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P. T. Baraum, the great showman,
says of printer’s ink, and he ought to
know, that there is no factor in adver¬
tising so worthy of patronage or so valu¬
able as printer’s ink.
The great tower of iron, 1,000 feet
high, which was to have been the feature
of the next World’s Fair at Paris, is to
be abandoned. It was found'impossible
to induce wofkmen to build it.
According to tbe Newark Journal, the
smallest working silk loom in the world
is on exhibition at the rooms of the Pat¬
erson (N. J.) Board of Education. It
takes up less space than a type-writer.
There are 40,000 different symbols,
each representing a word in the Chinese
language, and telegraph operators in the
empire find life a burden. The operator
sending even a brief message by telegraph
is obliged to make use of a complicated
system of numerals which the receiver
must wearily re-translate into Chinese.
The loss of life and property on the
Great Lakes has been greater the past
year than in any year since 1883. Two
hundred and four lives have been lost and
seventy-three vessels of 20,687 registered
tons went down, representing a loss of
$792,000 on huffs and $403,400 on car¬
goes. If the minor losses be added the
whole loss would exceed two and a half
millions.
A correspondent writing from Russia
says that in the dining room of one of
the large cafes of Moscow there is a pool
of fresh water in which fish of various
kinds and sizes swim about. Any pa¬
tron of the restaurant who may wish a
course of fish for hrs dinner goes to the
pool, picks out the particular fish which
strikes his fancy and in a jiffy the waiter
has captured it with a dip net and sent
it out to the chef.
On walking, the Buffalo Commercial
Ad-ertiser remarks: “ Wehave had some
experience, and are firmly of the opinion
that as a rule the individual is the best
judge—all doctors to the contrary not¬
withstanding. If walking does not over
fatigue—and immoderate walking is cer¬
tainly not advisable—then it is unques¬
tionably a vigorous and healthy exercise.
As to how far a person can walk without
fatigue, why that mu-t be decided by
judicious individual experiment.”
At the Comstock silver mines in Vir¬
ginia City mining science has reached
its highest point, according to a San
Francisco newspaper, which says that
there they carry water down a vertical
shaft to the depth of 1,700 feet, and
then gear it back to the surface, run ■
ning the gigantic mills by the 1,700 foot
pressure. When the plan was suggested
to engineers of Europe they laughed at
it; but now it’s a proved success, and
furnishes a power iinmeasur^ily greatei
and cheaper than anything hitherto ap
applied to mining.
The National Museum at Washington
contains a set of the phartiueopmias of
all nations, furnishing a complete list of
the world’s standard medicines. From
these a universal pharmacopeia is to be
complied. The department of Materia
Medica in thc museum illustrates the
.world’s past and present medical prac
tice, and is designed to include every
kind of raw material, preparation, instru¬
ment and applian e ever used in rnecli
< ine, surgery or hygiene. Several thou¬
sand specimens have thu“ far been col¬
lected, shewing the material and pro¬
cesses of modern pharmacy, together
with such curiosities as alligator oi’,
frogs, toads, tortoise shells, ambergris,
cod-livers, pearls, snails, snakesaud othei
odd odd substances substances to to which u inch healing healing powei? power?
have been attnoutefi. -
That ship building is becoming a l’a
cific coast industry is proved by the work
done at the Union Iron Works and the
Pacific Rolling Mills in this city, writes
the San Francisco correspondent of the
ijfew York Tribune. The work of these
two corporations for eleven months of
the present year amounts to $1,850,000.
The largest contract is for the cruiser
Charleston, on which $300,000 has
already been paid, while the work on the
new cruiser, No. 5, amounts to $250,
000. The yards have turned out two
ships for foreigu owners—the Premier,
built for the Puget Sound traffic of the
Canadian Pacific Railway, and the Kaala,
for the Sandwich Islands. Two thousand
men are employed and work goes on day
and night.
The construction of another Alpine
tunnel through the Simplon, as a rival os
the successful St. Gothard, has lor some
time been talked about in Paris, lt is
estimated that the Simplon tunnel would
shorten the time between Paris and cea ■
tral and southern Italy by three hours, as
compared with the St. Gothard line, and
the gain over the Mont Cents route would
be still greater. According to the rep e
sentations, the length of the contem¬
plated tunnel would be about twelve
miles, and the whole work could be ac¬
complished in from four to six yea s; it
would be the longest tunnel in the world,
and require .*\ extraordinary provisions for
its •x suitable r ventilation, .. though tins object .. i. *
could be attained, it is believed, by means
of a horizontal air shaft above the crown
of the tunnel and running its entire
length, connect,ng by a senes of vert.
cal shafts with the atmosphere above the
mountain. Pumping engines would not
only keep the air constantly witter renewed,
but would <!,„ on .ho which
otherwise would steftdiiv uccunv.i'aie iu
the tunnel. The cost of this work is esti
mated at about $16,000,000.
Men ol Many Miiiiona.
Armour, the packing king, is worth
$50,000,000.
Editor Abell is said to have made $15,
000,000, out of the Baltimore San.
The revenue Claus Sprecke’s derives
from sugar has been as high as $l-‘,000 a
day.
Lucky Baldwin’s wealth is estimated
at $20,000,000 and his income at a mill
ion a year.
Weightman, the Philadelphia chorn’st,
owns $20,000,000, made mostly out of
quinine and mortgages.
Carnegie, and of Pittsburg, his is worth $20,
000,000 pajs foreman a salary
equal to that of the President of the
United States.
. Leland Sanford once thought he was
doing well when he made $1,500 a year
out of lawyer's fees. Now he is worth
from $50,000,000 to $100,000,000.
Isaiah Williamson, of Philadelphia,
the richest bachelor in the United States,
has made $20,000,003 out of drygoods,
and has an income of $1,500,000 annually
to dispose of.
Rockafeller, the coal oil baron, is
worth $70,000,000 and as it is poor Stand¬
ard Oil stock which doesn't pay more
than ten per cent, his income must bo
half a million a month at least.
Johnny's Composition on the (loose.
Gooses the , .. biggest , birds 1 - i , knonc to
are
the human eve, and tno he one is a gan
der. The the gander is the lik monark him, of the the
air, but rooster can cos
rooster he is brave like Gen. Solomon,
but preacbers the gander lhc isent fight sailer, more bat.not 1 ke
goes is a
a wicked one like Jack Bnly, v. Inch
chews tobacko and swears, and every.
tiling, and it lias got lethers between -ts
toes ior to wolk t he wotter lick a th.i.g
of life. Ducks thay are sailers too, hut
the swon has got a long neck like a
giraft, and wen it has got a sore throte
it is mighty sick. 1 he My little gooses is
goslums and is green. sister she see
a goslum and she ast tncle Ned wot
made ,fc green, and he said uncle Ned
did, that it was cos it wasent ripe. I hen
s i 1ok ® U P aad « aid wen it was
ripe lt v0 «ld he picked.-Am. , Ikuh
hxamzner. -
“lake craf
HOW TRAGFIC ON THE GREAT
HAKES IS CONDUCTED.
Great Vessels and the "Work They Do
—A Propeller and Its Consort
—The Reckless Lake
Sailors.
The lake traffic, Ym’k says Frank Wilkeson,
in the New Times, is conducted
ssa&i tiansportation on izj'% water The r™ men who h'
with ;?h S skillfully t managed H mlroads -x T P f for
frmght, and m addition they had but
seven mouths per year in which to carry
on their business and earn a profit on
the.r investments. To earn money in
the business, the managers of the lake
transportation lines had to be wise and
bold and economical. The methods em
ployed to conduct this traffic were con
stantly considered improved, be until almost at present they
w.th are to perfect. But
every improvement made the cost
ot the vessels increased enormously, un
til now a steamer and three consorts rep
resent a large foi tune An iron or steel
steamer st long and seaworthy, and
— bivshpis" r D f° C *1™
three consorts, screw’steamer costs about $175,000. A
wooden (all steamers en
gaged in the carrying business are screw steamers) towing
of‘he same capacity and
power costs about $125,000. A wooden
schooner to carry 75,000 bushels of wheat,
or 2,150 tons, costs about $75,000. A
steel steamer and three consorts, as now
built, represents about $400,000 The
s. hooners are equipped with three i ? or four
& short, thick masts, to each of which v a
single immense sail is hung. These sails
“tcamiidnclL The schooners are officered
and manned as though they were to sail
by themselves but they do not. They
f ,e the consorts of the steamers. The
j^f fit 75,000 bushels° have to fow
two S 5Sichi“i.S three and as hi^h as “uchTfSSS five consorts
tlinn the steamer. These
short f nmsts are generally which equipped with
two carry enormous
Solos,t , a S7;£,nmS
post is thrust far downward toward 'the
it thoroughly. built the So sohdly is thmtowmg
post would into (he ship that to tear it out
tear stern of the vessel away
The post projects above the deck about
^ securely ix feet. fastened One end to of the o heavy towing cable post. is
The other end is supped through a longi
tuamal slot m the stern of the steamer
and then passed to the first consort
where t is made fast to a towing post
near the bow of that vessel. Similar
hues connect the second consort to the
Bo on down th the f V column 1 th If j f S l the CCDd wmd ’ an is - d
favorable the consorts hoist their sails,
and the steamer then tows them rapidly
up or down the lakes When the wmd
is unfavorable or dead ahead as it gen
erally is the captain of the propeller
sits ind up their o’mghts to swear and at the schooners and
at captams crews cabin
But when a fierce storm arises, and
the stvam oa tnc lowing post is greater
than the Captain of the propeller thinks
his craft can safely endure, the cable is
last off, and a loud blast of the steam
whistle notifies the Captains of the
Bchooners to look out for themselves.
The schooners, being seaworthy ve-sels
and ably commanded, generally weather
the ; torm. After casting his consorts
loose the Captain of the propellor is as
sailed by doubts as 10 the wisdom of ills
aot. He hovers mound the abandoned
consorts as a hen around her chickens,
and he is not h uutil !le llas thcm
tow airaiii foi
The a wctaclc of a large Iff propeller
lowcd by foul . t . 0nS0rtSj heavily laden
ancl J with sails set moving ten down the
akes llt thc rAe of d gh t or miles an
hou ^ is phasing ”. to anti-monepolists. j
jj lc vc CH V t j ic w lca t tha" c.*iew
on 23<0 00 acres Jf productive Dakota
whtut land . In their holds is sufficient
wheat , 0 i oild i4 freight t rains of HO cars
e . lcb is’ aud ,. u h car to carry 500 bushels
it, the cheapest transportation }, known
t0 mao _ Whcat oail 0 (an . ic d from
Du i utb to Buffalo, a di dance of 880
mil foi . ; > ,. cnts per | „ iind that
low ratc , 8 profitable, pr.vided an up
caV g 0 can he secured,
Annually the fleet engaged and in efficient, the lake
comme rce grows more more
rhc ncw boats nre larger and more sea
worthy than the old ones. The losses of
list ships on published the lakes, when which makes a long fl
as the season closes,
consist generally [of old, worn-out, and
rotten vessels that were sent to sea to am
earn a few dollars—and to scalp some fl
marine insurance company. One after
noon passed the mate of stood these by outfits. my side He when pointed we fl fl
some
toward them with horny index finger. H H
•‘Look,’’liesaid, “ look at that pro- I
pieller ^ and her tow. Thev will sink if ■
® ncou ^ The er a st ? rm ' They are of unrea- ih
'srstsssl manne lns ?' ec ‘ or « M
cssasr f , 1
sea to be logt season and they win be wrec ked 1 ■
before the is over. And when fl
they sink or are smashed t0 bit8 on fl
roc ky \ shore a score of brave,hardy sailors I
will aveto battle j or their lives, and U
some of teem w , u belogt .„ ■
„ Mate „ j; askcd , « how are Sailors in
duced to ship £ on such rotten tubs? Will
the ]ake ga ors shi ‘ on vesseIs which
th J ktl0W to be uns awort hy?”
Wjll th £ he repea l ted derisively. B
Wel j ’ j s oil!d sa y t hev ' would. fl
Theg lak gailorg -g, d^ls 0 n anytb aWk ; ng
that floats . Ag i ongas s
to stand on they f w in sail the §
They are g0 care egg o{ their Uveg g0 fl
inherently reckless that they would ship H
to sail a log from New-York to the North
Pole. Every year we lose about ‘t 500 tlis sail-fl
them^wvTst w**’- ""t ® ni wlibh^infl ?. e en ,
%?£«£* SSSSSStotol , ,, &
,
n ; consoits. me vessel inspectors ao*
JffffhJnafflfl b ThenB
? y miO of tn ° ® f’l® nrf^p’rl 0 , P“ ffmft y ® a J' saP^B ™??fl
4 “A “1“ b r° e ff ult a hn f’B
and the rates of marine - insurance would* I
b e much lower ”
sailors who man the vessels* afl
r b onVthfbe e n th k mn
^ef st -n the world sSlhelfl Thev
4 reckless men Thev fl
the * ice bound
TeMe until lakeg are .
stormg bave no terrors SsfshSarTJiffi^I for them.
She e crews e-Sf ^ese snips are willing*
du , f in | ^ the rjion winter g of , g cse men They live on farms* few fl
fe . y own a tend!
acres of ]and and the5r hndren while!
** «.«-** the Sum™,
£’
-j; of men . If ail Ameri can
f ing to follow the watcr of the ■
akeg hig gong are 8ure to ghi ag sailors ■
and their sons after them. The school of ■
the lakes is the best school for produc ‘ fl
, f-alt effectIve sailors that X k on - suu-■ of.
ivaler sailors turn up F their ■
burned noseg at fresh wate r ltlbberSi classes,* as
they ' call them . ]: know botb lake!
and j unhesitatingly say that the whofl
sai i ors are vastly y superior to those I.iver-fl
sail in gbipg wl York-and ch ply between they the
g pool and New the salt are
t of water
The , ake sailovg are sell K l iantj
resourceful and C0llrag00 ancf us. They Their are
hne!li t ’ skillful ambitious.
duty J t0 care for atld sa!1 the vessels,
and they J reS olutely refuse to handle the
D trim the ships They are well
fed and weI1 paid .
The Walled Lakes of Iowa,
Alou S the water * hed3 t of - ^frtbern , T
T Io ™ the 5 e are a S vcat man J s f ;U1 lake f
varying from one hall amile to one .mile
m diameter. One o. these m Wright
County, and another in Sac County
have each received the name of Walled
Lake ”°Y ;leco " 1 ' t embankments that
completely surround them. It has. been
generally supposed that these embauk
“en 1 * were thrown the up by the ancient m
habitants of country. They are from
tw° to ten feet width, high, and from who five have to
thirty feet in borne
examined these, however, declare them
to be the result of natural causes only,
and ascribe them to the periodic act on
aiucti to some extent, by the tovee
of waves. The lakes are very shal
and w.nter . they often freeze to
w , in
ve, T bottom. The ice freezes fast to
the earth bilow. and as in its expansion
acts i n aU from ccn rP ‘ tp
mnumference, a certain part of f alluvial , ,
deposit is forced to the shore, and ibis
going on from year to year, and from
f:Cntul '.V century, has created the
natural embankment,
Switzerland lias GiiO.003 milch cows, tvvd all
native breed, and divided into
shapely defined races, the brown and
the spotted. The former color varies
from ter shade deep being fawn held to mouse in the gray, most the esteem? latj