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The Irwin County News. Official Orsran of Irwin County. A. G. DelOACH, Editor and Prop'r. f £NERAL NEWS. Curr- .vents of the Day Boiled Down I a Few Lines For Busy People, ’ernor Fishback, of Arkansas is qi low. fe lore was a slight earthquake shock at San Francisco. ittle Siam has had to give in and let France have her way. The Mississippi editors will go in a body to Chicago Aug. 21st. The American Waltham Watch Co., has reduced their force one-half. John Dan, of Paiatka, Fla., suicided at Augusta, Ga., by taking chloro¬ form. 1 James T. Kilbreth his been appoin¬ ted Collector of Customs of New Y> rk. n August 1-t 16,WO workmen wt e discharged from EJgin Watch- fa pry. ohn Carter, a negro, was struck a killed by lightning near W ftming- tc , N. C. din Stevenson, the well known cm bi der, died at New Rochelle, N. Y,, ag ,d 84 years. From 1,000 to 1,500 lives are said tt have been lost in ii battle reported f oui Nicarauga. The silver convention in Chicago de'nands I lie free coinage of silver at a ratio of 16 to 1. Martin Reed, wanted in Cincnmati on an old charge, lias been captured after twenty years. Officer J. A. Harvey, of Syracuse, N. Y., was shot to death by a prisoner natn',1 George A Barnes. Tile World’s Fair was opened on 1» unday by. an order of court, but .tendance was small. he First National Bank of Chicago haioirdcred a shipment of $500,000 of An rican gold lroin London. Tne Nclour, and the Detroit, two Chicago hotels, were damaged $3,50C by lire. There was no panic. This steamer City of Alexandria reached New York yesterday with nearly $500,000 in gold from Iliwa- na. A«Seveii-story brlcK and iron build-' r Irlnnen collapsed at Pittsburg. Forty narrowly escaped, but two :re lost. Ihe first general meeting of women «5 ers ever held wiil assemble at •ella club house Chicago on Thurs- f, Friday and Saturday next. ■ork lias taken a downward turn ■ and during tho past week sold at y. as $10 per barrel, whereas hereto' er ,it has been selling as high as $19 n Sheehan, one of the wealthies J^in and around Meradian, Miss. (J :ad. Ho owned considerable arty both in Alabama and Missis- COi ouble between union men and ., union men at the lumber docks in b nd, Wis., culminated in a free DOW in which a number of both sides A injured. at t. Georgia Pacific railroad is no r operated by the Richmond & to tille railroad, but. is under the Av.ff ement °F Die Georgia Pacific vay Company, ^is shown by official statistics just hitileted that there are in Mexico nt :6,000 head of horses, 3,QOO,OOQ - 1 of cattle, 3,000,000 head of sheep 5,000,000 head of goals. t. Parkland a suburb adjoining y e isville, the Marshal Andrew f . dc was shot and killed by Edward * rl n, whom he was trying to arrest, tm. Murry Blunk,son of the Marshal’s Kurn killed Grim. JtlVoiASTJYJl iaiiV.l*\(l alien steerage pas- ligers gaVut at New York in 1892, ■y 4,116 their destination as ™ southern stated. So far this year Ik proportion on, southward-bound uuuigrants Is no greater. It is estimated that every\ection about 3,000 real Instate men from of the |jnited America Stales will assemble and Brtitish at\St. North Paul, Minnesota, the on the 21st duy\of August the o attend annual meeting of Nafional Real Estate Congress. G dispatch from Washington reports Ji ks resumption in day. of and fourteen intimst»° jnational that r one iy more will re-open, as the imajori- kres * those recently suspended ab- C clWd tely solvent, and only K R et, ugh an unwarranted lack of eon- ,,icc in banks generally. I Ihundor During a severe wind, rain knd storm- at Nashville the ciirciii lar If building contairing the cyclorAma ® Die battle of Missionary Eilffge pva way before it, and it is a conn. alil - wreck. If tho picture is ruin\ed i and ; • i-s will be $20,000, with no dign insurance. No people wove auyti tho ret- J; Taylor was electrocuted at , New York. Tho first attempt failure the djnamo burning Ineinen connected the electric prisoiji light np- s with a btreet SYCAMORE, IRWIN COUNTY, GA., AUGUST 11, 1893. plant and niter an hour’s delay the second attempt was made which proved successful. On the Labe shore at Chicago, a man was found dead tiro past week, A partly filled can of powder was be¬ side the body, the face was torn and mangled, suggesting the probability that the man had tilled his month with powder and touched it oil with a lighted match, blowing away a part of his face. Mayor Harrison of Chicago asked that the poor children of the city be shown the sight’s of the iVorld’s Fair, and 15,000 beys and girls from the slums of Chicago marched in process¬ ion through lire streets, became guests of the Illinois Central Street ltailway alul were, VQvtdly entertained by Buf¬ falo Bill,”gave them the most glorious day in all the history of Chi¬ cago w-aifd. m Libby Prison Survivors. During tho tatter part of August there will be a reunion at the Libby prison war mnsenin of the survivors of the famous tunnel escape from this prison on Die uight of February 9, 1864. This event will be marked by the attendance of Col. Thomas E. Rose of the Seventy-seventh Pennsyl¬ vania infantry, the projector of the celebrated escape, and Capt. A. G. Hamilton of ihe Twelfth Kentucky cavalry, bis companion iu the under¬ taking. Colonel Rose is now in the United States army and stationed at Fort Riitggbld, Tex., and Captain 11 s: mill t> ■ living at Reedyville, Ky. They an most prominent living incmbtts’of Btc tunnel party, and will meet for the first time since the close of the war. Among others that will be present are Capt. I. N. Johnson, Sixth Kenliiiky infantry, Pleasant- ville, Ky,, Capt. Terrence Clark, Sev¬ enty-ninth Illinois infantry, Paris, Ill., and Gen.*11. C. Hobart, Twenty, first Wisconsin infantry, Milwaukee- Gigantic .Swindle Exposed. A liugh conspiracy has been un¬ earthed whereby seventy-three banks ami banking institutions in New Eng¬ land were violin izod. The story is to the effect that certain employes of the Northern Pacific Ele¬ vator Company of Minnesota issued $.1,500,000 of forged duplicated cer¬ tificates for gr.-jin in storage in the country elevators,owned by the con- , 1 . ...e ih^/cction is not so strict as at the terminal elevators. These forged certificates were deposi¬ ted witli Eastern banks as collateral. About $800,000 was secured in New England, and the balance in New York. Some of Die Eastern holders of the paper became suspicious, and on an investigation being made, tho true state of affairs cainc to light. Good News, If True. A private dispatch from a New York banker reports that engagements have been made in Liverpool for the shipments tills week of $10,000,090 of gold to New York and Chicago by London banks. Several Now York National banks have purchased $12,000,000 of United States bonds from savings banks, and have shipped the bonds to Washington, in oider to issue about $10,000,000 in hank notes, The New York banker expressed the opinion that, the present stringent financial situation cannot last more than 30 days longer. Must Pay Up. Secretary Carlisle has replied to the requst of Keutuky distillers for an ex¬ tension of ninety days in which to pay their internal Revenue taxes upon their whiskey which has been held ihree years in bond that the law is im¬ perative and loaves him no discretion in tho premises. So these distillers when tiio three years are up, whieh will be this month, will have to pay a tax of ninety cents a gallon or subject themselves and their stock of whiskey to the penalties prescribed by law. A Horrible Crime. Near Montgomery, Tex. ; three ne¬ groes attacted the house of Mr. M, Marsh, killed Mr. Marsh, brutally assaulted his wife, murdered his in¬ fant, and cut out the tongue of his 7- yeav-old child. One of Ihe negroes was caught and lynched. The Sheriff and posse are searching for tlie others, who will cer¬ tainly be Ivnched if caiurht. Tho Pesky Grasshoppers. A plaugue of grasshoppers has ap¬ peared in parts of Alabama and Ten¬ nessee. Reports from Calhoun county Ala., say that in tho Valley around Choccolocco, much damage has been done to growing crops. In some places the grasshoppers have appeared in great droves and stripped the corn anil cotton alike. On several farms crops have been practically destroyed within a few days. Sliver Bullion Depository. Attorney-General Eugley of Colo¬ rado, has rendered an opinion to the affect that it is witlbn the power of the legislature to enact appropriate legislation for the establishment of a and statuary depository of silver bullion the issuance of certificates there¬ on, assignable by delivery, and receiv¬ able by the State in the payment of State taxes. “In Union, Strength and Prosperity Abound.” DUN’S TALK. Condition aid General Outlook of The T.ospects of the Country. It. G, Dun & Co’s weekly review of trade Rays: The hardest week has left tho business world in a condition to rejoice in the soundness and strength disclosed. Prices of stocks Wednesday, were greatly depressed Tuesday and closing lower Gian any oilier day since January, 1879, and the fall oil Wednesday averaged over $2 per share, and yet only two failures resulted and those of brokers not especially important. A sharp rally followed on Thursday with buying from London by shorts, and especially the significant buying by small inves¬ tors, No banks hero or at other Eastern cities, and no Eastern firm of largo importance have gone down, but numerous banks failed at the West, including some of high repute and large business. The Erie Ilail- roacl was again placed in tho hands of a receiver, though for eight months of the fiscal year the- net earnings of the company hud been larger tliau last year’s, and the earnings of other roads reporting are generally closo to last year’s. Tho money market became excitingly stringent again with the depression in stocks, and the drain to assist other cities has been very heavy, but through all the strain the banks of New York have passed without troub¬ le, and imports of gold have com¬ menced. From $1,000,000 to $2,000,- 100 in money has been sent West •very day and a large decrease in the bank reserves is expected as the Treas¬ ury has not been disbursing heavily. A few commercial loans have been ne¬ gotiated and those at high rates. At other cities the money markets have been quite close, but bank fail, ures at Milwaukee, Indianapolis and Louisville have caused less disturb¬ ance than might liavo been feared. The treasury purchased silver sparing¬ ly ; nd the exports of that metal have Been targe. Exchanges between this city and Philadelphia have been espe¬ cially disturbed, but the banks of the latter city continue to supply custo¬ mers as well as they can. Chicago has drawn heavily on New York, but in that and other cities the bank state¬ ments indicate creditable soundness. Cotton has declined an eight though receipts are little larger and exports smaller than last year, but holders show great stubbornness in view of large stocks in sight and closing of many mills. Fall cottons, though half a cent lower than last year in price and exceptionally attractive, meet with but moderate demand and print cloths are weaker at 2.94 cents. The iron business grows less active and, in spite of the past decrease in the output, the demand does not equal the supply, so that four large furnaces at Pittsburg are expected to close. Bar is weak and has been sold at $1 55, Plates are in narrow' demand and structural iron is irregular with beams down to $1.80. Of steel bars 28,000 tons were sold to agricultural impliment makers at St. Louis reports a fair trade for the season except in Dueling, and no complaint, among jobbers. At Knox¬ ville and Nashville trade is fair; at Little Rook it is voyy conservative but safe; at Columbus and Macon the out¬ look is good, though money is tight. New Orleans reports trade exceedingly dull, and money very tight, but banks sound and crop prospects excellent. Mobile reports fair crop prospects; Jacksonville i* doing a close and cau¬ tious trade, and Charleston is doing a dull but sound business. Failures during the past week num¬ ber 383 in the United States, against 171 last year, and 23 in Canada against 22 last year. It is noteworthy that only three failures of capital above $200,000 each, and only 99 of capital over $5,000 each. Over fifty banks stopped during the week, but nearly all were at tho West. Last week the failure* in.-the United Stales numbered 457 and the previous week 374. Death Preferred. A special from Antigo, Wis., says: W'lliam Nunemacher, a farmer killed his wife and babe and two boys, age 5 and 3 years, by dashing out their brains. He then plunged head first from a window in an attempt to kill himself. He is stilt alive, but para¬ lyzed. The cause of the quadruple' murder and suicide is said to be a fear that hfs family would die from starva¬ tion. Relief Withdrawn. The state, county and city official* out at Denver, Colorado, have abol¬ ished Camp Relief, where the unem¬ ployed wore being fed. The cause for this action was that hundreds of tramps were flocking to Denver from all parts of tho west to partake of the liberality bestowed upon suffering peo¬ ple who were dependent only beoause there was no work to bo found. She Horsewhipped Her Mamlerer. Lulu Belknap, a farmer's pretty daughter, horsewhipped Thomas Con¬ nolly, a popular young merchant, in the p office at Lamette, Jackson count), la., because, as she announced to the crowd, Connolly slandered her after she refused to marry him. Tlio Reunion Again Postponed. The Southern Confederate Reunion, which was originally to hayo been held at Birmingham in July, and was then postponed until the 15 and lo of September, has again been postponed to take place on Moiklay and Tuesday, October 2 and 3. Among the reasons assigned for the further postponement arc the summer heat, the harvesting of the crops and the hope and belief that the iinaucial situation would greatly improve by the delay, id id principally was a desire to afford the old veterans an opportu¬ nity of the cheapest rates lo the World’s Fair. Adjutant General Moorman has is¬ sued a general order announcing the postpomneut, and positively suiting that the re¬ union would take place at Birmingham on the last named dates, and that the unveiling of the Confed¬ erate monuments at Chicago would oc¬ cur on October 17. As this is I ho only Confederate monument upon northern soil erected to commemorate the memory of 6,000 Confederate dead, resting in the shades of Oakwood Cemetery, Chicago, Com¬ manding General John B. Gordon, appeals to all comrades to form clubs and take advantages of the cheap ex¬ cursion rates secured for the occasion. Hon. W. C. !’• Breckenridgo; will be the orator of the day. 3he Souih in the Storm. The fact that the financial storm has been so light,in the South while so heavy in the West, is made a subject of comment by the Manufacturer’s Keeorii of Baltimore, There is no doubt that the bankers and financiers of the South are more conservative than those of the West, speaking broadly. It is also to be remembored that speculative activity has been lees energetic in the South than in the West, that the silver-producing West has been more affected than the South by the diminished demand for silver, that manufacturing industries found¬ ed upon credit have been expanded more rapidly in the West than in the South, that the cotton crop of the South is more readily available at all times for the payment of balances than any product of the West, that the real estate transactions in the West far surpass those in the South, and that the amount of reserve capital in the hands of Southern people is propor¬ tionately, greater than in those of Western people. The whole country is pleased with the liuaeial stability of the South, as illustrated by the figures given in The Manufacturers’ Keoord. —New York Sun. Both Loved tho Same GlrL Two prominent young men of Lou¬ isville, fought a duel near Versailes about a young lady, both were in love with. Two shots were fired from six shooters with tho result of ono of the participants being hit In tho leg. The young men have determined to decide the issue by fighting it out with nat¬ ure’s weapons at some future time. Anottier Big Coal Strike. In accordance with the decision of the Miners Federation the groat strike the English coal miners has beeu inaugurated at a majority of the pits. No disorder has been reported from any quarter. Something like 350,000 men were directly affected by tho itrike. Gelling Rookies*. Four hundred men took possession of the Union Pacific freight train in the yard at Denver, ono night recently. they made the train crew throw oat the loaded oars and put on empties, ind now are on their way east. It is aot probable that they will be moles- IVary in Trouble. The Philadelphia, Record has a dis¬ patch from St. Johns, N. F., which says advices have been received from Labrador of serious trouble in Lieu¬ tenant Peary’s expendition. It is said that it is so great that tlie trip is likely to prove a failure. Lynchers Indicted. Two of the ring leaders of (he mob who lynched and burned Lee Walker, at Memphis, have been indicted for murder and are now in jail awaiting trial. Good Showing for the South. Since Nay 1st, the aggregate capital of the Colorado banks that have sus¬ pended exceeded by $2,000,00 the capital of all the banks that have failed in tlie South. Financially, the Sou tb is solid. A Heavy Gorn Crop. The Omaha Bee says that unless all signs fail, Nebraska wiil this year har¬ vest $50,000,000 worth of corn, which is equal lo ono year’s silver product of Colorado, Montana, Idaho and Utah. Appeal-Avalanche in Trouble. The Chancery Court of Memphis has ordered Dio sale of tho franchise of the Appeal Avalanche. SHvcritcs lit Chicago. Silveritos fr > u the oa-t. south and west aro in GUiougo m i u ge numbers, They aro iu convention. $ 1.00 a Year in Advance. NOTES AND COMMENTS. Discussing tall men and short men a writer in The Boston study, Transcript says: “It is an interesting by the way, to see a handsome man of very great height enter the company such of a will miscella¬ find neous lot of men, as one at a club sometimes, or a dinner party where the guests are conversing and not yet at table, or under other circumstances where the newly arrived giant will natu¬ rally pass from one to another, convers¬ ing. It is the invariable rule, so far as The Listener has observed, that the men of middle size treat the big man with deference and admiration, while the little men shy away from him, or affect not to see him. The little men naturally wiil avoid the contrast, from which they suffer, or else they fancy that thought by showing admiration they will bo to be toadying to a big man because he is big. The then of average height, on the other hand, are acting perfectly instinctively; for it is still as natural for men to admire a man of great and noble stature as it is for animals to show deference toward a giant of their kind. A spectacle civilization, of this in sort takes us through which a pygmy is exactly as well off as a giant, directly back to barbarous times, or the cave dwellings. In a way the thing is impressive; in another it is very funny. Men’s ways are after all so ex¬ tremely amusing I” A cciuous method was recently used in Illinois to take the foul air out of a well. The well was to be cleaned, but the man that took the job was afraid to go down until he had ascertained the quality of the air at the bottom. He let down a lighted candle, and when it de¬ scended to about six feet of the bottom it went out as suddenly as though ex¬ tinguished by a whiff of air. That was all he wanted to know. He was then sure that the well bad poisonous gas in it, and took a small umbrella, tied a string to tho handle and lowered it open into the well. Having let it go nearly to the bottom, he drew it up, carried it a few feet from the well and upset it. He repeated this operation the bystanders twenty or thirty times, with all laughing at him, then again lowered and bright tho light, which burned clear even at the bottom. He then conde¬ scended to explain that the gas in the ■well was carbonic acid gas, which is heavier than air, and therefore could be brought in an umbrella just as though it were so much water. It was a simple trick, yet perfectly effective. A Philadelphia, war veteran has patented a device for protecting soldiers to a considerable extent from an enemy's fire. It is a folding shield in of bullet¬ proof material, circular form, whioh can be fixed to the barrel of a rifle. Its diameter is eighteen inches, and the sur¬ face is corrugated for the purpose of de¬ flecting bullets. The inventor does not pretend that it furnishes a oomplete pro¬ tection, but he believes that it would be found indispensable by skirmishers, and in a general engagement would be the means of greatly reducing the casualties. When not in use it can be folded into portable compass and worn at the side like a bayonet. When expanded and fastened to the rifle-barrel, an aperture on the line of sight is shown, which en¬ ables the soldier to take aim and use his piece effectively, The idea of the in¬ vention is already applied to The large rifled suns on vessels of war. inventor has brought his device to the attention of military experts, and they have en¬ dorsed it as practicable in operation. That the earth’s motion has an appre¬ ciable effect upon artillery fire, deflect¬ ing the projeotile from a straight course, may be news to many, and as such would probably seem a novel notion. It has, and the exact nature and extent of the effect is an important point English of study with artillery experts. An army expert told of the results of many in- foresting experiments along this line in a P?P el ! read befo re th ® Uo >?!. Artl ! le U Institution the other , day. l‘‘rmg from north to south there is a divergence of projectiles to the left duo to the earth’s rotation, and firing due north the diver¬ gence is to the right. The extent of the “pull” varies at different points on the, earth’s surface, and with projectiles fired at different speeds and elevations. In England a deflection of five inches is found to occur with the projectile of a 12-pounder in a 4 000 yard range. One of the few novel ideas that have come to light as the result of the recent advertisement for plans for a submarine naval boat involves the construction of a craft that can be sunk by admitting a limited quantity of water, and will then run around on tlie bottom of the ocean on wheels. The inventor thinks that his boat can move more directly in a straight path than a boat subject to deflection by currents and waves, and therefore claims for her the ability to pick her position with accuracy beneath the iron¬ clad she wishes to destroy. He has made provision for reaching the surface when desired by means of a set of pumps to expel the water admitted to the hull. An Indiana man named Dobbins has invented a voting machine which is said to be more simple and accurate than any similar machine. “The Indianapolis News” thus describes it: “The tickets are printed on one continuous roll, which is locked in the machine. Beneath a glass-covered table the ticket passes from this roll to another roll fitted into a ballot-box. The glass cover is divided into four sections, and between each section is a row of keys similar to the typewriter. The upper key is larger, and is called the straight ticket key, and when this is struck it locks the other keys, thus preventing mistakes.” A demand is made in Maine for the reenactment of the law permitting birds the be¬ killing of crows, as these are coming a great nuisance again. A Damariscotta farmer says he is obliged “to sit up most of tlie nigh* and watch VOL.IV, NO. 13. all day to tight crows.” Another asseris that of 1,200 hills of potatoes which he 1 planted the crows have spoiled all hut 195. They are also destroying sufferer young chickens and ducks, As one from their raids says: “You can’t mako folks believe that crows don’t koep posted on the Maine revised statutes.” The next Legislature will no doubt be asked to revive the old law, and if the crows know what is good for them they will read it and give the State a wide berth. There arc four systems now in force for the grant of patents: 1, the Ameri¬ can, in which the patent is granted after the rigid examination into novelty; 2, adver¬ British, in which the invention is tised and the grant is subject to oppo¬ of sition; 3, tlie German, which is a sort compromise between the American and British, Involving both an examination, nfid an appeal to opposition; and 4, the French, which involves neither an ex¬ amination nor public Opposition, but is a registration merely. All the patent laws of the world can be included in some one of these systems, or pnrtakc of their features. A novel contrivance to restrain runa¬ way and pulling horses has recently been patented. 'The inventors claim that, when iu operation, standstill it will bring powerful to an immediate the most and refractory horse. It is fixed under the box seat, the buckled end of the reins being passed through an aperture while for the purpose, and the driver, guiding the animal with his left hand, can with his right, if need be, instantly raise the machine, and motion by putting tighten a the re- volving process in reins to any extent required. Thebe are treasures at the bottom of the sea, in the wrecks of the countless galleons, transports, merchantmen, steamships, and other vessels that have sunk thereto the ages through. The in¬ ventor who has laid before the Navy Department his design for a submarine punt on wheels, that shall traverse tho sea’s bed with a crew in the bold of it. can, in the opinion of the New York Sun, engage in more profitable business than that of sinking the enemy’s cruisers. Tru: fastest time on record for the de¬ livery of American mails in England was made a feiv weeks ago with the mails arrivingirom New Yorkbythe Teutonic. The Teutonic made a passage of six days four hours to Queenstown, and the mail was delivered in London in exactly six days and twenty-two hours from the time the ship had left New York. Georgia paid $181,235 to crippled veteran of the Confederacy last year. There has been great mortality among these old soldiers during the last ten years. In 1833 the number of pensioners while on the Georgia rolls was 1,009, now there are only 773. The greatest depth under water ever reached by a diver is believed to have been attained by Capt. John Christian¬ sen, who went down 196 feet below the surface at Elliot Bay, Wash., recently. He remained at that depth in his armor for twenty minutes, without inconveni- cnce. The Rise of the Cat. It seems hard to believe that during all the long 'g/es which passed between Chris¬ the dawn ob/ivilizatiou and the tian era the Romans and the Greeks should have beeu ignorant of tho most familiar pet of our homes—the common cat. Yet no fact seems established more clearly than this. Hahn, in his “Wan¬ derings of Plants and Animals,” insisted upon it, and it has since been estab¬ lished by the united efforts of scholars and zoologists. We know that our do¬ mestic favorite—with its winning, ooy ways, uneasy when removed from man’s society, and yet never completely old-world trust¬ air ing it, with its mysterious nations of —was unknown to the chief antiquity till after the Christian era. It was the patient and gifted nation of tho Nile Valley who built the Hall of Col¬ umns at Karnak, and who reared such colossal statues as that of Rameses II. at Memphis, tamed not to speak of Hereditary the pyramids, that first the cat. an¬ tipathy as deep as that which reigns be¬ tween the feline race and'mankind does not die out in a generation. Countless years and many dynasties must have passed eve the wildest members of crea¬ tion became the most faithful servants of mankind. In Egypt we know that cats were regarded with veneration, and embalmed and buried after their death. Herodotus alleges that all cats on their decease were taken to the city of Bubas- tis, where they wore embalmed; but their mummies are found, as a matter of fact, in Thebes and other Egyptian towns. zElian refers to them as re¬ markable for their tameness. He de¬ scribes the way in which (according to Eudemus) the cats were used to hunt iu packs, the quarry being the ape, which tried to escape by climbing to the end of a bough and hanging there.—[LondoD Academy. An Enormous Kite. The largest kite ever made in the United States is that produced in Dur¬ ham, Greene County. The frame con¬ sists of two maip sticks, 28 feet long, weighing each 100 pounds ( and two cross 75 sticks, 21 feet long and weighing pounds each. All the sticks were 2x6 inches in dimensions. Over tho framework was stretched a great sheet of white duck, 25x18 feet, which weighed 55 pounds. The tail of the kite alone weighed 50 pounds and Con tained 155 yards of muslin. Twenty- five hundred feet of one-half inch rope served $100, as kite and strings. it is The mounted plaything cost when into tlie air it exerts a lifting power of 590 pounds. Six men once permitted U 13 ascend 1,000 feet.—’Albany F.xpu.fci.