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The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1877-07-19

| theytidal wave rolled upon the beach al
Hilo fifty minutes before it was felt on
the coast of California, and two hours be.
fore it inundated Acapulco. Tho height
to which it attained at these poir6 would
seem to strengthen this view, f6f it was
in greatest force ut the place where it rose
the highest Waves lose force as they
progress Thus the tidal wave was twelve
feet three inches at Hilo; five feet al
Anaheim and three feet at Acapulco. But
at the point of the original disturbance II
was sixty-five feet high. This estimate is
not extravagant when it is considered
what it did, viz: it destroyed many towns,
and lifted the United States steamer
Wateree, stranded, by the tidal wave of
1868, and carried her nearly two miles
north OF her old position.
If we had the time of the tidal wave on
the coast of Peru, the calculation could
be completed. But SO far, its dimensions
are reported as follows: Sixty-five feet
high at Merrillones; twelve feet three
inches at the Sandwich Islands; Eve feet
on the cost Sof Californias three feet at
Acapulco. Nothing has been heard of it
south of Peru; but It is supposed to have
been felt along the coast of Chilli. 1t was
noticed about the same time as the earth
quake or Immediately thereafter. The
first fact was slight recession of the
water and then return on the land with
prodigious force, reaching The altitude
stated; then it flowed off, the power which
it evoked propogating itself, apparently,
northwestwardly, to the Sandwich Islands,
but retaining enough of force to rise
twelve feet three inches there, then wash
ing over on the coast of California five feet
coast of Mexico three feet. The action
seems to be that of a sudden lurch of the
earth in its rotary motion. Francisco
Bulletin.
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Curious Facts About the Tidal Wave.

The more detailed statement Of the late
earthquake in Peru received from New
York gives the date of the occurrence as
the 9th, but the compiler provokingly
omitted the hour of the day. The, iirst re-
port Of the cOnvulsion, received by the
roundabout way of London, gave the date
Is the 10th. But . calculation of the
time at which the tidal wave which fol-
lowed the earthquake manifested itself ut
other points shows that this could not
have been correct. The chances are that
the telegraphic agent at London failed to
notice that there were about four hours'
time against him between Peru and his
station. What was to him the 10Th Of
Nay was the latter part Of the 9th At the
scene Of the disturbance. Unfortunately,
in NO case il the exsct period Of time
giyen 1t which the tidal wave appeared
anywhere, 20 that no precise calculation
can be made. But approximations are
possible, which Indicate that We may be
on the eve Of important scientific diacov-
cries.
Taking our dste Of Z 10 :. n. q basis
re reach the following facts: The Sand
Wich Islands being 4,1O0 miles further
westward sre 8 40 minutes ahead Of ns' In
{ dine. AZ four 3. IN. the tidal wave. mani
tested itself at Hilo. That would repre-
sent 8 80 /. d. at Anaheim. The lime Of
ne transmission Of the wave to this coast
would seem therefore 10 have been fifty
minutes. Now, the Time reported at Aca-
pulco Il ten 3. In. But Acapulco Is about
/ 800 miles more cAslcSly than the coast
of GSlif0rnia. The difference In time
win therefore be one hour and forty min
NO. 1I.f Il "a eav Acannlco IL ~ fhaf
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T'0rnndOes.

Man. quite assured Of his power and Of
his relationship to Omnipotence. has al
different times challenged the most potent
forces of nature, and very frequently
comes off conqueror in the conflict. Now a
correspondent sends us a plan for conur,er
ing one of the most powerful and dreaGed
of earth's destructive furces-tornadoes
He saws.
"The plan is to shoot handful of sLot
quite across the whirling column, OF
through it, to break holes in the walls,
which will break up the moving mass al
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force M q The necn,;ar conditian of the afmo'
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or If the wagon passes during or after q
prairie fire. We have known q fellow
traveller recognize in this manner the
tracks his wagon had made seren re0rs
betovs, the lines of charred stumps crushed
short down remaining to indicate the
passage of the wheels, though all other
impressions had been obliterated by the
rank annual growth of grass fully twelve
feet high" Sometimes the original soil
being disturbed, new vegetation will
spring up along the wagon track, and thus
mark out the road for miles.
Even on hard rock ! mans bare foot
will leave the dust caked together by per-
spiration, so that practiced eye will see
it; and even if there is no track, stone
will be disturbed here and there, the side
of pebble which has long lain next the
ground being turned up. If it is still
damp, the man or beast that turned it has
passed very recently. If shower of rain
has fallen, the track will tell whether it
was made before, during, or after the
shower; similar indications can be OBJ
tanned from the dew: and another indica-
tion of the time that has elapsed since o
man passed by is furnished by. the state
of the crushed grass, which will be more
or less withered as the time Is longer or
shorter. Other indications are drawn
from the direction in which the grass
lies; this tells the direction in which
the wind was blowing when the grass was
crushed; and by noting previous changes
of the wind, one learns the time at which
each part of tie track was made.
Much, too, can be learned from the form
of the footprints. Savages generally
turn their toes in in walking; white men
turn theirs out. A moccasin print with
the toes turned out would indicate that a
white man in Indian walking gear had
gone by; and almost every foot has print
of its own, which enables an experienced
tracker to follow q single track among q
dozen others. Similarly the character of
the print will tell whether the man who
made it walked freely or was led by 9TH
ers; whether he was in hurry or travel
ing slowly: whether he carried burden
and if he were sober or tipsy. A horse
track is equally well marked. 1t tells
when the horse galloped, where he walked,
when he stopped to feed or d.ink; and a
scattering of sand and gravel will tell
when he is startled by any strange sight.
In all this two things are needed
sharp sight and careful training. The
elephant often makes very curious
track as he walks. If he suspects dan
ger, he scents the ground with the tip of
his trunk, and this makes well-marked
serpentine line in the dust Elephants
have changed their tactics since rifle-pits
we're introduced. Formerly, when their
chief danger was pitfall, the leader of
the herd felt the ground inch by inch; and
if he detected the covering of a trap, tore
it off and left it open. Now they rely
much more on scent, anc in this way,
often from great distance, detect the
hunter lurking near the drinking places.
If so, they will sometimes travel fifty or
hundred miles to another stream or pool.
-HdfpeT's Wseklu.
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An Unfortunate Rescue.

A small man with hatchet face, on one
side of which was large swelling, called
at the police office yesterday, and In
quired:
What can you do to man that hits
you and raises a lump like thats''
"Have him up for battery if he struck
with his fist If he pounded you with q
club you might make assault to murder
out of it." replied the official in charge.
"Pretty bad face, amt itg' said the
small man.
'.Pretty good welt," assented the off,
cial. "How did you get its'
"Well,' said the small man, +" went
in to take swim at North Beach a while
ago, and the water swas cold and little
rough, and somehow felt was going
down, and hollered. A big fellow on
shore yelled to me to keep afloat, and
then threw off his clothes and swan out to
me. You can just bet, mister, had
close squeak. When the big fellow got
hold OF me was seeing stars and drinking
salt water, and ! just grabbed the man
around the neck to save myself, and we
went down together. l was out of wind
and had to let go, and padded up some.
how. Now, would you believe, it, mis-
ter, the minute my head came above
water that big brute hit me fearful blow
right here on the cheek -bone-me, dyin'
man, as you might say. Inever heerd Of
such an outrageous piece of cruelty. Did
your"
"Well," inquired the official, "what
happened next?"
"Oh," said the small man, tenderly
patting his swollen jaw with his handker-
chief, ~ dunno. The brute knocked me
out o. my senses. When | come
to l was layin' on the sand, and,
as my head feels sore, / suppose
l was pulled in by the hair. The
crowd was shaking the big brute by the
hand and holding out TASKS to him. just,
as soon as got my strength back and my
clothes on, lit out for here to have that
scoundrel arrested. He might settle,
though, mightn't he, if | was TO hunt him
up and let him know that l meant to put
him through"
Two minutes afterward the small man
was rubbing himself, on Kearney street,
with startled expression, and complain
ing to some citizens that itwas an outrage
that man should be brutally
beaten at North Beach and then
kicked out of the City Hafl when.
he went to complain about it. He
would Lave justice though the heay-
ems fell. He was a taxpayer and man
of family, he was, and no man could beat
him and not suffer for it.-,San Francisco
Nail
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Enthusiasm for the War in Russia.

One thing that strikes US forcibly in
reading the Russian newspapers OF vari-
unity and enthusiasm which exist among
all classes of the people. Theie can be
no doubt that, for the present at least, the
war is entirely popular. Town Councils,
Provincial and District Zemstvos, rural
Communes, private associations, and nu-
merous private individuals, subscribe lib
erally for the sick and wounded.
The Town Council of Moscow, for in
stance, as soon as it received the Imperial
manifesto announcing the declaration of
war, at once subscribed million roubles
for !" the sanitary requirements of the
armv," and determined to organize, at the
expense of the town, thousand beds for
wounded soldiers. Many other towns i'm
mediately followed the example of the an
cient capital.
Here is an instance, reported by the
Russkiya Vedonasti, of the action of the
rural Communicative translate literally
the words of the Communal decision:
"We, the undersigned, peasant proprie-
tors of the twenty eighth village of the
Worontlof Volost, in the Province Of
Vladimir, at full meeting of heads of
households, heard the proposal of the Vo.
lost Elder, Alexander 1vanof Sokolof, and
of the Village Elders concerning volun-
tarv enrolment in the army, on occasion
of the war with Turkey, of all the peasants
of the said Volost, and the placing at the
disposal of the Government all our prop
erty in whatever it may consist; also the
proposal, IN occasion of the birthday OF
our bc loved Gar Emancipator, to lay at
the feet of His Majesty an offering of
2,O73 roubles, that is to say, a rouble
from each male inhabitant of the Volost.
Accepting this proposal with joy, and
with full readiness to lay down their lives
for the Gar, we hereby determine to act
according to it"
At the same meeting an old peasant
woman, without family, Ulyana Ivanova
by name, declared that in the course of
her life she had succeeded in saving
twenty five roubles, and she requested the
meeting to add that sum to the sum Of
| fcreo to the Gar by the peasants. The
decision was signed by the 464 peasants
who took part in the meeting.
Er11niuer
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Our Young Readers.
HdRK!

THE air, full Of humming, said something was
com ;ngi
The old speckled hen, with little chicks ten,
Fluttered OF, up the road. The rooster he crowed
The colt In the lot bounded of, like shot.
The horse in the cart glanced about with starti
The schoolgirls and boys stopped racket and
noise,
And all turned to look. The windows, they shook
For all the frm ground was trembling around.
Did something foretell, by that ominous hum
ming,
A train up the railroad that moment was coming,
All, yesi in the distsace the coming train showed
And nearer, came skipping small hoppy toad.
Small Hoppy stood still and. the prospect sur.
veyed,
Said: What acommotion my coming has nader
The train, with shrek, went laundering by
And Hoppy still stood, with smile in his eye!
:" Tis strange" he said, swelling; that creatures
so grand,
Should be thus affrighted by me, as stand"
And Hoppy hoped of with smirk on his lip,
And an air Of importance attended each skipi
-Ftet0 F0rrester, in Youths Companion
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An old man died at the age of eighty, a
few days ago, in the dreary street of Cha
teau-L Landon, Paris, who for some years
had dwelt there absolutely alone and un-
known. He was stout, solidly- built, not
talkative, but good -humOred and friend
ly. He was known to be Berliner by
birth, but he did not care to talk about
himself, and his early history was shroud-
ed with mystery. Hans Friech was the
name by which he passed among his
neighbors. He only went out of even
ings, and then but for short time, ex-
changing few shakes of the hand with
acquaintances. When he heard a German
voice he turned away OF crossed the street
to avoid its owner. He never read the
papers, and received letters but rarely, yet
he busted himself most of the time writ
ing-what, he refused to say. He had no
visitors, paid his rent puctually, rose and
retired early, and lived well. In fine, he
was the perfect type of small bourgeois
retired from business and living on his
income. To women he was always polite,
to children more than kind. Not until
his death did the fact become public that
Hans Friech had been the headsman of
Berlin.
Headsman is the true significance of the
word, not q mere mechanic puiler of cords
and TOUGHER of springs, like Samson or
Roch, for during the period he executed
the haates Gucres of the Prussian Capital,
ending in 1910, the ak, ard not the guillo-
tine, was employed forehe decapitation of
criminals. Hans Friech was an artist, for
not only could he remove his subjects head
at asingle blow, buthe knew and respected
that subiect's rights and preferences. He
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gte go1<dc 1ropiflt.

things that Bertram saw in the fields. But
one day he sold some insects to man who
had much taste for such things-.a natur-
alist, and there he found books that gave
him much information that was new TO
him even about the beetles and the ants.
After some time he determined to tell the
world what he had learned about the
beetles, and this drew the attention Of
many learned men to him. Next he wrote
book about the glow-worms, and for this
King Charles x. made him Chevalier of
the Legion of Honor Then he wrote
about the ants, and he was appointed
Professor in the Museum of Natural His
tory, and afterward was elected member
OF the Academy of Science. All this for
using his eyes. Try Aow, children, and
use your eyes, for the world is full of
strange things.-N. r. School Journal.
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The Hearts Of the L0wly.

One day. three or four weeks ago, a
gamin, who seemed to have no friends in
the world, was run over by vehicle on
Gratiot avenue and fatally injured. After
he had been in the hospital for week. a
boy about his own age and size, and look
ing about as friendless and forlorn, called
to ask about him and to leave an orange.
He seemed much embarrassed and would
answer no questions. After that he came
daily, always bringing something, if no
more than an apple Last week, when the
nurse told him that Billy had no chance
to get we'll, the strange boy waited around
longer than usual, and finally asked if he
could go in. He had been invited to
many times before, but had always refused.
Billy, pale, and weak and emaciated,
opened his eyes in wonder at sight of the
boy, and before he realized who it was
the stranger bent close to his face and
sobbed: =
"Billy, can ye forgive feller? We
was alluz fighting and was allus too
much for ye, but Pm sorry! Fore ye die
wun't ye tell me ye haven't any grudge
agin me?''
The young lad, then almost in the shad-
ow of death, reached up his thin white
arms. clasped them around the others
neck, and replied:
Don't cry. Bob-don't feel bad Twas
ugly and mean, and was heaving stone
at ye when the wagon hit me. If yell
forgive me I'll forgive you, and I'll pray
for both OF us! =
Bob was half an hour late the morning
Billy died. When the nurse took him to
the sllrouded corpse he kissed the pale face
tenf7nr1v and uaannd
"D-did he say anything about-about
mcs''
He spoke Of you just before he died.
asked it you were here, z replied the nurse.
*And may go-go 70 the funeral =
you may. y
And he did. He was the only mourner.
His heart was the only one that ached.
No tears were shed BY others, and they
left him sitting by the new-made grave
with heart SO big that he could not speak.
If, underthe crust o. vice and Ignorance,
there arc such springs OF pure feeling
and true nobility, who shall grow weary
of doing good. - Dttroit Free Press.
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A Cossack Sentinel.

Approach to Giurgevo is now forbidden
bv Cossack sentries, good-tempered but
inexorable, perfectly stupid, but firm as
fate. No one is suffered to approach with
out pass from the Russian authorities.
Every footpath. even, is guarded, and the
COmmandant de Place himself has taken
up his quarters in the railway station.
confess that Cossacks are to me a
source of delight everlasting. Their good
hum0red insolence, their self possession,
their pleasant disregard of the mere for
eigner, are traits unwearying to observe.
1t would have been impossible for any
human being other than a Cossack to
smile so blandly for such length of time
as did one of the scntries who stopped me
yesterday. A bnrly mercenary he was,
with good broad face, burnt red, yellow
hair and bleached moustache. He stopped
my horses with ponderous hand, came
to the carriage door and smiled. l pro-
duced various papers, all of which he
took with good -humored contempt, as one
takes toy when the child insists. He
studied them-upside, ,down-with plying
affectation of interest, handed them back,
and smiled more broadly, more amiably
than before.
thought all was right and told the
driver to proceed. The Cessack, all his
teeth on view, said one syllable, which
meant no." and stood there, grinning in
the kindest manner, but fixed as the god
Terminus. A crowd of unfortunate Rou-
manians surged round him, each provided
with pass in the native tongue. He hon.
ored these also with passing smile some
lines, but his best attentions were all for
me. talked, argued, entreated and re-
viled him, without lessening for an instant
that beam of complacent amiability. Not
word did he reply, and l grew silent,
hushed at length by the fascination. Then
was suddenly conveyed to me the inter
derland, )" where the Cheshire cat leaves
grin behind even after he has vanished.
The Cossack's " bright smile haunts me
STILL" He had, however, companion of
more serious cast, who finally was per-
suaded to inform us that an official might
be found some miles away, across the
corn. field. Thither we drove, pursued to
the very town by our Cossack's beaming
features. And at the camp we found Col.
Orloff, who received US with that perfect
courtesy and soldier-like frankness where
in Russian officers are distinguished above
all whom have met. His was the regi-
ment shelled yesterday, and he gave me
the account. Under guidance Of his or
derly we reached the town across the corn
fields, and, to our great disappointment,
were debarred from triumphing over that
Cossack jester.-Giurgeuo Cor. London
Standard.
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THE average annual mortality from hy-
drophobia in England is one to about
800, 900 inhabitants, or nearly the same
as in New York City; in France and
Germany it is somewhat higher; for the
United States generally there are no sat-
isfactory statistics, but the fatality IS
probably not greater than in New YORK.
The disease is peculiarly one OF the Tenn
perate Zone, and is very rare in Turkey,
Syria and Egypt, although it is said to oc.
cur in China and India. The potency OF
the contagion varies in different epide
mics, in different dogs, and at different
times in the same dog.
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DOMESTIC.

NEw VOpK telepram Of the 10Th SAWS
a man calling himself q T.. Evans. has
been sending circnlars 10 persons in the
western states nronosipo tbe nurchase nv
the recin;ent on ioint account. Of twelve
tickets in t,e Georgia lottery. at a cost of ten
dollars and agreeing ON HIS part to SO ma
pipulate the drawn numbers as to make one
Of the tickets draw a $4,000 prize. The VIC
Tins have been numerous, but the police Of
the metropolis have not yet been able -
place hands upon Evans
AT the Brookfield coal-mine, near
Wheatland, Pa, on the lltil, locomotive,
burning anthracite coal Tor the hrstt tmc' en-
tered the tunnel to the mine, and, aitcr pc-
ing in short time, the men IN charge OF Inc
from S tbe [ sara coa, ] cans,ar them 70 fa,i te
tho ground IN a scnscIcss condition. The
engineer managed 10 make his way back to
the mouth Of The hank and give the alarm
at which 4 largo number of men rushed
into ,bc hank to rcscue their com.
rade. One after another thew passcd in. but
were almost immediat.lv overcome by gas.
and tbav To- ,eli ;rsens;ble After several
had TINS fallen esne was organized to res
cue those who went in last, and squads Of
four or five passed IN until they came to =
fallen comradc, when they would take him
in their arms and carry him ont to the open
air. In this way thirty six men were brought
out, Fix Of whom were either dead before
reaching the mouth OF the bank or died I'M
mediately after.
A MISS KATE KELLEY, of Decatur, ILL.,,
,ya. 4, az, ,,,<>,,%y, ~, a hoo favy avov,
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THIS is the season when newly married
couples make their appearance at the
watering place hotels, languishing on
four dollars -a-day diet for one week pre-
cisely, and then go home to the realities
of corn beef and cabbage for the balance
of their natural lives.-N. Y. Commercial
Adcertiser.