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The Penn's Grove record., 1884-07-12
Nitro GIyoeriue bombs.

The nitro-glycerine bomb is a recent
addition to destructive projectlles, its
serviceableness in reducing entrench-
meuts being, it is claimed, unexcelled.
In its construction a heavy conical
shell is first cast and SO arranged that
one end IS much heavier than the
other, n end being also closed with a
tightly fitting cap, screwed on after
charging. The interior of the shell is
divided into three compartments, each
separated by a heavy plate glass cap /;
the division farthest from the open end
is filed with sulphurIc acid, the next
with glycerine, and the outer n with
nitric acid-these three elements being
the component parts Of nitro glycerIne.
A small opening through the center Of
the cap fitting the open end of the pro-
iectile admits a steel rod, to each end
of which is firmly attached a small cir
cular piece ofmetal, the inner end rest
ing against the first ; the outer cap is
then screwed on, and the proiectile is
ready for service. According to the
principle of %gravitation, the heavy end
naturally strikes the ground first, the
steel rod is driven through the plate
glass partitions, the chemicals are min
gled, and a nitro-glycerine discharge
takes place.
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The Elder DUCK.

The elder duck, after the wild swan,
IS probably the finest bird that frequents
the Atlantic sea-board. They nest all
about the island, especially among the
long heather and reedy inlets of the
eastern coast. The great precipices on
which the Atlantic breaks are too steep
and perilous, and the young birds, new
from the nest, could hardly weather
that tempestuous sea. From their ear
liest days, it is true, they are splendid
sailors. When they grow older they
grow somewhat unwieldy, and are not
difficult to shoot on the water but the
half fledged bird is splendidly supple,
and seems to dive with the flash. In
clear shallow bays we can see the little
downy morsels caring themselves swiftly
a foot or two under water, and when
forced to the surface showing only the
tips 0 ftheir bills. AT this the fam
lily is under the maternal wing-the
drake, till well on in Autumn, leaving
his consort to her own resources. Why
they should manifest such selfish uncon-
Germ for their offspring, at a season
when me would fancy that their serv-
ices were most required, we do not
know, but the fact is undoubted.
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This class are said to cherish the be-
lief that they are additionally descend
ed from the hired %applauders who, when
Nero appeared on the stage, used to re-
ceive that artistic monarch with bursts
of enthusiasm and, in conformity
with this delusion, they are often re-
ferred to as ''the Romans" These
Partisan Romans were not known in
the days of Corneille and Moliere, and
they were first called into existence as
an organized force by Dorat, who, not
content with writing poetry, wished to
obtain distinction as a dramatlst. He,
in any case, as Is usual with most of
the theatres here, was in the habit of
purchasing large numbers of tickets
when one of his pieces was about to be
produced, and distributing them to
trustworthy persons for whose applause
he had stipulated.
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Submarine Operations.

A diver engaged in submarine oper-
ations off the coast opposite Gibraltar
reports the discovery Of from eighty to
one hundred guns, apparently twenty
four and thirty-two Founders, also two
large anchors, lying at the bottom Of
that historical bay, supposed to have
belonged to some line-of-battle ship
which sank in the old war, possibly
after the battle of Trafalgar. 1t is to
be hoped that the apparatus necessary
for lifting from their ocean bed what
may possibly be testimonies to the
proves of Nelson or Collingwood will
not be grudged by the British Admiral
ty of to-day. A mere glance at these
old-fashioned guns will suffice to estab-
lish whether they are of English or, as
seems more probable, of French or
Spanish manufacture. We a scarcely
expect that they constituted part of the
armament carried by that mighty Ar
NADIA which set forth from Cadiz, and
from every other Spanish harbor of the
first class, to convert Queen Bess and
her heretical subjects from the error of
their ways.
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Tbe Palace of the MiKados.

Unlike the residences of some sover-
eigns which the public are privileged
to gaze upon, here are no mighty four
post bed-steads, no full-bottomed chairs,
no tapestry, no carpets nor hangings,
no portraits of ancestors, nothing but
the bare room, with its thickly-matted
floor, its artistically decorated walls,
and ceilings always of beautiful wood.
The absence of paint in their dwelling
houses compels the japanese to seek
color and variety in the gram of vari-
/ Gus woods, and within their own coun-
try they find a rich field. The throne
room, reached from the waiting oom
by a corridor, is a long, bare apartment,
with a canopied chair set near the centre.
The chair is lacquered and richly inlaid
with mother-of-pearl The canopy con-
sists of white silk trimmed with a deep
border of reddish brown. At first sight
it looks like chintz. AS the attendants
entered, they all bowed low to the empty
throne, repeating the obeisance when
ever they passed or approached it. In
this room the new Mikado is solemnly
enthroned, and here, through success
i've New Years Days, a long line of
Mikados, now sleeping in the dust, have
given audience to peers of the realm.
Il is not actually the same room, since
The palace has more than once been de-
stroyed by fire. But it is built up
again as nearly as possible a copy of the
old une, with the same provision for
ceremonial. Immediately facing the
throne is a courtyard, access to which
is gained by Is steps. These correspond
with the grades into which the imperial
officials are divided. Those who have
not reached the dignity of being allowed
TO stand on the lowest step are known
as f-ge. or SHOWN on the earth" A
wall at the back of the throne is divided
into panels, each containing four por-
traits of Chinese sages. Above these
hang two excellent oil-portraits of the
Mikado and the Empress. 1t must not
be supposed that either sacred person
age went through the process of ''sit-
ting" for the vulgar artist. But even
a Mikado may without suffering in his
dignity, hold communication with the
sun. This conceded, the illustrious
pair were photographed, and from the
photograph an able artist IN Milan
evolved the oil-paintings. We had
been permitted to walk at will over the
throne room, but when we came to a
suite of private apartments, called the
Ko-go-sho, one of the attendants was
found to have sufficient energy to for
bid entrance.
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One wing of the Chinese Army.

With these troops also bows and
arrows are the favOrite weapons, though
a small proportion of the men carry
matchlocks. Six times a month they
practice archery on foot, and every
spring and summer, dressed in armor,
they go through the same exercises on
horseback. This division furnishes o
guard of two men at each gate of the
forbidden city" whose duty it is to
sit holding a red bar across the gate
way, and who rise only to Princes of
the blood. 1t also supplies the night
patrols within the forbidden city,"
who allow no one to enter or leave the
precincts unless he be the bearer of
half a broken token which when filled
with the corresponding portion in pos
session of the officer on duty matches it
exactly. The slight DIVISION" as its
name indicates, is especially intended
for services requiring strength and
activity. The men are drilled ''six
times a month with the scaling ladder,
when they also fire three volleys with
the matchbox; SIX times they wrestle
and perform feats of Craftsmanship, one
rider leaping on the back of another's
horse, met at a gallop, while the rider
of the latter similarly exchanges his
seat at the same moment. While
mounted they likewise fire three rounds
with their matchbox, shoot three
Fights of arrows, and attack and de-
fend with the sword and IRON whip or
fail. They have, besides, six trials
monthly in horse and foot archery, and
twice a year, for twelve days at a time,
practice at a mark with a matchbox;
each marksman takes five shots each
day, and is rewarded or punished ac-
cording as his varied success places him
in one of the three classes of pro-
fciency." This is the kind of military
exercise which particularly delights the
Chinese mind. Such exhibitions of
agility as somersaults and leaps are, to
their thinking, inexpressibly terrifying
to the enemy and when accompanied by
shouts and cries, cannot fail, they con-
slider, to spread dismay in the opposing
ranks. The ''shout of battle'' has,
through all time, been recognized as a
power in the fight; but "the buxom
valor" whose ''grace is only in the
heels" which is displayed by Chinese
soldiers, can only inspire contempt
among any troops but such as are even
on a lower level of inefficiency than
Chinese warriors. AS Corporal Trim
says, lone good thrust with the bayonet
is worth them al.n
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To Brighten Birds.

In Cochin China, birds are frightened
away from grain fields and fruit trees,
and foxes from poultry houses, by the
following device:
sold bottles are taken, the mouths
corked; through the cork a thread is
passed with its end hanging down, where
asmall piece of board, slate, or any other
object presenting a surface to the wind
is attached. AT the height Of the thick
est part of the bottle a nail is fixed in a
way that the thread agitated by the
wind makes the nail beat against the
bottle like sounding a bell. After pre-
pairing a number of bottles in this way
strong wooden rods are placed in the soil,
and on their top those bottles are put by
means of a string fastened at the neck Of
the bottle. The arrangement then is in
A position similar to a fishing rod placed
in the ground, on which the fish caught
would be the piece of slate, while the cork
would be the bottle. Where there are
trees the scarecrow may be suspended on
slender branches sometimes on lower
and again at other times on higher ones.
When the bottles are unlike in size and
shape the concert of sounds on them is
often a very pleasing one"
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Pompei.

A visitor to Pompei says you would
be astonlshed at the size of some OF the
Pompeian houses and of the rooms and
spaces they inclose. They look small
because they are so empty, but when
you measure them you find them very
spacious. Houses of thirty and forty
rooms in the first story are not uncom-
mon. The great space was the atrium,
often 30 to 40 feet long, having an
opening for light in the centre of the
roof, and just under this a marble lined
basin, raised above the floor, into which
the rain fell, and on the margin of
which were placed bronzes and vases.
Out of this opened bedrooms, and at
the end a reception room and dining
room. Beyond these wa a peristyle,
or court, surrounded by eight to twenty
columns, thus making a broad corridor
running all around. Some of the perl
styles were 80 to 100 feet square, with
a great variety of rooms opening into
them. Beyond the perlstyle was the
garden, sometimes $50 feet square, or
more, with all sorts of arrangements
for plants and fountains. A good
many of the elaborate niche-shaped
fountains are still perfect. The street
entrances to some of the houses are 10
to Is feet in width, and had quadruple
or four-leaved doors. Infact,s so spacious
are these dwellings on the ground floor
that it is generally believed that the
upper story rooms were rented out.
The floors of the first and second
stories were of cement in which patterns
Of mosaic or tesselated work were laid.
Many of these floors are uninjured.
The houses were admirably planned to
save space; and the decorations, moral
and otherwise, were far beyond our
conceptions ofthe art of ornamentation.
The workmanship, especially the plas-
ter and stucco, was much better than
a be produced by our modern crafts
men. In examining Pompei it is nee
essary to remember that it was a small
provincial city, bearing about the same
relation to Rome that Auburn or Utica
does to New York. This increases our
wonder in walking through its well
paved streets, OIL its richly adorned
houses, or about its heaters and temples
and squares, or in studying the thous-
ands and thousands of art objects in
terra Gotta, bronze, silver, gold, alabas-
ter, marble and glass, which have been
discovered within its Whatsoever with
less than half the city excavated.
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THE USEFUL PLOUGH.

A country life is sweet
In moderate cold and heat,
To walk in the air how pleasant and fairl
In every field of wheat,
The fairest of flowers adjoining the bow
ers,
And every meadows brow
So that 1 say, no courtier may
COMPARE with them who clothe in gray,
And follow the useful plough.
They rise with the morning lark,
And labor till almost dark,
Then, folding their sheep, they hasten 10
sleep;
While every pleasant park
Next morning is ringing with birds that
are singing,
On each tender bough.
With what content and merriment
Their days are spent whose minds are BENT
To follow the useful plough
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Big Fish Figures,

"They fish with lines six miles long
in Winnebago lake, Wisconsin, and use
10000 hooks on every line, said a New
York fisherman who has been there I;
and If they don't haul up 1000 fish
every time they call it Indifferent luck
and every fish will weigh from 20 to 70
pounds. That's the way they fish for
sturgeon out there.
lone of these lines will reach half
way across the lake. 1t is a rope an
inch in diameter. 1t is carried out in
the lake, large buoys being attached to
it at intervals to keep it on the surface.
The 20, 900 hooks, baited with pieces of
meat or fish, are lowered to the bottom
Of the lake by 'snoods' Of the proper
length, attached to the line. 1t takes
20 boats, with two men each, to look
after this big fish line. Each boat has
1000 hooks in its charge. The hooks
are placed Is inches apart, and to bait
all the hooks once requires not less than
1000 pounds of meat. 1t takes the 40
men and 20 boats 10 hours to set the
line for the first time. After that the
fishermen are constantly employed in
going to and fro over the line hauling
in the sturgeon that have been caught
on the hooks, and rebaiting where it is
necessary.
"To haul a 70 pound sturgeon from
the bottom of the lake is an exciting
piece of work, but requires more
strength than skill, as the fish always
as the hook several inches down his
throat, having sucked bait and all
down without any regard to conse-
quences. There is nc danger of losing
the fish unless the snood Or the
hook breaks. When the fish is hauled
to the surface a gait, like a meat-hook,
is thrust into the side of its head, and
the sturgeon is drawn into the boat and
knocked in the head with amallet. The
hook is cut out of its throat, rebaited,
and thrown back into the lake.
"The average catch of sturgeon is
one to every ten hooks. When a boat
is loaded with all it will carry Of stur-
geon the fishermen row back to the
shore where others take the fish and
dispose of them. The fishermen know
the particular sections Of the line on
which they work by the arrangement
of the buoys. These are placed ten
feet apart, and every 150th one is red.
The space between the buoys contains
1000 hooks. The sections are number
ed, and each boat has its number cor
responding with the section it fishes.
While the average catch is one sturgeon
to ten hooks, it is no uncommon thing
for the fishermen to find but n or two
on an entire section on 1000 hooks.
"The Lake Winnebago sturgeon is
highly priced among the lumbermen
and others in this region. Its flesh is
finer and of better flavor than the salt
water surgeons. The fish sells for
six cents a pound at retail. Large
quantities are sailed and smoked for
use in the lumber-camps."
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that overlooked IL, as lOIdy uhe DIOWH
bird's-nest, EMPOWERED in trees in the
meadows below.
"T1me has forgotten this little nook, !"
remarked the gentleman. "It is as I'M
changed now as remember it fifteen
years ago."
"You do not reside in this neighbor-
hood, them"
"No. My home is in the Sunny
South; but, when a boy, l used to be a
frequent visitor to this neighborhood.
Perhaps 1 ought to introduce myself.
1 am Philip Warrington, of B, a
nephew of Doctor Gray" Doctor
Gray was her aunt Curtis physician,
and resided on the farm; but it was
name of her companion that the
now attracted Affects attention. She
had become familiar with it from
Charles letters, and she said, impul-
sively:
"You have just returned from Eu-
rope? Then you are my cousin Charlie
Sutton's friend, of whom he 80 often
wrote?"
1t seemed q pleasant mutual discov-
cry; and the two were no longer stran-
gers.
Aunt Curtis was delighted to see
"Phil." He had grown SO wonderfully,
she said-quite a big boy.
And she related many remembered
bold boyish adventures of his, In the
old time, that seemed 80 long past to
him, so shortto her. Finally she insisted
that, as he had had a long walk, he
should ''stay to SUPPER" and he, ap-
~pearently nothing 10th, accepted the
invitation.
There is no place on earth excepting
perhaps on shipboard) where two young
persons thrown together are so apt to
fall mutually in love as in a quiet house
in the country. Certainly, in this in
stance, the being ''thrown together
was not entirely accidental, since Mr..
Philip Warrington, in his. interest in
the old lady, every day found some
thing to bring him to Copley.
NOW it was to bring her a new
paper, or a message from the doctor;
then to read to her some very interest
ing extracts from a new book; and
then again to offer larks or cartridges,
forgetful of the cruelty of shooting
them.
And In the soft, rich and dreamy
October evenings, he and Alice, stroll
ing In the old-fashloned garden, or
down the lane, rich In otumnal flowers,
or seated OF the meadow stile, beneath
the golden naples. spent such hours of
happiness as can come to us but once in
a life-tlme-with the first dream of
dawning love.
And SO it came to pass that Mrs.
Sutton, anxiously waiting at home and
still tasking her ingenuity for excuses
to keep her niece ''out Of the way"
suddenly heard something which sent
her up to Copley Farm by the next
days train, in a mood of mind by no
means enviable.
And the first person she saw, on
reaching Copley, was Alice, standing
on the old-fashioned ''stoop,n c~anopied
by autumn roses, with a remarkable
handsome and elegant-looklng young
man by her side, the attitude and ex-
preston of both revealing at a single
glance what Mrs. Sutton felt to be a
death-blow to all her scheming and
hopes. She had aimed we'll; but, as is
the case with even the most clever
schemers, has strained too hard, and
overshot the mark.
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Love elevates and r%efines, fashion de-
presses and degrades.
Contact with the world either breaks
or hardens the heart.
A great mind is formed by a few
great ideas.
The pleasure Of love is in loving.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-04-22

last night and stole 800 from the
pockets of Mr.. Mathews, the prOprie-
tor, but $50 In another pocket escapt d
the thief.
A. NJ. Mayer lost horse Sunday
night from his stable, and supposing 1t
TO be stolen offered S. for It's restora-
ton. A darby came leading IL IN
from the commons to-day and got the
reward.
Judge Aldridge OF Dallas has ex-
changed gowns with Judge MaltbieaDd
now presides in Sherman, while our
Judge tries habeas corpus case In
Dallas. The business OF the court
progresses slowly on account of absent
witnesses, and several cases were con-
tinued till tomorrow.
One John Lippincott, white man,
who married negro woman In Kan
sas and moved TO Texas, where mis-
cegenation is not allowed, was called
up for trial on indictment yesterday
but continued I'LL to-day for a witness.
Writ Brown, chief clerk OF tn,
Blnkley house, who paid a guest 81 .0l0
the sum alleged TO be In packag,
deposited with him last week, bu
which could not be found when Gale,
for, Is now quite sure that he has beef
the victim Of q swindle. The gam
was neatly played, and the HONORABLE
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-04-22
Foreign Emigration.

New York, April q = rhrte thou
sand four hundred and sixty enigrants
arrived al Castle Garden yesterday,
the largest number landed this year.
Among the Storage passengers were
3ls Mornlona, hllfof Whom were En-
glisb and Welsh, and the Other half
They wers accom-
panied 10y seventeen Mormon mission
aries. returning home With the fruits
Of a two years. proselyting tour. They
60 10 Utah tomorrow.
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impulses of Mr.. Brown made him too

impulses Of Mr.. Brown made him too
ready to be taken in.
Great fears nrc felt for early vegeta-
bles and fruit tonight. A clear sky
during the night will insure frost.
Our citizens are sympatbizlng with
the good people Of Whitesboro. who
suffered so severely from fire yester-
day.
About three hundred tickets have
ALREADY been sold for the opera Of Pa
thence, which our amateurs wiIlrender
here Thursday evening. They 30 10
Denlson the next night, and we can
assure the people there that NJ better
treat has been given them than this
will be. One old dramatist, who wilt
messed rehearsal. says he was
astounded at finding such talent In q
western town.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-04-22
A Fucitlyc Bank President.

ST. LOUIS, April 2i.--A special 10
the Post Dispatch from New Ening-
ham, III, says the Eflinghsm bank
cl. sed to-day. President Won Classy
left town Saturday night ana lis
whereabouts are unknown. IL ID esli
mated that his accounts are short from
81. 900 10 S3O, 900.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-04-22
SHERMAN.
.fler the Races--Burglars- .conrt
Notes and Local Items.
Special to the Gazette.

Special TO the Gazette.
SHERMAN, April 2l.-Yesterday was
u dark, rainy day, and ended with a
cold norlher ihis morning. The horse
men attending our races have nearly
all left for other fields, but q few stables
will remain here for several weeks.
Some have gone 10 the Northwestern
circuit, but most OF the fast ones have
started for the oil and iron circuit In
Pennsylvania. Nellie Burke left TO-
day for Mobile, and will from there go
North 70 spend the summer at
different fairs and races. She
expects TO return 10 Texas
next fall. and Is now
negotiating for nice farm near fherr-
man on which 10 winter her stock
hereafter.
Burglars visited the Southern hotel
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-04-22
Marine Arrivals.

NEW YoRg, April 2o.--Arrived---
CITY OF Chester. The Queen and Au-
rnnia, from Liverpool; Poiynesla, from
Hamburg Persian, Monarch ind CALI
tia, from LONDON.
BALTIMORE. April Co. Arrived =
Weser, from Rremsp,
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-04-22

No. 100. Parcels OF I'VE. ak, eight, nine
twelve and twenty acres. south side OF this
city, at from Sib0G2fyper acre for unimpr0vad
lois. One piece. OF eight acres. has upon II q
good dwelling OF six rooms, n large barns wei
and orchard. "A DIce homo property or gar
den. and also mn investment AT the price,
$500 Ano her piece Of Ave acret, with sinnll
dwelling upon if. viii be sold for $500. Price
oil an uniniproved piece Of ak acres IL 900,
OF another, comprising nine acres, IL sliOO;
welye acres, $3.50, twenty acres, s3O0O.
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A COiOftli Ct.Isl,. uti9u.

RIcHMoYD, VA, April u. = The
anniversary Of tue ratIde, t,onof the
ments to the federal cons itlilan was
colored military and civic orgnnixa-
lions.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-04-22

No. 1913. Hotel business, with rent only $50
per month for ten rooms, dininR-room, kiich.
en-, beer. hall, etc. WIN sell goodwill, fnrni
fine bar fixtures, etc, for $500. The house
has sixteen regular boarders nj $3.50 per week
and good transient trade, and To be rold FOR
elsewhere compels him TO remove 10 that VI
cinity.