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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe East Huron Gazette, 1892-11-03, Page 5)f all .t 1xn ime an gns. ll of ceies 1,nnot 3. re BELLS Manager. plies? J yore, MAXI W AIR SHIP, WILL THE ENERGETIC AMERICAN IN- VENTOR SOLVE THE PROBLEM Y fie is Working at the Problem in a Practi- cal Manner—An Aerial Ship Now Being Built in England That Can Be Steered in Any Direction. Twenty-four centuries have passed Alice the time when old Daedalus made wazen wings that his son might steer bight through the aerial ocean, and to- day men's minds are still occupied with the problem which the old Greek at- tempted to solve in the ineffective child- like fashion of the early world. He had the wings born of his imagination to give, and being no more substantial than wax they melted in the hot, strong sunlight of fact. Hiram S. Maxim, the Daedalus of this iron age, this scientific fact -loving nine- teenth century, is working at the prob- lem in a practical fashion. He has brought to bear on the construction of his aerial machine all the wisdom of all the ages to which he is heir, and his at- tempt suggests success. That man can sustain himself by his own unaided strength on ealm air is ap- parently impossible, but why should he not pass as rapidly and skilfully over air as the expert skater does over thin ice/ Mr. Maxim's aeroplane or aerial ship, now building in England, displays great propelling power, and is the result of the nicest calculation. He had to consider—How much power is required to perform mechanical flight? What form of machine will require the least power? Should the aeroplane have a screw propeller? Will such a propel- ler grip the air with sufficient strength? How shall the machine be steered both in a vertical and horizontal direction? He then had tosolvethe further diffi- culty of safely testing his aeroplane when it was made. "The weight as it relates to the surface," he says, "can be adjusted by running the machine on a --- ilway track at full speed, secured to the track by heavy wheels, and then ob- serving the lift on each of the four wheels. All adjustments may be made on a railway track." Large horizontal rudders are used for changing the speed of the engines. "An aeroplane," Mr. Maxim declares, "will lift fourteen tinies the push it re- ceives from the screw." The first experiments were made with a small machine attached to a long and light revolving arm, and carrying a load of abort 50 pounds. Now experiments are being tried on a straight railway track, and for weight carried we must read tons instead of unds. A. distinct advance, this. Mr. Maxim, in attempting to reach the clouds, is in good company. Edison and Professor Langley are at work. The Czar is said to have spent a million rouble, for an aerial war ship would be an important addition to his forces for battle 11 A Commune Sunday in Paris. On the morning of the 21st I left St. Denis by road, and walked straight into Paris without hindrance. The national guards of La Chapelle were turning out for service as I passed through, and there seemed nothing to find fault with in either their appearance or conduct. Certainly there was no -unwillingness apparent, but the reverse. Paris I fo:md very somber, but perfectly quiet and orderly. It was the Sabbath morning, but no church bells filled ed the air with their music. It was with a far different and more discordant sound that the air ahrobbed on his bright spring morning —the distant roar of the V ersailiist bat- teries on the west and southwest of the enceinte. "That_ is Issy which gives," quietly remarked to me the old rady in the kiosk at the corner of the Place de 1'Opera, as she sold me a rag dated the 22nd and printed the 20th. I asked her how she could distinguish the sound of ehe Issy cannon from those in the bat- teries of the Bois de Boulogne. ' `Re- member,* she replied, "I have been lis- tening now for many days to that delec- table bicker, and have become a connoisseur. The Lcsy gun -fire comes sharper and clearer, because the fort star high and nothing intervenes. The reports from the cannon in the Bois get broken up for one thing by the tree trunks, and then the sound has to climb over the enceinte, the railway viaduct, and the bill of Passy." She spoke as calmly as if she had been talking of the weather; and it seemed to me, indeed, that all the few people who were about shared the good lady's nonchalance. Certainly there seemed ngwhere any in- dication of apprehension that the Ver- 8aillist hand was to be on the Communist throat before the going down of that Sabbath sun.—Archibald Forbes in Oc- tober Century. Major Max's Snake Story. ,.I don't see why it is," said Major Max, "that when a man begins talking or writing about snakes all the truth iii him seems to congeal." "It may be," Mrs. Max- suggested, as she passed back the filled cup, "that the horror of the subject freezes his blood— freezes his blood and everything, don't you know." "Possibly, and very clever, too, my dear. Now, I remember when I went to South America to visit Bob—Bob Billings of my cls-cs, you know, who went into cattle raising there—that a really extraordinary thing occurred there. We were out one day, Bob and I, where the vaqueros were branding, when along came a boa—I think it was on record where an iron erolite showed a boa, or something like that—in evident any indication of having been " twisted, pain and distress. Well, my. dear, broken, or torn from another mass of would you believe it? It was to be seen the mine material. at a glance that the monster snake had "The true type of meteorite which swallowed a steer and the horns were reaches the earth from outer space is hurting it. What did that dare-dev1 of probably similar to that which fell in SANDY AND HIS DOG. An Instance n tianWenderildAnteliigeace of the Scotch Shepherd Dogs Few people who have"-notwienessed the achievements- of a Scottish shepherd dog are aware of what can be done : by this intelligent.animad, Some years ago I was in the Scottish - Highlands, at a very little country village in Aberdeen- shire, when during a long, wet evening the conversation turned on the dog and what he could do by help of training. Several wonderful stories were told by members of the party,. each apparently striving to excel the others in the mar- vellousness of his narrative, one of the party being an old shepherd, who dur- ing the story -telling had said not a word, but sat listening, smoking and taking frequent sipsof his whiskey and water. By and by, after an unusually heroic effort to outdo the rest had 'been made, he roused np, and in a broad Scotch brogue announced that his dog could actually perform feats, more won- derful than anything thathad been told. General interest was awakened, and someone asked him what his dog could do. He replied that if the gentle- men present would make it worth the trouble he would send ' his dog a mile and have himfind a shilling which any- one of the company and himself would go and hide. - A small purse of six or eight shillings was at once made up, and the shepherd took . a shilling from his pocket and asked some oneto mark it. It was scratched with a knife, and with two of the company the shepherd started out, leaving his plaid and telling the dog Sandy to stay and watch the garment. Sandy looked long and anxiously after his master, when the later departed, but stayed with the plaid. It was raining, as in the Scottish Highlands and no- where else it can rain, in bucketsful at a time, but the shepherd and the commit- tee trudged off with a lantern by an un- frequented path up the mountain side about a mile, or until the committee de- clared themselves satisfied, then raised a flat stone a few yards from the path, scooped out a few handfuls of earth and hidthe shilling, replacing the earth and the stone. They came back to the inn and reported what they had done. The shepherd called Sandy and told him, "Go, Sandy, and find." By this .time everybody in the party was anxious to see the thing done, but it was rainingso hard that nobody cared to venture out. So Sandy started off by himself in \the rain, while his master and the commit- tee sat down to dry themselves before the fire. Time passed and no Sandy, and jokes ` began to be Ievelled- at the shepherd. who said little save to express his utmost confidence in Sandy. - "It will take him longer in the rain," he said once, and relapsed into silence. In about an -hour and a half there was a scratch at the door. It was immediate- ly opened, and in walked Sandy,- as wet as a goose in May. He went straight to his muster, who held out his hand, when Sandy laid the marked shilling in his palm. Of course Sandy and his master were the heroes of the evening after that, and when they left for home an hour later. Sandy had been stuffed with delicacies until he could hardly walk, and his master was "row -in' fon." A Shakespearian Table. Prof. Rolfe, the Shakespearian schol- ar, has counted the lines which the prin- cipal characters in - Shakespeare's plays have to speak. His rule was to consider parts of lines, beginnings and endings of speeches. Tliis is the result: Lines. Hamlet has to speak 1,1561 Richard III Iago 17 11117 Othello Coriolanus 884 68 Timm.Tim. Antony (Cleopatra's) 829 - Lear 770 Richard II 755 Brutus 727 Macbeth. 793 670 Cleopatra Prospero 605 618 Romeo. Petruchio 51 15 585 Touchstone 6 6 Imogen Helen ("AR's Well") 79 Isabella Desdemona 361 389 Mistress Page V 853 Ju1f ("Two Gentlen'ea") 323 Volumnia. 309 15 Beatrice. 3 Lady Macbeth Katherine (in "The Shrew") Miranda ("Tempest") 142 142 Perdita 115 Cordelia. Henry V., as Xing and Prince (in "Henry IV " and "Henry V ") has 1,987 lines to speak, and Falstaff, in both parts of "Henry IV:" and "Henry V.," and in the "Merry Wives," has 1,895. Masses Falling From the Sky. An addition to oar present knowledge of meteorites has been presented by Mr. J. R. Eastman, who furnishes a list of iron asrolites, together with a table of their weights and remarks as to the rela- tive occurrences of iron and stony me- teorites. According to this gentleman the ratio of weight of the former to the latter is as 1 to 12.23, and the aggregate weight of Perolitic iron which has been observed and discovered up to date on the American continent is about 153 tons. " If the above ratio be true in all cases," he says, "there should have been a fall of about 1,880 tons of lithic me- teorites, or in all over 2,000 tonaof aero- litic matter precipitated neon the eartMrr. Eastman offers. the following theory to account for the apparent ex- cess of iron over stony meteorites: " When a stony . meteorite falls to -the earthit breaks into many fragments, and the ruptured- surfaces indicate the nature -of the catastrophe. No case is a Bob do but rush up to that boa—if it was a boa—aud- cut it open, when out walked the steer." "But wait t. dI you hear the rest of the story. Bob took a lasso and " sort of stitched that .slake up, and it crawled off with a real smile of saac'iote 7magine our astonishment when every day after that that grateful boa would the lithic maw comes m contact with come crawling into camp with a stray- the earth's atmosphere -the impact calf it had swallowed, for the sake of breaks up the matrix, sets free the iron rescuing it for Bob, and we'd just un- bodies, and they reach the earth in. the lace that lam and corral the calif." same condit=on, so far as mass and figure "Most extraordinary," said Mrs. Mar are concerned, as they exist in the origi- "That's what I say," argued the Ma- nal formation. In such cases it is prob- jer. "I don't see why people go nater able that the stony portion of -the origi- romance so about snakes when tole truth -nal body is rent onto such small frag is stere enough." - meats by the excision that these would "But is it really true, Major? not reach the earth in any appreciable "Tree, my dear! To be sure, you size.- - The larger the =wee of iron the have never seen Bob; but you've seen - more complete would be the destrneticm his portrait in that class picture in my of the ongsa body, and the - larger study. - l thie metteoriteswould be those "ms's really so," assente&MMrs, Max, etainiag the emedler granules of iron."-- ofalAcautecoaTkiiw Iowa County. Ia., on Feb. 12, 3875. This celestial visitor is -conposed almost wholly of We matter, but smattered through the mass are small grains of nickeliferous iron. This iron may ex- ist in -the stony matrix in all forms and gig, from the microscopic nodule to the uuiss weighing several tons. When DISCOVERED AMERICA, �� __ BUT Ke ice/iP/m/i "ippis* McLaughlin & Co., have discov- er -ed just what people require in Furnishings etc. - We have added Some very desirable things which we have not Kept in Stock before, and altogether, we can offer you a Varied and Full Assorted Stock of Fall and winter Goods to - Select From. Cloakings Some Good Patterns and just the right weight for Fall and Winter—Another Lot expected to arrive in a few days. - Dress Goods. No use trying to describe, Kindly Call and See for Yourselves. Shawls. We have plenty of them, Assorted Colors, big Sizes and for Small Money, Tweeds. We keep the Best Goods, Newest Patterns, and Our Prices are Rock Bottom. Overcoatirs. We can Fit and Snit the most Fastidious on the Shortest Notice— rFits Guaranteed. We make a Specialty of Above Two Departments. Heady made Ovi'coats For Boys and Men, - A Big Variety, - Prices range from $2.90, up. >t All are Cordially Invited to Call and Inspect Our Goods and see what We have For Sale. Furs.. Winter's -Coming --When the first Cold Snap comes, please remember We have what will Keep You Warm. InUnde=a.re. 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See Me about Getting a Furnace. Lamp Goods, Cutlery'. Tinware, etc., In endless abundance and Variety Repairing Done to Order and in First -Class Style JAMES SUTt1JRLAND, Tinsmith, Gorrie, Your Best Chanee To allAKE MONEY is at the G�r�e ookI? SYoi'q liAVING rented the store lately vacated by Mr. McKelvie,, of Walkerton, and put in a large stock of Tweecls. Vlannels, $1ctial1ets, Shirts, ,StooI1iig 'army Six-x=36,e Ya_ , An(; all kinds of Woolen goods, I invite the citizens of r rie and surrounding country to call and see my large :stock before buying Fall and Winter goods. e These goods are manufactured at the Palmerston Wo Mill. I sell Cheap for Cash. Wool and Sheep. skins taken in exchange. Ihave also put in a HAND LOOM, and will do Off- tom Weaving, such as flannels and rag ca-.. l 'You will find my store open at all times. etc