HUNTING THE POLE.
A Lorut iiiff liusinr»» Which Ha« Been Kept
Ke<l Hot by Some of the Brightest
Miixl» of All Ages.
FLOUR AS AN
EXPLOSIVE.
Fellow« Who Couple the Cara.
I was watching a brakeman coupling
cars in the Grand Central yard the other
afternoon, when my neighbor, one of th«
A Minneapolis man talked long with a principal freight officials of the road, said :
manufacturer of mill machinery whom he
“You wouldn't believe it to watch that
met at the Gilsey house the other evening. expert and nervy fellow risking his life,
The latest improvements in bran dusters, that there is a new car-coupler invented
smut machines, cockle separatorsand corn every working day of the year, and yet no
meal bolts were fully discussed. Then patent has so far lieen hit on that will re­
came the strikes, and both admitted that place the work of the hand in making a
in most cases the strikers were right—the coupling. The couplings themselves are
exceptions, of course, being those of strik­ much Isdter and safer that they used to
ing millers.
be when they consisted simply of a ring
“If the millers were Anarchists,” said and a pin, but the work of making a
the Minnesota man, “they could blow up coupling is still one of peril. Many of
every flour mill in Minneapolis without the automatic couplings do very well for
using dynamite. God only knows the light cars, but they cannot stand the Jolt­
power millers have in their hands if they ing and jerking and the heavy strain of
were devils enough to use it. A flour loaded and ponderous ears, running now
mill in operation is almost as dangerous slow, now fast, shaking every bit of loose
as a iM)W<ler magazine, and has to be iron about them till it rings like a bell.
watched as closely. Every coal miner is It takes courage and intelligence to make
afraid of fire damp, and every miller a man an expert coupler. A first-class
knows his mill is likely to be blown up man in that line doesn’t stay there very
with a terrible explosion at any moment. long He either gets killed or promoted.
To most people this would sound like an
“The mortality among the second-class
exaggeration, but I tell you it is a solemn men must lie something fearful,” I sug­
fact. What blew up your mills in Bar­ gested.
clay street a few years ago? What leveled
“On the contrary, they last much
a whole block of stone mills in Minne­ longer. You see, they are more carefuL
apolis not long since, so that it looked as It is the smart men who get reckless,
though a cyclone had struck the city? don’t observe precautions and so get
Nothing in the world but flour—one of themselves hurt.”
the deadliest and most powerful explo­
“What becomes of a brakeman when
sives known.
he gets crippled f” I asked.
“If you stand in a flour mill, near the
“If he can hold a flag, we make a flag­
stones, and look across the room toward man of him. You will find one-armed and
the sunlight, you will see that the air is one-legged flagmen all along the railroads.
loaded with fine grain dust. If you had There are several men without arms flag­
microscopic eyes, you would see yourself ging it. If a man loses both legs or
surrounded with small atoms of grain of can't get around lively, we put him in the
all kinds. Those atoms form an ex­ store sheds and supply departments. We
plosive substance more powerful than any never let a man go who is crippled in our
known to Nihilists, and their presence, service, if he can possibly be helped in
though inevitable, is what makes a flour earning a living.”—N. Y. News Babble.
mill as dangerous as a powder pit. Sup­
pose you take a dry ear of corn and set it
Tlie “Lick It Is Done By.**
on fire. It will burn slowly. Shell the
The ceremony of conferring the order of
ear and fire the kernelsand it burns much
more rapidly. Grind the corn and it will knighthood at the hands of the queen is
burn like paper. Reduce it to powder— not imposing. It is not, in fact, a public
to dust—and, if ignited, it goes off like a ceremonial, and only those are permitted
flash. That is the state in w hich flour is to witness it who, by their official connec­
dangerous, when it is finer than flour. If tion with the queen’s household, may at­
a mill becomes overcharged with this tend her. The loyal subject upon whom
dust, and it is ignited, away goes the such distinguished honor may be conferred
may not even invite his “best man,” nor
mill.
“Several years ago the large Washing­ the members of his personal circle of rel­
ton mills in Minneapolis caught fire. atives or friends to be present. Arrayed
They were going at the time. Those who in whatever uniform he may be entitled to
knew the danger gave the alarm and got wear, or whatever dress court etiquette
and the time of day make proper, if he be
out ns lively as they could.”
a civilian, the subject presents himself be­
“Did the mills blow up?”
“I should say they did. The walls fore his sovereign and kneels at her royal
were made of stone, six feet thick, and feet. Seated on the throne chair, the
when the explosion came they tumbled queen lays the shining blade of a sword
out like straw board. The sheet-iron across the shoulder of the kneeling but
roof was blown so high from one of the exalted beneficiary, and says, using the
Washington mills that the wind carried title which she is about to confer, “Arise,
it two miles. Men watching the fire at Sir So and So.” Plain Mr. Cheltenham-
a distance were blow n through windows, Brown is thus by a single stroke of her
knocked down, hurled through the air majesty’s sword transformed into Sir
and several were killed. Sometimes the Knight So and So, and he is permitted
lighting of a pipe in a grain house will de­ perchance to kiss his sovereign’s finger
molish the building. In a Scotland mill tips in grateful acknowledgment of the
a man once lit a cigar. In a second the distinguished honor.
In other cases than this of a plain
room seemed filled with fire, and there was
a terrible roar. When the smoke cleared knighthood, and when the title carries
away the four walls of the mill lay flat with it a decoration, the queen, with
on the ground anfl the roof of the mill her own royal hands, pins the glittering
lay several hundred feet away. With the and coveted bauble upon the coat of her
This is all, but to the
exception of a bad scare and a singeing elevated subject.
not a person was hurt. The dust burned recipient it is a great deaL
creating a great heat.—New York Star.
Counting the Kish tn the Pacific.
What Might Happen if Miller» Were to
Become A narclilntn.
The excitement consequent upon the
anticipated departure of Mr. Gilder for
the North Pole- has recently awakened
in the bosom of American people a new
interest in what 1 may term the great
terra incognita, if I may be pardoned
for using a phrase from my own mother
tongue.
Let us for a mon ent look back across
the bleak waste of years and see what
wonderful progrès« has been made in
the discovery of the pole. We may
then ask ourselves, who will be first to
tack his location notice on the gnawed
and seasoned-cracked surface of the
pole itself, and what will he do with it
after he has so filed upon it?
Iceland, 1 presume, was discov­
ered about 860 A. D., or 1,026 years
ago, but the stampede to Iceland
has always been under control, and you
can get corner Jots in themostdesirable
c ties of Iceland and wear a long, rick-
etty name with links in it like a rose­
wood sausage to-day, at a low price.
Naddodr, a Norweg an viking, discov­
ered Iceland A. i>. 860, but lie did not
I ve to meet Lieutenant Greely or any
of our most celebrated northern tour­
ists.
Why Naddodr yearned to go
north and discover a colder country
than his own. why he should seek to wet
his feet and gel icicles down his back
in order to bring to 1 ght more snow­
banks and chilblains, 1 can not at this
time understand. Why should a robust
and prosperous viking roam about in
the colil trying to nose out more frost­
bitten Esquimaux, when he could ro­
main at home and v ke?
But 1 leave this to the thinking mind.
Let the thinking mind grapple with it.
It has no charms for me. Moreover, i
haven’t that kind of a mind.
Octher, another Norwegian gent Io­
nian, sailed around North eapi- and
crossed the Arctic circle in
A. i>.,
but he crossed it in the night; and d du t
notice it at the time.
Two or three years later, Erik, the
Red, took a large snow-shovel and d s-
covered the east const of (ireenland.
Erik, the Red, was a Northman, and lie
flourished along about the ninth cen­
tury, and before the war. He sailed
around that country for several years.
drinking bay rum and bear's oil and
having a good time. IJ.e wore fur un­
derclothes all the time, winter and sum­
mer, and evade«! the poll tax for a k»ng
time. Erik also established a settlement
on the southeast coast of Greenland ir
about latitude 60 «legrecs north, 'l’lirse
people remained here for some time,
subsisting on shrimp salad. sca-mo<s
farina ami neat’s-foot <>*?. But finally
they bi'eaine. so bored with the quiet
country life and the I ack ward springs
that they removed from there to a land
that is fa Ter than day, to use the word.*
of another. 1 hey removed during the
holidays, leaving their axle grease and
all they held dear, including their re­
mains.
From that on down to 1380 we hear
or read varying and disconnected ac­
All I nt erest I ng Discovery in Science.
counts of people who have been up that
One of the most interesting recent dis­
wav, acquired a large red chilblain, coveries in science is the fact that a ray
mad«» an observation, and died. Rep­ of light produce» sound. A sunbeam is
resentatives from almost «‘very quarter thrown through a lens on a glass vessel
of the globe have been to the tar North, that contains lampblack, colored silk or
eaten their little hunch of jerked Polar worsted, or other substances. A disk,
bear, and then the Polar bear has eaten having slits or openings cut in it, is made
his little hunch of jerked explorer, and to revolve swiftly in this beam of light, so
so the good work went on.
1’he Polar as to cut it lip, thus making alternate
bear, with his wonderful retentive Hashes of light and shadow. On putting
faculties, has siicc<‘cded in retain ng his the ear to the glass vessel strange sounds
great scend regard ng the pole, together are heard so long as the flashing beam is
with the man who came out there to falling on the vessel. Recently a more
find out about it So up to 1380 a large wonderful discovery has been made. The
beam of sunlight is made to paBS through
number of nameless explorers went to a prism so as to produce what is called
this celebrated watering place, shot a the solar spectrum or rainbow. The disk
few pemnucan, ate a jerked whale, is turned and the colored light of the rain­
shuddered a few times, ami d;ed. It bow is made to break through it.
has Ix'en the history of Arctic explora­
Now place the ear to the vessel contain­
tion from the earliest age*. Men have ing the silk, wool or other material. At
taken their lives and a few doughnuts the colored lights of the spectrum fall
in their hands, wandered away into the upon it sounds will be given by different
uneerta n light of the frozen North, parts of the spectrum, and there will be
made a few observations to each silence in other parts. For instance, if
the vessel contains red worsted and the
other regarding the backward spring
ami then cached their skeletonstorever. green light Hashes upon it, loud sounds
In 1380 two Italians named Lem took will lie given. Only feeble sounds will lie
a oad of sun-kissed banana «and made beard when the red and blue parts of the
rainbow fall upon the vessel, nnd other
a voyage to the extrmn«« north, but the colors make no sounds at all.
Green silk
h storian says that tin* accounts arc so gives sound best in red light. —
. — j ’ kind
..
Everj
conflicting, and as the stories told by of material gives more or less sound in
the brothers did not agree and neither different colors and utters no sound in
ever toll it the same on two separate others.—Chicago News.
o<*vas’ons, the history of their voyage is
not used very mitcli.
The Son of a Southern I’oet.
A'car> rolled on. Boy« continued to
Sidney lender’s admirers will find
g » tosehool and see in their geographies pleasure in t his
’
paragraph from one of
«'¡H eiiiü pi«‘turcs of men n expensive “My Maryland" Randall’s letters sent
fur clothing, running sharp iron spears southward to Augusta: “last year a son
ami long, «langerons tab-knives into of the gifted ami lamented Sidney Lanier
ferocious w lite he irs ami snorting bore off the prize (at a Baltimore school).
around on targe cakes of cold ice and He took it to his devoted and delighted
having a good time. These inspired mother, who sat in the audience, and
the growing youth to ris«* up and do there he remained, mother and child, hand
likewise. So every nation 'neath the in hand, looking lovingly at one another
sun has contributed its assortments of and oblivious of the scenes that ‘swam
them.’ There were other mothers
choice,wh.te skeletons and second-han«l around
in that hall whose eyes were moist with
¿•lothes to the remorseless maw of the proud affection, but I am sure they did
hungrx and ravenous north.
not feel quite so deeply as that Georgia
.Xml stdl the great pole continued to widow ami her splendid boy.—Philadel­
squeak on through days that were six phia Press.
months loiiga« I nights that made break­
Trick <>f h French Smuggler.
fast seem almost useless.
It is a dog story, and this particular dog
In 1477 < olumhiis went up that way,
but did not succeed in starving tode ith. was assistant smuggler to a Frenchman
lie got a bird’s-eye vi<>w of a large ile- who arrived from Liverpool a short time
)>osit of dark-b’uc ice. got hungry and ago on the American lino steamer British
Princess.
The customs officers, when
came home.
Dur ng the fifteenth and sixteenth they boarded the vessel, noticed the dog,
a
big
Newfoundland,
acting rather queer
centuries the northern nations of Europe,
ly. and they took it aboard the govern­
ami especially the Dutch, kept the <lis- ment’s cutter ami examined it. Just lie-
coverv bu*ine*.s red-hot, but they dal low the dog’s neck in a pocket in the
not get any fragments of th«» true pole. dog’s breast they found a silk bag. which
The maritime nations of Europe, to­ contained 200 diamonds, all the stones
ge! her with other foreign powers, dy­ being of great value. The Frenchmap
nast.«* and human longs, tor some tried to prevent the search, but without
time had spells of visiting ,H»lar sens avail. The stones were sent to the treas­
ami neglecting to com«» back. It was ury at Washington to await, confiscation
the custom then, as it is now, to go by the court.—Cor. (Holte-Democrat.
twenty ro«l< farther than anv oth«r man
leul ever lie«‘n, eat a devded boot leg. New Treatment of the Whooping Cough.
Hr. W T. Greene suggests an easily
carl up and perish. Thousands of th«'
best ami brightest nunds of all age« available improvement on the old plan of
have yielded to this w il I desire to live sending children on visits to gas works.
on sperm oil. pain-killer and jerked His plan is to attach a piece of rublter
w nlnis k«‘«»p a litth' blu«' diary for thir- tubing to a burner, the tubing being long
enough to reach the floor. The gas is
l«‘en week*, and then fe«'«l it to a tall, turned on just enough to make a percepti­
»♦hite bear with re«! gums.
ble odor, ami the child is to inhale it for a
That is not all. Mill on« of gallons few minutes at a time, as often a.s con­
of w lu>k v are sent to these frozen coun- venient.—Medical Press.
ir r* and used bv the explorer in treat­
ing th«' untutored Esquimaux, who ar«'
Th» Only Person Now Living.
m»t, nn«l never wdl be, voters. It seems
Thomas Brown, aged IMi. living away
t<» ni«' utterly ill-advised and shamefully up in the Adirondack«, Sew York, raises
idiotie, -/¡ill Nt/t, in Chi'\ijo
ic<.
his feeble voice to claim that he is the only
person now living who has talked with
— Human things must be known tn George Washington.
___ _
Thomas was
a
beloxcd divine thnjs rv«» beloved youngster of live summer« at the time.—
Chicago Times.
lu be known. AI hihq Journal,
The excitement, about the Canadian
fisheries give a hint as to the prospective
value of one of the undeveloped resources
of the northwest. The shore fishing of
the provinces, on the Atlantic side, is of
sufficient importance to bring the United
States and its neighbors to the vergo of a
quarrel, but it is a small matter compared I
with the opportunities open in the north­
western waters on this side of the conti­
nent. The mackerel fishing, which is the
present matter of dispute, is of no less im­
portance thau the banks codtishing ; yet
the whole extent of the Newfoundland
banks is only about 70.000 square miles,
while in the Pacific and Okhotst we have
300,000 square miles, in Behring sea
almost as much more, and around the
Choumagin islands 80,000 ; altogether
nearly ten times the area of the Atlantic
banks. The total money value per an­
num of the fisheries on the banks and off
the east coast of the British North Ameri­
can provinces is in the neighborhood of
(25,000,000, which embraces the catch of
the vessels of all nations resorting there.
When the fisheries of the north Pacific
are developed to anything like the extent
of those of the north Atlantic they will
form one of the great industries of this
coast.—San Francisco Call.
EMPRESS OF LOTA.
A Rich Woman Who 1» a Potentate In the
Heart of a Free Republic.
I notice an interesting paragraph in
an English journal which informs 11»
that a Leith firm has just completed a
handsome screw steam launch, which
has beeu built to the order of Mrs.
Couteno, a South American lady, who
is reported to be the richest woman in
the world. The launch, which is built
of steel, is twenty-tive feet in length,
and is to be employed as a tender to
her large yacht. (The large yacht is
engaged at present in the unpretend­
ing but protitable trade of carrying
coal from Lota to Valparaiso.) It is
elaborately fitted up in polished nia-
hnganv and is to be dispatched forthwith
by'one of the mail steamers from Liv
erpool for conveyance to Chili.
B sides being the richest lady in t ie
world, she also enjoys the singular
privilege of being Empress over a tract
of territory called Lota, which lies
some two or three hundred miles south
of the port. It may appear strange to
speak of an Empress in the heart of a
free republic, but nevertheless the
fact exists, and so absolute are her
Majesty's powers that there are few
be
of her subje -ts who would
enough
to
resolute ami courageous
„
„
claim the po-session of their own im­
mortal souls, or who would not be pre­
pared to deny that on the making of
the place a special arrangement was
made w'.tli reference to coal deposits
between the Divinity and the reigning
monarch.
During her absence the Government
is carried on. much as it is in Ireland,
by means of a Viceroy, with this excep­
tion, that while the Irish are not in­
frequently rebellious and troublesome
and actually lay claim to the the right
of having a slight say in their destinies
either in this world or in that which is
to come, such a supernatural effort
never enters the simple and uncom­
plaining min is of the population of
this rem irkable portion of God’s foot­
stool. And why should it be other­
wise? The Viceroy, or boss Pasha,
anil his court have been so long accus­
tomed to licking and cleaning the boots
of their sovereign mistress, and passing
along th.sir own in return to their
subordinates, who perform a similar
but humbler task, and keep the ball
rolling always downward, that it would
bo at once a dangerous and unkindly
action to p -rsundo them that they are
fe'itherless bipeds and not dirt-eating
automatons.— I’unama Star.
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looked about her in the new home of
the Spankingtons. “Now. look at that
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can see noth ng beautiful in it.” “You
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NICOLAY AND COL. JOHN HAY.
I
begun with the sanctJ
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and continued under»
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Hon. Robt. T. Linau
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thoritative record of J
life of Abraham Lined
Its authors were fried
of Lincoln before ■
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jmost intimately lm |
\ ciated with him as pel
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out his term of ofia
and to them were trim]
ferred upon Lincoln’s death all his prinJ
papers. Here will be told the inside nistai
of the civil war and of President Lincoln]
administration,— important details of whd
have hitherto remained unrevealed, that thejl
might first appear in this authentic history]
By reason of tne publication of this work,
(uticura
include a novel by Frank R. Stockton,»
novelettes by George W. Cable, stori« N
Mary Hallock Foote,“ Uncle Remus,”Edwil
Eggleston, and other American authors.
for every form of
SKIN ami BLOOD
DISEASE
AN 1NVI 1BLE JEGIS (ARMOR).
liver complaint. Sound digestion and a regular
habit of body are blessings a so secured by the
Wiring Electricity for Power Purposes. use of this celebrated restorative of health,
At a recent gathering of electricians which imparts a degree of vigor to the body
which is its best guarantee of safety from
there was talk of establishing stations in ■ malarial
epidemics.
Nerve weakness and
the coal regions of Pennsylvania and of over tension are relieved by it, and it improves
transmitting electricity by wire for power both appetite and sleep.
The presence of royalty always gives
additional stiffness to English entertain­
ments, which at the best are not remark­
able for ease. Soon after Gen. Schenck
arrived as minister to England he at­
tended a lvnll at Strawberry Hill, given to
the Prince and Princess of Wales. At the
proper time the court marcher! out in
form to the separate supper room. every
one else bowing and and making a way.
The general was still unfamiliar with the
etiquette, and seeing the solemn proces­
sion passing along he inquired with mock
anxiety: “Are they going to look at the
corpse?"—Adam Iladeau's letter
indices ^
—W. P. Carroll, an ex-Confederate
officer, at East Carroll, Miss., has been
a continual sufferer ever since the war
from a wound he received at Chicka­
mauga. Recently a surgeon abstracted
several pieces of bone from the wounded
Go to Towne & Moore when in Portland
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THE WAR SERIES,
as the most able-bodied man
which has been followed with unflaggitj
interest
by
a great audience, will occupyU
— Rev. John Houghton and wife,
space during the coming year, but will by«
m ss'onaries of the United Methodist
means be entirely omitted. Stories of ud
Free Church of England fo the Gallas
engagements, prison life, etc., will appear. I
in East Africa, have been cruelly mur­
A
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The Gray Squirrel Wyi Probably Survive. Treatment will be tilled by 11. A. Mathews,
But if Professor Gunning should bo 615 Pow ell Street, San Francisco.
right that with a few exceptions the flora
Granvil’e is a small town among the
of this planet will ultimately be reduced
to garden plants nnd the fauna to barn­ hills of W< stern Massachusetts, but it
yard pets the few exceptions will probably makes a big noise in the world all the
include the American gray squirrel. In same. East year it turned out 130,009
some way or other natural selection has drums.
insured its survival by probably decisive
EVERYTHING GOES WRONG
safeguards. It can run, it can climb, it In the bodily mechanism when the liver gets
can swim nnd it can nlmost fly, for it can out of order. Constipation, dyspepsia, contam­
not be killed by a fall. In its tree bur­ ination of the blood, imperfect assimilation, arc
rows it can survive the hardest winter. If certain to ensue. But it is easy to prevent these
nuts should fail it can subsist on buds, consequences, and remove their cause, by a
seeds and birds’ eggs. In spite of inces­ course of Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters, which
sant hunting it has thus survived in every
county of every forest state in the union, stimulates the biliary organ and regulates its
and would possibly survive the entire ex­ action. Tho direct result is a disappearance of
the pains beneath the ribs and through the
tirpation of forest trees, for it is probable shoulder
blade, the nausea, headaches, yellow ­
that the prairie dog is nothing but a modi­ ness W the skin, furred look of the tongue, and
fied gray squirrel.—I»r. Felix L Oswald. sour odor of the breath, which characterize
purposes instead of transporting the coal. I
it is not improtable that great strides will
soon lx* made in this direction. The sug- '
gestion is another form of an idea that 1
w as entertained by Siemens, who predicted I
that the time would come when coal
would lie converted into gas at the mine I
at the rate of 40,000 cubic feet per ton,
•nd would be pumped to manufacturing
centers, thus doing away with the expen* J
•ive system of railroad transportation now
in vogue.—Philadelphia Record.
AN EDITOR'S TESTIMONIAL.
A M Vaughan. Editor of the “Green
wicii Review,” Greenwich O., writes:
“Last January I met with a very severe
accident, caused by a runaway horse. 1
used almost every kind of salve to t eal
the won ds, which turned to running
sores, but found nothing to do me any
good till 1 was recommended llh.Mvi
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1 bought a lox
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never fail of telling my frieuds about it
and urge them to use it whenever in need.
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