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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance, 1907-08-08, Page 3• "JrN HUNTING BIG GAME IN LUXURY . A Train de Luxe Will Take You into the Heart of Africa. A visit to South and Central Africa with the party, se that lion and chow wwill hy why great game has been I eye bendsmaybe set up literally while thinned out se alarmingly that elephant you wait and • exceptionally fine tusks erid giraffe are now rarely seen south of mounted on ianey stand-. Just such a the Zambesi. It is mainly due to a dozen trip was undertaken eccently by Sir Ed - marvels of railroad enterprise that are mend. and Lady Lecinnere and alsoo by being pushed in order that Cecil Rhodes' Mr. and. eira Alan Carden. Both eon - dream of 8,000 miles Of track between pies are well known as big game hunt - Cape Town and Cairo should be realized. era. One may now enter a train of palace How one of the old time shots, like F. ears at Cape Town and travel 2,000 miles 0. Selous, muet marvel at such Changed. straight to the great Zambesi River that conditions I in his day, only twenty divides the Dark Continent in two, Not evens ago, there were no railroads in this even the mighty falls stay the great part of Africa at all and he had to trek transcontinental road. It is carried across up country for five or six months by ox the gorge 400 feet deep by a steel wagon before the shooting grounds were bridge, and a little beyond the traveller reached.On the ether hand game was be amazed to find, the magnificent five- infinitely more abundant in those days. delved Grand Hotel, with a hundred Scions was a professional ivoryhunter, is 3 i bedrooms, electric lights and elevators and, his record 00 elephants n a sin - and fans dumped. .down amid savage gle month. scenery, From the windows of this Many of the wayside station's just strangest of hotels one may shoot rhino- south of the Zambesi recall fieree and cares and giraffe, lion and leopard and bloody memories, Thus at little Norton hippo, not to mention twenty different eight or tea years ago the weak-kneed. kinds of antelope, from the immense kudu down to the little hartebeest and Impala, It is the famous and costly "Big Game Limited." that whirls one into the savage heart of Africa. Little more than fifteen years ago the 750,000 square miles of Rhodesia had not a mile of railroad. Then came that fatal cattle plague known as the rinderpest, which denuded the country of even the most primitive means of transport, and on top of this the Matabele rebellion of 1890, which resulted in terrible slaughter of the whites. Meehan& tribes, instigated by the war- like Matablee, rose in rebellion end they slaughtered Administrator :Norton and Mrs. Norton, their clakireu and the Eng- lish nurse. Just beyond. Norton the Big Game Lim- ited runs through an oddly contorted for- est of mahogany, teak and mopani woad. The trunks were twitled into strange fantastic hapes years ago through hav- ing been torn and trampled upon as saplings by the vast herds of elephant that roamed. over all this district. A fter a stay at the grandest of Greed hotels in the very heart of central Afra These two causes led to great activity cit the traveler may meth on yet further of railroad building in the vast territory north to Broken Hill, another 400 or 600 to which Cecil Rhodes gave his naine, miles. In places he will, ace the lordof and the last 228 miles, from Palapyt to the jungle gazing innocently at the ex. Bulawayo, were laid in the incredibly press as it thunders by. Vitt herds of Ir. !short space of four and a half months. zebra are seen gazing like cattle in a Then it was that the old coaching days field at borne; and here mid there one In Ms part of Africa passed away for- notices the telegraph wires torn down,' ever. meet likely by mischievous elephants or It is not until Bulawayo is reached terrified giraffes flying from their nat- that even the larger antelopes are seen ural enemy the lion, front the ear windows. Within a few There is really very little of a gap left miles of this boom town of the veldt are to complete the Cape to Cairo stretch of the wild, rocky alatoppo Hills, where 8,000 miles, and at railhead to -day the eleven years ago Cecil Rhodes went un- wealthy traveler, will find himself in a armed and. almost alone to talk over the wilderness more wild and dense than any Matabele savages to peace. Here, too, that even Stanley or Livingstone faced a Imbedded in the solid. granite lies Cecil quarter of a century ago. Rhodes' body, the tomb facing a grand panorama of central African scenery, which the empire builder himself called "The View of the World." It was in 1898 that Rhodes formulated. mously chosen a place on earth for a a scheme for the extension of the main trunk lino from Buluwayo by way of Peace Conference, racy would certainly Gwelo to the Zambesi and thence onward have pitched woe. The Hague. Open, un- to Lake Tananyika. His restless amid- protected, utterly: indefensible, it has tion hoped that meanwhile the British basked, smiling, just behind the storm - Government would be pushing south swept edge of the ocean for centuries. through the swamps and forests of the Bleak, shifting downs roll up to the very gardens of its suburban villas; an - upper Nile and thus gradually a Cape to Cairo railway, all British, would. be coin. dent hietorical forests proffer mild pleted. memoriee of their vastness in woody It is worth noting that the leo miles parks and winding shady ways; it is from Salisbury to Gwelo traversed by essentieJle' a. place to be at peace. Al - the Big Game Limited were laid while though so mingled. with tile doings of the Boer was was actually raging on the ilouee of Orange that every square Rhodesia's borders, so that the eontrac- has an historical association, every old tors had another formidable enemy added palace and park its story, though the to those already existing, which ranged Parliaments of the Dutch State have from man-eating lions, who terrorized met there since 1405, and suave ambas- their laborers, to the destructive white seders have brought it weighty ques- ants, which bored through and destroyed tions and strange face e since the Rith all the timber. century, there is a pretty irreeponsibil- Without fuss, however, the pioneers ity about this `largest village of the persevered, and to -day the Cape Gov- world' that has endeared. it to the plea - eminent railroads issue circular tourist sure -lover of all ages. tickets into the haunts of the wild ele- The stately "Rid:amid," or "HO of Omuta and into lion -ridden jungles. the Knights," has been repaired and. no - One novel feature of the Rhodsenan glected and repaired. again almost out section is that magnificent saloon cars of all knowledge; but still portions of it date back to Count William II, and. his eintetligent workmen," and one must be grateful in "this most neat place" that any of the original is left to tis at all. The State has just spent about 4100.000 (1,200.000 gulden) in restor- ing it to some of He first beauty of oak - embed ceiling, 10a -roofed chimney - piece, stained glass, and carved wood- work, whilst the outside has been patched judiciously under the sapervi- don of atm artist. Queen Wilbelmina opened her parliament liere for the first time in 1004. and since then it has be- come the official place for the inaugura- tion of the annual session; and it is here that the Peace Conference is being held this summer. Thus does this ancient "Binnenhof," or "stronghold of the counts," remain the beating heart of the land, jut as the "village" ens ever held. Its own as the "pleasure spot" of its princes. Grana edicts and daring re- solutions have been flung from its por- tals hie the -teeth of the world. — the THE HAGUE AND ITS CHARMS, if the all-knowing gods had unani- are provided. for private hire. The term must be at least one month, and the charge includes all catering, Surely here is a novelty—a magnificent palace on wheels, lit with electric light, sumptu- eously carpeted, with perfect table ser- wice and. card rooms, drawing rooms, lux - quietus beds fitted with electric fans at vile side, miniature kitchens with Portu- guese chefs, a library, shower baths, numb 'even a stenographer to take down notes if the big game hunter contemplates a book I • There is no roughing it in hunting Eons and elephants in thie style. The ' train or private car is used as a base camp. It is shunted into jungle sidings as may be required, and tents taken for- ward for the day's trip. Local chiefs provide trackers and. beaters; and the ne- cessary money—chiefly cotton cloth, brass wire and cowrie shells—is carried In the wonderful train. If required the Rhodesian Railroads Limited, will send an expert taxidermist Imemonewearoonmemomm. ghat of Philip of N!art.wiflWitt It lemeltrning---and now in these more prime twee, if less influential, days, when goy. aliment of fires and quiet archives new tie in its shadows, melee conies with her olive branches, treading as on hallowed ground the spot where, 300 years age, Freedom and he trampled rights found sanctuary and honor. Most foreigners would be surprised to hear that The Hague is, after all, prin- cipally a fodern town. In 17e0 it had but 14,000 inhabitants; in 1905 it had over 250,000, having doubled its popula- tion in 25 years. Even in this extremv. dinary increase it has been true to' its old character of a place to pleasure in. Hundeeas of Ditteleledian colonists settle there yearly, to enjoy earnings and. pensions cc jovially as their equa- torial livers will permit, forming a cur- ry -eating coterie of their own. A very select and idle cosmopolitan soeiety hovers around the Legations, Thousands of holidayenakere flood. it yearly from Schevenlingen. White, epetiess electric tram take one for it few pence to and. from the sea. Club life has been brought to a high pitch of perfection. Its shops are the best in 'Holland.; its streets narrow, cosy end well filled. One strolls in The Hague and keeps late , hours; work and workers are out of place there. Picture London an easy walk front Brighton, with Epping For- est in the 'way; add to it the subtle charm of ancient water -ways and high "stopped." houses, with easy eaunterings over brine -aired rose -grown downs, or to the pieture-filled park -encircled "Place of the Wood," where the first Peace Conference was Midi reduce it so in size that every nook is get-atable; strip it of vulgarity; wash it spotlesely clean, sprinkle it with picturesque costumes; invst it with an atmeepheer of diploma- tic bustle; tack away its statues and. its hoardings—and you have yet an imper- fect Hague.—From the July Pall Mall Gazette, THE RAKING OF Tim GREEN. Two of Our Original Village Improve- ment Organizatione. Many years ago there was observed a unique custom in the little town of Guilford, Conn, On one day in the fall emf I the year the women of the town assem- bled. on the village green. Each carried a wooden rake, decorated with her fey. - elite color, and each was dressed in white decked out with colored ribbons. It was El, tray of fete, and it was called "The Raking of the Green." Then with song and laughter and with many a jest thie band of women clean- ed the village green of all the leaves and refuse and of it year's accumula- tion. When the job was done they ad.- journed to the Town Hall, where they were joined by their husbands and bro- thers and the village fathers. A public banquet celebrated the occasion. While this was not the first chartea- ed Village Improvement Association in the country, it was probably at that time the moist enthusiastic, and had perhaps the largest attendance, writes U. D, Ward, in Woman's Home Companion, New Haven, Conn., Call rightly claim the first effort in village improvement, while Stockbridge, Mass., should. be re- membered as offering the second. More than a hundred years nen James Hillhouse, of New Haven, organized what he called the "Public Green Association." Be raised $1,500 for grading time green and for planting elms. One man is said. to have donated five gallons of ruin for this purpose._ Janice Ilillhouee wits also United States senator for 20 years. Al- most every one lead forgotten what he did at Washington, but no one is ever likely to forget hie services in making the city of New Hawn classic by the beauty of NatureGothic architecture. ing elms in his memory. The whole ______0....4. --country owes him a debt of gratitude that can only be paid by plant - Paderewski at; a Farmer. ' • His passion for country life has led. M. Paderewski, the tamale pianist, to es- tablish a farm on has estate in Poland where, between his tours, he 'occupies his time in rearing live stock and growing agricultural produce. During a previous vsit to thie country Paderewski, through an agent, 'bought some prize pigs from a farmer in Essex, who was quite unaware of the real profession of the purchaser. A day or two later Pad- erewski visited the farm, without dis- closing his identity. During an inspec- tion the farina lea the pianist to a sty and showed. him a fine lot of pigs, re- marking, confidentially: "Do you see those? I have sold them to Mn Pader- ewski, the great pig dealer from abroad." A woman should do everything to brighten her home, for it's the man who has to pay the gas bilk ara • It.) Orin S 001' Wit h "0"; SHAW" ASalvanized STEEL Right :a rut them on with no tools but a hammer and tinner's shears,—can't go wrong. They lock on all four sides, are self -draining and water - shedding on any roof with three or more inches pitch to the foot 4 Make buildings fire -proof, weatherproof and proof against lightning. 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"if I were a younger maul" he says, "I should go in for making the cervices kin the ehureliee more attrualve. I think ea-) et the people ought to be encouraged to 1 King of Dancers 1 stry Clodoche, T i." -- is Dead i tiZta,:r1UOlteroofwC1sis btyee III: pwrlemanehliineg at- tracted i Ireland, Ite.v. A. A. Ramsey, now tae t pastor of the Cmigregational Church. at Ernizeintiaeleinilituri jetliztAllrenadnodzeis shtaso retire. reachedhis a his Parise-Clodoche, the last of the giant young man he roved from place to place, of the thence, is dead. Reaehing the marked as a coining man in religious life. height of his fame in the days of the He settled at (,+loucester, then went to Second Empire, in his later years he kept Hackney and in 1872 went to Dews- & small restaurant on the antskirts of bury to take charge of Trinity Chapel, Paris. Ile was a melancholy person, where the Congregationalists of London, and very uncommumicative. His only looking for a man to establish a church distraction was fishing, in which lie was on time smnmit of the incline leading a great adept. belonged e1 froze Peekhane Rye to Dulwich Peak, 0 n ged to a remarkable found Ini.lie had a "sardine box," as o quartette. The other meznbers of the he called it, for a church, it being but a band. wereekFlageolot, La Comete and small iron building. In three months the Normande e—all, of course, "Wined congregation had burst forth from the names. The two latter were dressed as etin,e and three years later he preached women, the others retained their menu- in one of the finest church structuree lino attire. When they appeared for the of London. During hies 19 years with this first time at the opera ball, in the win- church of his own creation, he has re - ter of 1805, they achieved an instant ceived over 1,200 members aad his. eon - success. They were voted the most gregation has given for various pur- take more part in the service a praise. 4 I am speaking of the poorer class, that , one that likes to feel that it has it right to something' more than a one-man nun - humorous thing in humanity that had yet come out. The gay assembly at the ball—just then at the height of its glory—were convulsed at the drolleries of the four. The pseudo "danseuses" surpassed themsalves in their unexpect- ed and brilliant effects. They seemed. to be able to do everything with their legs except to stand quietly upon them as ordinary mortals did. All Paris Flocked to Them. Mabille, proprietor of the celebrated gardens whicit held. the same place. in Paris as the rendezvous yelept Cremona) did in London about the same period, engaged the magic four on the spot. It was a happy stroke of business. All Paris flocked to see them. The rotunda, in the centre of the grounds, was packet with smart society to witness the as- tonishieg gyrations pf the quartette. Such wee the vouge Clodoche and his merry men that their performance continued even after the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian war, and when, to the far-seeing eye, the gay capital stood. in danger of being invested. It was dancing upon a volcano with a vengeance. When the public had liberty to return to its old amusements, the "cancan" lived neain in favor, but it took a new turn. 'nfnstead of a q.uartette of men, women were brought m. They had an equal though different kind of success. There arose numerous stars of the danc- ing balls, Fillet to, Alice la Provencale and tile womlered artiste Itigolboche, otherwise Mergnerite Huguenote. The dance continual for some years, but dwindled in popular appreeiation. It was half strangled, if not killed outright, by the cake -walk. Cakewalk a Time in Favor. Paris went mad when the cake -walk was introduced. The Nouveau Cirque, which was its first beane, was crowded each evening to see the eompetitions for the cake, sometimes danced by real ne- groes. Every one was trying to lean as far back as possible and to shoot his legs as far forward as possible in emula- tion of the extraordinary performers. Then the rake -walk died. Sumo said it was because it was objected to in draw- ing rooms by the young American ladies who have always ruled. over Paris socie- ty, or, at least, have been able to obtain a great deal of social influence. From the negro dance fashion went to Spain, whence emerged the matchiche, which was followed by the kragnette and by the %elate. No doubt to -mor- row • • 'y will invent another edition of the caeca la "ate." leaehions change. The public dance is dead with its mese brilliant exponents. There is a sort of public dancing to -day in Montmartre, at the Bal Taleuen, and at eome of time night restaurants, but it is no longer of the kind that made choregraphic greatness in the past. The foot is still lifted above the dancer's head—sometimes a hat goes tumbling off the head of a spectator'surprised by the sudden assault ---butt there is less race,less art and more vulgarity than in the old time. The sets of eccentric quadrilles are composed of no illustrious names in the amnia, of the dance—rather the hired performer, who takes but scant interest in the nicety ana poetry of her movements. Paris Still Home of Dance. Yet Paris is, in some sense, still the home of the dance. The clever shperform- er, be e Spanish i or English, s certain of applause and of a considerable fol- lowing. Wonderfully shaped and wonder- fully endowed creatures appear, from time to time, at different places where they still trip the light fantastic toe at fantastic hours of the morning. La 33elle Otero is reckoned a Parisian beau- ty, and she has ninny would-be rivals both in beauty and person and in beauty of pose. Nome trans -Pyrenean damsel, of raven locks and lustrous eyes, with all the rich, warm coloring of the southern type, makes her debut upon. the "cafe -concert" stage and the boulevards are at her feet. Such things happen every day in a form more or less accentuated, and, for a brief hour, the new queen of dance flut- ters in an atmosphere of lidulation. Yet there are a few outstanding names to- day which one can quote as standard, ex- ponents of the art, • • * TIDIED UNIQUE PASTORATES. The "little parson with the big arum" 14, the title given Rev. A. Stanley Par- ker, for two years in charge of the MIS - 610)1 work at Central Hall, Platustead, England. When working at Barrow ho would sally forth at midnight with a band end. gather large crowd from the publics houses. lie found it an exeellent way, to attract outcasts, but the police objected, so he dia away with the band, eeeured a big drum and Ina& more noise tine than the whole band had done. His efforts were effeetive. Often with his drum he gathered 1,500 persons after 11 o'clock at night, "There would often be 200 or more present in various stages of intoxieit- tion," he says, as he tells of the work. "I kept them quiet by getting them to come to the platform and make a tart Of a drunkards' charm for the hymns, A publiean who used to come to the mettiugs told us in his way that he *Anted very badly to sing. I asked hitil 110 the platform and in a few minute. he poses $200,000, it is said, that no one can worship in Mr. ltamsey's church without feeling that he has been hushed into a great silence, and the whole ser- vice is one of restfulness. 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Tmportant Discovery Made by U. S. Ee- partment of Agriculture. The Department of Agriculture is much interested in a highly important discovery that has just been made in the matter of the shipment of fruits. It Is believed that a solution has finally been found of the problem of transport- ing delicate tropical fruits long dis- tances. Tho experiments have been made by a French company, under the auspices of the French Government. Tho ship- ments have been made from Guiana and the Island of Guadeloupe, in the Lesser Antilles, to France, and the out- come is declared most satisfactory. The success of the new system means much for certain sections of this coun- try. The secret of the new process Is the envelopment of the fruit in a particu- lar kind of peat or turf, that, namely, which Is known as Yellow Dutch peat. Pineapples, bananas, mangoes, sapotas, and other delicate fruits have been taken when in perfectly ripe condition, envel- oped in the fibrous subs -twice, and af- ter several weeks spent in transportation have arrived at their destinatiomi in a perfectly fresh and sound condition. Peat, as is commonly known, is vege- table more or less decomposed, which passes by insensible degrees Into lignite. The less perfectly decomposed peat Is generally of a brown color, that which le perfectly decomposed is often black. Now, moist peat, it has for some time been known, possesses a decided and powerful antiseptic property, This Is ascribed to the presence of genie Paid and tannin. It is manifested not only in the per- fect preservation- of ancient trees, and of leaves, fruits, and the like, but some. Ulnas even of animal bodies. Thus, in some Instances, human bodies have been found perfectly preserved. in peat, after the lapse of centuries. Amateur le -Seating. The most comfortable chair .on the pi- azza or living room has an unfortunate way of testifying Be use by giving out lii the seat, and sometimes stretehing at the back. In the former ease its comfort may be renewea and the whole effect made bet- ter by a euishion, covered preferably with burlap, although cretonne or denim Is good. To make the seat even wire lmld bet used. Cord would stretch and a board would be hard. Piaui* wire is easy to work with and strong, end thia ehould be laced. across the seat to make a straight surface. The wires need not be closer ifian two inches. • • • ••• ••••`1.1e'•• Danger Not Great Washington, D.C.---Fesir 0 lightning received the heaviest percentage In ce1101,14 of fears recently taken by Clark University. Yet an investigation lately made by the Weather Bureau howe that an average of only 800 Americans are being killed by lightning per [minim. The average Yankee's chance of being slain by a thunderbolt this summer is, therefore, about one in 100,000. He Is ten times more likely to be burned or scalded to dealt and nearly four times more likely to be shot to death. Danger from lightning is largely a matter of locality, however. The weethe er bureau has compiled a chart of thun- derstorm, frequencies which shows that the belt of most numerous visitations includes all of Florida except the south- ernmost tip; also the lower edge of Georgia and the southeastern Corner of Alabama. Here an average of 45 thun- derstorms a year is experienced, and the region is not one to be highly recom- mended to persons suffering from a mor- bid fear of these phenomena. The zone of next greatest frequency includes more northern parts of Georgia, and Alabama, and its average is 40 storms per annum. Thirty-five per year are experienced in a somewhet irregular belt north of this, and including still wore northern parts of the States last named, co well as the whole of Mississippi and Louisiana, near- ly all of Tennessee, the adjacent corners of Illinois and Kentucky, the southern part of Arkansas and. the eastern central part of Texas. Another belt of equal intensity obtains throughout central Illinois and adjacent sections of Indiana, Iowa and Miesoari. Thus region from the Virginia capes to Connecticut escapes with an average of 25 such convulsions, while Boston is visited by only 20. West of the 100th meridian frequency dimin- ishes until the Rockies are reached, and on the Pacific) slope there are practically no such storms whatever. Our Zone of Greatest Danger. Oddly enough, the region of greatest danger from lightning strokes does not coincide with our zone of greatest thun- derstorm frequency, but includes South- ern Vermont, the whole of Massachu- setts, Rhode Island, Connectieut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Dela- ware, Indiana, Eastern Illinois, Virginia and the greater part of Maryland. In this zone over five duties per 10,000 square miles per year are caused by thunderbolts,. Three to five deaths per 10,000 is the rule in a surrounding re- gion including Chicago, St. Paul, Des Moines, St. Louis, Memphis, Atlanta and Norfolk. Between one and three fatali- ties per 10,000 is the rule in a third zone, north, sgeith and west of the last describ- ed an including Eastport, Mon.ertal, Duluth, Bismarck, Huron, North Platte, Galveston, New Orleans and Jackson- ville. In the country westward less than one death per 10,000 miles per year occurs. Danger from thunderbolts is also a matter of occupation. Four times more people of outdoor pursuits than of in- door occupations are struck. Men, like animals, are more apt to be struck when collected in groups than when alone. More than half would recover if means were employed to induce artificial respir- ation, as in cases of drowning. More than half of the while standing under trees, and in certain parts of the United States barbed wire fences are equally dangerous. lime most dangerous buildings to be in during thunderstorms are the class in- cluding barns, sheds and warehouses, cc. cording to the Weather Bureau returns. Churches and schools appear to be sneer than dwellings, stores and office Luild- ings. Wooden roofs are struele more cf- ten than those of slate, while thee.; ef metal are most seldom struck. arm re than twice as many cattle mia elicep f re struck, more sheep than horses, more 1).Les.sthan e pigs and more pigs ten 1 Country houses on hillsides are in greater danger than those on level ground, according to Prof. Alex. McAdie, of the Weather Bureau, who has made lightning a specialty. "As lightning falls indiscriminately upon trees, rocks or buildings it will make but little differ- ence sometimes whether trees are higher than adjoining buildings,' said he, and he added that it is not judicious to stand in doorways of barns, close to cattle, or near chinmeys or fireplaces during a thunderstorm. Small articles of steel, such as scissors, cannot attract light- ning out of its course, as commonly sup- posed. Depression Before Thunder Storms. The great depreseion suffered just be- fore thunderstorms is due to the failure of the nervous system to respond quickly to the rapidly varying electrical poten- tial of the air and the quickly changing conditions of temperature, humidity and pressure. "Grant even that the lightning is going to strike close to your vicinity, there are many flashes that are of less intensity than we imagine—discharges that the human body could withstand without permanently serious effects," Prof. Me - Adie added. "One who lives to see the lightning flash need. not concern himself much about the possibility of personal Injury from that flash. "Lightning does sometimes strike twice In the same place. But whoever studios the effects of lightning's action—espe- cially in severe cases—is almost tempted to remark that there is often but little left for the lightning to strike again. No good reasons are known why a place that has once been struck may net be struck again. There are many eases re- ported supporting this assertion. Has Struck Twice in Same Place. Two notable places where lightning has struck not only twice, but many times, are the dome of the United States Capitol and the apex on the Washington Monument. Very interesting phenomena often attend the striking of the big iron dome, according to the attaches of the Capitol. Tho usual report made by the explosion begins with a. crash which Is followed by ie continuous fusillade, ac- companied by a great volume of flying echoes. When the dome is struck at night the interior is often weirdly II - laminated for it second or two by a 'ban ish flame, sometimes accompanied by a strong 'odor of brimstone. Several years ago a thunderbolt strik- ing the dome ricocheted to the plaza be. IOW, where it struck it cab, knooking the hone down and hurling the driver from in Thunder Storms his seat, but neither alien nor animal sustained any injury. During another storm which struck tAke dome a roflng man was descending the etairway vir leads to the WI). The bolt *trunk the bronze goddess and was diffused through the ironwork below, incluclimi the staIr- way, and the young man was badly bruised by being burled down 00V40,04 stairs. Lightning striking the great Washington aionument on April 10, 1885, cracked. some of the blocks at the alsnt and an aluminum conductor, eonneatinff with the metallio framework nunde, was afterward placed upon the top of the structure to further protect It. Ten days before the destructive stroke the monument limed been struck fire ARCO' sive times in one day without damage. in Carinthia there is a church which used to be atruck by lightning about five times each summer, and services had to be suspended during the hot season on this account. A lightning rod was finally placed on the steeple anii all fears were allayed, summer services being resumed. There is record of soother church, that of St. Mary, in Genoa, which is struck several times each year, It is said that people cannot be in- duced to live in one place in the vicinity of Vega de Supia, in New Granada, be- cause of fear of the lightning which con- stantly assails that region. Same Man Struck Six Times. That even man may be an exception to the rule that lightning doee not strike twice in the same place is indicated by the ease of Charles Hines, a farmer of Dutch Neck, N. J,, who is reported to have been struck six times without ser- ious injury, the first time in a boat, which was destroyed under him; the sec- ond time while walking on the railroad, the third time when a church pew was wrecked under him, the fourth time when his horse was killed and the plow which he was guiding was twisted out of shape, the fifth time when he was knock- ed senseless from the supper table and the sixth time when he was knocked front the horse and stripped of all his garments below the waist. In front of the entrance to the United States House of Representatives there is an old linden tree which can brag of at least five strokefrom lightning, each of which glanced from the Capitol dome above and left a well-defined groove in the bark. Relative Danger of Trees. Speaking of trees, statistics obtained by our Government from the German Forestry Bureau show that the oak suf- fers most frequently by far, and after that, in order of frequency, the fir, beech, pine, ash and birch. That thunderstorms are deflected by the tides up and down Delaware Bay has long been the belief of the weatherwise natives about Cape May, N. J. Recently the Weather Bureau made inquiry of its agent at the Cape, who replied that the populace were correct; that an incoming flood tide generally carries thunder- storms with it northward; that an out - flowing ebb similarly bears them with it southward, and that during slack water such storms go across the bay, regard- less of the tides. That the moon's phases regulate the frequency of thunderstorms is indicated by data recently tabulated by Professor H. Pickering, of the Harvard Obser- vatory. He says the liability of such storms is greatest between new moon and first quarter and least between full moon and last quarter. "Lightning photographs" on the skin, where red figures representing ferns and. trees in intricate form often appear af- ter a lightning stroke—these forms hav- ing given rise to superstitions concerning the reproduction of scenes in the neigh- boring landscape—have recently been explained by experiments made by Pro- fessor Elmer Gates, of Chevy Chase Md,. who, by allowing electric sparks to im- pinge upon photographic plates, has re- produced these figures, in what he terms "electrographa" some of them showing beautiful fernlike forms. Measuring Thunder Heads. By aid of surveying instruments ar- ranged at two stations, connected tele- phomealy, the Weather Bureau recently measured a large number of "thunder heads," which were compared with other classes of clouds and found to be by far the largest of all vaporous forms floating in our atmosphere. Several were found to be seven and one-half miles in height, from base to summit, the apextie touch- ing points 10 miles above earth, That at least one thousand million volts is the force required to send light- ning to earth from a thunder head a mile high—as frequently oceura—was recent- ly estimated by Professor Trowbridge, of the Laurence School of Science, Har- vard, who has erected an instrument that reproduces lightning phenomena on a small scale. Trees Grow at Night. One of the foreign agents of the Bu- reau of Forestry, now in Tasmania, reports as the result of a series of measurements of growing apple and pear trees, and some and geranium bushes and other plants, that eighty-five per cent, of the growth of trees takes place between midnight and 6 o'clock in the morning. Tho growth continues at a much dimin- ished rate until 0 o'clock. After that it is very slight until noon' when the tres falls into a condition ofcomplete rest, lasting until a o'clock. 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