The Darlington herald. (Darlington, S.C.) 1890-1895, August 10, 1894, Image 4
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TeaUnr tke WeMlar Elay.
A aaleaman in a Philadelphia few*
'elty store was approached by a womaa
of the fashionable world and her
[daughter, a few days ago. The latter
looHed souewhat embarrassed. "]
'desire to get a ring for my daughter, n
said the woman. The salesman looked
'rt the young lady. “Not this one—
another daughter. It is to be a sur
prise.” She was shown ease after ease
of diamond rings, but none seemed to
auit her. Finally she said to hei
daughter: “Show him yours, dear."
Blushingly the girl took off her glors
and slipped a sparkling ring from her
engagement finger. “1 want to get
one exaotly like that. How much will
it cost?” The salesman looked at the
ring, and the girl watched him as
bravely as she could. He recognised it
as one he had sold to Mr. Blank a few
days before. So he handed the ring
back to the daughter and said: “The
cost of this ring, madam, was a confi
dential matter between Mr. Blank and
myself. We haven’t another like it in
■ the house. I understood from his re
marks that he thought the ring would
not be valued at its intrinsic worth.
However, if you wish to know its
value, take it to some pawnshop, and
multiply what they will offer you by
three and you will get pretty nearly
the correct price.” The mother
flounced out of the store in great
wrath. Her daughter followed, almost
in tears.—Philadelphia Bacord.
Curious Habit of Beetles.
Certain beetles have long been
known to eject or give out a repul
sive fluid from joints of their bodies,
or from their legs, or from eversible
glands. M. Cuenot has recently
studied the esses of the ejection of
blood from these beetles. The fluid,
however, is not red, as the blood of
insects is either colorless or slightly
yellowish. Lady birds, oil beetles
and other vegetable feeders are such
as possess this habit. The winter haa
added to this list one of our common
beetles which sends out a pale milky
fluid smelling like laudanum, the odor
being exactly that emitted by certain
moths of the Arctian family.—New
York Independent.
Chemical Effects in Freciing.
It has been long known that frost
plays some part in the production of
maple sugar, that a peculiar sweetness
is imparted to potatoes by freezing,
and that persimmons do not lose their
astringency and become sweet and de
licious until alter the first frost. A
still more striking instance of chem
ical change due to freezing has* been
added by a recent observation. The
canaigre roots of Mexico contain so
much tannin that they are .likely to
supplant tree barks entirely for indus
trial purposes, yet after being frozen,
it is stated, not the slightest trace of
tannin is left. Just how the frost acts
is a problem now to be solved.—New
York Telegram.
If you want to cool off your rooms
properly open the windows at top an 1
bottom. That gives the heated air
which lies along the ceiling a chance
to escape, and creates a draft.
Para and Wb*le,ame Quality
Commends to public approval the California
liquid laxative remedy, Syrup of Figs. It is
pleasant to the taste and by acting gently on
the kidney, liver and bowels to cleanse the eye-
tem offectna'ly, it promotee the health and
comfort of all vho uee It, nrul with millions It
is the best and o, ly rv-i*dy.
Soasnisavuss an leaving this country la
large numbers.
What le Tcltcrlaef
It la a fragrant, unctuous ointment of great
cocllag and healing power. It Is good for
Tettei. Ringworm. Ecsema and all roughness
•>f the akin. It stops itching at once and If
persistently u-ed will positively curs sven the
worst of chronic cases. 60 cents et a drug
etorepr by mail from J.T. Sbuptrine, Savan
nah, (la.
Tma summer barley Is poor, wfik a medhfta
Crop.
Ball’s Caiurrli Care
Is tskaa internally. Price 75c.
Tuz mackerel patch of Norway and Ireland,
tke the eatoh of the American fleet this sea
son, has been a failure.
ezoaoz Gsivtitzs, of London, haa Just
(Bompleted a trip around the wotld In slxty-
Amr days, eleven boats and twenty min-
If ellleted with sore eyes n»e Dr. Issac Thorny
son's Bye wster.Druggistseell atOc per bottle
I Can’t Sleep
I bavo n tired, worn-out feeling. This
means that tbe nervous system is out of or
der. Whim this oomplalnt Is made. Hood's
Sarsaparilla Is neodnd to purify and vitalize
tbe blood, end thus apply nervous strength.
Take It now. Remember
Hood’s Sa ” a -'
£ £%%%%%% * parilla
Be rare to get Hood'
and only Hood’i
r C ures
Bead's rills cure ell liver Ills, bmoasneM.
1 AAA* 4 * Irkcr*. your name and a 'clrFiaonly iCa
1UUU The Heeald, Mo- H*A, Lum St., Pbl!*.. P*.
Bswts* p,MOts tmuift liwamnwt Why
%bm49 It iff (raff** lunw Uffu •mwerksi ffadffVMi with
•v fTfffftlf inerMMd fMibtiM, hmw M4 to work Bifhts. U
Mffjjr thff (Wuiunde mntU upon m for Amooton. Upk S u>4
towors. Tbit •vwr uteroooinff, eowinc demand for for
foods, avm in Uams of craot bom n mb deproMion, nakos os
find, but happy, u witnou tbo tmilinf eountenaneo in
MTnitUrtBf'MMotor. Vhilo others oo»Bot ctt work to
do. w# .re ^orwbeimed wtth M. Wbft Boeauao wo auko
tbo beat thing that cab iff mod#, of tbo boat
lootarioi St
Brtto that ot«
•Mb it all by tbff
beat reputation
ffvffr wade for
knowins what
do, bow to
do it and in-
nariably ooeoBh
sr*A*s.'.
that tbo Aormotor
fcow Iff JBffkff Wind* 1 ,
and tanks. Orders
on as frees eyery neek
tirtrirc^s
fera. say wuuUt tb aff
deohiins our last year a
days d depreaatoof
tor piawlaea, froza the
presenta th.a well fed,
dll are
re proaperoua,
r, and prosperi-
. world kBffwa
Co. alone knows
■ills, steel towora
for thea pour in sa
lad corner of the earth,
any ana locality » not
is oar laid, b it, tbera-
wa are busy and ars
output, aran in theaa
Iveryone SB the AsrBO-
office boy to the owners,
■aiding ooaatanansa.
busy, Mopy—wart’ ia
ty attends tba daeifn-
ara, makers, managers and Milan of Aermotora.
purabaeers of Aermotora ora tba wtda-awake, intelligent, sp
do-the timaa aasb buyers in any aornmnnity. Aermotor
people bora no forebodings ^ tHeuter and hard iimm.
Aar motor employes never etrike. They are prosperous and
uonteutH yiNea in tbe elvil commotion and great upheaval
recently raging In Cbieage, the Aermoter Etople w«a al work,
radiant with oaHca and good eheer, and read* te help Winn
and waimrat baek the general oreeperity, wbiab mart,
onee. inevitably return te our land.
dJJUIOTOE oof, 11th, Aeckwell and PUImora lb.. Ckiaaf^ Bk
(Tnaarfa this as Has • la tba sarisa af.lls)
ME SOCK OPGIBKALIAE
nATuaas or ktoland’s obbat
BBA-BOUND FOBTBBSS.
How Its NaMnit Strength Has Been
luerented by Artificial Means-*.
Two Bis Guns—Rock Galleries.
lorn fertfossea in
ItgiuoilA Ahere is goaroely
one no interesting as that tof
Gibraltar, which at this mo
ment happens to be 6t peculiar inter
est on aeeeunl of its important role in
the event of a war involving MoreAAfl.
The military elemeut dominates the
whole life of the place. With 5000 or
6000 troops =-for Gibraltar is never
without that number—the streets ere
alive with redooats and blueoo&ts, the
latter being the uniform ot the artil
lery.
Everything goes by military rule.
The hours of the day are announced
by gunfire. The morning gun gives
the exaot minute at which the soldiers
are to turn out ot their beds, aad the
last evening gun the minute at which
they ure to turn in. It is necessary
for the outsider to regard these sig
nals, as the gates of the place ere
opened and shut at the firing of the
guns.
If Gibraltar were merely a rook in
the ocean its solitary grandeur would
induce many a sight-seer to inspect
its ragged sides. Bat as it is at the
same time the strongest fortress in the
world the interest of the greater num
ber of visitors is to see its defenses.
The natural strength of its position
has been maltiplied by all the re
sources of modern warfare, in the ad
miration of which one is lei for a mo
ment to forget the “greatness thrust
upon it by nature,” but only for a mo
ment. Standing on the top of the
rook, which is IdOO feet high, and
looking down the cliff where the wages
are dashing at its feet, fills a person
with an awe that is indescribable, and
one is loath to resa ne his tour of in
spection.
The rook is nearly three miles long
and from one-half to three-quarters of
a mile broad. On the eastern aide the
oliff is so tremendous that there is no
possibility of scaling it, therefore the
only approaeh must be by land from
the north, or from the eea on the west
ern side. As the latter lies along the
bay and is at the lowest level, it ii
the most ez'posed to attack. The towu
lies hero and could easily be ap
proached by an enemy if it were not
(or its artificial defeases. These con
sist mainly of what is called the Line
Wall, a tremendous mass of masonry,
two miles long, relieved here and
there by projecting bastions, with
guns turne d right and left, so as to
sweep the face of the wall. The line
defended is more than two miles long.
Within the Lino Wall, immediately
fronting the bay, are the casemates
and barracks for the artillery that are
to servo the guns. The casemates
are designed to be absolutely bomb
proof. The walls are so thick as to re
sist the impact of shot weighing hun-
ire Is of ponn Is. The enormous arohes
overhead are made to withstand the
weight an 1 explosion of the heaviest
shells. This Line Wall is armed with
gum of the largest caliber. Some are
mounted on the parapet above, bnt
the greater part are in the casemates
below, so as to be near the level of
the sea, and thus strike chips in the
most vital park
Of course every one is anxious to
tea the two big guns, each of which
weighs 10] tons. Bnt they are
guarded with groat care from the too
dose inspection of strangers. They
are so enormous that it is impossible
to describe them so ns to convey an
idea of their immense proportions.
The shot has to be lifted to the month
of these guns by machinery, and a
man could easily crawl into the bore.
It was feared that the explosion would
do something terrible,' but the sound
was nothing in proportion to the
size. Everyone was surprised aud
many disappointed. Someofthe sisty-
eight-pounders are as eareplitting as
the 10]-toa gnus. Oao of these big
guns is mounted within speaking dis
tance of the house of the Major-Gen
eral, which stands on the Line Walk
In answer to an inquiry as to what
they did at the time of firing one of
the ladies laughingly "eplied: “Oh,
we don’t mind ik W . aka down the
mirrors, lay away t’ hina aud glass,
throw open the windows aud let the
explosion oome. ” This gun throws a
ball weighing 2003 pounds over eight
miles.
But these are not all the defenses.
There are batteries in the rear of the
town, as well as in front. These oao
be fired over the tops of the houses,
so that if any enemy were to effect a
landing he would have to fight his way
at every step. As you climb the rook
it fairly bristles with gnus. You can
not turn to the right or to the left
without seeing them; they are over
your head and under you, and point
ing directly at you.
Tbe most interesting feature of Gib
raltar is the rook galleries. It ia
owing to these that Gibraltar surpasses
all other fortresses of Europe. They
were begun more than a hundred years
ago, daring the great aiege. Although
the French and Spanish had none of
the improved artillery of modern
times, they managed to reach, with
the smooth bore cannon and mortars,
ever/ part of the rock; and oven the
Book gnn, on the very pinnacle of
Gibraltar, was twice dismounted. This
eonvinoed the English that their only
shelter would be in the bowels ot the
earth, and therefore work was began
to blast ont the long galleries. These
are all on tbe northern side of the
rook, and as this is the side that looks
toward Spain they are intended to
repel any advances against the fortress
from that quarter.
At every dozen yards there is a large
porthole, and at every hole heavy
guns are mounted on carriages, by
whioh they can be swung roand to any
quarter. The simaltaneoas discharge
of these eannonsis terrific, as the con-
oussion against the walls of the rock
is maah greater than it they were fired
in the open air. It is not often that
this noise is heard, however. Bui
there is one dsy in the year when the
British lion roars good and loud, and
that is the Queen’s birthday.
The Book gnn from its exalted posi
tion on the highest point of the rock,
1400 feet in the air, gives tho signal,
whioh is immediately caught up by the
galleries below, one after the other.
The batteries along the sea answer to
those (torn the mountain side} And the
mighty reverberation* A*es£ around
the bay} aArOse the Mediterranean and
far along the African shores. The
noise is simply ihdescribaMO'.
Is Gi'bralter Really impregnable? is
a qnestion that has often been asked,
and one that has evoked differenoesof
opinion from those capable Middl
ing. Englishmen who are meet fa
miliar with its defences say yes, and
maintain with characteristic stubborn
ness that Gibraltar could not bo taken
by all the powers of Europe oombined.
On the other hand, the French and
German engineers claim that there A
no fortress that oannot be bnttefe^
down. The new inveniiofli Of 'bar and
the tremendofli force whioh the use of
dynamite and nitro-glyoerine gives to
these new projectiles make everything
possible.
The object of tho fortress of Gibral
tar is to Command the passage into
the Mediterranean. The arms of
Gibraltar are a eastle and a keyi to
signify that it holds the key of the
straits, and that no ship flying any
other flag than that ot England can
enter or depart except by her per
mission.
But that power is already gone. The
100-ton gun of Gibraltar, even ii
aimed directly seaward, could not de
stroy or stop a passing fleet. To
Africa, opposite Gibraltar, it is four
teen miles, a distance that no ord
nance in existence can possibly reach.
A fleet of ironclads, hugging the
African coast, would be safe from
English fire if it were strong enough
to encounter the English fleet It is
her fleet in whioh England places her
utmost reliance, not on the fortress,
for the fortress alone could not bar
the passage into the Mediterranean.
It would be a refuge in ease of disas
ter where the English ships oould find
protection under the guns of the fort.
--New York Advertiser.
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.
Soft music has a hypnotic effect.
Milk is about eighty-seven per oeni
water.
London has street oar lines eighty
feet below the snrfaee.
Canary birds are greatly subject to
pnenmonia and pleurisy.
A scheme is on foot to utilize the
current of the Bosphorus to illumni-
u«te Constantinople, Turkey.
The great artesian well at Passy,
fine of the suburbs of Paris, flows
steadily at tho rate of 5,630,000 gal
lons a day.
By an English invention oamel’i
hair, cotto.i plant and chemicals are
being substituted for leather in ma
chinery belting with considerable suc
cess.
A caterpillar in the coarse of s
month will devour 6003 times its own
weight ia food. It will take a man
throe months to eat an amount of food
equal to his own weight.
In the country surrounding Caracas
there grows a strange plant called the
moon flower. Its petals remain closed
during the day, bat at night, when
the moou is shining, they open and
nod twenty times to the minute.
In the manufactures of Great Brit
ain alone the power whioh ateam ex
erts is estimated to be eqaal to the
manual labor ot 4,030,000,000 of men,
or more than double the nnmber ot
males supposed to inhabit the globe.
One of the best bandages for wounds
is made from the inner bark of the
“punk" tree. It is pounded with a
hammer until it becomes soft and
feels like velvet. Its astringent prop
erties caused the Ups of a wound to be
drawn together.
Plants otten exhibit something very
much like intelligence. If a buoke'
of water during a dry season be placed
a few inches from a growing pump
kin or melon vine the latter will turn
from its coarse, and in a day or two
will get one of its leaves in the water.
Tho latest thing out is a pulseome-
ter, by which the life insnranoe ex
aminers can tell to a fraction the ex
act condition of an applicant’s heart
beat. An electric pen traces on pre
pared paper the ongoings, baitings,
and precise peregrinations of the
blood, showing with the fidelity of
science tho strength or weakness of
the telltale pulse.
It appears that the oheese mite un
dergoes a metamorphosis, passing
through a “hypopus” stage. The mite 1
originally soft and easily killed by
heat or exposure, in this stage sud
denly become, hard and able to en
dure great changes and also to live a
long time without food; it is also then
provied with special adherent organs,
go that attached to insects it can bs
widely distributed, though exposed to
the most adverse circumstances.
A Danish chemist has invented a
new agent of destruotion whioh revo-
lationizes entirely the present modes
of warfare. A peculiarly constructed
gun discharges a certain chemical
whioh turns to vapor as soon os it
strikes the air. This vapor has snob
an effect on the risible muscles that
the enemy breaks into load laughter.
The mirth is so violent that the sol
diers are unable to handle their weap
ons and fall easy victims to their an
tagonists.
Language of Ants.
It has long been believed that ants
have means of communicating with
each other, and Lnbbock and Landois
gathered from their researches on the
subject that the insects do so by
means of sounds too high in pitch to
affect tbe human ear. Janet, a French
naturalist, has recently shown thal
certain ants make stridulating noisei
analogous to those of crickets, pro
duced by the rubbing together ol
some of the rngose or rough surfacet
to be found on their - bodies. These
noises, too slight to be heard when
made by only one insect, may be de
tected by imprisoning a lot of ants be
tween two pieces of glass, in a space
surrounded by s ring of patty. On
holding this to tho ear one may hear,
by listening attentively, a gentle mur
mur, likened by M. Janet to that
of a liquid boiling slightly in a closed
vessel, varied now and then by dis
tinct stridulating sounds. These
sounds arc heard only when the ants
are disturbed.—London Pablio Opin
ion.
^Norta Osrolinu haa but 23-130tba
per cent, of foreigu population.
i EEMABKABLE LtBRARL
QVBXB AfttotanfAL BOOKS OWJNJU)
BT AN ETHNOLOGIST.
Origin of Pfintlihi itadkl >6r till id*
Ilians’, With Interesting Factu
About the Cherokee Alphabet.
P ERHAPS the most remarkable
small library in this country
is the property of James 0.
Pilling, the well-known eth»
nologistof Wftshingtori. it is the
largest existing cdllectioA of books ih
Indian languages, and of these lan
guages there are no less than fifty-five
in North America north of Mexico.
AM of them are distinct tongnes, as
different from one another as Chinese
and English.
More than one-half of the 500 dia
lects into which the fifty-live languages
referred td are divided are preserved
in books. It is believed that the first
book printed on this continent was in
an Indian language—the “Nahaati”—-
published at the City of Mexico in
1569. The first Bible printed in
America was in an Indian tongue—tha
celebrated Eliot Bible. This is one
of the most costly ol all rare books.
About forth copies of it were specially
prepared with a dedication to Charles
IL Qua of these, in good condition,
is now worth about $2000.
The first printing done west of the
Bocky Mountains was in the Nez
Perce language. It was a primer for
Indian children, turned out from tho
mission press at Clearwater, Idaho,
in 1839. The press that did the work
had been brought by the missionaries
all the way from the Hawaiian Islands.
Tho first book printed in Dakota
was a dictionary of the Sioux language,
proluaed ia 1836 at Fort Laramie.
It was prepared by two officers of the
United States army, Lisutonknts Hyde
and Starring, to pass away the weary
hours during a long and cold winter
at that lonely outpost of civilization.
They were aided in the. work by an in
terpreter and by the Indians who
loafed aboat the fort. Tho type was
sot up by the soldiers, and fifty copies
were struck off on a crude hand press.
Only two copies are now known, one
of the.« belonging to General Star
ring, of New York, a brother of the
author, and the other to Mr. Pilling.
The only existing alphabet that is
the product of one man’s mind and in
which a literature has been printed
was the invention of a half-breed
Cherokee Indian. His name was
Se-qno-yah, and he had no education
whatever, bnt it occurred to him that
he conld express aU the syllables in
the Cherokee tongue by characters.
Finding that there were eighty-six
syllabic sounds in tho langnage he
devised for each one of them a pe
culiar mark. For some of the marks
he took characters of our own alpha
bet, taming them apsidedown. With
these symbols he set about writing
letters, and by means of them a cor
respondence was soon maintained be
tween Indians of his race in Georgia
and their relatives 503 miles away.
At present this alphabet—or, more
properly speaking, syllabary—is in
general use among the Cherokees. In
no other language can the art of read
ing be learned so quickly. Whereas
a fairly bright ehild lea, ns to read
well in English in two and a half years,
a Cherokee youngster is able to ac
quire fluency in reading books writ
ten in this syllabary within two
months and a half. In 1827 the Amer
ican board ot foreign missions de
frayed the cost of casting a font of
type of the characters. The literature
composed with them is now very ex
tensive, nnmerons books and gome ol
the newspapers of the Cherokees be
ing published in the syllabary.
Later, in 1849, an improved sylla
bary was devised by the Rev. James
Evans, a missionary among the
Crees. It was phonetio, and the char
acters were simpler, being composed
of squares and parts of squares and
circles and parts of circles. The zeal
ous clergyman out his type ont of
wood and made casting from the orig
inal blocks with lead from tea chests,
which he begged from officers of the
Hudson Bay Company. He manufac
tured ink out of soot and on a hand
press of his own constrnction printed
many little tracts and leaflets for the
benefit of the Indians. With some mod
ifications his characters have como
into general nse, not uuly among the
Crees. bnt also among many tribes of
tne Northwest whioh speak languages
in no wise akin to that of the Crees,
and scores of books have been printed
in them.
Gotham’s Ivr Drapery.
Ivy is rapidly embowering that por
tion of the city west and northwest ot
Central Park. Houses that are mani
festly only a few years old wear n
dense covering of the plant, and new
plants are started all over the region.
One of the noblest tulip trees on the
island of Manhattan has recently been
saorified to furnish a pole on whioh
the ivy may climb. When the high
trank shall have been completely
draped with the vine the effect will be
one of the most striking bits of lawn
decoration anywhere in the city. It
ie worth noting that the uncompleted
work of last summer on the front of
the old Forty-second street reservoir
has been finished by the ivy already,
and the whole central section of the
Fifth avenue side is now thickly cov
ered with the climbing vine.—New
York Snu.
T.Ji
Mso/atdy
Pure
All other powders
are cheaper made
and inferior, and
leave either acid or
alkali in the food.
BOYAL BAKING POWDER CO., 10« WALL ST., NEW-YORK.
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A Rainmaker’s Apparatus.
A rainmakeiyn India bas au appar
atus consisting of a rocket capable ol
rising to the height of a mile, con
taining a reservoir of ether. In its de
scent it opens a parachute, which
causes it to come down slowly. Tha
ether is thrown out in fine spray, au l
its absorbtion of heat is said to lowt-r
the temperature about it sufficiently
to coudeuse the vapor and produce a
limited shower.—Chicago Herald.
A Kalatrazoo (Mich.) health officer
took a tramp suffering from smallpox
to the jail, growled because the jailer
would nut admit the prisoner and
then exhibited the patient to an ad-
miriug crowd of citizens.
Du Maurier, the Punch artist, has
been making his stately women an
inch or two taller recently, because,
as he says, they look better that way.
Remarkable As.iassiualions.
Abdel Asiz, Sultan June 4, ISTfc
A'Beclset, Tnomas Djc. 2D, 1170
Albert I., Emperor ot Ger.uviy . H:iy 1, 13)1
Alexander II., Russia Hnrcti 13,1831
Renton, David, Car till'd May 21, 151 i
Borri,Obariee,Due<!•.« Feu. l:), ii:o
Buolilngbum.Gjorge Villers,Duie Au s *. 2,10)3
Burgundy, Unite Sep. 10, HID
Oupo d'lslrin, Greek Oat. D, 1331
Ourendtsh, Lor 1 Frederick Huy 6. leS)
Catar, Julius Mareii 13, D. 4i
Cttrnot, President -Tuue 24, 1331
Durlus III., Persia.. . July, B. C-, 830
Edmun-I, Eider, England...... Wareh 23, 940
Edward, martyr March 13, 97)
Edward Ii Sep. 27,1311
Edward V. July, 1493
Garfield, President, s io; July V, 1331
Died Hep. ID, 13*1
Guis-, Henry, Duke Dae. 23, 15* i
Gustavus III.. Sweden Unroll 2D, 17)4
Henry lit., France....: Aur. 2, 153)
Henry IV., France May 14, i013
James L, Scotlaul Fel>. 31,1.37
James Hi., Scotian t. Tun tit, 1431
Lincoln. President April 15, ISO)
Marat, by C'niirlo'.te Cordsy ...July 13, 179!
Mayo, Earl Feb. 8, 1373
Moheaiet Ali Sep. 7, 1373
Mu'ray, Earl, Beotian 1 Tin. 23, 15/1
Orange, William, Prince July 10,1531
Paul, Ccir Mnre i 24, 13)1
Philip II., Maodou 5. C., 8.35
Prim, Marshal Dec. 30. 13;0
—Chicago Herald.
Etna’s Climate.
The variations in temperature at the
summit ol Mount Etna, whose height
is nearly 11,09] feet, have been re
corded, after many difficulties, by
Professors Rioco and Saija. The
climate resembles that of the North
Cape or the Crooken. Automatic or
personal observations on 491 days be-
tiveon August 27, 1891, and February
28, 1891, showed a mean annual tem
perature of twenty-four degrees F.,
with a maximum of sixty-one degrees
and a maximum of thirty-one degrees.
The mean daily variations was about
thirty in winter and twelve degrees in
summer. —Atlanta J mraal.
A DETROIT BUILDER.
HE TEI.LI A REMARKABLE STORV
OF HIS LIFE.
('■me te Detroit Abeet Forty Yean Are,
LEVI VLCZY'S EXI'KBIISCX WORTHY SXRIOCS
ATTENTION,
(From tin Detroit Evening Eewt.)
Away out Gratiot avenue, far from tho din
and turmoil of the business centre, there an
many attractive homes. Tho intersecting
streets are wide, clean an 1 shade! by largo
leaf-covered trees, an 1 tho people you meet
sretypical of industry, economy and honest
to!'. There nro many pretty residences, bnt
none more Inviting in Us neatness and home
like comfort than that o' Mr. Levi Elsoy, tho
well-known builder nnl contractor, at 71
Moran street, just off Gratiot. Mr. Eisey Is
an old resident of Detroit, having moved
hero about forty yrars ago. He has erected
hundreds of houses in different parts o' tho
«ity, end points with pride to snch buildings
ns the dewberry A McMullen nnl Campaw
blocks. In which he displayed hts ability as a
superintendent.
“I have seen Detro't grow fro n a village
to a city,' he observe 1 yesterday in conver
sation with the writer. 'and I aou't think
thorn nro many towns In America to- lay
rqnal to It In point of beauty. I knowalmeit
everyboiy In tho olty. and an Incident which
recently happened in my life has interested
nil my friends.
,: It Is now about eight years ago since t
was stricken down with my first case of ill
ness. One cold, blustering day I was down
town and through my natural carelessness
nt that time I pormltto 1 mysoltto get chlllo 1
right though. When I arrived home that
evening I felt a serious pain In my left leg.
1 bathed it that night, but by morning I
found U ban grown worse. In fact it was sc
serious that I sent l*r tey family phystclur.,
an I ho Informed mo that I was suffering
from varicose veins. My leg swelled up tc
doable its nat urn! size and the pain increased
in volume. The agony was simply nwfnl. I
wns laid up and never left my bed for eight
weeks. At times I felt as though I would
grow frantls with pain. My leg was ban
daged and whs propped np in tho bed nt an
angle of thirty degrees, In order to keep thi
blood from flowing to my extremities.
“I hnd several doctors attending m», hu‘
1 believe my own Judgment helped me bettoi
than theirs. After n siege of two months 1
coaid move around, Min f was on the sicl
list and had to doctor myself for years,
was never really cared and suffered an*
amount ot anguish.
“About two years ago I noticed an nrtlcl-
In the Evetun.j AYtc.i about my friend, Mi
Northrup, the Woodward avenue merchant
In an Interview with him he stated that ho
had used Dr. Williame’ Fink Pills for Palo
People and that they cured him. I knew hiir
very well, having built bln house out Wood
ward Avc., and I thought I would follow hi*
suggestion. I must confess 1 did so with
marvelous snccess. From the time I began
to take the Pink Pills I felt myself growing
to be a new mnn. They noted on me like
magical stimulant. Thu pain departed and
I soon was ns strong and healthy as ever.
Before trying the Pink Pills I hnd used an-
nmount sf other medicine without any no
ticeable benefit. But the Pills cured mo snd
1 was myself again.
“When n person finds himself relieved and
enjoying health he is apt to expose himsel'
again to another attack ot Illness. Some
three months ngo I stopped taking the Pink.
Pills, and from the day I did so 1 noticed a
change In my condition, A short time sln-V
1 renewed my habit of taking them with thu
same beneficial results which met me for
inerly. I am again nearly as strong ns ever,I
although I am n mnn about fifty-six years ol'j
age. I tell you, sir, the Pink Pills are a most
wonderful medicine, and If they do ns well
In other cases as they did in mine they are
tbe best In the world. I freely recommend
them to any sufferer.”
Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills contain, in a con-
denaed form, all the elements necessary to
give new Hie and richness to the blood and
restore shattered nerves. They are an un
failing specific for such diseases as locomotor
ataxls, partial paralysis, 8t. Vitus’ dance,
sciatica, neuralgia, rheumatism, nervous
headache, the after effect of ia grippe, pal
pitation ot tho heart, pale and sallow com
plexions, all forms of weakness, either in
mule or female. Pink Pills are sold by nil
dealers, or will be sent post paid on receipt
of price (50 cents n box, or six boxes for
42.60—they are never sold in bulk or by the
100), by addressing Dr. Williams’ Medicine
Co., Schenectady, N. Y.
WISE WORDS.
Cupid is tbinkless.
Loro is the divino hypnotism.
Only a fool fishes with a gold hook.
Custom is oftentimes an ignoramus
grown old.
Ocenpation is the nee3ssary basis of
all enjoyment.
A woman will do more kindly things
than she will say.
A certain amount of friction is neces
sary to friendship.
Man’s inconstancy is no greater than
woman’s inconsistency.
There are as many men angels as
there are women angels.
Men would be different if their con
sciences were not elastic.
Truth is mighty and will prevail
when there is money in it.
“Love me little, love me long,” and
remind me of it occasionally.
An obstinate man does not hold
opinions, bnt they hold him.
There are many good women who
make bad wives, and vice versa.
To kick the man who kicks your
dog is no satisfaction to the dog.
When impious men bear sway, the
post of honor is a private station.
The sunshine of life is made np of
very little beam*, that are bright all
the time.
The chains of habit are too small tc
be felt, until they are too strong to
be broken.
Do not wait for extraordinary oir-
enmitances to do good actions; try to
nse ordinary situations.
Adversity has the effect of eliciting
talents whioh in prosperous oireum-
stances would have lain dormant.
When a man asserts that all men are
rascals at heart, you may be certain
that there is at least one man who is
a rascal at heart.
One differenos between wealth and
fame is, fame is what other people
think a man has, and wealth is what
he knows he has.
Rainmakers’ Cars.
The rainmakers’ oars, used by the
Bock Island Railroad Company, are
ordinary box cars. In one end of tbo
car the operator lives. In tho other
there are retorts, huge bottles and
jugs and various contrivances which
belong to the science of rainmaking.
A battery of twelve jars capable of
prodnoing forty-live volts, tbe amount
of electricity required, is ranged close
under the roof. On the opposite side
of the floor are six large jars arranged
in sets of two. From those sheet-
iron tubes extend through tho roof
through which 8900 gallons of gas are
shot into the air "every hour. Three
cars are now being operated, one at
Beatrice, Neb., one at Horton, Kan.,
and one nt Pawnee City, Neb. It
costs $100 a day to operate a oar. —
Detroit Free Press.
“Dul yon ever notice,’' saift mrs.
N. Peck, “that about half tho pictures
in the photographers’ windows are of
bridal couples? 1 wonder why they
always rush off to a photographer as
soon ns the knot is tied?” “I guess
the husband is responsible for it,”
said Mr. Peek. “Ho realizes that it
la about his last chance to ever look
pleasant.”—Cincinnati Tribune.
Extensive Production ot Cupper.
Tin's country produces mor-- than
half of thb copper of the world. The
metal comes from the Lake Superior
region, from Montana and from new
mines in Arizona. Tha Lake Superior
mines alono yield metallic copper in
large quantities. There tho stuff is
found in a pure state, nuggets of ii
weighing hundreds of pounds. These
deposits were worked extensively by
the Indians for centuries before Co
lumbus, and the copper they ob
tained was distributed widely by bar
ter. They left behind many large
masses of tho metal, because they
could not break them into pieces, and
were unable to carry them away bod-
ily.
The United States can turn out
360,000,009 pounds of copper yearly.
The mines at Butte, Montaua, are
able alone to put on the market 200,-
009,000 pounds per aunum, all of it
obtained from a single small hill. Of
course, tho world’s consumption of
this metal is enormous. The waste is
very great. So many cents are lost
that the United States mint at Phila
delphia ia obliged to furnish ninety
millions of those small coins annual
ly. The copper used for sheathing
the bottoms of ships is chemically de
stroyed ; it is the virdigris, incidental
ly formed, that kills the baruicles.
Vast quantities of copper are con
sumed for making brass aud in elec-
trio wires. — Washington Star. •
Royal Telegrams in Cipher.
The Queen of England rarely sends
any telegrams to any member of the
royal family or to her intimate friends
otherwise than in cipher, a system of
figure ciphers having been carefully
prepared for her and their use.
i9l3:S>SS3
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