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t 1 PLATTSMOUTIl WEEKLY HERALD, THURSDAY, AUGYST4, 1887. A Niagara Water-Powor. Chicago Tribune: The idea of utilizing tlic vast water-power of Niiiyitru, now goin to waste, is notliin new. It has lecn suggested ami discuc-d for yt-aM, lut no practical plan 1ms been offered 'and discussion lias lxcn limited to theor i.ing. For the flint time the business men of Buffalo have taken definite action in the matter ly starting a subscription a subscription whic h will offer $100,000 reward "to the inventors of the world for the discovery or invention of the best a iliaiice for utilizing the water-power of the Niagara river and one that will ut 1- ize it economically at or near Buffalo that such power may bo made practically available for various manufacturing pur- 1 losses troughout the city." 1 e:s mun 11" licent offer w ill unquestionably set tl 10 ic best engineers of this country und tl world fit work devising some method of solving the problem some way of utiliz ing a small part at least of the millions of horse power of force to lie had for the harnessing. The two methods of utilizing this vast power which have been most frcijiiently discussed are those of conveying power caught through turbine wheels, cither in the form of electrical current or compress ed air, but in either case there are difli culties which would have to lie overcome. If the water-power were used for the generation and transmission of electricity over copper wires, the loss of energy which occurs in a certain droportion to the distance traveled must be taken into account. A 1,000 horse power of elec tricity starting at the fulls, by the time it reaches Buffalo or any other point at a corresponding distance, shrinks into 100 or 200 horse power. It is therefore evi dent that some plan most be discovered for preventing this enormous loss of ener gy. If compressed air is employed as the agency of power, there must be an enor mous pressure on the pipes to deliver enough air in the receiving cylinders to pay dividends, and great pressure will cause leakage and may cause bursting. If the pipes are made of suflicicnt thick siess to overcome this danger, then the question of expense must be considered, and there will be considerable loss of power by friction in a distance of thirty or forty miles. There can be no question, however, that under the stimulus of a small for tune the inventive talent of our engineers will find some way of utilizing the un limited water-power w hich is now thrown away over the brink of Niagara, and that enough of the obstacles in the way will Tjc overcome. It may shock the senti mental lovers of the great cataract to think that it is to be harnessed and set to work at the plobian task of manufactur ing and doing service to mankind, but it is sure to come. It has run wild long enough. The world is moving ahead very rapidly, and the demands of man are keeping pace with it. Niagara is wanted, and science will find some way of impressing it into useful service with out impairing its beauty. To the majesty of its natural functions it w ill and digni ty of labor. Railway Construction in China. From the London Economist. Judging from what has already been done in the matter of railway construction in China, the British consul at Tientsin, Jlr. B. Brenan, is not inclined to take a very hopeful view of the prospects for railway enterprise there. It is intended, lie says, to extend to Tientsin, by way of the newly constructed Taku. the line con necting the K'ai-ping coal mines with the town of Lu-fai on the river Peh-faug, he Chinese government having given its consent to the extention, because of the military utility of the new line. The re quisite capital, it appears, has been pro vided by half-a-dozen local officials; and Mr. Brenan adds: "It is already evident that the control of the railways will be in official hands, and the public, w ho may he invited to subscribe, will have no voice in the direction of affairs. "What the result will be can only too surely be forecast from th j fate of the Cliin i Mer chants' Steam Navigation Company, vhich started with every advantage, and which in a few years b eam? hopelessly involved through th ; incompetency and venality of tin; oiii 'iallr appointed direc tors. This is r. most unfortunate begin ning. The Chinese government seems resolved that railways shall be made with Chinese capital: and Chinese shareholders, with an ollici.il boird of directors at their head, are heirless; they have to acquiesce in whatever the directors choose to do, and the directors themselves have to consult the wishes of the higher offi cials, who make or unmake them. In any new venture the Chinese are always sanguine, and it is quite probable thnt, 'until sufficient time has elapsed for them to discover that they have been victimized, Chinese capital will be tempted by the railway prospectus which may be put be fore them." As to the astute way in which the Chinese government turns to its own account the keen commercial riv alry of Britain, France and Germany,Mr. Brenan has also something to say. He writes: "The past year lias been one of disappointment to the various syndicates who came to Tientsin so full of hopes. With the exception of the French syndi cate, none has succeeded in doing any business. The construction of the docks and work-bhoDS of Pork Arthur. It had been admitted that in this matter the French outwitted their competitors, and that they understood better how to deal with the officials with whom the decision lay. The Chinese authorities have shown themselves very ready to take advantage of the keen competition which exists be tween foreigners, and not always a very fair advantage. They will encourage different persons at considerable expense to themselves to make preliminary sur veys, to obtain. information from Europe by telegraph, to give specifications, and to make a tender; and then place all this information in the hands of some rival and ask him if he will underbid the others." Tickets for Corpses. From the New York World. A reporter waiting three minutes in a Broadway passenger agent's office yester day overheard the following: "No, sir, there are no half-rate tickets for corpses. A corpse of any age requires one full first-class limited ticket, and no baggage can lie checked upon that ticket, nor can any stop-over check be issued upon it. The corpse must be accompanied by at least one adult person. It can only be carried in the baggage car, and in addi tion to being properly boxed, it must be accompanied by a certificate of the at tending physician, to the effect that the deceased did not die of any'contagious disease, and across the coupon ticket must be written instead of deceased's signature the word 'corpse.' That is the law upon every railroad in the United States. "A passenger is allowed only 150 pounds of baggage, or 75 pounds upon a half ticket. If you have more than 150 pounds you will have to pay excess bag gage, which charge will amount to from 12 to 15 per cent of the cost of the pas senger's ticket. No single piece of bag gage mus weigh over 250, or it will not be taken in the baggag car, but must go as freight. The interstate law requires railroads to carry children under 5 years of age, when accompanied by an adult, free. Children over 5 and under 12 years of age are carried upon a half rate ticket. Special rates, under the new law, may be given to railroad employees, clergymen and on account of charity. To be eligible for this special rate a clergy man must be regularly ordained, perman ently located in charge of a pastorate and be engaged in no other business what ever. Under this law the wives and fam lies of the clergymen are not entitled to any reduction in the regular rate. Special rates can not now be made to temperance workers or lecturers nor to persons en gaged in educational, philanthropical or charitable work." "Thank heaven, he's gone," said the agent turning to the World reporter. "I have to answer just such questions a dozen times a day, and have almost had the lockjaw in consequnce. There's one thing about this interstate law, though it's been a godsend to the printers and waste paper dealers, as every few days the commissioners are making important changes which necessitate new tariffs and instructions, and the printers are kept busy, while the junk men grow rich off the superseeded matter, whick is thrown into the waste-paper baskets of every railroad office of the United States." Fishtngand Catching Fish. Seth Green in American Agriculturist. The article, "First Day's Fishing," in the May number of the American Agri culturist, hit me just where my memory is longest. It recalls the time, over sixty ycays ago, when my clothes were wet, a stone-bruise on my heel and a toe nail stubbed off, I had just such an old crook ed fish-pole. I then cut my fish-poles in the woods, and no one that has never tried it has any idea what a job it is to get a straight one. A sapling looks straight; you cut it down and trim it. Then there are so many crooks in it that you reject it, and cut several more before you get one to suit. Any one who ever cut fish-poles knows how it is. The boy asked what was the difference between going for fish and going fishing. His father said to catch fish was to get a few scaly things not worth much, but going fishing was quite another thing. It included the sunshine and the birds, and the murmur of the brooks, and many other things. That father was like thous ands of others who go fishing and bring home memories of pleasant hours of the murmuring waters and sunshine and birds. But a look in the basket may reveal no fish there unless the fisher has met some boy on the stream who did not know or care whether there were any birds or sun shine that day or not, so that he got the fish and sold them to the fellow that was seeing everything else except a favor able hole to cast his line. Now I don't say I never see anything while I am fishing. I do as much look ing about as any man when I am not fish ing. But when I am fishingl do nothing else. If the fish don't bite I am wonder ing if my bait is all right, and I don't go long without a bite before I look at roy bait and make some change in it If nothing more, I take it off and put it on again. Then I jerk it a little faster or a little blower and let it sink to the bottom, let it lie a minute, then give it a sharp jerk, and if there is no bite I change places or let out the line and get the bait farther away from me. If fly fishing I have a number of motions to give the fly. Sometimes one motion will coax the fly fish to bite and sometimes another. But I am fishing all the time. i Lancaster County is to have a new court house, the cost not to exceed $ 190, 000. Bids are to be advertised for at once. COMMON ERRORS CORRECTED. Exaggerated Notions 'Which Even Scien tific Observer Have Indorsed. Ignorant folk, wondormongors and even scientific observer have disseminated many erroneous and exaggerated notions trbich are not readily eradicated. We are atill told, for instance, of the Norwegian maelstrom, a frightful whirling chasm in the sea capable of sucking down the largest ships, though in reality this fearful "whirlpool" is limply a run of the tide through a sloping channel is rarely dangerous, and then chiefly on ace Cunt of the rocks on which it may draw vessels. Sir John Ilerschel gave his indorsement to the statement that stars may be seen in the daytime from the bottom of a well, but this has been proven to be an error by testa from a shaft nearly half a mile deep. Mr. John Murdoch has recently shown that the Eskimos do not, as text books of phy siology affirm, doze through their long winter night, keeping up their bodily heat by enor mous meals of raw blubber and lamp oil, but that their winter life is active, tl?ir food mostly cooked and their consumption of oil not excessive. A still widely accepted belief Is that the hair snake is a wonderful trans formation of a horse's hair when kept in water, though these odd creatures (known to science as Gordius aquaticus) really grow from eggs, and in early stages inhabit the bodies of insects. A very old idea, without foundation in fact, is that crocodiles shed mournful tears, while stories of toads nn prisoned in solid rock are numerous and sup ported by much evidence, but have probably resulted from imperfect observation. Accounts of the germination of grain from the mummy pits of Egypt have arisen from deception practiced by the Arabs in placing fresh seeds with the belongings of the mum mies. Though now known to be Incorrect, the inference that the moon influences the weather is a very natural one to untrained observers, and is far less absurd than a thou sand vagaries that gam credence, such as the dropping of live reptiles from the clouds, the ejection of live snakes and other creatures from the human stomach, the localization of water by a forked stick, the extinguishment of fire by sunshine, etc Arkansaw Traveler. An Editor's Strange Experience. "I know a good joke on an editor from Hel ena, M. T.,B said a conductor on the St. Paul, "and I guess I'll have to tell it. He's a colonel, but I shan't give you his lost name. Lost week he came into St. Faul on business, and after registering at the best hotel in town started out to see the sights. It was about o'clock in the morning when he returned, a little the worse for wear. It happened that the night porter who showed him to his room was only half awake, and, without knowing what he was doing, ushered the colonel into the bathroom attached to the apartment as signed for his use, muttered 'G'night, sir,' and disappeared. Next morning at the break -fast table the Montana journalist met an ac quaintance and said to him: " 'Fine hotel, this.' "Yes, one of the best in the country.' " 'Do you like their new fangled beds?" " 'Their beds are all right, though I didn't know that there was anything new about them.' ".'Well, they've got the darndestbed in my room you ever sot eyes on. It's more like a coffin, an' there wasn't a blamed bit of cover on it. I was cold all night. It's true that it's mighty fine to have water so handy that when a feller gets thirsty in the night he don't have to get out of bed for a drink, but the worst of it was in my case that it was just my durned luck to leave the thing run nin' a little the last time I took a drink out of it, an' when I woke up agin' I was nigh drowned in cold water. Never spent such n miserable night in my life.'" Chicago Herald. A Police Captain's Experience. Police Capt. Williams went to the St. Lawrence river on an excursion a year or two ago. On the deck of the steamer where he sat with his wife, a couple of gentlemen near by began to discuss the police force of New York, when one of them dropped into a talk about Capt. Williams himself. Accord ing to the young man's relation to his friend, Capt. Williams was about the toughest and worst of God's creation. Capt. William.--stood it for a long time, being tempered bv the fact that his wife's hand was on his right arm with a restraining pressure. He finally turned round and said: "I beg your pardon, sir. But do you know Capt. Williams about whom you are talking" The reply was re ceived: "No, sir. I never met him and I never saw him." "Well, sir," was the cap tain's reply as he displayed his shield, "I am Capt. Williams, and I want to say to you that even if I were as bad as you have pictured me I could yet spit on a man who would talk about a person he did not know a you have talked about me." There was no more conversation possible, but there was a sequel to the episode. Just before the captain's departure from the boat there came a rap on the door of his state room, and on opening it he found his traducer. The young fellow evidently had manly quali ties in him, for he said: "Capt Williams, I did not like to leave this boat without speak ing to you. In the first place, I think I ought to make an apology, and in the next place I want to tell you that I have learned a lesson which will last me a long time, and that is not to talk about a person that I do not know." New York Tribune. A Peculiar Kind of CoI. A twenty-three foot vein of what prom ises to be a valuable kind of fuel has been discovered at Elsinore, Cal., and it is thought that the whole valley is under laid with it. It is described by The News of that place as quite soft, and easily w orked when in the mine, but it irets hard when exposed to the air. It resembles slate somewhat in appearance, although of a somewhat lighter color. It is clean, leaves no marks or stains on the hand, does not slack or crumble in the air. can be split like mica Into very thin fibers, burns treely, and needs only to be ignited with a match, smells like burnine rubber when being consumed, and leaves behind a jet black asl resembling lampblack in all Its properties. It Is said to be worth S15 per ton for making cas. New York Sun. A Planet Taken with Conventions. From the Tall Mall Gazette A correspondent of the Pioneer 3aif gives the following account of "facts as witnessed by myself, wile, and two Mo hamedan servants, all four seeing the phenomenon simultaneously, and not for a minute or so, but for upward of an hour:" "At about M:30Vclock on th evening of May 2V, while siting at dinner, one of my khitmutgars came in from the outside, and said: 'Sir, just step out and see what a taniasha is taking place with the star Sook'- the native name for Ve nus. Out we went, and sure enough, there was Venus, large and bright, but strange to say, falling 2, 3 and four feet at a time, then oscillating from right to left; sometimes dashing to the right and then to the left several feet at a time. These movements continued in rapid suc cession, and were plainly apparent to all at once; but this was not all. Venus when we first saw her, was, say, appar ently some 400 yards above the horizon. While watching her we observed a star (some 2 yards, to look at) abovc,suddenly fall into Venus and there remain. We were amazed. The natives exclaimed: 'The last day is at hand,' and so on. We watched Venus rapidly descending until she dipped the horizon. At times she appeared her usual size and quite bright, then again hardly visible. Perhaps the phenomenon described can be explained by some one versed in astronomy. I again repeat that what has been described was seen by myself, wife and two native servants, and could by no means have been imagination." Dr. C. A- Marshall. 7 U7 , T1 Preservation f natural teeth a npcclalty. Teeth extracted without pain uxc of lsiwjhing (las. All work warranted. Trices reasonable. FlTZCKRALl) BLOCK. PLATTSMOLTlI.Nl' . 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DIRECTORS l Jehn Fltzeeraid , Clark. utwKiTOm 'augo- Jr. . Wiute. Boot Dspartmos&t G21EE1TW002J limy icuuo. PURE : BRED Plymouth Rocks, silver Penciled Hambirgf , B, B. Red Game Bantun, S. C. Brown Leffhorfli. Houdans, Langshawa, and Pekin Ducki. EGGS FOR HATCH I EsPWrite for Prices. MOON & ROBERTS, GREENWOOD, Sheriff's 8af. By virtue of an execution Usied by w. sj. Showalier. Clerk of the District e urt. wlthr ts as M and forCaxs county, Nebraska, u te m rected. I will on the 25th 4 ay ! Jily A. f5 1K7. at 1 o'clock P. M., ef said v aJ r south door ef the Coart House im sad eeear ' sell at peblie auction, the fellewlag reoi mm 1 to-wit: " ' West half ( of the South west qaartsr f- of Section Kix (6) Township tea US) IU site -i (16) East of the 6th P. M. in Case eeantyT X. braka, with the privileges and inulMUf ( thereunto belonging or in any viae i run Ins ing thereto. The same being levied upea aad taken the property of William Clark SefeadastX; be satisfy a judgment of said court reeveie by Drury & Peebles Haintiff, agalastsald BtmV ant. Plattsinoutta, Neb., this June aoth A. M. M1 14-6 J. C. ElKKjritAXT. SbehC ef Cass Ceeaty.Bet. 8hrirT8 Sal. By virtue of an order ef sale lseaed by W. Duewauer, iiem oi me uisinci lart vm ana iorv;a eouniy. reoraata, aad te ate rected. I will on the 30th dav of Jily, A. is87. at 11 o 'cluck a. M., ef said day a nouin aenr oi iouri uouse la sle ten at ruDue .auction, tno ion vlag aeei Lets one (l).twe (T). tkree (8) aad tea iff Po 1n Sleek BitfsU' . the City ef TlattM Lka. with the Prfe taepea&te beisaff i Inf. (is)iiiuuxin aaaiuoa te 1 nouth. ass county. Kebra iieges aad appertenaecea taepes&te beieaf- iuk vi in aui wisv uuperianinz. ine same Doing levied upea and takfi ae the property of Eva (i. Parnbeff and L. Far ho II Defendants ; to satisfy a judereeDt of ta&4 Plaintiff, airaisst eaid defendants. 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