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M UNKNOWN - THE ANTARCTIC WORLD AND ITS MYStEMES ' Some of the Features Which Are Already Known of the Great Re¬ gion About the South Pole. As before explore long tha an expedition world, may the be sent to antarctic following from Qjod Word; aptly de scribe the character of the region: “The ice-bound character of these seas is due to the absence of any brisk surface cur rents. In the arctic regions the Gulf Stream makes its general influence felt far and wide, breaking up the ice and producing a constant circulation, it is true we have very scanty and imperfect the data of the oceanic circulation in antarctic seas. “Speaking in very general terms, and apart from theories,one thing is certain: There is a very steady northerly and easterly drift-current proceeding from the pole in the direction of New Zealand and Cape Horn, which is esti mated to flow at the rate of from twenty to thirty-flve miles a day; on striking the coast of South America this current bifurcates, north and the stronger the arm shores proceeding of Chili and (reducing washing the of Peru temperatures these countries', the weaker 'continuing The east and north past Cape Horn. oourse taken by an iceberg is ultimately east by north, and its rate of travel is about sixteen miles a day, except in the locality of Cape Horn, where icebergs take a more northerly course up to iati tude forty degrees south, direction when and they reduce re sume their easterly their rate of travel. The bergs, on being detached from the place of their forma tion, are floated away at a rate not ex ceeding three-quarters of a mile an hour, Carried first to the westward and sub eequently to the north and east, they are met with, the first season after their separation, about seventy miles north of the barrier. This fact seems to prove the existence of what is known as the antarctic drift current, whicn flows to ward the north. “The beautiful displays of the aura australis have been noted by all an¬ tarctic voyagers. They differ from the same phenomenon in the arctic regions, in the length of the vertical beams being greater, their appearances and disap pearances being more frequent and sud den—resembling flashes of light—and from Lieutenant their being Wilkes, often who quite witnessed colorless. one very beautiful display, thus describes it: ‘It exceeded anything of the kind I had ; heretofore witnessed, its activity was in conceivable, darting from the zenith to the horizon in all directions, in the most brilliant coruscations the ; rays, proceeding flashed as if from a point in zenith, in brilliant, pencihngs of light, like sparks of electric fluid in vacuo, and re SSvc/fl" £ bo'tWrS , rapfdity to flit across’ the sky with the of light, they showed all the prismatic colors at once, or in quick succession, So remarkable were the phenomena that even our sailors were constantly ex claiming in admiration of its brilliancy, The best position in which to view it wa9 by lying flat upon the deck and looking “The up.’ kingdom, under such vegetable physical conditions, has unfavorable no representatives in antarctic lands. There are enomous quantities of diatoms, mi croscopic and plants belonging which afford to many the genera species, the marine animals. chief food supply for “The marine animals prey one upon the other, according to their position in the scale ot creation, all being eventually nourished by the minute infusorial or ganisms filling the ocean in such in con ceivable numbers. On the ice and in the water are innumerable seals. Three species were observed by Ross, and they varied considerably in their size and coloring. Their colors ranged from a dark gray, beautifully marbled with spots and stripes of a much darker hue, to almost uniform white. r lhe largest in size, which were much less numerous than the smaller species, were armed with formidible tusks, by which, and from the shape of their head, they re sembled the polar bear- and they are equally dangerous animals to approach. The largest killed by the expedition un der Ross weighed gallons 850 pounds oil; and yielded sixteen feet and of it feet was nearly twelve long six in circumferen- e, and its stomach was found to contain . twenty-eight pounds offish. The middle sized seal, called the see leopard the from white the markings on seal, its fur, as well as antarctic are so tame that they may be approached and killed with impunity. “Then there are sea lions and sea ele phants, which have been seen in great numbers south of the Horn. The sea lions of the female sex fiercely protect their young, the males endeavoring to intimidate intruders by their roars of lusty de :ance. The gashes seen on them bear evidence of savage encounters among themselves. Of the marine pro duce, however the most important have to our fisheries is the whale. Whales been seen by all antarctic voyagers, though their numbers hare more recently been greatly diminished by the activity of the whaling vessels. They are almost exclusively of the fin-back species and chi f ,the «?& were of eoomo™ ship s keel. Grampuses < r a met with. Penguins abound on sea and land, their _ cry frequency places S - - above the storm at as remo e as 1 00 miles from any known s ore. are very large bircls, varying m w -gn ^ they feed Chiefly off the crustaceous ? 0dL ua aii am mats. On being opened, irom two to ' any Large body of ice, stormy petrels, and blue petrels are found in great numbers; ^^ 4 SKsa. < SKS 5 a»« with in considerable numbers. In fact, sea and air are full of life. ! “The ice conditions naturally present I the most interesting and characteristic features of the antarctic regions. The voyager, on leaving the -temperate zone to penetrate into the frozen waters of the far south, would require to have a very considerable knowledge of naviga tion among ice as his chief equipment, and in order to make any length of stay there he would need a vessel of more than ordinary strength, capable of with standing an occasional ‘nip’ from the battering rams of the dangerous floes, j What islands is the life and history icebergs? of these They float¬ ing ice are , all shed from the parent icecap that j.surrounds and the gradual the pole. projection Extremes of the of iceeup frost ; j into the sea are the causes of their dis j ' ruption. the great icecap Here, grows for centuries and moves perhaps, like a J of living thing. added Each to its season thickness, a fresh which layer snow is the rays of the sun convert into ice more- or less solid. Slowly the huge cumbrous mass moves over the lower lying lands and grinding through tho its valleys toward the sea, under encr mous weight rocks and boulders, whioh, from the cohesive nature of ice, it some times gathers up and conveys along with it; and this debris is eventually de¬ posited on the sea bottom, “The coloring of the bergs is magni¬ cent. The general mass closely and crevices resom bles loaf sugar; tho cavo3 are of the "deepest and purest luminous azure glow, blue; at and night they emit a believe there are reasons to that mauy are Like to a the certain extent of the phos- arctio phorcsccnt. they bounded bergs by perpendicular seas are dill's on all sides. Some of them are moro than two miles and some as many as four miles in circumference, while bergs four miles iu diameter have also been seen. They have a uniform height of about 173 foot, 'JO per cent, of their volume being submerged.” SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL Feldspar has been successfully imi* tated by two European scientists, Th e dectric traveling crane in Minna a p 0 lis has a capacity of twenty tons, In many localities in the Alps glate3 are quarried into the tertiary formation. An electric car line . to the top of Mis sionary liidge in Tennessee is ptoposea. Three hundred miles an hour is the proposed speed for the electric postal railroad of the future, The » new dectrieal id be signal apparatus marvel for ships mechanical use ig 8a to a perfect 0 j ingenuity. Lie—pa,.™, «*. army, is . said to have devised a promising method for synchronous telegraphy, A powerful hammer is used in Eng land operated by a mildly explosive mix tyre of common coal gas and atmospheric ac¬ Simplicity and accuracy are the chief characteristics electrical of telegraph the popular in English new engine room men of-war. It has been calculated that not less than 20,000,000 of meteors, each large enough to atmosphere be visible as daily, a “shootingstar,” cn t e r our Of the total area of California about one-third is susceptible of sufficient cul¬ tivation to sustain a the moderately aid irriga¬ dense population witho.it of tion. Professor Max Muller holds that, ac cording to the strict rules of positive philosophy, we have no right to assert the or deny anything with reference to so called mind of animals, Dr. Le Baron, an such eminent thing physician of France, says that a as a per sod having a snake or lizard in his stomach was never known and never will be. All such case3 have been imaginary, The p j a t e rolling mill at the St. Jacques 0 f chattillon Commentry, in p rance) has cylinders 328 feet in diame ^ er and u j ne teen feet long, with a total we ight of 55,000 pounds each. They ar« soon t0 made capable of rolling weigh* f a ^ 0 t s fj ve feet thick and ingots iDg Anewandingeuiousschemeforsink- more than 110,000 pounds, j ng a shaft through sand, silt, and wet, s j us hy grounds, and excavating it like r ock has been successfully tried in Bel „[ um _ Large J iron tubes are sunk in thi ° and about three feet apart, and or mu these tubes smaller tubes are inserted, through which circulates a cool solution of magnesium chloride. The sand is f rozen f or a distance of three feet around the tubes. It resembles rock, is hard and compact an d can be excavated in the cam £ manner as rock. It is possible that the process cau a! g 0 be used to advan £ aar0 the digging of foundations where wa t er an( j = a nd are sources of trouble, or for cut tino- tunned under the beds of r j vers> ‘ T ^ ? !j , ] . ectnc , . ever „„„„ . built ... ia -_ e rs e crane the United Hates has just been mtro duced in the foun ry • • Co., of Milwaukee, Wis. It is a pon derous affair, weigh 1 ale „ t ^ t ’ is capable of lifting J » I & o”*?hffl .i Jr."*neS ?£2 SMffSJi"oS tt other, j fom oneeB d of the foundry to the aQOther moves the carriage with which the crane is provided from one side of ^ f otm ,l r y to the other, and the other runs the liftin' 1, machinery, its advan ca^e, g 0Te _ tbo ordinary power traveling is ca n e > whi'h 1 it resembles somewhat, a a v f f and the wear aad tear “ other electfio f m rhin rv . The onlv Dobbins’ Electric Soap r the best family soap IN THE WORLD. 1 ! is strictly Pare. Morn in Quality. HE original formula for which we paid £50,000 twenty years ago has never been modified or changed in the slightest. quality 'Ill is soup is identical in to-dny with that made twenty years that ago. in I TT contains nothing rubric. can It bright¬ jure the finest ens colors and bleaches whites. TT washes flannels and blanlcets as no other soap J in the world does—without shrinking—leaving them soft and white and like new. READ THIS TWICE rjSHERE is a great uavinc of time, of labor, bins’ J Electric of soap, Soap of fuel, used and necording of the fabric, where to direc¬ Hob is tions. AXE trial will demonstrate its great merit. It will pay you to make that trial. V IKK all best eii.Etxs, it is extensively imi tated and counterfeited. Peware of Imitations. wewwwwMi TNSIST upon Robbins’ Electric. Don’t take A Magnetic, Elcctro-Magic, Fiiiladelphia Electric, or any other fraud, simply because it is cheap. They will ruin clothes, and are dear at any price. Ask for ---ROBBIAS’ ELECTRIC and take no other. Nearly every grocer front Maine to Mexico keeps it in stock. If yours hasn’t it, ho will order from his nearest wholesale grocer. VX EAD carefully the inside wrapper around each. JA each bar, outside and be careful to You follow cannot direction* afford on wrapper. to wait longer before trying for yourself this old, reliable, and truly wonderful DSbbins’ * Electric* SoaD. I CURE FITS! When I say Cttue I do not mean merely to stop them for a time, and then have them re¬ turn again. I mean A RADICAL CURB. I have made the disease of FITS, EPILEPSY or FALLING SICKNESS, A life-long study. I warrant my others remedy have to Cure the worst cases. Because failed is no reason for not now receiving a cure. Send at once for a treatise and a Free Bottle of my INFALLIBLE Kemejdy. Give Express and Post Office. It costs you Address nothing for a trial, and it will cure you. H.C. ROOT, M.C., 183 Pearl St., New York ShaasaiaL OTO m while as convenient \Y a? to the buyer as any • instalment wholesale system, spot cash i-,l\ m 3C a //—I system to us. The co-operation of the m club members sells us in PM ____ LA. 38 watches each I jj S 3 S Watch Club, and we get cash .from the Club for each watch before it goes out, though each member only pays yiH S!g| £1 a week. for This is why than wc give you else i§|| more your money any one largest and why we are doing the rapU watch business in the world. Wc sell ■If gfiM prices only first about quality what others goods, get but forsec- our Syi! are ajsl ond quality .Our $10 SllvcrWatcli sill is a substantial Silver (not imitation Lever 0/ aK ykind) Stem-Wind American HU Watch—either hunting case or open. all Our 925.00 Watcli is stiffened a Stem-wind, Gold |j|| OpenFace first quality, atch ,guaranteed jfn AmericanLever W to ■■watch wear 20years. It is fully equal We to find any jjjw|[ first-class sold for Stiffened £38 by Gold others. Case much jell a a more satisfactory and serviceable than any Solid Gold Case that can be sold at jxSil 3m| less solid than cases double are invariably the money, thin, as weak, cheap oi low quality, and worthless after _Sffill S|| short use. Our $38 Watch contains numerous important vital patented im¬ provements, of importance to accur-i ate IVind.&c., timing —Patent which Dustproof, controlexclusively. Patent Stem It wc B is bility fully equal for accuracy, appearance, Watch, either dura¬ and service, to any £75 Open Face or Hunting. Our $ 43.00 Rail¬ road Watch is especially constructed for the most exacting use, and is the best Rail¬ road Watch made, Open Face or Hunting. All these prices are either all cash or in clubs, 91.00 a week. An Ajax Watch & Insulator given free with each ClubComi Watch. * The Keystone Watch A. Main WALNUT Office In Co’c Own PH11ADA. Building PA. v/.jq XCji 004 ST. Agents Wanted. PuJ, I Ajax Watch Insulator, $1.00 if-. A perfect protection against magnetism, receipt ^ Fit any Watch. Sent by mail on 1 ^ fit price. CZ7* refer to any Commercial Agency. | CD THAT FIGHT The Original Wins. M, C. F. Simmons, St. Louis, Prop’r lj M. A. Simmons Liver Medicine, Est’d ' I 1840, in the U. S. Court defeats J. jj 1"“ 8 H. Zeilin, Prop’r A. Q. Simmons Liv er Regulator, Est’d by Zeilin 1868. 1^1 i M. A. S. L. M. has for 47 years ' cured Indigestion, Biliousness, L t Dyspepsia,Sick Headache,Lost f Appetite, Souk Stomach, Etc, I V 1 ' * A s\Church, Rev. T. B. Reams, Pastor M. E: O Adams, Tenn., writes: “I ^ ■. .J * 1 think for I your should Genuine have been M. dead A. Sim- but fr\dEHD*5l Jf 1 -—mons Liver Medicine. had I have I I crrucl sometimes to substitute | /CflWjr./ “Zeilin’s stuff” for your Medi cine, but it don’t answer the | r,*na I purpose.” Dr. J. R. Graves, Editor The » Baptist, Memphis, Tenn. says* I r eceived a package of your Liver j| Medicine, and have used half of it. w It works like a charm. I want no u better Liver Regulator and cer \ tainly no more of Zeiliu’s mixture. A' m 8 ss ; SB 93 SewinB-Sfachine b 1 i h A O st once «* 81 a B Lcqil vStw placing trade to our ail part%, machines by ljl^aad good* wh ere the people can aoe than, we will send free to one person in each locality,the eery best sewing-machine made in Uhe w orld, with ail the attaxhments. Wc will also fend f ree a complete line of our costly and valuable art samples. In return we ask that yoa \£s t .months show may call what all at shall your we send, become home, to and those your after own who 2 iproperty. after This the Singer srrand machine ia [made k which have run out before patent*, patent* - ^_^*ttarhmcnta, m run out it sold for &&&, with the _ ^ _ ___ . — F •S-aO. and now sells for PtSmmm T 1 SkB* Best, strongest, world. most All use- ia b rfol I—N machine capital in the required. Flam, £ ■ dC Kt- o brief .nstractions riven. 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