The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, September 17, 1890, Page 2

f HE i ; San aM | CNRS MSs daRiE NATURE'S GIGANTIC WORK. She Does Every Thing on & Region Whore oie ery There must have been a time in the remote past when the Puget Sound basin was covered with a growth which for rank luxuriance would put to blush any thing that grows here now. The old mossbackers of the present day, the ad- venturous spirits of the last three de- cades who pushed their way through al- most impenetrable wilds to settle here, point with pride to the giant firs, tower- ing 300 feet high, and from 6 to 10 feet through at the stumps, to the masses of ferns 7 and 8 feet high, to hop vines 40 feet in length, to oats that yield 120 bushels per acre, and ask what other country on earth can show equal pro- duetiveness. And yet this growth of to-day must be as nothing compared with that which grew here ages ago, and formed the coal fields which are now be- ginning to be prospected. These fields are of enormous exteat. In the basin of the Cowlitz river, which rises in Mount St. Helens, which Win- throp says was still an active volcano when he was writing ‘Canoe and Sad- dle,” there are over 40,000 acres, so far untouched. In the Chehalis valley there are vast deposits still unexplored. In the Carbon river region there is one vast bed underlying three whole town- ships, one vein in which is 24 feet thick, and in ita seam, 8}¢ feet thick, of per- fectly pure coal. In the Raging River, Snoqualmie, Skagit, Nooksac and Wenatchie basins there are other vast deposits—how vast nobody yet knows. The railroad com- pany now has eighteen men in the field prospecting these regions. This work in most cases is easy, as the beds crop out along the river banks and in the walls of gulches and canons in many places, and in some instances can be traced for miles without a break. General Alger, of Michigan, and his partners have a tract of 18,000 acres of timber in Skagit County, which there is reason to believe is generally underlaid with a six-foot vein of coal of fairly good quality. These deposits extend on into British Columbia, and are particu- larly rich in Vancouver Island, a large part of which is underlaid by them. Nature seems always to have been at her most wonderful work hereabouts. Not many centuries ago she maintained a row of light-houses on this coast, the equal of which was never seen else- where. Their lights shine no more, however, and they now stand solemn pinnacles of ice piercing the clouds. They are Mounts Shasta, Hood, St Helens, Adams, Tacoma, Baker, and St. Elias, and range in height from 11,225 to 17,850 feet. All these are true mountain peaks rising abruptly almost from the sea level. Most of them still emit hot steam from their summits, and some older residents of the coast-claim to have seen an occasional jet of flame from Mount Baker, but mogt people believe that while all were once active volcanoes they are now practically extinct They un- donubtedly made things lively when they were in the full blaze of business. The characteristics of Puget Sound in- dicate that it was created by earth- quakes or volcanic action. Its primitive feature is extreme depth. Its shores are very abrupt. Standing anywhere along the shore the visitor may easily toss a pebble into 100 fathoms of water. The immense inlet, with its numerous arms, making a shore line of 1,900 miles, seems to have been rent open by a Titanic force which only the imagina- tion of a Milton might describe. Com- pared with it, that which Tore up by the roots Thessalian pines And Lichas from the top of Octa threw Into the Euboic sea was the mere play of a child. In view of the wonders which have happened here it is surprising that the doom sealers have set apart no special calam- ity for our exclusive use. They secm to have overlooked an tunity.—Ta- coma (Wash.) Cor. N. Youn se A MARVELOUS FASTER. A French Widow Who Says She Has Keen Without Food For Nine Years. The little town of Bourdeilles, in Perigord, France, is becoming famous through a woman named Zelie Bourivu, who pretends to have fasted for nine years and who is now actually undergo- ing a sixty-day fast, under scientific precautions against fraud. The woman is the widow of a farmer, of, Paussac- Saint-Vivien, named Guillame Garron, by whom she had four children, all now dead. The death of her husband was the beginning of her fast. She is a brunette with brilliant eyes and exces- sive nervousness. She has lived since her alleged fasting began under the care of Dr. Lafon, who says that he visited ‘her frequently, and, while unable tosay that her story was untrue, doubted it very much, and endeavored frequently to induce her to submit to a systematic course of observations that would scien- tifically test her claim. She always refuse and this confirmed the doctor in his suspicion that the woman was merely an _ ordinary hysterical, and perhaps unconscious fraud. Last month, however, she vdl- untarily offered to submit to the closest rveillance the doctor might wish to lace upon her, and the present tests were begun. The doctor declares that he took every precaution against trick- ery or deceit’ For three weeks the woman has remained under guard ina place where no one is allowed to bring solid food of any sort. She has drank only alittle water in which toast had been dissolved, which she rejected at once, and has sucked, once a day, = bit of orange to take the bad taste from her mouth. Dr. Laion proposes to keep her under guard for sixtydays He doesnot attempt to explain the case, but has re- ferred it to Drs. Charcot and Ball, well- known specialists in nervous diseases. The opinion of the neighbors of the faster is divided concerning her. Some believe implicitly that she is as she pre- tends to be, under «Divine inspiration, and are expecting other miracles from her in due time. Others believe her, Paris Letter. ee eee —Carpets should be thoroughly beaten on the wrong side first, and then on the right, after which spots may be removed by the use of ox gall or ammonia and water. OF GENERAL INTEREST. —St Louis has a dog that is a fre-| quenter of funerals, seeking them out and making them aspecialty in his diver- sions. —Chinese women, to secure the bless- ing of children, get a shoe at the temple of the goidess of children, and return it tot temple if the object is accom- plished. —A farmer who resides near Lewis- | ton, Mc., says that some years ago he} planted beans the first day of May, and | that in less than six weeks they were shelling them out. —A women in Ohio not long since lost a child through diphtheria, and forced her other children to kiss the dead bedy. They all grew sick with the same disease and died. —An Irish boy in a New York City court recently pleaded guilty to burg- lary to save his guilty brother, but the brother came forward when he saw the innocent one convicted, and insisted on being sent to prison in his stead. —Rocky mountain sheep are not very numerous, and the handsome head of that animal brings from $35 to $100. Mountain sheep are sold in pairs, when the taxidermist has saved the whole animal, and they sell for $350 a pair. —The statement is made that at least seventy letters aday miscarry because of the similarity in the names of Oswego and Owego. For this reason each town wants the other town to change its name; but of course neither town will do so. —Some one has figured that there are in Denver, Col., thirty-one millionaires whose aggregate wealth is $46,500,000, and thirty-five semi-millionaires whose wealth aggregates $17,500,000, making in all $64,000,000 owned by sixty-six men. —It is an interesting point in Ameri- can history if, as stated, the Confederate gray unifofm was borrowed from the First Virginia Regiment, which borrow- ed it from the Seventh New York Regi- ment. The Confederate song *‘Dixie” was of Northern authorship. —That there is a great deal of exag- geration in almost all the stories that come from Russiacan not be doubted. It is quite certain that the country isin a disturbed, or, perhaps, even in adanger- ous state; but the bulk of the people are unconscious that the Czar is really the tyrannical monster which most of the European journals represent him to be. —There is a very curious stone about which very little is ever heard. It is called the “Alexandrite” in honor of Alexander of Russia, who was very fond of it. In the daytime the stones resemble an emerald, except that they are some- what darker, but at night they are a deep purplish red. They are found in India, and, like all rare stones, vary much in their qualities. ¢ —One reason why France, Germany and Russia discourage immigration to the United States is because foreigners who come here soon drop into the English language and discard their own, thus making a loss of number to the other language. This feeble check will not delay the ineyitable a month. English as she is spoken will be the universal language of the world in time. —More than a century before the Christian era there were many beautiful cups in China. The Portuguese, it is said, introduced the ware into Europe about 1518, called it “China.” after the country so long pre-eminent in its pro- duction. The first English manufact- ory of earthenware found place at Stratford-le-Bow, in Elizabeth's reign. The Shakespeare jug is the best known of Elizabethan pottery. —Baring-Gould, in his ‘Legends of the Patriarchs,” says: ‘‘The custom of saying ‘God bless you!’ when a person sneezes, dates from Jacob. The Rabbis say that before this time men sneezed once and that was the end of them—the shock slew them; but the patriarch, by his intercession, obtained a relaxation of this law, subject to the condition that in all nations a sneeze should be consecrated by a sacfed aspiration.” —German explorers last summer found reindeer on the little Ryk Ys is- Jands, which are so small that the en- tire area of the three islands is not over three or four square miles. There they were in the Arctic Ocean, thirty miles from the nearest land, one of the largest Spitzbergen islands, from which they are supposed to have migrated. Of course the islands were not with{n sight of the mainland, and the appearance of reindeer on these little rocks shows that they are great ice travelers. HUMANITY'’S AVERAGES. All About Weight, Height, Blood, Respira- tion and Other Matters. The average weight of the male adult is 130 pounds; of women about 110 pounds. The average height of the American is about 5 feet 9 inches. The average height of all English speaking nations is about the same as above; of women, 5 feet 4 inches. One inch of height adds two pounds of weight on the average. The specific gravity of the body ranges from 0.950 to 1.030. The heart weiges 260 grammes in women and 320 grammes (10 ounces) in men; the average weight is 293 grammes. The period of its maximum weight is be- tween the ages of 50 and 80 years. The amount of blood in the body is one-thirtieth the weight of the body, or five or six quarts or 11 or 13 pounds. The average man dies when he has lost one-fifth of his blood. The heart with each contraction ejects six ounces of blood from each ventricle, ata pressure in the left ventricle of one-fourth of an atmosphere. The heart sends all the blood around the body of the average man once every 30 seconds, or in about 85 contractions of the organ. A deadly poison injected into the veins kills in 15 seconds on the average; injected under the skin in about four minutes. A cubic millimeter of blood contains 3,- 000,000 blood cells in the average man, and about 4,500,000 in the average woman. There are 300 red cells to every one white blood cell. The red cells inch. The specific gravity of blood is 1.055. The frequency of the pulse in the new born is 159: in infants 1 year old 110; at 2 years, 95: from 7 to 14, 85: an adult man; in woman, 80. The re- | WHERE TRAVEL !S CHEAP. | System on Which Railroad Passenger Rates Are Based in Hungary. Suppose you could go to New York, Chicago or Omaha for $10, would it not be better than paying $100 to New York, 980 to Chicago or $60 to Omaha? The Government carries sealed letter to New lon the long haul it makes up on the short. Why can not transportation com- panies do the same? A European country has adopted a similar plan, and itis spreading through- out the continent. A novel system of railway charges has been in operationin Hungary for a little more than six months. The experiment, though radi- cal, has apparently been successful. Passenger rates on a majority of the | Hungarian roads, are no longer based upon the cost of service or what the traffic will bear, or even upon the mile- age. The rates are regulated according to the “zone system.” The State rail- roads of Hungary had been doing badly, under the old system—the earnings fell from $1,500 2 mile in 1887 to $1,000 in 1888, and the Government felt that mat- ters could not be worse than they were. The zone system of charges is based upon the theory that there are two classes of passenger traffic whiclf can be increased in volume—the passengers traveling a short distance and those going a long distance. The former are generally provided for on railroads by commutation rates, the latter have not received attention heretofore. A further point advanced by the advocates of the zone system is that where the cars are not occupied to their full capacity an in- crease of traffic necessitates only an in- finite small increase of expenses. The advocates of the system, therefore, pro- pose three zones—a short zone, a long one and amedium one. The Hungarian railroads extended the idea somewhat by issuing two classes of tickets, those for zones and those for short distances. In the latter class were two tickets, one carrying the holder to the next station and sold for 5 cents, 7}y centsand 15 cents for third, second and first class, and another carrying the holder to the second station for 73{, 11 and 20 cents for the three tickets, respectively. These tickets are good between any two con- tiguous stations, without regard to the actual distance, and are sold in bulk at 5 an! 10 percent. discount. The zones are fourteen in number, the circles beiny drawn about ten miles apart. The fourteenth zone includes all dis- tances of 140 miles and over. The rate of the first zone is very low—less than seven-tenths of a cent a mile for the lowest class and 1.6 cents for first-class express—and increases more than in proportion to the distance through the different zones until the rate at the fourteenth ranges from 1 cent to 14 cents per mile for the 140 miles. Be- yond this the rate again decreases, ow- ing to the fact that any additional dis- tance is not charged for. Thus a trip of several hundred miles may be made for the same price as one of 140. : This innovation went into effect Au- gust 1 of last year, and was introduced on the State lines—about one-half of the total mileage of the country. Two pri- vate companies have since adopted the zone system. During the first month of the new tariff the number of passengers carried on the State lines was increased 500,000, and the passenger receipts were increased about $100,000. From the report of the Austro-Hun- garian Minister of Commerce it appears that the passenger receipts of the Hun- garian railways for 1889 were 52,153,105 florins, an increase of nearly 1,000,000 florins over those of ‘888—thisin the face of a reduction of ratesequal tomore than 50 percent. The new system was in effect during only five months of 1889. This extraordinary reduction and extraordinary increase have excited the amazement of the railway world. Several foreign railways have sent representa- tives to Hungary to examine into the results of the change and report on them.—San Francisco Argonaut. MARK TWAIN’S FATHER. He Was the Original of Coloncl Sellers in “The Gilded Age.” Senator Bate, of Tennessee, gives me interesting matter about Mark Twain's father. Every one knows Colonel Sel- lers and most people are aware that the play is a dramatization of Mark Twain's book, ‘‘The Gilded Age.” Few know that the characters are taken from life, and that Colonel Sellers is a representa- tion of Mark Twain's father, who was fully as visionary as Mark’s fancy paint- ed him. TheClemens family came from the mountains of Tennessee. Mark’s father had put all the money he could make and scrape into the rough lands of the Tennessee mountains. He owned thousands of acres about him, and he wou'!d look over these and say: ‘These lands are underlaid with the finest coal and iron. There is millions in them! Millions! Millions!” At that time, however, the lands were worth nothing. Every one laughed at Mark’s father, and Mrs. Clemens, who was of a more practical and ambitious turn than her husband, urged that they sell the property and move into civiliza- tion. She finally persuaded him to do this. The lands brought a mere song and the family went to Missouri, where Mark Twain first saw the light of day. The recent developments in Tennessee, says Senator Bate, have made these lands, which Colonel Sellers-Clemens owned, immensely valuable. They con- tain valuable deposits of coal and iron, as Clemens stated, and did Mark Twain own them to-day he might have a bigger business than in his book publishing and book writing. He is now worth a mill- ion. Had his father stuck to his lands and to his theories he might have been worth his tens of millions. Had the for- tune come, however, during Mark's childhood the world would have lost | 100,000,000 laughs. ‘Innocents Abroad” would never have been written and the “Prince and the Pauper” would probably | have an average diameter of 1-8,200 of | have remained unpenned.—F. G. 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