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FREAKS OF UUUTNLNG.
A Force of Nature Not Yet Un
derstood by Sclenoe.
Its Action as au explosive Receiving- At
tention from the Weather Bureau of
Late-Some Extraordinary Pranks
llay.d by Thunderbolts.
So mysterious and little understood
is electricity even now that It is so
wiilely utilized for mechanical pur
poses, that its vag-aries in nature ex
cite the utmost interest. The ques
tion recently discussed by Italian sci
entists, as to whether a bird can be
struck by lightning, seems to be an
swered In the aflirmative by the de
struction of a whole flock of wild
geese on April 30 last. Twenty-two of
them, nying north over Casnovia,
Mich., were slain by a bolt from the
sky. Such an extraordinary event
would have been regarded as an
ominous portend a century or two ago.
The action of lightning as an explo
sive is a subject that has elicited
special attention from the weather
bureau of late. Up to date no theory
has been found to account for it satis
factorily. On April 30, 18SI4, a brick
house at Keokuk, la., was struck and
completely wrecked as if a bombshell
had done the work. One day earlier a
larmliouse near Kiowa, Kan., the prop
erty of I). K. Streeter, was completely
ruined by a bolt, the roof, doors and
windows looking as if they had been
shot full of holes. At Barberton, O.,
on June 18, 189, the dwelling of Wil
liam Martin was literally torn to frag
ments by a similar agency.
Inasmuch as two hundred people are
killed every year by lightning in the
United htates special protection for the
person is surely called for. One in
genious scientist mentioned by the
Philadelphia Times has devised an um
brella with small copper chains at
tached to the end of the ribs. These
are long enough to reach the ground.
A thunder-storm coming up, they are
loosened and permitted to dangle,
while the owner of the contrivance
walks along in perfect security. Under
such circumstances metal about one's
body is dangerous for exumple, the
wires in a lady's bonnet. Hut this peril
may be overcome by fastening similar
chains or copper threads to the frame
work of the headgear. Though a bolt
should destroy the bonnet, the elec
tricity would spare the wearer and pass
off into the ground. An instance on
record i.i that of a lady who raised her
arm to shut a window as rain began to
fall on n i.ummer's day. There was a
sudden lil:;.e of light and, though she
was un.ianne.l, her gold bracelet dis
appeared so that no vestige of it could
be iound. A sulphurous smell was ob
served in the air. This, scientific men
say, is quite usual when lightning
strikeii, being due to an excess of ozone
generated by the electricity. The at-
moi-phero in its usual condition con
tains one ten-thousandth part of ozone.
When this proportion is increased in
convenience is felt by men and ani
mals. It ho,:; been smre-ested that some
times persons iound dead after a stroke
of lightning, though showing no marks
of injury, may have been suffocated by
ozone.
Lightning does occasionally strike
twice in the same place. A few years
ago St. Aloysius' church in Washington
suffered. A flash ran down the light
ning rod to within twenty feet of the
ground. Then it left the rod, passed
through twentj feet of air space to a
water pipe and broke a washstand.
Six years later the same thing was re
peated in every detail, the electricity
leaving the rod at the same point,
jumping to the water pipe and smash
ing to pieces the washstand, which had
not been mended. The Church of the
Incarnation, in Washington, was also
badly hit. To prevent a repetition of
the accident the cditice was protected
by a very elaborate and costly system
of rods. The most important rod, of
course, protects the steeple. It ought
to terminate In a sharp poiut, but the
church authorities thought it more ap
propriate that it should lie surmounted
oy a cross, on top of which was placed
a rooster. Thus the usefulness of the
defensive contrivance has been almost
wholly destroyed, for so it stands at
present.
The introduction of lightning rods in
Roman Catholic countries was strongly
opposed ou religious grounds. Pious
persons declared thai the devices were
of the devil, and called them "heretic
rods." It was a long time before the
churches would adopt them, though
buildings of that description have al
ways been the greatest sufferers from
celestial fire, on account of their tall
steeples. During the last century a
certain church in tarinthia was struck
so often that services were discontinued
during the summer months. It was hit
four or five times a year on an average.
In 1778 a rod was put ou, and there was
no further trouble. At Stratsund, in
Pomerania, a church was the scene of
a very appalling occurrence. On a. Sun
day, the building being full of people,
a ball of fire entered and fell upon the
altar, thereupon exploding and doing
great damage.
As to the nature of phenomena of
this sort science knowsnlmost nothing.
Such globular lightning is seen quite
often, but nolody con guess how it is
formed. All that can be said is that it
is electricity very highly concentrated.
Halls of lightning are sometimes seen
rolling along the surface of the sea.
Occasionally they strike vessels. Aa a
rule they burst violently with s loud
nois and disastrous effects.
SNAKE SKINS AS NECKTIES.
The Cuticle of a Thirty-Year-Old Now a
Fart of Correct heckwear. 1
Just several sbadosroircved fr'tri the
chameleon f.-vl is the idea of wearing
snake skins for neckties, but the fashion ,
is growing in lialtimore. It promises I
to become quite the proper caper to 1 I
seen in immaculate morning suit of the '
latest London cut, with the tanned
cuticle of a three-foot reptile neatly '
tied around tie snowy "choker" collar, j
nr wht-ror other nyti fif Unfn aeclc-'
wear happens to be the rage. The fad
will never become generally violent,
says the New York Recorder, for fine
snake skins come high, and the crop
may thin out so as to let the West Vir
ginians, who make a business of catch
ing the possessors of variegated outer
coverings, create a corner in the mark -t
and coin a fortune. To !j in the swiui
nowadays, and have the swagger thing
in neckties, a lialtimore man must not
only wear a snakeskin, but the euticle
of a "rattler" of about thirty years of
age. The peculiar color of the rattler,
when he has passed in his checks and
gone to snake celestial spheres, is what
makes the skin more valuable than
when his fangs are still doing the
poison business at the old stand.
The necktie must be that of a snake
of age, standing and family, for a
young scion of the house of rattler
doesn't seem to possess all the quali
fications as to color and durability of
hide the head of the house can lay
claim to. Presumably it's because a
snake of three decades or so has been
through about all the different kinds
of dissipation known to the reptile
world, and his physical hide is cogni
zant of no more compunction than his
moral nature. Then an old rattler is
generally larger than a young chap,
and a tie about a yard in length is
bound to bring more in the market
than a whipper-snapper snake could
show before he reaches his majority.
No other kind of a snake indigenous to
this section of the country would an
swer the purpose half as well as a rat
tler, because but few varieties attain
his length and Falstaflian girth, ex
cept the copperhead and black snake,
and their colors, while brilliant enough
during life, are not of the right shade
after the tanner has had his innings.
A copperhead skin assumes too much
of a dull brown to harmonize with odd
ideas in neckwear, and the black fel
lowwell, his hide might answer for a
seedy individual's mourning tie, but
nothing else. The rattler's color, when
all the fight has been taken out of him
and his remains have been subjected to
the process that prepares them for
men's furnishing use, is something on
the very dull gold or ecru order. The
black rings show distinctly and they
lend the odd effects that have so capti
vated the swells. Then when a back
and lining have been put on the skin
the tie is ready for use, but they tire
worth an even three dollars any day,
counting two dollars and a half for the
skin, which is the average price of a
rattler of thirty, yeofn' standing, in
cluding all the trouble the catcher and
tanner combined have had to take.
WILLIAM LEADS A BAND.
The Kaiser Did Not Like the Way the
March Was Going.
A Berlin letter says: There is, of
course, nothing that Emperor William
cannot do. He knows everything, and
can give the most learned a good start
and an easy beating in all branches of
art, literature, music, soldiering, or,
in fact, any other matter that mortal
man knows anything about. The mil
itary band of the Poot guards, which
is about one of the best in Europe,
was playing a march in the court-yard
of the Schloss a few days ago, but the
time did not suit William. He thought
he kn.ew more about it than the con
ductor, so he straightway emerged
from the palace, stopped the music
and, taking the baton from the band
master's hand, conducted the piece
himself to his beating. The musicians
were in a state of terror, but lie
warmed them up to a galop time, and
when he had finished returned the ba
ton to the conductor with the remark:
"Next time you play that march play
it properly. I have given you the cor
rect time. Now dismiss the band, go
to the barracks and play nothing else
for a week." This order was religious
ly carried into effect, and for a whole
week the guards knew no other melody
but that eccentric inarch, which no man
could keep step to.
Another matter which has upset
William's equilibrium is the fact that
the people stare at him in church. He
doesn't like it, and has now ordered
that whenever he attends diviue serv
ice all seats of which he can see the
occupants, or from which he can be
seen, shall be filled by soldiers, so that
he may not be disturbed in'liis prayers.
The soldiers are compelled to look
straight before them, and any devia
tion of the head from the "eyes front"
is punished by confinement to barracks
and heavy pack drill.
Although he does not Imitate his
great-grandfather in criticising a ser
mon in the pulpit during the progress
of its delivery, William nevertheless
follows in his footsteps with regard to
limiting its length, and shortly after
his accession issued strict command
to the effect that none of the court
chaplains should preach more than ten
minute sermons. The kaiser savs hv
enforcing this rule he has contributed
in no small degree to theextraordinarv
revival of religious sentiment through
out Prussia that has signalized his oc
cupancy of the throne. Certain it is,
ne asserts, that a ten-minute sermon is
far more effective and beneficial than
one of twenty, thirty, forty or even
sixty minutes. It forces the preach
ers to be concise and to concentrate a 1
that is best and strongest of his argu
ment in that brief span Instead of
scattering it over a longer period of
time a process that naturally dimin
ishes its vigor and its force.
Fatal Acstbetlcism.
A Seattle family has a yellow dog
with a singular love for flowers, which
frequently gets him into trouble. The
dog, after making sure that the coast
is clear, will go into the garden and
pluck a number of flowers, ami. plac
ing them in a heap, will lie down and
go to sleep with his now In the bunch.
Hi6 favorite flower is the nx, and he
Invariably bites the stem four or five
inches below, so ae to not injure the
flower. All his actions indicate that
ne enjoys the porruiue of the flowers,
and it rarely happens that lie is not ;
seen with sointt choice flower in his j
mouth. The only trouble is that he i
culls from every garden he eeea, sud In ',
ooaaoquenoa ha narrow 1, sceprl be- !
ing ht frr his ajtic
HANDY WITH A GUN.
A Montana Man Who Was a Ter
ror to Stage Robbers.
(Then He Went Out on Business lie
Objected to Being Delayed on the
Koad How He (lot Ills
Reputation.
"The business of holding up stages in
the west and robbing the mails and the
passengers would not be followed by so
many desperadoes if a few more of the
travelers were like old Robert Lane,
who lives near Dillon, Mont.," said
Oeorge Craig, of llutte, to a reporter
for the Washington Star. "Lane is as
quiet and peaceable a citizen as ever
went to church on Sunday and put his
four bits into the contribution box. He
has lived in Montana for twenty years,
and even in youth he never personally
indulged in the old-time wild excesses
of life out there, nor in any of the hur
ly burly of frontier existence. He has
always pursued the even tenor of his
way on his little ranch near Dillon and
ever been regarded as the safest and
most peaceable citizen in the communi
ty. He is called 'Old Man Lane' out in
Montana and everybody knows him.
Several years ago the old man went
down to Red Rock, which is nearer to
his ranch than Dillon is, to take the
stage for Junction. The mules were
pulling the outfit along pretty lively
through a right nnsty piece of road,
when the passengers were startled by
hearing a voice commanding the driver
to throw down his reins. There were
three or four passengers on the inside
and if it had been light enough to see
thorn they would have looked mighty
w hite, I tell you. But old man Lane
was made of different kind of stuff.
When he heard the agent tell the driver
to drop the reins he just reached back
mid pulled out two guns that he used
to curry, because it was the custom of
the country to do it, and kept his eye
fixed on the doors, looking first at one
door and then the other quickly, so as
to see the thieves when they made an
appearunce.
"A shadow fell in each door window
about the same time, and quick as a
Hash old man Lane's guns were stuck
through either opening and off they
went. He got meat both cracks. Then he
leaned out the window and banged
loose at the fellow who had ordered
the driver to hold up. . Ho got him,
too, and then jumped out of the stage.
Thei'e were four of the road agents,
and the last one, alarmed at the fate
of his companions, stuck spurs into his
horse and rode away up tin? trail, j he
passengers, who had nearly recovered
fru:n their terror and surprise, were
now umaiied to see old man I. une cut
the l'sirness from the lend mule, jump
on his bark, and go sailing away after
the !!:-cing fugitive. Shots were heard
plv!!;,' s ti. mid in ten minutes or so
buck c'.tme old man Lane, leading the
IktuIh.'s horse, while the man himself
vas sitting up in the saddle, shot
t'li'iiiigh the back. On examination it
f'nind that two of the attacking
party were killed and the other two
tveunded. and the whole quartette was
1 Ton -lit into Junction. When old man
Lime was asked what caused him to
I. loom out into such a progressive citi
zen nf the territory, he drawled out:
'Well. 1 had a good deal of business to
i.'ticr.d to up here at Junction, and I
di In't like the idee of being stopped
when I was on my way to attend to it.'
One of the men was not very badly
ivomuled, and before leaving Junction
to return home old man Lane went to
sea him in the temporary lockup
'Look here, my friend,' he remarked, 'I
jiv-t want to give you a little bit of ad
vice. If you persist in a-following of
Hie business that you have started out
in when 1 sort of stopped you, I think
it would be safer for you if you would
look over the way bill of any stage you
might intend to hold up. and find out
in advance who it was a-carrying.' Old
man Lane is living yet, and is as hale
and hearty as you please, and if he
starts on a stage rido now anywhere in
Montana the driver don't even think it
necessary to lock the treasure box."
THE SABINE CANYON.
Wonders of the lireat Natural Park In
the Coast Itauge.
Attention was drawn recently hy a
Hon l-'runcisco paper to a natural park
in the coast range, which in scenic
beauties is no mean rival of the great
Yosi'inite. The picturesque features of
the southwest do not seem to be ex
hausted, or even adequately noticed,
for now there is a new wonder brought
to the front, the Sabine canyon. The
mouth of the canyon is about twenty
five miles northeast of Tucson, A. T.
One who has visited it says: "The size
of Sabine canyon ranks with the Yosem
ito and Kings llivr canyons, but it
has many features distinctively its own.
It has no steep precipices like Ll Capi
tan, and the natural beauty of grasr
and flowers common in the Yosemite
during the summer is absent. Hut Sa
biue canyon has cliffs that make one
dizzy to look up at, and surprises await
the explorxrat every side, such as no
other canyon of the country can boast
of. The great peculiarity of Sabine
canyon is the variety of vegetation that
can be found within its walls at any
season of the year. Prom the mouth
of the canyon to the place it ends there
is a difference of six thousand feet in
elevution, and as a consequence the
vegetable growth comprus nearly
everything known to botany," The
len ;ih of the canyon is twelve miles
and iti width varies from one thousand
yards to three miles. Accets to it is at
present difficult, and none but the har
diest travelers would cure Ui make the .
journty. Moreover, the heat, even in;
winter, if. nhnost unendurable.
Some of the feature of the tanyou
are rocks that rise sevon hundred feet
into the air like church spires, so frail
from base to ak that, it would seem
as if a breath of wind might shatter
thei:i, puds of water, crystul-clear and
trc;-:iiiroundfd, immense balanced
roc!'.. iilr. of many colors, and water
falls that disoend from groat height.
Mount Lemon, with an !m-tion "f
Highest of all in Leavening Power. Latest U. S. Gov't Report
Absolutely pure
thirteen thousand feet, rises abruptly
on one side of the canyon, showing in
a suggestive manner its various stages
of vegetation. Storms of tropical vio
lence 11 re frequent in this valley dur
ing the .Slimmer months. "Like mag
ic," says a writer, "the rugged cliffs
are covered with sparkling waterfalls.
Hundreds of feet into the depths of the
canyon below streams of water tum
ble, breaking into foam and throwing
olr myriads of prismatic rainbow tints.
The water increases in volume and
rises on the bottom of the canyon, un
til the pools nil disappear and a raging
torrent is tearing among the rocks." A
party of three who went from one end
of the valley to the other recently re
turned to Tucson feeling that they had
seen one of the most wonderful places
in the world.
CHEAPER TO LIVE IN AMERICA
The Notion Tlmt K.urope Is a More Eco
nomical Abiding riace Contradicted.
It appears that there are small, dull,
unattractive places in Prance, Germa
ny and Italy where one may live cheap
ly if one be content to live like the
natives, says the Boston Journal
This means bare rooms, black bread,
and meat but once a day. The ordina
ry American laborer would object to
this. 1 he living known as "respecta
ble," according to the American idea
of the term, is rather more expensive
in Lurope than at home, the worship
ers of continental domestic economy to
the contrary notwithstanding. Life in
a fashionable quarter at Paris may lie
set down as one-third dearer than in
any home city except New York. At
the same time, if one understands the
language well enough to drive sharp
bargains, we are told that a family on
an income of five thousand dollars a
year can live better in Paris than in any
other h,uropeaii city.
Cotton goods are cheapest in Ameri
ca. Shoes arc not, but the foreign
atock -Hi- ysnnlly Inferior In i-,i.alltv
Rents ore .about equal, but American
houses are much more convenient. As
to the expense of traveling, the ad
vantage is greatly in favor of staying
at home. One may travel from New
iorkto Chicago in a sleeping car for
five dollars. A sleeper berth from Paris
to Nice costs eighteen dollars. While
servants' wages are less abroad than
here, the service is so inferior that it is
said one American servant will do the
work of two of the continental type and
do it better.
There is this to be said in favor of the
dweller in Europe. It is somewhat
more fashionable to be economical there
than here in America. If one will put
up with third class, slow trains, live
at cheap hotels or boarding houses and
get along on the beer-garden music, or
the tooting of the (Jrruian band of the
streets, there is great economy in it.
WHY SHE TAKES THE OTHER LINE
She Didn't Give the Conductor a Tick at
But Something Else.
A pretty girl got on a street car the
other day, and when the conductor
came to her for faro she handed him
what she thought was a folded transfer
ticket which she took out of her glove.
He rang the register mechanically, and
when he got on the platform looked at
tha check. Then ho blushed, says the
Indianapolis Sentinel, and looked at
the girl, but she was looking out of the
window. He read the paper again and
forgot to let three old woanen off the
car, he was so excited. The pretty ir)
motioned at him to stop the car and he
vook on nis cap wun a siamiing ix,w as
she left the car. She seemed surprised
but made no remark. When she got
home she took out her folded car ticket
from her glovo and looki .i at it in
amazement. Then she. blushed, too.
This is whftt s)io had given the con
ductor, a bit of newspaper bearing
these verses:
For yon love's own detir land
if roNfc fnir ami (rtM;
And if yuu will no bund
To give a rosn to me.
For you love's dtui ust bliss
In ull the yours 10 be;
And If you will no kiss
Of any love for me.
She nas the habit of carrying bits of
sentimental poetry In her glove; but
no wonder tho conductor was aston
ished at. receiving so marked a declara
tion. She now takes another car line
and lie looks In vain for her.
Doing Ills Duty.
Here is a goxl story of a dog, which
has the further merit of being true:
An Irish retriever which had been
taught to bring his master's slippers
when required was one day expelled
from the room when visitors were
calling, as he was making himself
rather troublesome. The dog, feeling
himself In disgrace, in order to pro
pitiate his master, went to every bed
room in the house and collected all the
slippers and old shoes ho could find,
which ho deposited outside the parlor
door. Imagine the feelings of the lady
of the house when the door was opened
for the parting visitors and this scene
was revealed to view.
A CALIFORNIAN CANAL.
It Is In Run In the Interior Parallel so
the Coast.
An ambitious scheme for a canal In
the interior of California has just been
set aluol. ll Is to be run parallel to
the coast, and is to cost tea million dol
lars, which has yet to be raised, and
the projector expects to see steamers
running up as far as Krinkerville, two
hundred and twenty miles from tho
coast, in the not far distant future.
"The main canal," he says, "will be
one hundred and scveuty-tivo wilos
long, from Sulaun bay bo Tulare ltvk.
ft wjU be wtKdd to Esketrsfie-ld, a-rid
Baking
there will be branch canals running
out to various important towns.
It will be large enough to carry vessels
of heavy draft, and will be just what
its name implies a ship canal. A sys
tem of immense locks will be necessary,
and thereby we will obtain another
great value from the canal. The sur
plus water in the locks will be distrib
uted through the lower adjoining coun
try for irrigation, and the elevation at
each lock will give great facilities for
water power. Motors operated by
water would furnish electric lights for
all the townRonour line. FroinSuisun
bay tho canal will extend down the San
Joaquin valley, the river being utilized
most of the way. Tulare, Ducna Vista
and Kern lakes and the Kern river will
be included in construction. The water
will be obtained from these lakes and
rivers, and from the natural drainage.
The draiilage is an important factor,
and we will annually save whole lakes
of water that is now lost. The water
that flows down from one section of the
canal will be saved in the lower locks.
It will be a large volume of water, for
the canal will be at least fifty feet wide
In its general portion."
TYPEWRITTEN MUSIC.
A Process by Which Notes Can Be Take
Down with Urent Ititpldlty.
While great improvements have been
made in the last few years in short
hand systems, anil language can now
be transferred to paper with the rapid
ity of speech, the writing of musio is
still an occupation of exasperating te
diousness. A musical shorthand has
often been suggested, und it is said
that certain musicians have devised for
themselves such a system, which has
served their purpose fairly well. But
any attempt to bring the speed of mu
sical notation within even appreciable
distance of the rate of muslcul produc
tion, either instrumental or vocal, lies
alway 8 been looked upon as impossible.
It is dilhctilt to imagine how it can
ever be otherwise, but none the less are
those inventors who seek to increase
the facility of transferring to paper
musical ideas, either fresh from the
brain of the composer or from the ren
dition of the artist, worthy of com
mendation and gratitude. An attempt
in this direction has just been made in
the construction of a machine for type
writing music, says the Fort Worth
Gazette. The machine looks like an
ordinary typewriting machine, after
which it is modeled, the frame, key,
levers, type, bars and carriage being
retained. Various modifications are
made no as to adapt the instrument to
the change of notation, the c-.iriiage
being s'lifted endwise only for the dif
ferent lines, octaves or notes, und the
paper is fed forward with each stroke
of the type. The machine is intended
either to be used witli paper already
ruled or to write its own staff by re
peating a five-lined charaoter.
WESTERN JUSTICE.
The Court Thought That There Had Been
Criminal Delay In the Case.
The dispenser of the finest brand of
western justice sat on a soap box with
a law book spread before hini on an up
ended whisky burrel, says the Detroit
tree Press.
"Who arTilH.cd this man?" he asked,
as the prisoner stood dp More him.
. We did, responded half a 'oCKU
citizens standing around.
"What's the charge?"
"Hobs stealing."
"Kin you prove it?"
"Youbetcherlifewekinl WeVetched
him in the act."
The judge looked ugly.
"Will you swear to it?" he asked.
"Course we will; didn't we jisttell
you we ketched him at it?"
"All tight, gents," said the judge,
blandly, as he laid his gun across the
law book, "I'll fine each an' every one
of you tern dollars and costs for con
tempt of court in fetchln' him here and
dismiss the case agin the prisoner.
You oughter strung him up when you
ketched him."
An Important Feature
A certain doctor, living in the upper
part of Utica, N. Y., has a bright and
observing four-year-old daughter. She
has a brother s few years older of
whom she is very fond, and who, for
her amusement, sometimes draws
pictures 011 slate or paper. A few
evenings ago he was thus engaged, and
essayed to draw an elephant. He
shaped the body, head and legs, anil
before adding the proboscis stopped a
moment to look at it. The little girl
had lieen watching every stroko of the
pencil with great interest, waiting
patiently for him to finish, and when
he stopped, and she thought he was
done, exclaimed: "Why, Johnnie, you
fordot to put on his satchel!"
Hetty Green's "Kxtravaa-ent Boy."
A New York man tells a character
istic story of Mrs. Hetty Green. Ho
was the Chemical bank in New York
one day In conversation with the cash
ier when Mrs. Green passed through
into an inner olllee. The cashier called
out and said:
'Oh. by the way, Mrs. Green, your
son bought that railroad yesterday."
Did he?" said the lady, stopping
tbort. "flow much did ho pay for it?"
'Two million five hundred thousand
dollars."
"The extravagant boy!" said the fond
mother indignantly. "If I had been
there I could have bought it for fifty
thousand dollars less!"
That was the only comment she made
on the transaction, whioh most people
would cotuldr of sxipnana magnitude.
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