Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 8, 1888, Page 5

SALE —OF— BLACK SILK SURAHS. We have received direct from the manufacturers a large invoice of Black Silk Surabs, and Monday morning, April 8th, place them on sale at about One-Third 0ff! Regular selling prces. They are all made of pure silk and warranted not to draw or separate in wearing. S. P. MORSE & CO. BLACK Bk 10 picces 20-inch Black Silk Surah, fino and lustrous, worth $1.15. Monduy and during the week 79¢ n yard. Received another lot of novellies in __ Litest Styles French §ilks. BLACK SILK SURAH, urah,rich 9 picces 21-inch Black Silk and lustrous, warranted to giv Special Sale of Black Regatta Silks BLACK BILK = 1 12 pieces 21-inch Black Silk Surah, a quality that is worth at regular price $2.00. We offer this number Monday and duringthe weck at $1.35 a yard. S.P.MORSE & C0 CAN RAILROADS CONSOLIDATE A Case of Great Importance to Be Considered This Week. MUCH DEPENDS ON THE RESULT Involving the Acquiring of the Atch- ison & Nebraska by the B. & M.—Court Notes of the Capital. (FROM THE BEE'S LINCOLX BUREAU.] Ou Thursday next the case of the state against the Atchison & Nebraska railroad for the forfeiture of the franchise of that road, on the ground that it has been consoli- dated with a competing line coutrary to the constitution of the state, will be called for argument in the supreme court. The hear- ing will be one of great importance, as the questions involved are applicable to other lines in the state and the further fact will be demonstrated as to whether the roads in the state can in matters of this character con- tinue to openly violate the laws of the land and destroy she very objects for which they ware chartered by the state. Elaborate briefs have heretofore been filed in the case by the general and Mr, C. W. Dawes, who appears with him on the one side, and by T, M. Marquette, the general attorney of the B & M. railroad on the other. Yesterday a new brief thirty-six pages in length was filed by Hon. J. M. Wooiworth, of Omaha, who files it as the brief of the mortgage trustecs and asks the court for the opportunity of making an oral argument also. The brief is one much in the same line as the one made by the general attorney of the Burlington, and is evidently indirectly in the road’s int ost and supplomental to the brief of Mr. Marquette. The length of the document pre- cludes in a small space an intelligent reviow. ull of cases in the supreme court that meets on Tuesday will be the cases appealed the Twelfth judicial district, to be fol by a call of cases on the foot of the et. The cases on the docket from the 1fth district are as follows: Anderson vs the state. ". Burns v& Brown county De Forrest Richards vs Hugh . G. Asay, ir. l,.umn D. l’l‘tlll vs 3 Towne vs Joseph' A. Spuks Watson R. et .n A. Chamberlain vs H. K. Brown et al, l{ W. Powers vs Chaun: C. Craig, John Segear vs Lillic Segear. Franklin W. Brooks vs Abbie E. Dutcher. J. G. Cortelyon vs L. 1. Maben et al; under advisement. Melton vs Angelina Baltezore, vs John C. Fritz et a1 rton vs William Esgate. Hershiser vs Frank Delone & Co. C. D, B. Eiseman et al, appellces, vs E. F. Gallagher, appellant, Mattie D. Gibson, Gibson, appellant Martin Devine vs Ira Burelson David Connolly vs Edwin Giddings. Holt County Dauk vs Toolle, Livingston & Co. “Thomas Curran vs Michael Luftus et al Moses P Kinkaid, appellee, vs Paris R Hiatt, appellant. John M; e vs Ellis M. Lathrop. Wardner Bushnell and Glessuer vs Wilson Hoxie et al appellee, vs Vincont H. DISTRICT COURT, Yosterday was motion day in the district court aud @ large number of motions and orders were pussed upon. The court will be od for # weck yot before the fual ad urnmeut for the te A number of new cases were filed yoster- day, among them being the following: Mary J. O'Dopald asks for a divorce from her hus. band, John O'Donald, reciting that they were married in Port Austin, Mich., aud that at the time of their marriage tho defendant had @ former wife living to whom Le had been legally married never divorced. Four months after marriage those facts were wade Morse&Co DRESS GO0DN Sweeping Reductions! Double Wldth 39[: TRICOTS 50 pieces 88-inch best quality Tricots in a handsome assortment of mixtures. Worth 50c¢ a yard. They are the best CRAIGILEE CHECEKS, 47[: 20 pieces 40-inch fine all wool Craigi- Checked Dress Goods, selling in New York city to-day at 60c. One price Monday aud during the week, d47c a yard, __ MAIL ORDERS FILLED. 35 picces 40-inch Mixed greatly delayed in transit owing to rail- rond strike, in consequence we offer them Monday ut 50c. They are worth 7he u yard. De Beiges, French Novelty Combination Suits offered ror one week at $15. e U0 DRESS GOODS, For one weok we offer a lot of 80 picces Plaids and Mixtures, bought for our early spring trade, but having been delayed by the strike, we prefer to sac- rifice the goods rather than carry them over to another season. They are full 50 inches wide, and worth from $1.00 to ‘We offer the lot Monday at 58c a yard. 5.P.MORSE & (0 known to this ]|l:|hn|fl. and since then she has refused to live with him and asks that the marriage be declared null and void. Judge Ficld yesterday granted a temporary injunction against the state auditor restrain- iug him from registering the §,000 bonds of O'Fallon precinet, Lincoln cotnty, until a hearing may be had on the merits of the case. The injunction was served by George Golyin, a resident of the precinet, who claims that the bonds are illegal and that the pretended orgunization of O'Fallon preciuct as it now exists was not in conformity with law. Myron H. Baldwin, administrator of the estate of Matthew Pittman, deceased, has filed a petition in court usking for an order allowing him to sell certain real estate in the estate of the deceased in order that the debts ainst the estate may be met and funds pro- Jitled for the maiutenunce of the infont eirs, Joseph Linville has filed his petition with the court, asking a divorce from his wife, Mary Linville, reciting that they were mar- ried at The Dalles, Ore., in the mouth of February, 1833, that on the 10th day of Sep- tember, 1585: his wifoBwilfully deserted him and since that time has absented hersoclf from him without cause. He therefore a divorce on the grounds of desertion. THEY GAVE BAIL. A man named Henry Holtz and a woman named Lena Lobott were arraigned before Judge Stewart in the county court on & charge of fornication, the prin ness being 4 German named Mende, The parties secured bail for #200 cach and w released pending examination. The stor told by Mende, the principal witness, is t some years ago he and_the woman Lobott wan and wife, That her ¢ mood drove him from home, and for a time he found relief in Sioux City and Denison, In., » he drove o 'bus. His wife meanwhile, after ho had left home, tried to_get his pen sion that came monthly thro #_pension cluim oftice in this city. She failed in this, but found out where Mej for Denison, Ia., after him ugain. F her, and she returned home und_secur divorce at the fall torm of court, immediately tuking up with Hoeltz, as Mende claims, i ing with him both before and after the death When the ofticers went afuer ricaded the place until the ighbers, They claim 215 no record in this oct, und the trial will prove or disprove that claim. CITY ITEMS Manager Keith has gone to Kansas City in the interest of the Western league ball team in this city. He will hold a conference with Manager lowoe of the Kausas City associ tion team and will sign a number of new pluyers before returning. Manager McReynolds says that there are a good many good seats yei to be obtained for the Booth-Barrett entertainment in this city the 12th. Parties from points out in the state can securc seats by writing to Mr. Me. Reynolds and he will do for them the best that the house has yet unsold, A new wholesale blank book and stationery house will open in this vity in a few days,the firm having secured the new Stublefield block on Eleventh strect that is adwirably adapted to their business. Juck Lavham, of Crete, contractor, is y and will make fig ures on the paving contracts to be let the commng week. Mr. Lanham is an advocate of brick as a suitablo and cheap paving for Nebraska towns, and says Nebraska clay will make first quality paving br Five bids for storm water sew. fivst district have boen received. hese bids average about 325,000, with very little vari ance in four of them, and the board of public works will award the contract at once. The bidders for the work are George Miller, of Council Bluffs, Stout & McDonald, of Lin colu, Everson & Little, of Lockport, N. Y Hugh Murphy, of Omaha, and Mount Griftin, of Omala, A change of time goes into effect on the Union Pacific Stromsburg line to-day, by which one of the two daily passenger traius is laid off and the time of the urrival of the other at this point is changed from 3:40 p. W 10 10:30 a. m. A mass meeting in aid of the White Cross movement will be held at 4 o'clock to-day at the Fuuke opera hou the well-known in the it Floods in Hungary. Pestn, April 7.—The dumage by floods caused by u water spout which passed over this ity and other of Hungary yester- day is estimuted ut 1,000,000 forins. OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY, APRIL 8, 1888 —SIXTEEN PAGES. ¥Morsed Co:Marse&Co §Morsed Co/s:MorsedCo KNOTTED :-: FRINGE TOWELS 20¢. Monday morning we offer 100 dozen Knotted nge Towels in fine Hucka- buck and Damask; qualities we have sold regularly for 85c to 50c; all in one lot on center table at 25c each. Not more than one dozen to each customer. TURKEY RED DAMASK, 25c. 15 peices good quality Turkey Red Damask, worth 4sc. For this sale marked at 25¢ a yard. SE=" Damask Napkins $1.25 For one weel we offer 100 dozen fine 5-8 Damask Napkins at $1.25. We in- vite the attention of hotel and restan- rant keepers to this number as being worthy of their consideration. CREAMDAMASK 49c. 10 picces wide Cream Dam Linen, direct from the n‘ul--ln'ut\:(l looms of Beilefeld, rmany, sold regularly at 75c as a bargain. Weé offer for one week at 49¢ a yard. FELT TIDIES, 10c. The balance of our Felt Tidies that made such a sensation at_lic, we offer until sold at 10c each. They will be found at our Linen Department. S.P.MORSE & (0 THE STAFF OF OUR EXISTENCE How Bread is Manufactured and ‘What We Pay For It. k Table THE PROFITS OF THE BUSINESS. Reasons Why Wholesale Brokers Grow Rich—Some Very Fine Points on Flour. The average Omahan sits down to his well filled table groaning with all the delicacies of the season and after tucking a napkin under the baby’s chin, to keep the little one from soiling its dress during the meal, grasps his knife and cuts off liveral slices of the bread which the good wife has procured from the nearest grocer, and never does it occur to him that upon the loaf upon which he is so industriously laboring, the baker and the grocer combined have made a joint profit of 74 per cent, a fraction over i per cent of which is snugly esconced in the capacious pocket of the former white the remainder hus just been posited in the till of the latter. Strictly speaking, the profits exceed the fignres mentioned inasmuch as the estimates made below are based upon the supposition that our fricnd the ° baker uses nothing but the best brand of flour in compounding the article which forms the component part of our diet, when intruth these high priced brands are oniy used in the wanufacture of the choic Toaves; the choaper gradcs boing substituted in the making of the ordinary ones The buker who carries on un ordimary trade in a city like Omuha is_enabled to cure his flour delivered at his place of busi- ness ut a boltowm rate, ubout £.20 per barrel. His dusty foreman and his_ussistaut dump the 166 pounds into a trough, where a por- tion of it is mixed with about’ six ounces o and af > or six hours iu order to give the yeast an_opportunity of fermenting the remainder, to which has been wdded 104 pounds of water is mixed together und Mr. s 500 pounds of dough on which to operations. After bemg thoroughly kneaded and mixed the mass of dough is cut into loaves of twenty ounces each, 240 in o, They are then placed in the oven, in from twenty to thirty minutes they duced in weight two ouuces per loaf, ing each loaf eightoen ounces, as re quired by the scule iu this city, or 270 pounds in all The cost of these 210 loaves is very as follows: Flour L nearly sells his bread to rchase, at the rate ofits of the lat- of g [ do not care to handle the article, > re quired to do 8o by reason of the convenience afforded their customers, The baker real iz08 o profit of §3.40 per barrel on his flour, which he has converted into bread, clear of all expenses. The grocer sells at an advance of four-niuths of a cent per pound, making his profit $1.20, 50 that the barrel of fiour with which the baker began business in this article 1s finally sold at §12, 4 net profit of a fraction over 74 per cent These figures are in the main correct, and while it may be contended that the cost of making the better quality of bread is greatly in excess of the 8 quoted, on account of milk being substituted for water and other additional expeuse, such as passing the dough through rollers and giving the loaves 8 coating of eggs and milk in the manufac ture of the best bread. it must be borne in mind that only one-third and possibly & lesser smount of the bresd baked iu this city is of the best quality. So that the figures given above, which give as a basis the best brands of flour used 1 all ‘grades' of bread—which LADIES' SPRING NEWMARKETS . This cut shows our Ladies' New- market, made of Light Grey Scotch Cheviot; just the thing for general use and will not show dust. Usual price, 822.00. We W) mark them fornext week at 817 each. R T e T S S —— LADIES’ SPRING NEWMARKETS, $20.00. This garment is made of Black Che- viot, with fine white stripe, flat hood, lined with bluck Moire Silk, style same worth $25.00. We offer nextaveek at $20.00. Ladies Spring Nowmarke 520. This style, as shown in cut, is made of fine Import'd Striped Goods, made spe- cially for the anufacture of se garments, has full shirred cape of Brown Moire Silk, fin- ished.at neck ith 1dsome silk braid loops and spike orna- ments. A sty- lish garment, and a bargain at 20.00. 3. P. MORSE & C0 is not used by any means except in the finest qualities—are very nearly if not quite cor- rect, the difference iu the price of Hour more than overbalancing the cost of extras men- tioned which are used in the best productions of the baker sart. he following comprise the most nds made in o this which are baked in 3w eighteen and thirty-six ounces, the seiling at retail at tive, the latter ten cen per loaf—Snowtlake, Eurcka, French Twis Vienna Pumpernickle, Rye loaf and Gra- baw. There are in Omalin at present about twenty bakeries who make their own bread Some of these run on a small scale and it is possible that the profits are not as large as in establishments where more loaves are pro- duced, yet the diffcrerence is very slight. Thenumber of loaves of bread made in bakeries in this city is cstimated by one of the leading men in the business not less than 13,500 per day. the city with possibly & fow oxoaptions sells bread. In addition to pla is also an enormous quant it and rolls produced, the profits upon which are not as s on the plain loaf yet yield a very e to the produc who do anything scale scldom fail and nost CASeS get rich. In v all who aro engaged in the industry are appurently making mone; While as s in the busine is 1o question being st proportion in t 1t is a fuct th flour is sold as in Qinaha. Tule w ¥ s the pric d declined all bakers' would be millionnives in a short time, Why this is 50 is 4 question for tne millers' asso ciution to answer. 1n the meantime e eat bread on whiclh we pay a profit of 74 per cont and still ave nothappy. The profits in the bread business in this those in_eastorn cities by about This is doubtiess owing to the e rates of freight are higher on m the mills direet 1o castern the proportion of the de in the castorn sections is gr like an or- of mone ful man, th 1 the profi the best gr heap in 1 Were rate shipments points ar - Horse Breeding in Montana, A Melyille, Mont., letter to the } vk World, treating of the business of raising horses in Montana, contuins the following interesting observation Eastern capitalists have come to Mon- ana in force, and, lured by visions of sheep and eattle kings, invested in these branches of stock and lost much money that, would have been better placed in harses. The horse business offers much_ safer investment, greater fivofits and far larger rewards for speciul efforts any other _stock busi- ness. This is a strange statement, and will hardly be concarred in by many who are at preserit engaged in the cattle and sheep business, but any one who will in- vestigate the matter thoroughly will find it the teath, and so interested will he become in Percherons and Cayeuses, Clydeidales and half-breeds, that he will with difficulty resist the temptation to immediately engage in breeding than borses himself. S0 much has been written concerning the quality of the grasson the ranges of the northwest that it is searcely neces- to state that if horses, or in fact y other stock, get as much grass as g they will keep fat the ) mmma without other feed. Upon most of the ranges, and especially in the viciuity of the mountains, horses can always get sufficient to maintain them winter as well as summ Even in a country that has been so overstocked by cattle and sheep that these animals can no louger live, horses can still fina enough to live and do well upon. The winter never kills nor injures native Montana horses, though they are turned out ail winter and are never pro- vided for by their owners with stores of New CHILDREN'S Srine Cloa ) This cut represents our Gretehen Cloak, made of Striped En- glish Tweed in seal brown; has cardinal silk lined hood; sizes from 4 to 12 years; worth 86.00 to $8.00. We offer choice of lot at 85.00. e e R Mother Hubbard Night Gowns, Lace Trimmed, Only 48¢ Each. JetTrimmed Wraps Next week we will show a new assort- ment of Ladies Spring Wraps, trimmed with cut jets. We ask you to examine the styles we show at $13, 818, $20 and 825 ench. Our prices will be found from %5 to #10 lower for same qualities than asked byany house in the west. Mother Hubbard Night Gowns, Tucked and Embroidered, Only 68c. CHILDREN'S Spring Cloaks 6. These are made of good all wool Striped Serge, brown satin- lined style as shown in cut; sizes 4 to 12 years; worth from $7.50 to $10.00,according 1) size. We offer choice| during the week at 86.00 _—. ( — each. hood; Mother Hubbard Night Gowns, Elaborately Trimmed, 98c. S.P. MORSE & (0 bay or grain. Snow never interposes but a trifling ba between the range horse and his food. His strong front feet ure well shaped for pawing snow, and his mouth full of teeth en- ables him to bite the grass to the root when he once reaches it. The writer has wor upon the great Yellowston range for the last i and he can bear B the horses on the range were in excellent condition, and that there bas not been 10 per cent of loss during the whole of thut time among Montana bred horses and but very little more than that among those bred ina warmer climate and brought to Mon- tana, many of which are located on this range. Much less expense is incurred by the horseman in keeping track of his stock and in rounding up than by the sheep or cattle raiser, Horses, when held upon a loeality fur short time, be- come “‘range broken” that is, so ace tomed to living and being upon a cel tain tract that they will never leave it unless driven away, and will go back to it azain when driven off, sometimes seventy-five or 100 miles. Stallions, of which the horseman has to keep one to about fifty mares, are not turned out upon the range, but are kept in stables and yards, winter and sum- and fed. They get g only during the six weeks when in use, and arve fed only hay during the bulance of the They must be kept in good order, er, and should go into their fut and fine. had become thoroughly one man’ can manuge for and feed two stallions s, break all colts it y are nine months llul do all the usual work upon the neh except branding and mark- muunxl wying, during which opera- tions he will requir man to help. Hay uand oats suff to feed two stallions and three saddle-horses, how- ever, 1 generally be ' as cheaply ‘as they can be ho , 8 1 that s may be located n his range without refe lows or farming lands. above band of 100 mares, twenty tons of hay and 4,000 pounds of oats would be an abundant supply, and allow of bringing in any poor or ‘sickly mares und all young colts for weuning and halter breaking for a few weeks in the winter. If the horse breeder be content 10 purchase this supply hi ranche need cost him but $400, where ten times that might easily be spent in fencing, irrigating and ploughing to raise his necessary provision, In breeding horses, the quality of the stock is greatly improved Ly the first cross. Montana is full of 1,000 and 1,100 pound colts raised from 700 pound mares and large stallions, and the second cross to large draft stallions often produce valuable animals. Improvement is a5 rapid when breeding for speed or the carri and it here conceded that the small native Cayeuse pony i as good a basis as any from which to raise draught or road horses. The Caycuse, though small, is short of back, broad in the breast and loin, deep in the ham and shoulder and always sound in foot and mind. He is hardy and sure-footed as a jac and his progeny inherit all of these qual- ities. Horses of 1000 pound weight bred from the Cayeuse will outwork many heavier horses of other breeding. Cayeuse marescan be purchased, if the right traders are met, at about per head. and stallions of three-quarters draft blood, 1,600 pounds weight, at about $400. The half-breed coits can be sold right at home, when four years old and broken, for , and if sent east would bring 8125, aud perbaps, when Ladies' Lisle Thread GLOVES 19e¢. hase of Ladies’ Lisle Thread Gloves in assorted colors at 19¢ a pair. They ave qualities that have sold from 25¢ 1o 350 a pair, LADIES’ LISLE THREAD GLOVES, 50ec. 50 dozen_full fashioned, stocking top, Brilliant Lisle Gloves, a very superior quality and worth 75c. Monday and dur- ing the week our price wiil be 50c pair. Ladies Kid Gloves 48c. Monday only we offer 50 doze Kid Gloves in black, no_color and 4 button lengths. Cho ono day, 48c a pair. LADIES' KID GLOYES, 87ec. This lot_comprises both 5 and 7 Fos- ter Hook Kid Gloves, colors and black. They have sold from $1.25 to $1.75. Choice, 87c a pair. MEN'S DRIVING GLOVES, 87c. We have still about 180 pairs of our celebrated Men’s Driving Kid Gloves, worth at regular price $2.00. For Mon- day only at 87c a pair. See oar Japanese Jointless Straw Mattiug Bothi New and Novel S.P.MORSE& (0 Ladies’ hook for that Morse&Co Black Silk Plaited N HOSE 78¢. We have only 20 dozen of this numbor of Black Silk Plaited Hose, which is far the best value we have over offered; worth 81.50. We bought all thore was of the lot, and offer them until sold at T8e w pair. LADIES' SOLID GOLORE Cotton Hose, 35¢. These are a very fine German Hose* manufpctured for us especially by Hein« rich Schopper, the most celebrated manufacturer of hosiery in the world. They are good value for 50¢, but havin bought them divect, are cnabled to sel them at 35¢, or 6 pairs for $2.00. COLORED SILK Plaited Hose, $1.00. These come in all the new sprin shades of Tan, Drab and Mode, and a $1.00 uir, are 50¢ under regular séll- ing price. YOUTHS’ BLACK Ribbed Hose, 2¢. Monday we offer 25 dozen more Youths’ Black Ribbed Hose, double knee, double heel and toe, worth 50c a pair. We offer them again at 25¢ a pair, Next Week We Sell Staw Mattings at 19¢ 4 Yard, S.P. MORSE & (0 rttosed quality T more. After the first year mares will produce, when properly handled, 80 per cent of their number of colts. If driven from a distant and ‘‘range- broken” during the first summer, the first crop will be smail, say 50 or 60 per cent. The greatest alwi among the colts during their first ye This loss av ages about 10 per cent of the young colts. One of the greatest elements of suc- cess 1n the horse business, especially when carried on on a moderate scale, lies in breaking the young colts, For- merly it was the custom to let the colts run until four yearsold before breaking. ‘When asold as this they have become as wild as the elk, and ™ blacktail deer with which they run,and cannot be broken without the greatest difficulty and loss of quality Mauy have shipped to eastern markets unbroken and sed off upon the unsuspecting grangers of New Je; sey and other states, to whom they were of about as much usé as s0 many comet This sort of thing bas caused eastern ]n-(mle to look askiauce at he with o rand upon them. But by breaking young colts gentle and to halter, break- ing them to ride and drive when two years old and finishing them and ship- g them to market when three or four, our horse-raisers will before many 3 uame for themselves and flll'll‘ , and Montana will surely take a high position among her sisters in - this branch of the stock industry —~—— OVER TEN THOUSAND MILES. ck Signals Bent Over 7,000 Miles ‘Wire in a Fraction of a & San Francisco Alta: The recently announced claim of a telegraphic cir- cuit of over ten thousand miles, surpass- ing all previous experiments, is some- at mislending, Many eflorts at long circuit work hava occurred during the pust few years, the distance varying from 4,600 to 8,100 miles. It is u matter of considerable pride to the old operators of the Western Union telegraph company in San Francisco that the feat of transmitting clock sig- nals through 7,200 miles of line and talk- ing directly through that same line has never been equalled., The occasion of this feat was the telegraphic determi- nation of the difference of longitude in time between the United States Coast Survey station in San Francisco and the observatory of the Har- vard University at Cambridge in the your 186 In order to determine the time of transmission of a signal either from the clock (or from the operator’s ) over tne given length of the line 600 miles, three different methods were devised, One of these was orig- inal with Professor George Davidson, who had charge of the observations. Through the libe of the manage- ment of the Wes Telegraph company, a double line wus looped at Cambridge they ex- ‘rancisco obsery to Cambridge, and the return from Cambridge by a somewhat ent route of nearly equal length- two “earths” were under the ieisco obser distant from ch other not more than ten feet. The line was first opened by an operator in the observatory and when the last con- ction was made at Cambridge the San neisco operator was considerably as- tonished to get his own message back within one second of time. Then the astronomical break-circuit clock was thrown iunto line and made its flrst break upon & pen rding upon a revolving cylinder of paper in the San Francisco. observatory, aud after ccond, this break had trayersed the line w‘ Cambridge it w'Iuruvd uml mxule a break upon a second pen moving parali lel with the former in about eight- tenths of a second of time. This wa continued every second for several minutes, and was repeated upon several nights, and when oue of the batter- ies in this long circuit was removed the wave length time was reduced to on cdths of a second. Conversation was, of course, carried on at the same of speed. This feat overaline 7,200 miles in length has been unrivaled up to the present time, time, both us a_practical working ex- )ublen a scientific success. b et HE WENT TO THE BOTTOM. The Singular Experience of -nguer Dredger Who Fell Overboas Baltimore Sun: A remarkable illus- ion of man’s endurance under water comes from the oyster schooner Lau- clott, Capt. Harry Jacobs, now lying at the foot of Philpot street. Capt. Harry Jacobs, his crew and John Johnson, the man who afforded the illustration,vouch for the story. On Jan. 26 the vessel was dredging in the vicimty of Thomas’s point, and while cruising about she and another vessel were in collision. The other vessel caught the line of the lee dredge on the Lauclott,which tautening, caught John Johnson and threw him fn the air and overboard, The heavy iron dredge followed, and as Johnson ?Lll in the water he caught the dredge, and sping it sunk beneath the vessel, The Lauclott was under wdy at the time. Captain Jacobs at once ordered the jib low »d and then the yawlboat. The “falls” of the boat were found frozen so fust that they would not go overboard, and Captain Jacobs ordered them cut. Looking overboard and not seeing the man aflont, Captain Jacobs conceived the ideu that Johnson had be- come entangled in the dredge and could not disengage himself. Then the w jumped o the “‘crank” and never as an oyster dredge so quickly hoisted from the bottow. Wken it came to the surfuce Johnson was clinging to the line nearthe dvedge, and to save his hand from being mashed coming over the sllers the winding up was stopped and the man hauled on board, Johnson was dressed in his oilskin suit and son’wester hat, and beyond los- e of his mitts and skinning his l\nut'kl s he was all right. He said to he did "uot lose his whole time he was strange | ates is that \)u' dredge line, rom the veesel 1o the bottom is fully thirty feet long, acted as a telephone to him while lying in the mud grasping the iron dredge that anchored him so fust. He could clearly hear the orders being given above him, hear the foot- steps of the crew running sbout the deck, the noise of the jib as it ran down, and the splash of the yawlboat dropping into the water. His head was close 10 the hine that held the dredge, and he vouches for the essertion that the sounds from above traveled down the rope as freely and clearly as in cases when a telephone is not clearly unders stood by being slightly out of order. € waler was twenty-seven feet deep where Johnson went ove Captain J it was nearly minutes from the time Johnson 5 thrown overboard until he was res- cucd, She Was Justitiod, Pioneer Press: 'he ground for divor in , which was- presented by the hus- band of u pretty German girl, was that he was jealous'of her big dog. He tes- tified that he found his wife hugging and kissing the dog, and. the ocourt promptly gave him a bill of divorce, latest Chi- cag