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ALBANY WEEKLY HERALD: SATURDAY, AUGUST 19, 1893.
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It is pretty well understood that the
limit of speed in ocean steamers is
about retched if the present models
are adhered to, and that if there is to
be any gain in swiftness it must be by
the trial of a new form. The difficulty
is to devise a vessel of which the struc
tural strength shall be great enough
to carry the massive engines requisite
for increased speed and at the same
time to resist the force of the ooean
storms. If the sea were calm there
would be no difficulty in increasing
the speed of the “ocean greyhounds,”
says the Boston Courier, but with the
tremendous force of waves and storms
it is not possible to do this with the
present models. It is not impossible
that the solution of the problem lies in
the submarine ship, and that the pas
senger steamer of the future will go
under water instead of across its sur
face. The advance made in the plan
ning and work of submarine boats in
the last ten years makes this seem not
wholly impossible, as it must have
looked once; and there is ne doubt
that the freedom from the effects of
surface storms would allow a swiftness
which could hardly be urrived at on
tbe surface. It might also serve the
•question of sea sickness, as it is prob
able that submarine locomotion would
be much smoother and less disturbing
to the stomach than the present
method of traveling. All that one can
say, however, is that we shall see what
wo shall see.
Perhaps the steamer of the future
will be operated on a trolley by means
•of a submarine cable. The advant
ages of this plan would be great, as it
would prevent the necessity of carry
ing immense quantities of fuel and of
keeping the vessel loaded down with
enormous engines. All the delay and
•difficulty and expense of' managing
furnaces and engines on board ship
would be done away with by the
ooeanic trolley system, and the ship
•could be made so much lighter that it
would go whizzing across the ooean in
a couple of days. Danger of accident
could be brought to be no greater than
it is at present by baving a sufficient
number of repair steamers on the
route, which could keep the oables in
-repair, and in case of any aooident to
the trolley could bring the passenger
boat into port or put it again in con
nection with the cable.
There can be no question that tbe
proper means of crossing the Atlantio
•quickly is by some system which will
allow the motive power to be applied
from the shore, either by a trolley or a
•cable. The limit of speed for ships
that carry engines and fuel is cer
tainly practically reached on the sur
face, and there are difficulties In the
way of submarine navigation which it
would be hard to enoounter. The trol
ley system is capable of great exten
sion, and we may yet live to go to Eu
rope by its means.
’Trnnt Killed by Dlulnfectants In Drains.
The heavy storm which visited Slea
ford on Monday thoroughly flushed the
drains, and the storm water carried the
carbolio acid with which the drains had
been disinfected into the Slea trout pre
serves, killing almost every fish they
•contained. On Tuesday Superintendent
Richdule took out 73 beauties, weighing
from 1 pound to St pounds, and it is
feared that scarcely a single trout will
be left alive,—Westminster Gazette.
A Seasonable Joke. 1
"The days are growing shorter,” ob
served Mr. Clamwliooper to his family,
Friday morning.
"Yes, I have noticed it," interrupted
the aunt.
"They are half a minute shorter,” add
ed Mr. Clamwhooper in the same tone
of voice.
As no reply was needed to this the
-aunt made none.—Texas Siftings.
He Mlii.d All the Fun.
It makes one’s heart bleed to learn that,
although Dr, Tanner came into parlia-
ineui on the dead run, he did not get
there soon enough to bloody somebody
•lie’s nose and get his own ears bitten off
in return. We can’t help sympathizing
with tho fellow who arrives just in time
to miss all the fun.—Chicago News-Rec
ord.
When Days Were Three Hours Long.
Away in the distant, when the
earth was very young, it went
around so fast that the day was only
three hours long. The whole globe
was liquid then, and as it spun
around and around at that fright
ful speed it finally burst into two
parts. The smaller of the parts be
came the moon, which has beon sail
ing around the earth ever since at an
ever increasing distance. These cu
rious points are not given on the
“suppose so” theories of an igno
ramus, hut are the well matured de
ductions of Dr. Ball, the astronomer
toyal of Ireland. —Philadelphia Press.
Paper Wheels on Palace Can.
Every wheel on a Pullman car is
made of paper. You do not seethe
paper, beSmflse it is covered with iron
and steel. The body of the wheel is
a block of paper about 4 inches thick.
Around this is a rim of steel meas-
ufing’from two to ;three • inches. It
is thia steel rim, of ooune, which
comes in contact with the rails. The
rides are coveted with circular iron
plates hotted ca. ~ *
t’F AGAINST Tint BANK.
A Mechanical Bara Bax That Brea Ex
pert Hamblen, Caauol Beal.
From tho Sun Francisco Exantiuor.
There was some discussion of how
smart some men are and what fools
others are to play ngainst sure-tliing
games when ail old-timer said:
“Poker's all very well for small
money, but when you want to gamble,
you want to play the king of games—
faro. Now, there’s a game where you
win or lose your money quiok, and
it's a strange thing that no matter
how a gambler wins his money be al
ways sooner or later runs up against
a bank.
“Faro bank, when it’s a square deal,
is the fairest game on earth, but the
trouble is it ain’t fair any more. If
they don’t give the worst of it one
way they will in another, and nil the
time you think your system is wrong,
and change from three-one to double-
out, and then to break-even, the re
sult always the same. You drop
your pile. Why, when most of the
players had got onto a orooked box
and some one gave away tile single
and double odd, a firm right in San
Francisco went to work and employed
an expert meohanic, and they have
just completed tile nllckest faro box
ever made. I saw it at work not more
than a month ago, and I thought I was
up to ail the tricks myself, for I have
dealt faro from El Paso to British Co
lumbia, but I was fooled, and it cost
me $50 to find I was a sucker.
“Tbe layout and box are Just the
same as any layout, so far as you can
see, but the dealer can make those
cards turn a somersault in the box if
he wants them to. Suppose you are
playing the nine to lose, and the deal
er sees by means of a small refleotor
that the nine will lose, he just
makes that nine change places with
the card under it, and instead of com
ing out first it comeq second and you
lose. The layout at the place in front
of tbe box is hollowed out, and when
the cards have been shuffied and put
in the box the denier pushes tho box
close up against the layout, and this
pushes a spring and tbe rim of the
layout against the box falls back and
stays just as long ns the box is held
up against this spr.ng.
“Now in the box there is s small
highly polished mirror, and it is so
placed aa to take in the card under the
top card in the box, and the dealer can
see just what that card is. He keeps
his hand on the left side of the box,
where he can reaoh a small spring
which shoots a blade as thin as a sheet
of paper under the second card and
raises it up jnst the thiokness of the
blade. Then he uses his knees, to
which are attached the line catgut,
and this manipulates a spring con
nected with a damp which comes out
of the opening under the layout and
catches the second card and pulls it
out of the end of the box, the end
opening outward and into the opening
under the layout when the thin blade
goes under tbe card.
“The left hand releases the spring in
the box and the under card takes the
piaoe of the' one withdrawn. When
the spring is again pressed the thin
blade flies out and the card which was
under the layout comes back into the
box. This can all be done in three
seoonds, while the dealer is paying a
bet or raking up his checks or asking
a player what his bet takes. I’ve seen
a good many tricks at faro, but this is
the sliokest I ever saw. Of course, the
firm making these boxes charges high
for them; but what’s $2,000 when you
don’t need any bank roll in the drawer
and every dollar put down is sure
money?”
Pimples, blackheads, moles, freokles,
tan and sunburn removed by John
son’s Oriental Soap. Medicinal. Sold
by Sales-Davis Drug Co.
Police on the Wheel.
The proposal to mount a part of the
park police on bicycles is timely though
tardy. Already tho world's armies have
organize dtlieir bicycle service, and it
oan hardly be contended that this mode
of locomotion is more appropriate there
than in the police service or likely to be
so nseful. In the event of the wheel's
adoption by the police authority the
public inay assume that tho men will be
required to sit it properly. They will
not offend the eye by contributing to
the monkey on a gridiron exhibition.
In fact, their martial appearance could
bo expected to contribute by its exnmple
to diminish thut depressing practice.
It is certain that tho seat of the mounted
police hus stimulated perception of the
ridiculous in equestrians bobbing from
the saddle like cockney tailors out for a
holiday.
The extension of the use of the wheel
is among the interesting phenomena of
tbe day. Tho French postal service has
adopted it extensively in rural service.
Even the stolid Briton has proposed the
reform. In England, however, the mag
nitude of tbe mail offers Borne difficul
ties. Its growing extension in the col
onies is marked. The export of bicycles
now cuts a respectable figure in board
of trade returns. During the past year
the valne has nearly doubled.—New
York Evening Sun.
The Henry Bergh circle of King’s
Daughters, composed of eight members,
reports that last year it chloroformed
4,089 cat*, 71 dogs, 6 wounded sparrows,
1 rabbit and 1 opossum.
A snake la reported to have climbed a ’
note to a martin’s box at Breezy Heights,
W. Va., a short time ago, and swallowed
**• birds before being discovered.
A DREAM.
I dreamt that over the winter world
The winter winds were sighing.
And Into tho orioles’ empty nests
The flakes of snow were flying.
The vtnoe along tho garden wall
With crystal Ice wore gleamlag.
And In tho garden dull and bare
The summor flowers were dreaming.
The enow lay doep over withered grass.
Tho ekloa were cold and gray.
And elowly the dreary night oame on
To ond tho weary day.
1 woke. High up In the orchard boughs
A hundred birds were singing,
And In ths birch troes* pleasnnt shads
The orioles’ nests were swinging.
Along tho rlvor, tall and groon,
I saw tho rushes growing,
And daisy petals white aB enow
Among the graeeee showing.
The flowers held the sunshine bright.
The breexes wore at play,
And swiftly tho dreamy night oame on
To ond the happy day.
—Angelina W. Wray In Harper's Basar.
The Pumps or the Egyptian,
A representative piece of mechanism
occurs frequently on the sculptures of
early Egypt. It has the appearance of
anti is generally believed to bo that of a
portable pump. Tbe hydraulic scrow is
also attributed to this people, bat their
main reliance seems always to have been
the Shadoof, seen everywhere along the
banks of the Nile, an invention so sim
ple and so weB adapted to their needs
that it remains today substantially the
same as it has through all tho centuries
since history began.
The same may be said regarding the
chain pump in China, an invention tho
origin of which antedates the Christian
era. This simple maohine, which seems
never to have been improved apon, is in
such common aso that every agricultural
laborer is in possession of one. Where
irrigation is conduoted on a larger scale
the chain pump is tnude proportionately
larger and moved by a very simple tread
wheel, and still larger ones are operated
by yoking a buffalo or other animal to o
suitable driving machine.
The application of steam to raising
water is of uncertain origin. Long be
fore the Christian ora cortain applica
tions of fire to vessels containing water,
by which effects were produced calcu
lated to astonish ignorant worshipers,
wore practiced by the priests of Egypt,
Greece and Rome, but their knowledge
sectqs never to have been turned into
any channel of seonlar usefulness.—En
gineering Magazine.
We Owe the Hat ta Asia.
We owe the hat to Asia, for it was in
that country that the art of felting wool
was first known, and from the most re
mote periods the art was carried on by
the orientals. In India, China, Burtnah
and Siam hats ore made of straw, of rat
tan, of bamboo, of pith, of the leaf of
the Tallport palm and of a large variety
of grasses. The Japanese made their
bats of paper. The modern hat can be
traced baok to the petasnrs worn by the
ancient Romans when on a journey, and
hats with brims were also used by the
earlier Greeks.
It was not until after the Roman con
quest that the use of hate began in Eng
land. A “liatte of blever,” about the
middle of the twelfth centnry, was wont
by one of the nobles of the land. Praia-
sort d&cribos hats and plumes which
were worn at Edward’s court In 1840,
when the Garter order was instituted.
The inerohant in Chaucer’s “Canterbnry
Tales” had “on his head a Flanndorish
beaver hat,” and from that period on
ward there Is frequent mention of “felt
hattes."—Washington Star.
No Law Against Removing a Dead Body*|
"Where In the world," asked the law
yer who volunteered information with
out a retaining fee, "did people—espe
cially people in the country—get the idea
that one cannot touch or remove a body
until the coroner has arrived? That is
almost a general belief in the country,
and there never was a more ridiculous
and absurd piece of nonsense than this.
I have seen a body lie in everybody’s
way because the people thereabout
thought that it was nnlawfnl to touoh it.
This foolish tradition amonnts almost
to a superstition, and you may be sure
no coroner takes the trouble to enlighten
stupid ignorance upon the subject. The
coroner is only too willing to aggrandize
his influence and power, and therefore
rather enconragos than discourages this
silly superstition.”—New York Tribune.
Bending the Knee to Foreigners.
A clever New York woman of assnred
social position frankly admitted to a
horrified Frenchman of rank that noth
ing of a lower grade than the imperial
or republican head of a great. nation, in
his representative capacity, could win
from her a bend of the knee. Tbe
princelets, male and female, werebnt
everyday folk In her eyes, quite without
social “divinity," and to them she re
fused to make obeisance. The lady's
distinction is self respecting and truly
American, and as a rule of condnct it
is commended as an antidote for the in
discriminate conrtesy craze.—Vogue.
It is from the rootlets or small fibers
of a tree or plant that its subsistence is
obtained, and in the performance of Its
duty nature has given these delicate,
tender parts wonderful strength and
persistence when exerted within rnles.
In their search for food snpply they will
sometimes even penetrate soft rock to
reach favored spots.
The consumption of tea in England
during 1892 reached the highest point
ever touched since its use has been gen
erally diffused among the masses, the
total quantity used being 207,000,000
pounds.
In Mr*. Bismarck’s Boas*.
The Princess Bismarck conducts her
honse on the most delightful free end
easy plan. Breakfast is served at all
honrs in the morning, each member of
the family and each guest appearing
only when ready. Dinner is supposed
to be served at 8:30 o’clock,.but-it la gen
erally 4 o'clock before' ths party’is g»th=
ered around the board. Then they bar*
coffee, and about 8 o’olock a promiscu
ous rapper la
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A GHASTLY INCIDENT.
Bow City Children Grow Hard Hearted In
the School of Experience,
A big, black wagon rattled and
rumbled down to tho pier at the foot
of West Thirty-fifth street on the
afternoon of Independence day. The
driver was red faced and jolly look
ing, hut he had a good deal of sour
ness mixed up with his jollity.
“It’s a shame,’’ho muttered. "Keep
ing a fellow hustlin on de glorious
Fourt’. Wot’s de use of stiffs a-com-
in and teasin a follow on a holiday!
Gee, I don’t like it, I don’t."
In the wake of the wagon, on tho
sides of which woro fastened nice ar
tistic silver plates hearing the allur
ing title “Publio Hearso'” came an
eddying mass of men, women and
children. Here was a circus, right at
their doors, ond all for the price of
nothing at all, and how they flocked
to see it I The sun was blistering hot
on the flagstones of West Thirty-fifth
Btreet, but they minded not the heat,
the old and the young alike, the
women with babes in arms and the
lassies hardly out of arms themselves.
In through a gate in a high board
fence went tho wagon and on to the
wharf. After it swarmed tho people.
On the wharf lay a shapeless bundle
oovered with tarpaulin. Seven hours
before that bundle had been a man.
Filled with strong liquors, he had
gone out op the bulkhead to watch
the salute of the Admiral Nachimoff
in the early morning hours and had
tumbled in. He was too fuddled to
help himself, and so he had drowned
there like a rat. Tho boatmen who
had seen him fall were philosophical.
They waited for the body to come
up, but the lowering tides brought It
into view sooner than they had ex
pected, for a piece of the drunkard's
clothing had caught on a nail on the
lower part of a spile and held him up
while the waters rose and fell around
him. Then they pulled the body out
and notified a policeman, who sont
out a call for the dead wagon.
The red faced man and his assist
ants made no bones about their busi
ness. The ghastly corpse with
tongue protruding was bundled into
a big pine box in sight of all upon the
wharf and shut from sight again
behind the black doors of the city
hearse.
And all the mothers with babies m
their arms and all the little chil
dren looked on, curious and indiffer
ent, and another lesson in the rough
school of experience which makes
city children so different from chil
dren of the country was conned, and
another incident of city life, as com
mon as the rising and falling of the
tides themselves, was completed.
Neither the driver of the dead wag
on nor the officer on the pier seemed
to think it his duty to drive off the
crowd or do anything to help pro
serve the decencies. Perhaps it was
not their business to do so, and then
again perhaps it was.—New York
World.
A Difficult Ouse to Cure*
Once I was assistant to an elderly
doctor in Ontario, who also ran a
drugstore. He was as peppery as a
cayenne pod, and from time to time
customers and patients sprang jokes
on him just for the fun of hearing
him growl. On one occasion a well
dressed young fellow called at the
shop and asked the doctor to pre
scribe for a breaking out and a rash
on his left arm. The doctor exam
ined the limb and pronounced it to
be a bad case of psoriosis and eczema.
“I suppose, doctor, you can. cure
it!” said the patient.
“Why, certainly," replied the doc
tor.
“How long will it take to get well!"
“Oh, I guess about two months,”
said the doctor.
“Quite sure, sir—is it a had case!”
"Positively the worst I’ve seen.”
“Then I will leave it with you and
call for it again when cured,” sol
emnly said the patient, slowly un
fastening his arm, which was an
artificial ono and painted for the oc
casion.—Million.
When the Hr.ml Is Kissed.
In Germany and Austria the eus
tom still prevails among the upper
classes of society of the men kissing
the hands of the ladies although the
practice has been abandoned in Eng
land, Scandinavia, Spain, etc., as
well as in France, except among cer
tain of the members of the ancient
regime in the Faubourg St. Germain
at Paris. In Austria the women are
accustomed to make a distinction be
tween the right and the left hand.
Thus the right hand is extended to
be kissed by inferiors, while the left,
as nearest the heart, is reserved for
the kiss of people of equal social
rank.—New York Tribune.
Women tho World Over.
“You are always complaining,”
raid the king of the Cannibal islands
to his wife, "though I don't see but
what after all you have much as
if you were civilized.’’
“What makes you think that!”
asked his wife.
“Well. I have just been reading a
lot of stories about English women,
and there wasn’t one of them who
had a thing to wear.”—London Tit-
Bit*.
INDSTINCT PRINT
••
The Russians still retain their old
barbaric love of. splendor, and when
the empress shows herself she hr a
vision of unmatched gorgeousnesrf.
She is one at the few monarch* of
practtoB ot
LOVE AT THE PISTOL'S POINT.
Th« Story of Two Girl* Who Brought Two
II tubful Lover* to Time.
This 1h about two girls who lived
in a western mining town, and who
might have been married to the
choicest young men of the town if
they hadn’t each fallen in love with
ono of the weakest Tito boys were
friends, named respectively Smith
and Curtiss, and thoy were so Blow to
"pop” tho important question, even
while desperately in love, that the
girls concluded to bring them to time.
"Just the way men do," said Sally
Hanks, "tuko a six shooter and ask
them their intentions. There won’t
he any need of loading the shooters
—they'll bo so scared they’ll drop the
minute they see them."
The young men were partners in
business, and Sally Hanks and her
friend Ethel Barber called together
at their office, carrying the weajtons
concealed in their handbags.
Ethel trembled so she could hardly
stand, but her friend Snlly was
served right up to business.
"We'ro just tired of Bhllly shnlly-
ing,” she said sternly. “If you don’t
know your own minds, we'll help
you to find out. and we won’t stand
any more foolin, for ther's others
waitin," and Bhe took out her six
shooter and held it undor tho nose
of Byron 8mith, who nearly fainted.
“I'm your huckleberry,"hegasped
and dropped on his knees.
Curtiss took the weapon in a gin
gerly manner out of Ethol's hands
and asked her to be Mrs. Curtiss at
the earliest possible date.
But Solly kept hers, and they do
say that it has figured in their do
mestic history on occasions since
then, but I can vouch for its never
having been loaded.
Once when Byron Smith refused
to eot some bread his wife had mode
and threw it on tho floor Sally had
recourse to her six shooter. Point
ing it at him, she said Bternlyt
“Pick up that bread.”
He picked it up.
"Now eat it."
He ate it to the last crumb and
then wpndorod mookly why his wife
laughed.—Detroit Free Frees.
Romanoo of an Orchid Hunter. ,
Orchid hunting leads to strange
adventures. M. Hamelin, the col
lector who has sent home all the
specimens of the Eulophiolla eliza-
bothio that have hitherto reached
these shores, narrates in a letter how
be won a dusky bride and, moreover,
secured his preserves of the famous
plant from all poaching on tho part
of brother depredators —or, more
euphemistically, plant collectors.
While searching the woods of Mada
gascar he had for guide and hunter
the brother of the chief, Mayombosa.
This unhappy guide had the misfor
tune to be so severely mauled by a
Madagascar lion that he died, and M.
Hamelin returned alone to tell tbe
tale. After the recital the irate chief
gave the survivor the option of mar
rying the widow or being greased
and burned. He chose the lesser of
two evils, but coupled with the mar
riage contract an undertaking on the
part of his brother-in-law to close
those lands to all other orchid seek
ers.—London' Tolegraph.
Polltenoia nil.
Virtue is not to be measured by os
teittatious giving. There is frequent
ly more real love for humanity in
the soul of tbe man who removes the
banana skin from the pavement than
in tho heart of the donor of the me
morial window in tbe church. Polite
ness, like all other faults and virtues,
may become habitual. It is surpris
ing how many small acts of kindness,
how many little deeds of helpfulness,
one may do in the course of a day
when there are inclination to be kind
and a lookout kept for the opportu
nity.
One may set out with this inten
tion in the morning, and the footing
up at night—not to others, but to
one’s own secret conscience—will be
cheering and encouraging.—Chicago
later Ocean.
Something Hod to Go Up.
The following good story is told of
a Glasgow bailie: In Scottish courts
of law witnesses repeat the oath with
the right hand raised. On one ocoa-.
sion, however, the magistrate found
a difficulty.
“Hold up your right arm," he com
manded.
“I canna dae’t," said the witness.
,"Why not!"
"Got shot in that airm.”
“Then hold up your left."
“Canna dae that ayther. Got shot
in the ither ane tae.”
"Then hold up your leg,” respond-
the irate magistrate. “No man can
be sworn in this court without hold
ing up something.’’—Green Bag.
The screw propeller ot the steam
ship Umbria is 24} feet in diameter
and weighs 89 tons. Its four blades
are made of manganese bronze, and
the metal in them cost over $18,000.
The highest waves in the ocean are
laid to be those.off the Cape of Good
Hope. Under the Influence of a
northwesterly gale they have been
known to exceed 40 feet in height
A gold coin of the weight of 4
pennyweights and valued at 8s. id.,
struck in the reign of Henry VL is
known a* an “angel” but why no
in toll
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MOVE’EM. OCIIS
CLEARING
SUE
IS NOW
Owing to the stringency
money market we have
of i
Marked t Doi
Our entire stock of Summer (
and we will sell each article a
Big Barg.
And have therefore determinei
prices down to suit the most
oal.
Besides, with each dollars woi
goods purchased for cash, we wil
one of our 5-oent oash coupons.
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will fled it to their interest t
early. Above aalea will be at'rio
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