HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Advocate, 1906-08-30, Page 2WHEN NATURE IS ANGRY
OBE WAILS WHICH STAGGERED
HEMANeiVe
Appalling Ea it LIebeie 011
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eeTee tee% p3a6-e loss fcTii . tiTiii years
ago, rr4{1ciy„Larel ur3.u1 wove wiwii
,trat4,-, iii' $C1 $ of aal on (tacks r
3, 7 11 iP3hAti.,,cd (.)v*T 1t30,,,o0,)
lives on tile at
tho rionges delta.
An(ner gr: elf(r,..-cur.,,ng
eausedin a very different 111311111110V, 10
the one at ,lointsttywn, Pennsylvania,,
some sinteon years ago, when a detzTCQ
of rain resulted in the, bursting of • a
'NeveMeer Ine,vhen 0,001e• huge rervoir and the loss of 0,0, lives„
• erten:ED DISA,STERS..
The great. Kraleatoe disaster of Aug-
ust, lee3, Wt18, in it afteeteffeets, • the
rilc-eet remarkable ever recorded. •Feoni
Mey the volearie on the iskord bad been
spouting showers of asheseein Aug,net
the crater Walls and part of the ocean
bed fell in, fully two-thirds of the ibland
also sineing out of sight. Two small
islands were thus ereated, but they sub-
sequently disappeared.
At the same time a gigantic ocean
wave dashed down upon the neighbor-
ing coasts of Jaya and Stunatra, destroy-
ing 300 villages and 36,50o lives. It then
swept round the entire globe, being felt
a second time at Java after its journee
of seine 25,000 miles. The duet cast up
by' the explosion of the volcano caused
weird sun -glows of' marvellous beauty
throughout, the world for over three
years.
KING ALFONSO PLAYS PRANKS.
IIONV a 'Vetisherwoman's Doubts 'Were
Removed.
•Lives Were Lost. '
Europe is vory'eften refereed to as the'
"IuM,f,7 continent;° beaulse It Febtoin
C11114,10 1,s,',011.1 the most ti,rrible of Paolo
Nature's Welts Still, even Eneope hold§
What le, in mane respects:, the world's
record in the Matter* of earthquakes.
Far more appalling than the recent
upheaval at San Francisco was the, dis-
aster at Lisbon on November ist, 1755.
It seemed all the more terrible, becauee
the morning on whiell the great succes-
sion of sheets camewas gloriously
bright and calm. Churches were filled.
Perks and Promenades were gay with
the thousands- Of people out to enjoy
the werfther, anti everything and -every-
body seemed, to be at peace.
The crowds of people were rather sur-
prised, but- by no means alarmed, at
heerinie a hollow, thunder -like sound
wleeh seemed to come frbrn the eentre
of The elty. "'Someone firing a big gun,"
e few people explained.
• IN A GALVANIC GRIP.*
Within 4 few seconds, however, the'
true explanation was forthcoming. The
whole city sudderely gave a convulsive
jerk, as though it had just laid hold of
a galvanic battery. Buildings crump-
led up and crashed into each o ier
with a terrifying clatter, andin less than
three minutes 30,000 people aerished!
• For several minutes longer the shocks
continued to come, and in Lisbon and
its neighborhood nearly 60,000 lives were
lost on 'that fateful morning.
During the convulsions the extraor-
dinary spectacle was seen of a waterless
Lisbon Harbor, for the sea retired well
beyond the bar, which was left htgli
and dry, only to roll in again directly
atterveards as a wave sixty `feet high.
People rushed for safety to a Massive
• marble quay; but it wes a poor refuge,
for the quay and everything upon it
-• was -suddenly swallowed by. a great
abyss, Which yawned and dosed again,
engulfing for ever a large number of
boate and small ships.
This same eartequake reached Loch
Lomond, in Scat -land, the water of ,that
'lake rapidly • and reysteriousey rising
twenty-eight ieches, and thep falling
• egain below -the normal level.
RECORD WHIRL OF FLAME.
'It is just four years since the holo-
caust in Martinique startled the whole
of the civilized world. The more re-
cent outburst of Veenvius was scarcely.
• worth mentioning' by comparison. • In
the earlyepart. of May, 1902, Mount Pelee
began to throw burning cinders into
the city of St, Pierre, and into smaller
towns and villages within. reach. This
"peppering" performance °lasted a few
days, but at eight eo'clock one morning
there came an awful eoar and an explo-
sion which were heard for 300 melee
▪ around.
A vast, whirling cloud of smoke, big-
• ger than the mountain itself, shot from
the crater, and rushed down on the city
. and the bay.' Close after the smoke came
a still bigger volume of fire, which swept
down upon St. Pierre without the slight-
• est ,warning of its approach, destroy-
ing the entire city and every one of its
26,000 inhabitants in less than five min-
•. utes„ Not a, single person who was !n
St. Pierre Eq the time of the explosion
lived to tell the tale, save a negro, who
*as in hi$ prison cell: Nearly all the
shipping -at St.. Pierre was cauglet in
that unparalleled whirl of fire and re-
duced to ashes.
China has probably been more. heavily
Smitten by the- eccentricities of Nature
than any other part of the world. Per-
• haps it is because she holds hersdf so
" rigidly aloof from the world that the
• world remembers so little of her trou-
bles.
The Yellow River—floahg flo—is known
es "China's Sofrow." In some parts
01 its course its bed la.higher than the
great plain through which.itpasses. It
bas completely changed .its course
nine' times in 2,500 -years, and It fre-
quently overflows and carries death and
" elestruotion to, large tracts of country.
in 1887 this majestic river excelled it-
self. It burst through its banks in the
province or- HO-nan, and, transforming
itself into a vast inland sea, destroyed
not thousands, but millions of lives! The
Chinese Government has vainly .tried to
• regulate the • course of this terrible
• river.
HOW TIDAL WAVES ATTACK.
The tidal wave is another weapon
Which Mother Nature delights to use
when in one of her destruotive moods.
She made one of her biggest efforts in
this direction less than six years ago.
On September 8th, 1900, one of the big-
gest storms which ever afflicted the
United Slates broke 'out upon the Texan
,eoast, and a monster tidal wave raced
down upon Galyeston, which was a.
• town or 40,000 „inhabitants.
Galveston etood—ase the new Galves-
ton, indeed, stands to-day—uebn a sandy
island which nowhere, rises more than,
a few feet above sea -level. The island
is. in the Gulf of Mexico, width, norm-
ally, is almost tideless. Under the in-
• fluerice of strong Winds, bewever, the
6eo, in .the Gulf has been kterivn to rise
seven feet ,within a few minutes, and
on the occasion under nottee the entire
town of Galveston was etibmerged by a
wall of water which wrecked every-
thing in its path.
100,000 DEATHS 1 A DAY.
During one of their short trips from
San Sebastian, Ring Alfonso and his
young Queen had a little adventure
among the washerwomen at Arqueta,
who were eating their lunch by the side
of a brook ate which the royal motor-
car had come to it seep. The King, in
his free, boyish way., began to chat with
the women, and when, in reply to his
query, they professed ignorance of his
identity, he announced,- "I am the
King.'
Laughingly, one of the women, who
evidently thought he was making fun
of her, replied that he could not be King
Alfonso, for she had seen His Majesty
at Pamplona, and he was handsomer
than the wman who stood before her.
Ring Alfonso laughed at the doubtful
compliment, and, giving a coin to the
woman, asked her if she recognized
him from the likeness.'
At length she was convinced she Was
in the presence of the King, and though
she did not return to the subject of His
Majesty's looks, she and her companions
warmly expressed their admiration for
the beauty of the young -Queen. c. The
King replied that he had not travelled
so far for a bride to return with one
who could not be admired by alI his
subjects.
.A young draper's clerk at Estella in
his enthusiasm became the centre of an
incident which migee, have -ad exciting
consequences. As the King and Queen
were driving elowly along the promeRe
ade he rushed close to the carriage to
take a good, look at the royal couple,
holding the keys of his master's prem.-
iese.s in eis 'hands the while. •The Ring;
acting on. orie of his humorous im-
pulses, snatched the keysthe pace of
the car was quickened and the over
youth was left lamenting
and wondering hosv he should explain
to his master that,the King had, pure
loined his keys. The King's • quick per-
ception saved the youth from being mis-
taken for an assailant.
RISKS THAT JUDGES RUN
IJ%IJL2r21 TO Iff tiNGER IN TUU Din-
eelIMIGE OF MS DETWS.
The• 'Rises Atteneaut on 1E tallbu!J
Are reater Than tile Palle
Hear Of.
Them is licruay a criminal judftP111)an
the Leneli who has not at. 'Ono time or
another been the reipient- of threaten-
ing letters 6from prisoners or their
friends with whom their se tencos have
made them unpopular, and one or two
of them might be Kid, to USQ a hack-
neyed phrase, to have. at times eearriee
their lives in their itands," says Lon-
don Tit-Ilits.
There 'were notable instances of this
during the period of the "agrarian"
crimes in Ireland mady years ago.
Judges and magistrates were openly
threatened and went about in constant
fear of - assassination, end more than
one was known to wear a eliain-mail
shirt under his clothing.
One of the most threatened judges -at
that period was austice Leeyeen. For a
long time, owing to the warnings ea
• had received, he never walked out of
doom without being aecompankd by
two retired soldiers and a couple cf
detectives, and his precautions proved to
have been wisely token. " • .
One evening when he was walking
through one of the squares in Dublin a
ruffianly -looking man was noticed. to 1,e
following the juege. As he drew pettier
to him the detectives closed up, and at
the critical Moment they sprang upon
the miscreant, andafter a struggle suc-
ceeded in wrenching from him
ete
Luckily, most of the people of (turves.
Ion, having seen Tire eoming of the
storm, and knowing the danger of their
low lying island, had just eueceeded
making lheir escape to the rnaiitiarut
Nevertheless, nearly ti3Oe0 persons per-
' fared in Galveston alone, and the total
WOMEN BEST IN PHYSICAL FEAT.
Trick Easy for Females Impossible for
Masculine. Athletes. -
1(4 hcii,(Mr:MO L'i4 R4'011702'4 00,70?7,,
4ii);10 very unnereene e-,v-Tience3. Fc4",,
ntenas be was fie iiewcd
the sireete of Londen ly4t. men who,
et 1113 own, heti conceived a
,edred of him, and who ultimately 1
1114-mtei-vd his life. Every Inerni-eg fee
reenthe flee', rrion would 'Wait outside
the Tedg6'e house until be `eame
and tLen, following him to the court,
would taim a seat therein • until it
Ocoee, afterwards following him borne
again 111 1110 -evening. If he' drove in a
carnage, •er took a' henseme lo eseaPo
him, live man, would take anotber and
pnr8110 bhp.
'This persecution centinUed until fend
day he was taken -before a magistrate
Lor threatening Justice flawItins'e life,
and was bound over, in. heavy "wog-
niganees to heep the peace, after which
ho was seen no more,
ASEVEN-CHAMBERED REVOLVER,
loaded in every barrel, with. Which ne
was about to sheet the judge. For this.
dastardly attempt he` wa.s Sentenced to
Seven' years' penal servitude.
A case that had a more tragic ending
occurred many years ago in Calealta.
The Acting Chief Justice, Si' Chutes
Norman, 'had justarrived at the court,
and was about to enter, when a man
who had been standing near went upto
him and suddenly stabbed him to the
heart. Great indignation was felt ate
the murder, for the judge was very
popular in legal and 8000 circles. The
murderer was shortly afterwards tried
and executed, and though there veere
various theories as to the reason for the
crime no satisfactory explanation of it
was ever forthcoming. •
The narrow escape from death that
Sir George Jessel, a former Master of
the Rolle, had on one 'exciting occa-
sionis still remembered among the legal
profession. Early one morning a gentle-
man in clerical garb watt to the Bolls
Court and inquired of the usher when
the judge was likely to arrive. On be-
ing informed he took up his station out-
side the coert and patiently awaited his
lordship's coming. A few: minutes later
Sir George Jessel drove up- in a han-
som. .
Scarcely had he alighted* when the
stra.hger 'stepped 'forwaed emed, produc-
ing a pistol,
Man may claim for himself the physi-
cal prowess of his race,• but there .is a
surprise in store for him. In the gym-
nasium anywhere; any woman may ac-
Complieri easily a muscular feat which
not the greatest athlete in the world may
do.
• It is a simple experiment that may be
made in any parlor. The prerequisites
are a stretch of perpendicular wall, so
thee the baseboard will not project be-
yond. its line, aechair tipped over, and a
careful observance of the rules of the
contest.
In order to, get the upright eurfetee in
the wall it may be necessary to go 'to a
door facing Standing in front of it,
place 'the tip of one shoe against the up-
right mire:toe of the floor level; put the
other foot behind the first foot, with the
toe touching the heel; then place the
first foot alongside the other foot close
up, with the heels firmly on the .floor
and the knees together.
In *this upright standing posture, the
length of two feet from the wall, bend
forward at right angles from 'the hips
until the top of the head is resting firm-
-l3' againet the wall, supporting the body
and presenting as nearly as possible a
back line that is at right angles to the
legs. '•
In this position have some one place a
chair in front of the contestant, which
shell be tipped over on its face, between
the knees and the wall, and placed se
• that it will balance when the person
shall pick it up by the lower rung arid
• crosspiece at the back. Let the expert -
matter pick the chair up in this way,
holding to thee position first taken, bring
the back of the chair firmly up against
• the chest. "and then, without letting the
• head' drop or the heels flee, and holding
the chair'elose to the chest, bring4tead
and trunk and chair rigidly up to, the
upright position. •
No mail can do this. To any woman,
no matter how eligie her triustular de-
'velepment, the aetion is as easy as that
• proverbial "falling off a log." Not only
can the mart not rise with the incubus
of the chair, but in this position, leaving
hie twine relaxed and hanging pendent
he may find it impoesible 10 dee with-
out ernashing his face into the wall.
BITS OF KNOWLEDGE.
Nag -nets of' Information About 'Most
Everything.
The frigate bird flies at the rate cf
300 mile.s an hour.
The flounder is an industrious 'fish,
and laYs 7,000,000'eggaeine tteYearo
Wood yields ene-fourth the heat of
coal; charcoal about tile eame heat as
coal.
New Mexico has a great desert, thirty
miles long. and ten miles wide, ef
glistening white gypsum. .
The tobacco monopoly has yielded
the Austrian Goeerrielent the enormous
net profit ot $25,000,000 for one year.
A scientist -Steles that the height end:
weight of school children increase with
the size of the houses in whith they
livel
Tie Welsh National Eisteddfod is Abe
biggest open -1r concert in the world.
At least 20,000 people attend ,it 'every
year. -
• Negro geaves in South Americe are
sometimes curiously gernishecl with the
bottles ef Medicine used by the departed
In their final illness.
• It is stated that the healthiest trade in
the world is that of dye -making from
coal -tar. • T1e1.everage • life of a tar -
worker ms eighteen:Slit' yearS.
• Something like one in every five of
Britain's population is depositor in
the Post Oflice Savings Bank, the Aver-
age deposit being aboute X15. "
• The priests and monks of Italy live
longer than any other professional men
in ,that country. Fifty-seven per cent.
beyond three score did ten.
If a servant in Germany falls ill her
mistress is not allowed to discharge her,
but must pay 50 cents a day for her
hospital expenses until she is perfectly
well.vE
Every good Sikh. prefer's' to die upon
the bare -ground., Regardless of rank or
age, no rug must intervene between him
and the e earth,, when. he breathes his
last.- t"— •
Germany's army on a peace footing
has 63,000 horses with the cavalry and
36,000 with the artillery., Every horse
in the German Empire is registered and
-available for service.
Tbe number of horses slaughtered for
food inpubeia abattoirs in Germany
during 1905. was '15.522 more than in
1904, the nurebers being 96,83e in 1.905
against 81,312 mn 1904,
Nearly all the Bibles sent to Uganda
are bound in tin in order to guttrd
against the voracious African ants,
which frequently cernpletele devour the
ordinary covers of books. .
The Japanese army • is recruited by
conscription, but only twenty-five of the
strongest and healthiest are picked out
of every hundred men called up for ser-
vice e the remainder are sent into the
resetve.
It is said that there are two great
tieasurehoards on Cocos Island, one a
pirate's plunder, e.stiniated at anything
between • $30,000,000 and $60,000000;
another called "Keeling's treasure,'
said to be worth $15.000,000.
Every Tibeten family 15 compelled to
•devote its` first-born male child to e
monastic life. Soon after birth the child
is taken to a Buddhist monastery, tie 1,e
thenceforth brought • up and trained in-
priestle mysteries. .
An Inhabitant • of Farmoutiers,
France, has left a legacy sufficient to
provide prizes of 25fie each yearly for
the two most polite. scholers—mate, and
female -0f the town. The winners are
to be elected by ballot of their echool-
felloves, •"
Vienna; is to have the largest and
finest illuminated' fountain in the
world. The illuminating power will
equal 900,000,000 candles. • It includes
twenty-seven immense reflectors capa-
ble of giving seventy,variations in light
effects every eeventeen seconds.
•Mount Sangay is the most active
volcano in the world. • It Is situated' in
Ecuador, is 17,1201t. lit height, and has
been in constant activity since 1728. The
sounds of le eruptione are sometimes
heard in Quito, 150e miles destarit, and
once 267 reports were counted in one
hour. •ee •
• FIRED IT POINT-BLANK
at the judge's head. The Master of the
Rolls, thongh somewhat alarmed, es-
• caped injury, and esebis assailant's ,pis-
tol was a single -barrelled one no second
shot could be fired:
The man theft handed his card to the
judge. It bore the name ofea clergy.
-man who had brought a Case into the
Appeal Come, where Sir' George Jessel
had decided against him, and this de-
• cision had so incensed him that he had
resolved to kill the judge1-le was after-
wards pronotmced insane.
"Just wait till I come out again, yott
• old villain, and make it hot for
you!" shouted a truculent-looldng
soner whom a well-known judge had
just, sentenced to three years' hard
labor for a brutal attack upon a police
-
constable.
"Theday of my release," he added;
"will be the day of your death!".
"O11 r said his lordship, motioning to
the warder e "then, wait a monienti
I'm in no great hurry for that day to
come; I think 1 will put it off a little
longer." And --he altered the sentence
to one of five years' penal servitude. .
"I have bad that -fellow before me
several times." ' he 'remarked subse-
quentle to a friencl. "He has. threatened,
• me more than once, and Ienever sen-
• tence him without feelitie
A SORT OF PRESENTIMENT
WHERE TAXES ARE UNKNOWN.
Or,a, in Sweden, bad, in the ceuree
pumper of deaths um limo entire strict:en ee feereateee sold ea.750.000 ,arettli
dielliet wee (:4titritited at 12.00o. The or tree, rind by means of jeiclicious 10
Ibridre li1ehrenneeled the inLuld ‘vith p:Ieneelr, bait provided for a similar mn
the mainland to all emelt any, and come et eay thirty years. • In misc.
ever ,150 siiling verteele, which elianced
$o be lying eff the coest, were wreck.
The Iseeran eoitert cep was treeee
•
by Ike sow hurrieane. I are the. school -Iowa., teaching, end
quenee or the development of thee come
mercial wealth there are no 'taxes. hall-
-laye, and telephones, are free. and ,sri
A- similar but far More terrible' eccuree many other thinge.•
that one of these days he will lie ire'
wait for ale .tincl take hes revenge."
What would have been one of the
most startling and dramatic murders
that have ever taken place came very
neer to happening a few years ago,
when 'the criminal, Solomon Barmash,
was tried for the notorious bank -note
•forgeries. As will be remembered Bar -
mash shot himself in his cell at New-
gate after his trial, and the revolver WO8
actually concealed about him at the
nit:merit when he otood in 'the dock to
receive from Mr. Justice Darling his
sentence of fifteen years' penal servi-
tude.
It was his intention (so a well-known
detective recently informed the writer),
if, as he expected, he received a heavy
sentence, to shoot the judge who gave it
hitric dead upon the Beneh 1 His nerve,
howevele providentially °failed him at
the orit)ical moment, and thei weapon
afterward:; eerved to terminate his own
life.
AT A RAILWAY ACCIDENT
FOREMAN OF THE VittECKING ME V
TEL WOW IS DONE.
The Outfit, eel -resting of Seven
I e Always hi Readiness for
Action,' ,
'You -ant- a, etory of hoW, ve dear
away Wreelsal
"Well,!"' says the old wrecking fore-
man,' "perliaps.it is after a hard day's
work eri the tip tracks: repairing
broken down cars'ifor usually the
wrecking crew is made up of ten of the
Oar repair men.
"Every man knows etaietty where Abe
wreeking outfit is—on by the round-
house where the night crew is doing all
it can to hurry along eie fire and the
rising Meant pressure of the engine
that its to take the outfit on its errand ef
mercy.
"This 'outfit,' if it is modern, consists
.01 a steam derrick ear, with steam al-
ways Up,$ gllinintheerreighborho.rd
of -1(30.000 pounds, with a 'lifting' capacity
of sixty-five tons.
'Behind the derrick comes the `truck'
ear. It contalne extra trucks to be used
under derailed cars or car bodies whose
trucks have been 'ruined. Next comes
the blocking car, loaded down with all
necessary .blocking and timber. -
"Then there is the track supply car,
equipped withe all the necessary track
Ineeerial, such 'as ties and rails. The
tool car is tne next in order. This car-
ries jacks of all descriptions, from a 0 -
inch pony jack to a 40 -ton hydraulic.
It is loaded also :with bars, chieds.
hammers., • • wrenthes, dope buckets,
packing spoons, lines, tackles and
blooks, night and day signals, tarpau-
lins for • covering merchaudise axle
stretchers, blankets and sheet§ for
THE INJURED AND THE DEAD.
An unpopular sentence in a case that
has aroneed great public interest has on
more than one occasion nearly resulted
in the lynehing of the judge by the ex.,
cited populace.
After the death sentence passed upon
Mrs. Florence Maybrick .for poisoning
her husband with, areenic, the judge,
Mr. Justice, Stephen, had a 'narrow es.
cape of being very roughly used, if riot
of being killed.
AN EXASPERATED CROWD,
enraged at what they considered art tua.
just ;sentence, eurrounded time judge's
carriatile, and with erieg of' "Mob liiml"
and "Lynch Inuit" tried with all their
might to overturn it. The police, how.
ever, eloedd around it just in time' arid
succeeded in 0( ng what riiighe have
been .a eeriom eataetrophe.
justice Hawkins (;now Lord WWII).
seroarvemexa.
GREAT BATHEBS.
Of all the • Europeans the Russians
are most a.ddicted to the bathIn St.
Petersburg there are vast vapor baths,
to which the poorer People repair,by
thousands every Saturday night,. carry-
ing clean towels and brichen twigs.
While lying upon , the marble slabs in
the baths they flog each other severely
with the twige, afterwards standing
round red -bot Stoves and pouring pail-
fuls of ice -water over one another. 'rile
flogging stimulates the circulation, and
when the reaction comes after the Ice.
water performance the bathers lie about
in a condition of ecatacy—a sort of nerv«
ons intoxication. The aneient Itonnins
were extravagantly fond or, bathing.
They got • their notions about the bath
as a luxury from the Greeks.; and at °fib
time there were nearly nine huhdred
publie bathing establishments. The
bathers Oat .bri Illarb10 b0liehe0 beleve
the surface of the water, around the
edges Of the basine, straping themselves
with dull knives of metal and ivory,
end taking occasional plunges into the
water, Diseipated Itonnins would 1 tepral
whole -days in the bath, seeking relief
from over.indidgenee , in eating and
drinking the nief.ht before. Everybody,
• evert' the, enniror ied these bethe,
whieli were open to everyone Who Owe
to pay the price of 41Inik;sion.
• "Next is the cook and bunk care and
finally the 'caboose. The former has a
range, • a refrigerator and a stock ref
food that will keep. • It has bunks for
eighteen or twenty men.. 'Ties train, or
`outfit; as it Is called, is aheays coupled'
together and stored on a side track.
"The first thing that a wrecking fore -
Man does on being called is to get into
communication with the chief train
despatcher and find out all the particle
lars possible. If it is a merceandise
wreck, empty • freight cars are taken
along into which can be transferred
such ireight and grain as can be saved.
"He also finds out as near as he can
lust where the wreck lies and hew badly
if is piled. If it is a passenger wreck --
why; of course, it is ta case of get there
as• quickly as possible, wondering all
the time who the dead ' and injured, are
and what new theme of awfulness' will
be confronted.
'The wrecking outfit has ehe right of
way over 411 trains between_ the start-
ing.point and the place where the• wreck
occurs. Passenger, stock and freight
are all side-tracked.
e"A•'' !step, is Made at the station or
sidimig nearest the wreck. Here the
steam' derrick is switched ahead of the
engine, with the rest of the outfit
coupled behind. On arriving at the
wreck a rnan is stationed at the front
end et, the ..crane whose duty it is to
give .signals to the engineer of the der-
rick,. Whether i.to raise, lower
ars beyend tree Capacity and until
teey eaten. EgepteY enee eeetre
ieneed men, tine wheel emit enen wake
mist:ewe and trouble is tho resale -e
Leer) them; do not can them, for nine
chances out of ten thrw will never mai('
The came misio gatt. 1,Vo all learn
by expcilmeo, liecteetore the men who
hes made a mietaite i man for
all eencerned, than ono who has net."
FATS MOM EVERYWHERE,
Intereeting 'Items From the World's
In all 2'e0F000tPuildillffetriales
tre'pe'cie° e �1n
eects aro Itnown to exist �n tho earth.
Kangaroos readily kap from eixty to
seventy feet. The., greatest recorded
leap of a twee is thirty -even feet. ,
In Bohemia courtehips are abnormal.
ly long. In that country rengageinceits
frequently last fromefifteen to twenty
yel'artspa' Ices ch'rysanthenium flag. is prelea-
bly tbe oldest national banner in etas.
tence. That of Denmark is the oldest
leiat sithittleeleWs P-N4111P bltiCl'He -
among European nation%
that the Rontgen rays can be so applied
A leading Swiss scienlist declared
now experimenting on old. gerit.e einen's
beards.
Some harps have been discovered. in
Egyptian, tombs the strings of which, in
several instancese were intact, and gave •
forth distinct sounds after an estimated
silence of 3,000 years.
When a fortnight old the oyster is
not.much larger than the head of a pin.
At the end of four years" growth it is .
fit for the market. Oysters live'to the
age of from 12 to 15 years.,
Clon is now being successfully made
from wood. Strips oi fine-grained woed
are boiled rued crushed between rollers,
ausnudaltesev f:yl.aments are spun int.o threads,
from which cloth can be woven in ,the
The rose is, the emblem of secrecy in
Greece, and was formerly hung over
the table where guests were enter-
tained, rM token that nothing heard
there was to be repeated. Hence the ex-
• pression "sub-rese, '
nec‘sstlettart t two enstuys-ttawmo .
acSrestatioStfielleannds eattell'
one man derfresh meat. The same space
of lahd , if devoted to wheat culture
'would feed he people; if to oats, 88;
potatoes, Indian corn and rice, 176; and
if to the plantain, or banana, over
"'ets
Pett%efir
Pried 'es of India have not all
been extinguished. The most ancient.
which still exists was consecrated
twelve centuries ago in commemoration
of the voyage made by the Parsees when
they emigrated from Persia to India.
The fire is fed five times every twenty
four hours with sandal wood and other
fragrant rnaterial, combined with very
dry feel. ,1 •
In felling it largeetree some days ago
in Cirencester, Gloucestershire., Eng-
land, a bird's nest containing four eggs
was discovered inclosed in a hollow
near the heart of the treink. The, sap
rings showed thaftemily a Eentury- has
elapsed since the eggs were laid, and it
was obvious, that the holMei had closed
antornteically. - The eggs -were intaele
hat slightly .faded..
A German statistician leis made a.
careful investigation to dis.cover in:
which couriteieees the greatestage is at-
tained, The German Empire, with 55,-
000,000 population, has but 78 subjects
who are more than 100 years old.
France with • fewer than 40,000,000, has
e13 persons who have passed their hun-
dredth birthda.e. England has ' 146;
-Scotland, 46; Denmark, 2; Belgium, 51
Sweden, 10; .and Norway, with 2,000,--
000 inhabitants, 23. Switzerland does
not boast a single centenarien, 'beat
Spainwith about e8.00,000'population,
has 410. The moat amazing ,figures
come .from that troublesome and tur-
bulent region known: as the ,eealkan
Peninsula. Servia has 573 persons who
ire more than 100 years old; lloiunm.oatailiear
ords Bulariaha
,
w -e, e, eentenarien
1,0e4, , and ,„ Bulgaria, 3,883.
every 1,000 inhabitants, and thus ,holds
theLinternational record for old people.
f892 alone there died in Bulgaria 350
eersons, who had exceeded the centuryi
OR TO SWING THE CRANE:
"The 1114111111g a wrecking foreman
does after finding out where the in-
jured are and getting them loose ie10
figure on working a passageway
through, the wreck and replacing the
track as thedebris is cleared. • If thc.
wreck is a bad oneand there 15 the
cliance a iemperaey track is built
around the- mess that traffic May be re-
sumed as soon as possible.
"Cars that are damaged to the extent
of $100 are dragged into the ditch, all
the tenele and teirebralce rigging taken
from them and the body of the car set
afire. All of the iron parts are after.'
wardS loaded On to flat cars, often even
the boiler of the loeornotive. This scrap
is takep to the .shop to be repaired and
used ever egain.
"Even 'freight, wrecks can present a
terrible appearance. One of the .worst
of these I ever saw was forty-five loads
of wheat, the products of many a hun-
dred rierespiled forty feetiligh and ex-
tending from right of way fence to right
of way fence—a regular hill of gold,
which 'took 'one solid week's work to
clear away. Carload after carload of
wheat had to be loaded by basket into
new cars--whiletenany tons of bent and
twisted Iron and heap upon heap 6f
ashes told a silent story of the wreck.
"One time we went out to pick up a
stock wreck of eleven cars. These, next
to passenger wrecks, are -the worst to
handle. Ties particular wreck was one
of great coafusion, The penned cattle
were bellowing frightfully. On eath
side and far over toward the fence lay
DEAD Oil INJURED STOCK,
"Novi ' there isnothing that mattes
these western steers so angry as the
snaell of blood;' and add to that injury
erid the terrible excitement of a wreck
and you have a cembination that makes
the poor aeilmals fairly crazy. • Woe to
the man who gets dose to a head or the
heeLs of a struggling beast. The cars
were piled in Such 4 way that we were
convened te ripthe tops off.
"Then men drawled out along the
wreckage, fastened lines about, the
horns, and with the aid of the derrick
the animals were finally dragged loose.
Those in the car that were 'badly. 15.
lured were killed by 4 blow on the head
Witli a ;sledge, While the others were
rounded up by nieti on horseback and
herded-Mto the field to be finally driven
to the first stock chute and there re.
loaded.
"Yes. passenger wreeles are, withOut
-a doubt, the very worst—arid it am he
said of' them, as of war, they arc, any-
thing but ceol.
"The le-sSons wrecks chould , teach
tea I
"Never to take chances. Never make
'men work longee than nature intended
they should. .Equip tat roads with
tvery safety device /mown for safe train
'handling. Make the train order sy
tem as simple As 11044-311i14% 'Stop loading
• A DOUBLE MASQUERADE.
•
Story ot a Bank Bobber
Detective.
and
"A man and a woman;" said the
police chief, "occupied a conipartment
of a Millman. In a desolate place, the el
train, speeding like lightning along, the
man said to the woman : •
"Madam, I. will ask you to look out
of the window a few minutes; I am go-
ing to make some changes ill my ape
pant.'
"'Certainly, said the womane
politely.
"Two or three minutes, filled with
odd, rustling noises, passed. Thei1 the
man said :
.. .
!,"Now, madam'1„, am finished,'
; "She loohed at him, and behold. 116
had transimined hienedf into a dashing
girl, heavily veiled, fashionably. dressed
and With rich and beautiful blonde
hair.
"Sonia moments later, in her turn, the
Indy said :
"'Now, 'sir, or madam, which over you
are, I'll ask you also to look out of the
windOve. I have sonic changes to make
en my own dress.'
!"The other complied, and. when he
War permitted to withdraw his gaze
froM., the passing landscape, what vvas
his surprise -to findthe lady elumged
into a man. He gave a loud laugh. 4
"'It seerris: he said, 'Mat we are bothk,.
fugitiVes. Hence we should be pals. I
ara a bank robber.. What are you?'
'I,' eald the otlier, 'am Detettive
IlawIce, of 'Sare Franoiscc,. end for three
days in female attire I have been sha.
(lowing you: Wrists together, please,
so that I may new slip the nippers 011:
"T ue,” coneluded the police ,chiet,
"did 111Y friend Hawke arrest the noto*
los Jack Graenle in '70. It WaS tlilti
neat t arrf It, , Voila the rhelodrarnie
standpoint, of .the 1er."- Los Ant' lei
Times. '
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Shoplifters should go into 11 Iffig
shire end take soMething for Sellers
matter with therm