The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, January 14, 1891, Page 7

.— ~ ae = i CUNEIFORM CHARACTERS. An Oatline of the Hieroglyphic Origin of the System. The cuneiform or arrow-shaped chare acter is as conventional and unintelli- gible as the later Chinese, but patient labor has quite recently enabled schol- ars to trace the hierogl) e origin of the system. The arrow form is due to the shape of the wooden style used to impress the figures on unbaked clay. On the oldest Babylonian texts and on the stone statues of T Low this ar- row form of the strokes is no longer to be noted, and indeed the casual obsery- er would never suppose these early characters to have any connection with the later cuneiform, aconnection which is, however, established by study of in- termediate forms beyond any possibil ty of doubt. The cuneiform system was not the in- vention or either Assyrians or Baby lonians. Sir ilenry Rawlinson discov- ered, some forty ye ago, that an- other race speaking quite another lan- guage, inated the civilization of Mesopotamia. ke his other discov- eries, and like all great discoveries of science, this result was fiercely called into question. Like all other truths, it has in the end prevailed. Bilingual texts, bilingual syllabaries, fresh records in the same ancient tongue not discovered when he reached his conclusions, have set the matter rest in the minds of all buta very few of the older antagonists. The race so recovered from their monumental records was not of the Semitic group; its language was not in- flected, but terminational or agglutina- tive, and akin to the Turko-Mongel languages of our own day. This Stage of language, as already ob- served, is that which always accom- panies early hieroglyphic writing. The word-roots of the old Akkadian—as his language is generally called—were monosyliables easily adapted to repre- sentation by single emblems. When other races adopted these emblems, and used them cither as pictures or sound signs, there came to be a double devel- opment. On the one hand the old Akkadian ‘sound survived; on the other, the Ak- kadian picture received a new sound by translation into another language, and as the old Akkadians themselves ap- plied more than one name to each em- blem, the final complex result in Assy- rian was sometimes to give cight or ten sounds to one sign, while, on the other hand, more than one sign might stand for any one sound.-- Edinburgh Review. BARKED HIM OFF. Afries unter Frightened an Enraged Lion, Wild beasts are easily alarmed by the unexpected. The Italian's organ monkey that saved itself from the bull-dog by taking off its cap, evidently seemed to the startled brute a creature that could pull off its own head. A stranger in- stance is related by an African hunter who had returned from the Hottentot country, where he had been trapping for the animal collectors of Hamburg. [fe was out one afternoon with some of the natives, preparing a bait in a rocky ravine. “We had builta stout pen of rocks and logs and placed a calf as a bait. Tho sun was nearlyidown as we started for camp, and no one had the least sus- picion of the presence of danger until a lion which had been crouched beside a bush sprang out and knocked me down. “In springing upon his prey the lien or tiger strikes as he seizes. ‘This blow of the paw, if it ‘alls on the right spot, disables the victim at once. “Iwas so near this fellow that he simply reared, seized me by the sboul- der and pulled me down. 1 was flat on the earth before I realized what had happened. “Twas on my back, and he stood with both paws on my waist. facing the na- tives and growling savagely. ‘The men ran off about three hundred feet and then halted, which was doubtless the reason why I was notcarried off at once. “Tecan y without conceit that I was fairly cool. The attack had come so suddenly that | had not had time to get ‘rattled.’ I had been told by an old Boer hunter that if I ever found myself in such a predicament as this 1 must ap- peal to tho lion’s fears. “Had I moved my arm to get my pis- tol the beast would bave lowered his head and seized my throat. So long as I lay quiet he reasoned that I was dead, and gavo his attention to the natives. “Suddenly I barked like a dog, fol- lowing the bark with a growl, and that beast jumped twenty feet in his sur- prise. He came down between me and the natives, and I turned enough to see that his tail was down. “LT uttered more barks and growls, but without moving a hand, and the lion, after making a circle around me, sud- denly bolted and went off with a scare which would last him a week. “If you had picked up a stic covered it to be a snake you would do just as the lion did. He supposed he had pulled downa man. The man turned into a dog. He could not understand it and it frightened him. —Cor. San Fran- cisco Journal. at and dis- —A Kingston City man, who talks of buying a team of horses, has had, dur- ing the past three months about two hendred invitations to “take a ride.” He says he was never aware of the many Ment qualities of horses. No matter ee kind of a horse it is, that horse, in owner's estimation (judging from bis own story), is the gentlest, the most courageous, the swittest, the staunch- est, the most high-spirited, the best broken, the handsomest, the most ele- gant, the nerviest, the finest blooded, and the best-gaited korse in the coun- try. He wonders what causes the horses to die so early in life, for so far he has been unable to find a horse over eight years, and the most of them are ‘com- ing six or seven.” "Kingston Freeman. Me was Too Honest. First Bank Director—I think we'd bet- ter let Collins go. Second B. D.--Why? He's cashier for twenty-five years’ First B. D.—I know, but hss too in- fernally honest. We don’t set a chance todo any financiering. --Life. deen our | zal World, | up by some cleats. | other day. j of six hundred black | already ELECTRICAL VISION. An Intricate Apparatas Proposed This Object in View. id to be with possible that ns may succeed in ing a devic re that will do for tt of sight what the telephone does for sense of hearing, but the prosp such an achievement are not partic ly bright. The possibilit demonstrated, experiment practical difficult rying out the idea ar y gr It is well known that in salts of copper . for example, generate elec- tric currents when exposed tothe light: and, converse! produce in the salts chanzes corre- sponding to those made b light. If a strongly-illuminated is placed in front of a tra r covered with such a salt, electrical currents will be rated whi itl va in intensity, according to the intensity of the light f: g on different parts of | the surfs If, now, these various currents were carried tc iver sim- | ilar to the transmitter, the uld pro- | duce on its surface changes dike those | wrought by light on the surface of the transmitter. According to the an apparatus has been posed based upon the property pro- peculiar toselenium that its electrical assist- | ance changes the intensity of light. | For a transmitter the selenium cells are arranged in squares like a checkerboard. The greater the number the more effi- cient would the apparatus be. Each of these is connected with an electro- magnet in the receiver. The latter is composed of a mirror constructed of thin strips of steel, to each of which several of the electro-magnets are attached. A strongly illuminated body being placed in front of the sileni transmitter, the electrical resistance of the various cells varies according to the intensity of the light, as in the case of the salts of cop- per and silver. The various currents affect the electro-magnets in different degrees, the result being that the strips of steel are bent irregularly, turn- ing the mirror into an ation of surfaces. very slightly warped, which will throw an image on a screen. The main difficulty in the way of the realization of such an idea as seeing by electricity lies in the neces- sary complexity of an apparatus which shall enable innumerable points in the aggre transmitters and receivers to be actu- ated simultaneously in perfect inde- pendence, and also in perfect corre- spondence: but it is quite possible that urther experiment will bring into actual use what might be something more than a mere plaything. In de- fensive war a telescope of indefinite length would certainly be of value. With buried wires and concealed visors a General might watch his adversary’s movements at times when this would mean victory instead of defeat.—Iron. A TALE OF HORROR. Ing of « Ship-Lo: n Slaves. Drow Afric ‘To-day, says a writer in the Atlanta The Cruel Constitution, I heard a story from a sea captain who has been all over the world and finally settled near Atlanta. Among the seafaring men he knew before the war was a captain that had been a slaver. Once be had a cargo of three bundred slaves, sailing with them from off the cost of Africa to Cuba. After a few days’ sail he saw he was chased by a United States man-of-war. If he was caught with the slaves the penalty was death for him and his crew. And his cargo was worth $200,- 000, So he had two incentives to get away, and made his preparations for either event, escape or capture. Ile hung the heavy iron cable or chain that holds the ancbor all around the hull of his vessel on the outside just be- low the edge of the deck. It was held ‘These cables are so can lift only about heavy that a man two feet of one. Then he had the three hundred naked negroes brought back on deck and each one’s wrists crossed and tied fast. They were then placed among the gunwales, | facing outward and leaning over, anda strong cord fastened the hands of eash one to this heavy them on the outside. Then the captain waited the re the race. He had on every canvas his poles could carry. If be could run till dark he hoped to dodge the steamer and be out of sight before an- But the sun did not go down and the steamer came on too fast. There was at last no hope of escape. The crew stood ready with axes; the captain raised his hand, and in an instant every cleat was knocked loose; there was for an instant a fringe heels in the air, and cable and negroes were gone to the bottom. Commodore Maury says the’ pressure of water at great depths is such that fishes can not go there to devour, and chemical decomposition can not take place. So those negroes are down there yet, still tied in a circle to that iron cable, with their heads down and their heels up, in the eternal stillness of those depth As soon as the man-of- war came up a lieutenant boarded the slaver and found plenty of signs of ne- groes, but nota single slave. And the captain was not arrested. ult of stitch of fast enough fucks In Ch’na. There are more ducks in Chinese empire, says an authority, than in all the world outside of it They are kept by the Celestials on every farm, on the private roads, on the public roads, on streets of cities, and on all the in the country. Every Chinese boat | alsocontains a batch of them. There are innumerable hatebing establishments all through the empire. many of which are said to turn out about 50,000 young ducks every year. Salted and smoked duck and ducks’ eggs constitute two of the most common and importast arti- cles of diet in China. —The naval “exhibition to be held in | London next year will display the prog- ress and evolation of the navy from the earliest times. The guarantee fund is mounting toward £65,000. and the Queen and the Prince of Wales take part as patron and president. Electri- | 'tude that I tried to console y iron cable just below | the | A GRATEFUL GOOSE. For Several Sessons It Remembered Its Young Benefactor. Major Robert Chambers, of this relates a pretty story of a tude and love: “My boy ne years ago.” said the & 4 i geese, lace, and 5 bird's grat arenc a@ young one that 3 first mi Clarence pict make a pet o would be imp ibl a it, and that it n as it could fly, th could so at it t it, and I said no more. The wing he: slowly, b t pbe was the rec of every care an? attention, for [ realized he had done ‘But one there was a ring and a * and from where it lay there flutter and a quz | bird, w h. without Nook at its poor lit rose the airand joined its comrades. child was so hurt at the goose’s ing him by tel yearning in rd into KW jing him of the le antamat | them for the boundless skies. ‘But it ,can't forget me, fathe the lad said, ‘because I fed it every day, and I loved it so. It will coms back, I know, when it remembers how good I was to. it.’ I had, of course, no idea that we would ever see the bird again, but that autumn I was sitting near an open window one day, when I heara flock of geese flying over, and in another minute an exclamation of joy from Clarence, who said: ‘Oh, itis my goose come back! You pretty pet, where have you been” And, look- ing out, I saw him fondling a wild goose, which submitted to have its plummage stroken and ruffled as none but Clarence’s lost pet would have al- lowed. It staid with him three days, but joined the first flock that passed, and we saw it no more till spring, when it again paid us a visit of several days. Twice a year, when it made its spring and autumn migrations, it stopped with us until this passed April. We watched the flocks pass, but with never a visitor for us. Andso we know our little wild friend must be dead.”—Titusville (Pa.) Cor. St. Louis Globe-Demoerat. STORIES OF ERICSSON. He fat On No Style ana FL Red-Hot Fire. Ericsson never changed his style of dress from the clothing which he wore edto Poke a when he landed in this country to the time of his deati fe wore woolen knitted underclothing and very long stockings, thick, when which were nearly an inch both and winter, and his friends went through the house after his death his clothing was found rolled up in small bundles, each one labeled with its contents and stowed away in a number of small lock- ers he had in his room. He allowed no one to interfere with his clothing. and was most methodical in taking care of it. The case of a fellow countryman of his who was in distress, came to his ears nearly twenty years since, and he in- stantly helped the man out of his trouble. Subsequently he found out that the man's birthday fell on the same date as his own. He made no memorandem either of the man’s name or address, but every year he drew a check for $100, which he sent on every anniversary of his birthday to the poor stranger, and the stubs of these checks were found among his papers. He was careless in money matters, although a good business man in many ways. His secretary usedto notify him when his bank balance was getting low, when he would dictate a letter to the Government or to Mr. Delamater for a remittance onaccount of royalties due thim, although he never troubled about their payment except as he needed the money for current expenses. Eri nhad a habit of poking the fire in his big open-fire grate when he was thinking out some abstruse problem. He wore out so many fire irons that for many years before his death he used to order pokers of wrought iron about | five feet long, with which he would ' pound the fire and grate till the pokers wore away by being constantly kept in use while at a white heat. He bought them by the dozen ata time, and when he was sick, shortly be- fore his death his physician ordered him to take broth, corn-starch and other light food. He immediately ordered two dozen fonder spoons, and would: sit over the stove stirring his food himself until the spoon got what he considered too old for use. when he would throw it away and take a new one. albany Argus. —An petes has been Repeated by the Russian Ministry of the Interior that every laborer must carry with him, besides his passport, a ‘hire list” in which the conditions under which he takes employment are recorded. Both the passport and the “hire list’ must | be kept by the employer as long as the laborer is in his hire, even in cases jwhen the two parties have an oral agreement between themselves. But still, in order to facilitate the employ- ment of laborers, the courts shall summer itis satisfactorily proved and attested by witnesses. —tambling resorts in France are the | English and French press just now. The suppression ‘of seaside gambling, which has become a formidable curse, is much talked of, and it is plain that | the day of Monte Carlo is not far dis- | tant —Wembl Park, about twenty min- utes’ ride from the center of London, j.has been selected as the site for the \new tower which is to be built in imita- | tion of the great work of the French j architect, Eiffel. i | to turn i jcan see | ples the landempurpled. I jphere the mountain j the h | world are you setting that trap on | Fecognize a verbal contract was valid if | lakes, ponds, rivers, streams and brooks | subject of much plain talk in both the | gone it, for 1 PHANTOM MOUNTAIN. A Vecaliar Atmospheric Effect Some- Clustered telling at nthey were verience on Yosemite d alone there, e grea ss of the in the a of Then up s poke Mayor cock of Oakland and said: the Phantom > ocean?” ny in that com- pany l sorts of things, from cra to pink monkeys pendages, ne i e Phantom nt on poem on Mount Dial ped viewed ne cc ther 1ere the sun olding however, the signa n who were formerly s tationed. ash their heliograph sig ross to aneminence e and then ovey I was told to You know it day a person 3 m the summit n any other eminence » great central valley all the lesser lly shrouded ina fog, are and off to the west dim- Well, this morn- Mount St y eyes to sea. is a fact that ‘lear more co blo than f: in the world. Th spreads out gener: you, tue Pacific n one side, hills, beneath ing I could hardly believe my eyes. Right up from the bottom of the deep rose a great mountain—solid, majestic a long time I be- lieved that it was the product of some ‘drastic lift of pent volcanic fires’—the growth ofa night But as I studied it TI saw that it was the exact counterpart of the double cone of Diablo—a phantom of the se By the peculiar reflective and refractive condition of the atmos- was made to ap- pear as a wave-washed crag. As the sun rose all its apparent stability van- ished and it dissolved into thin air. I tried for the sight again and in, but che atmospheric conditions e never favorable. Ever afterward the ocean stretched aw unruffled and remote.” San Francisco Examiner. EDISON'S ENTERPRISE. we An Idea 11 lipses the Are Dre:m ts It has been observed by astronomers that the appearance of spots on the sun are coincident with meteorological phe- nomena, and that ¢ tornadoes, water-spouts and earthquakes are more frequent, or are entirely coincident with the solar occurrences. It is also ascer- tained that these spots are the result of bodies falling into the sun, and that the disturbance affects the telegraph wires on this planet. Mr. Edison, con- sidering all data, has conceived clones, these an idea of the most marvelous enter- prise, one@hat fairly eclipses any Arabian Nights dream, or the wishes of Fortunatus. It is the project of making it possible to hear the sounds which the falling bodies make on the sun. In New Jersey there is a hillcon- taing vast tons of magnetic ore. This he has encircled with many miles of wire, and proposes, by means of elec- tric currents, to register on this appa- ratus the disturbance, as uhe vibrations affect our atmosphere, and by connect- ing these wires with a gigantic phono graph, listen to the sounds that occur in sun’s atmosphere. The interest with which this experiment will be watched is intense. If it succeeds, there is every reason to believe it may be carried out to further details, at present unrevealed. Mr. Edison is demonstrating his possession of the most wonderful genius of the age. One says genius advisedly, fur itis not the natural evolution of scientific train- ing of the learning of college and labor- atory, but it is rather in the line of ab- solute inspiration. He seems to be the medium through which great forces are enabled to manifest themselves. It is not an exaggeration to call many of his ideas sublime. It is noticeable, too, that he accomplishes the maximum of work with the minimum of fatigue. It isasifhe might say: “Not I, but the power that works through me.” He is being led on to still greater and more important undertakings, and that this may not inappropriately be called the | electric age is due to no man so greatly as to Thomas Edison. -Boston Budget Marked by Lightning. During a thunder storm in a Colorado lumber camp a Mexican was struck on the head by lightning, which ran down one side of bis face, over the shoulder, transversely across the breast, around one leg, and out through the shoe top. His face was badly burned and the cour-e of the current over him was marked by a red brand. His clothes were torn from him and the scle of the shoe completely torn off. He laid ap- parently dead, and was left at the place until the storm was over. After lying in the rain for two hours he was resus- | citated, and is now as wel! as ever ex- | cept for the burn.—Denver News. To Catch the Wo!lf. Friend of the Family—What the the in eae steps for? Young Hopeful—To catch the wolf. Pa said that if ma ordered any more of those California peaches we should have at the door, and she’s gone and heard her.—Burlington the wolf Free Press. —The Masonic fraternity of New York State are to have an asylum for the or- phans of their members. It is to be lo- cated at Utica. The plans show an ed- ifice exceedingly well adapted for the purpose in w, and as pal site has been paid for and sufficient money is hand to pay for the cost of erection, the Masonic body in the State will scon be in possession cf an institution of which | they may well be proud. that season | once | the | ade inorder to down | illummmeted vellum fan wii last foo esutaries. 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Notice is hereby given that letters of admin- istration on estate of Mary J Kelly, deceased, were granted tothe undersigned on the %th of December, 140), by the probate court or ates county, Missouri All persons having claims against said estate are required to exhibit them for allowance to the administrator within one year after the date of auch letters or they may be preciaded from any benefit of said estate: and if such claims be not exhibited within two years from the date of this publication, they will be for- ever barred. This 2th day of Dee 1+ ISAAC KELLY, 7-4t ADMINISTRATOR. Notice of Final Settlement. Notice is hereby ¢: ven to all creditors and the estate of Martin B. that we Martin V Owens execntors of said estate. settlement thereof st the next term of the Bates nty probate court. in Bates county state of Missouri, to be held at Batleron the %h day of February, imi, or as eoon thereafter ae wecan be heard im said Owens, deceased court. M. Vv. OWENS L. C. 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