New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1880-03-31

ingman,s Presence 81 Mind.
THE internal yet very uscful cons
pound IS So swift and terrible in IT.
work, and co ami ilatory hits effects
that many persons experience 8 singu-
lar feeling If even in the presence q.
the harmless-lo oking fluid. They know
that a slight concussion would send
them into eternity with the rapidity Of
the lightning flash, and hardly Atrace
Of their bodies be found. Menwhp are
accustomed to nitro cerine are sup.
posed to have none Of these feelings,
and nerve is a necessary requisite.
Neverthe less, the presence OF appall-
ING danger sometimes illustrates the best
Of them, as will be seen by the follow
ing incident: 3.
At certain factory not hundred
miles from Bradford were gathered the
members of the firm and some work
men. The gentlemen were intently
watching the process of manufactur-.
ing the explodent, when one Of them
incautiously dropped his cigar-stub on
ming water, bearing on the surface
small particles Of nitro-glycerine. The
latter caught fire and burned brilliant
~ with a suffering noise. To say
that the spectators were alarmed would
be to put it very mildly. They were
simply paralyzed with terror and
watched the spreading fiery stream
with the helpless fascination with
which a victim is said to look in the
glittering eyes Of rattlesnake. All
around them were cans filed with
nitro glycerine, enough to annihilate
an army, and every man felt as though
he was the victim of a hideous night
mare which held him powerless. Flight
was impossible; their limbs refused to
perform their office; and an awful death
seemed inevitable. The apparently
doomed men saw the little lake of fire
spread slowly but surely on the floor,
but the flames Kissed as though in
triumph at the certain death that
seemed to await their victims. None
of the spectators will soon forget this
thrilling episode in their lives, and
money could not hire them to repeat
the experiment. When the fire had al.
most reached can filled with glycer-
inc one sof the workmen reused
from his lethargy, and, taking off
his coat, spread it oh the floor and
extinguished the flames, when of course
all danger ceased. One of the gem
tlemen present, when describing his
experience said: 81 never knew before
what it was to be sick from fear When
saw the internal stuff burning, and
felt that every man of us would be
blown to atoms in five seconds, every
muscle of my body seemed palsled. l
gasped for breath, my head swan, and
only felt deathly sensation of nausea
in my stomach. All present turned an
ashy paleness of the face. Then I
vainly wondered whether there would
be any pain in the dcath-strokc. The
remembrance of anitro-glycerine hor-
ror, where the still palpitating heart of
one of it's victims was picked up a min
ute after the explosion. came to my
mind, and I surnisedwhether my heart
would undergo that strange experience
after being torn from my body. The
thought Of my family caused ME the
most poignant anguish, and tears
coursed down my checks. Then sever
al incidents of my life, Of which ] can
not speak with pride, were wildly pre-
sented to my minds eye, and induced
vague reflections on the subject of fu-
ture punishment. Sometimes in my
dreams I have felt myself in the pres
ence of frightful peril, such as lying in
the path of an express train, or totter-
ing on the brink of vast abyss, but
was utterly incapable of moving hand
or foot for my preservation. So I
seemed in this case. Icould not lift .
finger, though there was comparative
safety in flight; paralyzed with terror
was literally my condition. After what
seemed to be an eternity of waiting for
my inevitable fate, my attention was
arrested by a movement on the part of
one of the workmen, who took off his
coat hurriedly. Then he bent forward,
and, with the utmost elaboration, laid
it on the pool of fire, moving it gently
along and patting it with his hands UNI
til every spark was extinguisEed. The
reaction from the terrible suspense was
almost overpowering, and l felt weak
as child, but on going out into the
open air my old time spirits came back
very rapidly. May 1 never have an
other such experience. y bradford
.(P0.) Eru. .
AN eccentric Englishman has built
house in Paris which is the talk of the
city. 1t is circular, has neither door
nor window externally, and the app
proach to it is from the ground
to the roof by means of as.lad-
der, which is moved up and down by
machinery. There is only one floor,
but eighteen apartments look into the
center, which is lighted by cupola.
Indian corn may be advantageousiy
used in the proportion of one to six; the
only objection to it IS that it causes tor.
pidity of the bowels. This must be
counteracted by giving an equal pro
portion of bran. Beans, but for their
heating tendency, would form very
suitable adjunct to oats, as they contain
large proportion of nutritive material.
They may be safely given to animals
that are hard wrought and upward Of
seven years. A horse cannot be main
tanned in health on grain alone; the
stomach requires certain amount of
mechanical distension to keep it acting
properly.
Hay or straw serves this purpose.
The ordinary allowance should be about
twenty pounds per day; something like
five pounds in the morning, FIVE pounds
1T midday, and ten pounds at night. "A
few years ago chopped hay came great
" into vogue; but the principal argu-
lnent in its favor was that the bad hay
was eaten along with the good. This
tells seriously against the plan, as a
horse is certainly better without bad
hay IN its stomach than with it. All
kinds Of straw are inferior to hay. oats
being the only variety that should be
used; it does well when horses are idle
as they are not SO liable to get into too
high condition on it.
Green foliage is wei suited to horses
in its season; then the work is light, and
they appear to thrive on it. It must be
given in mOderatiOn esnacia1lv AZ fret