The Flatonia Argus. (Flatonia, Tex.), Vol. 23, No. 48, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 13, 1898 Page: 1 of 2
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VOL. XXIII.
SWIMMING IN THE PACIFIC.
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AccomplLhmenL That Com* Natural to
tha Native*
' 'I'he South sea mother has very lit-
tle cause 1o worry when her baby has
amned there was mo reached the reptilian or crawling age.
hXrv which fur- In her house there are no stairs for
®iad forGen Brooke’s army, the venturesome infunt to tumble
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of flour IS consumed in 3r* * ploration of the path there are no uni- -,L- ~'-1"| "'|tt*° l>k<" csiainntr
%*• the output U great. The out plora P brinR bruises and
tat Furnish*! tt* Food tor Our
. Troops at Camp Thomas
6ne of the-points of interest at
Diljfa The mac while a large part of
[wa* encamped there was the
ament bakery which fur-
ALLIGATORS AT PLAY. j
They Wrestle and Play at “Pyramid”
In Their Home In thu “Zoo ”
Did you ever see the aoo alligators
play “pyramid” or any other of their
famous games? They wrestle like
old-time Graeco-Roman boys, and
atrain and struggle in all sorts of way*
at it. When, filially, one u.ius by get-
ting the other on his hack, a funnier
thing occurs. The victor makes a
sound, like escaping steam; then th®
other makes sounds like - escaping
steam—alligators’ applause, if you
please. Then they all become still
and watch the vanquished brother
■fe^WCve. Sf bread U or wheel. K bring bruise* and
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°nA?amount of the work is accom- warmth of the supporting sand into
pliJhed by machinery, but th* major the yielding warmth of the shlj u a_
no^on is done by hand. The dough! ter. Nature intended the human
P0* jrnwrhs after which form to float, and, knowing no belter, *ieum-t:M;oj»uS t
is mixe<Pin laiv W > hl e lhe wca Kanaka lets nature have her long and ns loud as they did hit-vie
^TV.' Ul-ttSSlS ^tt^-otio-Mhid,™?.! ; tor" Their meaning no fightis shown
..... the crawling baby on shore turn lnm jMW
into the swimming baby in the sea.
From swimming baby to swimming
man or woman there is no alteration
of style. There is no overhead stroke,
no breast strode, nothing but the
crawling motion with which every
| four-limbed animal swims. It is noth
move up in single tile and give him a
jab with their jaw in his upturned
belly. When finally he gets himself
righted, all hands again set up the;
steam-escaping racket, cheering lnnv
machines will hold six barrel* of flour
at a time. After the dough is worked
into the proper shape it is sent along
to A force of men who cut and work it
into loavoe 10 ounces in weight. Each
lqaf must bo weighed on the scale be-
fore going to the ovens. After baked
it weigh Bt lwist 18 ounces. | iour*HinDCQ iiDHu»i*wiu,*i
It is very interesting to watch the iug but thedog paddle,which civilized
bakers make up the loave*. This is swimmers deride, but, laughed at as
t .accomplished with the use of a knife, the stroke may be, it serve* the turn
it which the men handle with lightning- 0f the strongest and longest swimmers
S^Sju, like rapidity. After the dough I* jn the world. No one, no matter how
* ' made into a roll—representing a loaf good his stroke may be in theory and
# __orie dozen arc placed in a “bake jn swimming school practice, no one
pan” and carried by a strong boy to but a South sea islander would start
the ovens. If the oven is in proper out hopefully on a swim over 20 miles
working order a pan of bread can bo of ocean between two islands. Scores
linked in 30 minutes. This operation 0f instances are known in which the
continues from morning until night j Kanaka has covered that distance,
and from night till morning. Afier starting with a cocoanut slung-nbaut
the breed is naked it is carried from't his neck ns a national combination of
the oven and laid upon a long ware- haversack and canteen, food and driu-c
house floor, where it cools. Later the jn the same parcel,
bread is stacked up in huge pile*and Jt » only such confident swimmers
! issued to the various regimental eom- who may venture cn t he thrilling
“ missary officers. sport of surf riding. The Samoans
on When the bakery was in operation ride the surf in canoes. Itcanbedonc
L.r etrijry man in Camp Thomas received on]y in a lagoon which lias a wide reef
■ ,n loaf of fresh bread every dey. The 1 passage to the sea, and is possible only
B&rc»L_ d js of a very fine quality anil < when a heavy s(*:i cn the ocean is set-
jyffe The flour is: fuxniihcd, rlglU iaiUUW jiwuth cf tim pass.
T^aHnill, which has a contract to when that happens old and young
|[sh 200 beTrel*nday.—Cor.Halti- get out the canoes and lie just under
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WITH FASHION.
Habit Hai Even Extended to the
Wedlln; Ring.
The most frivolous woman up to
(Ul, A UVIi *Hvu*4»f.g -- — p —
by their never hurting each other.
Another of the great midsummer
pastimes of these zoo alligators is
playing pyramid. The ’gators play
pyramid several times a day. Tosco
it done you’d declare that the ugly'
things had been trained to it. llul;
no. It’s just one of the ways of tho
sporty side ,of their life. The game
come6 on ijr one of the bigger alli-
gators uttering the steam-hissing
•noise. This call? the others to atten-
tion. Then the big one says a line or
two .of alligator talk, and stretches
himself full length in the center of tho
pen. No sooner is this done than a
little bit smaller alligotor crawls on
top of the other and stretches length-
wise, but head to-tail with the other.
The second ono being settled, he lets
off a little steam talk, end a third, a
little smaller alligator, climbs ontop
of the'second and settles down as tho
second did. They keep this up until
six or seven have builded thernsclves
into as strange and wonderful’a pyra-
mid as ever eyd beheld. After each
one has settled cn top of the other be
lies perfectly motionless, so that
when the pyramid is completed it ap-
pears r.s some marvelous carving.
But Ibis egret lasts only about two
minutes aflerThc pyraliflais finished.
Then comes a new chapter of the act.
The Scndow ’gator underneath all
FIRE-FIGHTINC IN EUROPE.
Method* Employed to Holland, Germany
and Austria.
In Amsterdam the firemen are all
unmarried men and live at the fire sta-
tions. The street alarms for calling
out the fire brigade are distributed
bver the city, so that no house is more
than 300 yards from one of them.
There are two methods of rescuing
people from burning houses which
are practiced in the Dutch town. If
the inmate* are in a-very dangerous
position a fine line is shot up to them
with a pistol. They catch the line,
draw it up and at the end find a
stout rope. This they fasten inside
the room and slide down it to the
ground. Jumping-shocts are also pro-
vided; the firemen grasp them with,
both hands, raisingatheir arms, and
the sheet is level will the collar boDe,
and throw bock thomody to an angle.
The fall of the person thuyauses the
sheet to “give” without bilging the
hearers to their knees, says Household
Words,.
In Germany call boxes are very nu-
merous, and the extent as well as tho
locality of the fire is signaled. En-
gines are dispatched according to the
size of the fire as it ^signaled—small,
medium or great. Most German fire-
men, it is curious, to note, are tele-
graph clerks. A gTeat feature of Ger-
man fire brigade work is the preven-
tion of unnecessary damage by water.
As everybody know*, the water used
for extinguishing a fire does almost
as muerti damage to the'contents of.
a building as the flames themselves.
The German firemen pay particular
attention tb this point and do cot
flood the building with water, but use
it only whereil-is necessary. The fire-
men’s clothes can be inflated with wa-
ter if wearies requires it. Thcblouso
and trousers-are mad* of a double
l*ycr of canvas, end by means of a
tap attached to the hose for this pur-
pose a fireman' Con fill tfle waterproof
space between t'he two layers with wa-
ter immediately. ’ If too much vrtiter
is poured in .the surplus escapes
through a valve and pours down over
SPAIN A3 A REPUBLIC.
I
LARGE FREIGHT CARS.
America’s Two Leading Authorities ou
Sea and Land Strategy.
Among our soldiers and writers on
the art of war on land, Lieut, Her-
. bert H. Sargent, of the Second Unit-
ed States cavalrv. is as oreeminen*
writers
Laitei Two Ysir* and Had F.vs D Bar-
ent PsOsilftQtD.
Twenty-five years ago Spain was a
republic. Her existence during this
period was more stormy than at any | ... p—-e—>» ---------—
other time during her history. So ed States cavalry, is as preeminent as
uncertain wds the republic that the J is Capt. Mahan' among writers on
18 well Knewu, iuc w,uuo-puuu
which has been for the last few years
practically the standard dates back
only to about 1885. In 1875 the nor-
MAHAN AND SARGENT. ^ ___
In 1875 a Large Freight Cat Carried
*5,000 Pound*; How It Carrtea 110,00a
The recent introduction of freight
car* of 80,000 pounds to 110,000
pound*’ carrying capacity brings ui*
again the "large car1’ question, which
uncertain was th’T republic that lhe lit Capt: Mahan' among writers on i* always a fruitful J**.'']}*"
United Stutc-s and Switzerland alono ! naval strategy, (|nd hi* ability has had cussion among rai J ^
recognized it as a legal government, ns genuine recognition on hotliAidcs ! operating n
Tte other nations held aloof, know- of the ocean among military men and is well kntwn, the 60,000-poundI car
ing that the republic would bo of others interested in the always et-
short duration. And so it proved. 1 tractive problasns of strategy and tao-
The republic lasted less than two tics as Cajit. Mahanjs has beet). With
rs, and during G.....
in succession acted as
the rudderless ship of *i«ic, nu,.u ! »uij .Uu ».r..«—-> -—- — -
drifted hither and {hither, purpose- ' have war planned upon the land and.
lessly. vJsca, a joint scheme of opCWdion* that
In its formation the republic waaSvould tome as near to being perfect
unusual. It was a most peaceful rev-, as human wisdom, knowledge and
olution. In the morning Spain was that most unusual ability, rare even
a monarchy; in the evening a repub- among soldiers and sailors, to seize
lie. There Were no excesses attend- upon the essential point* of the prob-
ing its birth, no extravagant exulta- lem, could make such a scheme,
tion, no threats of vengeance on tho j It is ^remarkable fact that so un-
pevt’of the monarchists. No barri- warlike a people as the people of the
cades were raised and 110 swords were United States, but a people capable
drawn or guns fired. Later there in all the details of war, should pos-
was plenty of bloodshed, but none at sess nt the present time the ablest
the birth of the republic. | exponents of military and naval strat-
The formation of the republic wau egy in Capt. Mahan and Lieut. Sar-
. .1 jrnrs —.. 11.. Jn Tl c.nook ViivrKltr fnr mir flrmv
INI
The republic lasted less than two tics as Capt. Mahan's has been, wait only 10 uuvul ^Xjw'TnpV-
years, and during that time five men Capt. Malian and Lieut. Sargent a* | n.1
...nnn«cir,n npipd n* helmsmen to the respective chiefs of staff of the 1 000 pounds, a an not)and 50-
state, which ' navy *nd war departments, we should capacity had grow n to 40,000 and jO,
, _ _______ 1 J______......Hu. i„nd And 000 pounds. In that year a commit-
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ward. If be makes a slip in steering
’ there is ‘
w*vagant and foolish extent. She
1 carried this habit to cxecse that it
[’extended even to her wedding ring.
change d from time to time as
jjd" ’“i-h^Jffushions changed and a new width
' . or sSapc came into favor. I
rtVhcn it was first placed upon her
, finger the ring was a broad, heavy-,
ovaLtopped ring, with rather sharp
edges. That poor little circle has
gone through fire enough times to
change it into a flat ring wfth square
egdes, into a perfectly round wire,
iDto a half wire, into n flat-top band
with round edges, and even to elim-
inate its identity entirely as a wedding
ting, and it is now no more her orig-
inal wedding ring than any other ring
which she wears. But she Mil! calls
it her wedding ring, and her wedding
j!ng is always in the latest fashion.
Whother she docs this entirely for
.-the reason that she cannot boa.- to
wear anything out of. date, even in
due to the difficulty experienced in
securing a sovereign satisfactcrry to
the cortes. Don Carles was impossi-
ble to those who no longer believed
in ttiio divine right of kings. Alfonso
was distrusted because he was the son
cf the ex-Queen Isabella, notorious
forjicr excesses. Amadeus, coaxed to
accept the throne, was wearied with
iiiij, task and willingly abdicated. Ila
found it impossible to bring about
any harmony jietween the
parties. In hi*-letter of a--------
he said that he would bo willing to
return when “fiiots, perils, and ob-
stacles” had been overcome. ‘ Tho
cortes gladly accepted his abdication,
declaring that when that condition
000 pounds. In that year a commit-
tee of the Masiter Car Builders’ asso-
ciation made a report recommending
certain standard dimensions for f.<V
000-pcund cars, but such cars were
then qujte exceptional.
Few cars of less than CO,000 pounds’
capacity are now fiuilt for ordinary
freight service, but on the other hand
there is a decided tendency to in-
crease the capacity to 70,000 arid 80,-
000 pounds. Several roads arc now
using ears of such capacity. Even this
is not the limit, howewer, forievml
hundred steel cars of 100,000 pounds,
and even 110,000 pounds’ capacity,
are in service.
Practically all of these high-capaci-
ty cars are in use on roads having a
large coal and ore traffic, and are in-
tended specially for this traffic, in
which they can be assured of full -
loads (in one direction at least), thus
road, has”pecuTiVr pertinence to the approaching to the full measure of
■ * ------ If is as economv
2H
gent. It speaks highly for our army
and navy-, which, indeed, whenever
permitted to do so, have covered
themselves and their country with"
glory-. A paragraph from Lieut. Sar-
gent’s latest work, “The Campaign of
Marengo,” which Gen. Wolseley, of
the British army, sat up all night to
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management of our own war.
follows:
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economy due„to large car loads. Thq
Pennsylvania company, the Balti-
M
benefiting by economy in opera-
tion in this way on their lines betweed
the country he could do so,
not. to receive the crown r.g...... --------- —- —-—a . - . -
is poured in.ine surplus c*vap» to accept another dignity, ‘'tluit of a situation nor render decisions witn
through a valveand peursdown over f jtis.eu of n free rnd independent na- .promptness in critical timce..
the wearer like a fountain, thus doubly tion.”—William Matthews Handy, in Wliat follows is peculiarly appli
protecting him from the fiamee. Cbnutauquan. _____ ^ cable to the prosecution of our owi
the canoe is upset and
ebance that the outrigger will break
his head by way of reminder that surf
riding is an art. Those who make the
ride are entitled to the wild cries of
delight with which they signalize the
feat.
The great Hawaiian beaches sel-
dom are protected by a barrier reef,
therefore the eurf riding is not to be
done there in canoe*. Each swimmer
has a stout board, longer thaA himself
by about two or three feet and about
two feet broad. With this he swims
seaward, diving under the incoming
wave* until he reaches the place whore
the rollers begin to form. Hero he
watches the sea, lying flat upon his
board. When the largest roller begins
to swell into shape bo endeavors to
paddle his boatd backward with his
hands into the face of the forming
’ comber. If he times it just right th.'
pear a bride, or whether she imagines w*ve picks hun up and shoots him like
• that it will help her to appear younger an arrow to the bench, whera the
A4___1____11— Im |. a mwalcMT
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than she really is, is a mystery. Hhe
S heoelf is scacdnlized at the very idea
M fbat anyone will insist upon wearing
, an old-fashioned wedding ring, and
expresses great disgust w ith any wom-
an who allows herself to be out of
fashion in this matter. :
■Quite a. discussion took place on
tho Hudson river1 boat the other day
between her and another woman who
ideas
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The smoke helmet is also used by
Germans, a®, indeed, by all continent-
al firemen. It serves n« an air cham-
ber, which is filled by an air pump,
with which the fireman is provided.
me reex unui r,luuueiri ..a,* .= •. Tr . „ with wmen tnc nremau 19 pioviucu.
approaching. There is a hurry-to get riwU;' t-By ttm moans five-lungwareauppljed
the /arolnnd the'^}»K. \° Pce th^escaping dr'dem away thcmiokS
to keep that place until the breaking ake him to jolt his (range pyramid . V. » .. _ i-------—
lands the canoe on the beach, load to pieces. And right here de-
velops what appears to be a strict rtuo
of the game. Say there are seven in
the pyramid, and tho sixth from tho
bottom jostles off first, taking, of
course, the seventh one with him.
You’d naturally think the game dono
for that sixth and seventh alligator.
But not at all. It seems ihat the sixth
ono is in disgrace for having been
shaken off before the seventh one,
who was on tho top of the heap.
Therefore, what does the seventh do
but cling to the back of the sixth after
they’ve fallen off, and proceed to ride
alligotor No. C around the pen until
Sandow alligator has succeeded in
the escaping air clears away the smoke
and enables the fireman to see wliat
ha is doing. Thus the fireman i* able
to enter a burning room and figbl the
fire at deso quarters.- The Berlin fire-
man also carries a short ladder; plac-
ing it against the first floor window,
he mounts it, gets on to t'he window
■ill, pull* up the ladder, hooks it on
to the window still above and so
roaches the roof. He then lets down
a line, draws up a hose pipe end sets to
work.
Of all the continental capitals Vi-
enna is probably the mest-perfectly
equipped for outbreaks of fire. There
are numerous street alarms, which are
most ingenious and useful. Instead
ters is worth more than a congress of , _____
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existed, should he desire to return to they are sure taerr; for, being absent ^ ‘rains carrying oreJ^m the'
the country he could do so, taougH from the tlierier of operation*, they , ^ steamers to the Pittsburgh man-
not to receive ths crown again, but .canjcUhe^ ufacturing district, sMh.Mhe^cars
THE BURMESE WAY.’
v„„.„ ,..v prosecution of _
wars in the past and is worthy of be
ing printed in.the biggest kind of job
type:
“Beside*, their decisions are often
half-uia^rftneasures, neither one thing
Their Simple Method of Cbtalntaj a Di-
. ; vorei—Ila Local Fee* I ^
II is worth a motaent’s noticeJM*. nor "th?-o*thcf-'Tiko' tii'c’ laws passed
while we, of,this highly civilized land, ^ g bjcamera] legislature, they are
are perplexing ourselves in our cf- marly all compromises. In war there
forts to find a simple method of ob- be j-gooluteness, boldness, deci-
taiuing divorce on grounds cf m- ...
compatibility cf temperament,” and'
anc wasting much time and largo'
money in litigation end lawyers’ fees
clmr.l/i nrvnnlf* of Rnmiflh IllflliaO'C
ufacturing district, 1
have full loads each____
burgh, Bessemer & Lake Erie r*U-
d has been specially improved for
irson or the real discovererof a
fire—which must be amassed before
If the fourth is shaken off before the
fifth, the fifth, like the seventh, pro-
ceedsi to ride disgraced “next” until
Sandow gets rid of all his lead and an-
other game is started.—Cincinnati
Enquirer.
board, expertly handled, lands just
even with the last bubbles at the edge
of the dry sands. Surf riding after
the Hawaiian fashion is extremely
simple when performed with pen and
ink, but the swimmer who tries it at
Waikiki when there is any sort of sea
tumbling in from the smith is> either
overwhelmed in the roller or ports
1 his board to learn the
olidity of beach sand
^jidcr essays to plow
jrtion of his anatomy.
_____j___art cannot be learned
nonj, consuming u Mill water, therefore the learner
l&falem, loo precious to be must take chances on coming to grief
a moment. under severe conditions. Tnc whole
ootherwontai^h^^^^^^^
never
>lirr1l„.. ,
’by her liusbai! ,
»*ge ceremony, considering it
sacred emblem,
removed even for
rmloti? woman, now ever, is
ely devoid of proper senti-
ut this important ring, or
1 ‘ ii away in ,her jewel
ny n new wedding ring
style. It would cost
than to have the old one
I.Y. Herald.
E* Caajbt.
to’.ch the chairman’s
tho aspirant for caucus
ns the delegete :
»heated hall.
•legate; “only
Town Topics.
• Oalnfa*.
the alarm can be given, (here is a key.
Numbered keys foiVthe call boxes arc
frequently suppliril to all respectable
citizens, who are responsible for their
use. On discovering a fire the mnn
unlocks the doer and gives the alarm.
When this has be?n done the key
cannot be withdrawn until another
door has been unlocked, the key for.
which only firemen possess, i’roui the
numbered key in the lock the name of
the person giving the alarm can be
found, as a register is kept cf all the
citizens to whom keys have been sup-
A HOME IN MEXICO.
Something of th} Houses aa Euitt is
That Country. ,
The style of architecture is very
different from that of the north coun-
try. Houses, instead of being com-
pact and in the center of a lot, with
plenty of yard room, have the rooms
interior court, or patio, as it is called, * The Vienna fire brigade turns out
has the sky for ^ rat^ whet'Jtei^th^ *orebqr"^0J in living totheecene
bufidinghM one rt^or four. I udd^, l f«e onc of the brf !e fiu bv
ingsate seldom stones gt)d blowsa lrumpd, which
w h..,d. r?. 9i...r»,..v.y
knack of it lie* in h double distribu-
tion of tho weight of the bodv on tho
eurf board. It is essential to keep (he
hoard truly
there are two and three patio* from
which tho rooms are lighted. Win-
dows fronting the street on tho
ground floor are heavily grated.
There is hut one entrance; which is
closed by heavy wooden doors and se-
curely fastened. On one particular
door in Mexico City are to be found
and is a summons for all vehicles to
pull aside until the engine has passed.
A water cart fellows the engine, and
so cn immediate supply of water is at
hand while the fire plug is being
found. Thus many smell fires which
would soon extend are nipped in the
bud. A great point is also made of
IllUULl ill J - * ■* »
the simple people of Burmah manage
to settle the question without tliQ
least difficulty and without waste of
substance. Recognizing the fact that
marriage is often a lottery, and that,
in cases of suddenly discovered in-
compatibility, it always is, the Bur-
mese man and wife agree that di-
vorce shall be decreed by lot tery also.
If u Burmese couple find that they
cannot live in peace, and decide that
they would best separate, the wifo
goes out and buys two candles of
equal length. These candles, aro
made for this especial purpose, and
aro the only “legal expenses” that
need be incurred in obtnininggi Bur-
mese divorce. The wife bringsjibem
home. She and her husband then
sit upon the floor, and, at a signal,
each lights a candle. Onc candle
stands for him, the other for her.
The ode whose candle burns out
first rises and goes out of tho ltouso
forever, taking nothing. The ono
whose candle burns longest, even by
a fraction of a second, remains and ule>„ulu„a, ---------------
takes everything. Thus the divorce overwhelming naval victory of mod-
is settled without any fuss or scandal, ern t;meJ) a victory which causes the
tho general public is cot annoyed by Qcrman emperor to exclaim: “There
the contentions cf the separating jg ^mething besides commercialism
couple, and each is free to remarry. and smartness in the Yankee blood!”
There are, indeed, some lessons in | -—— -p—
plain common sense that may lie' Savsi b7 Pickle*,
learned even from the ways cf tho
heathen who “in his blindness hows
down to wood and stone.”—Godcy’s
Magazine.
must bo resoluteness, boldness, deci-
sion; to compromise is to court de-
feat.” ■*
It was the Aulic council at Vienna
which gave Napoleon his chance to
defeat Kray on the Rhine and llelas
at Marengo. It was the concentra-
tion of authority in the military lead-
er that enabled Napoleon to carry
out a plan of campaign which no coun.
cil at a national capital would ever
have consented to. It was the waver-
ing at Washington that w?e primarily
responsible for the defeats upon the
land in the war of 1612. It was the
Concentration of authority that en-
abled Cromwell to strike such vigor-
ous blows at Nasclry and Marston
Moor. At New Orleans Jackson wes
so far away from political centers 1
that he did not know the war was over.;
The victories of the Americans upon j
the ocean, while largely due to Amer-
ican seamanship, were also due to the
isolation of the captains and to the
absence of all opportunity for timid
councils to aaopt half-way measures.
And now once more, separated by.,
many thousands of mi’.cs from both
Europe and America, with the cables
cut and and communication impossi-
ble, Admiral Dewey has won the moot
3 essential to keen (he door in Mexico City *re to be found (be r- b< application cf water, which
______ at right aisles with the the following fastenings: hirst there jg nged with great economy. It stand*
swelling face of the wave. Tho latter, is a heavy iron latch and • lock which geDgC that a pint of water r.t the
* * * • - I -ttW .nehralonn.....{g J*,,,.,. than a gallon in
swelling face of the wave. The latter is a heavy iron aten ana « ioca wmen (o genf(j „
feat i* accomplished partly Jiy the ex- fzsten* with, a key eight inches long, . ^ g ,
qtnsife molding of the board to suit; then a chain, large and heavy enough wrong,
the owner and partlv by adjusting his j to do logging, and last, but not Ic#*^
position on th* board to secure * solid hardwood **
_• 1 _____ nu... #4...... nntSrn rnlrATi
Ogg
Icoott-
the right balance. The former orf
•teering disposition is-effected by
rolling to one side of the hosrd or the
other. A few of the most expert Ha-
waiian sorf rider* are able to make i he
ride when standing on the board, but
this is^ery dangerous and infrequent,.
bar reaching across
the entire entrance. In th* door is
a small square hole with a slide
through which the portero can, be-
fore opening, challenge the one who
knocks. In tho walls are traces of
A Diplomat.
Tom—I knew Tilly loved me, but
the only way I won her was by telling
her that she was just like Spain.
Bob—Like Spain? IIow was that?
Tom
Photographist: Unfljr Difflcaltlea.
Photography, by the way, is attend-
ed with mauy uncertainties in Sulu.
The Moros are Mohammedans, and
are unduly influenced by the remark#
in the Koran on the subject of making
pictures of living things. Further-
more, many of them believe that if
they are photographed they are sure
to die within a year. Most of ouz
photographs were stolen, with the
lielp 01 a rapid shutter. Some of our
best pictures were obtained at *
wedding feast to which we were in-
vited. We smuggl.d in our dis-
The talk turned the other dav in an
eastern Maine town cn good luck com-
ing out of apparent misfortune, and
as an illustration a gentleman told
how a Waldo county-man's house
caught fire in a timc®f great drought,
when the well was dry and there was
•, 1 • 1 1 # _ . nn._
roa«----------,-------^ —«--.T,-T7
this traffic, grades having been —
duccd, 100-pound rails laid and heavy
mogul engines put in service which
can haul loaded trains of ISO cars of
100,000 pounds’ capacity.—Engineer-
ing News. ___
BEAUTIFUL NEW TROUT.
Eighty-Four Spcc'mrm of Unknown Va-
risty Ei<;:ot.y Diicoveroa.
Something new in thefroutlinehas
been developid during the last season
at the fish liatcliery of the San Fran-
cisco & North Pacific Railway com-
panv at Ukiah, Mendocino county.
Among a lot of 730,000 eggs received
from ixiko Tahoe through the Cali-
fornia fish commission some 84 freaks
were discovered. At lirsC it woe sup-
posed that they were albinos od ac-
count of their total lack of coloration,
but subsequent development proved
them to he a new variety of such dis-
tinctive characteristics that they were
placed in a tank by themselves.
They were of a bright metallic hue,
with decided metallic luster. A pink
stripe runs along the medium lino
from the gill casing to the caudal fin.
The fis-h is almost scaleless and tho
j head i3 very flat between tho eyes,
[ which are cbuormally large. The nose
1 is pointed, resembling somewhat the
mouth of the water snake. The fish
are very wild and rapid in motion.
IIow they originated or where they
came from is a mystery. At first it
was supposed their,color was a matter
of faulty secretion of pigment*, but
this idea has been abandoned. The
fish arc a pale lemon color, fringed Jr*
with jet black, giving them a very pe-X”^
ruliar and beautiful appearance. All
arc alike. Whether they will lose this
marked brilliancy when transferred
to other waters and different condi-
tions remains to be seen.—San Fran-
cisco Examiner.__
Uiatrusted Hi* Sek.
ft 1
*
m
A Durhsm ivrcr, ffred 73, visit'd
a Newcastle lawyer—a bachelor—for
the purpose of making his will, and
the lawyer asking his client how ho
- j 141U tun fecmi'g, sue- vuvut —
woman cf. the house discovered it
burning nt a lively rate cn the dry
roof. Ilelp was’es scarce as water.
She began wringing her hands and
saying over and over Mo herself:
“Here’s a pretty pickkl A pretty
pickle!”
“Pickle, pickle,” (he word uncon
sciously repeated itself, and then she
A Itarrol full nf nnrk
thought of a whole barrel full of pork
pickle in tho cell at, saved fer boil-
m • 1U III*. W • 1-* * * m>h -.j | •••• —
vited. We smuggl .d in our dts- j„g0vcr. She darted down the cellar- “But, surely,” replied the lawyer,
mounted camera, and, under pretext ^vay and soon began deluging the roof don’t cXpcct your old woman,
of contributing cur share to the en- wjth tbc brjne. Everyone who has now ycar*old, to marry eftcr your
to hev all so long as she's ma widow.
Eft her that ma bairns gets all."
“What age is your old woman?”
asked the lawyer.
“Seventy-two," replied the miner.
. Thereupon the lawyer suggested
that he should give the wife the intcr-
‘ cst during her life, whether she eon«
tinned a widow or otherwise. ^
“Hinncy, Hinnoy, I winnot;Fllhev^
ma nan way,” said the man.
----:-----, r tom—tv
portholes that were formerly used in bouacj no(
defending the inmates from bandit* iod then—she flung out a flag
4— *'f - .Philadelphia Bulletin.
mma
Jn Jap*
Japan nearly every
0; to four carpet '
They work
re”:
rlsS
or revolutiomsts in
—-^ j strif*. This is not a nirt of the mod-
J^P*0- ' era house, but simply an indication j
time of civil
irt of the mod-
“v « ju»i mounted Comoro, ar.a, unocr prnc»v waysDd soon began deluging me rooi
[jikeSnain? IIow was that? | 0f contributirg cur share to the en- wbb jbe brjne. Everyone who has
Why, I told her she seemed | tertainment hy ninkwg artificial light- ^rjed jj knows what a complete fire cx*
ot to surrender till all wa* uing, touched off magnesium powder} Bncuishcr salt water is. The effect
then—she flung out* flag ■ and ma(]cexpostiros.—-Century. ^as magical, and before the supply
what
once neccs
luilliiy. — i
land
auqiian.
true#*
Beco-nlzcU th: Ccntadaracy.
Brittsin on May 13, 18G1,
on June 10, 18G1, Spain on
1801, recognized the
* itrlclligcTcnts,
at
con-
i'* First CUadlnji Army.
and made exposlvrei.—-Century.
Th# Saalwlch Maa.
Tlie walking advertisement seen
in ill large , cities, and sometimes
known n» a "fandwich matt,” is by
I no ii^ans a modern wrinkle. In 13 tG
La procession of men dressed to rep-
i resent straw-covered wine boltle*
used dp |>aratio in the streets of I'lor-
-A__Uwh. 1>tnn<l l.i lh| wine
now 72 years old, to marry after your
deathr ' I i
. — , The miner, looking the lawyer lull
igical, and before the supply jn jbe face, answered, with much
of “pickle” was exhausted she had the
III piVILIC --------
fire out and the home \va» saved. Sh*t “\Vcy, lunr.ey, thor’s n*c knnaing
says she never should have thought of nj,aj young chops like yourself will
it if that word “pickle” had not kept cv, for nio:'rV.” Detroit Fret Pj»My
solemnity:
up
rnnniajj in her mind.—Lewiston
(Me.) Journal.
Bird: ef th* flight
The eyes of the bird* that fly hy
night are generally about double th*
of those of day biids.
Aa Eiay Chatca.
you w*T
Robert—If you were going
the *rmy. wliat kind of a soldicn
yon prefer to lie? jiiiiaM
‘ Richard— A live onc,
• Boston Teerserift.
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