Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 30, 1888, Page 12

OUR SPECIAL SALE DAYS € ) Our prices are so UNIFORMLY Fecml Prices.” Well, they are all special prices we are Omaha and vicinity, and as we are Constantly Receiving New Additions to Our Stock, From day to day, you will find something new and fresh every time you visit us. The reputation of the parent house is established. We are here to build up the same with the great population of Omaha. : Good Goods and lLLow Prices SJSAREOUR MAIN FEATURES. We invite all to come and see what we have and COMPARE PRICES. We call ESPECIAL ATTENTION to our IMMENSE STOCK of CHILDRENS' AND MISSES' CLOAKS Which is now complete, also to our BLANKETS and FLANNELS. All are SPECIAL BARGAINS and bear investigation. WM. BARR DRY GOODS CO,, 16th and Douglas Streets, Omaha. Continue through the entire week, and from one week to another. LOW that customers mistake them as giving to the people o The Fond Faithfal Heart. Jessie Bartlett Davis. Deep down 'neath the bosom of ocean Unsounded by plummet or line, At peace from the storm of commotion, That rage o'er its billows of brine, Thero are secrets that time shall not fathom, There are jewels unknown to earth's mart| As deep, as true, and as precious Is the voice of the fond, faithful heart. - Aun Epic in Five Fits, country. Strong and heavy tiled houscs were unroofed, and heavy stone masonry walls were blown down. To see lighters of about a hundred hogsheads burden up town in the middle of the street is astonishing. The poor people who lived on the low lands had too flee for their lives. Some lost children and all lost most of their effects. The estimated damage at Cardenas is from $700,000 to $1,000,000.” fifty to 100 mi affected by the supposed emetic, and wero mainly men, while every one of those not effected were women. It has been discovered that at least a before it has parted with its clectricity and becomesbroken. The dry surface, you see, is a non-con- ductor,” Telephone and telegraph wires and especially wire fences, are conduet- | portionof the “Great Amorican Dosert'’ ors. They conduct off the electricity | is underlaid by a stvatum of water from the ¢loud and the cloud is broken. | which may be, reached by boring from ‘There is another brand new fact, I | 100 to 203 feet. The wells flow 80 boun- may mention. The clouds are disposed | tifully that one of them will water thor- to run toward the center where their | oughly five or six acres of land electricity is conducted, and hence o ? continues to be the color of the year, but as autumn appronches it loses its bright tone, and the shades of myrtle, ten and sage have replaced the more brilliant hues. These will be used all this autumn, and they withstand the ef- fects of damp and climate better than most other colors. Frenchwomen are still faithful to the polonaises and conts. Now that Paris is deserted, as far as fashionable so- MARCH OF MODERN SCIENCE. ®hat is Doing in the Observatories and Laboratories. ACHIEVEMENTS OF WOMAN. Some of Her Doings and Sayings, Wise and Foolish. THE GREAT FASTER'S NEW HOBBY ARE WOMEN FITTED TO GOVERN? 1\ A rival to the phonograph has ap- A Cause of Rain—Hot Water—Tho New Comet—The Phonograph's New Rival—A Big Oyclone ~Sclentific Notes. Hot Water. Philadelphia Ledger: A remarkable fastance of the increase of temperature #n the earth toward the center has been nted at Pesth, where the deepest sian well in the world is that now ing bored for the purpose of supply- the public baths and other estab- n%msnu with hot water. A depth of 140 feet has already been reached, and 1t furnishos 176,000 gallons daily at a tomperature of 1582 Fahrenheit. The :untcipn\lly have recently voted a rge subvention, in order that one bor- fng may be continued to agreaterdepth, mot on {w obtain a larger volume of ter, but at a temperature of 176 hrenheit. The New Uomet. New York World: The comet discov- @red by Prof. Barnard at the Lick ob- Pervatory about two weeks ago is a most ntric specimen of a class of astrono- ical ipheuomenn not noted for conven- jonality. It has no tail, a sin of omis- fi:)n as great on the part of a comet as e lack of & queue in the case of a Chi- maman. It seems to be coming this way &t the rate of 3,000,000 miles a day, a #ate of speed that could hardly be ex- ted from a bobtail comet. Wheroe it jme from and whither it goeth no as- Sronomer can tell, But it will be long gomembered as the first comet over dis: eovered from a California observitory, #nd as such its antics will be watched with interest. Prof. Lewis Boss of the Dudley Ob- #ervatory at Albany, has completed cal- !:hl.lons ot the orbit of the new comet. i is twice as far away from the earth as @ sun is, or about 100,000,000 miles, #nd is about 170,000,000 miles from the n. Calculations indicate its nearest istance to the sun at 125,000,000 miles. ould it fall below this the comev will a brillisut object in November. The Phonograph's Rival. \ d in London. The new instru- mt is fixed on & stand and is worked a treadle in a similar way to a sew- ing machine. A hollow rotating cy- linder of black wax, varying from three . tosix inches inlength and about an , dnch in diameter, is placed on a simple revolving apparatus. 'To this isapplied the point of an engraving needle or outting stylus, fixed on a mica disk, which receives the voice through a king tube and records the pitch d timbre. Reproduction is effected rough the medium of a small and b:l.t.{vo receiver attached to ear A A Big Oyclone. Captain Cates, of the Avcot sends a graphic story of the nt hurricane on the north side of ba. He says: ‘*At Cardenas, twenty- n wharves were destroyed and about hundred and ten vessels wrecked, ning from eight up to one hundred d mfiu tons. Some small cralt were up iuto the city ten blocks. The t fourteen blocks up through the riving the inhabitante inte the of seience_who on The Weather Plant. That remarkable specimen of the veg- etable world, the ‘“weather plant,” con- tinues, says a Vienna correspondent, to excite considerable interest there. Men its first discovery were unwilling to express an opinion on its prognosticating virtues, now agree, afier extensive experiments, that the shrub is, in trath, prophetic. Thirty- two thousands trials made during the last three years tend to prove its infal- libility. The plant is a native of Cor- sica and Tunis. Its leaf and twig strongly resemble those of _the acacia. The more delicate leaves of its upper branches foretell the state of the weather forty-eight hours in advance, while its lower and hardier leaves indi- cate all atmospheric changes three days beforehand. Fire-Proof Buildings. The Real Estate Record says that fire ruins show that porous terra-cotta bricks and blocks best resist flre, water and frost. Next to these in the order of fire-vesisting qualities come concretes and burned-clay work. In the best work done the iron work is incased in porous terra-cotta, tile or brick work in roof, floor and tile construction. The hollow tiles are faced with vitreous tile, slate orany good weather-proof coating, or with a single thickness of brick. Iron and steel framework incased in fire- proof materials gives the best possible results. There is a growing preference for light porous walls of hollow material protecting an iron or wooden frame work. Massive and heavy walls of brick or stone 11 do for architecture, but they are not as much of a mechanical necessity as they were regarded a few years ago. A New Process. The Revue Scientifique gives an ac- count of a process for depositing thin coats of metal upon other metals, which has been_lately introduced by Mr. A. Levy. The inventor dispenses entirely with batteries and dynamos, the new process being based upon a double chem- ical decomposition. In depositing a layer of n|c¥(ol upon either copper or iron, a solution of a salt of the metal is prepared, preferably the acidulated chloride, and after the object has been scoured it is suspended in the solution at the extremity of a zine wire, which partially entors the bath. The zinc is attacked by the salt, and it replaces the nickel in the chemical constitution of the solution, the object being conse- %;mm.ly covered with a layer of nickel. Vhen this process is empi ofled for cop- r-plating cast iron, Mr. Levy substi- utes an alkaline bath in place of the acidulated one. A Cause of Rain. New York Sun: “I can give youa novel idea worth recording, and a fact in which all the people on the Ameri- can continent are interested,” said Pro- fessor Wiggins, the noted wet weather Pmphet, in a recent interview. ‘I re- ler to the erection of the telegraph and telephone wires, and especially wire fencing, which are roally one of the chief occasions of rain, at least, in the northern continent. A thunder cloud consists of isolated electricity. This when novin{ over a dry surface is en- abled to retain its electricity, and the cloud will water the lamd y for when approaching a city, they are so suddenly deprived of their electric en- ergy that they collapse, producing e s ke Lapmaan (2 A SN e G two severe electric storms this season, and both have scattered death and de- scruction in their trail in the neighbor- hood of two cities,Ottawa and Montreal. This is why we read of disastrous cy- clones destroying towns and villages of Ohio and other western states where thunder clouds ave suddenly being formed in the great northern current of the Mississippl valley. Take away the wire fences,” said the prafessor, waving his hand solemnly, and cyclones as well as droughts will cease, and let the Can- adian government permit wire fencing to be built in the northwest territories and they may cease to expect that vast agricultural country to become the granary of civilization,as it willbecome the home of drought and cycl.une." Dr. Tanner's New Hobby. New York Post: Dr. H. S. Tanner, who became famous about eight years ago by fasting forty days in Claréndon hall, New York city, arrived in Chicago the other day from New Mexico. He is apparently in perfect health, and his girth is such as to suggest anything ex- cept abstinence from food. About the last news from the doctor, previous to his arrival, was that he was in New Mexico, living there on a purely vege- table diet. At prosent he eatstwo meals a day in summer and one meal a day winter. He says that he had been in Mexico for four years, pursuing investigations into the subject of suspended animation, or counterfeit death. He is convinced that large numbers of people are annu- ally buried alive all over the world.and, from his study of varions cases, and the records of societies, on the subject, in Holland and else- where, he believes that, sosubtle is the principle of life, no one can undertake to say that it is extinet until decomposi- tion—the only sure sign—has set in. He declares that the dead in this coun- try ave buried with indecent, with criminal haste, and that burials of per- sons who are not absolutely dead are murders. The doctor is also pursuing another branch of semi-suspended animation, viz.: hibernation. He declares that bears and other hibernating animals do not use their lungs during the hibernat- ing season,and he is convinced that man can hibernate. He refers to the long traunces of the Hindu adepts, ac- complished through long seasons of fasting, and declares it to be his belief that these trances are merely seasons of tibernation. The doctor says he is studying with a view to making some experiments in this line, and that the time may come when he may permit himsell to be sealed up in an air-tight coffin and laid away until such time as he shall designate for it to be opened. Notes, An interesting experiment was re- cently made by & Dr. Durand in refer- ence to the relative power of imagina- tion in the two sexes. He gave to 100 of his hospital patients a dose of sweet- ened water, and shortly afterward en- tered the room, apparently greatly agi- tated, saying he had by mistake admin- istered a powerful emetic, In a few minutes four-fifths of the subjects were tention has lately been called to an acid extracted from Gymnema sylves- tris, a climbing plant from India. This deprives the tongue, for the time being, of the power of distinguishing sweet irom bitter substances. 1t does not in- terfere with the taste of saline sub- stances. The fifteen great American inven- tions of world-wide adoption are: 1, The cotton-gin. 2. The planting ma- chine. 8. The grass mower and reaper, 4. The rotary printing press. 5. Nav- igation by steam. 6. Hot-air engine. 7. The sewing machine. 8. The india- rubber industry. 9. The machine man- ufacture of horseshoes. 10. The sand- blast for carving. 11. The j;mlge-lx\the. 12. The grain elevator. I3. Artificial ng on a large scale. 14, The magnet and its practical appli- cation, 15, The telephone. In the Academy of Science of Paris, on the snows, ice and waters of Mars,M. Flammarion, in reply to some recent re- marks on the metcorological condition of this planet, pointed out that the vary- ing state of the polar ice caps had long been carefully observed by Maedler, Schiaparelli and others, the inference being that Mars is not in a state of glac- iation. On the contrary,its tempera- ture is equal to, if not higher, than that of the earth, and its polar snows melt periodically to a far greater oxtent than on our planet. It has been estimated that if the heat generated within the body were allowed to accumulate within us, and none to be given off, it would be suflicient to raise the body to the boiling point in thirty- six hours. Speaking of M. Pasteur, a recent wri- tor says: He is of average height, has a large, high forehead, small gray eyes, soft and intelligent; short neck, broad shoulders and an emaciatod face; he wears a full gray beard and moustache cut close. He limpsslightly. His hoalth has been poor lately and hie now speaks with great difliculty, but his two months’ rest in the ;pine forests of the Juras will completely restore him.” Dr. Mary Walker is a_plucky woman. She wants to go to Florida to tend yel- low-fover patients.. S8he has applied to the health officer of Washington for the necessary authurirz(y‘ $he quotes her record as a surgeo! fii the regular army s for money 10 during the war, undv it enable her to make, nuc{\ purchases as will render her ouffit for the work at Jacksonville effective, i 8 ty Use Horsford's Acid Phosphate. Dx. A. M. BiLy, Michgll, Dak., says: ** have usod it in @ numbér ah cases of nervous debility, with very good rosults,” There is a**Congressional Bootblack,” and his name is Dan Appleton, aged ten. He managed to make his way from St. Paul to Washington, and going u |4 0 the house asked for Congressman Nel- son. The congressman came out,” and the boy said: 1 am Dan Appleton, a bootblack from Minnesota, and I want you to give me the privilege of blacking congressmen’s boots here in the build- ing.” Nelson took the boy to Architect Clark, who gave him the privilege, and the lad is making mouey. SR (R A sort of lothargy somotimes takes poseession of the kidneys and bladder; they should be promptly stimulated to healthful action by the useof Dr. J. Mo- Lean’s Liver and Kidney Balm. Notes and Gossip of Interest to the Fair Sex—Paris Fashions—An Evening Song—Femi- nine Notes, An Evening Song. Quiver, Sweotly sang the birds one even; Crimson was the sun, and low, Flushed was all the summer heaven With a glorious afterglow: Softly sighod the wind in_whispers, Leavos made answer, soft and light, Nature’s choir was saying vespers In the temple of the night. Why doth sadness hold thee, maiden, ‘With the sunlight on thy breast! ‘Why with anguish art thou laden! ‘While all natare breathes of rest? “Love 18 lost,” the maiden faltered; “All is dark, and sad am I, Still the choir sang on, unaltered, Still the anthem filled the sky. Suddenly her soul responded To the hymn that round her grew; Anguish from ler heart rebounded, Sadoess from her bosom flew; Light upon her soul was shining— Light that falls from heaven above; “Cense, oh! cease,” she cried, “repining; Life is crowued with perfect Love.” Are Women Fitted to Govern? Popular Svience Monthly: Most men who have associated- much with girls and women remember how many needed lessons they have learned from them in refinement and benevolence; and how they have had, oun the other hand, to steel their minds against their aimlessness and pettiness. And from youth to later years they haye observed one peculiarity for which no remedy has been yet found, and that is, a pro- nounced frailty of the rational faculty in thought or action. This character- istic 15 Offset by a strength and eleva~ tion of the emotional nature, which shines with inextinguishable luster in the wife and mother. It is to this that man renders the homage of respect, admiration, and such devo- tion as he is capable of. But, are these the qualities for our governors? Men who display personal bias in ever so small a degree, unless accompanied by unusual merits of another kind, are pot selected by their fellows for posi- tions of responsibility and trust, Strong understanding, vigorous judgment, and the absence of “fear, favor and afl tion,” are what men desire in their governors; for only through minds of that character can justice be obtained. On account of their stronger syimnpa- thies girls always think themselves the moral superiors of boys, who are often singularly devold of benevolence, es- secially toward the lower animals. Some women imagine, for this reason, that their entire sex is morally the su- perior of the male. But a good many women learn to correct thiuuxininn‘ In departmentsof morals which depend on the emotional nature, women are the superior; for those which depend on the rational nature, man is the su- perior. When the balance is struck, I can see no inferiority on either side. But the quality of justice remains with the male. It is on this that men and women must alike depend, and hence it is that women so often prefer to be judged by men rather than by their own sex. — Paris Fashions. Cassell’'s Family Magazine: Green cioty is concerned, blue and red are much worn again, especially blue woolens trimmed with red silk; both tones will stand salt water and sea air— far better, by-the-by, than the huge steel puttons with which many of them are adorned, matchin, large steel buckles at the belt. Such dresses have mostly full or puffed sleeves, rather than the tight coat form. Ostrich feathers are rarvely seen in the country —all useful hats are trimmed witl straight wing-feathers or flowers. Hoods are a head-covering which, in our time, we elect to adopt almost en- tirely for ornament, not for use, though their serviceable capabilities are far greater than are realized in modern days. Pelerines with hoods lined with a bright color, which serves to redeem them from dowdiness, ave made to wear with most of the autumn, seaside and country gowns, as they are slipped on in a minute; and the dress is equally com- plete without them. Yokes, straight and pointed, are in- troduced into the bodices of many gowns, and accord well with puffed sleeves. Wafer spots are likely to be the fash- ionof the future—the immediate future, I should say; and some of the new wool- ens are made with skirts in which those of a distinctive color are graduated to- wards the top, the silk trimming used matching the tone of the spots. The Incroyable jackets, cut straight at the waist, have large buttons at the side, where they fly open, and with revers af the neck in some solid color, are much worn with full vests and striped skirts; for example, a mauve and white striped cotton or wool skirt witha soft silk jacket. Stripes are often so treated on one dress that they look like two stuffs; for example, many skirts ave hovizontally tucked (which reduces the stripes to a solid mass of color) and then over- draped with the fabric left in its origi- nal condition, Sleeves tucked at the shoulders nnd wrist leave the elbow- piece of a different width of stripe. Wide moire sashes are universally worn at the back, and threaten to be so con- siderably wider as to form a train-piece in themselves. Suede, chamois, and the long gamut of neoutral tones which go by so many names, are superceding grey for trav- oling and country wear; they keep in condition so much longer. Huge red covton parasols are the fashion now at French watering places, and brighten up these tones most effectually, es- pecially when red stockings are worn with shoes; Frenchwomen show a de- cided preference for shoes rather than boots. Foulard is not too cool for wearing yet, and is a fabric with somuch to com- mend it that it is likely to find favor a year hence. White printed on a color is being superseded by colors printed on white; but they are not so generally serviceable. Foulard parasols are in- guuiuuul)’ puinted; theg recall some of he pretty figures on Dresden China; and so doesa very popular style of dress, the bodice low, but filled in with a fichu of mousseline de soie. Jabots of wide hemmed and pleated lisse make dowdy dresses fit for fotes, and with a few yards of muslin and soft silk those who' have clever fingers contrive to have an endless varlety with but fow gowns, Nevraska State Journal, PEACE. The editor, in geninkmood, sat in his office chair; he ran his joweled fingers through his mass of tawny hair; he took his golden pen and wrote some grand and fiery screeds, of wars abroad, of pol- itics, and of his country’s needs; he also wrote a touching poem about a lover bold, who went across the raging sea to search for gleaming gold; and bow a maiden waited long down on the ocean shore, to welcome him when he re- turned—who would return no more. CLOUDS. The office hireling came to him; an ugly youth was he, with freckles scat- tered on hjs face most wonderful to see; he jerked the press, this hireling did; he swept the dirty floovs, ho stuffed the into_tho stove and did the other But now his freckled cheeks ve blanched, his voice was hoarse with fear; he said: *‘Old Smith, who weighs a ton, is waiting for you hore; his face is stern, his lips are set, I fear he’s come for gore—Oh, master, shall I let him pass inside your sunctum door?” COURAGE. Then spake the editor with that lone youth spake he: salom, the coward’s fear n s me; why should I tremble, though he comes to_ wallow inmy gore? Tll take him by his swanlike neck and with him sweep the floor; as Macbeth said, what man may dave, that also will T dare, and should old Smith but make a crack, I'll Smash him with a chal ro, then, to where he panting waits, and show him in to me, and though he’s once or doubly armed, no terror will he sce.” DANGER. Then trembling went the freckled youth, as he’d instructed beenj he led ihe bad man to the door, and, quaking, showed him in; the door was closed he- nind him them, and Absalom stood near, that all the sounds of raging war se- curely he might hear; thero was u sil- ence, long, profound, and then his master’s voice, rang out in loud, defiant tones that made his heart rejoice; it sounded through the oaken door and echoed down the Wall; it ceased, the sil- ence came again, and then a heavy fall, pride, to 20, Ab- \ger is to DISASTER. With winged fect young Absalom flew to bis master’s side; all still and pale that master lay, as though he {un had died; but soon he opened wide his eyes that fell the boy upon; they nwflllt the room tosee Old Smith, but Smith the wretch, was gone, ‘*What did he do,” cried Absalom, ‘‘that you have swooned away? 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