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Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1878-12-03
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The Lamoille news. (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1877-1881, 1878-01-09
Rapid Locomotive Building.

Recently in the Michigan Central
railroad shops, at Jackson, Mich, two
gangs OF workmen, numbering fourteen
men each, attempted to put two loco
motives together in the shortest time yet
made. The Detroit Free Press says !:
The jacks were applied, the huge boilers
were raised and bolted on their frames,
then they were placed on their wheels
with all possible expedition, while SIM
ultaneously work was progressing on
every portion of the machines, which
were rapidly assuming perfect form.
Water was let into the boilers, and even
while men were working at the CRATES
the fires were kindled and the "infants"
began to warm up for their work. At
last one of them is ready for the smoke
stack, and is pulled along the track
until she stops beneath the one designed
for her, which hangs above her.
"Lower away, cast off your tackle, go
ahead" and the yard engine pulls her
Out VI tIlO w
for completion, her constructors working
as she moves, and busy hands being
employed in fastening the bolts which
hold the smoke stack in it's place. A
few moments more and the last sore is
turned, the last bolt is fastened, the
engineer stands in his place, and in just
two hours and fifty-five minutes from
the time the signal to commence was
given, the throttle is pulled, and the
first of the twins moves off completed,
followed moment later by her mate.
All the pieces of machinery connected
with the locomotive hid been finished
and ready for use beforehand, but none
had been fitted. On the same day, the
two new engines made trips of seventy.
six miles each and worked nicely.
The Lamoille news. (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1877-1881, 1878-01-09
A New Trick Of the Telephone.

Messrs. Thomas and John Loveioy, OF
this city. says the Titusville (Pa.) Her.
aid, have made most remarkable dis"
covery while speaking over their private
telephone line. BY simply pressing the
mouth of the telephone against any part
of the body and then speaking, the
sound was conveyed through the wire to
the other end of the circuit without
placing it to the mouth. The expert
ment was repeated on three and haii-
mile telephone line between this CITY
and Boughton switch, with the same re-
suits. The city clerk, Mr.. Roof, also
tried it on the ,ity line to Friendship
Island, and found that he could hear
distinctly, although he could not make
the men at the works understand MN
owing to the rattle Of machinery IN the
room. Mr.. John Ponton, agent OF 'he
Bell Telephone Company, gave the mat
ter a thorough test. The sound con-
yeyed is very much weaker than when
speaking in the ordinary manner Win
the mouth close to the instrument, put
it is none the less distinct. 1t sounos
like some tests which have been made
with the telephone through the great
lengths of wire, and unless for very
short lines it is too weak to be solely re-
lied upon for the transmission OF intel
Igible language. Tt shows, however,
that with the use of three instruments
one at each ear and one at the mouth
the sound may be increased very con-
siderably, as in that case, there would
be two feeble magnetic currents uniting
with one of greater strength, the action
would be harmonious and precisely slml-
lar to that of speaking through two or
more telephones at the same time.
The Lamoille news. (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1877-1881, 1878-01-09
Spontaneous Generation.

An interesting account of an expert
ment made to solve the question of
"spontaneous generation" is given in
the following letter by Professor Tyndall
to Professor Huxley:
Though the question of spontaneous
generation is, I believe, practically
set at rest for the scientific world, Won
may possibly deem the following facts
of sufficient interest to be communicated
to the Royal Society. / brought with
me this year to the Alps sixty bermeti-
cally sealed TASKS, containing infusions
of beef, mutton, turnip and cucumber,
which had been boiled for five minutes
and sealed during the ebullition. They
were packed in sawdust, and when open
ed here the drawn out and sealed ends
of six Of them were found broken off.
These six TASKS were filled with organ
isms, the remaining ones were pellucid
and free from life. Two or three of
them were subsequently broken by
accident, but for six weeks fifty of the
TASKS remained perfectly clear. At the
end of this time took twenty-three Of
them into shed containing some fresh
hay, and there shipped off their sealed
ends with pair of pliers. The air of
the hay-loft entered to fill the vacuum
produced by the boiling in London.
Twenty-seven other TASKS were taken
Immediately afterward to the edge of
a declivity, which might also be
called a precipice, with fall of about
one thousand feet. A gentle breeze was
blowing from the mountains, partly
snow-covered and partly bare-rock,
toward the precipice. Taking care to
cleanse my pliers in the flame of spirit
lamp, and to keep my body to the lee
ward of the TASKS, shipped off their
sealed ends. The two groups of TASKS
were then placed in our own little kitch-
en-, where the temperature varied from
about sixty-fve degrees to ninety de-
grees Fahrenheit. Result-twenty-o
of the twenty-three TASKS opened at the
hay loft are filled with the organisms
two of them remain clear. All the TASKS
opened ON the edge OF the precipice re.
main as clear as distilled water. Not
one of them has given way.
The Lamoille news. (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1877-1881, 1878-01-09
An Ingenious Builder.

The nest of tarantula (spider) has
been found in California of the most
singular construction. 1t is about three
inches long by two in diameter, built in
adobes, the wall being nearly half an
inch thick. Inside of this is a proiec-
tion which nearly divides it into two
apartments about an inch in diameter.
The inside is lined with white downy
substance, not unlike velvet, and pre-
sents one of the cleanest and most tidy
little households imaginable. But the
most curious part of it is door, which
fits into an aperture and closes it her
metcally. The door is secured by
hinge, formed of like fibrous substance
as the lining of the house, and upon
which it swings with freedom. The
nest is occupied by a dozen little taran-
tulas, which seem to subsist on a yellow
secreted substance that appears upon
the walls OF the front apartment. The
arrangement Of the door for the protec-
ton of it's little inmates indicates great
instructive architectural knowledge.
The Lamoille news. (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1877-1881, 1878-01-09
Items OF Interest.

Baked clay fence-posts are in use IN
Lehigh county, Pennsylvania.
Grave robbers-fellows who break
open bank vaults without smile.
Plevra means tears; and the Chicago
Times says gently: "Tears have their
time TO fall.
The snow storms in the Balkans give
Russian and Turk better opportunities
for " sleighing."
A Texas dog, which was taken to Mis-
souri,, found his way back, 800 miles, to
his old masters home,
Laura Bun, young colored woman,
is making speeches in Kentucky in
favor of woman's rights.
A wholesale tea dealer is sometimes
required to taste $50 cups day, much to
the detriment Of his health.
Thirteen is an unlucky number OF
persons to sit down to dinner-if there
is only enough to go around comfortably
for twelve.
It is the custom among certain tribes
in Siberia that when woman is married,
she must prepare the wedding dinner
with her own hands.
In ancient times the candidates for
athletic honors in Greece were dieted on
new cheese. dry figs and boiled gram
with warm water no meat was allowed.
A mother seeing her little girl nearly
asleep in her chair, asked her if she had
not better go to bed. "Oh, no, mamma,
1 only shut my eyes to keep the dust
out"
The mar who goes around buying
farms and getting change for S2o
counterfeit bill, is now abroad in the
land. When he comes along leave your
footprints on him.
A sack-sewipg machine has been IN
vented at Napa, Cal. 1t cost $3,Ooo,
and took the maker ten months to per-
feet it, but with two men it can turn out
eight thousand sacks day.
Elder Evans, of the Shakers, attributes
TO the use of animalfood the thirst for H.
toxicating drinks. 81 have found, he
says, "by many years experience, that
whenever get man to abstain from
use of flesh meats, much salt and other
condiments, he easily leaves tobacco
alcohol and drugs"
Here is a story that teaches its own
moral: Eliza Parker, a girl eighteen
years of age, living on Terrence road,
Cincinnati, with a piece Of paper lighted
q lamp, and threw the paper, still atiame'
on the floor. BY it her clothing was set
on fire, and the poor girl was so badly
burned that she died a few hours after
ward
The Lamoille news. (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1877-1881, 1878-01-09
The River Danube.

The river Danube has figured largely
in history for 1000 years, and it again
becomes the object to which the eyes of
the whole world have turned. 1t fur
nished highway for the Turks in the
sixteenth and seventeenth centuries to
penetrate Europe as far as Vienna, and
in the days of the Crusades it became
an outlet for the religious enthusiasm of
Europe to flow to the Holy Land. The
Danube from its source in Baden to the
Black sea, is 1920 miles long, and it
drains with its tributaries, an area of
over 100000 square miles. 1t passes
through Bavaria, Austria, Hungary, and
Servia, where it separates Roumania
from Bulgaria, and passes into the
Black Sea through several mouths, the
principal one being that Of Sulina. The
Danube is navigable for steamers as far
as Ulm, in Bavaria. At Nicopolis, in
the fourteenth century, 100, 900 Chris
tians were driven by the Turks into the
Danube, and in the fifteenth century
40, 900 Turks we're slain ON its shores at
the siege of Belgrade.
The Lamoille news. (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1877-1881, 1878-01-09
THE FATAL RIFLE

1t was at the battle of San Jacinto
hat the rifle came to my notice. We
Texans having gained advantage over the
Mexicans - whose first discharge had
Deen aimed too high-rushed on while
>ur enemies paused to reload their guns.
Each man reserved his fire for some in
tividual, so that the struggle was less a
battle than succession of duels. With
out bayonets, we broke our rifles against
their heads, and, with pistol or bowie
knife in hand, trampled down the dying
men, plunging our blades into the
breests of the few who opposed lis, into
the backs OF those who fed.
We were still full of memories of the
Alamo. Never could we forget how the
Mexicans had slaughtered every human
being within its walls, save three-a
woman, child and negro-and after
ward burned the bleeding bodies in one
horrible pile.
The war-cry of our band had been:
Fight for your lives, and remember the
Alamo;" aud the poor Mexicans, who
were, after all, but the slaves of blood
thirsty tyrant, thought of it also,
and moaned rs they fell: "Me no
Alamo Me no Alamo" hoping to
establish claim for mercy, on the plea
that they had no hand in that horrible
affair.
In the midst of this conflict I saw my
college chum, Howard Rathbone, in in
stant peril. rushed to his aid. Having
broken his gun over the head of one
Mexican, he found himself beset by an
other, who cried out that he would
avenge his brothers blood. As they
grappled, the Mexican tried to use his
rifle as my chum had his. It was in vain
Howard was the stronger. In few
moments he gained possession of the
others weapon, and struck him q blind
ing blow. Then, his hands being freed,
he drew his bowie-knife and plunged it
into the Mexican's heart. Meanwhile
the savage tide Of fighting men poured
past This was little conflict by itself
Hardly any one noticed it, there were 50
many others. But as he fell, the dying
Mexican clutched the cloth of the
soldiers coat in the grip of death, and
dragged him down upon his breast,
where for moment he lay as one who
had cast himself upon the breast of a
friend. Only moment; but ere he had
freed himself these words had been
hissed into his ears: 10
&C. curse the gun Msy it prove the
curse of your life !" -
AS the Texan struggled to his feet,
wrenching the dead clutch from his
jacket, he felt inclined to cast the rife
upon the ground. At that moment il
was too necessary to him. The next
he was a tiger again, beset by Other
tigers. E
Me no Alamo !" moaned bleeding
| Mexican. 55rl
| He struck him down.
"Mother !" cried boy, into whose
breast he had plunged his blade.
For answer, he drove his iron heel intt
the face that was hardly more than {
child's.
The Lamoille news. (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1877-1881, 1878-01-09

$, and months and years

Farewell, days, and months and years
Farewell, thoughts, and hopes, and feArs
Farewell old delight aud woe; o.,
Farewell. self Of long ago!
In the old familiar place
Time sped on at slower pace
Past recall indeed you lie,
Days, and months, aud years gone by,
Now the old familiar door
Shuts us ont for eyermore Il
Farewell, house-no more our home
Others, in the years to come,
Hither homeward will return
On the hearth their fires will burn
Children that we do not know
Gather round the blithesoms glow
Other feet will tread the stair,
Other guests be welcomed there.
We, whose home II was before, .- 4
Shall be strangers eyermore
May be, in the years to come,
Past the house our feet may roam
Over all a subtle change
Will have stolen and made il strange.
Aud the house we leave to-day
Will have vanished quite away.
In this houses joy and care
We shall have no lot nor share
All our life herein win seem
Like half-forgotten dream.
We shall be as ghosts, that come
Lingering round their ancient home,
II our feet pass evermore
Near the old familiar door,
Farewell, days, and months, and years;
Farewell, buried hopes and fears
Wheresoe'er our footsteps stray,
Whether long or brief our stay,
Whatsoever good we find,
Many graves we leave behind.
So, farewell, old Joy and pain,
We shall never know again
Farewell, all things that we leave
Surely, life and warmth must eleaye
To the house, when we are gone.
Can it empty seem, and lone,
When the echoes of the years,
Hopes and joys, and griefs and fears,
Scarce have died from roof and wall?
Surely, ghostly steps will fall
On the bare, dismantled floors,
Gliding in at open doors,
Fitting up and down the stair.
Will not shadows wander there
Shades more vague than shadows are,
Or than ghosts that break deaths bar?
Sure our wraiths, when we are gone,
Oft will haunt the chambers lone
Come to seek (ah, ne'er to find y
All the years we leave behind?
Farewell house, for evermore!
Farewell, old familiar door!
Farewell, home-yet no, not So
Home goes with us where we go!
The Lamoille news. (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1877-1881, 1878-01-09
The Grocer,s Glft to Luis Preacher.

A Covington (Ky.) correspondent tells
this: A merchant visited the city a few
days ago, and, going to Cincinnati, pur-
chased. from dollar store table-caster,
which he took home with him, and after
putting tag on it marked fourteen
dollars) made it a present to @ Methodist
preacher, whose church his family at
tended. The reverend gentleman took
the package home, opened it, and ex-
amined the contents. The next day he
brought the caster with tag attached)
back to the groceryman, and said to
him: 81 am too poor in this worlds
goods to afford to display so valuable
easter on my table, and if you have
no objection I should like TO return 1t
and take fourteen dollars worth Of gro
ceries in it's stead" The merchant could
do nothing but acquiesce, but fancy his
feelings,
The Lamoille news. (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1877-1881, 1878-01-09
A Convenient Cooking Apparatus.

ASwiss journal gives the following ac-
count of novel cooking stove: Herr
Boefinger, nm ingenious gentleman of
Heilbronn, has invented what he calls
a Observation-Disclosures = in
plain English, patent petroleum cook,
ing apparatus, which possesses the pc
culiar quality of lighting itself at any
specified hour, The machine is furnish
ed with an indicator, the finger of which
can be turned to the appointed time,
and when the time arrives the fire begins
to burn, the water to boil, and the meat
to roast. A man who.!wafits an early
breakfast, supposing him to be the for
tunate owner of neutrality-suspicious.
kochapparat, has thus only to arrange
matters over night, set the indicator,
and on rising next morning he will find
everything ready without the interven-
tion of probably sleepy and dificult-to-
be-awakened servant. This admirable
invention is exactly the thing for the
lady who advertised short time since
for deaf and dumb cook.
The Lamoille news. (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1877-1881, 1878-01-09
HYDE PARK. VT. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 8, 1878.

him ? Had he not sorrow enough I 80
| let him be. Shuddering, l saw him
ram home the charge, then put the rife
back.
Was not right? is there any event
so seemingly supernatural, 50 clothed in
mystery, that chance cannot make it
plain as any page of Natures laws2
The old rife is mine. II is cleaning
Mt me even now. .... .
The Lamoille news. (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1877-1881, 1878-01-09

One of our readers up town is q sort
OF subscriber. He takes the paper
when the other man is not around,
The Lamoille news. (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1877-1881, 1878-01-09
COME AND SEE

W II you want to make good BUTTER, get ond
~. @. Bald@in's Patent Cream Coolers, which, to-
rther with Cream Strainer, keep constantly on
and.
cal and learn our prices, which are much re-
uced, especially on Milk Pans. No trouble to
Acw You what We Lave on hand.
eepairing doneto order, and all Work warranted
HENRY LEONARD.
pAMRRrDGE BoRo, VT.
The Lamoille news. (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1877-1881, 1878-01-09
E. B. SAWYER,
AMERICAN HOUSE,

n F. KELLEY, Proprietor,
VI. sffF Hyde Park, w.
Having rented the American Hotel and closed the
Union House to the public, we are now prepared to
tsko good care of the patrons Of both houses, and
hope to give satisfaction to all.
M J.F. KEIEEY.
The Lamoille news. (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1877-1881, 1878-01-09
p. w. j. PECK,
lENTIsx
HENDEE g. FISK,

&ro. W. HErDEE. t.- q. o. Tnx
A TToRNEYs AT LAW,
"a Morrisvills, Vt.
MT. Fisk's connection with the Patent once al
washington for the past few years will enable him
procure Patents speedily, and he believes to the
nitro satisfaction. of The applicant. Several valu.
Ihie inventions for sale on easy terms.
The Lamoille news. (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1877-1881, 1878-01-09

ri. y. -As ~ a,
n lNLPUTY SHERIFF AND AUJ IDNEER,
~ Hyde Park, VT.
N Busnese from parties residing out Of the count
vii receive prompt attention.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1878-08-24
The valley Of Death.

In the northeast corner Of San Berdardiuo
county. Cal, lying partly in lnyo county,
and by tie newly surveyed line, partly, also,
in the State Of Nevada, is region parallelcd
by few other spots 90 the face Of the Garth
We say the world is instinct with life. Here,
if the pharseology may be parloned, is place
instinct with death. a hugh basin, whose
rim is the ancient hills, stricken with the
barrenuess Of eternal desoatl0n, whose bosom
the blasted waste of the descrt-treeiess,
sbrubless and waterless, save few bitter pools
like the I've Of potash water surrounded by
mountains that tower thousands Of feet above
the sea level, itself lying 5000 above the sea.
Il is very Gehauna "a place Of death
and bones Birds do not fly over It, Animals
do not enter il. Vegetation cannot existin It..
The broad sands absorb the heat. tue bare
mountains reflect il, the u0cloudcd sun daily
adds 10 IT, Ninety degrees 10 tie shade tarti-
fetal heat, there is no other means winter ;
1870 ard 40 degrees, that means sumner
The hot air grows hotter, wavers, tremb.es
with heat until nature goadeI with nadloss,
can endure no longer, and then the burning
blast rouseS itself-rOuscs IN It's might rouses
as an angry blast, with a hoarse, omlnous
roar. swept mile after mile CO ever on, over
the broad reach Of the desert, bearing in its
black. wbirlins bosom-back as midnight
dust. sand. aikali and death. Sometimes
murky clouds gather upon tie mountains
above then there is q rush-a warning sight
Of tie winds-a low rumbling 10 the air. the
hills culver, the earth trembles, and torrent,
half water, half mud, bounds from the bills,
leaps in the desert, ploushiug chasms like
river beds in the loose sand. The clouds
scatter, the sun comes again, the eternal thirst
is not qucncLed. The raging ri9er was olly
a dream. IN the year 1910 party Of immi-
grants entered the basin. Day after day they
toiled on, thirsting, dying. The piiiless
mountains walled them in 10 escape. One
by one they dropped and died. y few aband-
oned everything scaled the mountain and
escaped. The others lie as tDey fell dried TO
mummies-no birds even to degour their flesh,
no beasts to prey upon them. Wagon tires
nnrusted. gun barrels bright, uotarnished -
Such is tie place. Mile after mile silence
roigus, silence deatb.--hiHHesa'7 Ga-stte.