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About The Alliance-independent. (Lincoln, Nebraska) 1892-1894 | View Entire Issue (June 30, 1892)
V ALLIANCE-INDEPENDENT. o 1 1 1 - tli It -'-"'jlH. V paint , tuoor. whiet Until darj(; there ' J YOUNG FOLKS ING F EADING FOR THE VS AND GIRLS. Lighthouse The Brain -Kn aw the Defendant one t A Natural Pea- Shooter. ' i t to a Lighthouse. 'cr lived in a nice brick -e to the tower, and also ite. Unlocking the tower -,:iin to climb the iron stair s round and round inside end swims. It was very n't renember any windows p and up we went, quite slol. the keeper leading until the stair v -tern ed tr run right up against thecil'Mg; butt'iekeeperpushed abolt asidf i: pped ip one more step, and aflo j iot' lil rcame down upon us. atWi 1 1 opened an iron trap-door, and we " ' t '.p through the opening. It V tatiht fit, I tell you. I don't think it could have been more than eighteen inches squaie, and I could just squeeze through. There we were at last, on the top, close to the lantern. I can't describe it scientifically but it was a beauty. All of brass and thick plate glass, both wonderfully polished. In the oentfe was the lamp, wh'ch holds two quarts of kerosene oil; but the light uses nearly four quarts every night, between sunset and sunrise. So, each night, at about midnight, the second lamp full of oil has to be set in place. Think cf that, boys! Every night in the year, at midnight, that keeper has to get out of a warm bed, climb the long stairs, and change the lamp. It may be a cold winter night, the thermometer below zero, jvith a furious gale shaking the tower And ('riving the spray clear over the top. JNjo matter; tho lamp must be changed. The lantern star Is about two and a half wet 'h. 'nan iron pedestal as ah,i i clock-work attach ment, 4 neavy weight, which hangs Aalt-i.., down the tower, in a groovl in the wall. The keeper puts in a big key and turnjytj once or twice. "Now watch." he says: and then slowly, very slowly, the whj)le lantern begins to move. "It tuins around once in thret minute," he says, "and shows a Hash o' le for a quarter of a minute, . overy half-minute. At that point j ie southeast it shows that red : there. That's what wo call the . cactor." ' Why does it?" r There is dangerous shoal in that i ion." iow you will know what a "sec sin a lighthouse, i. '& is room to wan. Dund the ., t: ri, but a man six feet .igh would '. a enly two inches space above his : 1 hat! The sides of the tower hero . thick panes of beautifully clear .-, almost half an inch thick; yet n; :ti,nes they are broken. By what voii think? Why, by wild ducks S gec.se flying against them, dazzled a ight! feit'.ttle room in which we are is ; the big panes ot glass around large leaved, climbing shrubs that in June hang their purplish-blue bios Boms in areat clusters upon frames or over doorways, or high up on the front of houses and cottages. He found it out this way: Wishing to keej) some seeds of the Chinese wis taria, he picked a few of the pods that follow the fall of tbe flowers in au tumn, and laid them upon a mantel piece in his warm study. Midwinter canie, and one day the gentleman was astonished to hear a fcharp, crack, like a finy pistol-shot, and to see ono of the seeds fly across the room, frdm' its bursting pod on the mantel. It struck against the wall as if trying to pass through it. He laid the other pods away in paper, and a day or two later heard the sharp lit tle reports made by their snapping open. This vine, then, is not content that its seeds shall simply fall to the ground at its root, and there spring up into growth, but the pods wait un til they have become so tense, with drying and shrinking, that they can hold theiredges together at the seam no longer. Then they fly apart with a spring that hurls the seeds many yards, so that new vines may spring up far from the old one. As this goes on year after year, you can easi ly see how rapidly these wistarias, if allowed to grow, would spread them selves over almost any extent of coun try. St. Nicholas. a i. moil on,. BIIj be opened, and though there yellow shade to each one, f l' ltlht faint with tho heat. 1 0,o down again, through tho )-door, into the dark tube ot r, where our footfalls ring li the iron stairs and the cold Is. How cool and refreshing t the little tot) room! Down J:lm''nd we go, until once more ""tf'.'Ji is reached, and we step H,,mi the grass again St. Nich Da i ( wjatural-Pea-shooter. K'lvtatamral friend, Mr. Ernest rut sends him a bit of news hwii ot the wistarias those no o of "ft I A Brlfrht Little Clrl, In a parlor car, the father sat on one side of the aisle, and the mother and their 8-year-old daughter sat on the other side. The father was a good looking young man, and there was nothing about his appearance to show that he was in any way connected with the little girl and her mother across tho aisle. 1 he mother was reading a novel; tho litt le girl was read- a spelling-book. The pretty young woman in the next seat cast sheep- eyes at tho father, who looked flatter ed but embarrased. Then the vouna woman coughed and thefathcr winked. The whole carload of passengers ex cept the mother saw the play. The 8-year-oM daughter watched him from behind her book. When it had gone far enough she read aloud. "The cat sees a rat." "Husl'i," said the mother, "read to your sell, dear, and she returned her novel. rfhe passengers snigger ed. Presently the nood-lookinu youne woman turned to the father and SR-id with the sweetest of smiles. "Won't you please fix this window blind? The sun annoys me." 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