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| Aerial navigation a Fact- | I Von Zeppelin’s Ship Flies. 1 Tlie secoml t rial of Count Zcjiiie tin's colossal nlrslilp Is described li I>ross roporls from Frlcdflchllinfcn ns belli? n notable success. After rlslu? to it height of nboilt two thousand foot, the vessel remained poised at that level for three-quarters of an hour. It then made a series of tacks, and went through certain turnln? maneuvers, afterward traveling with the wind In what Is described as "a generally cir cular direction" for about six mllos, tho velocity of the wlud at tills time being about eight lnllcB an hour. It is sold that later, In a freshening breeze, tho air ship turned and "nindo head way” against the wind, Bvontually the vessel descended will) "great ease nud steadiness to the lake," nnd was towed to Its sholler. Tho stability and steering powers of the airship are de scribed as being excellent) If the above reports aro correct, wo still know, as ljttle about tho actual practical value of Count Zeppelin's machines us WO did before. It has been proved merely that an airship of this kind can ascend, maintain-Its equilibrium, nnd bo navigated fn any desired direction, provided tho wind does not much exceed tho strength of n gentle breeze. It has yet to bo shown thnt In stronger winds, say <-~ from twenty to fifty mllcB an hour, this airship can perform tho'samo evo lutions.. If It should show thnt It Is It was seen that It was raoro thnn like ly to he a success. Tho rnotlvo power of tho big airship Is furnished by four screws or pro pellers Attached to the sides of the cigar, actuated by two Daimler mo tors of fifteen horse-power cnch. nnd enpnblo of turning at tho into of 1200 revolutions per minute. These pro pellers aro made with blades of alum inium. The notion of such propellers on nlr not being sufficiently well known to tho Inventor nnd his friends, various experiments lind to ho carried out with them. One of these was to started. I had steered the airship around nud was heading directly for this pontoon, when, In coming down snmcwhnt from tho elevation we had been floating nt, the gns began to es cape from one of tho balloons. “This threw tho point of the airship much lower thnn I was prepnred for, nnd our descent beenmo too rapid. “I throw out some ballast nnd worked the rudder thnt changes tho nlr ship’s plane and direction, but It was of no use. Tho machine had too great nil Impetus, and tho descent was unavoidable.” Opinion In general Is soraewlint un settled. Of course, tho declslvo trial has not yet been inode,'for the mnchlno Is still In tho experimental stnge, though nn undoubted step toward tho achieve ment of aerlnl flight lias been made, How characteristic of this fighting ago It Is that tho moment It seems likely thnt tho upper nlr lias been attach them to a boat resting on the mndo accessible to mankind the first water of Lake Constance nnd set them | questions asked arc: How can we get A A Aluminium points! longlb, from A to A, 110 feet. B11 A ring with Bpokos similar to tboso of a hlcyolo wlmol. O 0 Oompnrtnionts or balloons. D I) Portions of tho outer covering. DESIGN OP ZGITEMN’B AlitsniP.’ E E Propallors. f Poiomost rudders, turnlog on axle 11 Gondolas of aluminium plates, rig. Idly attached to the ulgur. J J Motors. count yon zxreniiiN, able to maintain n-speed of, say, only twenty miles nn hour against a strong wind, aerial navigation by the balloon typo of airship will lmvo uu enormous stride In these closing days of the cen tury. Enough 1ms been accomplished to render (lie further trials of Count Zeppelin’s costly nnd carefully thought out design a matter of world-wide In terest. The Idea upon which Count Von Zep pelin’s success, so far attained, ap pears to ho based, Is Hint tho envelope or outer portion, of tho bnlloon should be of such material ns to bold tho con tinued gns for ns long a period as pos sible. Tho f.lfilculty has not been tho making of gns In great quantities nor tho' buoyant power of largo volumes suitably contained, but Its retention In tbo envelope or receiver. Acting, upon this Idea, tlie Count has produced n mntorlnl which would hold tho hydro gen, tho buoynnt element 'being the lightest suhstanco lsnowh, for five .weeks without appreciable loss. The clgnr-shnped envelopo lnts a ca pacity of 11,001) cubic metros of this gns (oue motro equal to 30.37 luclies). Tho extorlor. of the bnlloou Is covered with a protective siirfnco of pegamoid nud silk. Tlio total weight of tho Bhlp nnd crew Is estimated not to exceed 20,000 pounds. The ship when com pleted resembles a huge (cigar, made chiefly of aluminium. It Is 415 feet long, nud the eylluder proper Is forty feet In cllnmctei'. The lotnl depth, Including the gondolas In which tho passengers sit, la about eighty feet. Tho framework of this huge cylin der consists of aluminium hands, twenty-four lii number. The Interior uf the cigar is divided by sixteen ver tical ribs Into seventeen compart ments, each of which contains an In dependent balloon; made of a material which tlie manufacturer cn)ls "ballon- In.” The first nsccut wns to bnve In motion against tho nlr In order lo see whether they would drlvo Hie bont forwards nnd bnckwnrds In spllo of the extra reslstniico of the water. This experiment was eminently successful, the boat belug driven In either direc tion nt the rate of nearly ten miles an hour. The cost of tho device to Count Zep pelin hoforc the first flight Wns some thing like $100,000. Even one charge of hydrogen gns for tho bnlloon costs In the neighborhood of $2500. The Count la now a man of seventy, and lives nt the castle of Ehersherg, near Constance, on the German side. lie served In the German army dur ing tho French war and It is Raid thnt no small pnrt of his Inspiration In bal looning wns derived from Ills expcrl- cuco as a scout on n .dangerous trip during thnt War, nnd by- tho desh-o to see better methods of obtaining Infor mation. It Is behoved thnt a balloon wlileh can bo directed nt will—can mnlnlnln Us equilibrium nnd descent together without danger to tho life of occupants or to tho structure—has been last nttnlnod. Count voii Zeppelin Is satisfied with tlio performance of his nlrslilp. In a conversation with n Now York Herald corespondent ho said It had been proved thnt It was absolutely under the control of tho Btcerlng ap paratus. This apparatus, by tho way, wns not ran Ainanir beginning its flight. In most perfect order on thp first as cent. t One of tho two rudders below tho machine, nt the stern, would not work ■freely. Thus, Instead of moving par allel with each other, the ruddora fre quently formed nn angle. This dofeet hampered Count von Zeppelin very much Indeed, It Is to this fault that lie attributes tho general movement noticed In tho trial toward. tho left, for nt no time did the machine make a decided flight to the right. Tho Count also remarked thnt his dc- THE AIBSUir AT FULL SPEED. inaen place in October, ISO!), hut the balloons supplied did not fill the re- qliiiwiicuts. nud the first ascent did cot take place until duly 2,1000, when scent hnppe ied earlier than ho intend ed. “My aim,” he said, "was to roturn to tho floating pontoon whence we up there nnd fight? Shall wo he able to drop dynnmltc and lyddite from the skies upon tlie ships nud cities of our enemies? Zeppelin has without doubt filled Franco with now hopes and England with now fears. An Invasion of Britain ,'iy airships npponrs ns n distinct pos sibility. Tlio battle of Dorking may ho fought In tho clouds, and "perfidious Alblou" may cense.to "rule tho waves” by reason of her failure to rule tho atmosphere. On the other hand, a sec ond successful siege of Paris mny ho mndo Impossible by the airship's aid in bringing new supplies of food to Its defenders. . „ ,, Tho Modern Scientist. In tho olden times, said Professor Itliys in a recent address before tho British Association, a scientist, after onco printing Ills views on a given subject, stuck to them through thick and thin, or, at most, limited himself to chnnglng tho plnco of n comma or rcplnclng an occasional and by n but, "In this way not a few great questions affecting no Inconsiderable portions of the universe had been forovor set at rest,” nn<f a Inrge portion of the. re mainder of the scientist's life wns fre quently devoted to defending Ills theo ries. "All that 1ms beou chnngcd nnd whnt now happens is somewhat as fol lows: A B makes nn experiment or propounds whnt ho calls a working hypothesis; hut no cooncr 1ms A B dono so that C D, who Is eugnged in the same sort of research, proceeds to Improvo on A B. This, Instead of Im pelling A B to rush after C D with nil kinds of epithets and Insinuations Hint Ills character Is dcflclcip In all the ordinary virtues of man, only makes him go to work again nud sec whether ho enunot Improvo oil O D’s results, nnd most likely he succeeds, for one discovery lends to another. It Is a severe discipline, In which all display of feeling Is considered had form. Of course every now nud then n spirit of tlio ruder kind discards tlio rules of tho gnme nnd attracts attention by hnving ills of bnd temper. But gen erally speaking, the rivalry goes on quietly enough lo the verge of mon otony, with tho net result that tho stock of knowledge Is Increased." Kite and llnllonn. A feature of the recent German man euvers was the use of tho signal bal loon for the transmission of orders. MUSIC FOR THE INSANE, AN EXPERIMENT WHICH INTERESTS ALL THE CIV L'ZED WORLD, SIGNAL BALLOON USED AT THE DECENT GERMAN MANEUVERS. Tho device Is sliowu herewith. It has the feature of the balloon and tho kite, and, It''is snld cnn be sent up or iI1B urum 13 , brought lu for tl|o changing of tho stimulated and ncetls rest. If it signals In quick order. Novel Treatment of Women Patient* Ward's Island — Some Encouraging Signs—Photographs Which ShoW Im provement—Music ns a Remedial Agent. Oil Wnrd's Islnnd, wliero tbo Stnto cares for tho Insane of Manhattan,nn experiment Is being tried which Inter ests all the civilized world. There, where tho poor aro treated, tho latest development of science Is being put to the test; nud dally trials are being mndo of tho effect of music on the brain, to determine how fnr It can ho lolled upon ns n remedial agent. Just what tho ultlmnto result will ho It Is loo soon to state with authority. Tho physicians who linvo tlio matter In elinrgo are watching and- studying each ease assiduously. They are not yet ready to commit themselves ns to results,- but .details, as fnr ns tlie experiment lias gone, were cheerfully given nnd aro full of Interest; Tho theory Is not new. It wns known to nnd discussed by the ancients. Pyth ngorns prescribed sounds to those In boring under aberration of mind, he : enuso of their rythmic movement. Xcnoerates, 300 B. C., following his leaching, played a lyre and sang to tho Insane. Centuries later, Ferlncll, Hie eminent singer, Is said to have cured Philip of Spain of homicidal mania by singing ballads to him dally. It Is well known among students of brain disease that few South Gcrmnns commit suicide, nnd It Is held probable Hint there is some connection between thnt fact nnd the extreme fondness for music which characterizes the na tion. But it wns not until quite re cently that anything .like systematic experiment wns made, or any scientific records kept. In 1877 nnd 1878 some desultory effort wns mndo on Black well's Islnnd. In 1880 the I.nncet dis cussed tho subject, anil Is quoted ns saying; “.Music Influences both brain nnd spinal cord, probably on account of music having vibratory or wave- motion, nnd through Its vibratory ac tion stimulates tho nerve centres. Music acts ns n refreshing mcntnl stimulant nnd restorative. Therefore It braces depressed nervous .tone, and Indirectly through tlio nervous Bystem reaches tho tissues." And now, In Mnnhntfnn Free Hospital, the theory Is being dally applied, and effort Is being mndo to reach definite nnd sat isfactory conclusions. Dr. Bally, the well-known brain specialist, with Ills nbl6 wife, nnd Dr. Peterson, who Is tlio consulting surgeon of Ward’s Isl nnd, became convinced thnt music was a desirable aid, and, being eager to provo tho benefit, agreed to supply music for one hour n day If Dr. E. C. Dent, Superintendent of the Woman’s Hospital, would nrraugc n class nnd keep nil records. This Dr. Dent agreed to do, and for n number of weeks the experiment has been under way, Technically there lire many kinds of insanity. For their proper treat ment patients are divided Into groups or classes, tho cases of acute mania together, those of melancholia in nu mber ward, and so on. In order to ascertain (he effect of music. It must he tried upon cnch class or group sepa rately. To make a close study pos sible there should not ho. too ninny, so twelve sufferers from mclnncholln were first chosen, then .twelve whose disease Inkeo the acute form. The music will ho continued until a class from each ward has been, subjected to Hie test. So fnr there Is a general feeling among Hie -physicians thnt a gnln Is being made, but llioy arc con servative, and, chary of stntlng any thing positively/until closer'study has been given, and reports have been more carefully cousldcred. Two afternoons recently the writer attended the class. In the Interval be tween tho first and second visits two days only had elapsed, yet tho faces seemed brighter nnd more intelligent upon tlio second day, nnd ono or two showed a decided increase in Inter est. The class in progress was the acute one. Among Its members was one poor girl who raved IneossnnUy In an excited manlier, another who wns apparently oblivious to nil her sur roundings, others who were quiet, hut absolutely dull and lifeless. It wns noticed that the programmes consist ed of sentimental classical music. At throe o'clock the clnss is ushered Into the music room. The membera are unrestrained. / hut nurses watch every change nnd note it down, Bcforo the music begins, nnd again when the class is closed, tlie temperature, respiration and pulso Of oaeh patient nre taken by the nurses and recorded. During the cutlro hour these attendants nre on the watch. Through their carefully taken notes, the physicians keep In formed of every - change,' and from those make their deductions. If it can bo discovered that change of any sort follows the treatment, something will have been- achieved, for to rouse the pntlent or to change the current of thought is all-important. Acute mania Is most helped by pe riods of. quietude. The brain Is over- . Heroes And Biographers. She—"Tell you the truth, Alfred, I do not believe 111 heroes;” He—“That's funny. If you had said you didn't believe the people who wrlto tlielr biographies, I should have thought nothing of it.”—Boston Tran script. . Trying to Fool the Bachelor., When there Is it party all of the ho discovered thnt one sort of'music or another .Induces those periods, a disUnct advantage will bo gained. One woman, It wns noticed, seemed smil ing In a happy, contented way. The uursc assured us that she felt the music helped to create her cheerful moments." Tho poor child, wlio seemed Sodden and dull upon the first day, showed signs of plensure on the sec ond. The 'most excited . patient of tlio twelve listened far more quietly married men get together so they chu ; upon the latter occasion.. fool the old bachelors and pretend how The melancholia class hud completed jolly they are.—Xew York Dress. The young woman who proposes marriage., is only trying to make a name for herself. its allotted month when the visit wns made, and Dr. Boiiil, who was tho physician in charge; believes thnt on the whole tho experiment lias been satisfactory. His records show that the average of tho pulso wns quick ened, nnd the respiration enhanced; hut llttlo deviation was shown In the temperature. During tho month set apart for tho class, nil other music wns suspended., In order that tlie test might ho ns perfect ns possible, tho patients were excluded from the reg ular conccrls, which nre given with a view lo entertainment only, anil do not allow a study of tho effect of music of a special character. The In struments used are the harp nnd tlio violin, with tho piano ns accompani ment when singing is included In tlio programme.' Tlip voice employed Is a baritone. At the end of the mouth the doctor feels that the twelve pa tients have Improved, nud lie produced photographs taken when tho class wns opened and again .at Its close. Even to tho casual observer tho Becond group shows Increased nlertness nnd appears more Intelligent. The trained eye discovers still more dovolopinenL —New York Fost. A Wise Reformer. Tlio address of Emma P. Ewing, manager of the "Model Home School” hi Marietta College, Ohio, delivered at tho mnss-mccting of Syracuse house keepers, shows that she Is emphati cally tho woman for tlio sltuntion nud an example for her sex everywhere. "The nverngo American man Is Just my Idea of n saint,” snlil Mrs. Ewing; nnd tho unanimous response of tint American man will bo that, though his guilty'conscience tells him It Is not (rue, It was the light thing for Sirs. Ewing to sny. It sounds whnt should ho (he keynote of tho wldo nnd general effort on the pnrt of lovely woman to reform and Improvo tho weaker and Inferior sex. Tho ancient proverb that “more files are caught with honey than with vine gar” applies equally to the male hu man fly, but Mrs. Ewing appears to he tho only reformer, so- far ns Is kuowu, who appreciates the value nnd the application of tho adage. In pri vate life this method of man-tauilng Is widely understood nnd practiced. Why Is It not more generally utilized by re formers in public? Why do uot the would-be reformers appreciate the ad vantage of whining the weak nnd sus ceptible heart, mail’s unguarded out post, before attacking the hnstloncd nnd buttressed citadel of Ills Intellect nud his temper.—Xew York World. In Onion Thcro Is Strength. President Harper, of tlio University of Chicago, has entered upon a most Interesting experiment In food.’ He has given the odoriferous oulon the leading plnco on Ills dally hill of fare. His pbyslclnu having advised him that onions nre omnipotent In tho elimina tion of lime from the human system, the worthy I’rex is applying himself with great zeal to the consumption of tho most fragrant of all the fruits of the earth. Tho students of tho university, or nil evidence of sympathy nnd to some ex tent perhaps ns a matter of self-do- fense, have nenrly all become dlRelplcs of tho onion cult. The university's dally menu has thus become a pleasing and pungent panorama of onions—on ions fried nnd frieasccd, baked nnd boiled onions, onion fritters, pics and tartlets. If there Is any truth In (he theory that the filaceous vegetable Is n spe cific ngnlhst lime, the faculty nnd stu dents of tho Chicago University will soon be a thoroughly timeless body of men. And, if tho old proverb “In onion there’ Is strength" holds good, that Institution will soon tnko rank— of tho rankest kind, too—as ono of our strongest seats of learning.—Xew York World. Overcrowded London. Mr. Haw shows us Hint onc-fiflh of the population of London, .tiint is to say, about 1)00,000 people are system atically breaking tho lqw. He shows us, also, how private Individuals may set the lnw iu action to punish tho of fenders by fine or eviction. But whnt ho cannot show at present is where the evicted tenant Is to go lu order to escape the necessity of offending again. People overcrowd because they cannot get rooms, not hei-aust they are not willing to pay for them. Tho lost census returned 3000 London ers ns Itvln- eight or more In ono room, over 1)000 as living seven and more In a room, and nenrly 20,000 as living six nnd mo-.- In a room. Since then the population of the capital has Increased by 300,000 people. There are houses lu London whore rooms are let on the Box-nnd-Cox principle, ten ants occupying in rotntion Tor eight hours each. Sometimes n young wom an will occupy the room byday, which Is lot to n young man by night. Feo- p!o sleep under beds ns well ns In them, nnd pay rent for doing so. Evicted families live In sheds until they drift Into the workhouse.. Tho horrors of this state of things need no exaggeration end no sensntlonnl work ing up. The bare facts speak for themselves,—Tlie ;gpccta^or. Chinese Children. It has often beeh supposed that Hit 4>lay fife of Chinese children Is liiengro. Let me sny I am prepared to show thnt their play life 'is as rich ' and varied as wns tho jilny life of Euro pean and American children before the time of Frederick Froebol and the kin dergarten, except in-the matter of toys nnd hooks. Since, that time the in ventive genius of tlio West bnseellpscd thnt of the East. Tho child Is without picture-books ns wo understand flint term. Ho may have a badly Illustrated copy of the throe-character historical classic, or the “Twenty-four Examples of Filial Piety,” but no oue in Chinn lias ever thought of making a hook of nnlmais, a book of soldiers, or a hook of nurs ery l-liymes for the little onos.-H.n- per’s Hnzar. Essential to Success. The young man wns nfler pointers. “Whnt do you consider the secret of ■uccess7” he asked, “Wealth,” replied the • great man* promptly. “And whnt is tho secret of acquiring wenltli?” “Success.” Thou tho young man went off nmt communed with himself nnd tried to figure out whnt lie had learned.—Chi cago Post. A Now Fire Extinguisher. A scientist suggests that milk bo used to extinguish tho flames of burning koro.sono, Gecaiiso ralik forma n-i emulsion with tho Dll, which makes it Accomplish its object more quickly.” Tho besjt modteino to quioklr euro oonstlpatlon, indigestion, dyspepsia blliousnojs or flatulency, Is Hostetter’a Btomach Dlttors. It is tho only genuine stomach romedy, and has a record of over fifty years of cures. Try it also for malaria, ' fevor and aguo, and bo convinced. Ilnuninum'* Illiteracy. Itoumnnla would appoar 16 bo tho most Hilt- erato country lu Europe. Tho Inst censua dnisgisis refund tho money if It falls, to euro. K. \Y . ono vs 8 signature is ou each bos. Cjc. Tommy's Imperative. Tonchor-Now. Tommy, clvo mo n sentence, and thou wo'U change It to tho imperatiyo* form. Tommy—Thd horse draws tho wngou. WOMEN must sleep. Avoid Nervous Prostration. If Vou are dangerously sick what i» the first duty of your physician ? Ho quiets the nervous system, ho deaden* the pain, and you sleep well. Friends ask, “what is thooause?” and tho answer cofties in pitying tones, nervous prostration. It came upon you so quietly in tho beginning', that you wero not alarmed, and when sleep deserted you night after night until your eyes fairly burned in the darkness, then you tossed in nervou* agony praying for sleep. Mas. A. Martlet. You ought to have known that- when you ceased to bo regular in your souraes, and you grew irritable with out cause, that there was serious* trouble somewhere. You ought to know that indigestion, exhaustion, womb displacements, fainting, dizziness, headache, and. backache send tho nerves wild witlv affright, and you cannot sleep. Mrs. Hartley, of 221 W. Congress St., Chicago, 111., whose portrait we pub lish, suffered all these agonies, and was entirely cured by Lydia B. 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