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About The Enterprise. (Carnesville, GA.) 1890-1??? | View Entire Issue (June 20, 1890)
VdL. I. Grass nuil Roses. I looked where the roses were blowing; They stood among grasses and reeds; I said, “Where such beauties arc growing, Why suffer these paltry weeds f” Weeping the poor things faltered,' “Wo have neither beauty nor bloom, We are but grass in the roses’ garden— llut our Master gives us this room. “The slaves of a generous Master, Horne from a world above, We came to this place in Uis wisdom— We stay to this hour from His love. “We have feed His bumbles' creatures, We have served Him truly and long; lie gave no grace to our features— We have neither color nor song— “Yet He who has made the roses I’laccd us on the seif same sod; He knows our reason for being— We arc grass in the garden of Rod.” —Rev. James Freeman Clarke. A CAPE H0KN INCIDENT. llY 4V, CLARK tttlSSF.LL. (in a December morning, in the year 1888, it mail steamer, homeward bound front it New Zealand port, was ap¬ proaching the itleridiart of the Horn, bitt oil a parallel rhore southerly than it is tiow the custom df steamships to take iii rdunding that stdrmy, ice-girt, desolate and lffost inhospitable df all headlands; December in those distant legions is iifidsmnmcr, and the tveather of that liioruidg was as fair and still as A brec&iess April day in this country; but the swell of the vast track of ocean rail ceaselessly, reminiscent Fespira¬ tion 3 df a gian'ess whose conflict with the heavens is eternal, and whose breaking-pan es are very few and far between indeed; Over this long, dark blue, westerly swell the long iiietal fabric went sweeping in long, filiating, launching curtsies, whitening the Water astern of her with a mile of milk-white Wake. The frosty sun, whose beams in that sea have some¬ thing of the silvery brilliance of the electric light, flashed a score of con¬ stellations out of the gilt and glass and brass about the steamer’s bows and quarters and decks. A number of passengers were pacing the long hur¬ ricane platform. Far away on the starboard beam, poised, star-like, upon the keen blue rim of the ocean, was an iceberg—a dash of crystalline light against the airy sky that out there, low down, wore the deucite hue of the opal. Otherwise the ocean swept naked to its confines, a plain of rich, deep blue, with the heave of the swell shouldering the morning glory under the sun as it ran, and making that part of the deep niagnif- icent with flowing liglP. The chief officer was on the bridge; the flrst breakfast-bell had rung, and the captain, smart as a naval ofii er, in buttons and lace trimmings, quilted tiie chart-room and joined the mate to take a look around before going be¬ low. The skipper was a man of eagle sight, and instantly on directing his eyes over the ship’s bows lie ex¬ claimed: “What is that black object yonder?” The chief mate peered, and the cap¬ tain leveled a telescope. “A ship’s boat,” said he, “and seem¬ ingly full of people.” The boat, when sighted, was some three or four miles distant, and the speed of the steamer was about thir¬ teen knots, in a few minutes the alarm in the engine-room rang its re¬ verberatory warning, sending a little thrill of wonder throughout the ship, so rarely D that telegraph handled on the high seas. “I count eight men, sir,” cried the chief mate, with a binocular glass at Ins eye. Again the engine-room alarm rang out; the pulsing that for days had been ceaselessly throbbing through the long fabric, languished, and in a few minutes, to another summons of tho metal tongue below, ceased, and the great steamer floated along to her own impetus, slowly, and yet m re slowly, till the boat was within the toss of a biscuit off' the bow, with the passen¬ gers crowding to the side to look, and sailors and waiters and steerage folk blackening the rail forward. The occupants of the boat consisted af eiglu wild, hairy, veritable scare¬ crows of man, dressed in divers fashions—Scotch caps, yellow sou’- westers, se\-boots, toil-worn monkey- jackets, and the like. “Boat ahoy!” bailed the captain, as she slowly washed alongside. “What is wrong with you?” A fellow, standing up in the stern sheets, cried back. “For God’s sake, sir, take us aboard! Our water’s almost given out, apd there’s nothing left to eat." “Look out for the end of a line,” bawled the captain. “Are yon strong enough to get aboard without help “Ay, sir, we’ll manage it.” A rope was thrown, and one after another the fellows came swinging and scraping and scrambling up the clean THE ENTERPRISE f side of the steamer. The passengers crowded rpund and gazed at them with curiosity and pity. Their sympathetic eyes seemed to find famine painfully expressed in the leathern countenances that slated back through mats of hair. “We must let your boat go,” said the captain. “Can’t help it, sir, thankful enough to be here, I reckon,” answered the fellow who had called from the stern- sheets, and who acted as spokesman. “Anything belongingto you to come out after?” “Nothing. Let her go, sir. If sailors’ sea-blessings can freight a craft she ain’t going (p float long.” The boat was sent adrift, the engine bell rang out, once more (ho great mail steamer was thrashing over the long - , tall heave of the Cape Horn swell. “How camo>ou into Ibis mess?” inquired the captain. The man who had before spoken gave answer! “We’re all that’s ieft of the crew of the Boston bark “George Washing¬ ton.” She Was a Whaler, a hundred and forty days out. It wore four days agOi 1 was the flrst to smell fire some while artel - two o’clock in the middle watch;’’ “It wanted ten minutes to six bells,” exclaimed a ltlan, and a general, em¬ phatic, hairy nod followed the inter¬ ruption. “I was the first to smell tire,” con¬ tinued the other, “call it What hotlr ye like; I gave the tllarm, and all hands tnrned to with hoses and buckets; But there was a deal of oil in the hold; and the ship’s planks was thick With grease besides, and that gave us no chailce. By ten o’clock in -the morning the flames had bursted through amt was shooting Up mast-high, and thou we calculated it was time to look to the boats.” The others stood listening with hard, stolid, leathery faces, generally gazing with steadfast eyes at the speaker, but sometimes glancing askance at the cap¬ tain and the crowd of others which stood round. “There was an ugly sea running,” the man went on, “and the wheel being desarted, the ship had fallen off and ran in the trough, and the lower¬ ing of the stern boats, whalemen though they was who had the handling of ’em, cost our company of twenty- eight souls the loss of all hands saving them as stand afore ye.” “A bad job! a measly, cruel, bad job!” here broke in a long-jawed man whose brow and eyes were almost con¬ cealed by a quantity of coarse red hair. “Well, . eight men got away in the boat,” proceeded the spokesman, “bringing along with us nothin’ but a small hag of bread and about six gal¬ lons of fresh water. We’re been a- washing about since Tuesday, and now, the Lord be praised, here we be with a chance of getting something to eat, and What’s more pleasurable still to our feelings, the opportunity of comfortably taming in.” A murmer of pity rang among the passengers, several of whom were ladies, and there was more than one somewhat loud whisper to the effect that the captain ought really to send the poor creatures forward at once to get some breakfast, instead of holding them, starving and dry with thirst, in talk. The eagle-eyed skipper, how- ever, asked several questions before dismissing them. “Since by their own confession the tire gave them plenty of time to escape from the bark, how was it they left her so ill-provisioned as they repre¬ sented?” This was most satisfactorily account¬ ed for. Other inquiries of a like na- ture were responded to with alacrity and intelligence. Every sentence that one or an- other of them let fall was corrobor¬ ated by the rest. Their talc of suffer¬ ing, indeed, in the open boat was al¬ most harrowing; and the captain with the first note of sympathy tint his voice had taken, ordered them to go forward, adding, that after a good hot meal hail been served them they might turn in and sleep for the rest of the day wherever they could make a bed. At the breakfast in the saloon no¬ thing was talked about but the whaler that had been consumed by lire, the dreadful drowning of some two-thirds of her crew, and the miraculous de¬ liverance of the survivors from the in¬ expressible perils and horrors of an open boat in the solitudeof thestormi- est part of the ocean the wide world over. A benevolent gentleman pro¬ posed a subscription. Before the lunch- eon-bell was rung a sum of thirty pounds bad been collected. The incident was a break in the monotony; and when the eight men re-appeared on deck dur¬ ing the afternoon they weve promptly approached by the passengers, who CARNESVILLE, GA„ FRIDAY, JUNE 20 . 1 S 90 . obliged them to’ recite again and yet again their melancholy story Of mar-' time disaster. On the morning of the third day; following the date of this rescue, a ship was sighted almost directly in a line with the vessel’s course. As she was neared she was soen to be rigged with stump, or Cape Horn top-gatiant masts; she was also under very easy canvas which gave her a short-handed look in that quiet sea. Great wooden davits overhung tier sides, from which dangled a number of boats. She pre¬ sented a very grimy, worn aspect, and had manifestly kept the sea for some months. It was observed by the chief officer, standing on the bridge of the steamer, that the eight rescued men, who were look'ng at the sail ahead along with some of the crew and steerage passengers, exhibited several symptoms of uneasiness and even of agitation. Suddenly the stripes and stars, with the stars invert¬ ed, were run aloft to the peak-end—a signal of distress! The engines were “slowed,” and the steamer’s head put so as to pass the vessel within easy hailing distauce. A man aboard the bark stood in the mizzen rigging. “Steamer ahoy!” he roared through his nose. “Hallo 1” “I have lost a boat and eight of my men. Have you seen anything of her?” The captain, who had gained the bridge, lifted his hand, “Bark ahoy!”he cried; “what bark is that?” “The ‘George Washington,’ whaler, of Boston, a hmulred-and-eighty-four days out.” The captain of the steamer con¬ trolled a sour grin. ‘ I low came you to lose your boat and the men?” “They stole her one middle watch and sneaked away from the ship.” The captain of the steamer uttered a laugh. “We have your men safe here,” he shouted. “Glad to learn that you are not burnt down to the water’s edge, and that tin rest of your crew look brisk considering that they are drowned men. Send a boat and you shall have your sailors.” Twenty minutes later the eight whalemen were being conveyed to their bark in one of their own boats, most of them grinning as they looked Up at the line of heads which decorated the steam¬ er’s sides; and, indeed, there was some excuse for the smiles, for among them they were carrying away the thirty pounds which had been sub¬ scribed for them. It Would be inter¬ esting to know what their skipper said when he learned that they had lost a line boat for him; but ocean mail liners have to keep time, and the steamer conld not wait to send a representative on board the whaler to report the many elegancies of sea-dialect which we may reasonably assume embellished her skipper's rhetoric.—New York Independent. Coffee as a Disinfectant. An old colored man living in a dis¬ trict where the disease often prevailed once told the writer that one of the best preventive measures against yel¬ low’ fever was infusion of coffee. Some years ago lie passed through an epidemic of that g rave malady under the worst possible conditions. For at least a month he occupied the quarters of a large number of sufferers, pass¬ ing night and day among them, eating and sleeping in their midst. Recalling the homely advice given him he faithfully tried coffeo as an an¬ tiseptic and drank freely of a very strong infusion five or six limes a day, and continued the practice all the time he was under exposure, lie was for¬ tunate enough to escape contagion, but never attached much importance to the use of tiie coffee. Considering the results of recent developments, it would seem that the old negro was right in attributing antiseptic proper¬ ties to it. A series of experiments conducted by a German professor has proved that they are quite marked. Several differ¬ ent forms of intestinal bacteria were experimented upon, and their develop¬ ment and growth were found in all cases to he interfered with by the ad¬ dition of a small quantity of coffee in¬ fusion to nutrient gelatine. In pure infusion the bacteria were rapidly de¬ stroyed. The question as to what constituents exercise tho antiseptic effect cannot yet be fully determined. The caffeine is certainly active in only a slight degree; tiie tannin to a somewhat greater ex¬ tent; hut, presumably, of greatest im¬ portance are the substances that are developed by roasting. It is interest¬ ing to note that a cup of coffee, left in a room tor a week or more, remain* almost free from micro-organisms. A DARING FEAT. A lad's Adventure while ROBBINU AN EARLE’S NEST. Battling With Infuriated Birds off a Lofty Orag. Leo Hemingway, an orphan hoy of sixteen years of age of New Braun¬ fels, Tex., hud an adventure a few days ago with two American eagles, in which he barely e caped with his life. Professor Mclnery, the well-known naturalist, who has been located in that neighborhood for the last few weeks in the interest of his ornitholog¬ ical collection, offered Lee $60 for a nest with living eaglets or eggs in it. Although rather early for these birds to hatch their young, Lee was soon able, by watching the movements of a pair, to find where a nest had been made. But as it was on the summit of the Big Injun,an almost nnsunnount- ablc bowlder rising nearly 125 feet in the valley of the Guadaloupe, there was no way of securing it except by scaling the sides of the rock, which, however, has iu the course of time be¬ come coated by several feet of earth, and arc covered with a of vines, &c. It was a daring feat, but Hemingway is a plucky lad of a „.al- wart build, and who, dependent on his own exertions for a livelihood, found the money offered a big consid¬ eration, and agreed to attempt the feat on condition that the Professor would keep watch with a gun for the return of the parent birds, With a basket furnished with a lid slung to his back in which to secure tho eggs or young eagles, lie managed, by climb¬ ing, scrambling anil pulling himself tip hand over hand, to reach the top of the Big Injun, where he found the nest, as lie had expected, with young birds a day or two old, Wearied out with his exertions, ho rested for some little time, then placing the nest with its contents in his basket and strap¬ ping it to him, he began to descend. He had scarcely accomplished fifty feet of this when he heard the report of tho Professor’s gun, and saw the two eagles returning. Unhurt, they paid no attention to the shot, hut after alighting and finding the nest gone, made at the boy with outs retched wings and hoarse cries of fury. Ducking his head to keep their power- ful beaks and claws out of his eyes, Lee attempted to beat them off with one arm While he Clung to the Vines with the other, but they s ruck at him repeatedly on the head with their beaks, each time bringing the Wood, which flowed into the boy's erfis anti nearly blinded him, while they buffet- led him Unmercifully with their great wings. Professor Mclnery waited until one of the birds was far enough from Lee for him to take aim without danger of hitting him, t! en tired, and succeeded in killing the eagle. She—for, as was afterward ascertained, lie linci shot the female—fell into a small tree, or what was scarcely more than a large sapling, which had sprouted from a good-sized crevice in the rock, about eight feet above where Lee hung, and seeing her suspended just above him gave the hoy an idea to which lie owes his life. With t e strength of despair he d ew himself up to the tree by the sense of touch alone, for Ids eyes were full of blood; Once thet'O liti braced himself with his feet, and, wiping his face, bound his handkerchief about his brow in order that it might absorb the blood. He then caught the dead bird by the feet, and, with this weapon, lie turned on the living eagle, which had never ceased to beat and strike bin’. At the n xt sweep Lee struck it as hard as he c nild dare, not to endanger his posi¬ tion, and continued to meet its attacks in the same Way until, rendered furi¬ ous and incautious by its enemy’s re¬ sistance, it flew directly in his face-, with claws distended and beak striking right and left. The boy caught it with both hands about its throat, and with all his strength held it, in spite of tho furious beatings of its wings' until, choked to death by his grip, the groat bird hung lifeless, when he dropped it at the Professor’s feet. This gentleman had watched the desperate struggle, unable to help the hoy, except by random shots, hoping Ihus to frighten the bird away, which, however, as has been said, he failed to do. Young Hemingway hung in the slender branches of the little tree for nearly an hour, battling exhausted na¬ ture now with the same courage he had displayed toward the eagles. Speaking of h's adventure, lie says: “I fcJt as if 1 was going to faint, and 1 knew if I did I would be killed hy (he fall, and I hadn't fought those plagued birds so hard to give up to any kept supji women doings ns that, so f just fightipg against that awful sinking, and pretty soon I got over it' so when I rested I climbed down.” But just ns ho reached the foot of the rock the strength born of despera* lion gave way, and the brave boy fc*l sc eyeless into the Professor's arms. He was fearfully torn in the head and face, but the former wounds are for- tnnalely otily skin deep, and, with the exception of one tong, deep gash in the cheek, just below the eye, which is healing slowly, his face is nearly well. He is obliged, however, to keep his bed yet, so bruised and sore is lie from the buffeting lie received. Remarkable as it may seem, the young birds in Lee’s basket wero living and uninjured by the fearful journey they linci made. The Professor, in consideration of the danger lie underwent, and for the two birds not bargained for, lias presented Lee with $100, and the boy is the hero of the hour.—[Globe Democrat. A Horse’s Sense of Smell. The horse will leavo musty hay un¬ touched in his bin, however hungry, lie will not drink of water objection¬ able to his questioning sniff, or from a bucket which some odor makes of¬ fensive, however thirsty. His intelli¬ gent nostril will widen, quiver and query over the daintiest hit offered by tho fairest of hands, with coaxings that would make a mortal shut his eyes and swallow a nauseous mouth- ful at a gulp. A mare is never satisfied by either sight or whinny that a colt is really her own, until she has a certified nasal certificate to the fact. A blind horse, now living, will not allow the ap¬ proach of any stranger without show¬ ing signs of anger not safely to he dis¬ regarded. ’1 he distinction is evident¬ ly made hy his sense of smell, and at a considerable distance. Blind horses, as a rule, will gallop wildly about a pasture without striking the surround¬ ing fence. The sense of smell informs them of its proximity. Others will, when loosened from the stable, go di¬ rectly to the gate or bars opened to their accustomed feeding grounds, and when desiring to return, after hours of careless wandering, will distinguish one outlet and patiently await its open¬ ing. Tho odor of that particular part of the fence is their pilot to it. The horse in browsing, or while ffathenmr herbage With its bps, is guided m it, choice of proper food en- Urely by ,u nostrils. hnd horses do | ,lot make ,nl8,akcs in tl,0 ' V diet ' In the temple of Olympus a bronze horse was exhibited, at the sight of which si * ho,ses experienced t he most viole,it emotions, Aelwiu Judicious y observes that the most perfect art could not imitate nature sufficiently wel to l ,rodUco stroll » *“ illu810 "‘ L,kc P1 '"W I’ausanius, he consequently affirms timt “ill easting the statue a magician bad thrown Hipponianes tip- on it;’’ which by tile odor of the plant deceived the horses, and therein we have the secret of the miracle. The scent alone of a buffalo robe will cause many horses to evince lively terror, and the floating scent of a railroad train will frighten some long after the locomotive is out of sight and lie Ting. — [Horse and Stable. ([ii'iiinc Intoxication. Dr. Lewis A. Sayre of New Ork sftvg t(lat there liro nmliy cases on record where a use of quinine has caused a disarrangement of (lie mental povicr*, and to such all extent that the Bll ti,,rer did not know what he or she i about. Instances not few where was are patients who were given large doses of the drug became delirious. These symptoms, however, passed away when the use of quinine was discon¬ tinued. It is possible while under its influence for one to act as irresponsi¬ bly as when in liquor. That quinine affects the brain is evident, from the fact that an overdose Will cause severe bu.rzing in the ears and often tempo¬ rary deafness. Physicians caniiol be too careful in prescribing quinine, for what is one man’s meat is another man's poison. I have known one grain to have more effect on some patients than fifteen grains on ethers. The same can be said of morphine. Two grains of this drug will cause many intense itching sensations, with parched tongue and throat. On the other hand, 1 have known patients, even those used to morphine, to take much larger doses without showing any evil effects. There is a little doubt but there are quinine habitues as well as slaves to chloral, morphine and other narcotics and drugs, yet its use as a stimulant has not become general. Logical Reasoning. Teacher—Who was the richest man of ancient times? Freddy Fangle—Methuselah,Ma’am. What? Yes; he bad more time than anyone else, and time is money, you know —[Epoch. SCIENTIFIC SCRAKS. The rate of increase of population in the United States is a little more than three per cent. Philosophers of our own time assert n connection between the spots on the face of the sun and terrestrial weather. Boston scientists have discovered why trees do not tloarish near electric lights. They need the repose of dark¬ ness. The heliograph is used to flash sig¬ nals between stations in New Mexico and Arizona that are seventy-five miles apart. A man with u penchant for statis¬ tics has computed that more than 4,000,000 miles of blood pass through the veins of an ordinary human being during tho lifetime of 70 years. A Russian inventor seems to ques¬ tion tho vaunted perfection of the human body, and lias patented an ar¬ rangement of springs and harness to bo worn to facilitate walking, running and jumping. A prominent English electrician af¬ firms the value of lightning conductors although they are not always reliable. Ho said that, there is almost as much danger of being hanged for murder as being struck by lightning. In Northern Africa lias lately been discovered a river that has worn a bed through the rock .‘>00 foot deep, and then makes a perpendicular leap 660 feet, while all around are deep, yaw¬ ning chasms and gigantic peaks. It lias been proved that fish that live n"ar the surface of water can only de¬ scend to a comparatively slight depth: under :m increased pressure they die, and—this is very remarkable—tho water being forced into their tissues, their bodies become rigid and brittle a i glass. Lake Chelan, in Eastern Washing¬ ton, never freezes, although in latitude 48 degrees north. The reason given is that it is so deep and the warm wa¬ ter always rises from the bottom to supplant the cold, which goes down to warm itself. The Indians fish in tho lake at all seasons and use salmon eggs for bait. A professor in the University of Klausenburg claims to have com¬ pounded a solution which completely neutralizes the poison introduced into the system by the bite of a mad dog. This solution consists of chlorine water, salt brine, sulphurous acid, permanganate of potassium, and eu¬ calyptus oil. Mr. Stejnegor of the Smithsonian Institution at Washington in 3882 found on the northwestern extremity of Behring Island the bones of Pallas's cormorant, the extinction of which in the North Pacific corresponds to that of the great auk in tho North Atlan¬ tic. The eggs are unknown ami only four specimens of tho skin are to be found in museums. Massacre (if Chinese In Formosa. The lust mail from China brings news of the massacre of a force of Chinese troops in Fouthern Formosa hy the aborigines now in revolt there. 'J lie natives, or savage* as they are called, aided, it is said, by a number of half castes, planned an ambuscade. Putting on their sandals reversed, they made a number of tracks connected with a particular spot. Messengers were then dispatched to the nearest Chinese post with news of anoutbi'eak anil nil appeal for assistance. The troops wefit out, the commanding offi¬ cers, it, is said, being considerably in the rear. Pretended sufferer a hy tho raid appeared from time to timo. On reaching Hie tracks tho soldiers fol¬ lowed them tip and fell into the trap, when all but a very few were killed. Cut of 200 which left, the po>t only ten escaped. ,t is reported that, for the first time in the history of For¬ mosa, all the aboriginal tribes are banded together and act on an organ- izod system. Thus tiie eighteen tribes of Bhotans in the South, numbering about 5000 warriors, were concerned in this am¬ bush. Shortly after the disaster the Chinese issued proclamations offering $10 reward for the return of each of the guns lo.t on the occasion, and sub¬ sequently tiie Chinese general began negotiations, in which he was greatly hampered by tiie bad faith shown on many previous occasions to the na¬ tives. At last, ami with many pre¬ cautions on the part of the latter, a meeting was arranged,and a peace was patched up for the time by means of large presents and larger promises to !he chiefs. The past is to be forgot¬ ten, and the savages are to live on forms of friendship with their Chiuess neighbors. From subsequent infor¬ mation, however, it appears that the disturbances in tho south of the island have broken out with more violence than beforo. — NO. 24 . No Show. Joe Hen I ’ud set upon a keg, Down to the groo’ry store, an’ throw One leg right over ’tother leg, An’ BWcar lie’ll never had no show; “Oh, no,” snid Joe, “Haln’t hud no show”— Then shift his quid to 'tother jaw. An’ chaw, an’ chaw, an’ chaw, nil' chaw. He said lie got no start in life, Didn’t git no money from his dad, The washln’ took In hy lit- wife IVtrued all the funds lie ever had' “Oh, no,” sntd Joe, ‘llain’t lied no show”— Air Lien he’d look up at the dock, An’ talk, an’ talk, an' talk, an' talk. “I’ve waited twenty year—le’s see— Yes, twenty-four, an' never struck, Altho’ I've sot rouu’ patiently, The fust tarnnsliion streak er luck, <>h, no,” said Joe, “Haln’t lied no show"— Then stuck like mucilage to the spot, An’ sot, an' sot, an' sot, an’ sot. “I’ve come down regrrter ever’ day For twenty years to Piper's store; I’ve sot here in a patient, way, Hay, haln’t I, Viper V” Viper swore, “I tell ye, Joe. Yerhaln’t no show; Yer too blame patient,” thor hull raft Jest laffod.nn’ Iatl'ed.an’ luffed,an’ lotted. —,S. W. Foss, in Yankee lllade. 11 UMOROUS. Fatal fall—unhealthy autumn. Every man has a lot in life and a gait to it. Extraordinary phenomenon in na- ture—a feat of arms. “Gas is going up,” as the aeronaut said when lie cut the balloon rope. There arc some men (o whom a loss of their reputation means mighty good luck. A city police sergeant is to be tried for being drunk. He should have ar¬ rested his appetite. Sqnimps—- How’s tho new baby? Jenkins—How is lie?—He’s a howling success, and don’t you forget it! Evangeline—How pale the moon is, Lonis. “Yes, love; it bus been up until quite late for several nights.” There is something annoying about a glass eye. The man wearing it- may know it’s a fraud and still be can’t see through the fraud. Squiggs: “I never see yon and Miss Mary Ann out together anymore. Have you quarreled?” Biggs:“No, not exactly. We’re married.” “Why, Mr. French, you talk to me half the time as if l were only eight years old.” “Well, Miss Newall, you must remember you never told me just how old you are, so I hope you’ll par¬ don me.” Mrs. Artless—Good morning, Mr. Palette. I’ve but a moment to spare; can you tell mo briefly the secret of your art? Artist Palette—Certainly, Madam. You have only to select (ho right colors and put them on the right spot. Mrs. Artless—Oh, I see. Thank you very much. How Cablegrams Are Transmitted. With the first long submarine cables great difficulties wire encountered in sending through them a current of electricity of sufficient power to record the messages rapidly. The methods for overcoming these difficulties and in use at present are described us foi- lows: Keys, which, when depressed, trans¬ mit positive and nega’ivo currents, are employed at the sending station in connection with the regulation battery. The ament of the battery does not pass directly into the cable, but into a condenser, which passes it into the submarine line. This greatly incrcas- es the force of the current used and serves to cut oft' interfering ground currents. Tho instrument first em¬ ployed in receiving cablegrams was a reflecting galvanometer. Upon the magnet of this instrument is carried a small curved mirror. A lamp*.is placed before the minor anil behind a screen in which there is a vertical slit. Flasir* of light moving across this slit as tho needles moved from left to right, indicated to tho trained eves of the operator the letters in the message being transmitted. But this method of recording messages was found to tax the eyesight of the operator severely, a few years' work often rendering (hern almost if not totally blind. Recogniz¬ ing the fact that there must be some¬ thing wrong with such a system, in- ventors.sct about repairing the defect, which resulted in perfecting the syphon galvanometer, which has all but super¬ seded all other receiving devices. In the syphon receiver the move¬ ments of the needle are recorded by means of ink spurted from a line tube. This tube is attached to a coil suspend¬ ed between two fixed magnets, which swings to the right or left as the pulsa¬ tions pass through it. TheTyphon galvanometer is a great improvement; is not hard on the eyes and enables the operator to receive much more rapidly than with the old flash receiver.—[St. Lqtjis Republic.
