Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 10, 1890, Page 5

THE CONMERCIAT TRAVELER. A Bojortt Institated by Texss Drammers Against a Railroad, THE MELANCHOLY DAYS OF THE YEAR. A Bogns Knight of the Grip Operat- ing in the West—A Chapter on Introductions Tri- fle Gossipy. The boycott of the Texas Travelers’ asso- ation against the San Antonio & Aransas ass railway has gone into effect. 1t wasde- clared originally because the road refused to ®oll comgercial travelers 2,000-mile tickots at 9 cents i mile. The drammers say that the Ban Antonio & Aransas Pass is the only railway in the state of Texas which has re- fused thom this rate. The railways on their part declare that they have given no such Fates and never intended to. It is a'question of ucracity between the drummers and the rullways. Receiver Yoakum of the Arkansas Pass recontly directed an oficial communica- tion to all the gencral passenger agents of Wexas demanding a positive statement as to Wwhether they have given the rate or not. Tt 13 not known that there is a passenger pool in that state, but the statute practically forms one. It declares that no man or class shall be given lower rates for personal transportation than another class. Thus it other roads have given the s cent rate to drummers they will be compelled to give it to any others who ply or else they will violats the statute, lie "Aransas Pass proposes to stick to the legal rate of 8 cents per mile. Its managers snnounced their intention to fight it out on this Jine. The Melancholy Days. This is the time of year when the lifeof a travoling man becomes more than ever un- pleasant. He will get out of awarm bed, go down intoa cold hotel office and await the call for breakfast. Thishe hasto eat In a cold dining room, because Mine Host has not yet thought to put up his stoves for the com- fort of his guests. Perhaps he. thinks that the absence of a stove may help to kill off the supply of flies accumulated during the sum- er. ‘Ihat of course is a thing to be thankfuy or. J"rom the cold dining roomhe goes down the depot and awaits tho departure of the north bound train 1n a stoveless waiting room, and when he steps into the car he ob- serves a stove in each end of it, but both lder than he is himsclf. A heavy white rost covers tho depot grounds and prairie through which the train speeds, but the rail- foad company has toeconomize even at the expense of the traveling man's comfort and health, When, oh, when will hotel men and ailvond companies begin to study the com- iurlfl of traveling men, as well as the problem 0w to kkeep their rates at $2 a day or carry the smallest amount of baggageat the highest rate of mileage, A Bogus Drummer. Through investigations made frominforma- tion scut Denver’s municipal authorities a serics of swiadles perpetrated in this state #nd Kunsas have been brought to the surface. %he cleve. perpetrator, says the Denver Ropublican, is operating under the assumed pame of C. Harding, which is undoubtedly #n alins. The manuner in which he scores his uccesss is to represent that heis a traveling alesmen for the Chicago Dry Goods company er, Hosells goods by sample and acash deposit on the order. The 2 bait is alwuys spread in the smaller towns, and his victims aro composed largely of stail, respectable ladios desiring bargains dress goods. He places his prices at ar below all competition, accepts a oposit of §2 to § and makes aaozen or more eullsiun day. Then he spreads out his white wings and soars to other fields. He is reported to have successfully worked Boulder and Fort Collins, Col., and Silverton, bilene, Perry, Hutchinson, Dodge City, us,, and many other places, Many of his victims are reticont, preferring not to allow the pablic to know how they were duped. No Introduction. An English writer says: *“No competitor of mine ever introduced me, or ever shull. Ipre- fur to introduce myself, in my own way and time.” Thero is matter for thought in this ragraph. Occasionally a man in the same ine will, throngh tho best of motives, proffer 1o present you to tradd in a new town, and in doing so may state in the most eloquent torms all that can truthfully be said in favor of both you and the firm you represent: yet 4f his praises are fulsome they havethe effect of weighting you down with an undue gmount of importanco in the estimation of the uyer, who candidly accepts them as the roal sentiment of “the friend offering them, while to the credulous they bave a tendency to kindly kill you off before a trial of your individual merits has been ac- fi“‘”“ you, thus prejudicing your interests fore they havo been presented. If, on_the éther hand, his ntroduction is of the kind at mevely “‘breaks the ice,” it will be likely strike the merchant as a' warning rather han an introduction. You draw your salary or speaking your own picce: speak it. The reat divider'says: “A - biznes transackshun aduel. Tak no unare advantag, but uz wl the skill tu win that nachewer and siance uv given yu; utherwiz yu mira chump, A imble sixpence will beet a slow dollur every me. IReed tho stori of the hair and the tor- is and then get a move on yu,'” A Triflo Gossipy. Said a gentleman from tbe east, whose ‘business is such that he spends almost as much time in this eity as he does in his home st New York City T don’t see why the qustom of smoking a pipe on the streets has pot been adopted hero, It was brought from Eogland by New York City a numbor of gears ago, and sinco then has been a fixture n the fumigations of gentle folk. From New York it spread with a rapidity which has uly been equaled since by tho influenza, most citics of the country, pipe- #nokingly publicly is permissible, and in % number of citivs it is customary. iut Omaha has_clung_tonaciously to cigar and cigarette. Why, T can’t tell. " A great many ple have an idea n pipeis vulgar when Flofll in the street. There are pipes which e ospeclally built for street work. The more cultivated somkers of the east have morulug pipes, eveuing pipes, night. pipes, and pives of every occasion, There are some arguments in favor of pipes. You know what you are smoking; in u cigar you don’t know till after you are through. After all the plga has moro arguments to recom- mend it than the cigar.” Thespeaker was a pipe drummer., Drummers and Railways. Rook Stowell, Charles Cruikshank and soveral other well known commercial trav- elers wexo talking about men killed in rail- way accidents when the safety of railroads was broughit up. The Philadelphia drummer remarked that the late Reading aisaster was the first one in the history of the road where 8 passenger had been killed except through his own carlessness, The statoment created some surprise, but its truth is vouched for by #n accident insurance company’s ageat. Mr, Stowell sald the Erie used to kill a great many men, and hehas kept tabs on Jim Stewart, who has of twenty-one, “I once asked him at the station in Horuells- ville," said Rook, “and teavs filled his eyes d he turned away without answeriug me." 'he D, & H. also has a remarkable record, but therowasa timo when the engineer o the Albany *“‘fiyer’ used to stop his train and walk across tho bridges and let his fireman . Charles Cruikshank thought Ontario and Western was a_skittish road 83 the trestle over Lime oreek, 200 feet high, sed to sway and oscillate like & hammock hen @ passenger train passed over it. The Erie, Chicago & Northern had been remark- Wble free from railway disasters, alt ough & many men had been killed by getting on hg, track in the way of the trains. The ithern Central used to be a great road for . trains erashing through bridges, but tho tres- * tles aud bridges were better now. The Sodus road from Stauley used to make & man's stand on ead, but it is 1 better shape . THE OMAHA DAILY BEE, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1800. now, ‘The drummers related & great many bair-breadth escapes they had ox perienced during 0 score of years' traveling, and the ro- porter thought e had a sufficient load of stories on hand and bid the interesting group adaien, but not _until Captain Muuson had spoken of the “Rochester electric railway. **No danger of an accident on that road, terpolated the captain. “Why!" asked the drummers. ‘‘Becauso the road isn't built yat Eight Syllables, A commercial traveler, yclept In days gone bya drummer, oped his mouth yester'cen and thus he spake: *‘Thereare s good many things which will throw & trade out when you are just about to take the order down in your book, but I believe tho most fatal is the mispronouncing of your desired customer's name. At least that has been the case with me, Some names are not pronounced as they are spelled on the sign in front of the store. Not long ago | visited a new town to me as far as trade acquaintance goes. I called on & big house, the head man of which had fifteen feet of name in frout of the store. His name wasa quesr combina- tion of vowels and consonan ts, but with my usual nerve I grappled with it, and after roll- ingit around on my tongue twice, followed by a moment's rest, T entered the svre, 1 called for the buyor, and my pronunciation of the name was jdentified by a clerk. I called the proprictor by name and told him my object. 1 talked so eloguently and con- tinnally of my wares that for a time I had no occasion to name my listoner, Iwas gaining ground, [ saw that. Ina burstof flery but indisercet oratory I called out: ‘Oh, Mr. Kight-Syllables, you will never have' such a chunce agiin. A shade then passed over his countenanco and there was o ar-away look in his eyes, Hedidn't think he needed anything foday. I talked some more, gradually getting him in the notion, I was just about to wils abig order down in my book, when I said: ‘Let's see, Mr. Eight- Syllables, how will you have them sent? Ho didn’t tell me, and hasn’t yet. There was no need of it. Thadspoiled it all. 1 advise all young drummers to be sure and learn their customers’ names before they pronounce, or rather mispronounce thom." samples, Mr. A. J. Bolster, manager of Lininger & Metcalf company's branch house at York, was in the city yesterday. He says that ho recently paid a uisit.to Bradshaw, which last June was was all but wiped out of existence by a cyclone, and that he found the ener getic citizens of that little town had entirely re- built it and that it now presents a better ap- pearance than it ever did before, Mr. J. J. Blodgett, who is managing a branch hovse at Graham for the Lininger & Metealf Co, of this city, spent yesterday in Omala. Mr. Blodgett is a rustler in his line, but he says owing to the eloction trade has'been very quiet in his section of the state. —— Our iocal politicians are making active ar- rangements for the next campaign. They ordered a box of Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup, and feel confident and happy. Price for a bottle, only 2 cents. YA perfect su about Salvation O, cents. ss” is what dealers say the great pain-cure. 25 BT Death of Fred Walter.' Fred Walter, the local agent of the An- heuser-Busch Browing association, died at k yesterday morning at bis residence, 1617 Wirt street, after a short fllness. The deceased was thirty-four years of age, and leaves a wife and four children. Ho was a shrewd business man, and a genial, whole- souled and popular citizen. He had been in business in this city for about four years, and in that time had made many warm friends. ‘The dute of the funeral will be announced later. § R Bud drainage causes much sickness, and had blood and improper action of the i kidneys is bad drainage to the human which Burdock Blood Bitters remedy, A Ay ‘Antl-Prohibition Jabilee, Axds to grand marshal and marshals of the Gifferent wards and from towns and cities outsideof Omaha, as published in Sunday’s issue of Tir Bek, aro earncstly requested to meet Monday eqening at7 o'clock shaxp at the Barker hotel, to complete mrrangements for the parade. g‘m'ls Henmon, Grand Marshal. s e The Women of France. The French woman does not enter a beauty contest with a fair field and no favor, says the Pittsburg Leader's Paris letter, Sheis a slendor, colorless little thing, without a drop of honest red blood in her veins, atan age when the English girl is at her froshest, because, by her physical and mental training, her development is retarded. She eats sweet- meats and walks out decorously behind a veil. Theoretically, when she marries oue is still a child, but achild that has not been al- lowed torun. In the first year or twoof muarried life therecomes a sudden blossoming, but the Gallic nature, with its emotional tem- perament, its vivacity, its sensitiveness, ploughs lines very quickly in the faces of its ‘women, who are not. brought up to have the Saxon stamina. The Parisienne is apt to be sallow, well dressod and witty, the repartee and the toilets often proviryg more effective than a better complexion. e Girl Brides at Twelve. A government agent reports to the Indlan bureau that the most formidable obstacle to the education of the Navajo girls is the prac- tico of early marriage, The practicois held in all Indian tribes, but more especially in the southern tribes. While all life, animal as well as vegetable, matures move rapidly there,still maturity of life among the Indian girls is forced to the extreme. Marriages often occur attwelve or fourteen years of age. All the traditions and usages of the Indians favor early marriages, and if a girl is not married before fifteen it is a noticeable circumstance. Many girls would prefer remaining in school, but the unwritten laws of the race, so poten- tial, aro agaiust, such conduct. Some prefor an carly marriage, because an unmarried woman has 1o power, while the old woman has a very strong influence, and girls who are n‘;nllhers at twelve or fourteen are old a thirty. —_— A Line-Throwing Gun. The necessity of having a reliable method of effecting communication be- tween the shore and a ship in distress or between one vessel and another has al- ways been recognized, and$o this end various line-throwing appliances have been brought forward from time to time, says Public Opinion, The latest of these isthe shoulder line-throwing gun in- vented by Captain D’Arcy-Irvine, R. N. This apparatus, which is' not an expen- sive affair, consists ofa shoulder gun having the cop, or coil of line, sus- pended in a case carried under the breach of the gun.' A rod is inserted in the barrel, the fore end of the rod being connected with the end of the line, which is in the conterof the cop. The line is 144 yards long, and the charge of powder used is two drams. Upon the gun being fired ata high ele- vation the rod s projected upward and forward carrying the Line trailing away after The object is, of course, to land the line over the ship or other object, the .rod dropping beyond it. By ‘this means a rope can be made fast to the tail end of the line by the succoring Surty and be hauled on board by thosein istress. e A Frog Child. A child was born in Birmingham, England, September 20, which bears a strong resemblance to a frog. Its skin is warty and cold, and clammy to the touch; when it cries it makes an un- eurthly croaking noise. There are three fingers on each hand and four toes on euch foot. Besides the points above enumerated, it has many other charac- teristics of a frog, even io huge, knotty- looking, lidless eyes. The pavents are almost diftracted over the occurrence and hourly pray for it to die. There are two other “frog-child” cases on record, oune the offspring of a Piute squaw in Novada, which was born about ten years since, the other a monstrosity which first saw the light of day at Goshen, Ind., in January, 1889, MAKING THE OCEAN CABLE An Interesting Process whioh Requires a Groat Deal of Skill. THE WORLD'S TELEGRAPH SYSTEM. Prospects of an Electric Elevated Road in New York City—Electricty in Mining — A Wonderful Electric Road-—Sparks. According to the latest report of the inter- national burean of telegraph administration the submarine telegraph system of the world consists of 120,070 nautical milesof cable, says Herbert L. Webb in Scribner's Maga- #ine. Government administrations own 12,524 miles, while 107,540 are the property of private companies, The total cost of these cables is in the neighborhood of $200,000,000, The largest owner of submarine cables is tho Eastern telegraph company, whose system covers the ground from England to [ndia, and comprises 21,8060 miles of cablo. The Eastern extension, which exbloits the far east, has 12,958 miles more. Early in last year the system of West African cables, which started from Cadiz only six years ago, was completed in Cape Town, so that the dark continent is now completely encircled by submarine telegraph, touching at numerous points along the coast, More than 17,000 mlles of cable have been re- quired to do this, aud several companies,with moreor less ald from the British, Freneh, Spanish and Portuguese governments have participated in carrying out the work. The North Atlantic is spanned by no less than eleven cables, all laid since 1870, though Ithink not all are working at the present time; fivo companios are engaged in for- warding telegrams between North America and Europe, and the total length of the ca- bles owned by them, including coast connec- tions, is over 8),000 nautical miles, Let us first see what a submarine cable is, and how it is made, Todo tlis a visit must be made to the enormous factory on the bauks of the Thames, a fow miles below Lon- don. Here the birth of thecable may be traced through shop after shop, machine after machine. The foundation of all is tho conductor, a strand of soven fine copper wires, This slender copper cord is first hauled through a masa of sticky, black com- pound,which causes the thin coating of gutta ercha applied by the next machine to ad- ere to it perfectly, and prevents the reten- tion of any bubbles of air in the interstices between the strands, or between the conduc- tor and the utta-percha envelope, One envelope is not sufficient, however, but the full thickness of insulating material has to be attained by four more alternate coatings of sticky compound and plastio gutta-percha. The conductor is now insulated, end has de- veloped into ‘‘core.” Before going any fur- ther the core is coiled into tanks filled with water, and tested to ascertain whether it is electrically perfect, i. e,, that there is no un- der leakage of electricity through the gutta- percha insulating enveiope. h s are miade from the testing-room, replete with beautiful and elaborate appar- atus, by which measurements finer and more accurate than those even of the most delicate chemical balance may be made. Every foot of core is tested with these instruments, both before aud after being made into cable, and careful records are grusarved of the results, After the core has all been tested and assed, the manufacture of tho cable goos on. 'he core travels through another set of ma- chines, which first wrap it with a thick sery- ing of tarred jute, and then with a compact armoring of 1ron or steel wires of varying thickness, according to the depth of the water in which the aable is intended to be Inid, Above the armoring, in order to saye the iron from rust as long as possible, is ap- plied a covering of stout canvas tape thor- ouflh:ly impregunated with a pitch-like com- pound, and someties the iron wires couposing the armor are separately covered with Rus- sian -hemp as an additional preservative against corrosion. In 1887 the first practical telegraph was worked in_England, after a crude attempt mado in 1835, on & line of thirteen miles be- tween Paddington and Drayton, says Iron, In 1844 a telegraph line was opened between Washington and_Baltimore, = In 1850 a o per wire insulated fn_gutta. perchn was sqb- merged between Dover and Calais, and the first submarine telegraph was laid by the late T. R. Crampton. There are now 942 submarine cablos, ex- clusive of the soven Atlantic cables, with an aggrogato of 112,740 nautical milés, Tho overland telegraph is already a world-wide institution, in wnich there is a total of 1,650,900 miles of wire, enough of the attenu- ated metal to go around the equatorial belt of the globo just thirty times. The number of words transmitted, the miles traveled, and the cash changing hands would tax the enumeration table. The United States has 776,500 miles of wire, and .in 188D no less than 66,000 mes- sages were sent through the country. France has 220,8% miles of wire, on which in 188 were transmitted 80,050,000 dispatches, Great Britain has 180,000 miles of metal line and in 1889 sent 50,000,000 messages, Russia has spun out 170,500 miles, and in 1889 gave the oporators 10,250,780 mes- sages to dispatoh. Australia has strang no fewer than 105,260 miles of wire across its surface, and transmitted in_one year 12,000,- 000 messages. [taly has 19,500 miles, wnd has mado an annual record of about seven million cleatric messages. Canada has 5500 miles of wire, and did a business in 1859 of 4,027,581 dispatches. Egy pt has 5,500 miles, and 15 in councetion with India and Englaud by sub- marine cables on which last year 1,000,205 communications were carried from one end of the world to the other. China has 5,500 miles of wire across Mongolia, and Japan owns 1o less than 16,500 miles, over which 5,000,000 messages wore sent inone year, New Zealand bas strung itself with 11,475 miles of metal cord and dispatched 1,535,304 messages, Tasmania has 8,500 miles of telegraph wires, Pertia claims, in_partnership with Kuropean wires, about 5124 miles. South Africa has o credit of 4,310 miles, and even St. Helens, the island prison of the great Corsican, nas thir- teen miles of the universal wire cobwebbing its rocks, . Tho telegraph systems of the world have unrolled the wire reel without stint, sud if we add to the 1,688,900 miles used ‘for tele- fraph purposes,” tho wholesalo appropriation y the telophone system the sum total would be enormous. Wo are glad to learn that _there is finally a reasonable prospect of an_electrical elevated railway, not, unfortunately, in the metropo- lis which most meeds rapid trausit, but in that specially enterprising eloctrical city, Boston, which has shown itself sovery ready to appreciate the advantage of modern con- veniences, says the Electrical World, The Massachusetts legislature, after a long and bitter wrangle, passed a bill authorizing the West End company to fill Boston with a net- work of elevated roads, but it proposes to usea single double truck road, running over a carcfully sclected route, to_faciliate rapid transit toevery fart of the city. The work- ing plans of the company are not yet made public —1f, indeed, they have been settled upon — but one _ thing is certain, that no such heavy and unsightly structures as the New York elo- vated roads will be erected in our neighbor- ingcity. Théuse of small motive units ren- dered possible by the adoption of electricity enables the superstructure to be of a lighter and more airy character than has heretofore been attempted, without, however, decreas- ing in the loast’ the carrying power of the road, The overhead supply system will prob- ably be abandoned—as it should be in such a case—and current will be supplied to motors throunh a third rall. Transfer stations will be provided at coavenient points so that for a single faro a passenger can be transported anywhero throughout a wide range of terri- tory. The line proposed is a trifle less than five miles in length, and the route has been laid out with special reference to the best available combination that can be made be tweon the elevated and surface roads, Of the economy and general efficiency of an elec- tric_elevated railroad there can be littie doubt. The disadvan of the elevtrio surface . road with the over- head coustruction, few as they are, will be almost entirely obviated when the roadbed is removed from the pavement and placed iso- lated from the hindrances of traffic, above the streot. With the losd 8o well distributed over the structure, it is practicable with fre- quent and light trains, 'the weignt and cost of the construction will bb véry much decreased and at the same time.the intorforence with tho streots through which it runs will be vastly less than on Now York roads, Aside from this, the dust and cirt and smoke and noise, which has made the Manhattan system obnoxious to everybody who comes in contact with it, will be absent, atill thers ought to be considerably less difficulty in getting the con- sent of the property owaers thau on the road, and may it be the fiest of a long series of elec! tric elevated reads that shall be destined to give to American cities the effective rapid trausit which their enormous growth and in- creasing prosperity demands. The large scope presensed for the applica- tion of electricity and maguetism in m[(nlnl ana metallurgical operation: is gradnally ob- taining proper recognition, and no better in- dication of this can bo found than in the at- tention given to electricity at tho meetings of the British Tron and Steel Institute and _the Americ.n Institute of Mining Engineers held in this city, The papers there read covered a wide range of elect , and showed how, from the very first step in gain- ing the raw product in the mine, eveay stage in the operations leading to the last. prepari- tions for the market can be facilitated econo- mically br electricity, savs the Electrical En- gineer, Thus, Mr. H. C. S}u\uhlluz'a paper gives an oxcollent resume of what has heon accomplished in electric mining work, includ- ing drilling, underground hauling, hoisting, lighting, ete. Itis intoresting to note, also, that the demands of mining work scom destined to call to renewed life a typo ot ma- chine that has been abandoned for a long time as an electric motor, but which possesscs cortain advantages, that s, the clectric recin- rocating edgine. For drilling operations it is likely that thus we shall soon see a revival of this type, and the descrsption by Mr. Van Depoele of his reciprocating drill shows in what manner the new apparatus differs from the original types of this cluss, among Which the Page motor is perhaps the most generally known. The progress made during the last fow years in magnetic ore separation was also am‘)hmlzed by the records presented in seve eral papers, and we may look for a wide ox- tension of this method of ore separation is the future. It is noticeable that in these ma- chines the tendency at present is in the appli- cation of alternate polarity in the magnets, and with good reason, as explained in the description of the Monarch separator, Wtih such a variety of electrical work confronting the mining engineer, his course of study must hereafter largely embrace electri knowledge of which will, of necess! valuable to him as expertuess in assay present, The introduction of electric light on board ships and especially on war vessels, with a full equipment of generators, has naturally afforded an opportunity for the introduction of other electrical devices, notably among which are electric motors for ventilation, for the training of guns, for the hoisting of shot, eto., says tho Electrical Engineer. But & doparture has recently been taken in the ap- plication of electricity to warlike purposes in the introduction of range finders dependin g upon a few principles, among which that of the Wheatstone bridge is prominent. The ublic is already familiar witn some forms of jeutenant Fisk's range finders, which he has recently, however, simplified to a consid- erable extent, so much so, that _the readings can now be taken direct from a graduated disl. The description 1in this issue of Lieutenant Fiske's new runge finder, shows it to be a neat application of the modified Wheatstone bridge principle, and not the least notable point in connection with it is, that_the errorsdue to the varia- tion of the conditions from actual theory are compensated for by the very construction of toe apparatus. With all these refinements and means placed at the service of a modorn ‘war vessel,it is indeed problematical whether the carrying on of warfare would be a pleas- ant undertaking in the future, considering the enhanced probability of a shot taking effect. The fact may also be noted here that the United States ship'Baltimore is probably the first naval vessel in which a telephone service has been established so far as to enable the commander to communicate from the coming tower with the various parts of the ship. L. A, Dixon of Sodus has just discovered a wonderful ore called “electric rock,” which contains a hidden force that puzzles and astonishes all who have scen it, and expert electricians in particular, says a Syracuse, N. Y., special to the Globe-Democrat. The rock is of a dark slate color, and is somewhat lighter in weight than sandstone, It is com- posed of iron, aluminium, calcium and other minerals, and particles of gold are also found, Mr. Dixon says it will generate unlimited power and give any desired amount of 1ncan- descent light., For illuminating business places and residences it would be considera- bly cheaper than keroseno—in fact, after a building had been wired and the batteries prepared the cost would be merely nominal, and tho light would be equal, if nct superior to that {: duced by manufactured electricity. ‘The making of a battery is verysimple. The rock in quantity and for whatever purpose desired is placed in jars containing a solution, the chief ingredients of whichare salt and water. The circuit is then completed, and the battery is ready for active business, and the discoverer claims that one charge of 400 pounds of rock will last and produce light or power for at least one year before losing its force, and that it is perfectly harmless, mak- ing insulation entirely unnecessary. In Mr. Dixon's office & nine Found piece of the rock has been ringing a bell since last November. A pieco weighing half & pound was placed in apint tumbler and the wires attached to a -bell, which it caused to ring as loud as an alarm clock. The test was made in the pros- ence of several gentlomen, who pronounced ita wonderful discovery. Sparks, A system has been invented by which stringed musical instruments can be operated by electricity. Electricity has been introducgd as ligh into the British museum, thus enabling that institution for the first time in its existence to be kept open 1 the evening, A new departure in cremation is reported. A patent has been taken out in Frauce for an electric furnace for the rapid incineration of human remains. The international telegraphic rates on the continent will conform July 1 with the sche- aule fixed b?‘ the recent international tele- graphio conference in Paris. Between Ger- many and adjoining countries the rate will be 2i¢ cents per word; between Germany and Great Britain, Scandinayia or ltaly 815 cents r word, and between Germany and Russia, Spain or the Balkans b cents per word. A Smost useful electrical street sign has comé into use in England. A light brass framework is titted with opaque glass bear- ing thesigns desired, the name of a firm, a railway station, or a theatre, as the case may be. These tablets are visible by day as well s by night, and as the obstruction to light is inappreciable, they are becoming as popular as they are effective, In some hospital in Europe it is customary to allow visitors to conyerse on certain days by means of a_telepnons in & waiting room with patients in the wards, and this arrange- ment has heen found to work admirably, as it not infrequently happens that the nervous state of the patient or the the possibility of infection of the visitor ‘rénders closer com- munication iaadvisable. It is now suggested by a New York physician that telephones be aced on the islans in(the bay used for in- Jootious discases, so that the patients can be cheered by occasional oral communication with their friends. . Of the novel applications of electricity there 1sno end. Bakers are now using the electric motor as a bread mixer,‘and are thus enabled todo in four or five mindtes an amount of work that would otherwise require hours of hard labor, A writer,in. a medical paper says ho hus frequently pbtained much relief from facial neuralgia by, applying an incan- descent light to the part’ affected. Ho sug- gests that the lamp could also be used ia poulticing advantagely. It could be laid over a flaxseed or other form of poltice, and con- stant heat could be thus secured, The vordict which was pronounced o1the use of electric light in war, after the recent night maneavres in England, has been fully confirmed in France, where a scries of tests were cartied out for ascertaning the value of the electric light for discovering the advance of an enemy seeking to surprise a position by night. Dynsmos were erected and searcl lights were placed in position, and a regiment of the garde arrived on' the spot to di trenches. 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Morrell 1904 Far nam is taking subscriptions for the Ladies’ Home Journal in order to secure the free tuition to Vassar College, an offer made by this Journal for the young lady sending them the most subserip- tions. Send a postal to her address and she will call on you. ke THE HEENAN-SAYERS FIGHT. ‘Why the Big American Failed to Do Up the Englishman. ‘*‘In 1859, said Jack Haverly toa re- vorter for the Kansas City Star, ‘I made a pilgrimage to England to witness the fight between Heenan and Sayers. Of course Iwanted to see Heenan win; I felt that he had to win or I'd golike Diogenes and live ina tub. He had a blanket thrown around him to keep off the raw English air as he stepped into the ring and when he slipped it off, as he came to the center at the call, he was the silkiest human being 1 ever laid eyes on in my life. I've seen all the good men strip for action from Jem Mace to Sullivan, and never beheld so splendid a man to such a feather edge of condition as Heenan that English morning in 1859, When Sayers faced him they seemed all out of just proportion to each other. Heenan overstood and overreached him to a de- gree that made it appear very unequal, The English sports at the ringside looked completely confident of Sayers. He was their pet and boast, matchless, peerless. No one had been found be- tween the four seas of Britain who could come mnear him in the twenty-four-foot circle. But in the contest with Heenan Sayers was as much outclassed and out- fought as there was difference in his weight and Heenan’s, ‘‘Sayers was as game as a hornet. Time and again he was sent whirling into his corner from some smash of the terrific American, and each time came grimly back with that determination to win ordie which distinguishes a fight- er of the pure blood, written in his dauntless eyes, ‘. “The Englishman got the worst of it from the ‘go,” and many were disposed to take the fight into their own hands, The idea of an American invading England and quelling their strongest layer at their own game was intolera- le. **Kill the bloomin’ Yankee,’ ‘murder the bloody Hamerican,” came from all sides of the ring,but the men fought on as silent as bulldogs, paying no heed. A knot of English sports who had some money on Sayers stood next to me, The appearance of Heenan, with his skin pure and smooth as gleamin satin, showing his perfect fix, cause them a doubt or two. As Sayers went down before one of his fearful welts, one of them drew a deep breath and said: ‘UE’s a big 'um, Jem,’ “'Ay,’ responded Jem, in a tone of loom, * "e’s a big 'un and a bloody good un, too. *‘Heenan would have used up Sayers early, if he’d had a vicious heart, but he lacked the ‘murder’ element in his make- up. He was a prince for high-bred cournge, stamina, and a willingness to he hurt, but he couldn’t ‘kill." " That’s all that saved Sayers that day. Heenan said to Cusick as the fight was going on, ‘he’s the gamiest man [ ever saw, Jack, I can’t whip him unless I kill him, and [ can'v do that,’” —_— W. A. Plukerton, of detective fame, was 1n the city a few hours yesterday. 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