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About The Sioux County journal. (Harrison, Nebraska) 1888-1899 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 8, 1894)
WILL TOPICS OF THE TIMES. ', utive and TT Tbe fih,ps OUR RURAL READERS ' arc a great temptation, aria toward dusK thousands sail) fjrth with the sol" purpose .f going throuith the crowded street ami taking note of what is newest and best la wearing appaiel. though it In bitterly cold, of ten leing seven and nin: decree be low ero. A CHOICE SELECTION OF INTER ESTING ITEMS. CommriiU nd C'riOtoi It uum! I ptm ttm 4Ittppnlng of lb Day IJUtorii al antl Nvn Not. SOMETHING HERE THAT INTEREST THEM. toetalke or ears while cultivating! LITTLE POWERS. late in Hie season. An break in the j surface allowing sap t' exude be- SonK-tiitn; of couiiin ii.ui whi.h comes at once a breed. rig p ace for , crr but i.uti-. Clin a;u may lc In d lit. but liqul datlon is going on. home of ihe sky- seiaplng i uildiogs are se'lling. Jit when it appears that the mountain are the inly th ngs in Central and outh America that a e tied down, Poocatapell breaks loose. T.ik story that John L. Sullivan wis recently knocked -ensele-s by tils wife Is erro eous. He was knocked senseless i.y wh sky, and his wile meiely j.ut hi iu to sleep. Mir. Gkoiuii. C, ru.'s i lan of sup plying the poor with potted plants is worthy of the highest praise Just think of the thousands of hungry and ill-cloihed families that are com pelled to struggle through the winter months without a sign of a potlei plant. It is surprising to learn that the total utuuiKTof lyri'hmgs tor I s:t: L'cO-ls thirty I x less than the aggro gat - for s i '. K this rate or d' crea-e were to be continued for awhiieihe aggregate of liiesc crimes ni ght be mad" ti fall w thin tin: line of le fepcclah lily. Sin(K and including IH.'.l, Cali fornia flocks have yielded Ufi, 1 -", 4 jxiunds of wool; or i7,iti carloads, the heaviest cbp was 5 ,, i.'iiii , :( I An article in the Amerh-an Geolo gist by J rof. N. If. Winchell of M inneapolis. forms a t imdy memorial in honor of the late Increase A. I.apham of Milwaukee lie was a scientist without a sujrior in rank in this or any other country. Mr. Lapham discovered and exemplified the fact of lunar tid'S on Lake Mic'.ikan. which I'nited Mates officers have continued by Irequent experi ments, lie was th tlrst to suggest weather reports in connctlon with the tele.rapli service Tic War I e partment accepted his suggestions or the sub ect, and he made the tlrst weather signals from Chicago Nov. , ) m t 1 1. He had rec hid dispatches of higli winds ami falling barometer at the far west ward ..nd predicted a storm on the lakes, which came the follow day. .Mi lake ports were notified aid shipping was saved from great damage. . He remained at C hicago for a lonif lime, and this early work of Hie signal service was organized undo his supervision. His researches in gologlc il and other sciences pro duced fruits of the greatest value. His life was blameless and wasamong i i the most useful of those which . 1 scholars and iLseoverers have given to 'lie world. How Hnrtn Should lie Slwxl In WlnUr G-irlD Kill or 1 oru Suitif (lover Ijtnii row Hnlir Nliorl-Honiii an MiIWpis--Cool i Itmsttm for Turnips. Vilnt-r Slnx-iiii; of llorsp. Shoe. ir. w inter are re uired to dis charge a double duty to afford foot- . hold as well a-, to guard agaiiist un- 1 due wear. .. r. William D.ckson in i the I nit'-d Mates oveirimeut re-', port on the horse, says o i this sub ject: annus patterns of shoes have from time to lime been invented to meet th s dual requirement, but the commonest of aP, fashioned wit.i ice and heel calks or caiki. s, is. faulty thou.h it he, probably ali things con s dered. trie u9 which besl suils the requirements of the case. II should, however, never b' lost s glit of that the shorter, the sina ler. the sharp r the calkins are, so long as they an swer the purK.se which called them into exist.cn e, so much the better for the foot that weais them. High calkins, while the convey no firmer foothold, are potent means of indict ing injur on the foot itself ana the superincumbent limb at large. Ills on I v from that port on of the catch which enters t he ground surface that the horse derives any lienetit in the shape of fool hold, and it must be ap parent to the meanest .apac.ty that long calkins which do not penetrate the hard, uneven ground, are so many levers put into the animal's osses sion to euab c if not compel him to pounds In 1 s7'', while Irom 11 to the present the clip has varied from 'H,oi(,2;l pounds the lowest, to 3-,-6o.', IGo pounds the highest wring his feel, rack his limbs ai.u lnll;ct untold tortures on himself. I have laid p irlicular stress on this Biibject, as 1 am of the opinion that the iTeseiice of the navicular diseusi. Tiikkk Is an am i nt and honoratile : a ,jiro malady from which horses used anecdote in which a ga.vly clad I for agricultural labor .should enjoy a practical immunity, is traceanie Tin: so;ihrette whose son if. dis pleasing Theodore McVeagh of Gotham, induced that gallant to hit her behind the ear with an orange ouk'htto t'.arik her stars that it was not the missile more familiar to jilaycrs and singers of an earlier date, l'ro.ectile enVcisni is jsrowiiiu ef-femiuaie IiF.NVKii T mes AtlanU. la, has asked the Clrand Army of the llepul lic to hold its annual encampment for next year in that citv k'naranlee intf that tie lioys will re ene an even warmer reception than they di j on the occasion or their vis.t South some thirty years atfo. It would be the hinht of d scourtesy for any Northern city to comiK'tc with At lanta. It is safe to say that the in vitation will be accepted withcheeis, by a risinu vote, Ji'imjk A. H. Mohtos, the unshorn Texan who died lately, was popularly j supposed to wear his lonr locks be- cause or a vow he had made that he would not cut his hair until Henry Clay was elected I'rcsldent A writer in the Milwaukee Journal says he once asked Morton about this and he re plied: "1 was a warm admirer of Henry Clay, b it I hojKs that I never was su' h a fool' as that story would make mo out. The reason why mv hair has not teeii cut is that I am a dunkark, and that is one of the out ward siyns of our fa th." Ohemistky Is offering a means to oblige would-be dynamiters to betray themselves should they try to carry about hand-grenades and cartridges. It is to mix dynamite with certain salts that (. 1 ve out a stench and to plunge cartrldtf. s Into a so ution of these chemicals. The fetid smell thus caused Is not to be got rid of, and Is communicable. A person car rying an infernal machine or who had carried or handled one, unless with leather gloves which had been tak' n o!T with great care, would le at once detect -d by the odor. Acf.oitinN'i to statistics lately compiled by a committee of business men of Colorado It appears that the Hiate produced i.'l.CIii,U17 In gold In 18KH. and ",. "3!t. 01! 1 In W' and the output for the year Just closed is esti mated at S-.iiim 1,000. It Is further estimated that the goldyle.d for isti-l will reach 2o, ooo, io, and that the Cripple Creek region alone has in : sight enough low grade gold ore to j yield a hundred million dollars. ! (ircatas are these figures it must be ; remembered that gold and silver are not the most valuable products of I Colorado. Its agriculture and horti culture far surpass its mines In the i taluo of annual products. j Fashion rules the women of Vi enna, and It Is confidently asserted that every Vienna woman or girl is dressed a long way above her lot in 1 fe. 'J his year not a niald -servant wears last year's Jacket. It Is im (I'l.sslblo to say where the hundreds of thousands of jackets that were worn last year have gone, for on Sun d iys and week days are seen even the humblest women In Jackets whose hieves stand off like the ears of some huge elcihant. Alovo the broad garment, which are, moreover, dec orated with fluffy furs, the heads In mall bonnet or fur caps look dlmln- woman in evening-drees, i omp'ainiti z j of ( old, is advised by an elderly (jua- ker to "put on another breast-pin." j There seems to be enduring fun in i t e ilea cf the warmth of jewelry. As a matter of fact, Jewelry properly j disposed rai-es the temperature per-1 cepti ly. The slight friction of a necklace keeps the throat warm. A diamond i.eck'.a-'c or a strand of i p arls may ward oiT bronchit is or j laryngitis. Children who used to j wear coral bra Is have been known to ; catch cold when these were taken dir. bracelets keep the wrists warm, j l.very woman accustomed fo wearing bracelet knows how told her wrists j feel when these are removed. The i handsomer the bracelet, the warmer j she teels. A Philadelphia woman, who has studied the wearing of j Jewelry as a hygience measure, says that the entire circulation may le raised or lowered ly wearing the proper jewelry at the wrlsU She has pulse coolers for summer and pulse- warmers ror winter. Her pulse cool ers are spheroids of rose crystals, linked together with filigree sliver. The theory Is that, these spheroids absorb cold Instead of heat. The pulse-warmers are strips of asbestos, which Is a non-conductor, enveloped In embossed velvet and fastened with diamond buckles. Somk of the doctors are agitating the. question again as to whether vac cination is a preventive of smallpox; whether the i reventlve does t ot in volve dangers greater acd more numerous than the disease Involves: how frequently vaccination should occur, If 1t is useful; and the ethics ot vaccination whether providence should be tempted by creating a mild foim of disease, even if it will pro tect tho sub, ect from a worse form of disease. Some theorists allege that It Is just as benctlcial to swallow a prepared pellet of vaccine matter as to vaccinate externally. The his tory of vaccination as a preventive ol smallpox is as well known as the history of quinine as a preventive or cure of malarial diseases. Smallpox had been lor centuries one of the scourges ot mankind. It was not like the black death and other plagues of the middle ages which ravngvd the populated portions of the earth for a brief period and then disappeared. It invaded all the haunts of men and was a continuous pest In all tho homes of squalor and tilth, especially among uncivilized tribes Its victims were more than hall' the population. Those who had the disease but sur vived, were disfigured for life. With Inoculation atllrst-that Is, planting the stnalliiox virus under the skin the disease assumed very mild forms or appeared simply as a single erup tion In many cases. Hut with the discovery that vaccine matter pro duced by an eruptive disease on cows was a preventive, with few or none of the dangers of Inoculation, a new era began in tho history of smallpox as a disease. Its victims do not number one In a hundred thousand, as compared with those who had no protection from science against Its attacks. I' rider the best system of vaccination, practiced by skillful hands me serious r su.ts occur. Itut the number Is so small that tho danger may bo disregarded entirely In comparison with all the successful rases by which smallpox has been al most banished from amongst man k od. largely to the habitual use dur rig our long winter months of needlessly larje calkins, only iraetirmal parts of which II rid lodgment in the earth or ice during progression. I will ex plain what, 1 mean. When a horse i- shod with the exaggerated . a 1 k i f i s to wli.ch 1 have alluded, the toe and heel calk' are, or ought to be, the same height to start with, at ail events, eiyolten, however, tney are not, and even when they are ti'e i'ie calk weais down on animals used lor draught fill''! oses far more rapidly than its 1. ilowsou the bee:. The re sult. Is that the to - is deiires-ed while the heel is unnaturally raised The relative pos tio i ol ;he bony strut: lures within the loot is alter, d, anil toe navicular bone, which Is not one or tne weight-bearing hones, is brought within the angle of incidence of both weight and oncussion, in fluences which it was never contem plated tshouid withstand and which its structure precludes its sustaining without injury. The lone becomes l,i ui ed and then diseased, the tendon to which it was iiitendel it should a t as a pulley, wnich passes over and is in constant contact with it, before lone also liecouies implicated, and what is technically known as navicu lar arthritis is thus engendered and developed. K.xchange. Short-Horn as Milki m. The C hicago Imposition has had one good result in bringing promi nently before the American dairy men the good qualities vet remain ing in tho one-time re eminently ex cellent short-horn cows as dairy ani mals. A century ago they stocd Sfores of smut that on infected; ground are always Hying through the a;r. We doubt whether the smut can attack a corn stalk where there is no in urv that will allow sap to exude on which the sj ores can fasten. T-i Way of I-ookinlf at hliet-p. "Whenever a farmer comes to look at my otswrdd sheep," said a tloek ma-t r the other dav, "lean always te.l whether he is an American or an Kngiisiiman." "How so'.'" waa-ked. "I'.eeause an Kngl simian will pick out the tiest-formed sti cp. one that is deep, broad, with well developed thigh and shoulder, tine ears and small shoi t legs: in short he selects theshep that will fatten e is.lv. mature early, and give a large car cass of good mutioti. The American farmer on the other hand, when be has caught a -heep, opens the lleec on the side and examines the wool caretully to see if it is long, tine, ust rous, dense, and of uniform st ength and qualit . The Knglish farmer asks 'How much do t hey weigh." The American farmes asks: How muc i do they shear'.-' Thefe traits are the results of accustomed methods. In this country the chi f aim of the dock master is to produce heavy lleece in j Ilnglaud, heavy carcasses, iioth have succeed d in a remarkable degree. . We have American Merinos that in ' proportion to their live weight wi 1 shea'- tar heavier ileeces than any other sheep in the world, and which stand unrivaled for earlv maturity, but what we want more than all this is a heep that is goo I hir wool and good for mutton. Farm, Stock and Home. rlowr Laiel riniws Kirhcr. In every newly-settled country, when the forests are cleared oil and 1 the land has been cultivated a few years, ihe soil where the worm rail fences stood is always found richer than that, where plowing and crop ping has been going on. Some fann ers, therefore, conclude that this in crease of fertility where (he fence stood is an invariable rule, lhit it .s not. After clover and occasional manuring omes into the rotatio i the cultivated part of the I eld is often the richest. We know farmers who hive taken up old lence with the idea that under them they will lind land that can he cult vated for a few years without the necessity of constant mariuriii.: Iiut they u-uany una n inev nan oeeu giuvveis( of clover that the long-cultivated parts of the I eld are the riciiest. The soil under the fence lias not l een expanded and contracted by alter nate freezing and thawing, and it takes one or two years of cultivation to show what capacity it has for pro ducing large crops. Cool Climates for Turnips. Tlvs country w ll never equal the liritish Isles for turnip production. Our Rummers are too hot and dry to grow the cron with protlt. hven In i asily tlrst in this respect, but by neg lect of this uality ami by constant cultivation ror beef alone, iliey have degenerated from their high position as milk and butter cows. Hut somo of the old tendency ot the blood still remains, as mav tic discovered by the example of a cow of this hreed which recently appeared at the London E gland) Dairy Show, and which gave llftyslx pounds of milk In the twenty-four hours, with a test of :.;in per cent of the fat in the morn ing milk and n.ou percent, in the evening. The per cent, ol solids ; varied from 1 1.! to Hi.ti. This is a i most remarkable Instance of the re- ' appeaiance of ancient chara terislics ! alter many years. This breed of cows was once noted for its high percent age of fat in the m Ik and its large yield. The first Duchess, the pro-, gcnltor of the great lamily of this ( name, was a twenty-four-pound-a-woek cow. The milk, twenty-eight quai ts a day, when skimmed, was (old for - cents a quart. The income from this cow was the pleasant sum : or -1')., o a week. And this was on pasture alone. This seems to show that it might be well Worth while to reinstate this unexampled breed in its old productiveness and by atten tion to this still Inchoate and recov erable duality make It the most use ful of all cows. Kngland the best turnip crops and those having the best quality are ' grown in tho northern parts of the ; Island. Whenever the temperature ' g ,es above liO degrees the turn p he j comes h-.t, and if the hot weather , continues long it becomes pilhy and ! wortneaten. The flavor of turnips is j improved by light fr e.ing. They i are much sweeter as well as larger than those grown during hot weather. ! Canada grows better turnips than ! does the States. More, too, is made ' or turnips in Canada, lecausein somo places Indian corn is not a certain crop. The Ameer ot Afghanistan. Abdur ilahmau Khan, is a grandson oi losl Mahomet lie was recognized as sov ereign in 1811. 'i he four provinces KaouL Turkistan. Herat an I Kan dahar, are practicany under P.rit.sh prolectiou" except against the Am, er's agents of robbery. There are two harvests a year, but ten would not sa isf the coriupt tax gatherers. There are no navigable rivers and no whee.ed carriages in the country, wiiicu is bound u.ti mate,y to be lighting ground for l.Ussia in her apprua h to the liritish dominion in that paif of the east. Tne ;opulat;on consists of loo.odi tr.hesiuen. It is not generally known that tlieie are slaves n Afghan istan. Tney ae appurlcnam es of the land system. Thi is headed by hereditary land ord., who rent to ten ants, woo rent again tu subtenants, wiio woik the round with the help of hired lab ireis wnom they pay in produce or money, and under these are si, iv s wiio get nothing but fool and soell-r for their toll. The are geneiaiiv better oil than the sub 1 tenants. i. recce has been experiencing of 1 late almost as frequent change of cahinets as Italy or France, 'ihe ' king, George 1., Lorn .n . is iii and of : ae in l-.o-', eri.oysau income of . liih, -i oeO a year, of wh ch y 0 i.uoo is paid ' by the governments of Croat i P.tiiain, 1- ranee, and I ussia. Tho legislative power is invested in ! tne sing e chamber called the boule, ' chosen i,y manhood suiTiiige for four I yeais. 'ihe number of members is 1..0. The population is a little over U.OtiO.ooi). The heir is l'r uce Kon stantinos, born l-iisand married in iss'j io Princess Sophia of J'ru.ss a. The foreigners who l.ve in Greece arc gradually mo lenii.ing many of its dilapidated antique customs and n-; Simmons. Ancient poesy still llnds , one occupaton la thful shepherds j are s per cent, of the population. Of the 1 tt.e powers that are nti teately connecled with the whole world by reason of a peculiar institu tion Monaco is ihe smallest and most influential. Its arei is not one twentieth that of C hicago and its population is I-'.i.hiii. The army c in sists of seventy live men. It has its own coinage, bsowii postage stamps and its own Prince, Albeit, bom ,u I 4s, who succeeded his father in iss'.i and has been married twice, tlrst to Lady Mary Douglas Hamilton, and se ondly to Alice, Dowager Duchess (1 i.ichelieu. The gambling at Monte Carlo, whence the Prince'de rives hi-income of not less than 8rj.,0, i Oit, in additidii to what he can rake oil' iu one way and another, is a "con cession." The game was founded in 1 s."is arid pa.v s the syndicate $l,uuo, iioo a year. A number of suicides en liven each year and the Prince is a scientific gentleman in his tastes. The spiritual and temporal go. em inent of the principality is carried on out of revenues from - the gam.ng tables. reduce it a number of p;pes run down the whole length ot the caisson and shell. These open at the bottom of the caisson and at intervals of ten leet above, so i hat by forcing water through them it was possible to di m iiisn the bold of the surrounding earth on the steeL Th f pace be tween the two shells was filled with lubble concrete. The sinking pro gressed with no more than the usual delays: as the shells went down under the weight ot the concrete placed between them, aided by the le moval of the earth w ithin by means of bucket dredges, plates were added to ihe top until the whole was at the required depth. Tne masonry pier built on top of this cylinder is of limestone backed by concrete. It is thirty tight feet in diamter and eighteen and one-hall f ol high. (ii-lllnn Kill lit Corn Nun t Many thousand dollars are lost every year by the prevalence or smut In corn. It Is a growing evil and worst In local. tl'-s where corn Is grown successively on the same ground for a number of years. It does not propa gate on the seed or in the soil unless possibly where It is made very rich with manure. It Is very rapidly propagated in contact with heating man .re. Hence It is a great tnls tako to throw corn alTected by smut on manure heaps or to feed it to stock. The safest way Is to burn any piece of smut as soon as id appears, in this way the disease may bo stamped out. it Is possible that spraying with liord aux mixture might de stroy it, but the smut nppoars r. a mass, while tho mixture would only afTect tho outside. It Is also so scat tered that It is easier to cut olf the affected part nnd burn It than to ap ply anything to It Tho propagation of smut Is of'.ta Increased by Inlurlcs To th.- Tolnt. MuitTAii and paint may be removed from glass with hot, sharp vinegar Mksd the torn pages of books with white tissue paper. Don't shut the lidsof pots, boilers and sauce-pans when putting them away. it retains the odor ol cjokery. Tu hkmove tar, rub in grease (lard is as good as an . thing , until the spot ! seems pretty well loosened, and then wash in plenty of hot water anu soap. T. tak K iron mould out of linen, hold the spots over a tankard of boil ing water and rub with juice of sorrel and salt, and when the cloth is thor oughly wet clip quickly in lve and wash at once. S die housewives say that the col ors ot cott n fabrics will become "set" if salt and water is employed, three gills of salt to four quarts ol water. The calico is dropped in the water while hot. and there remains until it Is cold Ti kmi's boiled with their jackets on are of better llavor and le a watery. A small Inmpof sugar added, while the vegetable is cooking, cor rects the bitterness often found in them. If to be served mashed, run through a colander. If you have black or tinted cam brics or muslins which you hesitate to trust to Ihe laundress give them a first dip yourself In water, into which you have stirred a toaspoonful of black pepper. This Is also said to save gray and bulT linens from spots when used in llrst water. It- you have never tried apple (ihort cake, try it now. Prepare it exactly as you would strawberry shortcake, using apple sauce in pla o of the berries: and by the timo apples grow again you may consider an apple shortcake as great a treat as straw berry shortcake. Tho reigning monarch or Corea is simple Li-Hi in Celestial language, but there is translation adequate in plain Knglish. King Shoal Suing was his father and is duly worshiped. The heir is ID years old. Aristocracy is hereditary and the will of the iuDn arch is absolute. He is not trou led with rebellious legislators. The mili tary attaches of the departments of government carry matchlocks. Thjre are departments of ceremonies, war, civil al'airs, justice, public works, finance., and foreign affairs, of which foreign aiiairs is the least important and ceremonies the most important. The upper classes' adhere to Confu cianism and Chinese classics mark the high t de of Corcan culture, lluddhist monasteries are numerous. Two American professors tei.ch Kn glish in a government school and ex otlleersof our army are teachers in the military school. The hermit kingdom is y elding slowly to modern Ideas. A railway Is projected be tween the, cap tal ana one or tne turee. treaty ports at which alone foreign trade is allowed. 'LONGEST OF SWING SPANS. A Hi:c Business n licokeii ; Has. "The business of buying broken plate glass" said J. L Lightfoot, ' is assuming vast proportions It has arisen as an outgrowth of the plate glass insurance plan, and is t ing rapidly developed. I late-glass insurance is of comparative recent origin, and was a little slow in hu Id ing up, but it is now a very impor tant feature of the insurau eb ' liess, and several large c mi pan e. w th ample capital are competing for this class of risks. At first a broken plate was a total loss, as it had a. so a. ways b en in the glass factories, out it soon began to be util ed and now the insurance companies arid the glass-works have no trou.de in dis posingof the fragments These ara cut into a large number of ways tne principal one, of course, being into small r panes and ornamental shape.. In addit on to these paperweights and oilier articles are made. Small diamond-shaped paries of plate glass for front doors and for tunnel win dows are very popular, and a. lord a prolit jto the concerns that make them, and these a e almost invaria bly pice s of some large plate that was broken. An a1 cidont to a plate glass window no longer results in a total loss. St. Louis Globe Demo crat. Incivility of American Servants. .said an Knglish woman to the 1 w.iler "Your society women are charming, your men are refreshingly 1 different from those I meet in my set on the other side of the water, but yuur servants, most of them at least,, are simply unspeakable. Don't think me guilty of liriti-h egotism if I 1 say that the only decent servants I ! have seen since my slay here are, - those who ap areutly were not ! trained in American households. Personally, I think that the bad con duct of a servant is as much a rellec tion on the mistress of a house as is the bad behavior of her children. The servant who closes the door in a visitor's face, or leaves him or her standing n the hallway during the presentation of a card, or who fails to use a respectful title when ad dr ssing the caller, or who is imper tinent or careless who has tousled hair, or calls her mistress 'she,' I say such a servant may bo forgiven on tho strength of his or her ignorance of tho amenities of society. But as for the matron who permits these things, why, she Is either unaccus tomed to have servants about her or she cannot teach them the o dinary politeness that she herself lacks." New York Times. Hi III n Utile Itooin la-It. The census of 1800 shows that II the population of tho United Statef was put Into Texas there would be more snace for each person than there now Is In Massachusetts. InTexas there would bo 2.10 persons to the square mile, while In Massachusetts there are 2't persons to tho square mile. Fort Worth (Tet) Gazette. That Mow Hring CollHtrurtod ftt Ormtha Will SloHsure fl'-i" Kent. A bridge across the Missouri lUver between Last Omaha and Council Pluils Is remarkable as possessing the longest swing span in the world .",2o feet being tlft.cen feet longer than the swing span of tho bridge over tho Thames liiver, in ( onnecti etit. Tho st.ru ture was designed by Prof. .1. A. I. Waddell, of Kansas City. The construction of the pier of this swinir span presented many features of interest to engineers. Prom a long article in Engineering News it appears that tho work was begun by sinking a steel caisson for a foundation, much as A. P. Holler .started to work on the swing span of the large bridge in New York City a year ago. The outer shell of the caisson is forty feet in diameter and the inner twenty l'cet, the latter spreading out at the base to join the former and thus gl e a culling edge. Loth Si. ells a e mde of half-inch sleel, re-en forced at tho lower edge, where thoy meet, by two bands of 1: eh sleel, ope inside and the other outside. Tho two shells were kept In their proper relative positions by braces running between them, of which thoro were twenty in all, made of half-Inch plates. Tho caisson proper is sixteen feet high. Above this tho two cylinders extend to a height of 100 feet, making a total of 1 Hi feet from the cutting edge to tho top of tno cylinder. Above tho cais son tho plates are reduced in thick ness to three-eighths of an inch and are braced by bars and rods rather than the heavier and more costly plates required in tho lower part. Tho friction of the earth against such a long cylinder is very great, and to He Got Even at Ijiist. "That 'all things come to him who waits' has been proved to me more than once," said Judge Henry Mc Kit.ney. "One day when I was a boy ot Dor 10 years I was seut on an errand a long way into tho coun try. On my way home, being hot and thirsty, I climbed over a fence into a meaduw and began picking some wild strawberries. All of a sudden this owner of the farm came rushing up behind me and struck me a brutal blow with a heavy oxgad, al most, cutting my body In two. As 1 started to run away he hit me again, a most vicious blow. 'Old man,' said I, 'I'll get even some day.' I did, but it was thirty years later. I was called upon to defend the property and rights of some orphan children. As it happened, the oppressor was the man with the oxgad. In sum ming up I told the story of the brutal blows that I had received in that nicadnw thirty years ago. 'There is the man that did it,' said I to the jury. 'Do you wonder that such a man wouict ron orpnau cnuurcu. The jury didn't seem to wonder a bit, for I got a verdict in my favor in less than five minutes." Clove laud Plain Dealer. Navatfe I'roverhs. The provei bs of savages are shrewd and pithy. The liasutos says, "The thief catches himseir;" tho Yorubas, "He who injures another injures him self." tho Wolofs, "Pie fore healing others, heal yourself." In Accra they say, "Nobody Is twice a fool;" among the Oji, "The moon does not grow full in a day;" "The poor man has no friends." A Pashto p. over. says, "A feather does not stick without gum.'' Others aro: "A crab 'does not bring forth a bird;" "A razor cannot shave 1 ts If;' "Cross the river before you abuse the crocodile " "Truth is only spoken by a strong man or a fool;" "Pcrseverence always tri umphs" "The thread follows tho needle:" "Preparation is b tier than afterthought" Westmlustcr lie view. Colored I Oil neat ion in Uifl (South. Thoro aro 2','M negro schools now In tho South where 250. not) negroes have learned to road and most of them to write. In tho colored schools are 2 m, 000 pupils and 20,000 negro teachers. There are 1 f0 schools for advanced education and seven colleges administered by negro presi dents and faculties. Charleston Mews and Courier.
