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CAS AND ELECTRIC LIGHTS.
The Now Style of Illumination Rapidly
Growing in Public lavor.
ECOMOMY OF THE STORAGE BATTERY.
An Ingenious Hlnctrlc Ijifjl't ' House
Invented by nn Australian Kleo-
trlcily and Milk A Six Mil-
Hun Candle
It may perbaps bo Interesting if wo refer
to the relative position of gas and cloctrlo
lighting , and In order to do tills wo must ro-
vlow the status of thotwoilluminnnts during
the past thrco years , says tbo London Elec
trical Review. In 1887,18S8 , and during tbo
first half of last year , gas companies and the
supporters of the older light regarded with
indifference the gradual Increase in the
use ot the electric light , and the con
census of opinion arrived at by them
wns that there was not the slight
est fear that electricity for Illumination pur
poses would bo n formidable competitor of
gas. Statements to the effect were frequently
undo nt the meetings of the gns companies
nnd the shareholders wore assured that the
possibility of the use of the elcctrio light actIng -
Ing detrimentally to their undertakings wns
entirely out of tlio question. As tlmo passed
mvay there oamo into existence numerous
companies for lighting by electricity the
most remunerative to gns companies Loiv
don districts and provincial towns. In some
instances the gas companies opposed ttio np
plications made by electric light companies
for parliamentary powers , but their opposi
tion wns unsuccessful. Such was the stnto
ot affairs some tlmo ago.
At present , however , the position Is entire
ly changed , The inauguration of now ccn.
trnl elcctrio llgbt stations ana the erection of
others throughout the country have caused
soiiio gns companies to recognize tlio fact that
the clectrlo light is not only n competitor hut
that it is also gradually superseding gas in
many largo establishments , which were
formerly considered among the most profit
able customers to the gas companies. To
show to what nxtont this condition now pre
vails , AVO may mention that in tbo metropolis
alone the two largest companies , the Uns
Light and Coke and the South Metropolitan
have sold considerably less gns during the
half year ended .luiioIH ) than in the corro-
sponOInpr half ot last year. The amount ol
the dividends paid has also diminished , that
of tbo former company being 1,1 per cent , as
compared with ll ! % in the corresponding hull
of ISM ) , nnd that of the latter being 13 per
rent , as apnlnst lUl- ! Moreover , the gas
light and coke company found It ncrcssary
seine tlmo ago to increase tlio price of gas by
'M. per thousand. In those two Instances
the diminution in the consumption Is , ol
course , not considered by the companies con
cerned to bo duo to the competition of the
clectrlo light ; but U is significant that they
nro seeking now openings for the use of gnj ,
n fact which loads to the conclusion that the
two companies are fully awnro that In cer
tain districts they cannot possibly expect to
increase the sale of gas for lighting purposes
and that the diminution already taken.placo
must to a certain extent bo attributed to tbo
imidual adoption of the elcctrio light by
those who arc prepared to.pay for It Agniu
the directors of provincial gas commutes no
longer consider their position impregnable ,
nnd they nro therefore following the example
of the London companies by endeavoring to
extend the uses of gas , and at the same time
keeping a watchful eye ou the progress o :
tbo "coining" light.
It mayjapponr surprising that the share
holders In gas undertaking should take the
trouble to ascertain the position of the elec
trio lightning industry ; vet such Is the case
Wo know of Instances where the holders o
gas stocks have asked financial journals , rep
resenting the gas Industry , to explain the
present position of tbo oloctrio lighting husl
nojs | so fur as It related to the supply o
BOS , lu order thin they might decide whether
"TAT TT "TT r v
HEYMAN DEICHES ,
From Monday , Decento , 29tt , at 8. o'clock I M ,
Until WBtaJaj , December Sift at 6 o'clock ' P , I ,
. Cloaks , . - Will Be Sacrificed
Dresses and Tea Gowns , -
Dress Goods and Wrappers , - AT"I
' "I
Ladies' Knit Underwear , ll
Ladies' Muslin Underwear ,
OF-
Hosiery , - - '
Notions , - - -
Neckwear , - - . -
Children's and Infants' Wear , _ _ , _ _ _ _ _ _ ,
T TT „ T
Etc , Etc. , - - - - / On EVERYTHING
WeVant to Sell a Great Many Goods before
January 1 , 1891 , when Stock will be Taken.
HRYM I
o Increase their snares or otherwise.
Actions of this hind distinctly indicate the
eellng of distrust on the part of seine cas
harcholJers , for although in sonio instances
vhere the electric light has boon Introduced
ho consumption of gas 1ms augmented
owing to its being used for other thiin light-
tig purposes , yet in others the reverse has
been the result.
It would appear from this that the use of
jas for lighting is slightly diminishing , but
.hat for cooling and heating anil motive
lower puruoso * it is increasing. It is thcro-
roro in thcso directions that gas companies
will bo able to augment the consumption ,
and to tbeso three branches great attention
is being devoted. Tno days of the "no com
petition" theory have passed away and it is
satisfactory to llnd that many gas companies
realise the important fact that , notwithstand
ing its higher price , many consumers prefer
to have the electric light.
Economy of the Storage Battery.
L'E'.cctrlcIan furnishes some light on a
practical problem which frequently vexes the
users of storage batteries. It supposes a
typical case , and says :
A consumer supplied nominally by a ma
chine with a constant potential of 110 volts
wishes to keep four of five lamps lighted for
some lioursln thedaytimo , or when tno ma
chine is stopped for repairs or cleaning.
It Is evident , in this particular case , that ho
must have recourse to accumulators ; but the
solution that suggests itself , a priori , and
which consists of establishing n series of
ilfty-Hvo accumulators in derivation on the
dynamo , is far from being cither the most
economical or the most simple method.
In short , these fifty-five accumulators cti-
tail at the outset an expenditure which car.-
not bo less than 600 francs , as the smallest
industrial typo of accumulator costs at least
15 franca.
Wo should prefer to substitute for the four
or flvo lamps that tire to work while the
motor is stopped , iloublo the number of lamps
working at twenty-live or thirty volts , for in
stance , requiring only from thirteen to llftoen
accumulators for their maintenance. The
four or 11 vo lamps working at sevcnty-fivo or
eighty volts are connected in derivation Irora
one to another , but In scries with the battery
of accumulators , and in derivation on to the
terminals of the dynamo , which then charges
the battery at thosamo time as It supplies the
lamps connected in series with the accumu
lators.
At the moment of stoppage n single com
mutator cuts off the communication between
the accumulators and the machine and the
lamps of seventy-five volts , and places the
lams of thirty volts in derivation on the
accumulators. AVe thus realize a consider ,
able saving on the cost of the accumulators-
and wo are sure of charging thorn with a cur
rent that is very constant , which Is favorable
to their preservation. The doubling of the
lumps may bo avoided by installing lamps of
fifty volts which , during the charge , would
bo connected In series with the ac
cumulators , and in derivation on the
terminals of the dynamo. During
the discharge the accumulators and
the lamps would bo separated from
the dynamo , and the accumulators would
supply the same lamps of fifty volts. By
this second method twenty-seven or twenty-
eight accumulators would bo required instead
of llfty-llvo ; but the first plan is moro advan
tageous , for , taking Into the high price of the
accumulators ami their depreciation it Is still
more economical to double the number of ac
cumulators.
If the attendant should happen to forgot to
use the commutator at the moment when the
dynamo stopped , the accumulator * would
only bo discharged very slowly over the re
sistance represented by the lamps of seventy-
flvo volts introduced In the circuit charged.
It Is , moreover , easy to arrange that an auto
matic disconnector should effect the commu
tation at the moment of the stoppage of the
dynamo , for the current supplied by the ac
cumulators being of an opposite sign to that
supplied by the dynamo during tiio charge , It
must pass through zero In order to change its
sign , and thus the disconnector cannot fall to
act at the moment required.
Wo yUl suppose that lamps of flHy watts
( sixteen candles ) are required , each calling
for twcnty-llvo volts and about two amperes.
The output will DO flftecn amperes. Wo
shall rcqulro to use only thirteen accumula
tors Instead of thirty-two , In order to supply
this special service. Tncso accumulators
containing 100 available anipcru hours , will
insure the working of the tlvo lamps for Urn
lours , which is moro than sufficient in this
inrtloulnr ea.so.
Tbe method which wo Imvo described of
esscning the number of nccumtilutors re
quired in an installation with a potential of
110 volts may bo applied in all cases in which
these accumulators are only required to sup
ply a limited number of Limps Into at night ,
fnr example.
An Kim trio
Consul Coniiolly nt Auckland bus sent to
the stnto department u sketch of the Huiiun-
ford elcctrio lighthouse. Ho thinks it is
golne to revolutionize the lighthouse system
of the world. Mr. Connolly says so nuny
competent engineers and electricians in Now
Zealand who have examined the plant and
working models unhesitatingly dcciuro their
belief In the practicability of the scheme.
The "Hnnnnford light" invention embraces u
number of improvements in the construction
of cast iron towers for beacons or light-
bouses , Including wind mill attachment for
generating electricity to bo stoiud and used
in the form of light for the Ian tern , and of
power to turn the wind mill in times of calm
and rim ; a bell during fogs. Mr. uannaford ,
the inventor of the light , hns worked it pri
vately for some years before making it
known to the world , until now it Is as nearly
perfect as possible. Not only are the founda
tions and frame work designed with great
earo and skill , but the electric and other at
tachments -nrp so devised us to bo almost en-
tomatlc in their action.
A letter from the inventor , Mr. Hnnnnford ,
nccoiniianles Consul Connolly's ' report. Mr.
Ilanuaford , in describing his lighthouse ,
says : "It Is in three tiers vip to the revolv
ing cupola ( which carries the lamp ) , but , al
though the lamp , of course , revolves with the
cupola , the nro within doas not , but is nlwuys
broadside to one desired direction , the Icnso
pully nt its back facing ( that IH the back of
the lens ) the land. Now , the Icnso his spring
siilos , which , when oncratod , send electric
Hashes that can be plainly discerned
a distance of nt least thirty
miles Inland. Each hot of flashes
nro different from each other , and
represent the letters of the alphabet. An
export within the lighthouse can communi
cate with an expert intuiy miles Inland any
thing of Importance a supreme value in the
event of a marine disaster or In time of war.
Again , the arc can bo bent downward nnd
upward , swayed to right or loft , or nil around
tno compass , thus making It a Krcnt 'ocean
searcher.1
"Again , the arc is automatic , dooi Us own
lighting and extinguishing to nn hour , a
minute or a second. The storage of elec
tricity Is so novel that It Is abso
lutely Impossible to run short , even for an
hour , of ttio full strength of the 10,000 , candle
power , not even if there were a dead calm of
six months' duration.
Mr. Hannnford claims that he ran manu
facture , test and deliver on shipboard ttieso
lighthouses for $111,433 apiece. lie proposes
to letter and number all of the parts ,
so that the lighthouse can bo put
up , taken down and re-erected In n
now site by intelligent laborers. Jf any portion
tion is broken it cun be supplied from the
manufactory by sending on the number with
the order. One of thcso light-houses , the in
ventor claims , can bo put up easily anywhere
In a week. The parts are held together by
bolts and nuts. The American Brush elcctrio
light company has sucli faith in the inven
tion that It Is prepared to enter into bond for
a given tlmo to produce 1S,000 candle-power
light nnd the motor to toll the warning boll
without a break.
The Influence of Uloctrlcty on Ml Ic.
The following paragraph from the British
Journal has been going the rounds , but 19
still worthy of reproduction ! The effect of
thunder storms In turning millc sour is a
matter of constant observation in every
household. It is not certainly known to
what clomcnt In the air tills souring action
on milk Is to bo directly attributed , and most
are content to ascrlDoitto the "olcctrlcty In
the air. " Au Italian savant , Prof. Q. Tolo-
incl , has lately made some experiments with
the view of elucidating this question. Ho
found that the passage of an cloctrlo current
directly through the milk 'not only did not
hasten but actually delayed acldulatlon , milk
BO treated not becoming sour until from the
sixth to the ninth day , whereas milk not so
clcctrlilcd became markedly acid on
the third day. When , however ,
the surface ol n quantity of
milk was brought close under the two balls of
a I lultz machine the milk soon became aour.aiul
this effect ho attributes to the ozone generated ,
for when the disthargo wns silent the milk
soured with greater rapidity than when the
discharge was explosive in the former case
moro ozone thun in the latter. The souring
of milk is generally attributed to the growth
of n ferment ( bacterium ) , which converts the
milksunarlntolactinaold. It is possible , then ,
that the presence of ozonoin thoalr. overlying
the milk hastens the growth and multiplication
of the dnctcrlum. The llrst observation
namely , llio retardation of souring by the pis-
sago of a current through the millc may ( M a
point of practical importance to milk traders.
Any methods of preserving millc from Its
first rctrogrcbslva changes , which does not
Involve the addition of extraneous dubstat.ccs
( antiseptics ) to the millc , and which Is nt the
same time cheap , effective nnd not likely to
prove injurious to the consumer , is biiro to
bo welcomed utn time when millc is sent long
distances to market , nnd Is often stored for a
considerable time before It reaches the con
sumer.
J51cctrlo Trnmwny In Hnllo.
The urban horse tramway in Halle , Sax
ony , has just bean transformed into an elec
tric tramway on the well known Edison over
head system by the Allgcmeino Elektrlcltats
Uescllscliaft of Berlin. The tramway Is
probably the longest In Germany , beinp four
miles in length , says the Elcctrio Railway
Advertiser. It consists of a single line with
crossing places arranged at intervals to allow
of a six minutes' service. It is proposed to
place eventually twenty-flvo cars on the line ,
but at present only one-third of that number
Is in use. The generating station , which is
located in the tramway depot , contains tnrco
combined steam engines and boilers , the en
gines driving four dynamos , each of 100 h. p.
In the wldo streets the conductor is carried
on standards eighteen and one half feet high ,
arranged close to the curb , but in narrow
thoroughfares it h supported on insulators
attached to wires arranged transversely , the
wires being llxed on insulator. } to the walls of
the houses. Thus the lead is doubly insulated.
Each car , which will carry twenty-two pas
sengers , has bolted hi its under fiamo two
motors of together thirty n. p. This allows
of the car uaillv asccncfinir the numerous
gradients , and also permits of an additional
carbchiccoupled toil nnd yet maintain the
speed of flvo and onc-hnlf miles nn hour ,
which is the local maximum rate. The rails
form the return.
A Slx-Mlllion-Cniullo Tj | lit.
The most powerful artificial light In exist
ence Is the property of the English govern
ment , and is to bo found in the Isle of Wight.
The lamp referred to is that of the lighthouse
of St. Cathurino'A I'oint vhero there Is also a
largo foghorn. Tim plant lias three engines
of thirty-six horjo power each. Two of
those are used for working tno dynamos , nnd
the other for the fop-horn. The current is
conducted by wlros across a road direct from
the dynamos to the lamps , there being no ac
cumulators.
The Ilgiit Is obtained from a carbon lamp
of special pattern , The ordinary Unlit is
equal to 8,000,000 cnndles , hut a light of 0,000.-
000 candle-power can bo and has been ob
tained. It is Impoxftiblo for any ono who has
not scon it to Imagine the wonderful bril
liancy of the light , but some idea may bo
formed from tliu-iact that it can bo distinctly
seen forty-five miles away , and that at the
Needles , fourteen miles distant , It is quite
easy to road veryllino p hit by means of the
reflection.
On ono side of'tho lump room is a quantity
of very thick gloss for repairing thowlndows
broken , not by storms so much as by wild
ducks and sea blnlx which nro attracted by
the light. A sinrular feature of the light
house tower Is a plummet and line hanging
from the ceiling of n lower chamber , the
plummet pointing to a spot on the floor. This
is for the purpose of enabling thn man in
charge to tell when the tower is out of the
perpendicular. The lighthouse was built on
nn under cliff , formed by a gigantic landslip
which occurred in 1700 ana some portions of
this cliff are still slipping.
Hard on tJie IliitotiT.
An amusing story Is told of the early days
of the telephone by ono of the first subscribers
of the Chicago exchange , says the Now York
Sun. One day on answering the call bo dis
covered that the talker nt tno other end of
the line was ono of the prominent society
ladles of the South Side , who was under the
impression that she was talking to tier
butcher , "What do you mean , " she said ,
"by sending mo such a roast of beef us that
of yesterday I' ' "I asked her what was the
matter with It , " & } s thu narrator of the
story , ' 'and she replied that it wasn't fit for
a dog to eat. I sallied into her
right there , snylnij that I had
more trouble about her trade than that of all
my other customers combined , I told her
that she not only did not know a good piece
of beef when she saw it , hut that she did not
know how to prepare It , nnd that she didn't
know how to eat it after it was prepared.
Of course she rang mo off , and 1 went to my
desk and rolled over with laughter. In n few
days I had occasioa to go into the butcher's
shop , and I asked casually , 'Does Mr.
trade horonowl' mentioning the name of the
husband of the lady who had talked tome
mo over the 'phono. 'IsTo , sir,1 the butcher
replied. 'Ho came in hero nnd said that I had
Insulted his wife over the telephone. I tried
to explain , but ho wouldn't have it. Sol
have ordered the confounded thing to bo taken
out of here. I was afr.ud of it in the first
place and told the fellow that it wouldn't
work. It Is a humhuir. I suppose I oucht to
have told the butcher the truth , but I
couldn't the . Besides I
summon nerve. , en
joyed the tongue-lashing which I gave the
lady on the South side , although I always
feel guilty when I meet her. "
Tclncrapli MUCH.
The length of telegraph lines at the end of
1889 had reached a total of 1,080,000 miles ,
says the Electrical Keview. Of this total the
United States had 7i6f > 00 miles of wlro , on
which , in 18SS , no less than 80,500,000 mes
sages were sent. Franco has 220,890 miles of
wire , on which 80,050,000 dispatches were
transmitted last year. Great Britain posses
ses 180,000 miles of metal line , nnd In 18S9
sent 50,000,000 messages. Husslu has spun
out 170,500 miles , and In 0110 your dis
patched 10,280,780 missives. Astralla 1ms
strung across its surface no less than 105,800
miles of lre , nnd transmitted In 188 ! ) 11,000-
000 messages. Canada 1ms 5Sf > 00 miles and
made an annual record of about 4,027,581 , dis
patches. Italy owns 10,000 miles nnd did a
business la IbSO of about 7,000,000 electric
messages. Egypt has 5,500 miles nnd is in
connection with I mi In and England by sub
marine cables , on which lust year lGOOli05 ,
communications wcro transmitted from
ono end of the glebe to the other.
China has BrxiO , miles of wlro across
Mongolia , and Japan owns lflKuO miles , over
which 15,000,000 messages were sent in ono
year. New Zealand has covered Itself with
12,575 miles of metal cord and dispatched
1,83.1,394 messages. Tasmania has 2,500 , miles
of telegraph wires. Persia claims , in partner
ship \vith European wires , about 0,1,1 miles.
South Africa has a credit of 4.1I10 miles of
wire. There are , besides , 01.3 submarine
cables , exclusive of thn seven Atlantic cables ,
with an aggregate of 112,710 , nautical miles.
Klcotrleity the .Motor of ttio Future.
The assumption seems fair that the locomo
tive enirino will have been superseded when
wo double our speed , and that wo must find
wajs to utilize the weights of the cars them
selves for adhesion , and to make each carry
its own motor , writes Prof. It. H. Thurston
In The Forum. This evidently points to
electric traction , the only method as yet
discovered of keeping the horse in the
stable and yet of making him do hia
work without taxing us for his own car-
ringo. I Imvo very little question that , where
railways are carrying largo .lumbers of pas
sengers on short routes , a ? on our elevated
system of ro.ul whore , if over , wo inny
reach enormously high speeds the electric
motor , or some advance oven on that latest
marvel of invention nnd engineering , must
cotno into uso. Iloat , light nnd electricity
will then conspire In that coming revolution
which shall combine for us the speed of the
bird , the comforts of homo , nnd the safety of
the hermit's cell. And what must coma will
come.
Klootrlc ! Uglit for Miners.
The long list of mining casualties bears
witness to the readiness of the miner toriaic
his life nnd that of his fellows rather than
use the safety lamp which hns been employed
in "gassy" mines ever slnco Humphrey
Davy gave it to the woild , says the Chicago
News. The miner's objection to this lamp Is
that its glimmering light strains and Injures
the eyesight , nnd that half the tlmo ho is
working be cannot sco what ho is
doing. The consequence is that ho
lights a candle ana sticks It into
his cap and coolly plica his pick , even
though the bottom half of the mine bo filled
with the deadly cas which sinks there , being
heavier than the atmosphere , and actually
within n few feet of the light , contact with
which Mould fire the mine. Ills said that an
electric safety lamp has nou been devised
which meets nil the exigencies of mining
operations. The principle Involved Is an in-
gcnuious application of the storage
battery. Ttio lamp is smaller than a
Davy and weighs about thrco pounds.
It is protected by n very strong
glass lens , capable of withstanding any ordi
nary knocking about. The great advantage
of the lamp is that , as- its incandescent Ilia ]
inent burns only while in a perfect vacuum ,
if the glebe should be broken by nn excep
tionally heavy blow the light is Instantly ex
tinguished and the filament becomes cold bc-
fore the gas can come in contact with It. The
accumulator which Mipplies the current ,
though small and compact , hns great storage
capacity. When charged it Is oq.ua ! to ten
hours lighting.
VoltH.
Stuttgart , Germany , has a line ofjolectalc
cabs Is operation.
There are now 10,000 electric motors in use
In the United States distributed among MO
industries.
An electric gyroscopes has teen devised In
Paris nnd applied to show the rotation of the
earth and to correct ship's compasses.
American Ingenuity lends in the storage
battery race. Hccent tests of Prof. Main's
system show that his cells have more than
twice the working storage capacity per pound
of plato than the best English batteries.
SJT.Vf ? VL.l IlITfKS.
A negro woman nt Dryllno , Ln. , named
Anderson , recently gave ulrth to four cliil-
ilreii , who are nil alive nnd doing well.
A cauliflower measuring fifteen inches
across the top nnd weighing seventeen nnd a
half pounds ia the latest important farm pro
duct in Multnoinahcounty , Oregon.
A golden eagle weighing thirty-live pounds
was killed a short time ago on the Sisseton
reservation , Montana. The bird stood three
and a-half feet high and measured nine feet
from tip to tip ,
John Burger of 2201 South Sixth street ,
St. Joseph , Mo , , hns a black Spinlsh rooster ,
whoso bead is topped over nnd above the
usual llambojant scarlet "top knot" nnd
"comb" with a pair of slightly curved and
well developed Illnty horns.
The wild cockatoos of Quecnland , when
plundering a cornfield , post sentinels to give
nn alarm. If one bird is shot , the others , In
stead of nt' once talcing to ( light , hover
screaming over their dead comrade until
many of them share his fate.
"When some boys nnd a dog worn clinslnir a ,
rabbit at Uicli Hill recently , it took shelter
under n. hen with n brood of chickens. The
old hen nearly picked and scratched the eves
out of the dog , and from that day to this the
hen and the rabbit are inseparable.
A story of a flrecnt Savannah was rendered
novel by the addition of this little Incident :
A cat and several small kittens wore huddled
up for tbonifj'ht in Campbell's restaurant ,
the building adlolnlug where the tire wasand
as soon as the lire alarm rang the old catwith
motherly instinct for tno protection of her
kittens , carried them outside of tlio building.
A man while digging n well on the farm of
C. II. Moore , west of Ocland. Platt county ,
Illinois , came to n strata of clay so hard that
ho was compelled to use dynamite for llftcen
feet to rcinovo It. After digging down slxty-
flvo feet and boring twenty-two feet ho
struck n lake of water , which forced him to
get out of the way of the rushing current ,
which rose llfty fuel in thirty minutes , and
is still rising.
C , Hnpermnnn. n well known resident of
Morrisvlllo , has lost the use of his right liund
inn singular manner , says the Philadelphia
Record. Ho went to bed as usual ono night
a week ago and fell nsleop with his right
liana under his head. On awakening in the
morning ho could not ralso his arm. It was
paralyzed , and all efforts thus far to put the
blood in circulation have fulled. It is thought
it will bo months before he will bo able to uuo
his hand again.
A funny a tor)1 of elephants ccmos from the
Philadelphia zoological garden. A few days
nqo three elephants wcro discovered quietly
chewing gum , with all the apparent enjoy
ment of the school girl. Tnoy find supplied
themselves witu the article In the sluipo of
llfty ftictof rubber garden hose , which Is at
tached to a hydrant In the building and used
for cleaning out the stalls. When not in use
the hose Is stretched at length on the floor ,
Immediately beneath the elephant fjirc.s. In
reaching for nuts ono of the beasts had IHVI-
dentally found the hose and drawn it Into the
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cage. Alllmd then'taken nshnro , and whoa
discovered had succeeded in ruining the en
tire length of lioso.
Birghovia VluJomosti , a St , Petersburg
daily , reports that ono of the students In the
University of Kharkov is n living anatomical
curiosity. Ho has Ills heart on the right sldo
of his breast , Ills llvor under tlio left ribs , the
spleen on the right side , and the right luntf
b longer than the loft. 'I'lio physicians who
have examined him holiovo that Ins wJfflQ
Inside Is Just reversed ; they sayVmiTiioK.
the only specimen of this kind.vhlcb . they
have heard of. S
Sonio years ngo a farmer living near Row-
ton , ia Shropshire , noticed on a path in a ,
field a bole which had been suddenly made
by seine mysterious and unknown agent ,
Tbo laborers who \voro near told him that
they had just heard a remarkable noise or explosion -
plosion , and when the farmer put his baud
down into tho-hole ho felt something hot at
the bottom of it , Ho too It a spailo and duff
up the strange body nnd found It to boa
piece of iron weighing about live pounds.
James Arthur , the giant of Wisconsin , dlccl
the other day at his homo in Linden , that
state. Arthur laclieda little of being seven
feet in height , was symmetrically built , and
weighed , when in health , an averageof 850
pounds. Ho could lift an bOO-pound weight
without straps , nnd toss a full barrel of
whisky into a wagon by the chinos. .Although
froijuently offered largo sums to travel as a
freak , ho preferred the life of n granger nnd
had one of tlio Jlncst farms in souUicm Wis
consin.
Nearly nine months ago L. C. Mediation , a
locomotive engineer living nt IMoadvlllo , Pa. ,
wns caught In ncollsioa nnd. so badly Injured
that ho bus bcon a confirmed invalid , unnblo
to work , 'over since. Ho could scarcely stnnd.
and suffered intense pain constantly , 111.4
case puzzled the physicians nnd scoined hope
less. Sunday evening MoMnhon fell asleep
on the sofa at his homo. In changing position
ho rolled off heavily on the floor. Ho felt
something snap , suffered nu instant of ex
cruciating pain , and then sprang to his feet a
well man. Hols now recovering his old ro
bust health raiililly.
Tlio Winter of Our Content -1"
Js the title of n recent charming paper
by that brillnnt writer Charles Dudley
Warner , wherein the glories of the *
1'nclllo coast , as n winter resort , nro- " " *
mofat graphically described. The Amor-
Icnn people are beginning to understand
Unit the Pug-ot Sound country IB ono of
our most splendid noshu&ioiis nnd tlrnt
tlio natnoof the "Mediterranean of the
1'acillo" IB a happy tltlonot iniHiippliod.
In speaking of Mount Tncoina , Senator
Gooryo P. Edmunds Bays :
"I would bo willing1 to RO 500 inlloa
n < jaln to sco that bcono. The continent
Is yet in Ignornncoof what will ho ono
of the grandest show plnces us well
ns Banitnriums. If Switzerland la
rightly culled the playground of
Kuropo , I am satisfied tlmt
around tlio biso ; of Mount Itainlor will
become u prominent plnco of roi-ort. not
for America only , but for the world bo-
fldes , with tliouHiimls ot sites for build *
\nu \ purposoH , that nro nnwhoro oxuolloil
for the grandeur of the view that can be
obtained from thorn , with topofjrnphlcal
foaturoa that wonli1. innko the most per
fect system of tlnilnngo both posblblo
nnd easy , nnd with a most agroanblo and.
lionlth ( 'ivingcliinnto. "
'rhouHands of dollglitca tourists over V
the Union P.nllls nho past year "boar
ample luHtlmony to ttlio bouuty 'and
majesty of this now oinplro of the 1'aclflo
northwest.
_
r j
\Vcnttier I'rolmbllitlRH.
For Dccomhor Indications point to
cold , frosty weathor. That , however ,
will miilio no dilTeroneo to tlioso who
travel in the stoam-hcatod and uloc-trlc-
llf htod , limited voHtlhulo train which
IB run only by the Ohleii o , Milwaukee
k St. Pnul ny. b3twoan Ornnlia nnd
Chicago. Tins olognnt train loavoa
Omaha , ut 0:10 p. in. arriving in Chicago
lit 0:30 : n. in. , in tlmo to make alloiiHtorn
connections For furlhor Information
apply ul city ticket olllco , 1BOI Karnain
fU.Omitlui. IA. . NASII ,
J. K , PIIRSTO.V. ( Jenernl Agent
City I'asbcnjjcr Agent.