man who mounted the horse as well
as a bl an k ct for th e horse. It was
then that he m0 this ring.” diSmomls
Xhe ring is a n,arr |U ise of
; , sapphires, alia decorated with the
royal 1 and the Prince's mono
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tucked half a dMen complimentary J,
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Why Two People Look Alike.
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The fact that two people who live
long together tend to grow alike, is
accounted for by unconscious mimic
ry reacting upon the muscles of ex
pression in the same way that a
ruling passion does. This tendency
to facial imitation is very general—
in fact, almost universal—and may
j be so marked as to be easily noticed;
so that when two people are engaged
in animated conversation, the ex
pression of the listener m^y often be
seen to echo that of the speaker,
How “infectious” is a smile or a
! laugh, even when the idea which gave
rise to it in the first case is not
transferred ! — [Blackwood’s Maga
zine.
CHINA’S GREAT SEAL.
How Annam, Under French Protec¬
tion Destroyed Her Badge of Ser¬
vitude.
Among the many unique curiosi
ties in M. Jules Patenotre’s collec
tion at the Jreneh Legation at A\ ash¬
j ington is an imprint of the great Ohi
nese imperial seal. The loss of the
original die which the imprint repre
j sents was one of the greatest disap
pointments in the career of the elec¬
er diplomat, lie wanted it. for his
collection, but \ he Orientals were a
little too many for him at that time,
and this is how it happened.
*be Iren eh had been carrying on
the war in Tonquin during the early
part of 1883, and finally succeeded in
forcing China to surrender her claim
of suzerainty over the empire of An
nam in favor of a French' proteeto
rate. All the State documents of the
An nan lit0 to this period had not
only . borne . the national seal, but
likewise the imperial seal of China as
a mark of vassalage. AA lien on June
6, 1885, however, Patenotre obtained
the signature to the treaty giving An.
nam over to the protection of France
the great Chinese seal was brought
before the convention of Annamite
statesmen and diplomats. M. Pate
notu\ m his report to the Home Of
lice, described the scene as follows:
^ ® our seats about, a large
table m the parlor of the trench
residence. There were naval officers
liom Admiral Courbet s fleet, and
officers from the French garrison at
Hue. Ilie great seal was laid upon
the table. It. was live inches square
and , made , of , solid , silver, weighing
about thirteen pounds. The handle
represented a kneeling camel.
“The Annamite Prime Minister
made a number of impressions from
the seal, and while this was done
servants were preparing a small char
coal furnace at one end of the room,
Ihe Annamites were preparing to
destroy the seal.
“I leaned over to the Prime Minis
ter, and told him that it was not yet
too , late , , to , save this .... interesting relic, ,
and I begged him not to consign it to
the crucible. He hesitated a mo
ment, and , then j , , held ,, a , brief . , con
saltation with Nguyen-Van-1 uong,
the Regent. Ihe latter shook Ins
head, and said that the last token of
Annam’s servitude must be de
stroyed , live minutes later , the
great seal was nothing but a mass of
molten silver.
And that is why there is only an
imprint of the seal in the French
Embassador's, si$er, collection, instead of
the heavy camel-handled die.
Charged High for His Work.
Every safe manufacturer has at
taclied to his force expert locksmiths
whose duties consist in opening safes
which have gotten out of order.
Many of the accidents to safes oc
cur from the gross carelessness of
their owners, and at times the honest
safe crackers enjoy a quiet laugh at
the expense of a group of bank offi¬
cers or the proprietor of some im¬
portant establishment.
Not long since a large manufacturer
telegraphed to a New York safe
maker, requesting that a man
sent at once to his place of business,
a town about fifty miles from the
city.
Upon reaching his destination the
expert, with his kit of tools, repaired
to the establishment, and was in
formed that the vault, an old-fash
ioned affair, which locked with a key
and which contained the safe and
books of the concern, could not be
opened.
The man examined the lock and
then the key, opened his kit, took
ou t a bit of wire and began to dig a
mass of dirt, dust and lint out of the
key. Then he inserted it in the lock,
and while the proprietor, with a
sickly smiie, looked on, turned the
implement and opened the door.
“AVhat’s your charge?” asked the
manufacturer.
“Fifty dollars,” replied the expert,
“Ihies any one know you are in
town?”
* “No.”
“AYell, then, here’s sixty dollars,”
remarked the manufacturer. “I’ll
give you ten dollars extra if you'll
take tlie first train back to New York
without telling any one the price I’ve
paid to have a man dig the dirt out
of \ key for me.”—[New York Her
aid.
Sleeps Without Pillows.
.7 , ,7T“- K KansasC.ty
while , the Coireitton "as on
' ; ' les - and owing to the
cr0 "' d '? . “ n ? ,t,0 n °,, lK,te ? w * s
compelled to double , up with fc a
"tranger. He was a very pleasant man
of German descent and did nothing
erratic until he went to bed. Then
he removed the castors from the legs
at the head of the bed, so as to make
it ... lower than ., the foot, . . placed , , his ( pil
lows at the foot of the bed, and w r ont
to sleep wIth his hea d at least twelve
inches lower than his feet. He slept
e sleep of the just and had to be
called half a dozen times in the
ing. AYe went down to breakfast
together, and I ridiculed him for his
peculiar sleeping posture. He quoted
some German scientist with a five
syllable name as his authority, and
so convinced me of the fact that it is
entirely a mistake that pillows and
bolsters are necessary that last night
I discarded both and found to my
surprise that he was right. The dis
covery was a revelation to me, but it is
certain that to some p>eople, at least.a
pillow is a nuisance instead of a com
fort, if they only knew the fact.”—
[St-. Louis Globe-Democrat.
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Hindoos use their feet almost as much
their hands in their daily tasks. "
as
NO. 31
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UNDER THE JUDGE S NOSE.
A Fisherman's Funny Experience on
the Potomac.
Years ago Judge Bibb was one of
Washington's best known celebrities,
and a “gentleman of the old school.”
He was a famous fisherman, and so
much devoted to angling that he was
regarded by our juvenile fishermen
as a perfect walking (or boating) edi¬
tion of Izaak AA’alton.
“On a fine spring morning about
two years since, I started, in com¬
pany with a party of friends, for the
Little Falls of the Potomac. Wo were
‘ prospecting’ the chances of rookfish,
bettei known in vour latitude as
‘ striped bass.’ It'was quite early
in the season, but not too early for
Judge Bibb. He had arrived lotm be
f 0 re us, and sat upon a lodge of rock,
ro d in hand—the very picture of
1 sentinel naticnee unrelieved Hail
| j ng hi, n f rom a distance I asked
wi th the natural instinct of a iisher
man :
“AA'hat luck, Judge?”
“ ‘Luck, sir? worst 1 'ok in the
world, sir; been fishing here for four
hours, and haven’t had a nibble!”
“ ‘AYliat bait are you using?’
“ ‘Capital bait; live frog, sir.’
“I ventured to suggest, mildly,that
perhaps ‘live frog’ was not such very
‘capital bait,’ whereupon Ihe judge
; burst forth
“‘Don’t tell mo, sir 1 you can’t
teach mo anything, nir! Don’t I
know? Best bait in the world, sir;
only the luck; awful luck! four
hours without a nibble!’
“By this time we had reached the
judge’s position, and while preparing
our tackle Air. D-, one of the
party observed a frog sitting on tho
bank, within a few feet of the judge.
Said he:
.« <j U( jge, let. me catch a fresh bait
for you . j see a frog on t ho bank
c ] 0 se beside you ’
j " ‘Thank you, sir; I wish you would
catch that frog, sir. It’s been star
j ing me in the face all the morning. I
believe it kndws that 1 have one of
its family on my hook. Hal ha! ha!
Catch it, sir; bv all means, catch if,’
“Mr. 1)-shortened liis rod, and,
cautiously striking with tho sharp
end, pinned the frog through one of
its hinder logs. Just then, as Mr.
j)-was lifting aloft his prize, the
judge began winding up his reed, and
uttered a joyous cry:
- ‘Hold still, sir! Keep quiet!
j> ve g()t a p ite
“Rapidly wound the reel, rapidly
came in the slackening line, till the
last few yards of it floated upon the
surface of the stream; and then,with
a face that boded thunder, the judge
turned to Mr, D--.
“ ‘AVLy, sir, you’ve caught my
frog! ’
“And so it was. The frog, with
impulse of all amphibious ani
ma is when wounded, had made for
the shore ; and there it had crouched,
I° r fou r hours, directly under the
judge’s nose, and holding his hook
out of water.
Camel Riding.
To mount a camel for the first tims
is, for a Howadji, until he gets the
hang of it, a complicated and anxious
process. The first risk is that the
animal will rise while the rider is
climbing into the saddle. This he
will inevitably do if the attendant
has forgotten to place his foot on the
camel’s knee.
The novice having settled in the
saddle, which is like a flat wooden
tea tray on the top of a hump, and
taken a tight grip of the “horns,” of
which there is one in front and one
behind, waits in suspense, wondering
which end of the animal means to get
up first. The action, when it does
begin, is a violent seesaw in three
jerks, which impel him alternately in
the direction of the head and tail,
until, if lie is lucky, he finds himself
ten feet from the ground. The fif
teenth century pilgrim, Felix Fabri,
so exactly expresses my sentiments
about camels that I will quote his re¬
marks. He says:
“A camel has a small head and is
without horns. It has big and ter
rible eyes, and always seems a sor
rowful and troubled animal. Its
eyes are like fire beacons, and big re¬
flections shine in them ; for whatever
a camel looks at seems great and
huge to it, wherefore it seems to
.
view everything with wonder and
alarm. AYhen, therefore, a man goes
up to it the beast begins to tremble,
that the man perceives that the
beast trembles because the man com
ing toward “ seems # to be ,ou '
Umes bigger d than he really is.
.. Ha not God so ordered it, this
animal would not be as tame and dia.
ciplined as it is. When it screams,
being in trouble, it opens its mouth,
Bhakes head, and raises up its
long neck, wagging it to and fro, so
that a man who is not accustomed to
it is disturbed and frightened.”—
[The Nineteenth Century.
Lights by the Ten Thousand.
The new Broad Street Station ol
the Pennsylvania Railroad at Phila
delphia, when completed, will con
tain over a hundred miles of concealed
electric wiring. About fifty-three
miles of wire will be required for the
electric lighting alone, which will be
done by about 10,000 incandescent
lights. Not a gas pipe can be found
j in the great structure, the sole reli
ance being on the electric lights. In
the waiting room alone there will be
2,500 lights, located principally in
the ceiling, where they will be ar
ranged in rows about the large square
panels. ’Hie office building will re
quire about OJMjo lights, while the
other 1.500 will be used in the rooms
on the ground floor, retiring rooms,
dining rooms and restaurant.—
4 Electrical Review.