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About Albany daily democrat. (Albany, Or.) 1888-192? | View Entire Issue (Jan. 29, 1889)
Daily Democrat A JOURNEY TO VENTS. Dr. C. Robertson in St. Nicholas give tome Interesting licit touching the extent of tpace, ai illustrative of which lie sup poses certain railways to be built ; one round the world in a perfect circle, others to yarteus points in the solar system. And we will further suppose that the trains on these railways could be kept going at the rate of 60 miles an hour for any required length of time ; that their passengers could da without food or could be supplied with an abundance of it ; that the bodies of such passengers could be made capable of enduring the various changes of air, tem perature, and other climatic conditions, to which they would be exposed. And on our world this kind of travel would be comparatively easy, and would take next to no time. In 24 hours the pas senger could travel 1440 miles, or consid erably farther than from New York to Chicago. In 4S hours he could ttavel as far as from Boston to Liverpool ; and in 2ess than 17 days he could go round the world. But, as regards the journeys in space, a difficulty in most cases insuperable would stand in the way. In order to visit any but a very few of the nearest bodies in space, the travelers on our celestial rail ways would need to have their lives very greatly prolonged. Were they to set out for any distant part of the system.they all would d!e before they had fairly begun their journey . A voyage to the moon, to Venus, or to Mars would, under the above conditions, be possible J to any other body in the system it would be impossible. The journey to the moon would be com paratively short. Our companion Is distant about 240,000 miles J or.in round numbers, its distance contains, ten times as many miles as are contained in the earth's cir cumference. Traveling at the rate of 60 miles an hour, and never stopping, it would take between 166 and 167 days to reach the journey's end. Compared with other heavenly dis tances, this is a mere nothing ; but com pared with the distances actually trave-sed by the average man.it is very great indeed. Few ever travel at 60 miles an hour, and then only for short periods, and at consid erable intervals. Many, probably the ma jority, of those who live to a good old age cover less than 340,000 miles during their whole lives. A great traveler might do H in, say, 15 vears. For even a conductor or engineer of an express train, it would re quire several years. Let us now take a trip to the planet Venus, our next nearest neighbor. This will be a much more formidable undertak ing. We have seen that a succession of the longest journeys over this earth would form but short and passing episodes in a lifetime. We have seen that.on one of our Imaginary railway.!, the traveler could cir cle the world in less than three weeks. We have seen, not only that a journey to the moon is quice possible to the passengers by our celestial railway, hut that equal and even greater distances are often traveled on earth. But a trip to Venus would be a very different matter. Venus, as already stated, is about 26,000,000 miles away ; or, at 60 miles an hour, without stopping, she is distant a journey not of three weeks or six months, but of some 50 years. On the imaginary railway, such a journey would be possible, for a great many persons live longer than 50 years. But in real life no one has ever traveled,and no one ever will travel, anything like so far. No human be ing ever has traveled 5,000,000 miles ; and it is safe to say that no one ever will. To complete this measure of journeying would require an average of 100,000 miles a year for 50 years. Some few, perhaps, in all their lives, may have traveled 1,000,000 miles, but these are probably very rare ex- ceptions. So we se tl.at no one ever has lived who has traveled more than a small part of the distance to Venus. Yet, com pared with other bodies in the system, this star may be said to be almost a next-door neighbor. DEPOSITS IN MEXICO EXCELLING EVEK KNOWN BEt'OKE. ANY Although it has always been known that gold existed in the state of Guanajuato, where there has for many years been a small, but regular, production of the yellow metal, the stories that now come from that stare regarding the great gold discovery are exciting much atten tion in mining circles here. A company o' Cleveland, O., capitalists and a syndicate of London bankers have been investigating for some time the resources of the region, where gold was suspected to exist, and their labors have, according to reports made by American miners, resulted in the discovery of enough gold-bearing quartz to keep an army of miners busy for a century to come. The ore exists, it is averred, in such quantities as to make up a arje part of several monntains, and it crops out on the cliffs and in the canons in such a manner as to convince experienced miners that this is the biggest gold field ever struck. The country in which this find has been made is well watered and contains many ranches. The National railway runs within 12 miles of the gold regions. It is averred that mining experts who have gone there skeptical have come away astonished at the immense extent of the deposits, which appear inexhaustible; in fact, reports that have reached here remind one of Sinbad'8 valley of diamonds. If half that is told turns out true, Mexico has the biggest gold deposits ever known on this globe. The Cleveland company will put up a big stamp mill. STATE LEGISLATURE Monday, Jan. 28th. Irvine Introduced a memorial asking that veterans of Indian wars in Oregon be al lowed same privileges as those of Mexican war i Hilton that the land grant of the N. P. Portland to Wallula be declared forfeit ed. Numerous House bills were read first time in Senate, among others the Halsey charter bill ; relating to survey of public lands ; asking government to purchase locks at Oregon City, Dawson bill In ref erence to execution of deeds ; Portland s Bull Run water bill. In the House reports from committees were heard. They were favorable on bill for satisfaction of mort gages by affidavit ; on bill providing for Court reporters ; on repeal 01 vagrancy law ; on bill creating Harvey county ; n bill providing for payment of stock killed bv cars, and others. Several bills were In troduced, ene providing for buying land for Agricultural College, one tor bounties on scalps, etc. A Boston inventor claims to have per fected a process by which ice may be man- ufactured in an ordinary refrigerator. He has exhibited his invention to a gathering of capitalists. In the room was a refrig erator. There was a stove, and the tem perature of the room was 72 degrees, Fah renheit. In the locked and sealed depart ment of the Ice-chest was a small tin case filled with the "mixtures." There was no ice in the chest. The temperature of the rest of the chest was 25 degrees. All was clean and dry. A gentleman placed a tumbler of partly melted ice in the chest, and in fifteen minutes it was frozen solid. The Inventor claims by his process to be able to produce cold from any degree down to zero. The annual cost to an ordinary household would be about $7. For rand madeharness 110 to K L. Tower BIG BARG A few days ago Senator Blair, of New Hampshire, was caught without an um brella by a severe rain storm in Washing ton. He took refuge from the shower in the nearest friendly doorway. People passing were amused to observe that the Prohibition or death" Senator was seek Ing shelter from one of the most notorious rum-shops in the capital. ft New Grocery Discovered AT Strong's old corner, opposite Stewart A Box, irai ntreet, aiuauy, ur, A full line of FRESH CROCERIES, CANNED COODS, DRIED FRUITS. ETC. "Quick Kales and small profits," "Live and iflt live." la onr motto, r lease uu and examine our goods and get prices Satisfaction guaranteed, Produce Taken in Exchange, Very Respectfully, BARQUE & UNDERWOOD. CLOTH For Fall and Winter NEW GOODS NEW SMYRNA RUGS AND PORTIERRES. NEW TABLE COVERS. LINEN TABLE SETS, NAPKINS TO MATCH, A LARGE ASSORTMENT OF LINEN AND SILK HANDKERCHIEFS. FINE LACE HANDKERCHIEFS. TRUNKS AND VALISES. SILK DRESS PATTERNS. COLORED AND SILK WARP HENRIETTAS. SILK UMBRELLAS, Boot and Shoe Department. INDIES AND CENTS FANCY SLIPPERS. CENTS FINE SHOES. MISSES AND CHILDRENS FINE SHOES AND SLIPPERS, FELT SLIPPERS OF ALL KINDS. CROCKERY DEPARTMENT CHOICE NOVELTIES IN "DECORATED GHINA TEA SETS. FRUIT PLATES AND SAUCERS.. DECORATED BEDROOM SETS LAMPS, SALAD BOWLS- FANCY PITCHERS- FANCY CUSPADORES- CAKE DISHES AND A LARCE ASSORTMENT OF NOVELTIES IN CHINA L E. BLAIN'S. Rubber Coats and Boots, Shoes O VERC OATS, Fine A ssortment, Pea Jackets-Chinchilla. Astrachan Pull Line of Duck Suitings, ALIi GRADES WOOLEN OVER SHIRTS Big Stock Cardigan Jackets, HEAVY MERINO AND ALL WOOL UNDERWEAR. Winter Gloves and Mittens ALL WEIGHTS LEATHER BOOTS AND SHOES. UMBRELLAS, HATS, ETC. Last but not least a Urge stock of CLOTNINC AND FURNISHINGS 3E3 flT Brownell Samuel E. Young. Albany, Oregon JULIUS Gradwoiil's Golden Rule Bazaar. Ills stock has been enlarged bo that it equals any on the Coast, and oonMsts of Roger Bros. Silverware, French China and Crys talware, Boys' Wagon3, Doll Carriages, Fancy Goods, and a general assortment of Crocktey and Toys. has been addod ft complete line of FAMILY GROCERIES. Is Agent for lnsnrane companies with a capital aggregating $75,000,003 . fBIcl on parle Francais, Hier wird deutch gesprochon.-W D, R. N, BLACKBURN, Attorney at Law Office, JOdd Fellow's Temple, AlBAHY, - - 0REG3H. & Stanard's. J. E. WEATHERFORD, (NOTARY PUBLIC,) ATTORNEY AT LAW, ALBANY. OBECM. WILL PRACTICE IN ALL THE COURTS O BUt. 8wcUl attention jWen to collwti ' TB
