The Darlington herald. (Darlington, S.C.) 1890-1895, October 20, 1893, Image 3
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A MAD STOKER’S WILD RIDE.
WHALES IN BEHRING SEA.
Failed the Throttle Wide Open and Tore
Headlong to Death.
On Wednesday morning last there
started from the station at Padna,
on the Bologna railway line, a goods
train that should have reached Bo
logna in the evening. There were
on the engine the driver and stoker,
both natives of Bologna. On the train
arriving at Poggio Renatico, a small
station close to Ferrara, the stoker
found some means to get rid of the
driver. He told him that the station
master wanted him. The driver, as
he afterward asserted, left the train
without the slightest suspicion of
anything.
The stoker then, without being
seen, detached the engine from the
rest of the train, put on full steam
tnd started off with the engine. He
the spring of the whistle down
such a way that the engine ca-
'•■eered along at always increasing
|>eed, whistling all the time. He
■Iso kept filling up the furnace, so
that there was no chance of the
engine working itself out. The en
gine at a tremendous pace passed
through five stations.
The Bologna papers say that for
those who witnessed the mad race
of the engine, going to certain ruin
as it rushed through the different
stations, the spectacle was terrible.
At all the stations the officials rushed
out and made signs for him to stop,
at the same time turning on all the
danger signals. The stoker, how
ever, stood calmly looking out of the
cab of the engine without taking the
slightest notice.
At the different crossroads the
men appointed to bar them when
the trains passed, on hearing the
whistle, were able to do so in time,
or some bad accident might have
happened. Telegrams were immedi
ately sent to the station at Bologna
warning the station master. He at
once had the principal line cleared
and switches put on which would
turn the engine on to a side line.
The engine soon appeared at full
speed, and men were stationed along
the line to call out to the stoker to
stop or to throw himself off the en
gine. He stood there, however, look
ing as pale as death, but only smiled
at the shouted warnings of tire men.
He calmly walked along the side of
the engine and placed himself on
the standing board in front right
under the funnel. A moment after
ward the engine dashed into a rail
way carriage that had been left on
the side line.
The crash was tremendous, the
carriage was smashed to bits and
the engine damaged in such a way
that it had to be broken up. The
stoker was found under the debris
fearfully crushed, but still alive, and
was taken to the hospital It is sup
posed that he had gone suddenly
mad. , _
It seems, as far as can be made out
by what he said, that his intention
was to commit suicide in that horri
ble manner because he was mixed up
in a theft of 10 francs and was afraid
of being found out—London Tablet
Whjr It Is “a Tabby Cat.”
Some writers on the curiosity of
anirosl nomenclature tell us that the
reason tre call a feline of certain
markings of color a “tabby” cat is
because Tabitha was the goddess of
the crooked clawed species. Wag
ner’s “Names and Their Meaning,”
although n has a splendid deport
ment on the nicknames of birds, does
net refer to those applied to the ani
mal species at all, therefore it will be
of no use to consult that work to find
out why a “tabby” cat bears its
unique name, or why a “Jerusalem”
donkey is so called.
In' a curious old work (printed in
London in 1606) entitled “Names Ap
plied to Animate Things," I find the
following, which seems to explain
the tabby cat enigma: “The terme
‘Tabbie Cat’ is derived from A tab, a
famouse streetein Bagdad, a cittie of
the Orient. This streete is inhabited
by the manufacturers of a silken stuff
called ‘atabi,’ the wave dmarkings of
the watered silke resembling a cat’s
coat. From that we call all cats so
marked ‘stab,’ ‘atabbie,’ or simply
“tabbie’ cats.”—St Louis Republic.
Zqaklltx In Ome».
Greece has set up in her midst as
her demigod the great equaliser (and
liberator and fratemizer, too), edu
cation. As the tourist rides about
the interior he is surprised perhaps
at the innocent communism of his
muleteer, who after drinking passes
his master the cup; who, unless re
strained, will sleep in the same room
as his lordos (milord), but is some
what reconciled when he discovers
that his servant (at a shilling or so a
day) is a briefless barrister or a poli
tician out of work. Neither in pub
lic nor in private life is heed paid to
social standing. The democratic idea
which permeates Greek life from
court to court is perfectly sincere.
Exclusiveness there means unsocia
bility. A Greek is quite willing to
extend his acquaintance downward
or upward.—“Greece Under King
George.”
It Would Stick to th. but.
“When I had my shoes fixed the
other day." said a man, “I had to
have one of them patched. Ton know
they don't sew patches on nowadays;
they pasts ’em on in tome way, and
they stay. I knew this well enough,
but when I went for my shoes and
looked at the patch I was thought
less enough to ask if it would stay
on. The shoemaker didn’t answer
tie in words, but in a look of about
one second’s duration he conveyed
to me the intelligence that the up
pers of the shoes might pert from
the soles, the eote might drop away,
and the Heels be left by the wayside,
but that i ‘‘oh would never come
oft”—Net Fork Bun.
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Hemrlj All of the Denn Bern Munutcrs Haro
Disappeared.
The valuable whales have about
all disappeared from the north Pa
cific. Behring and Okhotsk seas no
longer contain them, and the Arctic
ocean is the only recognized whaling
ground left There are but 50 whal
ers now afloat in the western ocean,
while a half century ago there were
600 of such ships. There are 10
steam vessels in this fleet, and the
rest are relics—ancient barks and
brigs that date from the long ago,
are seldom insured and with difficul
ty secure crews.
The captain and crew go on shares
or are paid a percentage of the sea
son’s catch, and six or eight whales
will credit the former with $4,000 or
$5,000, and the sailors with a couple
of hundred dollars each. For three
seasons one of the whalers has not
secured a single whale, while one
crew captured 21 whales in the sum
mer of 1891.
In 1891 Sitka was surprised by a
visit from a whaler, the first in
many years since the Fairweather
grounds, off Mount St Elias, were
abandoned. This ship had sailed in
March for that-old ground, but off
Prince William sound nine whales
were taken in eight days, and a tenth
had been wounded when the bark
grounded in a fog, unshipped and
broke the rudder. It then worked
Its way to Sitka and for a fortnight
gave a new interest to the life of
that quiet capital
There had been time to clean and
lightly deodorize the ship during its
iu into port, and it fell disappoint
ingly short of thfe traditional whaler.
But it was interesting to visit it and
have the cheerful mate show pieces
of whalebone 6 and 7 feet in length
stacked up like cordwood; to see the
boats, harpoons, knives and tackle
and the huge vats in the brick fur
nace on deck where the mountains
of blubber are tried out. But the
blubber and oil are little regarded in
this day, as whalebone at $6 a pound
is the most valuable part of the mon
ster.
Catching their whales so fast, this
crew bad not time to cut up one
whale before another was sighted,
and the hold was filled with the
blubber of the first whale while they
were busy harpooning and cutting
the bone from the later catches.
They had only 430 barrels of oil, and
the tongue of one whale yielded 13
of those barrels. From nine whales
there came 10,000 pounds of bone.—
Harper’s Weekly.
St. Paul's Epistle In Turkey.
The Rev. G. Furness Smith, an
English missionary, recently related
to a London meeting that the Turk
ish authorities at Constantinople had
declined to allow the circulation of
St. Paul’s Epistle to the Galatians,
supposing the people of Galata, a sub
urb of the Turkish capital to bo
those addressed, and refused to be
entirely satisfied on the point till a
certificate of St. Paul's death was
forthcoming.
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