Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 10, 1887, Page 12

R e T T O N . N ! i . SWEET FIELDS OF CANAAN People Who Fraternize With the Inhabit- ants of Jordan's Stormy Banks. A SPIRITUALISTIC FANATIC. Marriage in the Spirit Land—A Col- ored Ghost in an Ulster—Dis- covered By a Dream— Phantoms, They Marry in Spirit Land. Ban Francisco Examiner: There was # fair attendance at the sviritualists’ camp meeting in Oakland last evening. J. J. Morse was present and spoke in his entertaining strain, 8everal questions were propounded. Among them the question, “How do a divorced husband and wife meet in the spirit land?!” to which Mr. Morse, in an eloquent manner which many pronounced inspirational, answered that there would be reconcili- ation and happlness. ‘‘Do they marry on the other side?”’ was another question. The answer was: “‘Yes, and the {result is greater happiness thgn in this world,” “When praying, to whom should we ad- dress our prayers?' was another. “To the spiritof our father, or mother, or other dear departed friend,” was the answer, Mozart's Spirit Appears. San Francisco Examiner: The Spirt- ualist's camp-meeting on the shores of Luke Merritt, Oakland, presented an ani- mated appearance all day yesterday. ‘The morning was devoted to a fact-meet- ing, in which numerous facts, tests and henomena were recounted by prom- nent mediums, including Mrs. Cook, Mrs. Stevens, Mrs. Wilson, and Mrs. Waisbroker. 'A vocal sclo, *“My Mother, Home and Heaven,,’ was sung by Mrs, Alexander. Julia Legal, a littie blind filrl of about eight years of age, was con- ucted to the piano, and though she had never reecived any musical instruction, K!nyed an air from Mozart, during which {rs. Stevens, in clairvoyant condition, described the appearance of the spirit, which corresponded with that of the great composer. A Colored Ghost in an Ulster. St. Paul Globe: A man with a myatery has at last been found. He is a colored man, and is gigantic in s Who he is, where he lives or what his business is, no one has yet been able to find out. Every morning, a few moments before 6 o'clock, no matter what the weather is, he takes 'his stand on the, corner of Washington and Seventh avenues South, and remains there about one hour, gazing up Seventh avenue 1nto space. Every morning for the past year he has stood there. One of his pecaliarities is that he wearsa heavy ulster reaching down to his heels, & big fur cap and a pair of red ear muffs, Several persons have tried to enter into conversation with this nuunge being, but no one has ever heard him say a word. Some days ago he was followed up Seventh avenue;half a block, and just a8 his pursuers were-about to touch him on the shoulder and speak to him he *suddenly disappeared, as though he had melted away in the air.” Men who have passed the place late at nighttell strange stories of weird figures floating around and uncanny noises that are heard, but whether these things have any connec- tion with the strange being who stands on the corner every morning remains to be seen, Spirits Directed Her. Brooklyn Eagle: The novel question of probating a will without a signature engaged the attention of Surrogate Wel- ler, at Jamaica, yesterday. The will is that of Miriam Haines, who bequeathed her property to relatives in the rcgulnr line of descent. When she executed this testament she was of sound mind, Shortly before her death she got posses- sion of the will and destroyed the signa- ture by tearing 1t from the paper. At this time it is claimed that she wus hope- lessly insane. Miss Susan Pearsall gaye testimony this morning, as others had done before, which leaves no doubt of the testatrix’s mental incapacity. Ac- cording to the testimony of Mrs. Pear- sall, who took care of Mrs. Haines, she imagined that her existence was con- trolled by spirits, andshe would do noth- ing without referring the subject to the spirits for approval. When asked why she had removed the signature from the will, she replied that the spirits had told her at first to burn it, but when they found sbe had not done so they told her merely to tear off the signature, and gave her an awful scnlnl_lns or disobedience. She could not be .induced to go to her meals with the family, nor to bed without first obtamning the spirits’ permission, and when it was refused sho would fast and go without sleeping until brought to it by exhaustion. Tho hearing was not concluded. The will was not contested, all of the heirs being satisfied. A Watchman's Ghost, Williamsport (Pa.) Grit: For the past month or so a ghost story has been going the rounds of Sterling Run. Billy Carlisle, while walking the track as night watchman, first saw his ghostship one moonlight night about three wecks ago. Billy is not superstitious and don't believe in ghosts, but he says if there are such things it was one he saw near tne splash-dam. It came down the track within three feet of him, and when directly opposite disappeared myster- fously and noiselessly. It was like a very small man carrying a lantern. Last week two or three young ladies were scared near the sanio “spot by the same apparition; others have heard noises there, but have paid no attention to them until lately. In the year 1868 a watchman named John King was run over by the night express near the spot where his ghost- ship 1s seen, and was killed, King was supposed to have been intoxicated at the time, he and a man named Gillespie had been quarreling during the evening and threatening each other. Gillespie lived in a house near the crossing, which has since been torn down by William Berry and mo away. Lights have been seen to start up about midnight from the site of the odd dwelling and move down the railroad to where this man was killed and disappear. King was en- gaged to be married to a girl in Luzern county, and had a letter written in his ocket to send her when he was killed She has often advised him to quit drink- ing, and bemng killed while intoxicated has caused the discontented spirit of the dead to return to the scene of his death, A Spiritualistic Fanatioc. From the Alta Cabforma: An inter- esting case wasreviowed yesterday in an opinion rendered by the supreme court. The title of the suit1s Jane N, Conner ainst Lee Stanley, admimstrator of the ate of William “Jarvis, According to '?!lus:iumny introduced during the trial of the case in the superior court of T mento county, these were the circum- stances: On June 21, 1882, Jarvis en- tered into a written contract with Jane Conner, promising to marry bher, and granting her §10,000 in bonds of the Na- toma Water and Miniog company. She remained single, but he failed to marry lier. 1t seems that Jarvis was seventy- two years of age, and mentally and physically feeble: His wife died in An- gust, 1831, a fow months before the con~ tract was entered into. He had lhved a quiet life at Folsom, and had accumulated considerable property. Spiritualism had grown upor him, however, until it be- oame & movowama, When warned T N AT ainst eertaln persons he would say: “Tt will be all rightin the next world they are spiritualists,” His peculi- arities were _numerous. He sold a farm for $,000, to paid for in installments of $200 a year without in- terest, when he had been offered $250 & year for therent of the place. The pur- chaser of the place was a spiritualist, Jarvis' next antic was to invest several thousand dollars in mines under the ad- vice of “‘spirits.” On annthar occasion he offered a lady #$1,300 if she would at- tend seances and become a medium. Very strange was his conduct during the illness of his wife. “'Spirits’’ said she would die, and he would therefore have nothing to do with doctors. He objected to cooking in the house, as the smell would keep out the spirits. All the win- dows and doors were left o]])enlogi\'e the spirits a chance to enter. It is need- less to state that Mrs, Jarvis did not sur- vive the spiritualistic treatment. Jarvis became acquainted with the Conner woman in this city. He persuaded her to accompany him to Fclsom, and as an inducement gave her $50 a month. After his death the woman presented her claim to the administrator of the estate, but it was not paid. She then cornmenced the action to recover the £10,000 promised in the contract. The Sacramento superior court rendered a decision in favor of the plaintiff. The supreme court aflirms this ]mlgment, Discovered by a Dream. Banner of Light: The happiest family at Williamsburg may be found at the home of Jacob Fehlinger, a shoemaker. Twenty-two years ago pretty, blackeyed twelve year old Caroline Fehlinger left her parent’s house on the corner of Eighth avenue lnnl'l‘won!fvelzhth street, New York, to go to school. She lost her way. A policeman found her in this plight and took her to the station house. She said her father’s name was “Fed- inger,” but she could not tell where she lived. The directory was consulted, bat no such name could be found, and no one coming to claim her she was sent to Randall's island. This is her story. The parents were distracted with™ grief. Jetectives were put on the case and ad- vertisements were inserted in all the papers. The search was prosecuted for a long time, until £3,000, the saving's of a life of hard labor, were exhausted. As years passed they lost hope, and final- 1y resigned themselves to the hope that she was dead. Little Carrie remained on the island. After being there five months she was adopted by a Mr. and Mrs. Brown, and went to live with them. In 1873 the Brown family removed to the west and Carrie refused to go. She went to live with General Corls’ family, and afterward with them to Virginia, where she remained five years. ‘Then they re- turned to Brooklyn. When they got back she left them, and opened a dress- making establishment next to their bouse. Five years ago she married Mr. H. Bennett and went to live with him. Two months ago she drdamed about her Fnrcntu and that they were living in Brooklyn. She told a man her dream. He asked the father’s name and how it was spelled. *If it is a German name it should be spelled ‘Fehlinger,’ aud not ‘Fedinger,’ he said. The directory was . consulted, and the name Jacob Fehlinger was found. The missing girl now grown into womanhood, called at the'place. An elderly lady with gray hair admitted her. Mother and daughter were face to face, but neither recognized the other. The girl then confronted her mother and said she was her long-lost daughter. Mrs. Feh- linger refused to recognize her as such until some other identification could be iven. Caroline, atter a few moments’ hesitation, remembered that at the time of her disappearance she had a small bureau, some dishes and adoll. The dentity was sufficient, and mother and daughter embraced. The Ittle bureau was still preserved, and stood in one cor- ner of the room. Mr. Fehlinger, the girl's father, was summoned, and he at once recognized his missing daughter. The girl then related the story of her dis- appearance, as told above. Sheis now living 1n happiness with her aged father and mother. —— PRINCES AS PIVOTERS, The Prince of Wales and the Crown Frince of Austria Dance. At the Austro-Hungarian ball, says the London correspondent of the New York Sun, Isaw the prince of Wales gayly dancing, and paid strict attention to him, thinking that Americans, who only hear of the prince as laying corner-stones, might like to know how he acted when amusing himself. Before the prince ar- rived the shining floor was covered ang dancing was vigorous. It was jerky, however, for there were numerous false alarms of the prince’s arrival, and for each alarm the musicians dropped what- ever tune thay had in hand, waltz or polka, and left the dancers standing while tho{ struck _up “God Bless the Prince of Wales.’”' When the prince did come, accompanied by the Crown Prince of Austria, I think he disappointed the majority of those, among whom were many Americans, who saw him for the first time, A passage was formed through the erowd, and the princes scemed quite contented with the role of curiosities in which they found themselvi The prince of Austria wol gay and tight fitting suit of red Hus: regimen- tals, with a white cape hanging from his shoulders. His air was a jaunty and militacy one, like that of his father, and he was much more up to the mark asa regulation prince than his royal highness of Wales. The latter was dressed in black, with tight breeches of silk. His face was rather {labby. His eyes were not verv handsome, having the appear- unce of being swollen, underneath, bu he was evidently good natured, tremen duously popular and, as an American friend admirably remarked, most thor- oughly at home, if ever a man in the world was at home. Without any loss of time he led outby the hand Countess Parolyl, the beautiful young wifo of the Austrian embassador, and the royal quadrille was formed. From the moment it started all surmumliug.s reminded me forcibly of a ball at the grand opera house, Paris,where two celebrated French dancing women had threatened the ceil- ing with their toes, to the great delight of all present. The English crowd pressed and squeesed to get a look at the legs of his Royal Highness, and they followed the music just as the opora crowd had strug- gled for & look at the flying limbs of 1.a Gonine or her nimble sister; but of course the dancing was different. It was very stately,and the prince danced well. From an American girl I got tacts which a man's eyes do not see. She said if the prince did not admire the Countess Karolyi it was no fault of tke countess, for never had she seen 2 more noble ef fort to please or eyes used to better ad- vantage, She did not think the average American girl would like the prince, because he soemed so perfectly well satis: fiea with himself, and took everything for granted; all of which, I am sorry to say, did not prevent my American friend from abandoning all else and seehl;{ nothing but royal dancing when royal dancing was going on. After the royal quadrille there was dancing of nutional dances by the Hun- n nobles who were presont, by which the Prince of Wales seemed groatly entertained. Hungarian dancing seemed principally to consistin hopving up and down on the heels with great vigor. e Ladies who experience a sense of weak- ness and sometimes lameness of the back should use Dr, J. H. McLean's Strength- ening Cordial and Blood Purifier, it will supply the much needed strength and overcome all weakening irregularities. THE CONNING OF THE SPIDER History of His Ways and Curious Oharac- teristios, AN INDUSTRIOUS INSECT, He is Remarkable asan Architent and an Upholster—He Provides For Himself, His Family and Their Future. M. R. H. in Boston Herald: Among the many things that the approach of summer brings for one to enjoy, or to be a source of annoyance,is the svider. The spider family is very numerous, no less than fifty kinds being described by nat- uralists. All spiders have ecight legs, with three joints in each and terminating in thin, crooked claws. They have also eight eyes, differently arranged accord- ing to the species. Some have them in a straight line, others in the shape of a capital V, others four above and four below, others two above, two below and two on either side, and there are still others that have them arranged in & man- ner too complicated to describe without drawings. On the front part of the head they have a pair of sharp, crooked claws, or forceps, which stand horizontally, and which, when not in use, are nidden from view in little cases beautifullv adapted tor their recepuion, and in which they fold up like a claspknife and remain there between two rows of teeth. When the spider bites it thrusts a white pro- boscis out of its mouth, with which it instils a poisonous liquid into the wound. The abdomen, or hind part of the spider, is separated fro.n the head and breast by a gmall, thread-like tube. The outer skin is a hard, polished crust. A very curious specimen not often found in this country, but which is said to be very common in Italy, 1s the hunt- ing spider, so called beeause, instead of spinning ' webs to entrap its pray, it jumps on its viectm. It ig small, and of a brown color, beautifully spotted, and its hind legs are longer than the others. When 1t sces a fly three or four yards distant, 1t plans its attack with con erable deliberation, creeping softly up and seldom missing its object. When in a direct line, the spider springs upon the back of the unsuspecting fly and catches it by the head, and, after satsfying its bunger, ecarries the rest away for further consumption. FILLING 1TS LARDER. The nest of this spider is very curious. It is about two inches high, and is com- posed of a close. satin-like texture. In this are two chambers, placed perpendic- ularly, in which the spider reposes during the day, generally doing his hunting after nightfall. The parent regularly n- structs hier young how to pursue their future vocation, and when in the course of therr instruction they happen to miss a jump, they run away and hide as though ashamed of their failure. ‘The most extraordinary nest is that of the mason spider, a native of the trop- ics, This nest is formea of very hard clay, deeply colored with oxide of iron. Itis in the form of a tube, about one nch in diameter and six or seven inches long. Itis Lined with umform tap of orange-colored silken web, of & te ture rather thicker than fine paper. This lining is used in two ways. It prevents the wall of the house from falling down, and, it is connected with the door, 1t enables the spider to know what is going on ubove, for the whole vibrates when one part is touched. To one who has never seen this nest the word door may seem singular, but, nevertheless, there isa door and’ a very ingeniously con- trived one, too. and it is regarded as one of the most curious things in the whole of insect architecture. 1t is a little round viece, made to _tit the opening, slightly convex on the inside and’ concave on the ontside. 1t 13 composed of twe yers of web sinular to t which the nest is lined, laid v together, and so managed that the inner layers are the broadest, the others gradu- ly diminishing in siz xcept near the hinge, which is about an inch long. All the layers are united and prolonged into the tube, consequently it is the firmest and strongest portion of the whole structure. The material is so elastic that the hinge shuts as though it had a spring. AN INGENIOUS NEST. The nestis always m: on a sloping bank, and one side is higher than the other, the hinge being invariably placed on the highest side. The spider knows well that when placed in this way the door will fall and close itself when pushed from the outside, and so nicely does it fit in the littic groove made for it that the most careful observer can scarcely discover where the joint is. Should the door be removed, another one will soon be put m its place. These spiders hunt their prey by night and de- vour them in the nest. A pair of spide; with twenty or thirty voung ones, often live in one of these nests. One of the largest n this country is that of the ithic spider, whose web everyone spread out like a large sheet in the hedges. The middle of this web, which 1sof a very close texture. suspended like a sailor’s hammock by fine si threads fastened to higher br The whole curve upward, sloping down to a long funnel-shaped gallery, nearly horizontal at the entrance, but winding obliquely undil it becomes almost per- pendicul; This gallery is about a quarter of an 1nch in diameter, is more sely woven than the sheet part of the web, and generally ends into a hole in the ground or into a soft tuft of grass, Here is the spider’s dwelling plac where he may be found resting with his legs extended, ready to spring and cateh the hapless insects which get entangled in his sheet net. The most famous of all spiders is the tarantula. Itis inhabitant of [taly, Cyprus and the East India. Its breast and abdomen are ash colored, as are also the wings, which have blackish rings on the inner side, its eyes are red, two of them being larger than the others and placed in the front of its head. Four others are placed in a transverse direc- tion near the mouth, and the remaining two are close to the back. It generall lives 1n bare fields where the land 1s soft and 1t avoids damp, shady places, pre- ferring rising groun A SAFE RETREAT. Its nest is four inches deep, half an inch wid nd curved at the bottom, and t retreats in unavoudable weather, weaving a web at the door for seeurity aginst rain and dampness. In July it casts its skin and lays cggs to the number of 730, but does not live to rear the young, as it dies in the early winter, ‘The bite of this spider was formerly re- garded fatal, It was said that the part itten became greatly inflamed, then sickness and faintness ecame on, followed by difliculty in breathing and then by death, The only cure resorted to was music. A musician was brought to the patient, and he tried one air after another until one was found that would make the sufferer dance. The violence of the excrecise brought on profuse perspiration, which cured the disorder, All this was lon, believed, but 1ts truth was questioned, ana investigation showed that the taran- tula was harmless, and the supposed in- juries inflicted by it were made use of as an excuse for indulging in a dance simi- lar to that of the priestess of Bacchus, which the introduction of christianity put an end to. Those who were not impos- ters were merely afllicted in consequence of the bite with that nervous iliness known as St, Vitus dances, and to this y closely to be met with saint many chapels have been dedicated, A story 18 told that a gentlemen travel- ling in lula' several years ago was anx- fous to see the dance, but it was too ly in the year to find the spider, the only thing he could do was to prevail upon a young woman, who had been bitten the ear before, to go through the dance for im just as she did atthat time. She agreed to the proposal, and slow, dull music was played until the right chord was touched, when she started up with a frightful gulf, staggering like a drunken erson, holding a handkerchief in each hand and moving correctly to the tune. As the music became more lively the more wildly she jumped about, shrieking all the time. A PAINFUL DANCE, The scene was most painful through- out. She was dressed in white and adorned with ribbons of various colors, and her hair fell loosely about her shoul ders, which were covered with a white scarf. This is the manner in which the are all dressed. »is another interesting species of this insect, the water diving spider. The diving spider is not satistied,as frogs are, with the air furnished by the water, but independently carries down a supply with him to his submarine territory. When the little diver wishes to inhale a fresh supply of water he rises to the face with his body stillin the water, erally coming up every fifteen m 08, although naturalists state that he can re- main in the water several d. coating of hair prevents his getting wet or otherwise inconvenienced. Thisspider spins his cell in the water. 1t 1s composed of closely woven, strong, white silk, and is shaped like half a pigcon's egg, Some- times this nest 1s allowed to remain partly above the water, though gencrally it is submerged, and is attached by a great many irregular threads to some near ob- ot The only opening is at the bottom. s is sometumes shut when the spider remains quietly at home with his downward. He remains in this position during the winter months. g The Hebrews in Rnssia, National Republican: W hat a wonder- ful nation of people is that which sprung from the loins of the shepherd king, Abraham, wandering on the plains of Chaldea. ' Ruled by prophets, priests and kings, they built up a mighty empire, and their rulers ranked among the wisest of earth. This empire destroyed, the Hebrews became wianderers on the face of the earth, subjected everywhere, by chris- tians and heathen, to dire persecutions. ‘The laws against them we proserip- tive that the nation of farmers and herds became traders and merchant They could not own land in many cou tries and they ‘dared not in oth It scemed as if the da of th Pharoahs were about to return and that the “‘chosen people” would once more be reduced to slavery as abject as that whi sted when they lived upon the s of the Pelusian branch of the Nile ¢ fertile plains of Goshen. Then one nation oppressed. Now it looked as if the whole world had united Zainst them. Yet in all their dire troubles, this peo- ple, sea i Ty country, under burning ezing skies, pre 1 their religion, their nation h istics, thewr wonderful literature strange as it may seem, their literary ability. They remained 'the scholars of the world, as they were when the songs of David and Solomon were as grand as the thrones they filled. They were law- yers, critics, philosophers, ‘poots, song writers, throughout all the long, 'dreary centurios of persecution. It is only within a century that the world has begun to recognize that the ““despised Jew'’ was a man, and entitled to the rights of a man. When this recog- nition began it spread, and there is now bugone country claiming to be christi and civilized where th v has not equal chances in the race of life And in that eountry—Russia—strange to say, the Hebrews have more than in any oiher followed the traditions of their race and been cultivators of the soil. Of the 8,000,000 Hebrows now in existenco 8,500,000 are inhabitants of the Russian empire, and whil 1l forms of business sions are represented i thiis lirge number of peo- ple, yet the vast’! mijority of them are farmers. Even in Russia,and Poland, where so many of the race settled as refugees from persecution in other countries and be= came landholders, they were stll sub- jeeted to ious persecutions beecause their habits of thrift soon enabled them, though despoilefl of everything when they came there, 'to acquire” considerable estat only been s, when the populace once more com- 1 to rob, murc and drive them ay. The governmentof Russia has not interfered to protect them, and some frightful outrages have been committed inthe towns and villages of southern Russia. This persecution is so bitter 'mers of the country, have that the Hebrew fu and they are the best, are endeavoring to migrate. Unfortunately for these people, there is no government to interfere in their be- half. They are the subjects of and that government permits one class of its inhabitants with pe impunity to rob and murder another and better class. Other nations and people can only sympathize with the persceuted Israclites, but can not help them. It is to be hoped that in the event of a Rus sian war, when the ezar will have to call on the Hebrew money kings, that they can and will make the protection of the people of their a condition prece- dent to any loan. This scems to be the only chance the Jews in Russia have for the future, exgept migration. Church Fight Over a Window. Washington Post: The cordial re- laiions whieh have so long ex- isted between the vestrymen of St. Luke's Protestant Episcopal church and the Rev. Alexander Crommell rector, have been undergoing a vel cided change within the L and the trouble now th ious. The bone of contention tiful memorial window which h placed in the church in memo: late Bishop Piukney. The idea of plac ing the memorial in the ehurch origin- ated with several of the vestrymen about a month ago, and met with'the hearty co-operation of most of the members and a majority of the try. But the rector bitterly opposed the idea from the start, on the ground that it would necessitate a needless and exor- bitant expenditure of money. In spite of the opposition of the rector $260 was raised by coutributions, and the window was purchased and put in the church, Then the congregation wanted it blessed, but not only did the rector refuse to bless the expensive colored elass himself but took pans to have his wishes known, and the congregation wis unable to get any other minister to bless their new window against the ex- pressed wishes jof the rec.or of the chureh. The congregation pleaded and threatened in vain, and three or four committes were appointed to wait on the rector and argue the expediency of an early blessing ceremony with him of- ficiating. Ono after another the com- mittees failed, and then a seeret meeting was held to determine on some means to bring the obdurate rector to terms. Ihere was only one way left by which lh.-{ could get thé costly window blessed, and that was an appeal to Bishop Pa tfully a lengthy letter of griev. was written to’ the bishop, with & est that he instract Dr, Crummell to bless the window, rning of this ‘r;uwnng, Dr, Crom- mell sent a letter to Bishop Paret on the same night, and both parties are now anxiously awaiting the bishop's deeision, THE OMAHA DAILY.BEE: SUNDAY, JULY 10, 1887.—TWELVE PAGES. NATURE'S MAJESTIC WONDER | The Presont and Future Benefits of the Mysterious Fluid, ELECTRICITY AND HYGIENE Electric Pot Boiling—\What Lightning Tastes Like—Execution By Elec- tricity—Whence Comes the ‘Wonder—Flashes, Electricity and Rygiene. Sanitary science, says Popular Science News, now claims electricity as an ally und helper. The introduction of the electric light is,aceording to this author- 1ty,to be encouraged on hygienic grounds. Whether the light is in some cases in- jurious to the eyes is not fully settled; but if this be the case, it is to be regarded as a disadvantage incident to the present rudimental state of the enterprise, and sure to be obviated by improved appli- ances. Meanwhile we know taat the use of the new light in churches, public halls and similar places of assembly, has been of immense advantage to the purity of the air, hitherto vitiated by the com- bustion of gas. o1l and kindred agents that depend on atmospheric oxygen for their illuminating power. No' doubt readers have noticed that the air in a large room lighted by electricity is both purer and cooler than one lighted by gas or oil. Slectric Pot Bolling, The Centrablatt Elektrotechnik an- nounces that the Edison German society has constructed an electric kettle, in which the source of heat is constituted by a bobbin of resistance, placed in a recip- 1ent, furnished exteriorly by a eircular proturbance in the form of a cushion, with a hole in the middle and on which the kettle rests. With this apparatus a hiter of water can be made to boil in fifteen minutes with a current which comes to e by tariff of the Mynicipal Society of Electricity, of Ber- lin, and which would cost still less if on had and manipulated his own in: tion. The elecetric boiler is made of copyer, of an elerant form, and reposes on a plate ot polished wood. Whence Comes Lightning? A writer in the Philadelphia Ledger says: In a late number of the Ledger of May 27 an article appeared from “Chambers” in regard to the question whether electricity went from the earth to the clouds, and the statement that it often does whs regarded as something Permit mo to s tha anklin and Kinng making their *“‘Philadelphi; ments” this same question was before them, and in September, 1753, Dr. F. wrote to Peter Collinson that they had inferred the clouds were_ generallly in a negative state, but sometimes were posi- tive. He y: “The latte believe, is rare, for, though 1 soon af the last experiment set out on a journey to Boston and was from home most part of the summer, which prevented my r making trials and observations, M K it returning from . he Bermude whither he had gone for his health) just as I left home, vursued the experiments during my absence, and informed me that he always found the clouds in the negative state, so that, for the most part, in the thunder stP™kes, 1tis the earth that strikes into the clouds, and not the clouds that strike into the ' On the 18th of Avril, 1754, Franklin wrote again to Mr. “Since September abroad on two long ys and otherwise much engaged, © de but two observations on the positive and negative state of the elec- ricity in the cloud But Mr. Kinner- kept his rod and bells in good order, s made many. Once this winter long time during . Sometimes cracks of between large and 1i over the house: ons the clouds the the clee- bell and loud as but by all were con- and tric matter bell were so to be heard stantly in a negative state till about six wocks ago, when he found them once to change in a few minutes from the nega- tive to the positive. About a fortnight after that he made another observation of the same kind, and last Mond noon, ad blowing hard east : sring round to southeast,w driving clouds, there were five or six changes from negative to posi- tive and from positive to negative, the bells stopping a minute or two between every change." is but proper 1n this day of scientific advance to recall what our early Phila- delphia philosophers were doing in the same direction 134 years ago. Their dis- coveries created as much excitement and wonder then as are now caused by Edi- son and other scientists, What Lightni Altoona (Pa.) storm yesterday Rev. J. L. Ru 1, of the Sccond Presbyterian church, w! having & tooth filling at the office of Dr.J. W. Miller. Dr. Miller’s brother was ass ing 1 the operation, holding a punch to press in the filling. ‘Lhere wasa vivid flash of lighting, followed immediately by a loud crash of thunder, Instantly g Tastes Like. During the Bailly, Guillotin, and the re- mainder of that famous com- mittee, administered their ~crushing blow to Mesmer's electrical preten- sions. No death is more dreaded than that which is mysterious. *‘Died b{ [ visitation of Providence,” we say when the mystery cannot be fathomed. The swift obhiteration of life following cer- tain failures of vital organs cnuses the utmost apprehonsion. We add to the litany & nn\h'm' for deliverance from “sadden” death. From the carliest ages superstitions of almost every conceivable form and character have clustered about the lightning stroke, and many of them still survive. It is not difficult to con- ceive that the instant extinction of life in a strong man by an agency whichitis impossible to sece, which is unknown, may create in the ignorant mind feelings of the deepest awe and horror, and prove the most formidable of all means for pre- venting crime. Electric Motor kExperiments. Philadetphia Times: Half-a-dozen New York capitalists, as many prominent Phil- adelphians, and many newspaper men met yesterday to witness a series of tests with an ordinary street car stored with electrical energy. ‘The experiments were successful. A line of rail 1,050 feet in length had been laid down in the yard, with curves at aradius of thirty-three feet, steep inclimes with a rise of five per cent., and placed in such a manner that every reasonable test could be applied to the invention to prove its practicabulity. ‘The car used was one of the People’s Passenger railway, which has done regu- r sorvice. ‘o this car was attached an electric motor, suspended upon one of the axles underneath the car. The stor- age battery consisted of eighty-four small cells ‘placed under the seats, The capacity of each cell is 150 Ampore ohms and is equivalent to two-fifths of a horse power for one hour for each box, giving o stornge energy of about thirty-four horse power hours. ‘Thirty-three people crowded on the car on its lirst journey, and the vehicle ran along with™ perfect smoothness and en- tirely under the control of the driver, who manipulated a small handle. The car was stopped and started with ease on the straigth, at the curves and on the steep grade. It wasstopped and reversed instantly, and every testjapplicd was an- swered isfactorily by the httle ma- chine. The rate of travelaveraged fhm one to ten miles an hour, without noise or vibration, and with smoothness. The whole propelling apparatus is out of sight and there 1s no danger to persons touching any vart of it. The car was completely under the control of electric- ity, the alarm bells, the signals and the lighting all being automatically per- antaneously. s cau be recharged by means namo machine ot ten-horse power, driven by a gas engine, and they then are placed in the car on trays by one man. A foree of ten-horse power for four hours is required to charge the ac- ors once, and if they are re- four times a day (which is more than is really necessary) the cost of steam power, inclusive of wages, water, oil and repairs to engine, would amount to $1.60 a day of sixteen hours. Messrs. Kemble and “Widener have granted the use of their lines for the purpose of perfecti the invention, and before a week has passed an clectro-motor car will be glid- ing along the str of Philadelphia. i b (Il ADUEL TO THE DEATH. Being Forced to a Duel by a Bully, 1 Make a Cholce of Method. 1 was a particivant in the hardest fighting at Gettysburg, and I was at Frede sburg, the Wilderness and sec- ond Bull Run, but I'am telling you hon- estly that I would take my chances over againn all of those fights rather than stand up to be shot at by a single man in what is called a duel. It has been my misfortue to be forced into two aflairs ot the kind, and I speak by the card. Two years previous to the war business ure culled me to Charleston. ‘Ihere was litigation over acy, o the feeling between the heirs was an thing but p nt. The leader of those seeking to break the will was a middle- aged South Caroliman of fiery temper, while the leader of those inheriting was a man from Ohio. It was made plain to me before 1 had been in Charleston two days that the contestants were deter- mined to go to any length. The judge of the court was an old man who could be brow-beaten and blufed, their two lawyers were noted for the number of duels they had fought, and the heirs had no friends in or out of court. I was at @nce approached with a direct ofier to sell out. ~ A person was sent to my room at the hotel to make me an off within an hour after he was kicked out the enemy tried another move. The fol- lowing note was sent to me through the oflice of the hotel: Mu. BLANK: T hog you to heed the warning of a friend. Withdraw from the case of Crane art. Cox and suve your life, You will surcly be killed if you dont't. aghed at the idea. Had T arrived in Charleston to stir up trouble among the slaves I should have expeeted to take my chances of being knifed, shot, or Iynched, but if the contestants in a will case could drive me off' by threats, or dared attempt my life, tl 1es had come to a pretty pass, As I did not know who had sent the note 1 could not reply to it, nor did I let its coutents bother my mind. It might have come from a friend, or it might be a ruse on the part of the cnemy, I had about four days to prepare for the opening of my case. It was on call 1; On Monday afternoon [ the assistant dropped the implement he was holding in his hand, and began to expectorate vigoronsly, at the same time vociferating that*‘he never tasted anything so sour in his life It was some time before he got the nasty taste out of s mouth. It seems that he was in line with the electric current. and ths is the way it acted on him. Telegraph operators, we are told, frequently have the same experience during an electri storm. fixecution by Electricity. Park Benjamin in the Forum: Death caused by a powerful electric current is substantially the same thing as death by lightning stroke. Itis instaneous and }n nless, for no opportunity is orded or any sensation to be recognized. In order that the brain may take cognizance of any impression transmitted to it by the nerves, a measurable period of time is required. This Professor Helmholtz estimates at one-tenth of a sccond that if, for example, the finger be pric| with a pin, this nterval is required for the sensation to be telegraphed, so to the brain. If then death can in less than one-tenth of a second, it follows, essarily, that no matter how great the pain otherwise might be, it is impossible for it to be felt. As to the deterrent intluence of this form of execution upon the lawless classe 15 believed that no other mode of infl ing death could inspire stronge fear. Even thos accustomed to deal with electricity day of their lives cannot themselves of an undefined impression of mystery, which seems to surround the form of encrgy, of the very nature of which all men ig . The lack of popular knoyw! the most clementary eleetric markuble, and this delic is by no means con- fined to the People tricity almost every natural -~ phenomen 305 out-of-the which they e: they did 100 yea logy, odic force, psychic merism and all other shadowy th based on odd psychical or physic ions or coincidences are to electricity as freely to-duy us they were - before - Frauklin, Lavol ion to go to the public librar; to hunt up some dates and to lool through the files of the Mercury. I was engaged in this work when a tall, slim representative Southerner entered the room. He had long black hair, black eyes, dark complexion and a nervous movement. After making a turn or two around the room he approached the table at which I stood and said: *You have taken an unwarranted lib- rty, sir.”’ “In what respect?" “l1 always come here at this hour to consult those files, and you ¢ thrust yourself in to insult me.” “‘My dear sir, I was never in this room before to-day, and so far from being awure of your habit I did not even know of your existence. I am throngh with the file, and am also about ready to va- & room, which T suppose is pub- ic / “There's my card, sir!” he exclaimed, ked a pasteboard from his ot and vwl nded it. i It wa ular that he had it handy to throw at me, tor he had come prepured, e} to meet you, sir,”’ 1 said, as I Idress, *You have insulted me, and I demand satistactic A friend of mine will wait on you this afternoon.” With that he turned and walked off, leaving me completely upset. 1 sat down to think it over, and it did not take me long to come to the conclusion that it was the work of the contestants. ' d imported & man, probably a profes sional ducllist, to foree me into a duc and have me killed off. He had entered the library for no other purpose thun to force a quarrel, anda flimsier pretext for o du s never hoard of, I was a man of peace and would have sacrificed much to keep out of trouble, but this thing fired my blood, and 1 zed my hat and ran out on the street, determined, it I could tind MoKight, to give him a better excuse for calling me out. As luck would have it, Lencountéred him within a hundred vs. He was coming toward me s we mot I gave him a v Across the mouth with my of read the shoulders and flung him against a dead wall with such force that he was stunned. I walked off and left him lying there in a heap, and although I now realized that it was impossible for me to refuse a chal- lenge, I was much better satistied than before. If I must fight there was somo excuse for it. In about two hours the leader of tho contestants called upon me as the friend and socond of MeKnight. He was in an exultant mood. McKnight was a profes- sional duellist, and 1 must fight at great odds or sneak out of the city and aban- don the case. 1 think he counted on my making an nh{]act apology and agreeing to leave the city, for he was greatly cast down when I said: “I believe that duelling is but another name for murder, but under uresent cir- cumstance I shall sink my «cruples and accept the challenge. Under the rules of the codo 1 have the choice of weapons, Return here at 9 o'clock in the mornin, and I will name the weapons and wi also be ready to proceed to the field.” He argued ‘hat no true gentleman would ask for anything more than pistols and ten paces, but I was firm. The mecte ing was settled for the second morning at reached for his pistol to shoot | then and there, but 1 seized him by the 8 o'clock, and the second went fl\V:l{ to wait for my decision, Was I upset? Yes. Did I have a cowardly fear? No. It was a nightmare. My feelings were like those of a man who knows that he is to be led out to death at a certain date. L was as firmly resolved to fight that man as I could resolve on anything, but the burden on my mind was enough to un- ll}’lllf every nerve. Iwas no shot with pistol or rifle, and I had never handled a sword. He had every advantage in that respect. Two-thirds of the day had passed before 1 made up my mind how we should fight. It would be certain death to both, but it was the only way to even up our chances. We should stand foot to foot, with the muzzles of the pis- tols at each other's hearts, When McKnight's second eame for the decision, and L gave it to him, he turned whiter than snow. He offered to accopt any sort of apology, and he finally offered to let the matter drop, but I re- fused 1n each and every instance. It was my turn to force things. The matter got out somehow as those things will. 1 had arranged the affair without a second, which was irregular, and gave them a loophole of escape. Then half a dozen different parties came forward with offers to act, and the duel had to go on, though 1t was thirty-six hours later than the time originally agreed upon. While 1 was forcing the issue al! this time, I was suffering in a mental way as a man would who saw a cannon being loaded to send a shell at him, I drew up my will, wrote farewell letters. and said good-by to the world, and when I at last stood face to face with my adversary 1 had been tortured into a dctermination to kill and be killed. Nothing he could have offered me would have iuduced me to change my mind. McKnight had fought seven duels and killed five of his men, but the terms of this one shook nis nerves. He toed the mark on brandy stead of courage. His seconds had to™ fairly push him to the mark, and it was only at the last moment that he showed anything like grit. Wa stood foot to foot, each pistol held against the other man, and then the sec- onds stepped back and we waited for the word. It came in a few seconds, but during that brief interval I suflered more than any soldier did in half a dozen battles. 1t was good-by to the world forever. It was death as soon asa trig=- ger was pulled, “‘Gentlemen, are you ready?’ exe claimed the man who was to give the word, but the word did not come. Mec- Knight suddenly drobped his _pistol, threw up his hands, and then fell down in a fit which kept hin unconscious for three hoursand in bed for amonth. The torture had been too great. Within ten seconds of death he broke down, not ta save his life, but because the limit of human endurance had been reached, YIELDS 10 EVERY MOVEMENT OF THE WEARER. 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