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A Sailor on Earthquakes.


who was on a man of-War which was
stranded in the West Indies. He
says: "Our vessel began to culver
and rock as if a mighty giant had
got hold of her N d was trying to
loosen every timber in her frame.
Officers and men ran pellmell on
deck to ascertain the cause of such
a phenomenon. The vibration con
tinued, perhaps, the space of a mi
mute, accompanied by a buzzing noise
somewhat like the draught of a smell
TING furnace, or a hum of innumera-
bic swarms of bees. So certain were
we that the cause was connected in
some way with the ship that no one
cast an eve on shore. It's an EARTH
quake, SIR look ashore ? shouted from
the bow an old ~bluejacket, who had
felt the peculiar sensation before, |
looked, and saw a dusty, hazy atmos-
phere over the town. could see men
women and children running hither
and thither, and could catch faint cries
of distress. Full five minutes had
elapsed since the shock, when | heard
a peculiar grating noise, and looking
over the bow l found the chain saw
inc on the cut-water, and as
taut as a sharp-string, full ten
fathoms Of it being out of the water.
On reporting the fact aft, the warp
from the qurter which was used to
swing the ship broad side to the land
breeze was let 80, when we found we
were dragging anchor very rapidly
because Of the powerful currents, the
first effect Of the shock. Orders were
Immediately given to 'veer the chain,
and the executive officer ordered the
shoppers to be cut. 4 sailor seized
an X and delivered but a stroke or
two, when the tremendous strain broke
them, and with the leap of a huge
serpent the iron cable ran out Of the
haws-pipe with continually increas-
ing velocity, sWaying and Ieaping in
its mad career, defying the power of
the men at the compressor with their
powerful lever to stop it; on and on
it dashed, making the vessels bow
rise and fall as it increased in momen-
tum, marking its cratic course with
a streak of fire, until coming to the
end there was d |perceptibIe rising
of the deck, a tremendous jerk, and
the heavy lourteen-inch bolt rivotted
in a solid oak beam was torn out
and the last links connecting the
vessel to the anchor went hourIshing
and wriggling overheard with the
rest. We were now adritt at the
mercy of the currents. An effort
was made to MAI the starbOard com
pressor, so as to check the other
anchor when let go; but the men
had come on deck and were standing
panic-stricken, gazing at the terrible
appearance of the sea. A reef had
risen off the northern point of the
island where but a few minutes
before were several fathoms Of water,
Our vessel advanced towards ana
receded from the shore with the
waters until, as if some great power
had raised up the bottom of the bay,
the sea rapidly closed in on the town,
filling the houses and covering The
street running along the beach to a
LII .or+v fo,,r foot Our chin
, 1882-05-06

The OIIu5eS OGIlS uldu6M many ZINES
as strong, and therefore many times
as costly, and the expense of main
tenance consequently also was far
greater than if there We're no loco
motive. And it was not possible
to make the engine much lighter, for
it would not then have sufficient adj
hesion to the rails to be able to draw
the train in fact, you could not d.
mini>h the weight as long as the
train was propelled with only one or
two pairs of driving wheels as at
present. The employment of %electri-
city, however, would enable the train
to be driven with every pair of its
own wheels, just as the employment
of compressed air enabled every pair
of wheels to brake the train. One
reason why electric transmission of
power could be effected with so little
waste was because electricity had
apparently no mass, and consequent
" no inertia there was, therefore,
no waste of power in making it 60
round a corner, as with water or with
any kind of material fluid. Another
reason why electro-motors were so
valuable for travelling machinery
was on account Of the light weight
of the motor. Experiments show that
one horse. power could be developed
per 50lb. of dead weight of the cleo
tro-motor, a result immensely more
favourable than could be obtained
with steam, gas, or compressed-air
engines. The simplest plan for cleo
trio railways was to use the two rails
as the two wires, and make c%onnexion
with the motor through the wheels
of the train those on one side being
well insulated from those of the other
otherwise the current would pass
through the axles of the wheels, in
stead Of through the motor. This
simple plan was that employed in
Siemen's Lichterfelde electric rail
way, now running at Berlin the in
suIation arising from the rails being
merely laid on wooden sleepers hav-
ing been found sufficient for the short
length, II mile. Photographs of the
Siemens railway were projected on
the screen, and experiments followed,
proving that although two bare wires
lying on the ground could be quite
efficiently employed as the going
and return wire, if the wires were
short and the ground dry, the leakage
that occurred if the wires were long
and the ground moist was SO great
as to more than compensate for the
absence of the locomotive. Conse-
quently Professor Perry and himself
had for some time past been working
out practical means for overcoming
these difficulties, and they had arrived
at what they hoped was an extremely
satisfactory solution. Instead of sup
plying electricity to n very long,
not very we'll insulated rail, they
laid by the side Of their railway line
a we'll insulated cable to convey the
main current. The rail, which was
rubbed by the moving train, and
which supplied it with electric ener-
gy, they subdivided into a number of
sections, each fairly well insulated
from its neighbour and from the
ground, and they arranged that at
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-12-04

Education within the army is briefly
treated by Colonel Vincent OF the staff of
General Augur, commanding the depart
ment of Texas. In the latter's annual re-
port, he advises for the soldiers schools
already aut horized pecuniary support by
congress (now their money comes from
savings Of the ration-the stomach feeds
the head; compulsory attendance; suit
able teachers; and the non-enlistnlent i'll
white regiments of illiterate men. The
first three seem self-eyident neces-
sites for a decent system. If men who
can neither read nor write are enlisted,
the intellectual tone must be, and the
moral tone probably will be very low. The
adjutant general has adopted this sugges-
ton of Colonel V;ncent's, and in his report
to the secretary of war recommends read
ing and writing to be among the qualifca-
tions of recruits. Our army isalways handi-
capped in the matter of education by the
amount of manual labor it must perform
in addition to its strictly martial duty
which, as we have before noted, is no
child's play, even in peace. A difficulty
underlying the whole matter seems to be
the spreading of small force SO thlnly
over very largo territory. If two men have
three mems work on their hands. some de-
tails will suffer.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-12-04
The Last of the French Dandies.
London Daily News.

M. Barley d'Aurevilly writes charm
ingly, he talks we'll, but it is his great
pride and Joy to be a fop. He glories in
the name as much as ever George Ill.
gloried IN the name of Briton. His faith
on this subject is all set down in great
little book of which he is the author,
which has Brummel for the hero of its
story. He has described it as book son
Fop, by Fop, for Fops." Foppishness,
he declares, SIS miserabiy misunderstood;
it is but form of vanity, and vanity is
but a form of that desire to please which
is the handspring of all good and of most
great actions. It is only cur incurable
hypocrisy that keeps Us from owning as
much. But we must distinguish between
foppishness and dandyism; foppishness is
the desire to please others by the cultivation
of outward graces; dandyism is special
form of vanity of one race, the English.
who surpass all the world in the power of
being themselves. The Frenchman may
shine as fop, but he is far too sympathetic
to be d dandy. he may put on dandy
ism, and give himself every morning his
little disguised air, but it will be only as he
puts on u garment. The distressing thing
is that the English themselves do not know
what treasure they possess in this mani
festation of character. In q certain
sense the clothes have nothing
to do with it; it is the manner of wearing
them; it is the man inside. Lord Spencer
in rags was dandy, and Brummel one
day in freak Settle fashion of wearing
napless coats by having his own seraped
with glass. The next day half the coats in
London were being treated in the same
way. He introduced glove, and people
raved of its beautiful fit, which showed the
very outlines of the nails beneath; but his
speculative dandyism was not in the fit, it
was in the fact that he had the glove made
by five different artists, one for each finger
and one for the thumb. Byron knew what
he was about when he said that he would
rather be Brummel than Napoleon.
Brummel had all the requisite gifts Of
nature for his great vocation-elegance
and pleasing face as matter of course,
with an intense sang jroid that nothing
could discountenaEce or disturb, and above
all, quick intelligence, free from the
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always slept with a pistol under her pillow
and that she has been known to use it on
other occasions besides the time of the re-
ception to Mr.. Melville on his late reiurl
home. Once beggar called at the door
and asked for something to eat. Mrs. Mel
vile. who met the man at the door, sent
Maude for pistol, and when she got it,
told the man to be off or she would shoot
him. He dared her to shoot, and she did
so, aiming, however, at his feet.''
"Will anything be done toward getting.
possession of Maude legally!'
"That do not know at present. I GER
tainly hope that Mr.. Melville will take the
necessary steps toward accomplishing that
result" -Neiu Yogb; World.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-12-04
A MYSTERIOUS D1sAPPEARANcE.

A Thirteen Yedr Old Cir! Le0res Home on
Saturday Morning to Visit Friends IN St.
Paul, Since When No TidiMgs of Her
Hare Been Leorned-Ihe Police searching
for Her.
On Saturday Lottie Burner, thirteen
year old miss who lived with her mother
on Three and One-half avenue south, near
Twenty sixth street, disappeared and up to
last night the searchings of her nearly dis
tracted mother failed to discover her
whereabouts.
It seems that Mrs. Burner had received
notice that a registered letter was held
to her order in the postoffice at ST. Paul.
Lottie, although but thirteen years of age
is naturally bright and self reliant, and
had visited friends in st. Paul often, going
and returning unaccompanied by any one,
and on Saturday the mother gave the girl
an order for the registered letter with in
structions to go to St. Paul, get the letter
and return home in the evening. Evening
came and nothing was seen of the girl. All
night the sleepless mother sat up and
watched for her coming in vain. Yester
day she went to st. Paul and to her grief
there learned Of the friends at whose house
the girl would only be liable TO call that
she had not been there. Chief of Police
Weber was promptly notified of the strange
and mysterious disappearance. and sup
piled with photograph of tie girl, is now
instituting search of ST. Pau. while the
police of Minneapolis are searching this
city.
The mother is wild ana nearly distracted
with fears and misgivings. She stated to
~ L !
reason for the girls running away, as she
had comfortable and happy home, with
which she has never given expression to a
single word of dissatisfaction, and content
ment seemed to be part Of the child's
naIUra.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-12-04
REFORM CLUB.

Sunday afternoon a Good Talk by DR.. Sat
WOmas's Rights by the Member
from Wyoming.
Although thu attendance at the Reform
club meeting yesterday afternoon was
smaller than usual-owing doubtless to
the storm-the meeting was as earnest and
interesting as could be wished for.
After the usual devotional and musical
exercises, DR.. Satterlee commenced his
usual address. He compared the admin
istration of Mayor Ames with that of
Rand, and showed that saloons,
gambling houses and dens of in
fanny are not more numerous now
than they were when the Republican
party held the reins of government in
Minneapolis, despite the fact that the pop
ulation of the city was now greatly in
creased. He lamented the misrepresenta-
ton which the Prohibition party had re-
ceived from the hands of the Republican
press of the city ,and went on with a strong
and earnest temperance lecture that was
rep!ete with good points and telling shots.
At the conclusion of the chaplain's re-
marks, Hon. R. M. Colbrath, of Wyoming,
was introduced and spoke on the subject
of won,a1t's rights. The speaker was in
full sympathy with the crushed y wom-
arhood and delighted his audience, or at
least the crushed part of it.
Othe- short speeches followed, after
which DR.. Satterlee again rose and devoted
few moments to
THE NEWSPAPERS.
He spoke of the contemplate policy of the
Tribune that claims to indorse temperance
md at the same time heaps abuse upon
the temperance party, even descending to
abusive personalities. Mr.. Satterlee then
colnplimented the GLOBE which, while
never expressing any sentiment of temper
>ance, sent a reporter to attend every meet
ing of the club and published fair and
honest reports OF such meetings. He went
on to compare the two papers and stated
that the GLOBE uniformly contained at
least one-third more news than the Trib-
atne, and was often day or two in advance
in telegraphic news. Several
members of the club warmly Endorsed
these sentiments, and it was also re-
marked that the columns of the GLOBE had
always been open to the party, and that
while the other papers refused to receive
communications which in any way re-
Elected discredit on them or their party,
the GLOBE had never rejected a single one
or questioned the contents.
The meeting then adjourned with the
usual music.
The first lecture of the Reform club
course will be delivered on Friday even
ing next.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-12-04
KILLED BY A HORSE.

Henry Kaufman, a Livery Stable Boy
KILLED by q Fractions Horse.
On Saturday night Henry Kaufman, who
had been in the employ of Dickens & Say
lor, hverymen, for about three weeks, was
engaged in leading three horses while
riding another, up Second street. Ar
irving at the hay market, he struck the
animal be was riding sharp blow with a
short riding whip. The horse reared up,
plunged and threw himself, falling across
the chest of Kaufman. The young man was
picked up III critical condition and re-
moved to the Office of surgeon, and from
there to the College hospital, where he died
at O'Clock, in great agony. Kaufman
was twenty-six years of age. He viii be
buried to-day without an inquest being
held.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-12-04
II Coon that Stole u Trap.


Joseph Auer, private Waterman on
Greene street, familiarly known by his
friends as ''Trapper'' Auer, on account of
his skill in catching muskrats in traps,
which he keeps set constantly along the
Delaware, yesterday went to look for a
.rap on the Pennsylvania side OF the river,
when he found it missing, though por-
ton Of the chain, which had been snapped
OF, still remained to its fastenings. A Wig
osoa5 search failed to discover any trace
OF the missing trap, and he was returning
home through patch of woods when his
dog began barking up a tree. Looking
up Auer discovered a coon on limb, with
his trap dangling from one of his legs
He went to the house OF a farmer, Dor
roWed an ak and felled the tree, and there
upon secured both the trap and the coon.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-12-04

genius that spoiled many another dandy OF
that glorious epoch. This last disturbing
quality gave Sheridan his superabundance
of wit and his passion, both fatal to per
feet equilibrium of manner, and it made
Byron dandy only for one moment, but
something else the next. Brummel was a
dandy at all times. Dandyism introduces
the antique calm in the midst of modern
agitation; but the calm of the ancients came
from the harmony of the facuIties,and from
the force of a life freely developed, while
the calm of dandyism is the repose of a
mind which has made the tour of many
ideas, and which is too disguised for AMI
nation. Brummel was always like this.
His faultless dressing and the cold languor
of his manners distinguished him as boy
at Elton, and he was known as s'Buck
Brummel," the name of ssDandy" had vet
to DE. No other boy had such influence in
the school, except perhaps George Can
ming, and his was an influence of totally
different order. On leaving Oxford Brum-
mel went into the Tenth hussals, command
ed by the prince of Wales, afterward
George ~, and was naturally at once
taken to the stuffed bosom of that prince
OF tops. He possessed what
eAAO PIAASC uuSG nave esteemed
most of all human things, ssYouth, brought
out into strong relief by the surety and
coolne IS of man who had seen life. and
who knew he was its master, the finest and
the strongest mixture of impertinence and
OF respect, the genius of dressing, protected
by power of repartee that was never
without wit" Women who, like priests,
are always on the side of force, sounded
with their vermillion lips the fanfare of
Brummel; they were the trumpets of his
glory, but they remained that and nothing
else. And herein is the originality of this
great Englishman. He was not what
the world calls a libertine.
In o country like England
it was ''piquant" to see a man, and such a
young man who combined in himself every
conventional and every natural charm,
furnishing women for their pretensions by
abnegation of this sort. Brummel was a
sultan without handkerchief, and yet his
influence over women was extraordinary.
A duchess was overheard telling her
daughter to pay particular attention to her
attitude, gestures and speech, if by chance
Mr.. Brummel should deign to speak to
her. She was right; his notice was
fame, for he never did a common
thing. Thus he gave up dancing
almost at the outset of his career. He
simply staid few minutes at the door of
ballroom, took the whole thing in at a
glance, judged it with word, and disap-
peared, thus applying the famous principle
of dandyism, sin society Fever go until
you have produced your effect; the moment
it is produced, vanish He knew his
crushing prestige. The little treatise
winds up curiously; below its last page
stands END of Dandyism and of George
Brummel" It reads uncommonly like an
ePitaph. Such is Barley d'Aurevilly, and
such is his little gospel. There have been
worse ia each kind. He believes in it all
and in his old world coat and cuffs, and
fringed tie, he is himself the great sublime
he draws.
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The Transit of Ten,,s.

Venus'will be the evening star until Dec.
9th, and morning star the rest. of
the month. There will be no hesitation in
determining which of the planets leads
the list, for the movements of Venus are
more important than those of all the other
planets combined, indeed of any other &C.
lestial event. even the advent of of anoth-
er comet exceeding in proportions our
present august visitor. On the 9th the
grand epoch occurs, for then the planet
reaching her inferior conjunction, makes
d transit over the suns face. No inte,li-
gesis person who realizes It's
Importance will fail to do as much
toward the celebration of the rare
event as to follow the planets course,
.w.th the aid of piece of smoked glass, at
some time during the passage. It is the
sin oiest sight imaginable, a tiny black
dot making its way over the sun, but the
solution of the SUMS distance may hinge
on the seemingly unimportant occurrence.
Venus will appear on the suns limb over
the whole United States at nearly the
same moment of absolute time, st about
6:55 O'Clock in the morning; she will leave
it and the transit will end about 8 o'clock,
Washington mean time. The tables Of
Venus are not quite perfect, and therefore
the predicted time may differ minute or
two from the observed time. Such is
the : Importance attached by astron-
omers to the transit that millions of
dollars will probably be appropriated by
governments of different countries and
spent by private individuals in observing
the phenomenon. Scientific observers will
1~cv H. l.
ure can compute the labor and painstaking
involved in the intricate processes that
enter into the mathematical calculations.
All that the most sanguine astronomers
expect to accomplish is the right to add
or subtract less than the tenth of second
from the SUMS parallex as now received,
though this finitesimal angular error
represents something like half
million miles in the solar distance. Athalf
the stations in the most favorable locali
tiles, the weather will prevent observa-
ton. But at the other half, all that hum an
power can do in wrestling the secrets of the
sun will be accomplished, and the only op-
portunity that will occur for 122 years will
be improved. After the transit, we shall
lose the fairest of the stars from the even
ing sky, but only for short time. In a few
days she will reappear in the east as a
morning star; at the close of the month
she will be superb object in the morning
sky, rising two hours and half before the
sun. and sharing with the comet, if the
celestial visitor has not left for parts I'M
known, in the chief attraction of the celes
tial view. Venus sets now few minutes
before o'clock in the evening; at the
end Of the month she rises about 4:45
o'clock in the mOrninp
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The Fate of Morgan.
Washington Star.

The statement OF Thurlow Weed in re-
gard to the fate of Morgan, who was the
cause Of the great anti-Mason excitement
years ago, has attracted some attention
among Masons and others of this city. A
Star reporter enGeavored to find someone
who had personal recollection OF the in
cidents of that exciting time In talking
with w. S. Roose, prominent Mason, that
gentleman said that he did not believe
chat there was anyone alive III the district
who had personal recollection Of those
times. He believed that Mr. Weeds state
ment YES true, and that Morgan had met
his death at the hands of those men, who
were wild with excitement and probably
drunk at the time. He said that
no one now attributes to the teach
ings or influence of the order the per-
petration OF such deeds; but the Masonic
excitement affected the order for years,
and when he (Mr, Roose) Joined it, in
1854, the order was at very low ebb.
When asked to-day, by Star reporter,
what Masons thought of the Thurlow Weed
revelations concerning the Morgan affair,
Col. VIM. Ireland, secretary of the su-
pIsme council. said: Il don't know what
Masons think of it; haven't heard any of
them say nything about it; know what
think. read it, laid the paper down
and said it is all bosh.' That's what /
think about it.; it is all bosh. don't be-
lieve Masons are much interested in it.
Mr.. Ireland said he thought the fact that
this story was not given out until after
Weeds death, and not after Whitney's
death, discredited it somewhat. He be-
lieved Weed was childish whom he pre-
pared it. Assuming the story to be true,
the act of making away with Morgan ap-
peared to have been conceived and ex-
ecuted by few men, and the whole
Masonic order should not be held respon-
sible for it,
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The Spirit Of the 1f9e.

The average Arkansaw editor rarely
fails to consult the intellectual taste of his
readers. The other day the Slick Rock Mus
Gle, weekly paper of well-known ability
and great political influence, contained the
following: "Our wife, who has been our
companion and assistant for years, died
day before yesterday, and we would give
our numerous readers an interesting &C
count of her life and public services, to-
gether with a neat obituary notice express
sive of our grief, but as we have to con-
dense and crowd in as much election news
as possible this week, we must grappIe
business and dispense with pleasure until
next week.