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VOL. 111.
[OUR LATEST DISPATCHES.
i lie Happenings of a Day Chronicled in
Brief and Concise Paragraphs
And Containing' the Gist of the Sews
From All Parts of the World.
The Eau Clare, Wis., Pulp and Pa
per Company, \yith a paid up capital
stock of SIOO,OOO, was placed in the
hands of a receiver Monday.
It is understood that the treasury
department will take steps to restrict
the payment of gold over the counters
of the sub-treasury at New York, with
a view to building up the gold reserve,
which has now been invaded $5,000,-
000—leaving it in round figures at
$85,000,000.
Advices of Tuesday from New York
state that the monetary situation con
tinues to improve, Currency in large
amounts has reached the banks from
outside points during the past three
days, mainly from Chicago, and fully
$2,000,000 in currency has been re
ceived since last Friday.
Bids were opened at the navy de
partment Tuesday for the construction
of three light draft gun-boats of about
1,200 tons. The Newport News Dry
Dock and Shipbuilding company was
the lowest bidder, its bids being, $290,-
000 for No. 7; $306,000 each for Nos.
8 and 9 or $840,000 for all three.
Tuesday night fire broke out in H.
F. Brown & Sons’ livery stable, at
Owenton, Ky. It spread rapidly, and
twenty-five houses, embracing two
blocks, were burned. H. B. McNally
was burned in the Exchange hotel.
Loss, $60,000; insurance, SIB,OOO.
The orgin of the fire is unknown. This
leaves the town without a hotel or liv
ery stable.
Advices received Tuesday at Buenos
Ayres are to the effect that Admiral
Mello, commander of the insurgent
Brazilian fleet, again bombarded Bio
de Janeiro Monday. The damage
done is said to have been great. Many
of the residents who remained in the
city prior to the bombardment are
now fleeing to the interior cities and
towns. President Peixoto continues
his efforts to organize a fleet where
with to give battle to the enemy.
A Bt. Louis special of Tuesday says:
The American Express Company has
lost $50,000 entrusted to it by a New
York bank for transmission to New
Orleans via Bt. Louis. The money
was placed in a strong box in New
York, with Special Guard Korzdurfer.
Just where it jumped the track, de
tectives upon the case seem unable to
learn. They left for New Orleans,
having apparently reached the opinion
that the loss took place between St.
Louis aud the Cresceut City.
Lady Henry Somerset called to or
der a great audience of women at the
art palace, Chicago, Tuesday, for the
second session of the Woman’s Chris
tian Temperance Union congress. In
memory of Mary Allen West, the sixth
around-the-world missionary who died
in Japan, Mrs. Cliika Sakurai, of Ja
] an, delivered an eulogy on her life
aud work. Lady Somerset introduced
Susan B. Anthony, who stirred the
audience up to a pitch of enthusiasm
with a woman’s rights and temperance
speech combined.
The Boston Herald of Tuesday says
that a warrant has been issued for
George B. White, representing the firm
of Williams, White & Cos., tanners and
leather dealers, in tbatcity. Mr.White
is accused of obtaining money by false
pretenses—about $200,000 from a dozen
banks in Boston, and about $300,000
from New York, Philadelphia aud
Pittsburg institutions. The firm is
said to have had at one time assets of
about $1,250,000, with liabilities less
than $300,000. All that could be found
snow would not make a check of the
firm good for SIOO,OOO.
A San Francisco dispatch of Tues
day says: The rumors current ever
since Actor M. B. Curtis was acquit
ted of the murder of Policeman Grant
that the release was secured by bribe
ry, have now crystalized into open ac
cusation. It is charged that two sets
of jurors were bribed. Eight thou
sand dollars was promised, but only
$2,800 paid. Four jurors had been
bought and only two paid. The other
two are said now to be ‘blackmailing
Curtis and threatened to kill. Curtis
has left town and is living on a ranch
guarded by armed men.
The house committee on elections
Tuesday partly considered the case of
Whatley vs. Cobb, from the fifth Ala
bama. The contestant bad made ap
plication for leave to file addi
tional complaint, to take further testi
mony and to print testimony left out
by the clerk of the house from the
Kecord, aud the two appoint a com
mittee to investigate the alleged elec
tion frauds fn the fifth Alabama dis
trict. Five days were given the con
testant’s attorney in which to file his
brief, and the case was set for a hear
ing on the 24th inst.
f The state assembly of the confed
erate veterans of Alabama was held at
Birmingham Tuesday for the purpose
of electing a major general to succeed
the late General Holtzclaw. Fred S.
Fergu ion was elected on the first bal
lot. It was decided to divide the stale
into four districts and make four state
.brigadiers and elect four brigadier
State of iatoto.
generals. These organizations will be
made at once and be ready for the
state convention, which will be held
at Birmingham next spring at the
time of the holding of the grand re
union of confederate veterans.
On May sth last, the well-known
Wall street firm of Patton & Cos. fail
ed with liabilities of $788,000 and as
sets of SII,OOO. Tuesday William
L, Pattou, a member of the firm, was
jailed, charged with the hypothecation
of $60,000 worth of securities held by
the firm in a fiduciary capacity, and
also with appropriating to his own
personal account $250,000 of the ac
tual $350,000 lost to creditors. Pat
ton, it is said, never disguised this
fact to the creditors, but claimed that
he would, through the assistance of
wealthy relatives, pay back dollar for
dollar.
A Jackson, Miss., special of Tuesday
says: Governor Stone has written to
the editor of the New York Sun call
ing his attention to the fact that not
a cotton gin has been burned by white
caps in Mississippi this year. The
Sun published a statement to the ef
fect that white caps were terrorizing
the ginners of the state. A few gins
have been posted, by whom no one
knows; possibly by some crank or
harmless sneak, but it is a fact that
will not be contradicted that not a
single gin that was posted has been
burned or otherwise molested.
The citizens of Jacksonville, Fla.,
voted Tuesday upon the proposition to
bond the city for $1,000,000 for public
improvements. There was very little
opposition to the project, the majority
for bonds being 497—nearly three to
one in their favor. Of the $1,000,000
to be issued $200,000 will be applied
to retiring the old sanitary improve
ment bonds now bearing 8 per cent in
terest, and the remaining SBOO,OOO to
water supply and sewer extension,
bulkheading the river front, pave
ments, electric light plant, city build
ing and market, sidewalks, etc.
THE CUP STILL WITH US.
The Vigilant Wins Three Straights
from the British Yacht.
A New York special of Friday says:
For the third time the Yigilant has
passed the Valkyrie, and the American
cup will stay in this country for an
other year. With plenty of "wind,
with a splendid sea and in almost ideal
weather for yachting, the third contest
took place Friday afternoon. At 12:27
o’clock the yachts got off close to
gether, but the Vigilant leading. The
wind was then blowing thirty miles
an hour aud the sea was rough.
Both yachts got off on a starboard
tack. Strange to say it ap
peared from the start that the
Valkyrie was pointing nearer the wind
than the American yacht. At 1 o’clock
the Vigilant appeared from Bockaway
beach to be an eighth of a mile in the
lead. The boats ran rapidly under the
strong wind. They carried plenty of
canvas and their lee rails were under
water. An hour later the Valkyrie was
leading and it looked to be a long
gap—from a half to a mile. The Vigil
ant, however, gradually gained on the
Valkyrie and there was some as beau
tiful running toward the close of he
race as was ever seen. The Vigilant
crossed the line at 3 :52 :44, and the
Valkyrie at 3 :55:30.
ENGLISH COMMENT.
The London Daily Graphic com
menting on the race, says: “We are
fairly beaten. Nevertheless, Lord
Dunraven has no cause to be ashamed
of a yacht that was beaten by so nar
row a margin. English builders must
try to outmaneuver American builders,
else some day an American yacht will
come here and sweep the board.”
Other prominent papers speak in
similar terms regarding the contest.
COMMENDING THEIR SENATORS
Citizens of Memphis Hold a Meeting
in Defense of Silver.
Following on the heels of the recent
action of the joint meeting of the
Merchants’ and Cotton exchange at
Memphis that condemned acrimo
niously Senators Bate and Harris, of
Tennessee, for their attitude on the
silver bill, now in the senate, a largely
attended mass meeting of leading citi
zens of Memphis and Shelby county
was held Thursday night to discuss the
silver question.
After lengthy speeches a committee,
consisting of ex-Ccngressman Casey
Young, Col. M. C. Galloway, E. W.
Carmack, Holmes Cummins, Thomas
Holmes, H. D. Greer and J. J. Du
puv, was appointed, who submitted
lengthy resolutions eulogistically en
dorsing the senators named and com
mending them for their faithfulness
and firmness in defense of silver.
Some of the speeches were especial
ly bitter in their denunciation of Pres
ident Cleveland, who was character
ized as a s'ave driver, cracking his
whip over the backs of the senators
aud representatives in congress. The
meeting was composed almost exclu
sivtiy of democrats.
Frost Cuts Off Late Cotton.
A Birmingham, Ala., special of
Tuesday says: It is estimated that
the frost which fell Sunday night and
killed late cotton will cut off the al
ready short crop fully ten per cent
in the counties in north and middle
Alabama. The crop was already
twenty per cent short before frost
came.
TRENTON, GA. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 20,1893.
AT THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.
Affairs of Government anJ Ronline of
Hie House and Senate Discusses.
Notes of Interest Concerning the Peo
ple and Their General Welfare.
Mr. Wilson, of Washington, intends
to introduce a bill, which will estab
lish a postal currency of denomina
tions less than $1 and which will take
the place of the present postal note
system of transmitting small amounts
of money. He has been consulting
with the postoffice officials as to the
best method to be adopted, and as
soon as a feasible plan is formulated
he will put in the bill.
The sub-committee on ways and
means of internal revenne, consisting
of Messrs. McMillan, Bynum, Mont
gomery, Hopkins and Payne, Monday,
heard Thomas C. Sherman, of New
York, on the subject of an income tax.
He would not have a tax on wages, sal
aries or the profits arising from busi
ness, but on tho revenues from invest
ed wealth, rents, railroads, telegraph
and telephone and other corporations.
Senator Morgan, on Monday, re
introduced his bill of last session, pro
viding for the control of the Union
Pacific and Central Pacific railroad
companies. The bill increases the di
rectory of the two roads to fifteen
members each, five of whom are to be
chosen by the stockholders of the
roads and the remaining ten appointed
by the president of the United States.
The directors are not to own stock in
either company and are to receive a
salary of SIO,OOO each and traveling
expenses to be paid by the railroad
companies.
The democratic members of the ways
and means committee hope to have the
tariff bill reported to the house within |
a month, and to have it pass that body
before the holidays. This indicates that
considerable progress has been made
with the bill and that it is not entici
pated that on the schedules yet to ar
range very much time is to be con
sumed, as it will be necessary to have
the bill considered by the full commit
tee and the republican members given
ai# opportunity to make a minority re
port before the bill is reported to the
house.
A Constit utioiml Amendment.
Representative Hall, of Minnessota,
has been preparing a constitutional
amendment, which he will introduce,
proposing a form of closure for both
house arid senate. It is his idea that
the people would be glad to amend the
constitution, so that a vote might be
reached in either house after a reason
able time. A part of his amendment
will be that no measure shall passj
either house, unless a majority of each'
shall vote in favor of it. Mr. Hall
would require a roll call on every
measure that passes; no matter how
trivial, the same as required in the
legislatures of many states. This
amendment, he does not think, will
pass at this session, but he hopes that
it may be the ground work of
substantial reform iu legislation.
Voorliees Stands Firm.
“We are going to pass that bill if it.
takes from now till the end of next
winter and all through the following
spring,” said senator Voorhees in an
interview Tuesday. “It is not so much
a question of repeal now as whether a
majority in the senate shall rule or
the minority have that privilege. “Mr. |
Voorhees holds that under the rulesj
of the senate the vice president has not
the authority to count a quorum, but Mr.
Hill thinks that that official can force
action so as to bring the debate to a
close and a vote on the amendments
and the bill itself. Meanwhile a move
ment towards a compromise appears to
be halting. Radical difference be
tween democrats and the opposition
of the administration to the long post
ponement of the date on which the
repeal law is to go into effect have
proved a serious check. Unless dras
tic measures can be taken to force a
vote it is difficult to tell when the
situation will change.
Callins on the President.
Several unconditional repeal senators
called upon the president Saturday
morning and expressed the opinion
that a compromise could be had. They
wanted to know if he had ever given it
out that he would be, willing to agree
to a compromise. He replied, as he
has always replied to the former ques
tions of this character, that he stood
upon his message. In that he advised
unconditional repeal, and he still de
sired it. The senators who are op
posed to unconditional repeal still con
trol the situation. They can control
it for weeks and months. It is not
probable that the two factions of the
senate will be able to meet upon neutral
ground for several days to come. The
night sessions have led to too m uch
bad feelings for the senators to recover
quickly. Saturday they were wider
apart than they have been during the
past week.
Tlie Income Tax.
Mr. Bryan, of Nebraska, who is a
member of the majority of the commit
tee on ways and means, is trying to
have a graduated income tax made t
part of the tariff bill. If it is not ac
cepted, he will present it to the hous<
in some form. The young Nebraskt
statesman thinks he has solved what is
considered the most objectionable fea
ture of the income tax poposition—
the iuquistiorial feature. He would
have it made the duty of every
person liable to a tax upon his
income to go to the office and pay
it and not subject him to the
annoyance of paying agents of the
government, which has been suggested
as its disagreeable feature. He thinks
thoso who had no desire to avoid the
payment of tax would escape the in
quisition or annoyance. He will pro
pose a tax on all incomes above $2,500
at the rate of 1 per cent., 2 per cent,
on $5 000; 4 per cent, on $10,000; 6
per cent, on $25,000 and 10 per cent,
on $50,000. His plan is to have the
postmaster in cities of 10,000 popula
tion or less to collect the income taxes
and in large cities a special income tax
collector to be appointed.
A WOMAN physician, With a dimpled
face and a complexion like a mountain
pink, gives this remedy for “biliousness
and a bad faceA pint of hot or cold
water drunk every morning to cleanse
the stomach, esophagus and intestines;
ten minutes’ walk before a mouthful of
breakfast is eaten and ten hours’ s'eep
every day of your life.
THE NEWS IN GENERAL.
Sonietsei from Our Most Important
TelegrapHc Aiwes
And Presented in Pointed and Reada
ble Paragraphs.
A fire Sunday night destroyed thirty
buildings in the business portion of
the town of King City, Mo. The loss
is $150,000.
The United States man-of-war Mohi
can arrived at Port Townsend, Wash.,
from Behring sea Friday night with
five officers and seventeen men sick
with grip. The Mohican put in for re
pairs.
Advices from London state that
eleven new cases of the choleraic dis
order were reported at Greenwick
workhouse Monday. Thus far, though
upvard of 165 cases have been report
ed there, only eight deaths have re
sulted.
<j>ne of the most disastrous fires which
.hasyared in Detroit, Mich., for many
years occurred Saturday Evening on
Champlain street, a whole block of
business buildings on that street be
tween Brush and Beaudien being com
pletely swept away. Loss estimated
at $200,000. qiPfc
A London dispatch of Friday says:
A mysterious epiepmic of diarrhoea
prevails in the Greenwich work-house.
Over 150 of the inmates are affected.
Two inmates of the Greenwich work
house are already dead and others are
in a daugerous condition. The symp
tons are in many respects similar to
cholera.
Arjinknown steamer was run down
andjunk in Boston harbor Friday
and many persons who were on
,boafd were drowned, the vessel sink
ing so rapidly that it was impossible
to rescue them. The accident was
caused by the inability of the officers
of the respective crafts to see any dis
tance ahead, because of a heavy fog.
The New York Evening Post says
that the Yalkvrie will be laid up on
this side of the Atlantic for the winter.
Discussion of the result of the race
was very warm Saturday. Yatchmen
were very decided in opinions about
the true results of the yatch’s great
race in its bearing on the old contro
versy between kneel and centerboard
Bursting tvater dams in the territory
of Tepuca, Mexico, have caused great
loss of life on several haciendas.
Twenty-four persons are known to be
drowned. At Santa Inez, in the state
if Oxaca, the town was inundated and
the town hall and many other build
ings were swept away. There were
similar disasters in other towns.
Information comes from Valparaiso,
Chile, of the marriage of Miss Amelia
Bojas to Francis W. Egan. The grow n
io the eldest son of Ho.i. Patrick Egan,
formerly United States minister to
Chile. The bride is a Laughter of the
late Don Jordge Bogus, at one time °
member of the Chilean senate aud one
of the best and most respected fami
lies in Chile.
During the week ending October
14th 2,121,794 people paid to see the
World’s fair. It was the banner week
of the exposition thus far, and far ex
ceeded th • attendance for alike period
of any international fair ever he and. Of
this number Chicago day contributed
over 700,000, a greater crowd,perhaps,
than ever before congregated within
an enclosure.
The big schooner Minnehaha was
beached at Stark, ten miles north of
Onekama, Mich., at noon Saturday to
save her from foundering in deep wa
ter. The seas soon overwhelmed the
wreck and drove the crew into the
rigging. Before the arrival of the
life-saving crews from Manistee and
Frankfort, tho schooner went to pieces,
and six of the crew drowned.
A cable dispatch of Monday from
San Jose, Costa Rica states that Pres
ident Rodrigues and his cabinet will
hear argument in the case of Francis
H. Weeks, the New York embezzler,
on the question of his extradition to
the United States. The organ of Don
Felix Montero, tho democratic candi
date for president, prints an editorial
strongly defending Weeks and oppos
ing his surrender.
The British steamships Glenlivig
and Dartmore, which sailed from the
Charleston port Sunday—the first
named for Bremen and the other foi
Liverpool—carried 17,250 bales of cot
ton. The Glenlivig took 9,137 and
the Dartmore 8,113 bales. These are
the largest cargoes ever shipped from
this port. These ships w ill run regu
larly from Charleston to Bremen and
Liverpool during the cotton season.
The bonded warehouses of Jacob F.
Shaffer at Lancaster, Penn., were to
tally destroyed by fire Sunday night
with their contents, consisting of over
1,300 barrels of whisky. The buildings
were set on fire. In the distillery the
incendiary placed hay in and around
the vats and saturated it wuth kerosene.
The bung was also knocked out of a
barrel of spirits, which ran over the
floor. The loss is $80,000; insurance
$58,000.
The supreme council of tho Scottish
Rite of Free and Accepted Masous
met at St. Louis, Mo., Monday,Philip
Glicker, of Galveston, Tex., acting
commander presiding. The proceed
ings were of course of a secret nature.
The deputies came from states and
territories west of the Ohio river and
south of the Mason and Dixon’s line,
and comprise many leading Masous of
the country, the supreme council be
ing composed only of Masons of the
thirty-third degree.
By the premature explosion of dy
namite at Elmington, 111., Monday,
five persons were killed and five in
jured, two of whom cannot live. The
killed and injured were thrown over
fifty feet by the shock. They were
dead and mangled so badly that iden
tification was almost impossible. The
shock was distinctly felt at Campus,
five miles away, and tho entire city of
Elmington is more or less wrecked.
The business portion is-badly dam
aged, hardly a pane of glass remaining
in the fronts.
COMMENDING THEIR SENATORS
Citizens of Memphis Hold a Meeting
iu Defense of Silver.
Following on tho heels of the recent
action of the joint mee'ting of the
Me'chants’ and Cotton exchange at
Memphis that condemned acrimo
niously Senators Bate and Harris; of
Tennessee, for their attitude on the
silver bill, now in the senate, a largely
attended mass meeting of leading citi
zens of Memphis and Shelby county
was held Thursday night to discuss the
silver question.
After lengthy speeches a committee,
consisting of ex-Congressman Casey
Young, Col.- M. C. Galloway, E. W.
Carmack, Holmes Cummins, Thomas
Holmes, H. D. Greer and J. J. Du
puy, was appointed, who submitted
lengthy resolutions eulogistically en
dorsing the senators named and com
mending them for their faithfulness
and firmness in defense of silver.
Somo of the speeches were especial
ly bitter in their denunciation of Pres
ident Cleveland, who was character
ized as a s ave driver, cracking his
whip over the backs of the senators
and representatives in congress. The
meeting was composed almost exclu
sively of democrats.
gen. mcmahon dead.
He Was One of the Greatest of the
French Generals.
A special from Paris announces that
Marshal MacMahon, one of the great
generals of the Franco-Prussian war
and once president of the French re
public, is dead. He died at 10 o’clock
Tuesday morning at Chateau La Foret,
on the Loire. He was able to partake
of food until Monday. During the
night the sufferer’s strength gradually
declined, and he grew weaker and
until the end came peacefully
at mentioned. The family of
the deceased soldier were present at
his death.
Forest Fines in Texas.
Reports of Tuesday from eastern
Texas say that fifteen miles of pine
timber, reaching Montgomery county
toward the Sabine river, are a seeth
ing mass of flames. The whole coun
try is dry, and unless rain falls it is
feared that the loss to the yellow pine
section of Texas will run into the
millions.. Several fine, milling plants
and towns are in the path of the fire,
and grave fears are entertained.
Democratic Negroes Issue an Address.
The executive committee of the negro
national league has issuer an address
urging the workingmen in New York,
Massachusetts, Virginia, lowa and
Ohio to support the democratic ticket
in those states. The address attributes
the prevailing distress to the Sherman
law and the McKinley tariff and the
extravagance of the Reed congress.
A Whole Train Crew Killed.
An accident to the Pennsylvania
limited at Wellsville, Ohio, Tuesday
morning, at 6:15 o’clock, resulted in
the death of the entire engine crew
and fatal injuries to three men who
occupied the baggage and express car.
The limited ran into a freight train,
which was crossing the main track.
THE OLD STUMP FENCE.
How like a lazy serpent stretched In sleep
It lies, half-hid by overhanging spray
Of sumac, hazel and the golden gray
Of lichens that upon it lightly creep
Beside its smoke-brown rings red clover*
peep
Where often through the silent summer
day
The piping crickets sweet extempores play
To charm the passing Rocks of browsing
sheep. •
Upon its wrinkled back the chip-munls
whisks.
And playful butterfles flit 4o and fro
Amid the clematis whose purple disks
Nod mild res pones as the breezes blow;
While many a partridge taps his mournful
drums,
And fireflies light their lamps when twilight
t comes. *
—Jean La Rue Burnett, in Independents
PITH AND POINT.
The bone of contention must be the
lower jaw.
An expressman is not always suc
cessful in the delivery of a speech.
O, butcher, when I deal with thee
All sentiment is dead ;
Take back the heart thou gavest me
And give me ham instead.
—Washington News.
Madam Rumor seems to have no
trouble iu getting currency.—Dallas
News.
Kleptomania is about the only dis
ease that the patient makes money out
of.—Puck.
When you can borrow SSO on your
watch you realize that time is money,
—New York Press.
When deep in love we groan about
Its travail and its pain.
But. senseless men ! when safely out,
We long to love again.
—Puck.
The great difficulty about common
sense is that it is so tremendously
scarce that it is not common.—Texas
Siftings.
He—“ She says she likes to have me
call on her.” She—“ What’s the name
of the fellow she’s trying to hurry up ?’*
—Brooklyn Life.
Mary had a little lamb ,
’Twas in the West that Mary grew;
A cyclone came ; they couldn’t flgd
Enough of that lamb to make a stew.
—Buffalo Courier.
Capitalist—“Stockson, what would
you advise me to buy to-morrow morn
ing?” Gloomy Broker—“A breakfast
—if you’ve get the price. ” —Chicago
Tribune.
Times like these breed cautiousness.
A farmer whose poultry is in the base
ment of his barn sends us word that
even the hens are laying low.—Buffalo
Courier.
A gentle maiden, young and fair,
Of loveliness a dream,
And she just dotes on—no, not me,
But caramels and cream.
—New York Herald.
You can’t always tell by listening to
a man while he prays at Friday even
ing meeting just what he will do in a
horse trade Saturday afternoon.—
Somerville Journal.
“I think, ” he was saying, when she
interrupted him severely: “But you
don’t think; you only think you
think,” and he never finished what he
was going to say. —Detroit Free Press.
Cause of Tornadoes.
From the Gulf of Mexico to the
North Pole and from the lakes to the
Rocky Mountains is a vast extent of
country crossed by no mountain chains
to interoept or retard the velocity of
air current. The extent of this coun
try is equalled by none on earth. Cold
air being heavier to the square inch
than warm air, the cold air, when com
ing in contact with a warm current
from the south, always predominates,
forcing the warm air into the upper
currents. The cause of cyclones is the
meeting of a head wind from the north
with a head wind from the south. They
meet like two vast armies of men. The
pressure at the point of meeting is so
great that the air, by comprehension,
becomes heavier to the square inch
than wood or the human body, hence
either one will float in the same man
ner that wood will float in water—it
floats because it is lighter to the square
inch than water. Place water in an
ordinary wash bowl and remove the
plug and it will be observed that in
passing out the water forms a circular
reaction. Air being a liquid does the
same in passing either upwards or
downwards; hence the funnel-shaped
spout of the cyclone centre. When
two immense bodies of air coming from
opposite, direction meet, the only
egress is upwards and sideways, and in
passing upwards it forms the funnel
the same as water passing out of a
washbowl downwards. The theory that
a cyclone forms a vacuum is absurd.
Withdraw air from a glass jar with an
air-pump, and, a feather within
the vaccuum formed will drop with the
same velocity as lead, or, on the other
hand, you can compress air until it fs
heavier to the square inch than wood,
in which case wood will float in the
air. The lifting power of a cyclone is
caused (1) by the compression or den
sity of the air, and (2) by its velocity.
Combining the power of density with
that of velocity, which occurs at the
centre or funnel, no power can resist
it. The feeling of suffocation or diffi
culty in breathing when near the track
of a cyclone is caused from the com
pression cf air. Minneapolis Tribune.
NO. 32.