Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, November 19, 1898, Page 8

bri 1e 9 -In iddl hiajj ised A NOVEL EXPERIMENT. ° fhe Startiing Result of Firing a Can | non Buried Under Water, ~ * The most curious experiment ever, made with a piece of ordnance was at Portsmouth, England, says Invention, A stage was erected in the harbor. within the tide mark;;on this an Arm- strong gun of the 110-pound pattern was mounted. The gun was then load- ed and carefully aimed at a target— all this, of course, during the time of low tide. A few hours later, when.the gun and the target wore both covered with water to a depth of six feet, the gun was fired by means of electric: ‘We eaid “aimed at a target,” but the facts are that there were two targets but only one was directed for this spe- «ial experiment, the other being the hui! of an old vessel, the Griper, which ay directly behind the target and in) range of the ball The target itself was placed only twenty feet from the muzzle of the gun. It was composed of oak beams and planks and was twenty-one inches thick. In order to make the old Griper invulnerable a sheet of boiler ‘plates three inches thick was riveted to the water-logged hutl, fn direct range -with the course the bell was expected to take if not de- flected by the water. On all of these | —the oak target, the boiler plates and the old vessel hull—the effect of the shot from the submerged gun was | really startling. The wooden target was pierced through and through, the boiler iron target was broken into pieces and driven into its “backing,” the ball passing right on through both sides of the vessel, making a hvge hole through which the water poured in tor- rents. Taken altogetber the experl- ment was an entire success, demon- Btrating,‘as it did, che feasibility of placing submerged guns in harbors {- times of war and doing great dam- uge. to the vessels which an enemy might dispatch to such pints for the purpose of shelling cities. GIGANTIC REVOLVING TOWER, Wrench ‘Ingenaity Is Fore. France started the ball with the Hiffel tower, says London Invention, England éndeavored to go one better with the Wembley, which is still in an embryo stage aid appears likely to re- main’ se, while our American cousins struck a bright and novel idea in the Ferris revolving wheel, which was af- terwards introduced int> England, and last season went merriiy round, .ex- cept when it occasionaly. stopped and required more or less coaxing ere it resumed its “daily round.” As a fact, our readers will remember it once had “e night out” on its own account. Now, French ingenuity is once again ts the fore and this time the idea is. to construct a lofty building that: wilh spin slowly, like a majestic top. The festive Parisians are, it is stated, to have this novelty in their midst, the | site chosen being near the summit of Montmartre, the highest point within the fortifications of the gay city. The conception of this big revolving tower (about half the height of the Hiffel) is credited to M. Devic. The motivo’ power for turning the structure, a com+! plete revolution of which would occu- py ebout two minues, would be bb: draulic force. The upper part of thi building would be occapied by a buble, ballroom, in which dancing would take place from 11 p. m. to 2 a. m., while below this it is intended to eon- struct an artificial ice-skating rink. Again to the A Great Telescope. Some idea of the remarkable charac- ter of the proposed telescope for the great Paris Exposition of 1990 may be gained by comparing jthe' size of its fifty-one-inch object lens with the most wonderful yet constructed. Thus, the largest instrument of this kind now in existence is tne Lick, having an object gless of thirty-six inches diameter: tne second largesi Is at Pulkowa, Rus- sia, with a glass of thirty inches; the third is at the University of Virginia, its glass being twenty-six inches; Hia- vard has the fourtl lareest, with a twenty-four-inch ¢: and the fifth in size beiwugs to Princeton College. The famous Yerkes ‘elscope glass, the largest of the ebrated productions eat Cambridge, Masc., is rated at forty fmches diameter. And so, by some eleven inches, the Paris insiruuent is In excess of all o:hcrs, and thus able it is anticipated, to bring the moon within one mile of us. 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Q[QBIOABJ B PUT SB Sa1J JO Paeu UT SP[BAUy JO uoBpourMooB oy} Joy dn peng “1ejedse aeurvess eSsut y “OPT EXPOSING POISONERS.” ‘Wenderfal Work of Analyst... | ‘Though the dream of the ancient al | etiemist cf transmuting base metals into nobler ones has never been real- ized, the chemist of this era can ac complish marvels that almost surpass belief, The skilled toxicclogist.. zeveats ‘the presence: of poisons, ofren when only faint traces exist, by removing them from their surrorndings, with ‘solvent miring hours, days and es a eks for the separation; exciting them to form combinations with other elements, he causes them to appear in solid liquid or gaseous con- ditions. Many of them he arrays in varied colors, or in erystalline shapes, seen distinctly by the achromatic or apochromatic lenses of the microscope. Others he volatilizes in flame, and he views their incandescent vapors thiongh the prisms of the spectroscope. Brilliantly tinted and sharply. d lines in ocalities accurately noted, re- veal the existence of mele so Ssoeae fn quantity that they elude measw) ment by the palance, with all its mod- ern refinements, and so small that the human brain can scarce imprison the thought of their minuteness. Te take one example: Suppose the finger is wetted with a drop of saliva and touched to a salt of lithium, and the adherent white powder is placed on the tongue and then swallowed. After the lapse of a few minutes, on drawing a clean platinum wire over the forehead or any part of the skin, then placing it with its traces of moist- ure in a Brunsen fiame in front of the narrow slit of the spectroscupe, an ob server, looking through the little tele scope of the instrunicnt, will see for a fraction of a second the bright-col- ored red and yellow lines character istic of lithium. The soluble salt has passed through the entire circulatory system of the body, and its presence is announced in the perspiration!—R. Ogden Doremus in the Forum. the Chemie: Vegetation and Electric Dlumina: tion, The truth about the effect of the cleo tric illumination upon. vegetation is gradually being disentangled from the records of a large number of exper mentalists. It appears to have been conclusively demonstrated that electric illumination exercises a favorable influ- enée on the germination of seeds, and promotes the lengthening of leaves and Stems in herbaceous plants. Under glass the light greatly accelerates from your happy ccuntenance that you plants to assume a more intensely green tint. The structure is at first strongly differentiated, but prolonged exposure acts deleteriously in this direction. It would scem that it h been the cus for gardening purposes; ard, just as 4 too. free use of liquid manure ane chemical stimulants will do more harm than good to the growth of plants, too much electric umination nas an effect upon vegetatior similar to darkness; it tends to retard healthy development Hence it is that if electricity to find any useful applicaticn in gardening, ray, in forcing plants for the early warkets, it must be used cauticusly The plants wust aot be siriply “drench ee” with light, any morse than they should be drenched with water continw ally; but used under intelligent guid: ance and in moderation, the effect of jthe highly stimul:ting rays of the cleo trie’light will probably prove distinctly advantageous. A Sun Furnace. Sir Henry Bessemer, the well knowr inventor of the steel process whict “bears his name, tells how be tried t+ ecistruct a “sun furnace” 2nd failed His invention was intended to revolu tionize not only the «cience of metal lurgy, bat the whole world. It was to. attain a temperature of nearlv G0,0UC deg. and therefore fuse anything and everything, and Sir Henry puts the blame of its failure to fulfill these expectations on the stupidliy of a coun. try lens maker. ‘The ‘sun furnace” consisted of a woeden building 25 feet high and about 12 feet square. a few feet from the greund was fived a large inclinable mirror for catchivg the rays of the sun; from this mirror the rays were to be reflected cn a number of powerful superimpesed lenses above which by a simple arrangement were to throw the enormensly concentrated tays upon whatever object 1 in the crucible below. Such mighty plan, but the manufacturer of the upper glasses brought it m to naught, for instead ot turt out uniform he made them all differ ent, and thus spoiled the focus. Sir Henry was sc disgusted and disheartened that he refused to go over the ground again, and so the pretentious scheme lxpsed, but the peculiar furnace reinazins this day a remarkable monwnent of whet might have been. How Miners Live in Chill. ‘The truth of the old aduge, “What's one man’s meat is anothe: 1aan’s pois on,” is most conclusively ‘proven in the varied testimony which from time to time crops up from all carters o: the earth as to the adaptability of the hu man race to the most contradictory anc inconsistent dietetic conditions. Flesh eating people think that vegetarians ar. fools, and the latter regard the ferme) very often as very little better thai criminals. The discussion on this sut ject is perennial, and still people. live and thrive on both diets. Another wai of evidence on the vegetariin side hac found its way from Chili, where the 9,000. or 10,000 worknien in the coppe. mines live upon wheaten bread, hari cots, dried figs and buckwheat cal Meat eating is exceptional, and is 1c ef upon iis a very inferior and unwis: ‘proceeding. The miners ure strvag, anaemia is waknown among thom, and it is stated that they would be among the finest specimens of humanity were it-not that they give themselves up te alcohvlic excesses three or four times 4 week. and cousequently are subject te _ fevers’ and liver diseases. The expetr ment of giving them meat in place o ® purely vegetable dict has been tried. with the resuit that they did less work; BvedoingG B S| Yas ye CINJIEYUUS OY ‘eumnjau,;yus Supvoly many of them were cjusiderabiy debil- {tated, aud from choice weut back ic their grains. fruit und wlack bread. tom to use the light much too lavishly | THE CANAL OF JOSEPH. Years. ~ vf the nineteenth century will there be ta existence in the year 6000?.. Very few, we fear, and still less those that will continue in the far-off ages to serve a useful purpose. Yet there is at i least one great undertaking conceived ; aad executed by an engineer which dur- ing the space of 4,000 years has never ceased its office, on which the life of a fextile provines absolutely depends to- day. We refer to the Bahr Joussuf— the canal of Joseph—butit, according te tradition, by the son of Jacob, an? which constitutes not the ieast of the many blessings he conferred on Egypt during the years of his prosperous rule Th‘s canal took its rise from the Ntle at Asiut, and ran almost. parallel with {t for nearly 250 miles, creeping along under the western cliffs of the Nile Valley, with many a bend and wind- ing, until at length it gained an emi- nence, as compared with the river bed, | which enabled it to turn westward through a narrow pass and enter a dis- trict which was otherwise shut off from the fertilizing floods on which. all vege- tation in Egypt depends. The northern end stood 17 feet above low Nile,, while at the southern end it was at an equal elevation with the river. Through this cut ran a perennial stream, which wat- ered a province named the Fayoum, en- dowing it with fertility and supporting large population. In the time of the annual flood a great part of the canal was under water, and then the river's current would rush in a more direct course in the pass, carrying with it the rich silt which takes the place of manure and keeps the soil in a state of constant productiveness. All this, with the exception of the traditions that Joseph built it, can be verified to- day, and it is not mere supposition or rumor, Until eight years ago it was firmly believei that the design has al- ways been ‘imited to an irrigation scheme, larger, no doubt, than that now in operation, as shown by the traces of abandc ned canals and by the slow ag gregation of waste water which had ac cumulated in the Birket el Quertin, but still essentially the same in character. Many accounts have been written by Greek and Roman historians, such as Herodotus, Strabo, Mutianus and Pliny and repeated in monkish: legends or portrayed in the maps of the Middle Ages, which agreed with the folklore of the district. These tales explained that the canal dug by the ancient Is- raelite served to carry the surplus wa- ters of the Nile into an extensive lake lying south of the-Fayoum, and so large that it not only modified the climate, | tempering the arid winds of the desert and converting them into-the balmy airs which nourished the vines and thé olives into a fullness and fragrance un-' known in any part of the country, but also added to the food gupply: of the that the royal prerogative'of the right of piscary at the great weir was valued at $250,000-annually. This lake was said to be’ 450 miles round, and to be navigated by a fleet of vessels, and the whole circumférence was the scene of industry and prosperity.—Engineering. Yoa Can Have Your Eye Tattooed. The latest discovery of scientific medical men {3 that the human eye may be tattooed any color. It is now qiite within the bounds of possibility for even doctors to tattoo a man's eye bright scarlet or green. Of course, eyes are tattooed only in cases woere one of them ‘s blind and has assumed in consequence a peculiar dead and ghastly appearance. Aneye in this cond!tion will entirely disfigure a face, but a modern oculist may color one of these “dead” eyes and restore it to its natural appearance, so that nothing put the closest scrutiny can detect the difference between it and its feilow. The operation of tattooing is perfurn- ed by first treating the eye with co: caine until it becomes absolutely sense less to pain. When all is ready the part to be operated upon is covered thickly with India ink of the required color. The tattooing is then per- formed by means of a littie electrical machine which cperates a specially made needle.—Answers, as Useful ae Ever at tha End of: 4000.) How many of the enginecring works | True Grevinese, Rey, H. W. Knapp, in his evlox) upon Ruskin, teiis how Ruskin begau by giving first a tenth of his income to the poor, then half, and finally near- ly the whole. If others would not en- courage the study of art in schools, Ruskin would buy ten water-color drawings of Wiliam Hunt, and give them to the public schools of London. He fell heir to one million of dollars; this amount he has given away except | @ sufficient sum to give him an income of fifteen hundred dollars a year. Upon this he now lives, the income of his books being distributed among his old pensioners and his various plans for socia] reform. He bestowed his art treasures with like generosity. He gave the marbles which he had col- lected in Greece and his priceless Ital- ian drawings to public galleries and muse.ms, where they would benefit the common people. Refusing the in- vitations of the rich, and putting away the temptation to a life of elegant ease and refined luxury, Ruskin gave himself to the poor. His best lectures were never given where English wealth and social prestige were represented, but were delivéred to working-girls’ clubs s1d workingmen’s associations, If Revsseau refused the yoke of law and service upon the plea of genius, this man, by reason of his talents, was carefuj to fulfill the duties not expected of mediocrity. Such Is Fame. The Rev. H. R. Haweis, author of “Music and Morals,” tells a good story in his last book, “Travel and Talk,” of an ureouscious rebuff he onee received in a railway carriage. An old gentle- man who sat opposite had been eying me over his evening paper with. what I fancied was a look of recognition. Presently he handed me the paper and pointed to an article on a musical sub- ject. “I thought. sir,” he said polite- ly, “you might like to see’this article.” One glance was sufficient. 1 recognized an almost verbatim chapter of “Music and Morals.” Disgusied at the fraud, I handed the paper back, remarking that 1 was quite familiar with the con- tents. “In fact,” I rashly added, “it 4s a chapter out of ‘Music and Morals.’ You may know the book? “Indeed, sir, I never heard of it. Who is it by “Oh,” I said. “a man named Haweis —a parson, you know.” “Oh, reatiy, I never heard of him.” “Haven't vou?” said I. “No,” said he. “Oh!” said I, and the conversation dropped. .So of whomsoever it may be said or sung, *’E dun know where ’@ are,” in the long run “most everybody” finds.his level... Where land ts Cheap, JA large weatier map‘ bangs in the ~senate.chamber in Washington, and land such Immense’ quantities: of fish’ \dgenators gather before it: in «ne morn; inp, stadying the conditions for the day. Many a good story is there told regarding tne climate of different 1lo- calities.. To Senator Kyle of South Da- kota the New York Sun accredits suck a story. If the Sun is a true reporter in this case Senator Kyle must have abandoned h»-... of a recollection. Da- kota weathet'is so bad, Senator Kyle is reported as saying, that farmers are often very glad to get rid of-their land. One of my neighbors saw a stranger leading a cow along one day. The two men began to-talk, and-soon a trade was made. The farmer offered the stranger two hundred acres of land for the cow. When the stranger, who could not read, took the deed to Aberdeen tc be recorded he tound it to call for four hundred acres instead of two hundrec. He went bach to the farmer, expostu- lated end trieil to get the deed changed but the farmer held out, Nothing the stranger. could say or do would move the farmer end the stranver was forced to take the four hun rod revert —— Sherif’’s Sale. By virtue of 2n execution issued cut of and undr the seal of the district court in and for the county of Itasca and state-of Minnesota, uprn a judgment rendered and docketed in the said court on the Ninth day of Decem- ber. A. D. 1895, in an action wherein Fred .D. McMillan wa pslaintiff, and George Falconer and John Welsh. co-partners as Falconer & Welsh. were defendants. in favor of the said plaintiff and against-said defendants. for the sum of one hundred seventy seven and ‘Tho Diver's Heavy Dress. $500. It is made clothing. pounds and the heavily weighted boo! met 35 pounds. which a diver can ordinarily work inch. phant, which «wims beneath the sui —New York World Oat of the World, tuly avoiding his fellows, Flattering Them. # taro in French? The dress of a fully equipped diver weighs 169% pounds and costs about up, among other things, of 8% pounds of thick under- The dresa itself weighs 14 weigh 32 pounder. The breast and back Pieces weigh 80 pounds and the hel- ‘The greatest depth at. 150 feet, though there are rare in- stances of work being done at a depth of 210 feet, where the pressure sus- tained is 88% pounds to the square It is not senerally known that the present system of diving was first suggested by the action of the ele- face, breathing meanwhile through its trunk, which it bolds above the water. Members of the Nansen expedition say that so tired did they become of | gon. Nevada and Washington Territory,” as seeing the same faces and hearing the | of august 4. 1892. T! game voices day after day in the course of the slow drift northward that. jrent, No. 4215. for the purchase of the e' of in the end a feeling of irritation be- a came well nigh insupportable. and the men would set off on long walks across the ice, each man. by himself, and cares: poses, and to establish his claim to.said 'nnd for Guest—Why do you print your, bili Fashicnable Res. taurateur—Because { want my patron 38-1C0 dollars, which execution was directed and delivered to me as sheriff in and for the guid county of Itasca, I have this 2ith day of ‘Augast. A. D. 1808, levied upon all the right. title and interest of the said defen- dauts. George Falconer afd John Welsh, co- partners. Falconer & Welsh, in and to the following described real property: ‘The north-east quarter (ne%4) of the south tw | West qnarter (swia) of township 53, range 27 west. Notice is hereby given, that. I. the under- signed. as sheriff as aforesaid, will sell the above described real property to the highest bidder, for cash, at public auction, at the ia | front door of the court house in Grand Rapids, in the county of Itasca and state of Minnesota, on Monday, the 2ist day of November. A. D. 1898, at 10 o'clock a. m. of that day, to satisfy the said execution, to- gether with interest and costs thereon. Dated, Sept. 27, A. D. 1898. M. L. ‘TOOLE. Sheriff.of Itasca. County, Minn.. Per J. E. Johnson, Deputy. r Notice for Publication. (Timber Land Act, June 3, 1378.) United States Land Office, | Duluth. Minn., Aug. 30, 1898. with the provisions of the act of Congress of June 3, 1878. entitled An actfor the sale of timber lands in the states of California, Ore- extended to all the pans land states by act jomas Eurley of Grand Rapids. county of Itasca. state of Minnesota, has this day filed in this office his sworn state- se\ of section No.8 and ns of sw% of section No. 9, in township No. 63 north, range No. 25: west, 4th P. M., and will offer proof io show that the land sought is more valuable for its timber or stone than for agricultural pur- re the Register and Receiver of this office at Duluth, Minn.. on Wednesday, the 28rd day of November, 1898. He names us wit- nesses: Dennis Newman of Grand Rapids, -Minn., James Sherry of Grand Heplds, Minn., William Haley of Grand Rapids, Minn., Henry McAllister of Minneapolis. Minn. Any and all persons claiming adversely the above-descri! lands are requested to file their claims. in this office on or before said to think that I think they can read | 28rd day of Novembe: it.—Tit-Bits, - mber, 1898. Wa. E, CULKIN, Register. Notice is hereby given that in compliance, | | : We carry the biggest stock this side . bought doesn’t cost much, but at ten times the. cost it is always a good investment. In the matter of money, some men think of the diger- ent ways of getting it—some don’t. The man. who \hinks can easily de- termine why he should place his or- ders with us forall kinds of Lumbermen’s Supplies ofthe Twin Cities. and everybody around bere knows that. we always the best of ev goods we carr, Drop in and see us before sending away for. your supplies, W. d: & A. BD. POWBRS } ~ SLSLSLSLSLSISLSD# #9 HSEVSWSLSOSLESES Ladies, Come im amd see them. - Sold in Grand;Rapids Exclusively by BECKFELT an. MATHER rything. Our prices,? too, are low for the gclass of - SHOES! “Queen Quality,” the Best Shoe for Women. THE FAMOUS SHOE FOR WOMEN. unequaled in retaining shape, wear, and lustre. Fashionable for street, dress, home, or outing. i All feet and fancies fitted in toes, heels, and leathers. Jas UALITY COUNTS" se these essen- from Tats thls shoe is Queen Quality to Anish “ FOERDERER’S”’ VICI KID used exclusively. style, for neta,” $3,00, SOLD EXOLUSIVELY BY BECKEELT & MATHER. | the ground floor of the building situate on the east half of lots 13, 14 and 15, in block 16, Priginsl Platoft Grand Rapids, Minnesota, for the term commencing ‘on day of October, 1898. and terminating twenty days after the annual village election. Leonard R. Root, in the front room on the Dry sotto | Aaa oa ae es alae have been made in writing to the Villa, end: 33. in-bloc! Origt in paseci'of Grand Rapids, and filed in my ‘Uf. | Grand Rapids, Minnesota, for tl term - fice. praying for license 10 sell ietoxicating | Mencing on the 20th day of Octo , a, Tawors-by the. followin persons, Yor the | 80d Cepia twenty dayvafter the ne: fol ti following and at the following places, | #8PUal v! @ election. i = iertated in’ suid applications respectively. Suldlapplications will be pond oad tor: n the: : : th : Notice of Hearing of Application for Liquor License. County of Itasca. STATE OF of havea, | o' “ee Village of Grand Rapids, Notice is hereby given. that applications ert pe Tu, etaates tn vl F. W, Lawrence. in the t room on the val he ate ground floor of the buliding situate upon lot | 51 Hin bolt dette ae 0. 1, in block Mo. 18, Original Plat of Grand | “1 188. ¢ 8:30 o'clock p.m, of day. Rapids, Minnesota, for the term commenc- | ,,\vi{ness my Hand a seal 0} : Ing’on the Ioth day of October, 1698, and ter_ | thls Ist day of November, 1808, minating twenty days after the nextarnual) ~~ 1O8. TRAINO! viliage election: Attest: FRED A. KING. sia Jobn Hepfel, in the north front. room on Seal) Recorde! : i pores « 2 q 1 1 ° hs at. ri- al be Che spa- ting ton- bext sup- Two ouse this adly ‘ i | | |