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The Czar's Enormous Stables. The Czar of Russia has four sets of carriages and horses?the gala, the English, the French and the Russian sets ?each one composed of fifty horses. The Russian set is the only one which follows his to Gatschina; the gala and the French ones never leave St. Petersburg, and are composed each one of one coachman-in-chief, who has under him five others, and a whole host of footmen and stablemen. For the gala set fifty Hanoverian horses are reserved. This race is unique, and figures on the blazons of the Duchy of Brunswick and the Kingdom of Hanover, and, & 1 dfTPTirl f!OTT) AS in a straight line from the white horse given by Charlemagne to a Guelph lord who "was an ancestor of the sovereigns of Brunswick and Hanover. These horses are of a pure snow white, and have strange, dreamy bine eyes. The carriages are of Louis XV. style, and the berline, which is kept solely for the coronation and the marriage of the sovereign, is studded inside and out with diamonds, surmounted by an Imperial crowd, adorned with precious stones. Eight footmen clad in white and gold liveries, with cocked hats, lead the horses. These splendors, which were displayed at the coronation of Alexander III. and offered a spectacle half Asiatic, half European, to the astonished eyes of the Western Ambassadors, will be seen again on the occasion of the marriage of the Czarewitch. For daily use the Emperor contents himself with the Russian troika, in which there is only room | for himself and the coachman, and j which is drawn by three horses, the trotter in the middle under the arch of silver b6lls, and the two gallopers -wearing plumes of feathers on their heads. The Grand Dukes have only one set of carriages, but are allowed to sit in the gala equipages at all the public ceremonies.?New York Advertiser. Lessons From Tree s. The student of nature may learn some nseful and interesting lessons by careful observation of the rings in the trunks of trees. He will observe that some rings are wide, others narrow; some full, clear-cut and regular, others jagged, one-sided and perhaps spotted or stained or maybe deeply indented. These accurately indicate the condition of the tree during its various stages of growth. As each ring is a year's progress, so each is a perfect record of that year's development, so we may know how it was nourished. A full, wide, even ring Bhows that during that year the tree had abundant moisture and nourishment. A thin, irregular line is evidenced that the tree was j not in a flourishing condition. Spots, stains and breaks in the lines show that the outside of the tree may have been bruised or bent, or the bark and wood injured in some way. In fruit 4-yarxa TITiorfl MVTV?WVVV% - *-5,may be caused by an anusually large crop of fruit, which so taxed the vital powers of the plant that but little was left to be turned toward the formation of new wood. By careful examination and counting, the skilled botanist is enabled to read the history of the tree-trunk, and to tell in what yearB it is best flourished, when there was little for it to grow on, and when it was too constantly occupied with fruit production to give any care to its own growth other than the absolutely necessary formation and solidifying of its outer coating. It would ' be of great advantage to the student I if the habits and needs of trees could j. be explained by competent persons. Someday, when tree-planting becomes more important than most people eeem to believe, this knowledge would be of great value.?New York Ledger. How the Rail Was Fixed. To illustrate the amount of red tape now used along the Southern Pacific xioaa a story is torn or a recent yisii of an inspection party at Benson, comprising General Superintendent Fillmore, Chief Engineer Hood, Superintendent of Track Hawgood and Boadmaster Stanton. Near by was the section boss and his gang. A defective rail was spotted. "Hood," said General Superintendent Fillmore, "that's a bad piece of track there." "Hawgood," said Hood, "that's a poor piece of track there." "Stanton," said Hawgood, "that rail is bad." "Pat," said Stanton to the section boss, "have that rail fixed." Said Pat to one of his men. "Here, Jose, fix this rail."-?Tombstone (Axizonia) Prospector. Dr. Kilmer's Swahf-Root cures all Kidney and Bladder troubles. Pamphlet and Consultation free. Laboratory Blnghamton, N. Y. Birx ixgham. Ala., shipped 43,000 tons oi pig iron during May. A Beauiitut Sauvenir Spoon Will be sent with evenr oottle of Dr. Hoxtle*j Certain Croup Vurt. Ordered by urnil, postpaid, 50 cts.Address, Hoxsle, Buffalo, N. Y. Hall'a Catarrh Cure Is a Constitutional Cure. Price 75c. Tub Public Awards the Palm to Hale'a Honey of Horehound and Tar for coughs. Pike's Toothache Drop* Core In one minute. Karl's Clover Hoot, the great blood purifier, gives freshness and clearness to the complex*?? J AAnaMnotinn nto fift r*1ra <C1 1UU tuiu UU1CO vyiWUj/n-uuu, w vuj? w vvoM ??i Nervous Troubles Originate in Impure Blood Therefore the True Method of Cure Is to Take HOOD'S Sarsaparilla Which cure9 Nervousness, Dyspepsia, Scrofula, Salt Bheum, Catarro, Rneutnatlsm and other Diseases, because it Purifies The Blood Be sure to get Hood's and only Hood's. Hood's Pills are the best family cathartic, gentle and effective. Try a box. 25c. I ! FLYING MACHINES. ARCHED WINGS THE SECRET OF AERIAL FLIGHT. A German Inventor Soared for Nearly Three Hundred Yards With the Apparatus He HaB Constructed. HE experience of the century and more "which has lapsed Bince the invention ? j of Montgolfier has f taught us, says a II Berlin letter to the J Ne'w York Herald, " that the balloon is of practical service only when confined. The whims of the winds are too capricious to afford a trustworthy basis of procedure, and notwithstanding the expedients which the progress of science has made it possible to apply, all attempts to control a free balloon, or to guide it in any given direction, have thus far been unavailing, and we seem to be no nearer a satisfactory solution of the problem than were our predecessors of a hundred years ago. The attention of investigators has been diverted, therefore, to flying machines, like Professor Wilner's, and air ships, like Mr. Maxim's. Herr Otto Lilienthal, of Berlin, who has dome celebrity as "The Flying Man," has conducted a long series of experiments, which have at length been rewarded with an encouraging measure of success. Herr Lilienthal was born forty-six years ago in Anklam, near the Baltic coast of Pomerania, about sixty miles to the northwest of Stettin. A residence so near the sea afforded him in early life many opportunities of prosecuting hie favorite studies and observations. In later years he migrated "with his younger brother, Gustav, his enthusiastic coadjutor in all his researches, to Berlin, where he established and is now conducting a large manufactory of small steam enginep, whose mechanical appliances furnish him with every facility for the construction of his flying apparatus. He resides, however, in the suburb Lichterfelde, and his late experiments have been conducted chiefly in the neighboring localities of Steglitz and the Reinower Bergen. He is an accomplished mathematician and a close observer of nature. After many experiments with flat wings, or plane surfaces, Herr Lilienthal became convinced that it was the 13P|?lll! THE MACHINE IN PRACTICAL USE. gentle parabolic curve of the wing which enabled a bird to sustain itaelf without apparent effort in the air, and even to soar, without a motion of the wings, against the wind, like the albatross, or sea gull or stork; and this may be regarded as the most important outcome of Herr Lilienthal's investigations. "Now that we possess diagrams," said Herr Lilienthal to me, "which plainly illustrates all these phenomena, it seems quite easy to explain the flight of birds, for every crow that flies over our heads offers a practical solution of the riddle. Recent researches into the laws of atmospheric resistance lead clearly to the deduction 1 that curved or arched surfaces are to I - * " -r? i 11 . I be preferred to flat ones. x>uc me original discovery was by no means as simple and self-evident as it now appears. There are still prominent investigators who will not Bee that the arched or vaulted wing includes the secret of the art of flight. As we came upon the track of this idea, my brother and I, who were then young and wholly without means, used to spare from our breakfast, penny by penny, the money to prosecute our investigations; and often the struggle for life compelled us to interrupt them indefinitely. "While we were devoting every moment of our spare time to the solution of the problem, almost every one in Germany regarded the man who would waste his energies in such unproductive labor as a fool. Years ago the most distinguished professor of mathematics in the Berlin Industrial Academy sent me word that of course it oould do no harm to amuse myself with such pastimes, but warned me earnestly against putting any money into them. "A special commission of experts, organized by the State, had in fact laid it down as a fundamental princi pie, once for all, that it was impossible for a man to fly. German societies for the promotion of aeronautics did not exist and those subsequently formed were devoted almost entirely to the interests of bailooning. I have always regarded the balloon, and the exclusive attention which it so attracted, as a hindrance rather than a TURT BEFORE help to the development of the art of flight. If it had never been invented, it is probable that more serious investigations would havo been prosecuted toward other solutions of the problem*". To the conviction that concave or vaulted wings were esential to success, Herr Lilienthal was led not only by the examination of a great variety of nat.iral wings, and by theoretical deduction, but by actual experiment. The means adopted for th:s purpose """ O innaninno on/1 oimnlo TTP fittftd up an apparatus in the form of the "flyfans" found on the dining tables of clubs and restaurants, -with two long arms revolving horizontally, to the ends of which surfaces of different kinds and degrees of curvature could be aflSxed in any required position. The motive power was furnished by a weight and could be exactly measured. There was also an adjustment which enabled the observer to measure the lifting force of various surfaces moving at different angles of inclination through still air. By this means Herr Lilienthal was THE WINGS SPRE^ enabled to reach conclusions which were of great value to him in the construction of his flying machine, and the most important of them was that the most effective form of wing was that whose convexity, as measured by the versed breadth of the arc, should be one-twelfth of the breadth of the wing, or, of the length of the chord connecting the opposite edges. The flying machine devised and now used by Herr Lilienthal is designed rather for sailing than for flying in the proper sense of the term, or, as he says, "for being carried steadily and without danger, under the least possible angle of descent, against a moderate wind, from an elevated point to the plain below. It is made almost entirely of closely woven muslin, washed with collodion to render it impervious to air, and stretched upon a ribbed frame of cplit willow, which has been found to be the lighteet and strongest material ior tms purpose. Its main elements are the arched wings, a vertical rudder, shaped like a conventional palm leaf, which acts as a vane in keeping the head always toward the wind, and a flat horizontal rudder to prevent sudden changes in the equilibrium. The operator so adjusts the apparatus to his person that when in the air he will be seated upon a narrow support near the front, and, with the wings folded behind him, makes a short run from some elevated point, always against the wind, and, when he has attained sufficient velocity, launches himself into the air by a spring or jump, at the same time spreading the wings, which are at once extended to their full breadth by atmospheric action, whereupon he sails majestically along like a gigantic seagull. In this way Herr Lilienthal has accomplished flights of nearly three hundred yards from the starting point. "No one," said Herr Lilienthal to me, "can realize how substantial the air is until he feels its supporting r?nxrpr hfvneath him. It inspires con- | rw,,v fidence at once. If the wings were flat the speed might be greater, but the sustaining power would be reduced, and the descent would therefore be more rapid. With arched wings it is possible to sail against a moderate breeze at an angle of not more than six degrees to the horizon. "The principle is recognized in the umbrella form universally adopted for the parachute. Try to run with an open umbrella held abovo the head and slightly inclined backward, and see what a lifting power it exerts. Soaring, in the sense of rising against the wind as the birds do, is possible only with the dome shaped wings. The aeroplane, or flat wing, when inclined at a certain angle to the breeze, may rise while its momentum continues, but this once overcome its power is gone, and nothing can restore it. "In my long intercourse with the air and the winds, in all their varying phases, I have learned that there is an extraordinary category of difficulties to be overcome. In my trials of wings moved by the feet, in my attempts to * " ? 1-: construct steam iiyiug iuttcuuico auu in my experiments with mechanical birds of every description I have discovered how difficult it is to maiatain a steady position in the air, independent of the caprices of the winds. I, therefore, gave up for the time all efforts toward propulsion, and applied myself to the discovery of the simplest form of wing that would enable me to sail steadily through the air on a gentle incline, and by practice to master the wind, that hereditary foe of all aeronauts. "I adhere firmly to my conviction that the wiugs must be slightly concave. This is the fundamental condition of success. The wings which I now use are in the main segments of a spherical surface. They are so constructed that they can be folded together like the wings of a bat and require very little storage room when not in use. JWSaKSJ&fcte**^ ?", ,y/'THE ASCENT. "It was only gradually that I arrived at the proper dimensions. Those which I now employ are never more than twenty-three feet from tip to tip, and I am thus enabled by a Bimple change of a posture so to alter the position of the centre of gravity as to restore the equilibrium. "There are limits also to the breadth of the wings, or their extension backward. The operator must be able in a moment to transfer the centre of gravity so far to the rear as to overcome the action of the air, which might otherwise tend to throw him forward and precipitate him to the earth. It is not easy to realize in practice at fiuet, but after a short experience the movement becomes almost involuntary. " "But is there not great danger,'' I asked, "of a serious fall in 3uch cases?" "No," replied Herr Lilienthal. "When there is no wind the apparatus acts simply as a parachute. I have more than once found myself in this positioo, when I have utilized the speed obtained in gradual descent in rising to a greater height, to soar over : lD tor flying. some obstacle like a tree or a crowd of people. Under favorable circumstances it is easy to mount to a height even greater than that of the starting point, but the forward motion is thereby partially or -wholly neutralized, and it may happen that one comes to a complete standstill in midair. In such cases it is only necessary to throw the centre of gravity so far back that the air shall act more powerfully on the forward surface, and the gradual gliding descent is resumed. So, in landing, I bend backward ex actly as a crow does wlien alighting in a field and reach the ground without the slightest shock. The worst that is likely to happen in any case is the breaking of the apparatus; there is little danger to life or limb. "I am far from supposing that my wings, although they afford the me~ns of sailing, and even of soaring in the air, possesses all the delicate and subtle qualities necessary to the perfection of the art of flight. But my researches show that it is well worth while to prosecute the investigations further, and in the end, perhaps, to realize the beau ideal of all modes of motion and to put it to practical account." Having demonstrated the practicability of sailing and soaring, Herr r.ilianf^ol Tio'o onnrrlif in Viia rpppnt py periments to reach a practical eolation of the problems of actual flight. The first difficulty to be overcome was the discovery of a suitable motor. Heri Lilienthal conceived the ingenious idea of employing, as a motive force, the vapor or liquid carbonic acid, which, under ordinary atmospheric pressure, boils at a temperature far below that at which mercury freezes. The engine devised by Herr Lilienthal required no fire, no boiler, nor steam chest?only a diminutive cylinder with the requisite valve arrangements, which may be readily worked by hand, and a small reservoir of the liquid acid lying close beside it. The engine first constructed was of two horse-power, with a receiver to j contain enough carbonic acid to last for two hours, and was attached to the front of the flying apparatus. The whole contrivance, with the necessary machinery to impart motion to the wings, added less than twenty-five pounds to tie weight, and this will probably be reduced in future by the use r\f anmo ollmr nf aluminum instead of iron in the manufacture of the heavier portions. The wings were also fitted with rotary pinions capable of automatic action under the pressure of the air. The first experiments with " this apparatus were rather too successful, at least in demonstrating the power of the engine. Unfortunately, the inventor had underestimated the , ^ C 'I? /iVv^Sp||j^> READT FOR A DESCENT. 1 t energy of his motor, which acted with < such unexpected vigor that the wings i were broken, and the modifications i thus shown to be necessary wili re- a quire some time for their completion. ? It is only by a series of trials that i the proper relations between the vari- < 0U8 parts of the machine can be deter- c mined. Herr Lilienthal confidently expects, however, eventually to solve the yroblem in this way. A Peculiar Electrical Effect. t An accident recently occurred at ? the power station of an electric rail- 1 way in a large city, which stopped all i the cars. When the damage was rc- r paired and the current turned on to ? the lines the circuit breakers all ' dropped, showing that the wires were I overloaded. Again and again it was 1 tried to get the lines in operation, 6 with the same result. The difficulty t was that every motorman, as soon as he found the current on, started his car, and the simultaneous demand from so mauy sources overloaded the 3 wires. Riders were sent out to repress i some of the cars, and so the system t was got into motion gradually. The s wiring was subsequently changed so as v to allow of starting by sections. ?New 1: York Recorder. e A Kins' Wlio Seeps Hotels. The only known Royal ruler "who rnne a hotel iB William II., ol Wurm KTNQ OF WUBTEMBTTRG. temberg, who, according to report, is shortly to be decorated with the English Order of the Garter by Queen Victoria. His Majesty is the proprietor of two Stuttgart establishments where refreshments may be had by man and beast. One of these is the Marquardt, which is located exactly opposite the Royal Palace, the other being the Kiesig, situated a short distance away. The fact of King William being a hotel-keeper recalls to a writer in the New York Recorder an old story of the Czar Peter the Great. The Russian Emperor "was on a journey through Wurtemburg at one time, but wishing to preserve his incognito absolutely declined to take up his quarters at the Royal Palace at Stuttgftrt, insisting, instead, on going to an inn. Having learned of this prior to the Czar's arrival the Wurtemburg Sovereign caused all the hotel and inn keepers to remove their signs. Over the principal door-way of his palace he had a huge sign hung out stating that within there was cheer for man and beast at cheap prices and that the name of the hotel was the Koenig3bau. On the Czar's carriage and retinue entering the city, the postilions, previously instructed by the Wurtemberg officials, drove straight to the palace, and there, standing at the main entrance, was the Sovereign, fat and burly, arrayed in the traditional costume of a boniface, with white apron and cap, etc., while the various princesses, piuii;ea,uuuicD auu dignitaries of his court were costumed as waiters, waitresses, hostlers and other servants. Peter the Great, much amused by this witty manner of hu- | moring his wishes, entered thoroughly into the spirit of the joke, which | was kept up until the following day, | when he proceeded on his journey. Noticing that the postilion mounted on the wheeler of his traveling carriage was a man of singularly unkempt appearance, his clothes ragged and covered with mud, he made the remark to one of his attendants that bhere was at least no mistake as to the social condition of that man, and that there could be no danger of his being i nobleman in disguise. And yet when it tfie end of the first stage, the postilion came to the carriage door to reJeive his gratuity and raise the cap from his head to the Czar, to his astonishment, recognized in him the aeir to the Wurtemburg throne, who iad assumed this disguise for the purpose of speeding his father's Imperial juest. An Electric Carriage. Electric carriages continue to at- I ;ract attention from inventors more THE ELECTRIC CARRIAGE. md more. Several new designs ecently brought out in Europe teem to have stimulated American lectricians, for a Chicago man has inished and put on the streets an elecxic carriage, illustrated herewith, vhioh is a success. The speed is unler perfect control by means of the oot pedal actuating a switch, and the lirection of the carriage is easily confnllorl hv a hand wheel. The motor s a two horse power. The rear wheels ire both driven, but when the vehicle ;urns a corner or deviates from a itraight course either driven wheel nay move independently of the shaft >r the other wheel. The carriage will eadily make a speed of from ten to ;welve miles an hour, using a little >ver one horse power. . The Doctor and His Cane. It was formerly the practice among he English physicians to carry a cane laving a hollow head, the top of vhich was gold pierced with holes ike a pepper-box. The top contained i small amount of aromatic powder or >f snuff, and on entering a house or oom where a disease, supposed to be nfectious, prevailed, the doctor vould strike his cane on the floor to igitate the powder, and then apply it ;o his nose. Hence all the old print 3 )f physicians represent them with :anes to their noses.?Pittsburg Post. Fruits in England. The dependence of the Eugli.shman lpon the foreigner for supplies of Vuit is strikingly shown by the fact hat in that country only 12,001) acres .inontnil niir^pries. He has not. lowever, gone out of the business, but s devoting himself to the 6mn.ll fruitsvhich, being more perishable, are not ubjected to such keeu competition ?if#i the foreign article. This is jroved by the fact that there were in .893, in England, 65,000 acres under mall fruits, an increase of 3400 over he preceding year.?New York World. An Odd Landmark. There is an odd landmark on the Marietta and North Georgia Railroad tear Ehjay, which is often pointed out o passengers. It is a grave on the ide of a steep hill. Over it a little rooden house has been built, and a ightning rod is attached at either nd.?New York Poet. jj i 1 BAKING ,jJl | K, POWDER^ i i !! . . . ? wholesome Dread, cz Z hundred thousand nials to this effect a by its manufacturers, than that of all ot combined. ABSOI < > h J ^ ROYAL BAKING POWDER CO Halt a Century of the Telegraph. The facts brought out on the fiftieth anniversary of telegraphy, which was recently celebrated in New York, are very interesting to the student of material and social progress. It was on' the day of the great Whig convention at Baltimore that the first message was transmitted in this country that was to demonstrate the utility of telegraphy and relieve Professor Morse of the Btigma of being "crazy." His wire between Baltimore and Washington announced the nomination of Clay and Frelinghuysen an hour before the | train reached the Capital. Since then tne ngures 01 teiegrapny nave grown amazingly, and never so rapidly as at present. As late as 1860 one operator sent all the newspaper dispatches from Chicago announcing the nomination of Lincoln. It took 125 operators to furnish the telegraphic news of Cleveland's nomination at Chicago. Even down to 1880 only fifty newspapers received special telegrams. Now there are 600 that have special service. A single establishment in this country has 800,000 miles of wire in operation, and 23,000 offices, and last year sent 70,000,000 messages. There are now in the world about 2,000,000 miles of telegraph wire in operation, and in addition to the telegraph lines there are nearly 150,000 miles of nautical cables, over which the Morse system is used. The newspaper and press associations, which in 1880 received but 28,000,000 words, I now consume nearly 1,800,000,000 * * 1-1?- ill. words in supplying me puDiio wiwi news and reading matter. What all this signifies in behalf of public enlightenment and commerce almost surpasses comprehension. It enables one to enjoy two lives in one. It has added tenfold value to the art of printing, and has increased the national wealth enormously. Yet orthodox science and the basines world were so sure that Professor Morse was "crazy" I that he was ashamed to conduct the first public experiments in person, lest he should be hooted out of confidence. What a lesson on charity an d and the folly of snap judgments! ? Boston Globe. Gbeap and Plentiiul Remedy. Common salt is one of the roost valuable remedial agents the world contains. Used as a tooth powder, alone or with a little prepared chalk, it whitens the teeth and makes the gums hard and rosy. It is a good gargle for sore throat, and if taken in time will benefit, if not cure, diphtheria. It will stop bleeding of the mouth, and in warm water is a good emetio and remedy against several poisons, xnere is nothing better for sore feet and hands than salt and water, and for ordinary sore eyes, though a painful application, will often effect a complete cure.?Indianapolis News. The Capitol at Washington has cost more than $30,000,000. It covers three and a half acres, the dome is 307 feet high and 135 in diameter, and is exceeded in size only by St. Peter's in Rome, St. Paul's in LondoD, the In alides in Paris and St. Isaao's in St. Petersburg. 0\ I j; Brings comfort and improvement and i tends to personal enjoyment when , rightly used. The many, who live bet- . ter than others and enjoy life more, with ' less expenditure, by more promptly . 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In Egypt the horse is not fonnd depicted on the monuments until about B. G. 1600. In Nubia the horse was appreciated and loved. In a hierogly phio inscription the statement is made that when Piankhi, the Ethiopian invader of Egypt, had captured the stores and treasury of his foe, Nimroi, he went into the stables, and finding that the horses had suffered from hunger, he burst into a rage and said: "I swear by my life, and by my beloved Ra, that to have kept my horses hungry is more heinous in my sight than any other offense which thou hast committed against me." The native land of the Arab horse includes the Arabian peninsula, the lands about the Tigris and Euphrates, and the Damascus district. Ail Arab horses are asserted to be descended from a fabulous mare called "Kuhailat of the old woman." ?New York Sun. Tntallimaiioa At a Kfallinn AUIVIU^VUW V* ? M *? 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