The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1860-05-05

internal big ho0p. just look Ut my
Boots, v.u wide-spreading
Superiority.
4 JAPANESE BELLE-A recent East Indi
traveller thus sketches her:
Il saw young girl standing, fan in hend, q
| an open door, reading. She was simply clad il
| loose Grape half petticoat, half dressing gov,
sort Of dress, reaching IS far down as the ankles
and hound by sash Of yellow silk around thu
waist. Her feet, which were small and beauti
fully formed, reated on the common straw sal.
dals of the country. Over this dress, which LEFT
the bosom partly uncovered, she wore q cream
colored open Jacket of muslin texture, will
wide sleeves ex tending little below the elbow
her soft black b air was beautifully drawn back
of the forehead, and bound in a peculiar cluster
at the back Of / be head, where it was held by
two g,ld pins, ore Of great length and with I
scorpion like devi..e attached to it, and which
moved to and fro v it'll every motion Of its fair
wearer Hel coup. exion was bright and pale,
much more SO than the Chinese; her features an.
mated and expressive, and her teeth white, and
40 finely formed us her entire figure. By the
latter saw that she was ulmarried-the invari-
able japanese custom being that on the marriage
OF every female the I eth are dyed black, and in
some cases the eyebrows shavel, OF.
halted nearly in front Of " here she stood /;
she did not look 'piqued, and tur n away as the
ialr damsels OF my own country would have
lik, ly done; but she favored me with steady
gaze, and smiled, though could scarcely detect
the movement OF n feature, while her ewes, like
,nls OF eloquencr, glowtd in fascinating ocauty.
She was resdirg a book; saluted her with . low
DOW; she returned the compliment BY = some
what similar IN ovement Observing my curioei-
ty to see the book which she held, she handed it
to me. 1t was thick, and Of nearly the quarso
size; and letter-press was mixed with numerous
wOod-cuts-a common circumstance in Japan.
as subsequently ascertained, where nearly eve
ry book published abounds with numerous il.
lcstratlcns. In weight the book was exec. dinghy
light, and the cover WAS Of very thick colored
paper, highly ornamented, the external pic sure
being that of crucifxion; the paper was
printed on one side only, and left uncut, SO
that the printed sides were alone presented to
the eye. The work, one of an ordinary kind,
merits the young lady might have formed an
opinion; but being anything but Japanese, I
could not do such pie SAINT thig."
FiEND,sH PLor D.sc,vExED Detroit Free
Press has the particulars Of 6endish conspi, acy
to destroy hum. N life. 1t appears that at Mount
Clemens, on the Grand Trunk railway, there is
a b,idge-one If Howe's truss bridges--of three
spans, each span sixty feet long, the whole being
thirty five feet above the watsr. The pccul ar
construction Of tn. se bridges is such that the
bolts constitute its strength. They are SINE if
teen or twenty feet in length, and are placed in
such postum as to bind the upper and lower
girders together, and press the diagonal frame
work into soid mass of timbers, which no ordi-
nary weight can break down. The moment
they are Withdrawn the bridge will fall Of it's own
weight, and the removal Of small portion Of
them contributes greatly to decrease its power
fNfH sfnuo t.
the present instance the bridge was strengthened
by iron girders which extended from one ahut-
nlent to the other, and the danger was less, but
no amount Of girding would have rendered the
bridge safe for any length Of time after the bol.s
were rendered Ineffective by the removal of the
retaining power.
Charles Smith and Reed Bowman, for the pur-
pose Of securing what plumber they could gain,
determined to remove these bolts, and let the
bridge and the next train fall They went on so
far "a to remove, by the use Of wrench, a num-
Der of nuts from the long bolts which support
the trestle work. The work wis q long and te-
dious one, and the villains while of duty on
that tried their hands ut other rascality, One of
them broke into house in the vicinity and tried
to commit murder and robbery, and the other
was caught in some petty act. Both were tried
and convicted, and sent to the States prison
Smith then confessed what had been done on the
bridge, and upon examination the statement was
found to be correct. Had they continued their
work one day more, the probability is that there
would have been an immense sacrifice of human
life.
THE HYDRosTArIc PowEa APPLIED TO RAIs- !
Ing BUILDINGs.-A large crowd Of people were
in attendance yesterday afternoon to witness the
raising of the Franklin House, 81 Franklin street,
by Hydrostatic Power. The operation appeared
md ofv ~
prietor and contractor for this method Of rails
ing houses, Mr.. John g. Lane, politely explained |
the philosophy Of the operation, and the advan-
tages which he claims for it. 1t is nothing but |
the well known principles Of Hydraulics, applied
in new and improved form to IA novel business. |
Every one knows that water will always SEEK its |
own level; that pressure upon any portion of |
a body Of water neccssitates the same pressure
upon all parts Of that body in every direction,
and tn b column Of water ten feet high and
one inch in diameter produces just the same pres
sure as column Of the same height and ten ,
inches in diameter Now, the machinery en-
ployed by Mr.. Lane is simply as follows: There
is fiat box, four or FIVE feet long and two wide,
water. From the bottom Of this box,
which is placed on the sidewalk, runs pipe
with sixteen ''rams," or iron cylin-
ders placed beneath the building to be raised,
just Ms 80 many cylinders of an upright steam
engine. These cylinders have each q piston
rod, capable Of being extended thirteen ches
upward. Now. coming back to the box upon the
sidewalk, we observe three pumps, working upon
u triplicate eccentric, and which, being put in
motion by crank turned by five men, produces
a pressure upon the water underneath them equal
to ten thousand pounds upon the square inch -
This pressure is Instantly felt by the water flow
ins from the box, through the pipe. into the
rams, and Mt the bottom of every piston rod is
pressure Of ten thousand pounds on every square
inch, exerted to push up the building. The pres
sure il regulated by cocks, and the building goes
up about the eighth Of an inch every two or three
minutea, without a shock or jar, and upon the
most perfect level-as, in fact, it rests upon Elk.
teen columns Of water and balances itself Mr.
Lane says he can raise the fremont House with
Ave men, as easily Ms he raised the Franklin
House. and without littering up the sidewalk
lie asserts that there Is no Fiction to be over
come in his machine, and that all of its power
is directed towards raising the building.
Chic go Press & Tribune.
THE REPrBLIcAN PARTY IN MARYLAND.-The
Maryland Republicans. who were driven out Of
their public convention at Baltimore, by mob,
met in private Office and concluded their htis-
uese, appointing the following delegates Che
90: AT large. Frank P. Blair: Sen., and Judge
VIM L. Marshall of Baltimore, lst dist. let, James
Bryan and D. w. Orcm; I'd district, James JEFF.
ries and w. p Ewing: 81 district, Francis 8.
Cochran and James v. Wagner: 4th district,
WIN r Cnaln and Jountj 2h,,m. kn ksh