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TROLLEY ACROSS TEE OCEAN.
Something' of That Kind May Give In
creased Speed in the Future.
From the Boston Courier
It is pretty well understood that the
limit of speed in ocean steamers is about
poached if the pr. scut methods are ad
hered to. and if there is to be any gain in
swiftness it must be by the trial of anew
form. The difficulty is to devise a vessel
of which the structural strength shall be
great enough to carry the massive engines
requisite for increased s|>eed and at the
same time to resist the force of the oceau
storms. If the sea were calm there
would be no difficulty in increasing the
speed of the "ocean greyhounds,” but
with the tremendous force of waves and
storms it is not possible to
do this with the present models.
It is not impossible that the solution
of the problem lies in the sub marine
ship and the passenger sfi amer of the fu
ture will go under water instead of across
its surface. The advance made in the
planning and working of the submarine
Boats in the last ten wears makes this
seem not wholly impossible, as it must
have looked ouce; and there is no doubt
that the freedom from the effects of sur
fae e storms would allow a swiftnea which
couid hardly be arrived at on the surface.
It might also solve the question of sea
sickness. as it is probable that submarine
locomotion would be much smoother and
less disturbing to the stomach than tho
present method of traveling. All that
one can say. however, is that we shall see
what wo shall see.
Perhaps the steamer of the future will
bo operated on a trolley by means of a
submarine cable. The advantages of this
plan would be great, as it would prevent
the necessity of carrying immense quan
tities of fuel and of keeping the vessel
loaded down with enormous engines. All
the delay and difficulty and expense of
managing furnaces and engines on hoard
ship would bo done away with by the
oceanic trolley system, and the ships
could be made so much lighter that they
could go whizzing across the ocean in a
couple of days. Danger of accident could
bo brought to be no greater than it is at
present by having a sufficient
number of repair steamers on
the route, which could keep
the cables in repair, and in case of any
aceideut to the trolley could bring the
passenger boat into port, or put it again
in connection with the cable. There can
be no question that the proper means of
crossing the Atlantic quickly is by some
system which will allow the motive
power to be applied from the shore,
either by a trolley or a cable. The limit
of spe<d for ships that carry engines and
fuel is cerraiuly practically reached on
the surface, and there are difficulties in
the way of submarine navigation which
it would be hard to conquer. The trolley
system is capable of great extension, and
we may yet live to get to Europe by its
means.
RUIN AVERTED BY A CAT.
Plot to Destroy a Manufactory Re
vealed By Her Fright.
From the New York Herald.
What is thought to have been a das
tardly attempt to destroy the extensive
works of the Celluloid Manufacturing
Company in Newark, X. J., was made
yesterday afternoon. That it did not suc
ceed is due to the fright experienced by a
cat in a strange place.
The attempt was made in the scrap
room on the Ashbridge side, where the
celluioid shavings and scraps are sent to
be worked over and some goods in course
of manufacture are kept. In this room
about eight men are generally employed,
but owing to trade dulness only one was
in the scrap room yesterday. He heard
something fall from a shelf about 2 o'clock
in the afternoon. Turning quickly he
saw a cat spring from the shelf and scur
ry through an open window into Ash
bridge street.
He started to restore a pasteboard box
which had been knocked from the shelf
by the feline stranger, and on
picking it up found that it
contained a candle and a quantity of in
flammable cotton material. The caudle
had apparently been ' burning about an
hour. It was still lighted, anti, strange as
it may seem, had not ignited the other
contents of the box. The workman extin
guished the flame.
Had the stuff in the box begun to blaze
and a single spark escaped into the scrap
room nothing could have averted au ex
plosion and great disaster to life and
property.
It is believed that during the noon din
ner hour someone enterted the scrap
room and placed the dangerous box on
the shelf, but just where the cat came
from is unknown. It had never been
seen there before and may have vol
untarily gone through the window and by
Some remarkable coincidence upset that
particular box. or it may have been put
there for some purpose bv those who in
stigated the plot which failed almost at
the eleventh hour.
Theguaranteedcure for all sick headaches
Neuralgic or nervous headaches.
Is Bromo- Seltzer.—ad.
■PREJUDICE AGAINST RAILROADS
Queer Arguments Against Their In
troduction by Oldtimers.
Front the Pittsburg Dispatch.
The prejudice against what is regarded
as the new fangled electric railroad still
lingers in many remote districts, and in
reviewing various quaint and amusing
objections that have been raised from
time to time while the introduction of an
electric line was under discussion, Athol
Mayhew draws attention to the similar
ity of views that exists between the be
nighted few of to-day and the fmblic of
70 years ago, in regard to innovations on
methods of travel. When railroads were
first proposed in England the country
gentlemen were told that the smoko
would kill the birds as they passed over
the locomotive.
The public was informed that the
weight of the engine would prevent its
moving. Foxes and pheasants were to
cease to exist in the neighborhood of a
railway, and the race of horses would be
come extinct. Farmers were possessed
with the idea that oats and bay would be
no more marketable produce; horses '
would start and throw their riders. Even
cows, it uas said, would cease to yield
their milk in the neighborhood of those
infernal machines. "What’” asked Sir
Isaac Coffin in the House of Commons,
“was to be done with all those who had
advanced money for making and repair
ing the turnpike roads! What was to be
come of coachmakers and liarnessmakers,
coachmasU rs and coachmen, innkeepers,
horse breeders and horse dealers! Was
the House aware of the smoke and the
noise, of the hiss and the whirl, which
locomotive engines passing at the rate of
10 or It! miles an hour would occasion!
Neither the cattle ploughing in the fields
nor grazing in the meadows could behold
them without dismay. Irou would be
raised iu price 100 per cent, or. more
probably, altogether exhausted. It would
be the greatest nuisance, the most com
plete disturbance of quiet and comfort in
all parts of the kingdom, that the ingen
ury of man could invent.”
TEE BEST NERVE TONIC.
Horsford’a Acid Phosphate.
Dr. A. Montbibo, Richmond, Va., says:
“I have used it in many cases of nerve de
pression and have always found it benefi
cial. The exhaustion cf debility so preva
lent in chronic alcoholism. lias been
benefited iu every case. I consider it one
oi the best tonics we have, where nervo
tone is needed.”—ad.
MOVING GREAT BLOCKS.
Remarkable Engineering Feats Now
in Frogreaa in Chicasro.
From the Chicago Times
Brick buildings an^beingspirited away.
To clear space for the Metropolitan Ele
vated railroad seven heavy structures of
1 brick and stone are now being raised, run
forward, whirled around, and inter-
I chanced as if Aladdin's lamp was opera
tive still. Between Congress and Van
; Buren streets, across Peoria, Sangamou,
Morgau, and the Bowery surveyors have
drawn a line straight as the birds fly.
and L. P. Friestedt. the contractor, is
jostling brick blocks and buildings out of
the line of flig. One structure, which
i embraces Nos. 13, 15, 17, lit and 21 and
tips the beams at 7,000 tons, is actually
j being turned around in the vacant lot be
tween Morgan street and the Bowery,
while six other buildings of brick, four
j iu double structures of two houses each,
! are being moved aside and interchanged
to make room for the swinging of this
mammoth block.
HOW THE WORK IS PONE.
Although stupendous, the work is sim
ple. Holes are cut through the side walls
Jof the building just beneath the lower
floor; through these, from side to side of
the structure, 12x12 timbers are run, be
neath which, from front to rear of the
building, two or three great timbers are
placed. The latter, raised by hundreds
of Jack screws, lift the building from its
foundation and then serve as runners,
upon which the structure slides over roll
ers to its destination. These rollers,
when it is desired to turn a building, are
placed at the required angle, while pro
pelling power is also exerted in the direc
tion desired. "Seven-foot rams" furnish
the motive power. These are larger jack
screws which screw out seven feet, thus
shoving the building that far forward.
About half an hour is required for this
advance of seven feet. When a buildiug
is being wheeled about the screw at the
end, which makes the greater outside
circuit, is screwed out two or three times
as fast as that at the other end, which
stands like a pivot: screws between are
projected with rapidity proportionate to
their distance from the end circling
round.
To avoid any strain upon the building,
as by pushing one end faster than the
other or allowing part of the structure to
run on a lower roadbed than the rest, is
the great effort and art of the process.
Surveyors’ instruments are employed to
guide and test the laying of the beams
upon which the building rolls forward,
and also the application of the propelling
power. One hundred and ten thousand
dollars will be the charge for shifting the
buildings and relaying their foundations.
Two thousand jackscrews are required to
do the lifting, while more than 100 men
are employed in the work. Twenty-eight
feet per day is the average speed attained.
Only four weeks have yet been expended
on these seven structures which embrace
fourteen residences. All the buildings
consist of three stories, built of brick and
stone, with bay windows, porches, and
other irregularities of outline.
Spiritualistic table tipping is dis
counted in this tranquil transfer for com
mercial uses of 36.(#)0 tons of cemented
brick, while that Egyptian aance is far
outclassed by this quadrille of the resi
dence blocks.
The Best in the World.
Senator Henry C. Nelson, of New York,
writes: "On the 27th of February, 1883,
I was taken with a violent pain in the re
gion of the kidneys. I suffered such agony
that! could hardly stand up. As soon as
possible 1 applied two Aixcock’s Porous
Plasters, one over each kidney, aud laid
down. In an hour, to my surprise and
delight, the pain had vanished and I was
well. I wore the plasters for a day or
two as a precaution, and then removed
them. 1 have been using Allcock’s
Porous Plasters in my family for the last
ten years., and have always found them
the quickest and best remedy for colds,
strains and rheumatic affections. From
m.y experience I believe they are the best
plasters in the world. ’V-ad
Devil's Lake Traditions.
From the Minneapolis Tribune.
Tangago, the Tippewas, came from the
north and pitched their tepees on the
north shore of the lake. They had reason
to believe that the Sioux were encamped
on the southern shore, and they planned
to cross to the south before daylight and
surprise their traditional euemies. The
Sioux had a similar thought and design,
and each tribe proceeded to exterminate
the other. ,
They met in about the middle of the
lake and fought, and all were lost. The
time is not fixed except that the incident
marks an epoch in the history of both
tribes. Another battle was fought after
wards on the south shore between other
contingent* of these respective tribes
The Uhippewas came in the canoes from
the north as before. This was in 18t57.
The Chippewa warriors were all slain
but one man, who returned badly wounded
aud riddled. The fatalities connected
with the lake and the apparitions gave
rise to the name Minnewauken, or spirit
water, mysterious water, fated water,
and finally Devil’s lake, as the only
English equivalent for the Indian’s idea
as exorcssed iu Minnewauken.
The Chippewas came here in canoes.
The Sioux also used canoes. With but
few portages tho former could easily at
that time, while the hike was so far
above its present level, come from Lake
Suiierior to Devil's lake. Since the fatal
ities related, those Indians have a super
stitious dread of canoes. Young people
are getting over the dread, but old In
dians will wade to their waist fishing
while boats are within their reach, but
won’t dare enter.
Tom —Yes, Molly and I were out
pretty long last night, but the tide
was so strong it was hard to come back
very fast.
Alice—Yes: I remember in physics it
says the length of the spark is protor
tional to the strength of the current.—
Brooklyn Life.
“I wonder,” thought Frank as he
awakened in the country early in the
morning, “whether that rooster tells the
sun whan to get up or the sun tells the
rooster! I wish they’d both wait until I
was ready.”—Harper's Young People.
A Base Suspicion.—Guest (in cheap
restaurant) That's queer. 1 ordered
three dishes aud you are out of all.
Waiter—lt’s very late, sah. Guest (sus
piciously )—Not saving ’em for yourself,
eh? Waiter (haughtily!—l don’t eat
heah, sah.—New York Weekly.
She—lt will be a pleasure for me to
share your troubles and anxieties.
He—But 1 haven't uni - .
She —Oh, you will have them when five
are married.—Brooklyn Life.
Scientists May Differ
As to the causes of rheumatism, but there is
no difference of opinion among them as to
the danger which attends it. the symptoms
by which it manifests itself, and tho difficulty
of dislodging it in its chronic stage. Several
mineral and vegetable poisons are prescribed
for it, but none of these has been shown by
experience to possess tho same efficacy as
Hostetter's Stomach Bitters. This benign
specific depurates tho blood by promoting
vigorous action of the kidneys, which strain
from the blood as it passes through them the
rheumatic virus when it exists in the system.
Physicians or eminence testify to the value of
the Bitters In rheumatism, and the pro
fessional opinions regarding it are borne out
and corroborated by ample populur evidence.
The Bitters remedy chills aud fever, liver
complaint, dyspepsia and constipation ad.
THE MORNING NEWS: MONDAY, AUGUST 2B, IHOn.
THE WHEF.LMFN S MEET.
The Entries Coming in for Next Mon
day’s Races.
The Savannah Wheelmen's opening fall
l meet next Monday. September 4. prom
l ises to be a brilliant one. The entries are
: coming in now. and for the next few days
I Chairman Donhardt of the racing com
j mittee will be busy.
The entries will close Friday nieht.
Isaac and John Baird of Charleston have
entered for all handicap and other races
for which they are eligible. This assures
a lively competition, as both the Bairds
are fast riders. Isaac Baird was one of
the riders in the recent international
races, and is in the best of training.
All the local riders will enter between
now and Friday. The race committee
has completed all the details for the meet.
A special schedule of cars will be run by
the Electric railway direct to the park,
and every facility will be provided to
handle the jieople promptly.
The programme of races, including ten
events and the prizes, have already been
announced in the Morning News.
John 8. Prince will shortly sail for
■ . where h£ will have built for his
future racing two machines after specifi
cations of his own. In three weeks’ time
he will be back in America in shape to
show his critics that he is tho man his
friends claim him to be.
Ernest Osmond made two miles in 4:24-
2-5 on the Herne Hill track last Thursday,
and broke the world's record for that dis
tance. The British record for that dis
tance was4:4i 4-5, and was made on the
same track by M. B. Fowler last year.
An English policeman has been forced
to pay $45 damages for the pleasure he
experienced in smashing the wheel of a
rider he was endeavoring to stop because
his lamp was not lighted.
A dispatch regarding the Telegram
club’s races at Milwaukee says: "San
ger gave his solemn promise to hts friends
that lie would appear, and they adver
tised the fact. About 3,000 people gath
ered. Sauger wouid not come at the last
moment, saying he didn't care if 10,000
people were present. He settled his pop
ularity in Milwaukee, as the Telegram
club members were his only friends.”
An American wheelman from Indiana
while touring in France was asked at din
ner by the polite gareon if he preferred a
la carte or table d'hote, and taking no
chances answered: "Gimme a little of
both, with plenty of gravy.”
A wheelwoman’s costume recently seen
on the Parisian boulevards is made of
brown Scotch tweed, with baggy knicker
bockers and a loose jacket. A white shirt
waist with pink stripes and cravat to
match, and tan stockings and low tan
shoes complete tho outfit. The rider
wore a light-colored hat. The other cos
tume was of light-gray corduroy. Tho
trousers were brought together tightly at
the knee by long black gaiters that button
at the sides of the leg. There was a
plain short skirt, gathered at the waist
by a broad belt. The young woman wore
a loose shirt of surah, tied at tho neck
with a black tie. She also had a top
coat, which could be buttoned straight
down in front.
The latest development of French cy
cling enthusiasm Is a wedding party of
fifteen persons, who rode on safeties from
Paris to a church in Montmartre. After
the ceremony the party remounted their
wheels and rode off to Enghiem where
the wedding breakfast was spread.
In point of decoration some very pretty
effects arc shown by exhibitors in Chica
go. In one wheel the spokes, chain and
sprocket wheel are of shining brass; tne
frame, saddle and tire are white. In a
glass case is a wheel with all the metal
parts gold-plated, the handles, saddle and
tool bag covered with white enamel.
There are some very attractive color ef
fects, too. Wheels decorated in two col
ors, such combinations as sage green and
old rose, cream color and gray, cream and
yellow, red and black, yellow and black,
in each case the saddle being covered
with silk damask or silk brocade. There
are several wheels with oxidized copper
frames and oxidized enamel frames.
There are two bicycle railways exhibited.
Zimmerman rode a fast competitive
mile at Indianapolis the other day, mak
ing it iu 3:12V. By winning his race he
captured a $1,500 gold diamoud-studded
cup. The other starters were Bliss,
Rhodes, Taylor, Minor, Marmon, Munger,
Bobe, Crooks, Stevenson,Warren,Winale,
Tyler, Meintjes, Johnson and Barrett.
When the pistol was fired they were sent
away with Bliss as pacemaker. He
went to the eighth in 19V£ ana to the
quarter in 33 3-5, with A, W. Warren of
Northford, Conn., slightly ahead of him.
They went to the half well bunched. At
fhe half Crooks was in the load, and kept
it until the turn was reached, where
Barrett set after him. Meintjes and
Zimmerman had not so far figured in the
race, aud Meintjes was behind Zimmer
man, who was slightly ahead of Johnson
at the three-quarters. Coming into the
stretch Zimmcnnan pushed past the
leaders',by a magnificent hurst of speed.
Bliss and Taylor set after him, but could
not hold him, and he won, with Taylor
second, Blies third, and Windlo fourth.
BANILER CLEWSs’ VIEWS.
The Financial Outlook as Seen From
Wall Street.
New York, Aug. 2<j.—During the past
week, the stock market has fairly held
the firmness of undertone exhibited the
previous week. The market however is
so narrow and so entirely in the hands of
the professional traders that itfoasily re
flects any change of attitude among oper
ators aud at the samo time affords special
inducements to the creation of fluctua
tions. The stubborn firmness of prices
has Induced a reduction of the "short" in
terest. An unfavorable influence how
ever. has come from Boston in the shape
of large realjzings upon General Electric,
with a resulting decline in that stock.
Large sales of Northern Pacific issues
also tended to weaken prices momentarily.
The sensitiveness about time loans still
continues. These various influences
though comparatively- unimportant both
in detail and in aggregate, have proved
sufficient to affect a highly sensitive mar
ket and to ca use realizings upon the ral
lies. Even the good effect of a gain of
$4,500,000 iu tdi? reserve averages ot the
bunks only made the occasion more favor
able for the tailing of profits.
The course, oi the silver discussion in
congress does not, at the moment, prove
to be an iniporhant influence in the stock
market. Not *1 all because its groat sig
nificance is‘Und< 'rrated; but because, in its
present stage, the issue is not calculated
to affect immediate vaiues. Wall street
perhaps estimates the probabilities as to
five to one in favor of the uncondi
tional repeal of the silver purchase
clause: and that, calculation undoubtedly
gives backbone . o the market, But there
is much diversi l;.' of opinion as to what
may prove to be the first effect of the re
peal upon the fl.x incial markets. That it
will result in a sv eat and general revival
of confidence thei e can be and there is
little questien. 3 lut the present crisis is
so extraordinary in its nature and its
workings that me a are cautious in esti
mating how rain h effect may be expected
from such a radii ml relief as this would
be; and moreoverv in the present public
mood, such a prei mam is put upon doubts
that the solitary chance of an unfavor
able decision by C 'ongress has much more
influence than it i*m;iit. In other words,
Wall street iin a temper to take little
for granted and to discount no mere
hopes. Beside- there is no definite opin
ion as to what may he the immediate ef
fect of the repent .pon the money market.
The currency machinery has been so fun
damentally deranged that It is not easy to
say what time it may take to draw out
the millions of mon -y held in hoard, nor
how long to restore' the distribution of
currency into its normal channels, nor yet
how far the usual fall demand for cash to
move the crops may affect the restoration
of the monetary equilibrium. Hence,
whilst repeal would unquestionably cause
a universal an.i Immediate return of con
fidence, yet it is not impossible that some
time might ela; wo uelore the various fi
nancial entanglements were straightened
out and the loan market become settled
and easy.
Congress seems to be steadily working
its way towards a solution of the silver
question in conformity with the wishes
ofthegreat majority of the people. It
was hardly to be expected that members
would forego such an opportunity of ex
hibiting their oratorical ixjwers. and
hence there has b> eu a great deal of waste
time over discussion in the House; but
there is no longer any doubt that the out
come in the lower chamber will be a safe
if not very large majority in favor of un
conditional repeal. In the Senate, there
is likely to be a similar trifling with the
public impatience fur a verdict; but the
result in that branch of congress may be
regarded as being virtually beyond doubt
in favor of the national interest. The
discussion of this question brings out a
diversity of suggestions for a remodeling
of our currency and ttanking systems,
none of which seems likely to result in
any immediate changes. Their chief sig
nificance lies in the fact that they reflect
a widely prevailing dissatisfaction with
much of our monetary and banking ar
rangements under the law as it now
stands. This may suggest the necessity
of a consideration of these questions at
no distant day; but, as yet, they have not
become “burning" issues, and therefore
are not likely to hold congress in session
after the silver question has been settled,
but to be deferred until at least the tariff
and internal revenue legislation has been
disposed of.
The condition of the monetary affairs is
improving, and to a greater extent than
appears on the surface. So long as the
banks have to restrict their cash pay
ments and currency is selling at a pre
mium, appearances must be unsatisfac
tory; but although these features still re
main, a grsat deal is being accomplished
towards their removal. The arrival of
nearly thirty million dollars of gold from
Europe, and still more on the way, and
the issue of $13,000,000 of bank circula
tion, all of which lias boon accomplished
within the last two weeks, cannot possi
bly fail to work out an immense relief.
The banks of this city must now be on
the verge of a restoration of their re
serves to tho legal limit, and there can be
no doubt but the country banks are hold
much more than tho average amount of
cash. When these facts become officiall y
declared, the spell of the strengency will
be broken and confidence and ease will
gain rapidly. In the meantime, there are
distant signs in the interior cities of a
a more decided turn towards recovery
than has yet appeared at this center.
A THRIVING TOWN
Whose Merchants are Not Minding the
Hard Times.
Rocky Ford, Aug. 20.—Rocky Ford is
situated on the Central road sixty-five
miles from Savannah. Only a few years
ago Mr. Geo. Heard erected the first
store house ever put up here. It
now has a population of 300.
A fine school and tw-o
churches, Methodist and Baptist, four
general and one drug and one millinery
stores. The firm of Tindall, Parker &
Cos., beside having a large store here, have
three branch stores in Bulloch county.
The Rocky Ford Brick Company supplies
the home market and ships thousands
to other points. Rocky Ford is
surrounded by one of the best agricultu
ral sections along the Central. The
farmers are among tUu most progressive.
Last year there wereT,B72 bales of cotton
shipped from this place, and already 113
bales of this-year's crop have been re
ceived. There will he more cotton
handled here this season than last, not,
perhaps, that there has been more made,
but the push and energy of the merchants
are not excelled, and tire inducements
held out to the trading public
will bring tbeir trade here. The town
is abundantly supplied with pure
health giving artesian water. The first
thing to attract the attention of the visi
tor is the gushing, rushing sound of tho
pure, crystal water that shoots up from
mother earth as if anxious to quench the
thirst of man and beast. The
well is near the Central
track, and its sparkling water
receives many wistful looks from the pas
sengers. The old Ogeeehee river is only
a short distance from town, and the fish
ing is unsurpassed. The river is famous
for its quantity of the finny tribe. Who
has not tasted or heard of the juicy Ogee
chee bream!
Two railroads connect here with the
Central, the Sylvanla road and the
road of E. E. Foy & Cos. The Syivania
road connects with both day trains on
die Central. The road of Messrs. Foy &
Cos. reaches out twenty miles among the
pines of Bulloch county. These two
roads are good feeders for the
Central. Foy & Cos. ship immense quan
tities of lumber and naval stores. The
business done here demands better rail
road accommodation from the Central.
The present warehouse is simply a
makeshift, perhaps more miserable
than the Sherman law. The freight
room is not sufficient for the amount of
business done, and there is no passenger
accommodations. If it wore not for the
generosity of the good people of Rocky
Ford the Central's passengers would
have to take the weather as it
comes. The passenger aud the
shipper are justly entitled to better ac
commodations. The merchants along the
Central, who talk blue and feel blue
should visit the cheerful merchants here,
and they would hang their heads with
shame. The business men here are doing
business, while the calamity howlers are
gradually dying with despondency.
Some time ago this place was invaded
by a newspaper man ou the hunt for sub
scribers, and John Tom Parker says he
caught several suckers here, and because
he (John Tom) would not bite the news
paper scribe wrote him up in a very un
affoetionute style. He says the newspaper
man vailed him a rare bird and wanted
him caged and placed on exhibition
at the world's fair. John Tom is
one of Rocky Ford s leading merchants
and no man can persuade bin agatlist his
will. He has a head of hi; own. and
never was known to bite at s :ch untempt
ing bait. John Tom says when he fully
makes up ids mind to become
u candidate for congress', he will send for
that newspaper man. and subscribe for
bis paper three months and he will write
him up as the coming congressman. Un
til then he will not be a subscriber.
RAIL AND CROSSTIE.
Owing to the discovery of statutes of
North Carolina which cast a doubt upon
the legality of the issue of negotiable
notes by a corporation, the Wilmington
Messenger says, the Atlantic Coast Line
has abandoned the plan of issuing circu
lating notes to its employes. The usual
pay day with the Coast Line is the 10th
of the month, but in order to accumulate
enough currency to pay of the employes
without drawing money from the banks
the pay roll will be suspended for teD
i dais.
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THE SOFT-SHELL LOBSTER.
A Delightful Fellow Who Seldom
Finds His Way to Market.
From the Washington Star.
“Never seen a soft-shell lobster! Well,
that's not surprisin'. You see they never
get to market. They’re so good that they
always get ate first.”
The grizzled old firsherman wrung the
salt water out of his whiskers as he
talked, having just landed through the
surf in his boat with a fine cargo of fresh
caught lobsters.
"A soft-shelled lobster does not turn up
every day, even at this season,” he went
on. “When I catch one my wife cooks it
for our own dinner. Good f Well, you can
bet. Fried in boiling lard, just like a
newly-shed crab, it’s the finest thing on
earth in the way of provender. Some
thing like a crab, you know, but a great
deal more delicious. Delmonico would
give $lO a dozen for 'em, only that they
can’t be got for any price.
“You see, when the lobsters are shed
ding they hunt for holes among the rocks
to hide in. Until they get their new coats
they don't usually walk abroad, but stay
quietly in dark crannies where no enemy
is likely to find them. At such • imes
they are not apt to be looking for food
and they don’t get into the pots on that
account. There isn't any animal that is
braver than a lobster when he is in fight
ing trim, but withont his armor he is
flabby and helpless, and it can’t be ex
pected that he should take any extra
risk. It's only a foolish one now and then
that strays into one of the traps.
‘'Suppose you had to take off your skin
every now and then and wait for anew
one to grow. P’r'aps you’d feel a trifle
sensitive aud retirin’. That’s just the
way it is with a lobster. His coat is of
plate mail. It doesn’t expand as he de
velops. So the time comes when he must
swell or bu'st. He bu’sts, and, when be
comes out of his shell, he is bigger by a
considerable than he was before. The
process is a great strain on his health and
sometimes he dies in getting through
with it. He has to do the same thing a
good many times before he gets his full
growth, but after that he doesn’t shed
any more.
■ This is the season when lobsters shed,
Most of those we catch arc bu’stcrs.
That is what we call those that are on
the point of changing their coats. To do
it, they go way out to sea, so that just
now we have to go twenty miles from
land to catch them. It doesn’t take
much skill, you see, we find them wher
ever there is rocky bottom. Out where
we go to look for them there are great
reefs of socks outcropping, at a depth ol’
nearly 100 feet. There the lobsters make
their home in summer, shedding their
coats as people shed their clothes to go in
bathing along this shore in the hot
months.”
ABOUT FLYING MACHINES.
Inventor Edison Says They Are Sure
to Come, Sooner or Later. *
From the Chicago Inter-Ocean.
Mr. Edison laughed heartily when in
formed yesterday that Chicago was the
hotbed of the world for airship inventors.
’“I know it,” he said. “They haven’t
found the secret yet, but they will some
day. It will come.”
“Have you everentered the airship field
yourself;”
“Yes, indeed, I have. I have tried a
number of devices, but they haven’t
worked. Once I placed an aerial motor on
a pair of Fairbanks’ scales and set it go
ing. It lightened the scales, but it didn’t
fly.” And the wizard laughed at the
recollection.
"Another time I rigged up an umbrella
like disc of shutters, and connected it
with a rapid piston in a perpendicular
cylinder. These shutters would open aud
shut. If I could have gotten sufficient
speed, say a mile a second, the inertia or
resistance of the air would have been as
great as steel, and the quick operation of
these shutters would have driven the
machine upward. But I couldn't get the
speed. I believe that before the airship
men succeed they will have to do away
with the buoyancy chamber. But the
secret will come out some day I am sure.'’
Like the world at large which ridiculed
the first locomotive, the first telephone
and almost every great innovation, Edi
son takes a humorous view of all his ex‘
periments. and seemingly enjoys a failure.
“I have tried all kinds of plans to ex
plain psychical force.” he said with a
smile. “We experimented on hypnotism
by placing a man’s head in an immense
magnetic plane, but it didn’t work. We
tried telepathy, too, but without success.”
“Have you any more wonders like the
phonograph in tbe experimental stage?”
“No, nothing but the kinograph, which
is now almost perfect. It reproduces, bv
a rapid succession of small photographs,
every motion of an object. It was very
hard to get the exact grimaces of the
face, or the clear workings of a man’s
fingers playing the piano, but we per
sected it at last. I am very axnious to
have one on exhibition at tho fair, but we
will not have it finished in time.”
To gain strength—Hood’s Sarsaparilla.
For steady nerves—Hood’s Sarsaparilla.
For pure blood—Hood's Sarsaparilla.—
ad.
“You quite devoted yourself to that
frightful-looking Van Stick on the train
the other day, Edith: what on earth made
you do that!” "Well, it was absolutely
necessary to pay some attention to him.
You don’t suppose I wanted people to
think he was my husband!”—Brooklyn
Life.
“That play of Rankley’s have any
kind of a run !”
•T should remark! Company beat the
audience to the town limits by just ten
feet in the first place they tried it.”—
Boston Transcript.
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A POSTAL CARD LETTER.
Something About the Scheme Pro
posed by Senator Colquitt. v
From the New York Post.
Washington, Aug. 22.—A novelty in the
way of a printed bill has made its appear
ance in the document rooms of congress.
It is a Senate bill introduced by Mr. Col
quitt of Georgia, by request, and provides
for the issue by the postofilce department
of a "postal card letter.” This is a pat
ented device, the patentee being Franklin
W. Brooks of New York city, and the
novelty of the printed bill consists in the
fact that it has a specimen of the card of
full size, weight, etc., attached to the
sheet by paste.
Mr. Brooks’ card is about twice the
size of an ordinary postal card, and creas
ed through the middle in such a way that
it will fold over upon itself, making a
folder with about the same surface as a
No. 5 envelope. Around three sides it is
perforated at a distance of a quarter of
an inch on the edges, and the space be
tween the perforation and the edge is
covered on one side with adhesive gum,
so that the folded card can be closed like
a sealed letter but can be opened by tear
ing away the perforated strips.
This device has been before the post
office department, a good while on its own
merits, but has received no encourage
ment. The self-sealing letter-sheet, which
has been the subject of practical experi
ment for several years, has never proved
popular, and, so far as the self-sealing
feature is concerned, this card is substan
tially only another form of the letter
sheet. The card, moreover, has the dis
advantage of being much heavier than
ordinary paper, and the government is
asked to carry for one cent about double
the weight and bulk which it carries for
the same price in the present postal-card.
The original design of the postal-card,
which was simply to enable a person to
dash off a message and send it for a cent in
consideration of his being willing to makeit
very short and leave the writing exposed,
is done away with in the case of this
folding card. Until congress gets ready
to bring down the unit of letter postage
to one cent, it is not at all likely that
schemes of this sort will succed. When
once-cent postage comes, if it ever does, it
will probably' come in a thoroughgoing
form, so that a person can write an ordi
nary letter, seal it in an envelope, and
inclose any thing he chooses in it, at one
half the price he now pays for the same
privilege; but it will be remembered that
it was the Harrison, and not the Cleve
land, administration that committed
itself to this reform—before election.
TWIN BOTHERATION.
Twin Sisters Are Wooed By Twin
Brothers and Complications Arise.
From the Chicago Inter-Ocean.
William and Edward Stites are broth
ers and wealthy real estate men of
Wichita. They are twins, and in addi
tion are so much alike that people who
have known them intimately for years
constantly mistake one for the other. In
the same town lived two school-teachers
who were sisters and twins. The author
ity for the story, A. M. Burton, of Kan
sas, who is at the Great Northern, says
it is difficult to tell them apart. The
four twins met. fell in love and married.
Each twin married the twin with whom
he or she was in love, though a little mix
ing made discrimination impossible.
Many stories, too long to be retold
here, are related of them during the
courtship, but suffice it for the present
narrative to say that in order to avoid
mistakes William aud tho young lady to
whom he was engaged, assigned Monday,
Wednesday and Friday nights as their
nights for courting, and Ed called on the
remaining nights of the week, so there
would be no mistake. They were mar
ried by the same preacher at the same
time. Tho gentlemen were dressed alike
and so were the laaies. The preacher
got a little mixed and had to refer to his
notes, but the high contracting parties
are satisfied that they got the one they
wanted. The luther of the boys present
ed them both colts that were twins, and
Mr. Burton says any day these gentle
men, looking exactly alike and driving
horses and buggies where no difference
can be detected, may be seen in the
streets of Wichita, where they are known
to nearly everybody in town.
Well, twins have come into those two
households, and it is gravely asserted
that each set of twins cannot be deter
mined from the other. They have all
four been in one house, and the visiting
mother has taken two babies home with
her, and if they become mixed they com*
fort themselves by saying: "It s all in
the family, anyhow!” The children are
satisfied with either of the ladies as a
mother. When either one of the gentle
men meets any one of the four on the
street and it calls “Hello, papa,” bo
doesn’t know whether it’s his or not.
Eight of these twins, for, of course, tho
horses arc to be left in Wichita, arc com
ing to see the fair. At the hotel are two
negro boys, twins, who are to be assigned
especially to wait on them. Complica
tions are looked for, as one of these boys
once had a broom at the door when a gen
tleman ordered a brougham, and the
other brought a sick man a Bible when
he asked for a barber.
Diner—lsn’t this meat rather tough?
Waiter—There’s no denying that, sir, but
then, we serve extra strong toothpicks
after it.—Boston Transcript.
“I hear Clara has contracted a mesalli
ance.”
"Poor girl. It was only a week ago she
contracted hay fever.”—Detroit Free
Press.
He thought 'twas a sweet little Mllet doux,
But appearances turned out uutroux;
Twas a note from his lailor.
Saying. Pay without fall, or
We ll order our lawyer to soux "
—lndianapolis Journal.
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WEATHER •’ PROBABII ittpc -. L _
pAY- Haiti. attended by turn beast.r**.-,.
Ing to-night (Saturday> nr Sunday
in inn.
Ffgg—There's a piano I had at a
bargain. They asked mo ttOJ for It
and I beat them down to *23n
What do you think of that? ,ZaU '
Fogg—Think you did pretty woll
for a green hand. I had that' same
Instrument offered to me for *l3O
and they wouldn't take off a cent
But. by George, just think of it'
They took off $250 for you.—Boston
Transcript.
EXACTLY.
A good many people have inves
ted as much as *SOO In a piano omy
to know that they have paid at
least *230 for their experience.
There is only one fair way to sell
anything. That is—at ONE
PRICE to every one. and that’9
OUR PLAN. One thing It is well
to remember. If you pay *3OO for a
piano It ought to buy one of estab
lished reputation. No unknown
instrument fs worth such a price.
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Summer goods about ex
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HARDWARE.
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Linen Hammocks.
Fly Fans.
Gastnets and Seines.
Fishing Rods and Reels.
Enterprise Froit Presses,
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