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HOW SOLDIERS PASS TBEIK
TIME AT FRONTIER POSTS.
Uncle Sam’s Little Army — Inter
esting Particulars About the
Dally Roatlne—Description
of a Frontier Fort.
At the present time the life of the sol-
oft and easy, says a Fort Keogh
»New York World.
dier is soft and easy,
(Montana) letter to t
There is little to do on the frontier sow
except garrison duty, and with no Urge
town or cities near wherein to waste
money, the accumulation of five yeais can
be saved pretty easily, that is if “Barkis
is willin’,” and the penniless mortal who
“Sllotwor” is a new explosive ten
times the strength of gunpowder, ex
ploding without smoke or noise. A Rus
sian Invented it.
There was not a dentist among the
mourners at the funeral of Littleton
Payne, who died in Maryland a few days
ago. He came into the world equipped
with a set of teeth which lasted him until
his exit from this mundane sphere. The
years of his life were three score and ten.
Mr. Payne was certainly on obstruction in
the path of dental science.
According to the mint reports, Cali
fornia h*« dropped to tlio third place
among the States and Territories asa pro
ducer of precious metals. It still ranks
first in the production of gold, but is
away behind Colorado and Montana in
the production of silver and iv the total
value of the output.
Quoting from the Albany Journal that
a Bridgeport woman is a believer in the
blue glass theory, the New York Sun
adds: “ She ought to change and adopt
the Blue Grass theory. In that blissful
region all the girls are beautiful, and be
fore they are twenty every oue of them is
married to tho man she loves best.
Bridgeport is dull and hopeless in com
parison.”
“Sportsmen are catching many Ger
man carp at apond in Litchfield county,”
says the New Haven New*. “This tallies
with other reports that the carp has
thrived in almost all the waters of the
State where it has been placed. The
carp is not gamesome, but properly pre
pared for the table can be made quite a
delicacy, and promises ere long to be an
Important addition to our list of food
Money is now abundant for specula
tion in railways and lands, but, adds the
New York American, the supply must
gradually diminish under the present
prodigality. When the pinch and cramp
come, as they most assuredly will, then
look out for the crash. The vast real es
tate speculations of 1886 were the cause
of the smash-up of 1887. Likewise the
breakdown of 1857 was caused by tho
wild real estate speculation of 1855 and
1856. In many cities and in many sec-
' tions the brake should be put on at once.
A New York railroad man tells a If ail
and Krprem reporter that the mile a
minute speed is a myth. Occasionally,
he says, trains on a stretch of level track
with an easy grade make a mile a minute,
but the fastest express train in the United
States, the New York and Philadelphia
limited, on the Pennsylvania Railroad,
averages 48 8-10 miles an hour. The
average fast express of the United States
reaches 864 miles an hour. The fastest
train in the world is the “Flying Dutch
man,” which* averages 50 1-8 miles an
an hour, between London and Bristol.
The Minneapolis Tribune tells of a new
feature in Baptist merrymakingi: The
young men distinguished themselves by
the preparation of a supper at the church
parlors, including ices, ice cream and
charlotte russe. It was incumbent upon
each young man to make with his own
hands a cake, , and as a result nearly
thirty specimens of these culinary tri
umphs were set out before the throng in
attendance. They were in ail shapes
aud sizes, and some of them were tear-
stained and bore evidence of many weary
hours of de«3p thought and anxiety. The
men danced attendance as waiters at the
tables aud wore colors corresponding—
orange-yell iw, pink and blue.
entered the service without a cent can
generally go back to civilization with
plenty of shekels in his pockets, abun
dance of experience in his head and also
with rich rosy health to his credit. In
the regular army to-day there are: One
Lieutenant-General, three Major-Gener
als, sixteen Brigadiers, sixty-eight Colo
nels, eighty-nine Lieutennnt-Colouels,
233 Majors, 660 Captains,045 First Lieu
tenants, and 444 Second lieutenants.
The above are the commissioned branch.
Now come forty Sergeant-Major* (the
highest rank next to a commissioned of
ficer) forty Quartermaster-Sergeants,forty
chief musicians, sixty principal music-
ciant, about 445 Saddler, Ordnance and
Commissary Sergeants, chief trumpeters,
hospital stewards, etc., 2,360 line Ser
geants, 1,803 Corporals and very nearly
18,000 privates. Tne grand total Is some
thing like 28,167 all told. Outside of
the staff departments the above are con
tained (especially the enlisted branch) in
twenty-five regiments of inf antry,ten reg
iments of cavalry, five regiments of afttl-
lery and a battalion of engineers.
Of course this little mite of an army is
scattered over an immenso amount of
territory, and even if gathered together
in one bunch would scarce make a
respectable showing alongside of the
monstrous standing armies of Europe,
but this handful Is a nucleus for tremen
dous expansion, and the skeleton
companies could be increased almost
instantaneously fourfold'or more without
in the least bit disarranging the excellent
organization which is now its boast and
its pride. 3Iore than half the regular
army is west of the Mississippi River.
Forts and military posts are situated in
nearly all the Territories, and these are
garrisoned by troops who have little else
to do now but regula" garrison duty. A
recruit from date of enlistment draws $13
per month the first year, $13 the second
{ ear, $14 the third, $15 the fourth and
16 the fifth year. Some of this is re
tained, which* is all paid over to him by
the paymaster on the day of his discharge.
In addition to his pay he gets board,
lodging and a certain allowance of cloth
ing, which is settled semi-annually on the
muster rolls. His average pay per month,
second enlistment, is $18. For this he
does guard duty, attends . roll-calls, is
detailed on fatigue at odd times, shoots
his rifle and plays baseball. Tne ordinary
routine for a day is as follows:
Sunrise, reveille roll-call. If a cavalry
man, stables immediately afterwards,
when each man grooms, feeds, waters his
horse and then breakfast for himself.
Fatigue at 7:30, when those not on
other duty arc detailed to do any extra
work aliout the garrison, such as policing
the post, cleaning away old rubbish,
watering trees, loading and unloading
stores and supplies, and, in fact, attend
ing to any other chores that need atten
tion.
At 8:15 the buglers sound the first call
for guard-mounting. This is a most
beautiful ceremony, of daily occurrence,
and is for the purpose of relieving the
old guard by a new detail, changing the
officer of the day, etc., being really the
beginning of the official day at all the
forts. The post-flag is run up at sunrise
and lowered at sunset. After guard-
motintingdrills are in order. If in mid
summer, when the weather is very hot,
some other more suitable hour is selected
for this exercise. There is little to do
between nine o’clock and noon, the main
duty being performed by the various
fatigue parties, and, perhaps, a garrison
or general court-martial may be in session.
All the afternoon is idle time, with the
exception of stables again, the soldier
being taught to give his horse the. best
of attention and care. Fatigue call goes
again atone, from that hour till four the
working parties continuing their labors,
and at sunset retreat roll-call is sounded.
If the weather is fine, at retreat a full-
dress parade is held, which is also one of
the. most interesting ceremonies in the
military calendar. Saturdays and Sun
days are days of rest The first of the
two is generally utilized in cleaning up
the arms, accoutrements, bunks, bar
racks, etc., for the usual Sunday morning
inspection. Inspection is the only duty
on Sunday, excepting guard-mounting,
which is held 365 days during the year.
Target practice is most industriously ob
served during the favorable weather
months. The old style paper targets,
6x6, stationary and immovable, are now
generally superseded by silhoutte figures
of men in the standing, kneeling and
lying positions. At these the soldiers
fire, advancing, retreating, at a halt, on
a run, etc., the exercise coming as near
actual warfare and hostile conditions in
time of peace as it is possible to get. The
figures are exact reproductions of an
enemy in size and position, just as if
drawn up in line of battle or lying as
skirmishers in the act of firing.
I think there are something like forty-
nine forts and six arsenals in the United
States. Fort Keogh is one of the largest,
and a short description of It will serve as
a fair sample of about what all the others
are. In the first place, a fort would seem
to signify a strongly-fortified place, with
breastworks, parapets, bastions, sally
ports'and lots of bristling cannon look
ing down over the walls in a threatening
manner. Some Eastern forts are con
structed according to the above descrip
tion, but they are old and out of date,
having been succeeded by totally differ
ent, peaceable concerns, althongh'the
latter bear the same warlike names and
titles of their venerable ancestors. A
Western fort is neither more norless than
a small town or village set down on the
open prairie. It is built in the form of
a diamond, two sides of which are com
posed of officers’ quarters, and the other
two sides of barracks for the enlisted
men; in the center is a beautiful level
green lawn, which is the garrison parade
ground, upon which are performed the
tniUUrv evolutions and ceremonies spoken
of. Tne parade ground at Fort Leaven-
Worth, Kan., is one of the handsomest
spots in the whole United States. It is
S vered with tall, beautiful shade tress
d out in artistic rows, and altogether is
a most lovely park or promenade in sum
mer time. Tne commanding officer usu
ally occupies the finest set of quarters,
which are located at the angle formed by
the junction of the two rows of officers’
quarters. In another angle is the post
hospital presided over by a competent
surgeon and assistants, and the guard
house is somewhere else along the Une of
the men’s barracks.
Outside and in rear of the quarters and
barracks are the stables, Commissary and
Quartermaster’s Departments, ordnance
depot, saddlers’ and tinnem' shops, laun :
dresses’ quarters, and perhaps a little fur
ther back the Indian scouts mar be
camped ia their typical lodges and te
pees. If some of the soldiers happen to
be married, they may have a house or
shack to live in, located somewhere near*
the post or among the laundresses.
At posts where the regimental head
quarters are the regimental band is sta
tioned, and as these paid musicians have
little else to do but practise, the result is
a most excellent repertoire, and always
finely executed. Parade ground concerts
are the thing in summer, and indoor con
certs daring the opposite season. There
is a fine bop-room at nearly every post,
fitted up by subscriptions from the offi
cers, ana here the weekly hops are held,
which are most delightful in every re*
spect, and always largely attended.
POPULAR SCIENCE.
astronomers say the woria is
eight million years old, and has been
peopled about fifty millions.
The “canals” on the surface of Mars
extend from sea to sea across the planet’s
continent, and are about fifteen miles
wide.
The reptiles of Brazil are now reported
by Prof.E. D. Cope to number sixty-two
species (twelve being newly discovered),
of which eighteen are batrachians, fifteen
lizards and twenty-nine snakes.
The height of a proposed exhibition
tower in Paris is so peat as to render a
hydraulic lift impo»ble,and ahuge screw
and nut, pressin^Prge up and down,
have been qpbstituteu, insuring safety
aqd ceierity.
The red sffirs above the ninth magni
tude have been catalogued by Mr G. F.
Chambers after sixteen years of labor.
The list gives 711 stars as distinctly
reddish or orange, of which not more
than a dozen are really ruby or carmine.
Among the many masses of meteoric
iron which have been described, only
nine, according to Prof. W. E. Hidden,
have been seen to fall, .the places and
dates being: Agram, Croatia, May 26,
1751; Charlotte, Tenn., Aug. 1, 1835;
Braunau, Bohemia, July 14,1847; Tabarz,
Saxony, Oct. 18, 1854; Victoria West,
Africa, in 1862; Nejed, Arabia, Spring ol
1865; Nedagolia, India, Jan. 23, 1870;
Rowton, Shropshire, England, April 20,
1876; Mazapii, Mexico, Now. 27, 1885.
The increasing difficulty of adding to
the world’s stock of knowledge of the
Arctic regions is turning the intention of
a ’orers to the more distant but fresher
s for research tying about the South
Pole. An Antarctic expedition is now
being fitted out by Baron Nordenskjold,
and is expected to leave Sweden in the
Autumn for an absence of eighteen
months; while it is probable that during
tho next few years several other expedi
tions will be attracted to the unknown ice
seas of the Southern Hemisphere.
The demand for cheap aluminium has
stimulated researches in every possible
direction. 31 r. James MacClear in a
paper before the Society of Chemical
Industry describes a new* method for
manufacturing sodium and potassium
cheaply. As now made according to the
Deville method aluminium depends upon
sodium. With caustic soda at $55 a ton
the metallic sodium costs about 25 cents a
pound, allowing 17 cents for fuel and
materials. With sodium at this price
aluminium can probably be put on the
market at $4 a pound, or about one-fourth
of its present value.
It is a fact worth noting that no comet,
so far as is known, has ever come in con
tact with the earth, or mingled its sub
stance with the earth’s atmosphere. The
nearest approach ever observed was
Lexell’s comet of 1770, which approached
to within 1,400,000 miles of the earth,
and subtended an angle of 2 de
grees 23 minutes, the largest apparent
diameter yet observed in any
comet. It has not not been seen
since 1770, though an orbit was com
pleted for it of only five and a half years,
and astronomers are of the opinion that
perturbation by Jupiter may have
changed its orbit to one of long period.
Grains ol Sand.
The manufacture of sand is an im
portant industry, irtiich has Pittsburg
for its headquarters, although the sand is
not made within the limits of the city.
There is a considerable traffic in 3Ionon-
gahela sand, which is scooped up from
the bed of the river, to be used for com
mon building purposes; but the manu
facture of sand is quite another affair,
and the product goes into quite a different
commodity, which Is glass. Practically
glass is almost pure sand, other substances
used in its manufacture for fluxing being
consumed while the sand is transformed
to a greater or less degree of transparency.
The sand used in glassmaking is almost
E ure silica, so nearly pure that there is
iss than one per cent, of iron, magnesia
and aluminium to ninety-nine percent, of
the other. And of this sand, which is
a uarried out of the bills and ground
own to varying degrees of fineness, and
washed to varying degrees of whiteness,
right hundred tons are manufactured
daily, four hundred tons being consumed
in and about Pittsburg, and four hun
dred tons going into eastern Ohio and
West Virginia to Wheeling, Bellaire,
Columbus, and all points within a circuit
of one hundred and fifty miles from
Pittsburg.
English and American Hands.
Mrs. John Sherwood says that the
American hand is smaller than the Eng
lish hand, but the nails are not as hand
some. “The English nails are almost
universally rosy and shell-like, and cut to
a rounded, slightly tapering point, kept
klways scrupulously clean. The skin at
the base is pushed hack to show the onyx,
a little white half-moon. This onyx is
carefully cultivated and polished by the
Creoles of New Orleans, to show that
they have no black blood in their veins.
No matter how fair the complexion, the
valuable insignia of pure blood is want
ing to the octoroon if the onyx is clouded.
With persons who employ a manicure the
onyx develops every day more and more.
With those who are careless of this pre
cious gem of a beautiful hand, the onyx
is sometimes completely hidden.”
Economical, Bat SmalL
No more palpable truth was eve.
uttered than that embodied in the decla
ration of a Western paper to the effect
that a little item in a newspaper will
frequently make a man an enemy to the.
paper for life, but it will never stop him
reading it. Never, never, never. It
merely changes him from a subscriber to
a borrower. We have a man in mind
this moment, who got mad at a village
newspaper some time ago, and ordered
his copy discontinued; but be no more
misses dropping in at a neighbor’s place
of. business On Thursday afternoon, and
reading the paper—sometimes before the
owner has opened it—than he does
answering to roll-call at dinner timq. It’s
economical, of course, but it is pretty
small, for all that.—Lqom (S. Y.) Mepulr
(Near Grand Central Hotel)
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