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EDISON’S FIENDISH CLOCK.
Winrd'n UlUwt In*«*ott«>n b DlaKbl
lr»l |u It* .Powlbltitl**.
Thomas Edison, the phenomenal in
4t*ntor, ha* reached a critical stage in
hie career, and it would be a strange
sarcasm of fate if his latest invention
should ruake him positively abhorrent
,to the growing generation. Over in hie
laboratory at Llewellyn park js this in
mention It lias been tried and found
perfect, and't is a phonographic clock
which, instead of chiming the hours,
calls them out at every quarter in a
voice full of clearness. It may be tilted
with any set to suit the purposes tor
which it may be intended. To a re
porter it was exhibited yesterday.
Tlte inventor waaoheery and playful as
he always is. "The clock," said he, "is
An improvement, and if ft were only in
Abe market now it might.save you report
ers a great deal of worriment. For in
stance, say you are at a political moet
tny with a dozen speakers carded. They
Art' each to have a half hour. You know
what a fiction that is. But now, if you
had a clock like this, see how it would
A-ork," and here Mr. Edison placed a set
Within it. He pointed the hand to the
quarter of an hour and a voice came ring
ing nut: "This speaker is half through."
At the half hour the clock blurted out
“The audience will please not encore.
The gentleman now gives way to an
other."
"The only fear I have." continued Mr.
£- iison. "is that the young unmarried
folks may not relish it. T?ou are married?
No? Well. I don't give this out as a britio,
but when you get entangled in the. pre
liminaries coma to me and I will give
you one that you may present to the
family into which you inspire to he ad
mitted. It will be a libber. I'm a little
in doubt about the popularity of the
|>arlor dock with the younger people."
Mr. Edison has good reason to fear. A
Inure tantalizing ornament to a pair of
Ardent lovers than a matrimonial parlor
phonographic clock cannot be imagined.
Fancy, for instance, a Sunday evening in
A cozy parlor with two hearts beating as
one startled by the voice from the man
tel: “Good night, a fond good night. In
Another hour it will he midnight.” Then
dolefully at a quarter past ami each suc
ceeding quarter comes out its hoarse
Cloakings, u i.il 11:53. when itblurtsout:
"In five minutes more it will be to
morrow," and every ten minutes subse
quently the air is filled with its mauidins.
jruch as: "Ah! how stili the hour." "Ma
bel, lam watching tln-e. ha. ha!" "Me
thinks i hear die spirit of thy mamma
Upon the stairs." "Please don t heed me;
tt is m v misfortune that I must warn you
that the hour is half-past 12." "Did I
hear you ask me to get that hat?" “Will
you kindly remember me in your pray
ers?" "Look out aIT*,
ha!' I was ouly fooling thee!" "I'llsoon
have to nail father to go to his office."
And so the clock jabbers on most cx-
Aaperatingly. Of course the words are
feet to suit the circumstances. If the
Wooer be a favored person of course the
language will be much different, the tone
of the clock will be sweet and simpering,
and the words coy and cuptivating.—
New York Press.
A Historic Murk.
An order has been passed by the trus
tees of this city which, if carried into ef
fect, as we believe it will bo. will work
the demolition of all that remains of the
buildings that once stood within the pali
sades of Sutter s fort. The order directs
that the streets be opened through the
property. Not only will the lust remain
ing relic of the historic spot be thus oblit
erated, since a street line cuts through it,
but the plat will be divided into small
parcels and its identity lost to history and
to human interest. The owner of the
property is a non-resident of the city: he
derives no rental from it, unless a meager
pasturage pays him a small sum, and he
-will not sell to those who wish to restore
the fort and convert the plat into a park.
If all appeals to the owner fail, if he re
mains deaf to the hundreds of requests
that have been made, and still refuses
po name his price, we propose when the
streets are cut through, thai at the inter
section of the highways there shall be
planted a simple enduring stone to mark
the s|*ot where John A. Sutter raised the
American flag and gave shelter to the
.early pioneers of California. And that
,on the stone there be inscribed the fact
that a certain citizen of Chicago—naming
him—stubbornly refused to sell the his
toric spot to the people for a rest rve at
any price.—Sacramento Record-Union.
Th« Erratic St. Lawrence.
“The St. Lawrence river," said a Clay
ion member of the Cogbum club last
evening, “is a most erratic as well as
beautiful body of water. You have prob
ably noticed several items in the news
papers of vessels sailing on it running
aground because of low water. Just
{think of it—low water with the almost
continuous rains we have had the past
spring, summer and fall! But such is
{the fact. And in some .other generally
dry seasons the St. Lawrence has been
unusually high. It is said .that the grand
old river has one of those low spells—
sinking fits, so to speak—every seven
years, but I can't vouch for the truth of
that. The fact remains, however, that
it is unlike any other body of water I
know of, and when other streams and
ncighiioring lakes are high the St. Law
rence is apt to makeacontrary showing.’’
—Utica Observer.
Qcrnliin Sui«a TVcntcl.
The managers of the Berlin cafes con
certs have offered a prize of 800 marks
to whoever shall find purely German
names for the following commonly used
foreign words: “Specialitaet. programm.
phantasie. equilibrist, akrobat, gyrunaa
tiker. eccentrics, knock abouts, trick.
Jongleur, rgostiaak eccentric," Bx
jehange. . .
Hi* Ar| of Spending.
Apropos of the sale of jewelry fn Paris
during the exhibition season, a French
contemporary enters into what, it calls
“the physiology of the buyer." with spe
cial reference to national idiosyncrasies.
It seems that purchases of jewelry have,
this year doubled the average amount of
former years: and that this happy com
pensation for political dullness is due al
most entirely to the invasion of the bar
barians. And among the invaders the
American stands pre-eminently first in
favor. Eie has three first rate qualities
—he goes straight to what lie wants, lie
pays cash down, and he never bargains.
One day a leading jeweler bad the
pleasure of selling a necklace to an
American for 60.900 francs for money
down on the counter, without being
asked for tbe smallest discount or reduc
tion—how much he would have given
hail he lieen asked, the Parisian trades
man does not say.
Next to the American, "le roi des
acheteurs,*' comes the Russian, who
makes very large purchases, but not
quite in so reckless a manner; then the
Spaniard and then the Englishman,who,
we should have thought, would have
lieen placed third.
The rest of the nations seem to come
nowhere in comparison—the German,
no doubt has not much cash left after a
aeries of military budgets; the Dutch
man is too frugal, and the Italian is too
much accustomed to bargain, regarding
h discount of 50 per cent, as in the nat
ural course of things at home.
But even the italiun is welcome in
comparison with the Frenchman from
the country. The detestable provincial,,
even w hen rolling in money, will avoid
the great establishments and seek the
small ones, which cannot afford to send
a customer away. He will drive out
rageoudv hard bargains, and will go
away and return day after day until tlie
tradesman will let him have what he
wants at almost any price to get rid of
him. The American without vanity, or
the Englishman who dislikes trouble,
would evidently do well to employ a
Frenchman from the country, even at a
heavy percentage, to do his bargaining.
—London Globe.
Rmc« In n Storm*
A balloon race took place in Belgium
recently over a course between Brussels
and the town of Diest. Twenty balloons
were entered for tbe race: thirteen start
ed. The largest balloon, guided by M.
Godard, had a capacity of 1,000 cubic
meters. The other twelve balloons had
capacities ranging la-tween 800 and 800
cubic meters each. The aeronaut* sailed
away from Brussel* at 4 o'clock in the
afternoon. Shortly after all had disap
peared from the view of the thousand*
who had gathered to see the start, a tre
tuk ndouj storm swept across their oourse.
The greatest anxiety was felt for the
safety of the aeronauts, and the women
and children who had gone up with
them, and telegram* of inquiry were
sent out all over the country from Brus
sels. Early In the exening, however,
dispatches announced that all the aero
nauts had landed their balloons with all
their iiassengeis unhurt, although some
of them had had a pretty hard tussle
with the storm. Not a single balloon
reached its destination in Diest. Capt.
Portet won tho first prize! He arrived
at Waenrode, near Diest, at 6 o'clock, in
his balloon Pro Patria, which has a capac
ity of 560 cubic meters. M. Godard, with
his big balloon, took tho second prize.
M. Vuaquin. with his balloon Tricolor,
of 890 cubic meters capacity, received
the third prize. Tho prizes were given
by the city of Brussels.—New York Press.
The Angelos and the Chestnut Bell.
“One of the most peculiar things
about the Barye exhibition," writes a
friend from New York, “is to hear the
comments of the sight seers on the An
gelus. To judge front the comments on
the size of the painting, one might im
agine that the visitors expected to see a
panorama of Bunker Hill or the Battle
of Gettysburg. The huge canvases of
Verestchagin, which were exhibited last
spring, and the size of Munkacsy's cele
brated work, had prepared many of the
visitors to Mud a 10x7 or some canvas of
nearly these proportions. ‘What! That
little thing!’ is sometimes the remark
with which the wonderful creation is
greeted by disappointed sight seers. j
There is another class who are more rep-:
rehensible because they have come with i
a determination to admire the picture at!
all events, little or big, good or bad.
They will stand as near as they can get
to the crimson ropes which keep the
crowd away from the painting, and in a
voice which is meant to be soulful and j
impressive they say, very audibly, ‘Why.
you can almost bear the bells ring!’
Whoever started this fad has much to
answer for. There are on an average ;
767 ecstatic maidens every day who ‘can
ilmost the hells ring.’ simply be
cause it is the proper thing to do.”—
Boston Advertiser.
Tbe r" niey T1«1«T «f Fruit Tres*.
Two Chickasaw plum trees, growing
so closely together that their branches
intertwine as if they were one tree, the
two covering a space of aboutsoo square
feet, frequently pay $lO iu a season,
which would be at the rate of over SBOO
per acre. A pear tree near by yields ten
bushels in a good season, and $1 per
bushel is not an unusual price. Three
early apple trees this season gave over
fifty bushels, which 6old at from eighty
cents to $1.20 per bushel. —American
Agriculturist.
Better Unite Dp,
If such a monarchy as that of Dom
Pedro can be quietly overthrown and ii
republic proclaimed, the crowned heads
of Europe had better wake up and bolt
the back door and ring for the patrol
wagon. It's the handwriting on the
wall.—Detroit Free Press.
TRENTON, GEORGIA, DECEMBER 14,1889.
NATURAL GAS DIMINISHI.4Q.
*IU« of th» Interesting Peculiarities of
the Invi/tiM* Fuel.
What is known as rock pressure is the
crying power of the gas. It must
cut- from the wells under a pressure
rent enough to propel it through a long
•me of pipe. The principal supply for
1 'itt.sburg comes from a distance of from
thirty, to forty miles, some of it as much
•is sixty miles aw ay.
It might be supposed that a simple
algebraic problem would give the amount
of flow through a given sized pipe under
a known inimal pressure and fora known
distance. It would be easy enough to de
termine the quantity of water delivered
under hucli circumstances, but it is not
at all possible to determine the amount
of gas.
iu the first place, there is an astonish
ing difference in volume in gas under
differing pressures and different temper
atures. A change of 45 degs. in temjier
ature of the gas will increase or decrease
the volume of natural gas 30 jx-r cent.
A difference in pressure of 200 pounds
will make a difference of at least one
sixth in volume. Remarkable as it may
seem, no formulas have lieen made to
show the resistance of flow, so that it is
only possible to guess at it by isolated
cases.
Wliat is known as the Acme natural
gas pipe line, ten inches in diameter,
which was one of the tightest and best
ones ever I.mi. started w ith gas at 500
pounds pressure from the wells and
brought it to the low* pressure lines at
the city limits at sixiy-ttve pounds press
un—an enormous waste. A sixteen
inch tine from Murraysville. reasonably
tight. I ft the well at 200 pounds press
ure. and thirty miles distant gave only
fifteen iiounds pressure. Such figures
as these simply prove nothing. It is
known that the carrying capacity of a
pipe ten iiu lies in di-uneter is much more
than twice that of a pipe only five inches
in diameter, when it is water that is car
ried—and liie resistance is known under
certain pressures at the initial point with
the pipe* discharging freely at the end
hut water is not subject to the great
changes in volume that gas is.
These unknown quantities have not
been made a subject of so much study
by the natural ga-s companies as they
would have been had there been more
time to study them. The whole business
is done with a rush. It is a singular fact,
but nevortlnless a fact, that no reliable
test has ever been made of the tempera
tuijp of gas ns it comes from the sand
rocks, an J then wliat it is w hen it enters
the pqie. Several German scientists who
were over here recently seemed etqiocial
ly anxious to get such tests.
It was impoHsHib* to gratify- tlicni -lim
ply for the reason that all the wells art
drilled by contract, and no contractor
would allow- the six hours' loss of time
which would result by the stoppage of
work each time such u test was made,
in order to allow the sand to regain its
normal temperature after the heat made
by the friction of the drill had subsided.
No known method has been devised
for driving natural gas. It must carry
itself or it does not go at ail. Taking the
two instances named out of many that
might be given, it follows that with
small pipes there must be a high rock l
pressure from the wells, or tbe gas can
not be piped for a distance of thirty or
forty miles.
Another question equally important in
determining the problem of stability is
the character of the sand in which the
gas is found: whether it generates gas or
is simply a storage house which may, in
time, become exhausted. Gas is never
found in solid granite; it invariably comes
from a loose, porous rock.
Sometimes this sand is actually pebbly,
as is found in some sections of the Mur
ravsville field. In other cases it may have
the appearance of greater density; but,
nevertheless, it will be found to be porous.
No gas sand that will produce a paying
well is of greater density than will admit
of one-sixth of its volume in gas. The
gas is contained in the interstices of the
stone, possibly in a liquid form, because
of tho high pressure. It certainly is
greatly condensed at any rate. The bor
ing cf the hole allows it to escape; but it
em-apes from a store house, and when
it is all out there is and can be no imme
diate or early process of regeneration or
restoration; it is gone.
“Always taking out of the meal tub
and always putting in will soon exhaust
the supply" is an old saw which is ax
iomatic. As there is do replacing of the
gas, as it cannot now be replaced, hav
ing been generated and stored countless
years ago, it follows that there must be
exhaustion of fields in time. How long?
Well, we shall all come very close to
knowing, later on.
The dependence, then, for future sup
plies must be on new territory. As the
cost of pipeage is now ;i« SSO to every $1
invested in drilling a well (which in it
self reaches as high, in cases, as $5,000),
the opening of new territory must neces
sarily become more and more expensive.
—G. T. Dawson in Pittsburg Dispatch.
Venomous Blue Gum-nrd Negroe*.
The bite of a blue gummed negro is
said to be poisonous, and the following
fact would seem to confirm somewhat
the truth of the belief: About six weeks
»go, in a difficulty near Gosport, Ca?sar
Hill was bitten on the finger by Harry
Davis, colored, of the blue gum variety.
Inflammation set in, and in a short time
amputation of the finger was deemed
necessary to save the arm. But the
poison was not arrested, and the hand
and arin eoon showed a fearful progress
of the disease. The arm has been cut
off. and yet it is thought very uncertain
whether the disease wifi stop before tak
ing the life. <>f it*’, suffering victim.—
Clarke County Democrat.
I Dining t inier I‘eculiar Circunuu'iiCM.
An amusing story reaches us from Metz
of an adventure wbicli has just befallen
a French family living in the neighbor
hood of the frontier. These jieople have
some relatives residing in German Lor
raine. vho invited theqi to luncheon a
•lay o.i two ago. Noon was the hour
fixed, hut the hosts, alter waiting fry
some time in vain, betook themselves to
the frontier to meet their French kins
tolk. They found the family in u car
riage on the French side of the boundary
line trying to persuade tin* guard to let
them pass: but as i.u-y had v, ,ie unpro
vided with passport* the official barred
tite way obstinately The br.-m-h people,
whose appetites had li.vn slvii’iiefied by a
long drive, were in no humor to return
home with their l.imgvt umippi-tised. so
they suggested to their G anuu relatives
:hnt they should hurry lutrk and fetch
tin- vjin i* which they hud provided for
them.
7 h«?ir [s-rplexed hosts eagerly caught
.t the idea, and soon renp|ieared with a
goodiy stock of dishes and bottles, the
onlenta of which they proceeded lo dis
ass in company. The French sal dow ii
in their side of the boundary and the
• ermaiis on theirs, and mirth and jollity
/•owned the al fresco repast. Mean
tale the official, completely check
-■ ted, flitted about in anything but an
- iahie frame of mind, lie could not
~ ><iu to any law or regulation to put a
•;> to this outdoor meal, and, as the
<'h and Germans were each "clu-z
ne had no alternative but to keep
;> look*- it in tlie hope of catching
■ J dy flipping.. He was not, hnw
.*4lowed any opportunity of finding
■ .d when tiie friends had finished
• ' ust they separated. Ixitli parties
; to their respective homes ill
'h i of humors and highly delighted
' a i lg won a victory over the stern
' ry. —London Telegraph.
TUe future I’rliirew of Moimrn,
relative of t!ie lady in questionin
gs yc.urcorrespondent that theDuch
•ie Richelieu, who lias a host of
in New Orleans, having visited
• cxjiosition here, is about to be
■ Princess of Monaco. Although
C itliolic. she will lie the first lady
'■ in who has been married
. . •. diristian prince. Murgue
c. the hifure princess of
i .wii'c c.i principality, is
>i ic.lid Heine, cousin
.'trk li Heine, the poet. The
i. • Michel Heine was tlie
• f hie c •Mbratcd Hamburg
•'■•c i!' i ..-.who left £1,200.
• i .2.. ‘i ich'cl Heine and
A in out ci..a.-.;* d large for
... ~;.i '•' U’'!i a•••■•:, wlv nee they re
l m are now
• : ••'. ■ tee-i Urge amount
'• • pi c'-' ty 1.1 this city, from
• ••■■' • a. Handsome dividend
<•».’* On < ••i.d street they own.
, «d.. r .-.cod paying prop
• t o building. AH
s >•• liie Heine family hav^be
• r Catholics or Protoswits
• • exception of Mine. Furtado
. J the sister r; the poet, who
.• : five i.i Hamburg —Now OrleansTel
,ram to Si. Louis Post-Dispatch.
An Old Indian Workshop,
The geological survey, through Profes
sor W. H. Holmes, has recently made
some most important discoveries of ln
•11so relics just west of Washington, on
what is known as Pinev Branch lull. The
dud appears to be the remains of an
Indian workshop for the manufacture of
implements, wea'ions, etc. The spot has
i**en excavated and implements have
been found clear to the bed rock. The
discovery is considi red to be of tho great
est importance by archaeologists. It car
ries our knowledge of the ancient inhab
itants of this locality much further back
than any previous discoveries.
These chipped stone implements found,
it is s;.id, go back to the paleolithic age
ana show the country to have been in
habited at a much earlier period than
has been generally supposed. Imple
ments of this class have never before
been found except upon the surface, and
it has always been a question among
scientists as to what they referred. These
instruments discovered by the survey
bear a marked resemblance to instru
ments found in France, which have been
referred to the same ancient period of
the world’s existence. Mr. Holmes will |
announce and discuss his discovery in a I
paper to bo read before the Antliropolog- j
ical society.—Washington Star •
Liberty Statue I'njuntly Maligned.
At the recent congress of the Ameri
can Ornithologists’ union, Jonathan
Dwight, Jr., did a public service in
reading a paper on “Birds That Have
Struck the Statue of Ijiierty, New York
Harbor.” Considerable uneasiness has
been felt for some time on the subject
of the sacrifice of migratory birds to the
luring brilliancy of the Liberty and
other lights, and many exaggerated
statements have oeen made in the
papers. All alarm, however, is now dis
sipated by the fact, which Mr. Dwight
places on record, that the whole number
of birds kiiied this year at the statue of
Liberty is 690, which is considerably less
than last year. Of the dead birds picked
up this year 60 per cent, belonged to
one species, the Maryland yellow
throats.—New York Commercial Ad
vertiser.
Afraid of DarkneM.
A millionaire, who has just died at
Vienna, had such an antipathy to dark
ness that lie has actually left instructions
in his will for the illumination of his last
resting place An electric light is to be
kept burning in the vault during a whole
year, and even the interior of the coffin
is to be electrically lighted. The ex
penses are to be defrayed by a special
beouost of 20,000 mark?. —Sau Francisoo
PHONOGRAPH. 1 ? FOR PObTOFfICL3
~r
Mskmijm to Hr S-ut In Itrilrn for About
Twice the Co* of >-*stst;r.
Lawyer Edwin M. Fox returned ojj
Friday from Mexico, whither he went ia
he interest of Thomas Edison to arrange
« he legal features of a contract with the
government for the genera! introduction
of the phonograph in the postoffices of
that country. He gave yesterday some
details of his mission, which, as already
announced, was successful, and of the
enterprise of which It wasa preliminary.
i'lie contract was obtained for a com
pany which John M. Cebullos, of
•'fall street, ia now forming. U gives
'be proposed company the exclusive
right for fifteen years to place phono
raphs in the postoftices of the republic
for the use of people who cannot read or
write. The charge for a single phono
graphic message has not yet-been fixed:
it may he hut a medio, or six and a half
cents, and it may be a real, or thirteen
cents. To this charge must be added
one of ten cents for postage, which is
tiie rate at which letters are carried
from one part of Mexico to another, al
though a letter may be sent from Mexico
to this country for only five cents. Tlie
higher charge seems moderate when it
is known that tlie sender of a message
will bo entitled to talk a thousand words
into the phonograph.
When he h is said his say, the cylinder
containing his message will he inclosed
in a paper box, addressed by a postofflee
clerk to its destination, and, after oeiug
stamped, will he mailed like an ordinary
letter. The recipient of the cylinder can
either have the message sjioken out to
him by the phonograph in the nearest
postoffice, or lie can have it transcribed
on paper for future reference. If every
patron of the phonograph sends thousand
word messages and every recipient in
sists on having them transcribed, tlie
Edison Phonograph company of Mexico
will lose money, but it is calculated that
the messages will average certainly not
anything like the tenth and perhaps not
even the twentieth part of the limit. The
P‘-i%ons who are expected to use the
Miograplis now employ scriveners to
/•;te their letters for them. The scriv
- ts will probably have to do something
when the phonographs are set up.
the terms of the contract the com
* is to take care of the machines s-.iid
-q) them in order. This will not in
- ve its having an agent at each post
office at wl inh there is a phonograph,
or it is bound to instruct one of the
• • .sine clerks in tlie use of the um-
i •me, and the time consumed in this
j \y and in sending and receiving .mes
| a,ges ia to Ik* allowed for. The company
! to g;-l a rental for the use of the ma
.ioes, and what remains of the proceeds
- r deducting as mail percentage for
■ the government. Asjiiready iutiniKted,
all exjienses are to be borne by the coul
peny. so that whatever the government
gets will lie cleaiygaiir.' Only the large
postQUices will at first, boepfovided with
phonographs, but it i* aXpecled tnat in
the course of time the use of the instru
ments will become quite general.
The machines are to be made at Mr.
Edison’s factory in Orange and sent to
Mexico as wanted, but there will also
have to be a local establishment in the
city of Mexico where repairs will be
made and business connected with the
enterprise transacted. As the company
expects to sell many of the machines to
the general public, a salesroom will be
part of this establishment.
Mr. Fox took three phonographs to
Mexico with him, one ns a present for
President Diaz, which poured out the in
strumental and other music which Mr.
Edison had poured into it at the labora
tory in Orange, where concerts are still
given, with phonographs for auditors,
several times a week. President Diaz
was quick to learn how to use the ma
chine, and he sent back by Mr. Fox a
cylinder containing a message in Spanish
congratulating Mr. EMison on his great
invention and himself that Mexico was
to get the benefit of it. —New York Sun.
What Is a Valuable Invention.
The patentee of a machine by which
tin horses raced one another around a
ring recently sought to enjoin an in
fringement of the patent. It appeared
that the only use to which the machines
had been applied was to place them in
saloons, bar rooms and other drinking
places, where frequenters of such places
make wagers as to which of the toy
horses would stop first. Judge Blodgett,
of the circuit court, has decided in this
case (National Automatic Device com
pany against Lloyd) that the laws of the
United States only authorize the use of a
patent for a new and useful invention;
that a useful invention is one that may
be applied to some beneficial use in
society, in contradistinction to an inven
tion which is injurious to the morals,
health and good order of society: that
the patent is not a useful device In that
meaning of the word, its use so far hav
ing been pernicious and hurtful; and so
the injunction was denied.—New York
Telegram.
MfßH'.ii ii»e Wave*.
St. Stephen's Review says an interest
ing fact has just been accomplished by
Hon. Ralph Abercroinby, who has suc
ceeded in measuring the height of ocean
waves by floating a sensitive aneroid
barometer on the surface, and in gaug
ing their width and velocity by timing
their passage with a chronograph. As a
result of tliese experiments ho supports
Admiral Fitzroy in the conclusion that
waves occasionally reach an altitude of
sixty feet. The highest wave measured
by Mr. Abercroinby was forty-six feet
high. 765 feet from crest to crest and had
a velocity of forty-seven miles per hour
Montezuma, Ga., hat 00 clergy
pa*.
•XTHEN3 OF TO-QAY.
It* Court and King—The Royal Palare to 2
Uurdfiw —Hallway* Id lh« C’Uuwta Uud.
It is a well known fact In Athens that
King George has outlived his popularity,
and all classes hail with expectancy the
approaching marriage of the duke of
Sparta, for it is an open secret tlmt tie
will shortly succeed to the throne The
duke ts a great favorite with the Athe
nians, and a most enthusiastic welcome
awaits his German bride. Tlie resilience
of tbe future bride and bridegroom will,
so far a» Athens is concerned, be a splen
did new palace built for the purpose, and
situated almost immediately in front of
the royal palace, where the king is often
in residence.
The royal paiace is very simple and
severely classic in treatment as to its ex
terior, but several of the state apart
ments in the interior are decorated wjth
a richness and elegance which are very
unique in effect, notably the splendid
ballroom, with its massive pillars arid
wealth of crystal chandeliers. From tlie
up|»er front windows of the most cent*’.:!
rooms access may lie had to a lialcwny
which commands a most varied and en
chanting panoramic view of the city, tlie
most picturesque object in the same
being that rocky citadel, the Acropolis,
with its crown of ruined temples and
sacred buildings, all glowing with color
in the clear transparent atmosphere,
which is the charm of this fabled coun
try of delight.
The royal gardens surrounding the
palace are on certain conditions open to
the public, but are not kept In the spick
and-span order usual in such resorts. A
pleasant feature ill their arrangement la
the frequent introduction between the
flower beds of small streams of running
water, which, liesides serving the pur
|»ose of irrigation, lend a refreshing cool
ness to a sometimes too hot and dusty
as[>ect.
Athens is in the dry season subject to
a perfect simoom of dust, to much so
that many of the inhabitants betake
themselves for that period to the neigh
boring seaports of Piraeus and the sister
town of classic antiquity. This dust m
the one great drawback against a con
tinued residence in so fair a city, and it
ia said that some travelers coining in a
particularly dry season were so smoth
ered in thick clouds of heavy white dust
that after performing the necessary ablu
tions they fled the place with the utmost
speed at command, leaving their short
visit to remain a dusty and obscured
memory in their minds.
Railways are not at present largely de
veloped in Greece* the most recent pro
ject being a line to Larissa, though the
main branch from Patras to AtWoe {*
the chief iron road in the country. On
this line the traveling --is none of the
tdjfi/fest: and though, as may be seen on
tne'fiiap, the distance is comparatively
fefiort betwen the seaport town of Patras
and the capital, yet one would hardly
credit that it should be at such a miracu
lous speed that if you start at 11 o’clock
in the morning you arrive at Athens at
7 o’clock in the evening. But it may be
that the mil way company desirea to af-
ford the eager sightseer full opportunity
for gloating over the ever changing beau
ties of mountain, lake and aea scenery
through which he slowly posses.
The railway station at Athens is situ
ated at a long distance from the city,. and
the approach to (life latter is through a
miserable and mean thoroughfare, from
which one emerges with & glad surprise
into a maze of broad streets lined with
handsome buildings, all glowing in the
stately glory of freshly hewn white mar
ble, and filled with a gay and picturesque
throng. One of the finest of the many
splendid residences in modem AtAens is
the mansion belonging to Dr. Schliemann,
and as this, in common with the prevail
ing fashion, is surmounted with elegant
statues and otherwise enriched with
moldings, carvings and other adorn
ments, it seems a fitting home for so
great a master of archaeological lore.—
London Figaro.
•vary -runny. Indent,
Two very humorous boys are in jail at
Burlington, la. They had a tame crane
and a funny idea. The idea was to catch
another smaller .boy and hold him while
they made the crane peck at him. They
did this, and the crane pecked out one
of the small boy’s eyes. The judge sent
the boys to jail for fifteen and thirty
days. When they get out the victim of
their humor ought to organize a posse
and capture them and tie them up and
have a little fun with the crane himself.
This would appeal strongly to their
moral natures.—Chicago MaiL
All persona owing The Time*
at the Morgaavill* pcsteffice are
notifiued to paj R. L. Killian as
the account! have boon sold to
him. ,
By ordor of the fctate school
eommisiionor there will bo hold at
the court bouse in Trenton on Jan
uary 2, 3 and 4 an examination of
applicant! for teachers license for
those who desire to teseh in Pade
county daring the year 1890,
Thia will be the only examina
tion for this purpose.
J. P. Jacowat, C. S. C.
The world may be searched from
pole to pole and no remedy found
equal to B. B. B. (Botanic Blood
Balm) for the cure of blood poison,
It is a remedy founded on scienti
fic medical knowledge, and its
reputation as a curative establish
ed by such true sad unsolicited
testimony as are found in our
columns from time to time.
NO. 40.