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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Signal, 1882-07-28, Page 2SI a 14V1 1 D.AL, J'ti Y 2818$8, BTR3NGTH OF INSB T III. r _ seswtrw.elf a flbte ruing MIS "If you taftlt to in said, "lake • glees," Pointing to tb Id laineewe*a, 1114 weans wee fistrlg diva' ail♦ 1iMls►' oval bedew 'Arte wee nothing tegea- fy remarkable about them; but aeon wonderful .Nature tolled aeon th eon* (rum a distant part of the dro In appal/anew ,t resetsbled a crystal ball The edges were ornamented with a delicate fringe, and the entire mass was transparent ea Ono The mouth of the bed was evidently the month of the animal because the observer saw it rush along like a swop, and, turning down, fasten uta edges to the bottom, as if to secure some minute manual that was re- sisting, and a second later some object could be seen passing up into the body. "If you had the slnngth of that tai• mal," the naturalist said, 'in propork.a to your size, you could take Trinity Church by its steeple and toss it over in to !4.w Jersey. There are annals in this drop that we can't an nth -this powerful gine. Suppose there was tide same difference in size among the higher animal& Elephanta would be as keg* as the State of Rhode Island. If this bell animal was as much larger than man as it isthan these little crea- tures it is eating, we would see .gigantic scoop of jelly larger thea the Forty+uecond street reservoir coming down on us, whirling in th water and causing such a suction that regiment of men woul.t, if in the water be hurled and twisted and then inner paced by it. The strength of the ares ture can be imagined when it is kncwn that the aniallest section of the now hair that could be cut seemed like mountain beside it; yet the microscopic creature moved the end of an entire hit placed over the glass. In moving abou it threw aside bits of algae and mod That could be compared to the act Of mingle man strking down one of the giant trees of California or kicking ow a block of houses. I am devising an inthusetrument to measure the power of thus microscopic giants. You see, arguing th lot there are always a number seem, from no special cause, to be in great terror, rushing about wildly, stop- ping at nothing, passing through masses of weed and mud in direct lines. Now the force with which they bring u maxiagainst a barrier is certainly the maxi mum of their strength; so I arranged machine after the plan of one that I haw seen to measure the velocity of a shot the latter striking a frame, and the furce of the blow being recorded on a scale. Finn partition I took what was e:i- dently the egg shell or cover of home microscopic animal. 1 attached it by one end to a larger body, and the whole thing stood over a delicate scale that was cut on the class slide, and aa the ani- mals rushed along they struck the par- tition or hand and pushed it round the scale.' "What was the result j'' "Well, to tell the truth, the first one that came along broke down the parti- tion, and I haven't been able to adjust it again. When I do I'll let you know. I haven't sold any stock yet, and haven't even applied for a patent, so the general public won't suffer. I have in hand another instrument, with which I intend to measure the movements of the wings and legs of insects per minute and sec- ond, and I think they can be photo- graphed as well as the feet of a trotter while in motion. This will be fine work, as with • simple instrument I have shown that the wings of a common house fly move more than '00tintesper second, and the machine lost more than half the vibrations. I have watched a fry for five minutes hanging almost in one spot under a chandelier. kept up by the con- tinuous movement of de wings, and es- timated that the operation required over 100,0.0 beats of the wings, or over 400 a second, or 800 simple oscillations, and the house fly is not as lively as some others of the tribe, 1 have, in following wild bees to find their neat, I found that they are often on the wing thirty•five minutes in forty five, the allowance be- ing for the time in which they are on flowers, and during that period they must have beat their wings 342,000 times. A spider can bind a Ay securely, winding twenty or thirty cables of silk about it in less than a second and a half. These rapid movemeuts show the won- derful physical powers of small animals. Here are some contrivances to measure the strength of beetles and large in• sects. One was a large box. sanded on the bottom, with glass sides. At the end was a small friction wheel, over which ran a silken thread. on one end s attachedattach.a tissue paper receptacle for weights, and the .other was tied in a e:ip noon. A large black ant was taken front around froa flask, the noose caught arun d hie body, and, on being released, rushed away up the miniature street, hoisting the seals and three grains ,of corn with the greatest Mee. A small red ant was then brought nut, and after several false starts and showing evidence if • decid- sdly'mulish disposition, it ran on, hoist. mg • very heavy pee. a e p- e emy AA se reek Anka Sektwarta, • IMA man of Brooklyn, is *Melly blind, yet be proprietor of *evert' trunk stores, and is a prusperous business man, and does business with many customers who do not detect his misfortune. When he ay a boy he ruined his eyes by putting a nanih in • pan of gunpowder, and although his sight was ruined for life, and he was ad. wised to speed his lite in an asylum for re the blind, he sented such expressions of sympathy, and said that he intended to make ha way in the world be mous of his remaining eases. He was passing 8s. Paul's chunk yard one day, and be ing attracted by the noise nude by the "inn -"it" who stand by the tree fence to w ell thou wares, be halted and opened a ow�wmw .» ettwith oof dna "I am blind," be said "mad ant sot gang to Mg a steal. I think I cam stead bee ar and .e a ham as yon do. Now tell in where I ram boy a meek." The asst day ks some as the china - yard fine with • ma lot of psi, and be at nese found thee, though rte eight • pas, es, he amid cry his sews wile a goad pair of Isola, and numb � ha es serve him m sere emt g res, sal semen a thaws re, rise bres . s/asi s form' iso Agar, In sdwy !!W *mail the r .saws of bowies W lisesssis mot .guts, eas tttd be aeneind .I. tteosi sHaw- taga sekomeal toes, he began the _esdestm�b s e el 1r • small way, • and an an he nem a fessery. He was sake a trunk as well as any d hs work- men He W deemed wowtb s.' .es in d trvak-snk'ag, ahe avers that one ante's patented sow, yielding a good n- ounto anther was .rig mad by kit. In walking the streets Mr. Schwartz uses no guide. H. holds Ms bud yot and carries • cane, with which he deftly feels his way. Ida pe is slow, and he cta seems to have no di ulty in g ng along. His firmness of manner and dig- nified bearing create a space about him and persons who do not know his blind- nessinstinctively turn aside to let him peas. If, by chance, he strikes against any one, he politely begs pardon, touches his hat, if the collision chances to be with a lade, and panes on. "It is foolish," he said, "for a blind man to have a boy or a dog to lead him. It teaches him de- pendence, and, from what I can learn, oleo why have guides do not get along as well as I do," r t • • .r e that p • e "Are you never run over by vehicles,'. " I have once or twice. I was knock- ed down by a lady's phaeton in Scher- merhorn strett once because I miscalcu- lated the distance of the vehicle, on ac- count of the tar pavement, which dead- ened the sound of the wheels. But 1 have a trick for saving myself when I'm knocked down. "What isthat (!' "I roll over and over just as fast as I can, sideways, until I'm sure I'm out , of danger of being crushed. Then I. jump to my fe, t, ci.11 out I'm all right, and go on my way. "Few persons know that you are blind 1" "Yee, that's true. My present wife did not know until after we got in love with each other. I get into company as much as I can, and, as 1 can talk and sing, I get along pretty well. I had, however, to' ell my wife of my infirmity on one occasion before we were married, to excuse my awkwardness in a dance. I bumped against some of the others in the figure so often that they became angry, and I had to confess my blindness, I go to the theatre very often, and near- ly always have a front seat in the balcony. I'm fond of music, and like coming very mu -h." "How do you decide upon your stock of leather goods ?" "By the sense of touch and the sense of smell. I can tell you all the different kinds of leather by maniple—by the oily feeling and smell. I never was deceived vet In fact, I get along coo well that some of my rivals have started the story that I am not blind—that i only pretend to be. "—[N. Y. Tribune. Twit Dep.rtmeets Well Represented. in lately walking through the Govern- ment Building at Ottawa, a represents- tive of one of Ottawa's ablest journals. in the course of conversation gleaned some items of interest Speaking with Mr. A. J. Lambie, Chief Clerk of the Agricultural,artmeat, that gentle- man replied too • certain question:—"I t have used tit. Jacobs OiI in my family, and found it to be an excellent article ia- deed. It is the remedy to banish pais ' and has • pleasant surd soothing way of doing so, that makes it valuable. I con- sider it • great reedieine." Calling up- on Mr. Sherwood of the Militia Depart. meat, that gentleman thee answered the usual query; "I have found M. Jacobs (til a great medicine; • splendid remedy, indeed for rheumatism. I have realms - named it to very many. When 1 cos - sanded Its use I bad not much faith, bet row my faith could not be easily shaken i .otnider it by all odds the beet medicine i ever tried ec�,.rti kis life. The marriage be- tween this young man and woman who undertook the equally dangerous experi- ment of removing every little amoralSaw took plae+e,and perhaps it was well. for in the happiest marriages there never oomph**ie and never can be this oomph** out- spokenness. One greet source of "in- compatibility' is this very lack of for Mamma in regard to, little facts which we endure in silence, and with no great demand upon our patience, when we see mere strangers exhibiting them. it is quite as likely to be temper as to be love which prompter the extreme frauknsse which wounds and peovokas the hasty answer. In our hest momenta we may indeed gave and reweave oouseel with grace sad bsese odt, hot bow few are the best moments s a busy man or wwnau's lila 1 Bow a few umeats we have which are, es Laren says, "rally ours,.' un - shadowed by fatigue or anxiety, and white we can bear to bays our linkmen s agsmaated upon m any but a very Mogwayl w 1 If all ie not as we would ears it ens may phi ily fall back apes •`tweet, Mae thoughts," and say, - Leve s oast leve sassyHlissassyw wen enmatsw *ads. Weds e•. else the rsessvor So remoo e. Was atm set Kra ase. 1. dseewesiag the Provincial elution the dud Tory organ is frank enough to any, as domot with the object of encour- aging the upponeeta of Mr. Mowat to make • dead set on his Guveroment, that "they never had a better opportun- ity of taking from him and his party that great maze of patronage and that large measures of power which he has sand without scruple for partisan pur- poses and for the hindering of the suc- cess of the Dominion Government and the National Polity." Mr. Mowat has nothing to do with the arranging ,of the tariff, and therefore has no power to in- terfere with the National Policy. But the fact that '.he National Policy is drag- ged in once more shows that the Con servatives are still conjuring with that cry and intend to pull it in by the heels to the coming contest. They seem to have little else to fall back upon. But the most significant remark made by the organ is that this is the time to make a dash for "a great mass of patronage and a large measure of power." This is the platform. It has only two planks, One is patronage and the other is power. [Toronto Telegram. What Yew aheeld Never De. Never leave home with unkind words. Never give promises that you cannot ful- fil. Never laugh at the misfortunes of others. Never'fail to be punctual at the time appointed. Never fail to give a polite answer to a civil question. Never question a child ur servant about family — matters. Never refer to a gift you have FoEsll made or ti a favor you have rendered. Never associate with bad company ; have goo:l company or none. Never punish your child for a fault to which you are ' addicted yourself. Never appear to notice a scar, deformity, or defect on any one. Never divulge a secret given to you in ftiendly intercourse, even should such friendship be afterwards broken. INA ram% their report, f^ bow made differs ftemsot the Lamb report in u many psrtiie+rs se possible. They criticise lamb's mode of proosdsre at the autopsy. and take issue with that odcious iudtvid as to the state of the brain, which the find en to have bein as average healthycondition, no.hing abnormal being visi- ble. a tesseisble ss.vs. Mrs. Geo. C. Clarke, of Port Dalhou- sie, Ontario, states that she had been confined to her roma for a long time with that dreadful disease, Consump- tion. The doctors said she could not escape an early grave, but fortunately she began taking Dr. King's New Dis- covery for Consumption, and in a short time was completely cured. Doubting ones, please write Mrs. Clarke, and be oomvino.d. Trial betties free at Rhyne' drug store. Large size (1. (3) TAE HON. J. LYMAN BULKLRY, M. D. of New York, says: "1 have toed Dr. WHLILER'e Compound of Itli.xlr of =rtad Ca hay& largely in my pew oseate and in my Judgment there is as of the kind that ton be cent. It. With treble ..semie women. of wean i�rree hove w woes, led In owes oon- v.issoingbem prostr.ti dlssasae, I should DX how to get without it. In D t1. it sots Uk. • o -- la tact In yy of kaoline oI exhaustive dbiesses, it is TNE remedy. 'root RHEUMATISM, Neuralgia, Sciatica, Lu.nbago, Backache, Soreness of the Chest, Bout, Quinsy, Sore Throat, Stroll- ing* and Sprains, Burns awl Scalds, General Bodily Pain:, Tooth, Ear and Headache, riveted Feat and Ears, and all other Paint and Aches. Ne Preparutlee es meth equals Or Jeror On. as s Nit, snore, a,epie sad *heap interval aseMy. • trial sandhi but the oommysntivsty trilled outlay of tie Cents, and every embattled. in with pain can base cheap and positive proud of is claim. Directions to Leven Languedoc SOLD BY ALL DKUGG1 IT8 AND REILEIS 1I HEDIWIE. A. V0GELER & CO.. Rarsalesore, Md., 17- /pt. .4 fear of tydreNherax fared. From Dr. J. S. Huniphev, ,.f Durand, �• is. —"It is now over nineteen years ago that my attention was directed to your highly valuable PearviAN Slat -r, which at that time ,was, I believe, the means of saving the health, and proba- bly the life, o1 a young lady who was said by her physician to have symp�ms of hydrothorax (dropsy of the chewtl, from which disease her t rother had late- . ly died. She married at the age of nine, teen, and for a long time had been usa- ble to ascend • flight of stain without stopping to take breath once or twice during the ascent, or indeed to take any !active exercise without distress. She took the Peruvian Syrup for six weeks, when all the before -mentioned symp- toms disappeared and have not since re- turned. This case occurred in Potsdam, N. Y., in 1880." Sold by all druggists. If mothers and nurses would cease giving oleates in the guise of Paregoric, and Cordials, and for children teething and subject to bowel complaints, give instead Dr. Fowler's Extract of Wild Strawberry. the liras of many infanta 1, might be eared that are •acrificeel to deadly drug'. 2. he most w,,n,lertul curative remedies 1.1 the ''resent day, are those that come from Germany, or at least originate there. The GREAT ,:initAN twNtour ost, which has never been known to fail in curing a single case of impotency, aper matorrh.ea, weakness and all diseases resulting from self -abase, as nervous de hiliey, inability, mental anxiety, lang- uor, lassitude, depression of spirits and functional derangements of the nervous system. For salt by druggists, or sent free niy mail on receipt of the price. gl.00 per box, or ant boozes for *8.00. Address F. .1. Camas', Toledo, 0., Geo. Mynas, Sole Agent, Dederick. 1$43.30 (lotto --Ts szeelleat for filing decayed Teeth; but "Taasaaay" prevents the decay, makes them white, and make pen - pie pie leash'. 4 eons. smpl.s ARRIYALSI CANNA D ,CORN BEEF, LUNCH'TONGUE, ENGLISH BRAWN tl POTTED TONGUE, BEEF, HAM CHICKEN FRESH SALMON AND LOBS F R, A FINE ASSORTMENT of Christie Brown & Co'; BISCUITS Alto CA KES. TEAS, SUGARS AN Pure pioes. TRY1 THEM Chas. A. Nairn. sill► tip IN MI T tut Mune eta ern Pacific R. R. TA. DAKOTA. AKA. BIG C i l P AGAIN IM 1881 los Area, telt Tee, MOM sow itramo a. wart areNema PIM ono ra*Iwars to errvtrrtt ren raw neemoneet senates R. M. Ntwe'o.'r. ons Lose rev *seems ear owe S' Pain. Mona s,o Shea Steffy is Tows, At' ariet* As. and rlli most eoouefrio huger SPRTNG STOCK Is now owuple.e, and I take pleasure in infer:ring tuy custonnen that at no 'iota *On have I had such a pie Large & Varied Stock As at present. I have raised the Standard of Quality and Lowered the Primo into ,t is a positive fact that no such value in foot weer can be got elsewhere. CUSTOM W ORK of every grade still receives my prompt and careful attention, and will be made up in the most approved styles by first -clam workmen, and of the very best material obtainable. Ides and Misses Boots 161Free of cliarge, At time of purchase if so desired, _ DOW 1•T 1NG Crabh'a Block, Cor. East 8E3GMILLER Chilled Plow —AND— AGRICULTURAL WORKS. Having purehased the Goderlch Foundry, am fitting �the presiding for the manufactur of CHILLED PLOWS and AGRICULTV RA IMPLXMKNTS on a large scale. Mill Work General Repairing and Jobbing will be con tinned. All work guaranteed. Mr. D. Runctman L the only man authorize to collect payments and give receipts on be halt of the Late firm of Rnnciman ds. Co., an all persons indebted are requested to gover themselves accordingly. 8. SEEOMILLER, Proprietor. W. S. Hart & Co. PROPRIZTORB OF THZ Goderich sells LATE PIPER'S.) Beg to return their thanks to the public for the liberal patronage rewired dung the past year, and to state tdey aro prepared to do RIS I'INO- on the shortest notes, or for the convenience of pa -ties living at • distance will exchange griefs at their town store Late W. M. HiUiard'a, ) Masonic block, East 8t. Oodertoh. Air -Highest price paid for what ^liet HARDWARE GO TO D'1V1 C fes -F.4 - "nti -' sr. �. "t►'t ' Zyt -14 T(I Bi'Y YOUR Farmers' Hardware YOUR Build ers' Hardware 1 til It -- KNIVES FORKS tiND SPOONS, :n fact, everything you want in iia line HE IS BOUND TO SELL C$EAP This Spring and Suninter. See his FENCE WIRE, the beet yet. 777-_ McI=NZI GREAT BARGA1NS! BOOTS AND SHOES! GREAT CLEARING SALE FUR 30 DAYS Prcv.ous to stock taking a AT (APRILS BOOT IND, Sil OE WON Parties wanting cheap gouts should call at once. Having serer, d first giant wor lam prepared to manufacture to order Nothing but First Class Material Used, A 3 -cod Fit Guaraiztocd WM CAMPBELL. (loderich. Feby. 10th. let GET YOUR P INTXi'j�. (iF EVERY DESCRIPTION, Posters, Circulars, Cards. to PRiNTED AT THE (irfletoP TIM HURON SIGNALS ]north Rtre.$, floelerteh f