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About The Knoxville journal. (Knoxville, Ga.) 1888-18?? | View Entire Issue (Feb. 3, 1888)
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
