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Look at the Map. Look at the Map. State of Oregon, Yamhill County. Here you will Hud the moat pro ductive section in the World. Lund is cheap, offering special in ducements to fruit raisers mid dairymen. McMinnville, Yamhill County. Here I h tlie County seat, Here 1» published THE TELEPHONE REG INTER, Munurclt of home newspaper*, aeeortletl fl rut place in nil tlie 1>I rectories. têt. Look at the Map Look at tlie Map. Circulation Guaranteed Greater Than That of any Other Paper Published in Yamhill County. TÎLÉVHONEt>È\V»Sl'l»M*UÂn«,' ■^y IÄ Consolidated Feb. 1,1889. F- DIELSCHNEIDER, & WIFT’S SPECIFIC S Watchmaker and Jeweler. Dealer in All Kinds of Watches, Jewelry, Plated Ware Clocks and Spectacles. McMINNVILLE. OR. McMinnville, Oregon, r SADDLES, BRIDLES, WHIPS, SPURS, BRUSHES, ROBES, Etc. ind sells them cheaper than any other ealer in the Valley My all home-made arness is tlie favorite with all who have ried them Give me a call and get prices. McMINNVILLE 'RUCK AND DRAY CO., COULTER A WRIGHT, Proprietors Goods of all descriptions moved anil care- ,1 handling guaranteed. Collections will i made monthly Hauling of a 1 kinds >ne cheap Walking Record Known. He i* a Young Canadian Who Practised but Three Week* Before Taking Person “/•-r eighteen vi-nt.’is I l.ad an eat. >, uu treated ly lest heal fhysi /. thj , /.’.7 oltaincel tto relief; the sore gradually grew worse. I finally took S. S .S’., anil was entirely cured after using a few lollltsl* C. Ik M c L emore , Henderson^ Tex. --------o-------- varaarv. ranrawv. v r and -j . Sidn 'T'KF.ATISE on Blood 1 Diseases mailed (ree. ■J'HZ S wift Sraciric Co., Atlanta, Ga. NOTICE! I On and after April 1st,; 1893,1 will sell my en-! tire stock of BOOTS ffi K AT As I intend to make a< ------ •- •--- ’ [ I change in business. — • I [ Come in and get prices: and id you’____________ ll be convinced: that I mean what I say. ! F. DIELSCHNEIDER. : Sign of the Big Boot. ALBREATH & GOUCHER, PHYSICIANSAND SURGEONS, (Office over Bralv’s Bank.) b M innviixk , - • * O regon . - W. L. DOUCLAS «3 SHOE war a Do you them 7 When next In need try pair. Best In the world. I). BAKER, SURGEON AND HOMEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN. Office Upstairs in the Garrison Building. ,♦5.00 UOOi ♦3.50 fl «2.00 «2.00 «1.79 FOR BOYS ♦2.00 7 M. RAMSEY, Oft LAD It* ♦2.50 ♦2.25 W. FENTON, If you want sflns DRESS SHOE, mads In the latest atylM, don’t pay $8 to $8, try my $3, $3.50, $4.00 or ATTORNEY AT-LAW, McMinnville, ... - Oregon. | Office, Rooms 1 and 2 Uuion Block. MICHAUX & FENTON $5 Shoe. They it equal to custom made and look and wear as well. If you wloh to economire In yourfootwear, do ao by purchasing W. L, Douglas Shoot. Name and price stamped on the bottom, look for It when you buy V. L. DOUGLAS. Brockton, K mc . Sold by R. JACOBSON, McMINNVILLE PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS. LAFAYETTE, OREGON- ’83. V. F. LANCEFIELD, Custom Bcot & Shoe Maker. pairing of All Kinds Neatly and Promptly Bone. live me a call; next door to the cigar fac- y. Will open about June 1st HE COMMERCIAL STABLE I BileBebns Small Guaranteed to cure Bilious attacks, Sick Headache and Constipation. 40 in each bottle. Price 25c. For sale by druggists. Picture “7,17, 70” and sample dose free. J. F. SMITH A CO., Proprietors, 1IIW YORK. Gates & Henry, Props. McMinnville, Oregon. Advance Threshers rerything New And Firstclass. clal Accommodations fo. Commercial Travellers. ner Second and E Streets, one block om Cooks hotel. JDGE DECI8I0N. NELSON’S Speaking of patent medicines, the dge says: “I wish to deal fairly id honorably with all, and when find an article that will do what is recommended to do, I am not hamed to say so. I am acquaint- with Dr. Vanderpool (having en treated by him for cancer), d have used his blood modicine, town as the S. B. Headache and ver cure, and while I am seven- -five years old, and have used iny pills and other remedies for e blood, liver and kidneys, I nst say that for a kidney tonic in right’s disease, as an alterative r the blood, or to correct the ac- jn of the stomach and bowels it a very superior remedy, and sets anything I ever tried. Are warranted to thresh more grain in a given time arid do it bet ter than any machine made. Hi ffllM MOI Engines Are the latest in the world. Re member large work means large profits in the threshing business. Mel*«t9iree. EDWARD HUGHES, Gen'l Aft. Portland, Or. PROF. SLOCUM'S MAGIC SEARCHER King of all Blood Medicines, Cures Scrofu la, and all Hkin Diseases. Rheumatism, Kidney Diseases, General Debility. Nervous Affections, and restores Lost Vitality. PROF. SLOCUM’S LOZENGES Liver Regulator «nil Vermifuge combined Cures I’vspepsia.Constipation. Indigestion Billionsness and Malaria, also removes all common worms from the system withopt the aid of other medicines. Hold by all druggists. J.'B NELSON Yakima. Wash, At JO cents a bottle, it is the poor man's Slocsm’z Taps Warm Specific. SlecuM * Rational Home Treatment for lend and family doctor. Catarrh. MRS. cl » r » g . essor . »»t Sold liv Rogers Brother». WE WANT YOU Jtieutifir ^serian Known Who has Feat Successfully at Night. S Manufactures and Deals in HARNESS Has ßeateii Every High-Rope hl* First Walk over the Gorge-—The Only Paid up Capital, $50,000. Transacts a General Banking Business, Deposits Received Subject to Check Interest allowed on time deposits. Sell sight exchange and telegraphic trans fer« on New York, San Francisco and Port land. . Collections made on all accessible points. Office hours from 9 a. in. to 4 p m. OÜTBLONDINS BLONDIS f'OH renovatir.y tht tut ¿re system^ clitnitu: ling nil Poisons from the T >ody whether of scrcfuton-: or tnalartal origin^ this frep aration has no equal. . . c I. W. COWLS, LEE LAUGHLIN E. C. APPERSON Prttiftni. Viet Prtlltftnl. Cathl.r ELSIA WRIGHT M c M innville , oreqon , T hursday , to Kt «• our qinl, We furnl.h an expenslr. ootlt and all you seed tree. It coat, nothing to try th. butlnaM. We will treat yon well, and help you to corn ten time, ordinary wage» Both Kxe, or all *ge< run live »t home anti work In (pare time, or «11 the time. Anv one nnv wliere ran rr.ru a great deal of money. Many have mad- Two Hundred Dollar. a Month So clan of people In the world are making ao much money without capital as thow at work for us. B««ine.. pleasant, Uriel. honorable, and pays better than any other offered to agents. You have a dear Held, with no competition. We eunlp you with everything, and supply printed directions for beginners which. If obeveS faithfully, will bring more money thnn will anv other business. Im I prove your prospects ' Why not ? 1 on ran do so easily and surely at work for ns. ReKouable Industry only necessary for abeoiete suecc’S Tamphiet circular firing every particular Is vent flree to ail. Delay not in sending for it. OKOnOK BTINSON * CO . Bog No. 4M, Portland. W. Done the VOL. V. NO. 26 july 27,1893. JOSEPH JEFFERSON. stood up and paralyzed the crowd. Peo ple witli heart disease do not want to lie H m Been fur Years America*« Great- see this young man do what he calls e.t Comedian. the Calverly dive. Calverly stood up on the wire, and America's greatest comedian, Joseph while the people were wondering what Jefferson, whose recent illness excited he waH going to do next, lie half slid, apprehension among his friends, is half fell down. A great hushed sound probably best known to theater goers went up from the people; the walker’s through ills impersonation of Rip Van slim body shot down, bait turned and Winkle in the play of that name und hung there by the legs. It was a great Bob Acres in "The Rivals." act and it was some minutes before the crowd got down to breathing regularly again. On the night of the Fourth lie went out to walk across under cover of the darkness. This has never been done successfully. Peer tried it once and ended his career. He went out one night to try the feat. The next morn ing his body was found on the banks of rocks below. He bad fallen before lie had gone twenty feet. It was 9:30 when Calverly came out. The gorge was black as a pocket. It was a weird, uncanny scene, u great black chasm stretching from one shore to the other, and across it a cable which disappeared into the blackness in the middle. Reflectors had been arranged to throw light on the cable, but they did not work, and Calverly went out in the dark. When he started people could see him until he got a hundred feet or so out from tlie Canadian shore, nnd then he was swallowed up in the darkness. No one knew whether he was on tlie cable or not. The people could only wait and watch for his reappearance in the light on the American side. When the people were beginning to get very anxious about him, there ap JEFFERSON AS BOB ACRES. peared far out on the cable a little flash Joseph Jefferson, the great American of red light wiilch blazed up white. comedian, comes from a family of come Then it went out and in its place was dians. His great grandfather, Thom a shower of red sparks, in the midst of as, was an English comedian; liis which stood Calverly shooting off Ro grandfather, Joseph, commenced his man candles. career in Boston in 179», and until 1832 It was a revelation to the people, and was America’s greatest comedian. The it was the first time the walking of the I father of the present comedian bore the gorge in the darkness had ever been same name, but he was not a [success successfully accomplished. ful actor, although resembling his Home day Calverly is going to Eu nppearance. rope to show tlie people on the other side something about walking high wiresand doing strange and daring acts in-mid air. In bis time Blondin was a tight-rope walker of considerable fame and ability but there is a young man living in To ronto, who, although be has not been doing high wire work for a year, eclipses Blondin’s most wonderful ef forts in his palmiest days. This young man is Clifford Calverly, and although he has made onlj$ three trips across the Niagara gorge between the Suspension and Cuntilever bridges, he lias done a few little things which have made people who saw him gasp witli astonishment. The first trip Calverly id ail e across this spot, a couple of hundred feet above the rushing, ripping water of the Niagara, after tlie huge volume leaves the falls, was on Oct. 12 of last year. There were about five thousand people there to see him dashed on the locks below, for no man thought for a min ute that lie would ever accomplish the feat which Blondin; Peer and Dixon accomplished witli great risk and slow time. And when it became known through the crowd that this young man bad been walking a rope in bis back yard at Toronto for about three weeks only, and that this was his first public ap pearance, it was long odds that be would go back to his Canadian home in an express ear and feet first. Calverly had been a galvanized iron cornice worker, and his nerve had been educated to great heights. Often lie would amuse his fellow-workmen by hanging by his toes from tlie dizzy eorner of a high building. That was how be first came to discover that his nerve was firm. Then, too, lie was a school mate of Thomas Dixon, the Toronto photographer, who did several tricks at the Fulls, anil was finally killed by falling into a shallow little pond at a PRIMITIVE JAPANESE ART. Canadian summer resort. It was from Dixon that Calverly got ills first idea Delicate Work Accomplished v’itli the Simplest Materials. about walking a rope. Dixon told him that all lie had to do was to keep Ills The inevitable handkerchief in which nerye and go straight ahead. He nev er thought much about making a busi the Japanese artist carries all ids world ness of walking until after Dixon was ly artistic goods has been untied and tlie goode themselves are ranged upon killed. One morning he stretched a rope in the floor, says a writer in the Fortniyht- bis hack yard in Toronto anil began to ly. There is first a small roll of fine practice. He walked it the first time. bamboo which serves as port ecrayon, Then he put the rope up between two in which are brushes of vai ions sizes, high buildings anil tried that success the Chinese ink dish, three or four fully. His next step was to announce small bowls In which the colors arc that on Oct. 12 he would cross the mixed, one for each color; two or three gorge at Niagara Falls, where Dixon small parcels containing fresli supplies crossed alid where Peer met the fate of of paint, two large bowls of water, a plate and piece of paper laid out upon the high-rope walker. The cable was stretched by Peer’s the floor. In the parcel are some small brother and was 940 feet long, Dixon sticks of brown and indigo, a piece of had walked it and crossed it in twelve calmson cloth or felt about a quarter of minutes. Calverly thought it would an inch thick, a lump of gamboge, and be a good thing to go into the record a quantity of small white pellets. breaking business at the start of bls ca These colors, with the Chinese ink, reer and lie announced that he would made up the pallette; a little brown and lower Dixon’s time. This statement blue had already beeu ground into two JEFFERSON AS RIP VAN WINKLE. seemed to settle his fate in the minds of the Binall bowls, and the red dye had The present Joseph Jefferson, the of the people who were gathered on the been extracted from the felt and was in banks of the water and on the bridges. a third. A quantity of (’hiñese ink third of that name, was born in Phila Here was a boy who was going to at was then rubbed on the slate slab. The delphia February 20, 1829, anil at the tempt to smash records made by a care white, however, is only mixed just be age of three years appeared a« a child ful and experienced walker, a boy with fore being used, and considerable skill is actor. He followed various [theatrical only three weeks’ experience. The necessary in both mixing and the use ventures, during the Mexican war fol crowd could not see how he was going of it. The pelletB are first crushed and lowing tlie U. 8. army into Mexicn; to accomplish anything but bis own ground very fine with a glass pestle till until 1859, when be joined Lama all traces of grit have disappeared. The Keene's theater in New York, and destruction. Calverly is only twenty-six years old pigment thus prepared is quite useless scored ills first great success as Asa and slightly buit, but he has a wonder once it has become dry and hard; it lias Trenchard in “Our American Cousin.” ful amount of nerve and has a strong, therefore tc be mixed afresh for every The play ran for 150 nights, during confident face. When he made his picture; but to the care with which it which time Jefferson showed the gen first trip he walked out on the cable is prepared are due both its brilliancy ius of a born actor. He visited Califor swiftly and with a firm tread. He nev and permanenee in the picture. This nia in 1860, went to Australia for four er faltered. The cable sagged in the durability is essential, as the pictures years, playing with reputation and middle and over this part he walked are kept rolled, and it Is only after very- profit. In 1865 be made his debut in very carefully. When he reached the many years of roiling and unrolling London in “Rip Van Winkle,” appear other side of the middle be started on a tbal the white begins to show signs of ing witli success for 150 nights. He shuffling run and reached the Ameri perishing or peeling. The power of also visited Manchester and other large can end of the cable on a dog trot. The manipulating white, not in simple cities, and returned to America in 1866. stop watches showed he had made the body color only, but in thin washes, is Since that time for many years he trip in 6 m. 8s. Dixon’s best time was I believe I am right in saying, an in easily held tlie place of the greatest 12 minutes. For awhile this satisfied heritance from the Chinese. Those American comedian. He was twice the young man, who immediately who are familiar with the Buddhist married, his first wife having died in claimed the title of champion high- pictures will be familiar with the filmy the sixties. veil which often falls from the head of In retirement the great comedian’s wire walker of the world. All winter he practiced at bis home the divinity, and is produced by the pastimes are those of angler and paint in Torono, and after giving exhibitions thinest possible wash of the white laid er. Some of his landscapes in oil at through Canada be announced another on over all the other colors without tract public attention. His summers are spent on a farm In New Jersey, his trip over the gorge on July 4. His in blur or running of any kind. midwinters at his sugar plantation on tention was to break bls own record German Swimming Drill. the Bayon Teche, La. and he did It, passing over the 950 feet --------------- --------------- ——■ In 2 m. 35s. Tlie crowd which wit In addition to going through the reg JAY GOULD’S MILLIONS. nessed this feat numbered between ular manual of anus the German re 12,000 and 15,000 people, and they were cruit is called upon to drill in some ma- Do not Stay at the High Figure* -A amazed at the rapidity with which tbs nuevers totally unknown in this coun Shrinkage of •21,000,000. boyish figure moved on the slender try, in wiilch is included the swimming thread stretched across the gorge, drill. Jay Gould’s millions are subject to When Calverly left the Canadian For this purpose plunges are establish more ups and downs in the world than shore he started running as an Indian ed at the various barracks, says the is the usual lot of man. When lie died runs. He did not pause when be New York Journal. At one end a he left stocks valued at $70,000,000. reached the sag in the middle of the platform Is erected at a height of twenty These securities increased in value rap cable. When he reached the rise as it feet above the water level. In full idly, until January 20, when the Gould approached the American shore be marching uniform, and carrying side estate was worth in the market $12,000-, moved faster and bis last steps were arms and musket, the recruit Is made 000 more than when its creator died. like a sprinter’s. He seemed to forget to mount this platform and plunge But all that profit and several millions all caution and ran on his toes. headlong into the water below. He beside have been wiped out by recent After lie made tills phenomenal run holds his musket tightly grasped in events in Wall street. When the mar be gave an exhibition of fancy wire both hands and descends head first. ket closed on June 2 the Gould trust work which made the people open This practice is for the purpose of fa securities were wjrth $6,000,000 less their eyes. He wheeled out a barrow- miliarizing the recruit with the hand than on the day Jay Gould died. Ev on which was a stove. He lighted a ling of weapons when necessity arises en that was better than their condition fire and cooked some toast, which he for jumping, and when lie has to take a month ago. On Maj- 5 the Gould ate sitting on the wire with his balance I tn to thn the wutnr water, block of Western Union, Mabattan pule hanging by liis side. Then be car J j and Missouri Pacific was worth about The lending college* are restoring the ried out a chair which lie balanced on honorary degrees to their old place as $61,000,000, or $9,000,000 less than on the wire nnd sat down. He tilted it signs of honorable distinction in the December ♦, when Mr. Gould died, back nnd crossed his legs. He lighted higher activitiesof life The University i T|le zigWM? of the Gould millions In a cigarette, and while tlie crowd stood '» I spellbound he calmly putted away as of certain prescribed conditions. The , stu<ly in big figures. Taking f”0,000,- cool ns one on tlie water-wnshed rocks Western Reserve university announces 000 as a basis, it is seen that the ^tate below him, on which he would have that it will confer these two degras touched as high a limit as >92,000,- bereafter only upon men of noteworthy _ , . __ I been dashed to pieces had he lost bis scholarship, or who have made contri-1 an'’ **low s™e" a balance. buttons of genuine value to science or fluctuation of $21,(RD,000. After he took the chair back to land literature. An examination of the list I ----------- i he went out and did some more surpris- of men who received degrees during The first bricks made in Ibis country : Ing things. He lay down on the cable; the present commencement season at I be hung from it by his knees and then the different colleges brings out very were manufactured by the Virginia settler* in 1612. be bung from it by his toes. Then be few cases of criticism.— Th' Outlook. NEW USE OF ELECTRICITY. GERMANY'S IRON TREASURES. INDIAN WISDOM. Kept Sacreil for the Purpose of Forvigli An Indian Tay* hi* Respect* to the Duke A Process By Which Great Heat War*. of Veragua. Is Generated. In the fortress of Spandau there is stored tlie celebrated emergency fund of the German Empire—the so-called iron treasure, millions of sliver pieces, most of them minted with the head of Napoleon III. Derived from that colos sal indemnity which victorious Ger- mauy imposed upon humbled France in the hope of permanently crippling the hereditary foe, the payment of which and recuperation of its loss is the financial wonder of tlie world, this hoard of coined money is kept for the contingency of war. It seems lif e a relic of barbarism to ignore the modern methods of finance—bonds, notes and other evidences of national credit- and to rely upon actual, tangible money,but there is a practical Bide to the idea which appeals to the soldier, if it causes the banker to smile. This treasure is sacred. There is no crisis through which the German Em pire may pass, save tiiat of foreignjwar, which makes this vast sum available. The Germans are very fond of the word "iron" in the sense of rude firmness, of handi endurance, of severe tenacity. They have applied it to their greatest historical character—the Iron Chan cellor, to his policy of absolute inflexi bility and to their most-prized reward— the iron cross—of which there is but oue degree, and which can be earned only by actual bravery on the field. They have used the word to designate the treasure at Spandau and they have also adopted it to characterize an insti tution in their minute and comprehen sive scheme of military organization to which they attach great importance. When the German army is transform ed from a huge reserve of precautionary power into a massive instrument of ag gressive force, its units, the individual soldiers, are put into absolutely new uniforms. The purposes of this step are numerous. It makes the operation of mobilization more simple and syste matic, and with the contingency of prolonged warfare it makes the contin uance of military operation more eco nomical. There is a sentimental issue involved—the personal pride of the sol dier is stimulated and ills zeal in ser vice increased. In equipment and accoutrement a similar System is followed. Tlie result is that the soldier starts out in the con dition practically what lie should be theoretically. His equipment is a heavy one, but the knowledge that every pound of weight he carries repre sents somctliing useful to ills occupa tion and ills comfort and convenience while engaged in it lightens the load. He realizes that be is provided for every emergency. Iu his knapsack are his clothes and his store of cartridges. Each one of his pockets lias a particular pupose. The lining of the one on the left of his tunic is medically prepared, to be used when necessity requires as an anti-septic bandage. In bis haver sack is his loaf of bread—tlie staff of life—and the so-called “iron ration.” This is the institution to which ref erence has been made. It is the reserve fund of the soldier’s food, bis suste- nence when deprived of all other re sources of mess, commissariat and for age. There is a huge factory in May- enee devoted to the packing of these "iron rations." In small bags, in a preserved and compressed shape, these rations consist of coftee, rice, hardtack and tobacco, in a quantityjpufllcient to provide for three days use. Tlie cavalry receives in addition simi larly prepared rations for its horses, consisting of hay and oats sufficient for five days. These rations are to serve only in cases of extreme necessity. They are sacred whenever the trooper is provided by the commissary department with necessary food, or when he can procure it by requisition or forage. The “iron ration" cannot be touched except by command of a superior officer. Iu tlie preparation of these rations chemical science has been at work, and it Is believed in the articles provided the greatest amount of nutrition has been secured in the most compressed and endurable shape. In the grand manoeuvres which an nually take place in Germany, and in wliicbTthe soldiers are exposed to every contingency save that of the enemy’s death-dealing powers,the “iron rations” are carried and their purpose made clear to the men. When the Duke of Veragua paid his respects to Col. Willin’" F. Cody’s Wild West show and saw ills first American Indians, he was somewhat surprised when one of the noble red men paid his respects to him in the following -‘talk:” “Ob, son of the stranger, who came to our fathers in other days, we bid you welcome. [Th tlie name of t lie red man who pierces the trackless forest, iu the name of the red man who_wanders the dreary prairie, in the name of the red man who has acqulrcd].the habits of the multitudinous insects of civilization and in the name of the red brother who has traded iris wampum and his scalp ing knife for all the disgusing diseases that the proud white man has to be stow—we bid you welcome.* Four hun dred years ago the fattier of your fath er’s father found our wife's folks on a bleak and barren coast. The red mau was dressed in the hide of the deer or the muskrat, according’to the season; he ate the food of the chase, drank from the babbling spring and smoked the tobacco of his father, today bis daughters wear cavalry trousers and bandoline their raven locks with New Orleans molasses; his sons eat salt horse sandwiched in the bread of idleness, while poor Lo lias a maw for liquor that gaps like the center of a funnei- shapped cloud. He chews plug tobacco and smokes cigarettes. Columbus brought civilization to the Indian, the reservation has done the rest. Where once the sun kissed the innocent cheek or Minnehaha, robed in the cloth from her busy looms, today the sun of noon looks down on Mrs. Man-Not-Afraid-of- a-Cocktail and Bees her neighboring around the reservation in an army coat, a plug hat and a wagon cover, while every wind from the prarie brings the sound of her sobs as she pleads with the agents of the Great Father for striped suspenders and a crinoline skirt. Yesterday the red man scalped and burned and pillaged from the east ern sea; today the McKinley bill is in force and tomorrow the populists threat en the country. The torture stake of the red brother lias been used as a cross tie for the white^brotber’a trolly ear. The ghost dance of *I.o, the poor Indi an,’ lias been superseded by the l’atrl- arches' ball, tlie veiled Prophet’s carni val, the Priest of Pallas parade and tlie Mardi Grass Powhatan, with his club raised against the .Smith tribe, has been crowded into obscurity by Ward Mc Allister, while the beautiful Pocahon tas is shoved aside for Mrs. Lease and Lillie Langtry. Is this an improve ment? I trow not. In fact, the red man’s trowel is so broke and shattered that he generally trows not. It is a cold day for tlie red brother, and as the shades thicken he is shooting in the horizon of the pnst clad only in the lin en duster of the philanthropist and the mantle of his vein regrets. And yet, most kind and noble duke, the gener ous action of your ancestor in discover ing us will never be erased from the tablets of our grateful memory. Hence we bid you welcome.— Peoria Journal. Krupp & Company (Are Experimenting With It In the Hardening o’ Steel Can- non—To Manufacture Diamond*. A most importaut discovery in tlie use of electricity for heating purposes is descalbed in a report of Consul Gen eral Masou, of Frankfurt, which will be published by tlie state department witbin the next few weeks, says a Washington dispatch to the New York Tribune. The Invention is the joint achievement of two Belgian scientists, Messrs. Lagrange and Hobo. When they applied for German patents, some months ago, the means, as designated In their claim, appeared so simple, and the results therein described so incredi ble, that the patent examiners demand ed that before Issuing the patent a dem onstration of the process should be made in their presence. This was so successful that it was repeated before tlie Electro-Technical society of Berlin by permission of the inventors and with excellent results. The apparatus consists of a glass or porcelain vase lined with lead, which is connected with a strong conductor of positive electricity. The vase is filled to three-fourths its capacity with acidi fied water. A pairjof iron tongs with Insulated handles is attached by a flex ible conductor to the negative pole of the current generated by an ordi nary dynamo. The electrical current having been switched on a bar of wrought iron or other metal is taken up with the tongs and plunged into the water which immediately begins to boil at the point of contact; the im mersed portion of the iron quickly rises to a red, then to a white heat, emitting a stream of brilliant white light, and in a few moments the heat becomes so in tense that the iron melts and falls off in sparks and bubbles, leaving a clear glowing surface in perfect condition for welding. Tlie heating process is so rapid that neither the watei nor the end of the bar held within tlie tongs is more than slightly warmed. By the use of a stick of carbon, in stead of a bar of metal, it lias been demonstrated tiiat a temperature of 4,000 degrees Celsius is developed in tlie manner described. The rapidity of the heating and the limit of temperature desired are easily governed by tlie strength of tlie current employed, so that the whole process is under tlie ab solute control of the operator. During the Berlin ex[>erinients a tension of 120 volts and an energy of 120amperes were registered and it was estimated that fully 50 per cent of the current was di rectly utilized as heat, whereas the practical limit has not hitherto exceed ed 20 per cent. The inventors say that by employing a still stronger current a temperature of 8,000 degrees Celsius has been developed, or nearly three times greater than that required to ex tract the iron from the ores, the most refractory of which fuse at about 2,700 degrees. Consul General Mason ex plains the process in these words: “One of the well-known effects of electricity is to separare compound fluid bodies through which it passes into their primitive elements, oxygeu and hydrogen. The oxygen is attracted and gathered on the relatively large surface of the lead lining and produces no noticeable effect. The hydrogon, on the other hand, gathers around the im mersed portion of the bar, and as this has a comparatively limited surface area, it is immediately surrounded with a close envelope or jacket, of hydrogen, which, being a bad conductor of elec tricity, creates a powerful resistence to to the passage of the current, and thus developed the heat that causes the bar glow and melt. It is merely an ap plication of the well-known law that friction or resistence to the passage of an electrical current causes beat and the apparent paradox of cold metal plunged into cold water rising rapidly to a melting glow is as simply and clearly explained as the incandescence of a platinum coil in a vacuum bulb.” Respecting possible applications of the new process, Mr. Mason writes: "The quality which entails the largest possibilities and which has been as yet only superficially investigated is the capacity of this process to heat quickly and to any desired temperature the end or submerged mass of iron while the re mainder of the mass is left cool nnd comparatively unaffected by the heat. It is believed that this may lead to other important results in the harden ing and tempering of armor plates and other objects in iron or soft steel in which great resistance to penetration or abrasion by friction is requisite, while preserving the interior tough and fibrous to resist concussion and strain, as in many parts of machinery. At Essen, Messrs. Krupp & Co. are experi menting with it in the hardening of steel cannon, and it is believed that in chemistry this method of producing an intense and easily regulated temper ature may lend to the suecesful manu facture of diamonds, rubies and sap phires through the production of the larger forms of crystallzed carbon.” VALUE OF DIAMONDS. Seme Varieties Are Only Good for Me chanical Purpose*. The only natural diamonds that are sold not to be cut or pulverized are those known as fiiazier's diamonds. They are very small stones, have a convex face aud bended edges, the apex of which are distinctly visible. These dia monds can cut glass, but diamonds, the edges of which are rectilinear, will only scratch it. Glalier’s diamonds are sold at from$ 12 to $16 the carat. Certain diamonds, wiilch in the nat ural, crude state are in a spheroidal form, and which do not possess any "cleavage,” says the Cincinnati Enqui rer, cannot be cut and are pulverized to make diamond dust. There are also inorphous diamonds tiiat are complete ly opaque and are of a steel gray or slightly redish black, and these are call ed carbonic diamonds, carbon or car bonado. Besides diamond dust, tools are made out them, with the aid of which rocks against which the finest tempered steel lias had the edge taken off are split and polished. As for black diamonds, wortli from $4 to $-5 i>er carat, they are used with sucees in the mechanical perforation of rocks, the lioring of mine pits and gal leries, the splitting of coals and stones, repairing anil dressing of mill-stones, The Graceful Girls of Siam. porcelain cylinders, etc., the sawing and piercing of marble, porphyry, gran The Siamese girls are tlie most grace ite, porcelain, glass and a whole lot of ful women in the world. Their joints other substances and for steel engrav are very supple, and a part of their ed ucation is made up of bending their ing. There are very few large diamonds in joints back and forth to make them so. the world,not to exceed 10 of eminence, They are all short haired, and when and certainly not 200 of any note. The young are as plump as partridges and Araganza of Brazil weighs as nearly ae as straight as the palm tree of their own maj- be twelve ounces, but experts pro beautiful land. As they grow older nounce it to tie not n diamond at all, they become wrinkled and ugly, and simply a white topaz of more than usu most of them ruin their teeth from al size and brilliancj". —--------- ---------------- chewing the betel. Only the fewest of It was through tlie influence of them are educated, and I don't think Thomas Jefferson that the first inde that they would be happy in our high pendent newspaper was published in French heeled shoes, and they would America. The paper was started at die if bound in by our corsets and Williamsburg in August of 1736, but was published “under the authority of crinoline. the government” until 1775, when Mr. ----- ♦ ----------- Jefferson |>ersuaded its editor, Mr. Plinius says that -Kin years were Rind, to make it Independent anil open Major Elijah Harford will report for spent in building the temple of Diana its columns to all |>arties. 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