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THE MONROE
VOL XXXIX.
SOM M\ HA F SI li ANOiii
INTERESTING NOTES AND MAT¬
TERS OF MOMENT.
Queer Facts and Thrilling Adventures
WhichSio/vtha; Truth is Stranger
Than Fiction.
Till nail „ livit.K to-day
1 1 I MII Pauline, of Hol
v a n table family, who is
old S c*i s ton j>< muds and
L 9 ini -5 t
m. driest place in the world is
idid to be that part of Egypt between
the two lower falls of the Nile. Rain
has never 1 m cn known to fall there,
and the natives do not believe travel
ers when told that waterfalls from
the sky.
Maim is jusly proud of the fact
that only a native can
the iiann s of her lakes trippingly on
flie tongue 1 tiit t he names of Maine
these and others
from the Canadian Province of On
tario; Lake M isqunbcnish, Lake
Kashngawi'uamog, and Lake
cambejewugamog.
The conservatory of Washington
Park. Chicago, boasts of what is of
feet ioually called ‘‘goose plant." ll
is composed of growths that look
like three or four big geese and over
a dozen go-lings. The plant is a rare
native of South America, known prop
erly ns the Arist..lochia (iigas Sturte
vani 1 i, and is said t o be the only one
of its kind in the Cnited States. It
was on exhibition nt the World’s
Fair, but was so small nt the time as
to attract litt le attention.
During n continued dry spell in
south Florida, reptiles often are
obliged to resort to unique methods
for obtaining fresh witter. One need
not he surprised while pumping wa¬
ter, to set* little frogs issue from the
puifip, and one man was rather star¬
tled while pumping to geo a snake
two feet long issue from the spout,
and upon st riking the ground quickly
crawled under a houso. The rep¬
tiles crawl into tlie? pump to en¬
joy tho water held up by the
vales.
,xlS67 Dr. W ll. Richardson who
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maim'd in .Mexico until the present
y.'nr when ho came to Kentucky to
In tracing a claim
pid In- wrote to his wife’s relatives
in iexa »"•'
living and had fur twelve years been
.v.narn, 1. lM.aUuul .No. „ gracefully
A r, autograph, for recording the
movements of food in the stomach of
a patient, was recently exhibited
action before tho Medical Society of
the County of New York by Dr. Max
Einfiorn. The nppanit us records t he
motions on a traveling band of paper
by means of electricity from a dry
battery. The patient swallows a lit
tie ball of brass connected to the in
struineni. by electric wires, but no
details of the mechanism are given.
The apparatus is expected to be use
ful in diagnosing catarrh and other
ailments of the stomach.
The death of “The Bluul Woman
of Manzanaros” lias attracted wide
attention in Spain, where she was
known from one eml of the
to the other. She was a poet and had
a remarkable talent for writing beg
gin g verses, des ribing "'beaut her ifui, misery.
M any of t lie poems are and
the author enjoyed a largo income.
She was said to bo one of the best re
Citers in Spain, and many of the
most famous men in that country
made pilgrimages to her house to
hear her. Oueen Isabella "ave n her a '
pension years ago. She left about
$60,000.
1’rof. Peal, the ethnologist, re
cent ly described to the Asiatic
ciety tho condition of the head
hunting Naga< on the borders of As
sam. The women arc to blame for
the continuance of the practice ; they
t.iunt the y nmg men who are not
tati oo 1, and die Jattergo out nnd cut
off h*:i Is to exhibit, to them, fully
half of which are those of women and
children. The area occupied by the
tribe is not more than twenty miles
square, but in it during the past 40
years more than 12,OtHl murders have
boon commit red for the sake of these
^^pliastly trophies.
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m '“ lrk0 -l 1 ■> laringawax . ■ . , n
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a! \V\ X r'uid".!
rin tlnl fl v d ^^ ad
tn h u- m nf
|\l cha n. 'il .a G e u.'l, hoavv -5 iwn [1 work
snV * "wl tli 1n
sI ” 1 t On S more'
ma «V.nanhouV' ned beneath ihl^lTo the ,u fa Vfo
when w,ro .nado. there
was uneasiness felt. At length tl?e
diver who goes on as a relief reported
fordu v. and lie was at once sent
down lo as ertam what was wrong,
In a few niinut s both men came up.
The diver was f uind seated on a pile
of iron fust «.n
, r j"' , qucei cases of f tl te.epathy: , A 4
hnl\ m Lam- «li>»e daughter was
a mi-! u.avv swi.e :n India dreamed
of her or■ Gn- -»*: lav nist. >he
,bou - h: ’ '■ J,)0tber as
,f VJ a - ' y Lon f. af 'cr the slow ,
mail . a mo, >a\ mg t.iat on that night
! d;u ' uat supposed to be dy
VAv thi.aps ' j; feH^t'o Gu? v'-wt fioor duVin"
us. l
im Un An. ‘ ^ hh -
|,a 1,1' that '^! wav
ShorthiO lide rsl, Sab
upon the as if by two
wound, Next day cam, a
FORSYTH, MONROE COUNTY, GA, TUESDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER li, 1894.
J saying been stabbed that to her death twin in brother New Zea- had
larul. Later it whs learned that the
hour was the same as that of the wo
nan’s hallucination, an«l the place of
ute wounds the same. These stories
may be taken with salt, if preferred,
An unusual summons was received
over the telephone not long a"» by
of Hr. Pennsvlvnnia I»nvi«l llirncj- from of the I ,,i versify
a wealthy man
in New York, who wished him to go
to I.ong Island. Dr. Uirney endeav
ored to find out something about the
nature or the case he was expected
to treat, hut the man, after securin"
),is promise to go refused to talk
further over the’phone The doctor
packed a case of instruments at ran
( ) oin nnd , net ,p c mfln jn y e , v y the'v or j.
After dinner at the Waldorf
took the train for Long Island but
not a word was said about tlm Opera -
lion. W hen they arrived the man
thanked the doctor and paid him
$•’0; < lien in response to the look of
wonder from the astonished surgeon,
he said: “1 saw my sister bleed to
death in a railroad accident, for want
°f a physician, and since that day I
have never traveled without one."
Because Captain Bray was inpon
struck and made totally blindy $he
logwood laden schooner Nettie Lang- i
don, from Falmouth, Jamaica, for
Philadelphia, was compelled to put
into Key West in distress. The i
Lnngdon drifted about in helpless
condition for days afterCapt. Br.iy’s
sad plight, and finally drifted toward
the Florida const, where a pilot boat
was sighted, and Pilot James Sinclair j
was taken on board,•nnd he naviga- j
ted the vt ssd to Key West. The tin- i
lieved fortunate to have skipper's been eyesight caused by is the be- j |
reckless manner in which he spent his
nights. Instead of sleeping in the
cabin, he invariably slept on deck
in the moonlight. The rays of the
moon totally destroyed the sight. In
the tropics this occurrence is not
rare, hut it is seldom heard of so far
north as the latitude of Jamaica. In
Itemerara many cases occur, especial
ly when the moon is in its strongest
phase.
The Louisville Courier - Journal
rllJ TlV f . ewyc ? r f s . a ^. a ^ntucky
c„ U niv, in I he name^ and 1|, v The au^
tlmrity of the Commonwealth of Ken
tucky, accuse--of the offence of
malicious mischief committed as fol
ty and -Wt of.
and P r() P or destroy^ ly of George one pig, Pigg, the the personal said pig
°i,' he n ue pig .^° thus * ie aforesaid killed weighed George
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about twenty-five pounds, and was a
,na * e *° soine other pigs owned by
8a ' < * Iforge 1 igg, which left George
J jo" '^k') a had P*f? of pigs, than and he thus (said ruthless- George
,on ‘ sa * d P‘K from the society of
•
George Pigg s other pigs, against the
peace and , dignity of , the ,, Common
wealth of Kentucky.
“In the neighborhood of Cuba,” j
says a recent visitor to that island,
“a most peculiar method of securing
tllrtle is pursued. They train, or at
least take advantage of the instinct
of a certain species of fish. The fish
' s ca ed by the Spaniards reve
(»^ ft »* n K reversed), because its back
is usuall ovaI T late ,aken attached belly. It head, has |
an P to its
whose surface is traversed by paral
‘‘ edges. By this plate it can firmly
adhert ‘ to an >‘ solid body it may
choose. The boats which go in quest
of turtles each carry a tub contain-1
ing some of these roves. When the
slee , P in ff turtles , are seen they are , ,
cautiously approached, and as soon
as they are judged near enough a
reve is thrown into the sea. Upon
perceiving the turtle, its instinct
teaches it to swim right toward it
and fix itself firmly upon the erea
tore by its sucking disk. Sooner
would the reve allow itself to be
pulled to pieces than to give up its
grip. A ring which was attached to
the tail of the fish, in which a string
was fastened, allows the fisherman to.
pull in his prize. By a peculiar
manipulation the reve is pulled off
and returned the tub ’
to to be ready
for use again when the next turtle is
sighted.”
, r 111 . icmurkable for
art a i>
ti U ^ ( '' e 0t a ” lon B f civi
‘zed races of the world of , kindlier
tee ings toward the brute creation,
and lt ^ certain that animals have
n .°' t>r bofore en J°- ved ^ much con
^deration as during the closing dec
wis ''as onlv"the" onl> the othirdiv^h.rSte, other daj that atten- 1 !
10,1 " as dra " v ‘ 1 iese columns to
the court-mar tailing of a German
thet'Io
libeled . r.oer: to .he decision oT
the Belgian Government that a dog
when once provided with his ticket
had jnst the same right to a seat in a
railroad compartment as a human
being. And now there is the Aus
trian town of Baden, which has just
, n*twl .1
matic horses pa^^uh.lmr The 'em,in*
to baths erected
f . treatment \ in which it i
ho ^ . th , m
eff cted pj se i e in Furone valu-i
racehorses are “ .mt f\ into training ‘ hv
ineiias of a cour<e U rkj< h batffisin
J ^ of th old-fashioned cloth treat
nent anJ . f maUers advance ‘cannot at xhe
Patent rate the dav be far
JlsUnt when every* so' well-bred horse
will insist like many other Je
votees of fashion,upon an annual «ov
a ‘ Homburg Carlsbald or Vichy for
‘be sake of recuperating his strength.
Tobe Wesley, of Twiggs county,
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(la., came to Alaeon, recently to
buy a coflin for bis seven-year-old
son, who was crushed to death by a
huge snake. The boy had "one to
the field with his father, and while
his father was at work wandered off
n short distance and climbed a mus
cadine v ' ne *‘ 1S "' n * his habit. On be
!"! J nnflb,e to ,iud ,he boy whon be
the }“<• t fa,her w< l.i* * nt work to ,he atoat house rundown expect
\ n " to find him there, but was in
f, .rme.l by his wife that the boy had
! ,ot ,,eon homo sinc0 lie left the
houSfc ' V1,1 ‘ his father. Feeling no
'‘^easiness Wesley, knowing ihe
habit of his boy, went back into the
,ie,d ‘ which was on the edge of a
d ? n8c swamp bordered with musca
dme vines, and began searching the
vines where lie had last seen the boy,
1,y J? okin 8 u p in the vines lie was
not long . in finding . , him, but when he
called tlie boy failed to answer. Af¬
ter calling two or three times and
receiving no answer the father shook
the vine, and to his horror saw what
he bad supposed to be one of the
branches of the vine that was sup
porting his son, begin to uncoil.
Realizing that his son was in the
coil of a huge snake Wesley stood
rooted to the spot, and before he
could recover his senses the snake
completely uncoiled and the boy fell
to the ground, a distance of some
nine or ten feet. Wesley picked the
child up and ran from under the
vines to the clearing. There his
worst fears were realized. The child
was dead. On being carried to the
house and further examinati n made,
it was found that the child s breast
had been crushed and that its tongue
and eyes were protruding ns though
it had been choked to death. Wesley
is of the opinion that the boy was
asleep when the snake coiled about
him and gradually crushed his life
out. Wesley does not know what
kind of a snake it was, as he did not
see it after his son fell.
A MINER’S ORDEAL.
Lights Four Fuses of Giant Powder
and Finds Escape Cut Off.
perience r” afternoon^
o'clock at the bottom of a 300-foot
deatli seems hfctle short °t a miracie.
iu nuttin^hffour ^his blasts** TrnWhea
' ' a. (ompleted his compan
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0 f time, as he supposed, to climb up
the timbered part of the shaft out of
reach of flying x’oeks from the shots,
The distance was only about ten feet,
hut lie had no ladder on account of
tj l0 inconvenience' of handling it
while shooting, and the only means
c f escape was by climbing a rope,
ji e applied the light to the fuse
;ind then started to climb the rope,
but it was-wet and slippery, and as
soon as he made a few feet his hold
would give way, and he would slip
back to the bottom of the shaft,
where four pieces of fuse were sizzling
their way to as many sticks of giant
powder. His first unsuccessful at
tempt did not alarm him much, as
he had no fear of his ability to get
away, but as he tried again and
again, and each time to only slide
back to the bottom, he began to real
ize that his position was a very criti
oal one.
He had blown out his light and in
the narrow confines of the shaft there
was not a crevice or a projecting rock
big enough to shield even his hand,
J'lie place was black as midnight
darkness . , itself, ., ,, and , , his . only , of ,
way
escape was through the agency of
that, slippery and treacherous rope,
lde knew about the time the explos
ion must inevitably occur, and as the
time grew nearer and nearer the more
desperately did he attempt to make
th? ascent, but all to no purpose.
The first shot went off, scattering
rock in every direction around him,
and hitting him in various places on
‘be body The second, third and
fourth followed in rapid succession,
but with less serious results to him.
The injuries he sustained were most
ly received from the first shot. He
is lacerated and bruised from head to
foot, although none of the wounds
were deep. While they are serious
and quite painful, they are not con
s i dered dangerous.—[Prescott (Ari
zona ^ Journal.
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Habits of the Walrus.
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Although the walrus is a form!
Jable-looking animal,especially when
he rears h is hu-e head and withfn "learning
t ^tof usks out of the water a few hi
^ly vour boat. A . Elliott an! savs
timid harmless, in
™
fh fly inches nnd pounds in^ weight eLh average
l^. e “hhnto d^efamswith ‘ a “ nil, ana and were tie are
of precious little use tg him either in
or defendin & hlroself from
attack.
He sleeps coinforUbly in the open
sea ’ floatin ? bolt upright iu the
wafcer - with his nostrils out and his
hind flippers hanging a dozen feet
below * Mature purposely built him
iu the sba P e of a bu °y. so that when
sleeping or resting at sea the buoy
aney of b5s hu ? e - blubber-cased fore
quarters bring his nostrils out of the
water without the slightest effort on
his ^ He p rant? and b® 11 ^ 5 a
g«at deal, , solely , for his , own amuse
™ nt a PPf^tly. and many a time
have vessels been warned ,ff danger
^ them.-[SepSember e wSu Nictlaa. "lu P D oi
St.
p ^ , r|'p * THE FA tit SEX.
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SEASONABLE HINTS AND MAT-
1CR5 OF MOMENT.
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A Sick Woman's Labarof Love- -Cost
of College--Shopping in Japan-.
Who Setts the Styles?- -An Artist
A u»hor.-Etc.. Etc
A SICK WOMAN'S LABOR OF LOVE.
A Wisconsin wo,.mi . Mrs. J. Magie,
beguiled the tedium >f a protracted
convalescence from a severe illness
last winter in compiling a cook book.
Tested receipts to .u number of
1,6.)<i compose the book, and when
it was done the industrious author
put it upon the market, the proceeds
of its sale dedicated toine Wisconsin
Training School for Nurses.—[New
York Times.
COST OF COuLEGE.
At most of the Eastern colleges
self-denying and practical girls find
it quite practicable to go through
college on the modest, sum of $500 a
year, and often Jess. Tuition costs,
as a general thing, from $100 to$150
a year, and board in the college
houses, if such are connected with
the institution, is usually about $200.
If board is arranged for in a family
living near the college grounds, it
sometimes need notjjost over $150 a
year.—[New Y"ork Journal.
SHOPPING IN' JAPAN.
A Japanese girl says that when
ladies go to buy a dress in her coun
try they tell the shopkeeper their
age, and if they art married or not,
because there are s iceial designs for
the single and double relations of life,
as well as for all ages. The conse¬
quence of this pai til custom is you
can tell the age of every lady you
meet, and know whether she is
married, precisely as though she
were labelled, or you were a eensus
taker. But then, of, course, as the
ladies in Japan don’t care who knows
it, there is no fun i;i finding out.—
[New York Dispatch.
WHO SETS THE STYLES?
sllnSSSSI o^tion
any decided inn is always
taken U P firsfc mass of sho P
pers, who haver* Te^urage fcer of their
convictions w* hesitate a
g any new
'
the shops beforeiTwas finally adopted
by nous autres, and the Sunday ex¬
cursionists took up the bicycle long
before we ventured to defy prejudice
in that direction. And you almost
always see the very latest French
freak is reproduced in cheap mate¬
rials first.”—[New York Advertiser.
AN ARTIST AUTHOR.
Airs. Mary Halloek Foote, the art
ist author, is by birth a New Yorker,
although since her marriage she has
resided in Boise City, Idaho,the city
of nearly all of her recent stories.
Her art education was chiefly ac
quired at Cooper Institute, the Mecca
of so many aspiring geniuses. For
years after her success was assured
Mrs. Foote refused to let a curious
public know anything of her person
ality. Even now but little is known
of the woman, however general is the
appreciation of her work. Her like
ness has never appeared In print but
once, and that was only after long
and urgent persuasion on the part of
the magazine to which all her work,
both literarv and artistic, is, by con
tract, pledged, and which was then
publishing an illustrated article upon
its contributors. Since that time
Mrs. Foote has been obdurate to all
appeals for her portrait, although
she is besieged from every her quarter, home
While never permitting
duties to interfere with the natural
expression of her genius, yet, after
all, it is as one of the many happy
wives and mothers of America that
she prefers to be known. She has
three charming daughters, the eldest
of whom, although yet very young,
already displays a marked artistic
talent. Airs. Foote’s work has con
fined itself almost wholly to illustra
tion in black and white, and one of
the greatest compliments ever paid
her was that “she produced better
color effects with a pencil than most
artists did with a brush.”—[Phila
delpliia Times.
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vashiov FA^Hio. votes - •
It pays to buy good stockings.
Fine dress stockings are French
made -
The Spanish were among the first
to knit fine stockings.
An extravagant novelty is to trim
!M '
B ! a f “S ret T es ; n ^ er0U8k b ; che b s
of ( to twenty-four stems wdi ap
^ ° n black and colored hats.
Black trimmings, feathlrk, especially in
e tte and will be much
worn on colored hats and bonnets.
’ rbe galloons , are , beauti- .
,P e ^ very
^ a11 beads ana spangles, most
effective upon dark cloth or velvet.
Jet pins having large heads are
stylishly correct upon small toques,
which they apparently hold in place.
Openwork embroidered ecru
batiste, lined with white or colored
silk, is used for full vests in black
silk gowns.
Small bonnet crowns of jet or gold
beadg spangles, etc., are again shown
and charming iridescent effects for
evening wear.
brownish pink, called
bla ®’ dab
ADVERTISER.
cyclamen are among the most
fashionable colors.
Hrown and ...... golden tan having
a
, bronze cast are good for fall comm¬
nations and alone, as they agree with
* ile new drcss S oods -
B ° nnot strin S s seem to be a thing
° f , \ \° I >aS J’ as ”°. ne of tbo neu
SwiSlSJ. lar S e or sma11 . 8ha P 0s * , *
Yachting dresses are made of cream
white or blue serge, with red sailor
collar, cuffs and panel trimmed with
gilt braid and buttons,
The newest thing in underclothing
is white S n k trimmed with black
] aee> They are very pretty, but the
black lace will probably not wash
well.
Thin silks are to be seen every¬
where and in an endless varie y.
The thin silk not only, adapts itself
to quiet and economical living, 1 lit
it can be made suitable for the 3t
dressy occasions.
A good expensive piece of satin is
always elegant, and one could not
possibly have anything more hand
some or serviceable than a plain,
black satin skirt, to be worn with the
many varieties of fancy waists,
Capes are to supersede jackets for
fall wear. They are a necessity so
long as the large sleeves last. Those
of hip length are to be most worn,
though for late summer wear the
waist capes are in incessant evi¬
dence.
Scent bottles are a new fad. They
are in all sorts of elegant designs,
one of the new ones being in shape
of a ripe strawberry in enamel. There
are green enamel leaves, and the
seeds are of diamonds in one design
and pearls in another,
The Eton jacket is still fore¬
shadowed for Autumn styles. It is
not the short, trying mid-bodice
affair that has just taken its ugly
self away, but a much more reasona¬
ble sort of jacket, but it is longer and
fitting close to the figure in the back.
A hat of black Neapolitan is wired,
and the wire is covered by a narrow
fold of black velvet. The hat is
pinched up at the side, and the
trimming consists of handsome black
plumes and a bunch of black-silk
thistles.
a Muslin dresses can be made very
pretty and picturesque, trimmed with
rows of insertion, the square at the
neck outlined with colored satin
ribbon, tied at one side into rosettes,
with long ends, with the under bodice
of white muslin.
—Thft folded belt and collar, which
. |F-n«S'S«ItS0n .. .
r aFe
are rucked v --r- as ™ w decked- ll to Sleeves
mousquetaire gloves. They are cut
to fit the lower arm and wrist, and
then about eight inches of length is
added, when they ‘‘ruck” them¬
selves.
IFounces are still of value to re¬
model gowns. They are either
gathered and edged with lace over¬
lapping each other or are put on far
a P a rt, with a gathered heading and
* ren f h kems - Sometimes three
scant 7 flounces reach to the waist;
occasionally they are put on at in
ter gathered ™ ls la flounces sets of of f narrow ree ‘ £ "\° lace ful1 or '
one ? f dee P lace are fashionably worn,
While the caprice of blouses and
“fronts” still lasts it is worth noting
that the high-class tailors are mak
ing the very latest of pique. These
are for waists made with plaited
fronts, with turnover collars to roll
back over the jackets with which
they are worn. Pique detachable
collars and revers are also shown, like
the collars and plastrons which are
worn with small boy’s suits. These
are made up in white and colored
pique.
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The Court Drew the Line.
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Judge W. W. Walling, who has
been holding court out in the late
Judge Marr’s old district by a special
appointment by the governor, tells a
characteristic story of Mnrr. The
latter, though a stickler for the
bench, was a great pipe smoker and
allowed the attorneys the privilege
. smoking
°f in court. On one occasion
he was trying a murder case at Car
rizo suppressed Springs,in which there was much
excitement and so much
had feeling that it was feared trouble
might break out at any moment,
Late one afternoon, while the op
posing counsel were arguing the case
; and the feelings of the spectators
were wrought up to the highest pitch,
a solid old citizen sitting just under
the judges stand deliberately filled
his pipe and with a graceful sweep
of his arm drew a parlor match
across his jean pants leg in such a
fashion as to light it with a loud,
sharp crack. The court and jury
were startled and everybody looked
around in a startled manner, as if ex
in ^ a 8®P eral fusdade to
--ker as lollow.^‘ Gentlemen.BKe
court tolerates smoking in the
room . In fact the court smokes
itself, but it must draw the line at
gentlemen lighting their oipes with
their six-shooters ” - [Galveston 1
- News.
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Illuminating the Brain.
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It is reported that Mr. Donald H
Farquhar, of^t. gouis, has succeeded
m so concontrating the electric light
that !t illumine the brain. The
lt I S “ p e fJ?® ^ au can ary f to Is0he st ^ dy »aop tbfe P te atbol d when ( JJ
, eondit,on i jn , other parts of the ,
Sht hundr^d nenetrai candle poJer Hslues Tnd is
Sid to C the ^7^ it
u ^ brok juries n ^earne? tha? be
^1^4 couldnotbe determinedbvthe of ^ ordi
troit Free Press. .
NOTES AND COMMENTS.
Chicago has thirty-five railroads
with land terminals within its bor
dors; Kansas City has 16, St. Louis
14. Philadelphia and rittsbu-g
10, Boston 8. and New York 5. The
great Eastern metropolis, however,
evens up on ferry lines, which carry
an average of one million people a
day across the Hudson and East
rivers.
Tall iron towers are no longer con
spered worth erecting. The prepar
at ions for the grand exposition of
1900 at Paris include the removal of
the Eiffel Power, if designers prefer
its removal, and the still higher iron
tower for Wembley Park, London,
has been stopped for want of funds.
Viork ceased before its four great
legs had been united at the first
platform.
The performances of the Austrian
Archduke Eugene at Domstadtl have
inspired a great deal of hero worship
there. While visiting the little town
lie observed with interest the throsh
ing of corn on a farm, and asking for
a flail he joined in the work with the
men and women, while half the vil¬
lage ran to see the unwonted specta¬
cle. As the Archduke is a strikingly
handsome man of unusual height
and noble bearing the spectacle was
one to be remembered.
One of the curiosities of railroad
building is the construction of a road
running from Ismid, a harbor about
sixty miles from Constantinople, to
Angora, about 800 miles. The bridges,
sleepers, stringpieces and telegraph
poles, as well as the rails, are of iron,
nine-tenths of which is of German
manufacture. The bridges average
about four to the mile, there being
1,200 of them, the longest having a
stretch of 590 feet. In addition to
these there are sixteen tunnels, the
longest measuring 1,480 feet. This
is the only railroad which penetrates
the interior of Asiatic Turkey, the
Smyrna lines being near the coast.
According to recent statistics
there are about 2,000 women prac¬
tising medicine on the continent of
North America, of whom 130 are ho
moeopathists. The majority are or¬
dinary practitioners, but among the
remainder are 70 hospital physicians
or surgeons, 95 professors in the
schools, 610 specialists for the disea
ses of women, 79 alienists, 65 ortho
pedists, 40 oculists and aurists, and
finally 30 electro-therapeutics. In
Canada there is but one inoi lea
school devoted exclusive> to the
training of medical ladies, but in the
UniteTTStates Ih~T893 there were te n,
one of them being a
Asiatics are learning, for the firsfc
time in a generation, something
about the strength of the United
States navy. Since tho civil war the
Asiatic station has seldom had a con¬
siderable ship in its squadron. The
Baltimore is the only considerable
modern ship that this Government
has sent to the station, and even now
half of the ships of the squadron are
small and old-fashioned. It used to
be said in the navy that certain sliips
were kept on the Asiatic station not
only because they were of sufficiently
light draught to ascend Chinese riv¬
ers but as well also because they
were totally unfit to come home
across the Pacific.
In a recent sermon the Lev. _.I.
Aked of Liverpool, England, declaied
J i !^ , sl av ® ry exists in England,
Think . 1 of bt. Helen s in Lancashire
cnemicai laoorers l.We “there tnere. Ttoe -mere, In en
pg ed in the very foulest work men
]al >or one hundred and twelve hours
one weak a,ld fifty-six hours the next,
or one hundred and sixty-eight hours
\ n u€ J \ ho e ^ r ^ or 7 an average *7 of
round ’ ? c f ed . and . bl rnt , by , . th .. ®
mg particles of caustic; their . teeth
destroyed by acids and their internal
organs, as revealed by post-mortem
examination, blackened by the ta
pors. these men drink and so
would you drink madlj, till death
released you from your suner
in gs.
Sensible readers will, in the opin
j on 0 f t be New York Times, take
their war news, whether it appears
to come from Chinese or Japanese
sources, with a liberal dilution of
doubt. But one thing is abundantly
dear from the tenor of all the dis
patches, and that is that the Japan
ese have far more enterprise, dash,
and initiative than the Chinese, and
these qualities go a long way in war.
It is not denied, either, that the Jap
anese are entirely united and very
muc h in earnest, while there is great
doubt whether the mass of China
men care anything about the mat
ter. In fact, the Chinamen are so
numerous and so stay-at-home that
to them, except upon the coast and
the frontiers, a foreigner is not a con
LpHe"ould A rea^y be got^nto
tio it would crush the Japanese by
mere force of numbers, but as things
are , the moral qualities of the Jap
ba^erthffr . n w will »o a inferforit/ Ion" wav to counter
n numbers numbers
and ana resources resources.
On the steppe near Borki, that
point on the railway where an acci
dent happene< i on 1888 to the train
carrying the Russian Imperial fami
^ rises a church built in the AIusco
yite gt le of tiie seventeenth century,
*
It wasS ere - te d, adorned, and filled
with paintings by the subscriptions
of th(j faithful in a p parts 0 f t h e em
P ire > and cost about $125,000. A
hi = h cu P oIa is surrounded by six co
nical towers< The fronts are in yel
ow brick elaborately ornamented
with desi ^ ns in which the
£1™ neZ £ Xht SoTe * / hanE'
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peror’s coach was pitched off the track
The mural and other paintings in
church and chapel are by Prof. Ala
koffsky, whose paintings are well
known in New York. A park has
been planted about the church. In
the chapel is a record of the names
of twenty-three persons killed and
thirty-six injured in the disaster,
Work has been going on for three
years or more; the inauguration took
place last June.
The striking fact is stated by Pro¬
fessor Powell t hat in the western half
G f the Cnited States, there is an area
of some 750,000,000 acres where the
mean annual rainfall does not exceed
twenty inches. The water to be used
j n irrigation in all this vast region
i S)W ith slight exceptions, the natural
run-off from the same area; to this
being also added the amount of water
caught in the mountain regions
where the rainfall is more than
twenty inches, but which runs down
where it can be taken upon the lands
having twenty inches of rainfall or
less. Professor Powell remarks that,
it’ computing the absolute run-off of
all this region, it appears that if it,
could be aii taught, and distributed
upon irrigable lands at the rate of
twenty-four acre-inches t<; every acre
of crop,the amount which could thus
be irrigated would be about one-tenth
of the whole, or 75,000,000 acres;
such an absoluto catch is, however,
impossible. Reduced to the possible
catch, the amount may bo stated at
a little over52,000,000 acres; this re¬
duced again to the really practical
catch, gives a little over 116,500,000
acres. The last, therefore, is the ex¬
tent of land in the arid country hav¬
ing twenty inches or less of rainfall
which can, under practical condi¬
tions, he redeemed for agriculture by
irrigation through the use of the nat¬
ural run-off; butjto redeem it, all the
practical catch from the arid region
and from the mountains which do
liver their water into the arid region
must be utilized.
A MUSICAL MOUNTAIN.
Sweet Sounds Like the Tinkling of
Bells Made by Shifting Sands.
In the old Truckee mining district,
down 1 he Truckee river, near Pyramid
Lake, is situated Nevada’s musical
mountain. This mountain was first
discovered by the white settlers in
]m at which time there was some
excitemenfc in regard to the mines
foun d in the neighborhood. Thedis
coverers we re a partv of nrosueein***
from the Comstock ojdJtbWf-fcerrtrat , . -
Thev hftd nitrl the
, 0 f tne moi, ntain) and for a f ew
Q r.in£rs thought themselves be¬
witched, saysthe Virginia City En¬
terprise. Each evening, a little after
dark, when the air was calm and all
was quiet, a mysterious concert be¬
gan. Out from the face of the big
mountain were wafted soft strains
that seemed to cause the whole at¬
mosphere to quiver as they floated
over the camp. The music then ap¬
peared to passover it until it was far,
far away, and almost lost in the dis¬
tance, when, beginning with a tink¬
ling, as of many little silver bells,
there would be a fresh gust of sweet
notes from the mountain.
During the daylight hours little of
the mysterious music was heard, and
it was settled that it was not caused
by the wind. A spring near which
the explorers had pitched their tent
afforded the only good camping
grounds in the neighborhood, and as
each new party of prospectors arrived
at the spot the wonder grew.
Some Piute Indians who came
along and camped at,the spring were
found to be acquainted with the pe¬
culiar musical character of the
mountain. They' called it the
. ‘ singing mountain.”
Some of the men collected in the
camp became more interested in the
mountain than in prospecting, and
gave most of their time to an invest¬
igation of the mystery of the musical
sounds heard to proceed from It.*
They found that the whole face of the
mountain was covered with thin
fj?jkes of a }iard crystalline rock,
There were great beds of thege fl akes .
The investigators concluded that the
musical sounds heard proceeded from
the loose material, huge drifts of
which seemed to be gradually working
their way down the steep face of the
mountain,
At all events the strains heard at
the foot of the mountain in the even
ing’s stillness seemed to be produced
by the uniting and blending of the
myriads of bell-like tinklings pro
ceeding from the immense beds of
slaty debris creeping glacier-like
down the slope.
The solution of the mystery of the
.
musical mountain is the only one
worthy of notice. As no mines of
value were found the district was soon
deserted, and has since seldom been
visited. Therefore, few expect the
old-time prospectors know much
aboutthe “ sl,lglngmountaln -
Milk-Giving Male Animals.
Dr 5 c * H art rVniS™; Merriam chief of the
dhd 0n of and mam
inaJ , a °=l 11 ' connection wnn tne agn
cultural t 1 department at A\ ash,ngton,
ma de some interesting observa
tions on the milk-giving faculty rab- of
the males of a western species of
bit called Baird’s hare. The publi
cation of these odd facts revived an
old account of a he goat which regu
larly gave milk. According to the
famed St. Francis Xavier, in the year
1546, in the island of Amboya, be
found ‘a he goat giving suck to his
young kids with his own milk. He
had one breast which gave every day
as much milk as would fill a basin
(size of basin not mentioned). This
the saintly Jesuit wrote, I saw with
my own eyes. -[bt. Louis Repub
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