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Home My WebLink AboutExeter Advocate, 1906-08-30, Page 2WHEN NATURE IS ANGRY OBE WAILS WHICH STAGGERED HEMANeiVe Appalling Ea it LIebeie 011 - 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. ' i : .....--............,,,............-- . 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