The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1878-10-29
Shooting Young Woman Gut Of q
Cannon.

New YORK. October 19.-The sensa-
ton in the amusement public in this city
is the shooting Of young woman from.
acannon at the Aquarium. The cannon
seems to be made Of wood, and IL noun
ted after the manner ofa mortar. It
stands at tue front of the stage, pointing
atnn angle of about thirty.Hve or forty
degrees, between the upturned faces of
the spectators and the rsfters overhead.
Attheclose of her trspeze act, Miss Ger.
aldine comes down the rope, head for
most, BY twning one leg aroud it, and
With her disengaged toe describing an
Archimedesn spiral, She is then assis
ted to the raised mBzzle of the cannon,
into the bore Of which she slips feet first,
laying on her back. Her head and neck
are just visible when the gun is charged.
Then she gives the word, the report Of
the cannon is heard, and she dies toward
the spectators, going some twenty five
or thirty-feetin a straight line before she
drops to the netspread to catch her, when
she again steps upon the stage and smiles
her acknowledgement of the applause, Her
bright garments are not at all blackened
By powder, q fact whichis doubtless due
to the interior mechanism, of the cannon.
The Floor of the Ocean.
| Here is an end OF all romance about
hidden ocean depths, We can speculate
no longer about peris in chambers OF
pearl, or mermaias, or heaped treasures
and dead mems bones whitening in coral
caves The whole ocean floor is now
mapped, out for us The report Of the
expedition. sent out from London in her
Majesty's ship Challenger has recently
tbeen published Nearly four years were
given to the examination of the currents
and floors of the four, great oceans Of
the world The Atlantic, We are told,
lif drained, would be q vast plain, with
mountain ridge in the middle running
parable, with our coast Another range
crosses it from Newfoundland to Ireland,
on top of which lies q submarine cable
The ocean is thus divided into three
great basins. no longer "unfathomable
depths" The tops of these sea noun
Itains are two miles below sailing ship,
and the basins, according to Reeius, are
Fifteen miles. which is deep enough for
drowning, if not for mystery The
mountains are whitened for thousand OF
miles by tiny, creamy shell The
depths are red in color, heaped with vol
[canic masses. Through the black, mo-
tionless water Of these abysses move gi
\ gantic abnormal creatures, which never
rise to upper currents. There. is an old
legend coming down TO us from the frs,
ages of the world on which these scien.
i tific deep sea soundings throw curious
i light. Plato and Solon record the tra
dition, ancient in their days, Of coun'
try in the Western seas where fiourished
the first civilization Of mankind, which
by volcanic action, was submerged and
lost. The same story is told bv the
Central Americans, who still, celebrate
in the fast of Izcilli, the ftightfully cata
clysm which destroyed this land with its
, stately cities De Bourbourg and othel
archeologists assert that this lost lane
. extended from Mexico beyond the Wes
Indies. The shape of the plateau dis
covered by the Challenger correspond.
, with this theory. What if some keef
, ! Yankee should yet dredge out from it.
unfathomed slime the lost Atlantis?