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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-02-28
NORTH ATLANTIC ICE AMI FOG.

A paper In the Popular Science
Monthly, for March, by Captain Shack
ford, forcibly presents the advantages
of route for transatlatic steamers
which he has long found least beset by
ice and fog. During the ice months the
route usually taken by European steam
ers crosses longitude fifty degrees IN
latitude forty-three degrees. But their
logs show that on this route the ice dan
gers are great, and detentions from fog
twenty to thi rty hours on the passage
are not uncommon from March to Au-
gust. In striking contrast with this is
the route tested by Captain Shackford,
crossing the fftieth meridian to the
southwark of latitude forty one degrees.
In 1882, after making ten passages east
and west on the latter route, from March
to August inclusive, this commander en-
countered only enc hour and thirty-one
minutes of fog between Cape Henlopen
and Cape Clear on the eastern passages,
and on the western passages sixteen
hours and nineteen minutes in all,
"while not a particle of ice has been
seen during the entire season. By the
extreme southern route, as compared
with the Cape Race route, the loss of
distance each passage is one hundred and
sixty-three miles. But when it is con-
sidered that In the fog months the aver
age time that fog is experienced on the
northern route Is, as Captain Shackford
shows, eighteen hours and forty-one
minutes per passage, it seems indisput-
able that IN this season, unless the ship
is recklessly driven at high speed
through fog, she can often make as good
time on southerly route. The New
York Herald says, Captain Shackford's
timely paper is the most complete and
lucid contribution we have seen to this
branch of Atlantic meteorology. Fog is
proverbially the seaman's greatest foe,
and as modern science has failed to fur
nish him with any satisfactory safeguard
against the perils it entails his only re-
source is to ascertain and adhere to the
routes of least fog. As the annual de-
scent of the Arctic ice over the New
foundland banks may be now expected
to begin any day, the solid facts pre-
sented by Captain Shackford deserve the
earnest attention of all Atlantic naviga-
tors
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-02-28
ShipWreck.

The steamer Republic arrived in New York
with passengers from the wrecked Glamorgan
which left Liverpool for Boston en- February
z. The Glamorgan was struck by tremen-
dous sea when few days out and completely
disabled. Fifty-three persons we're rescued by
the Republic and the following were lost:
Capt. Court A. P. Robillard, second officer;
ID. Williams and J. Jerrard, seamen; John
Barrel, second steward; Handy Cullen, passen-
ger, and an unknown man, a stowaway.
The barkentine c. T.. Taylor left Port Town
send, W. T., on the 22d. for San Francisco.
When fifty miles outside Of Cape Flattery she
was thrown off her beam ends by squall The
masts were cut away and she was righted.
Capt. Bergmans son was washed overheard
and drO Wned. His wife was killed in the cabin
A part Of the crew reached Vancouver Island in
boat; the others were taken Off the wreck by
the bark Arcturus and conveyed to San Fran
cisco.
Twenty-Five persons were drowned on the
22d by the wreck of a steamer in the Bos-
phorus.
The United States steamer Ashuelot has been
lost All the officers were saved. Eleven of
the crew we're drowned.
The steamship Moro Castle. of the CLYDE
Line, running between New York and Charles
ton, S. c., was totally destroyed by fire at
Charleston on the morning of the 21st. The
officers and crew had barely time to escape with
what clothing they happened to have on The
steamer was to have sailed for New York to-
day and had received one-half of her cargo,
consisting of cotton, naval stores, etc. The
total loss on the vesseris estimated at 5000 900:
on the cargo $4,000. Insurance unknown.
The American schooner Pilots Pride was
totally wrecked at Desolation Island, South
Africa. Only four of the crew were saved.
They landed at Cape Town.
The Allen Line steamer Buenos Ayres, in a
collision, sunk steamer off Lamash, Scotland.
Eleven of the crew of the latter steamer were
drowned.
On the 18th inst, the steamer St Laurent
was struck by heavy sea- which smashed and
carried away everything on deck. Capt. Della
porte and one uf the quartermasters we're car
ried overheard and drowned.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-02-28
Push or Pull.
IFrOnn Natural


When esee avehicle bowling dewnhill
without any visible propelIing force, we
ought to regard it with the same mixture
of curiosity and wonder as the Chinaman
felt when he saw for the first time In the
streets of Philadelphia tramcar driven
by rope buried in a pipe underground.
The attachment to those cars comes
through a narrow slit in the pipe. and
is quite unobtrusive. After regarding
the car with open-mouthed astonishment
for some time, the Chinaman made us
the following memorable exclamation;
No pushee-No pullee-Go like madr'
He was philosophic Chinaman. Re-
member, then, that whenever we see a
thing being moved we must look for a
rope; it may be visible or it may be in
visible; but unless there is either
"pushee or pullee" there can be no
action. And if you further consider a
pull it revolves itself into push; to pull
a thing toward you, you have to put your
finger behind it and push; a horse is said
to pull cart, but he Is really pushing at
the collar; an engine pushes truck by
means of a hook and eye, and SO on.
There is still the further very important
and difficult question as to why the
parts hang together, and why when you
push one part the rest follows.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-02-28

and conceded the value of the dis
closure. Pasteur's very latest expert
ments, in connection with which the
principle is announced, have been con-
Quoted with the microbe of hydropho-
bia. From the mouth of patient dead
of that disease in one of the hospitals
in Paris he procured quantity OF
the thick, ropy, foaming saliva, and
with it inoculated rabbit, which died
on the third day after the operation. In
the blood of the dead rabbit a new mi
crobe was discovered. A few weeks la
ter another person died of hydrophobia
In the hospital of La Pitie, and more
rabbits were inoculated with the saliva
of the patient taken both before and af-
ter death. All the rabbits died, but not
ali died of hydrophobia- purulent fever
and septic@mia being responsible for
the result in several cases. Thus far the
results were very promising. But here
the lens played one of those discourag-
ing Jokes that so often occur IN labora-
tories of optical analysis. On examin-
ing the saliva of persons dead of other
diseases, III. Pasteur discovered that his
new microbes very common phenome-
non of diseased saliva, and not special to
the hydrophobic secretion. This fact
did not, however, prevent him from cul-
tivating some eighty generations OF the
organism, the last generation of which
killed rabbits as quickly as the first.
The cultivation having thus far taken
place in closed tubes, the microbe was
next subjected to fresh air, when ii
parted with It's vitality so rapidly that it
was found impossible to seize it at the
proper point of reduction. Either il
died or it still retained all its poisonous
potency. By using veal broth mixed
with rabbits blood as a menstruum he
prolonged the life of the organism from
II to 80 days, and finally obtained pro-
duct which resulted in mild attack re.
| sembling hydrophobia in rabbits and
guinea pigs, and after inol ulation with
which genuine hydrophobia could not
be induced by introducing the original
matter into the system. NJ. Pasteur has,
| consequently, been successful in finding
a prophylactic against hydrophobia on
the new principle Of the oxidation OF
microscopic organisms, an important adj
dition to the literature of veterinary
medicine and to science.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-02-28

boiler at Smith & Corners wharf, Boston, on
the 23d.
A powder explosion at Portland, Oregon, on
the 23d, severely injured ten Chinamen-one
fatally.
Eight PERSONS. G. Rhodes, his wife, three
children, and two men and a woman whose
names are not given-were drowned in the
Mississippi River, between Clinton, KY, and
Wolf Island, Mo-, on the 22d, while crossing III
a feuy-boat amid heavy-runn1ng ice.
Hon. VIM. j. Phelps, of Elmwood, one of the
pioneers of Peoria County, drowned in the
Kickapoo River on the evening of the Goth. He
was rs years of age
lamp exploded at the residence of Mrs.
Michael Mcdonald, near Bracket Texas, on
the night of the 10Th. Four children whose
ages ranged from two to seven years, burned
to death.
John A. Curtain and VIM. Taylor, laborers
on the Northern Pacific Railroad, were killed
by an explosion of giant powder at Portland,
Oregon, on the 18th. John Gilmore, another
laborer, was hurt so badly that he died short
time after the accident.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-02-28
Railway Wrecks.

Two freight trains on the Plttsburg, Ft.
Wayne and Chicago Railroad coIlided at Spring
Mills, Ohio on the night of the 22d, badly
wrecking both trains and killing Engineer l..
Graham and Fireman j. Quinlan, both resi-
dents of Alliance, Ohio. The rest of the men
escaped by jumping.
A freight train the Wabash, st. Louis and
Pacific Railroad broke in two near Fort Wayne,
Ind, on the Goth, on rather heavy down
grade. The rear portion came on at high
rate of speed aud crashed into the other,
wrecling the caboose and other cars and set
ting the wreck on fire. John Meehan, of Fort
Wayne, and L. II. Turner, of Flora, ILL.,. were
burned to death.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-02-28
Minor Mishans.

Dennis Hennesy's house burned at Quaran-
tine, L. l., on the 25th. Two of his children
burned to death.
Virginia, tempered with the medicines used.
and five inmates have died and two are fatally
poisoned
boiler in Banholzers brewery, st. Paul.
Mimi, exploded on the 23d wounding eleven
persons, but none fatally. Among them were
five women, who were after malt. The loss is
between SIS, 900 and $4,000.
Joseph Gookln was killed and three others
were seriously injured by the explosion of
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-02-28
CHANGING His Shirt.
From Underground or Life Below the Surface"
bV KnoS.1

From Underground or Lie Below the Surface, .
by Knox.1
A Frenchman travelling by railway in
England was very anxious to change bis
shirt in order to make a visit after the
train had arrived at it's destination,
without taking the trouble to go to no
tel. His guide-book indicated tunnel
on the road, and he asked the guard how
long the train would be in the tunnel.
The guard mistook his question, and
supos1ng he asked how long before the
train would reach the tunnel, answered
briefly: ."Half an hour" The car
rage in which the Frenchman was trav-
cling contained several ladies and gen.
tlemen. The traveller got down his va
ise, unlocked it, and made everything
ready for change of apparel while they
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-02-28
SUIcides

Albert J. Howell, a commission merchant of
Chicago, having become a victim of chrome
nervousness, killed himself with q revolver.
He had just completed arrangements for a
pleasure trip to New Orleans.
Major j. G. Wall, an associate of U. s..
Grant, Jr.. and Gen. John b. Gordon in Ala
bama coal mines, drowned himself in the Ten
nessee River, probably on account of losses by
speculation
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-02-28

The Williamsport disciple of Oscar
Wilde the other day took a hot water
bath, burned all his clothes inside and
outside, lined his cellar, disinfected the
whole house by having all the windows
up all night, made his wife battle and
burn all her clothes, and all because his
grandmother had told him that her
grandmother had killed a polecat.-
Grit.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-02-28

The new French cabinet is composed of the
following members; Prime minister and
minister of public instruction, Jules Ferry;
foreign affairs, Challemel La Cour; interior,
Waldeck Rousseau; justice, Martin Feuille;
marine, Charles Brun; agriculture, Nj. Meline;
commerce, Herrison; posts and telegraphs,
NJ Cookery; public works, M. Raynal; finance,
Nj Tirard: war, Gen. Thebaudin.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-02-28

were in the tunnel. AS soon as they en-
tered it he pulled off bis shirt and pre-
pared to put on clean one, but imagine
his surprise on discovering that the train
remained only three minutes in the tun-
mel instead of thirty As they came out
into open daylight he was standing in
their midst in condition quite unfit for
a mixed company of ladies and gentle
men
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-02-28
KOhfRnrGesSs

N. S. Bennett was arrested in New York for
buying $4,000 worth of jewelry stolen from
the rooms Of ex-Minister Christiancy at Wash
ington.
Four masked men entered the farmhouse of
Porter Brown, near Fenton, Michigan, and,
after binding the inmates, stole 81, 400.
Two shrewd thieves took $4,000 from the
counter Of Sheldon's bank at Kalamazoo,
Michigan, by occupying the intellect of the
clerk with a small package stored in the safe.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-02-28

Found Guilty

Craft, one of the murder ers of the Gibbons
family at Ashland, KY, on trial at Grayson,
was found guilty on the 22d, and sentenced to
be hanged. Neal. his criminal associate, is yet
to be tried. These trials create great excite
ment in that region, and a guard of military is
necessary to protect the murderers from vio-
Ianpn
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-02-28

WHEN we see tight-laced woman try
ing to enjoy a good laugh with a smile
on her mouth and tears IN her eyes, we
think of the dear old hymn Which be-
gins, 'Let Joy be uncopnned. '--Beston
Post.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-02-28

1T is said that Gustave Dore, who
died bachelor, fell in love with Alkaline
Patti once. AS she disappointed him, he
never cared for another woman.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-03-07
The Science of Chance.
from the PHILADELPHIA Press.I


Amuse yourself by tossing penny
into the air until you have scored an I'M
interrupted run of twenty heads or
twenty tails. Perhaps you think you
could easily achieve it between dark and
dinner-time! When your arm gets tired
of tossing, take well-shuftled pack of
playing cards and cut away until you
have cut red twenty times consecutively,
or black, for that matter. When your
cards are worn out take pair of scis-
sors, cut piece of pasteboard into bits
of the same size, number them from one
to one hundred, put them into bag or
bowl and draw at random until you have
drawn twenty odd numbers or twenty
even numbers in succession. Life IS
short, but there are triumphs that are
worth considerable expenditure of time
and trouble. Heads or tails, red Or
or black, odd or even, it is all the same
thing. Shall I confess that have my
self, with some little assistance, expert.
mented in the probabilities of sequence
to the modest extent of 1000 trials? [
proceeded in this may: Two hundred
and fifty of the 1000 trials we're made
by tossing coin, each trial lasting until
heads followed tails, or tails heads; $50
more were made by cutting constantly
shufled pack Of cards, the object being
to score runs of red or black; the third
$50 consisted of trials OF odd and even
by numbered tickets in bowl, as de-
scribed above, and the remaining trials
were made by dice box and single
die. AS there are six faces to the die,
bearing respectively from one to six
spots, the chances OF throwing an even
number OF spots, i. g., two, four or six,
is equal to the chance of throwing an
odd number, I. e., one, three or five.
To simplify matters I shall give the re-
suit in heads and tails, red and even in
the card and number experiments being
considered as equivalent to heads, and
black and odd to tails. Out OF q thou.
sand trials, SIS. or little more than one
half, resulted in a change at second
toss; that is to say, there was no run or
succession, heads beingimmediately sue
ceeded by tails, or tails by heads. The
remaining 1876 trials. resulted in runs OF
from two to ten. The following table
shows these results in the column of to.
tails. 1t also shows how many runs of
each class were runs of heads, and how
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-03-07

No one uttered word for some minutes;
each of us thought the more. A light
shower had fallen a little while before,
and the distant mountain range was still
spanned by the faint arch of rainbow.
We looked long at it and at each other
alternately and speechlessly. The still
ness at last became oppressive, for there
is silence which, like darkness, may be
felt. The spell was broken by Sylvia.
"How beautiful is yonder rainbow ~
she said.
EYES," murmured, half unconscious
"; "and just as yonder brilliant arch
melts away into the dusk of the gloam-
ing, so shall the brighter hues of my
present life fade again into the outer
darkness Of the past" =
:Yet," she whispered, edging uncon.
sciously nearer to me, there is beau
tiful old Greek fable which represents
Iris as the chosen messenger of the gods
of mankind, the divine harbinger of hope
and love-"
The last monosyllable futtered a little,
l thought, on her lip, and caused me in
stinctively to raise my face to hers. She
slightly changed color, and in that sin
gle glance / read the oracle of a woman
eye. Yet, even then, my conscience
zsmote me, and I shrank and recoiled
from accepting the full Interpretation.
tInvoluntarily I c]asped her hand, and
pas sionately exclaimed: D -
"Sylvia would to heaven we had
never met or met never more to part.
Nature has endowed you with her
choicest gifts and graces Of mind and
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80 WIND THAT BLOWS OUT OF
THE WEST,s' -,
By JULIA c. r. DORR.

o wind that blows out Of the West.
Thou hast swept over mountain and sea,
Dost thou bear on thy swift, glad wings
The breath OF my love to me7
Hast thou kissed her WAITE, sweet lips?
Or tangled her soft, brown hair?
Or duttered the fragrant heart
Ut the rose she loves to wear?
o sun that goes down in the West,
Hast thou seen my love to-day,
AS she sits in her beautiful prime
Under skies 80 far away?
Hast thou gilded path for her feet,
Or deepened the glow on her cheeks,
Or bent from the skies to hear
The low, sweet words she speaks?
O stars that are bright in the West
When the hush Of night is deep,
Do ye see my love as she lies
Like cha te, white flower asleep?
Does she smile as she walks with me
In the light Of happy dream,
While the night winds rustic the leaves,
And the light waves ripple and CLEAN?
o birds that fly ont of the West,
Do ye bring me message from her,
AS sweet as your love-notes are,
When the warm spring breezes stir?
Did she whisper a word of me
AS your tremulous wings swept by,
Or utter my name, mayhap,
In single passionate cry?
voices out of the West,
We are silent every one,
And never AN answer comes
From wind, Or stars, or sun!
And the blithe birds come and 90
Through the boundless fields of space.
AS reckless of human prayers
AS if earth were desert place,
The Century.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-03-07

person TO God u I cried. in
an outburst of passion and resentment
against my fate, "why hast thou. made
me thus, and cursed me with the Tanta-
lus gift of brain to conceive and a
heart to crave after that which nv
bodily presence and speech eternally
forbid me to hope for and realize?
Uttering this wild imprecation rather
than prayer, hid my face in my hands,
and buried my shor5 Lived hopes in the
lowest deep of despair.
How long remained thus I know not,
but ray of light suddenly flashed upon
my eyes, and I felt both my hands gent
ly but firmly clasped in those of her
dared not love. Then a whisper, soft
and low, yet clear as crystal bell, fell
on my ear: ''To me, at least, since the
first evening we met, you have never once
been The Odd-Looking Man,"
On our way back to the inn the fresh
chimes of the Angelus came floating
upward from the belfry of the little
chapel below.
eft reminds me-" said, "of distant
peal of wed1ing BELLS"
"To me-" she replied, lit seems rather
like the chorus of souls eternally welded
in heaven"
On the anniversary of that day, ten
years later a married couple, with three
very healthy, happy looking children,
alighted from mule-back, at the inn OF
the Madonna della Finestra. Evidently
English, they yet seemed no strangers
to the place, though the inmates of the
house failed to recognize them; if it were
not that the aubergiste remarked casual
~ to his wife, "that the stranger re-
minded him of guest of theirs some
ten years ago. But" added he, "the
other was queer-looking fellow, qua,ato
mai, and never seemed to he in his sober
senses like, night or day, till the last
week he spent with a couple of
English ladies, the younger of whom was
his inamorata." This EDglishman,
however, looks as if he had never tasted
a drop Of good liquor for the last ten
years of bis life; besides being taatc
volte more decent looking fellow alto.
gether than "'t'dltro 23ouerino.'"
The same evening when the stranger
and his family were sitting down to din
ner, the Angelus sang out as usual, its
sweet and simple hymn. Then turning
fondly towards his wife, he said: "My
Sylvia my Providence this is the tenth
anniversary Of the day when we hailed
in those evening chimes the benson
of Heaven on our betrothal. Now let
us hear in them a renewed benedlction
on our yet happier welded life and our
beloved offspring -
And she, with clasped hands, and
smiling through her tears, whispered a
heartfelt "Amen -
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-03-07

Total of trials. Observation-Disclosures. .1.0DO
It will be seen that ten was the high
est run attained, and that it was attained
twice. The mathematical chances against
a run of either ten heads or ten tails are
1,024 against one. The result, there
fore, corresponded almost exactly with
the mathematical probabilities OF the
case. Inasmuch as in keeping the score
I Disseminated between runs of heads
and runs of tails, I am able to calculate
how many losses gave heads and how
many gave tails. The 1000 trials in
cludes just 2, 800 losses; Of these, l, 1853
resulted in heads, aud, l,462 IN tails. In
nearly 5000 losses, therefore, the differ
ence between the total OF heads aud the
total of tails was only four.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-03-07

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