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The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-03-15

In the year 1856 / commanded a shin
bound from Hong Kong to Melbourne
in Australia. We had on board SOC
Chinese passengers mot coolies,) and
two cabin passengers, which, with myself
and wife, officers and crew, made total
of $50 souls. A few days sail from
Hong Kong one Of the passengers was
taken down with the regular smallpox.
Here was a truly deplorable situation,
Tor probably not one of the Chinese
passengers had ever heard of the word
vaccination. | Immediately resolved to
steer for the English colony of Singapore
where there was hospital, and where [
could land my sick passenger, after which
l would remain few DAYS in order to as
certain whether any more cases would
break out.
placed my patient in room as far
removed from other patients as could
and only the stewart and myself were
allowed to care for him. The carpenter
of the ship seemed to have the most in
tense apprehensions about contagion, and
dreaded the disease so much that he
avoided In every way possible the cabin
where the passenger lay sick.
When we arrived at Singapore, / had
the patient removed to the hospital. and
when we lowered him over the gangway
into the boat, the carpenter went to the
extreme point of the bow so as To be as
far from contagion as possible. After
remaining as long as was considered
sufficient for the safety of all concerned,
] set sail for Melbourne, but few DAYS
out the carpenter was taken down by an
attack of mild form of smallpox.
/ landed him at the quarantine in Mel
bourne, and not another person had the
disease or any symptoms of it. Now,
did not that mans fears predispose him
to infection, or perhaps actually produce
the very disease of which he was so
afraid9 1t was certainly very remark
able, that of all the $50 persons on board
that ship, he should have been tie only
one tn suffer
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detroit Free Press. !

DIR. Holmes once said in the Professo,
at the Breakfast Table that every man
was three men. First, what "the
young man John thought himself TO be
second, the man his neighbors and friends
believed John to be, and third, the real
man John. The Professor was inclined
to resent Johns reduction of the theory
to practice in helping each of himself to
a peach, thereby apprspriating three in
stead OF the one which the careful land.
lady had provided for him. But the
theory is none the less sound because
1t failed in one of its practical applica-
ti0ns.
In everyday life, away from the at.
mosphere of literary breakfast tables and
genial autocrats or professors, we do not
find men actually living three lives. But
1t is not uncommon to find them living
two. 1t has become so common, indeed
that the frequent recital in the newspa-
pers occasions no surprise except TO the
immediate neighbors and acquaintance
OF the individual whose duality happens
10 be discovered.
Usually the moving cause is irregular.
ity in the conjugsl relation. It was so ia
the latest reported case, that of Long
Island farmer, who under two different
names married two widows and secured
two comfortable homes until his pro-
longed absences from each led TO inves-
tigation and discovery. Occasionally
there is but one wife in the case, the dual
existence being that Of happy bachelor.
In case of this character recently dis
closed In New York the chief actor had
kept up his double role for some years,
pacifying the wife Of his married life
with plausible stories Of business
journeys, etc. In his character Of single
gentleman be had nobody ~ pacify.
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-03-15
SOCIETY AND MILLIONAIRES.

Mr.. Carnegie, the millionaire manu-.
facturer of Pennsylvania, who, by the
way, is a socialist, is the author of the
following:
His range of vision must be short, or
his faith in the progress of the human
race but small, who does not see that the
state, in the near future, will not permit
great millionaires to ignore the truth
that they are but trustees after all, and
that their millions boarded are detri-
mental to the general good, as the
same millions bequeathed to their own
issue are positively injurious to them.
BY cumulative taxation, by progres-
sive legacy duties, or by some efficient
means not yet devised, (because not yet
necessary in this country while the laws
of dispersion act so we'll, or, perhaps, by
a strong overwhelming public sentiment
only,) the degraded soul whose chief aim
to the end of his life is either to augment
OF hoard his millions or bequeath them
rs whole to his issue, will meet at the
hands Of an indignant community the
defeat he richly deserves.
After awhile the only condition upon
which man will be permitted to pos.
sess or administer an undue amount of
wealth in government of the people
will be that he makes good use of it,
and spends it-not in such vulgar, osten-
tatious display rs charscterizes the royal
families and some of the mobiles of Eu-
rope, and which few silly people imi-
tate here, or to found a family under the
cover of primogeniture and entail, which
is the general weakness Of Britons;
neither to hoard nor strive to augment
his millions, which is the form which the
evil usually takes In this country-but
that he holds his wealth for the sake of
liberal uses and great things to be done
dome, not for himself or for his family,
but for humanity.
"How Was he borni IL Of the past
What man ownsf 10 already subordi-
nate In America, to what he knows; but
In the final Aristocracy the question will
not b either Of thsss, but what has he
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A BELLE OF Jackson,s Wine.

One of Gen. Adair's nine daughters
celebrated throughout the southwest fol
her beauty, died only short time age
in little Mississippi town. This lady
Mrs. White Beatty-lived a brilliant
life. So much romance has been woven
thickly about her that tits difficult in
these latter days to adequately measure
her distinguished career. She has been
the model for the most celebrated paint.
ers and sculptors of by-gone age.
ELLEN Adair," Wrote Richard Henry
Wilde, poet-statesman of the south, years
ago. sis the most beautiful apparition
God ever put upon His footstool" To
Mrs. White-Beatty was dedicated
Wild's famous song, "My Life Is Like
Summer Rose" and she seems never
to have lost her place in the poets
heart.
Her connection on her fathers side
with titled English family gave her the
entree to all the best circles in Europe,
and no American woman was ever so
we'll known aboard as Mrs. Beatty.
When she married her distinguished
husband, Mr.. Charles White the iurist,
she in no wise retired from the conspicu-
Gus position accorded her on account of
her loveliness, her wit, her indescribabIe
grace.
There is a charming story told of
Miss Adair long before she consented to
become the wife of the Florida states
ka 81 h.
at Washington wealthy and titled gen.
tleman attached to the English embassy
and afterward celebrated all over Europe
as diplomat, paid her marked attention.
Indeed, il was then understood that the
Englishman had placed his heart and
fortune at the feet of the lovely Ameri-
can.
One night during banquet given at
the English embassy the sttache in re-
spending to the toast of "Merry Eng
land, made some offensive illusions to
American manners. Too much indul-
gence in the wine cup probably caused
the Englishman TO momentarily forget
himself. For the remainder of the even
ing the beautiful woman at his side
coldly and distantly responded to his
table talk. The guard coup, however,
came when Miss Adair was preparing
to descend the spacious staircase. As
the beauty swept toward the descent her
lover followed behind her. He hastily
pressed to her side and offered his arm,
when the indignant beauty drew her.
self up to her full height and said dis
tinctly and audibly:
"Sir, 10 insulting my country you have
insulted me; you have forgottn that am
the daughter of an American soldier
With grace only at her command she
moved back from the astonished English
man, and, retreating TO where Gen. Adair
stood, tr'pped under her fathers escort
70 her carriage.
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Max Adler ON the Indi vfduality Of
Children.

The moral nature and individuality of
children, says Prof. Adler, should be
carefully studied and respected. They
are, it is true, bone of our bone and flesh
of our flesh, but we are only the chan
nels through which the river of life lie
transmitted to them.
Some parents make point of trying
to mold their children into reproduc-
tions of themselves. But every child
has right to its own individuality. For
instance, if a boy shews talent for art
it is q grave question as to whether it be
wise for the boys father to say: "Oh, l
don't want my boy to be painter;
mean him to be lawyer"
Or, again, . youth shows an intense
passion for study, but a friend OF the
father has an opening in his counting
house and 80 the instincts Of genius are
sacrificed to the dollar. Thus the indi-
viduality of that life is destroyed and
the particular message with which II
was intrusted to deliver TO the world is
lost
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The fauIt.
IAN the Year Around. |

The real fault we commit in converse
ton is our failure to recognize the pleas.
ure that is given by the narration of
even the most trivial incident in care.
fully apportioned words. No one in
talking takes the trouble to forget his
sentences according to the most ordinary
rules OF .grammar. Our national shyness
has stamped us, among other vulgarisms,
with that false shame which makes us
fear the charge of pedantry il we talk in
other than the most clumsy and disjoint-
ed way.
We are afraid to venture on a phrase
"a combination of words that will con.
vey our meaning Of the moment-until
familiarity has made it a commonplace,
and then we drag il in by the head and
ears on every occasion, till it becomes
nauseous from its frequency. There is a
dreary heautness i'm our conversation,
born of deficient Imagination. We dis.
cuss, or rather utter our words about the
most ordinary matters, with a solempity
which, al first sight, looks like earnest
ness; but we are not in earnest. We
should resent the imputation. Every
nation has its own peculiar snobbery-
every nation, and each rank in that ma.
ton, and class in that rank, and each in.
dividual.
One phase of it with us is the way in
which we copy the habits or manners of
the rank above us. The desire to copy
implies deficient tact and power of OBJ
servatiou, and the effect of the copying
Is very much that of the maid of-all.
work, in lodging house, who tries 10
copy the dIess of the ladies on whom she
waits. She has neither the material out
of which to make the clothes nor the
power oil wearing the clothes properly, Ii
she had them. The calmness and alb
sence Of emotion Of patrician manners
not unnaturally suggest imitation. Peo-
pie who, from their birth upward, have
been accustomed TO Difference naturally
acquire a manner which takes that de.
ference for granted-an attitude from
which the element OF assertion il elimi.
mated. The favored classes with whom
that is the case have also feasts Of other
things besides the Difference Of their fell
lows
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IAN the Year Round I


The Annual Register for 1882 gave an
account of singular wife sale. Joseph
Thomson. q farmer, after brief married
life of three years, finding that the union
was irksome, agreed with his wife to sep
arate Acting upon the prevalent notion
that by putting hisspouse up to auction.
and so parting with her, the marriage
bonds were legally unloosened, he came
to Carlisle and by the bellman announced
in the presence of a large number of per-
sons; the wife, spruce, lively dsmsel of
shout two and twenty years Of age, being
placed on large oak chair, with hal
ter of straw round her neck. Thomson
then spoke as follows:
Gentlemen, | have to offer to your
notice my wife, Mary Anne Thomson,
otherwise Williams, whom mean to
sell to the highest and fairest bidder,
Gentlemen, it is her wish, a. well a.
niue, to part for ever. She has been To
me only a born serpent. | took her for
my comfort and the good of my home,
but she became my tOrmentor, domes.
tic curse. a night invasion and daily
devil. Gentlemen, speak truth from
my heart when say may God deliver
US from troublesome wives and frolic-
some womenl Avoid them as you would
mad dog. roaring lion. loaded pis-
toll, cholera morbus. Mout Etns or any
other pestilential thing in nature. Now,
I have shown you the dark side of my
wife, and told you of her faults and
failings; will introduce the bright and
sunny side of her, and explain Der quail
ifcations and goodness. She can read
novels and milk cows; she can laugh and
weep with the same ease that you could
take glass of ale when thirsty. She can
make butter and scold the maid; she can
sing Moore's melodies, and plat her
frills and caps; she cannot make rum, gin
or whiskey, but she is q good Judge of
the quality from long experience in tast.
ing them. ] therefore offer her with all
her projections and imperfections for the
sum of fifty shillings."
The sequel of the story is that after
waiting about an hour, Thomson knock.
ed down the slot" to one Henry Mears
for twenty .shillings and Newfound-
Iond dog, and the parties separated,
being mutually pleased with their bar.
gain
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-03-15

Dynamite is prepared by simply
kneading with the naked hands twenty
five per cent. of infusorial earth and
seventy five per cent. of nitro-glycerine
until the mixture assumes putty con.
dition, not unlike moist brown sugar.
Before mixing the infusorial earth is
calciDed in furnace in order to burn
out all organic matter, and it IL also
sifted To free il of large grains. While
still moist it is squeezed into cartridges,
which are prepared of parchment paper,
and the firing is done by illuminate of
silver in copper capsules provided with
patent exploders.
Nitro-glycerine is made of nitric acid
one part and sulphuric acid two parts
to which is added ordinary glycerine
and the mixture is well washed with
pure water. The infusion is composed
of small, microscopic silicious shells
which have lost their living creatures
The cullular parts receive the nitro
glycerine and hold it by capillary ut.
traction, both inside and out. The earth
is very light.
Water is expelled from it by means of
a furnace, and then in the form of a
powder it is mixed with nitro glycerine.
Nitro-glyceriDe has a sweet, aromatic,
pungent taste and the peculiar property
Of causing violent besdache when
placed in small quantity on the tongue
or wrist. 1t freezes at 40 degrees Fahren-
heit, becoming white, half-crystalized
mass, which must be melted by the ap-
plication of water at temperature of
about 100 degrees Fahrenheit
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-03-15

Everything on the earth and in the
air above is permeated with the earth's
magnetic force-it goes through your
clothes, it peDetrates your bodies, il sat
urates your brains-it is part OF life
ITSELF.
Gaus, the illustrious German astrono-
mer, has computed (taking as unit Of
his measure a magnet, fourteen inches
long. one inch wide, one-fourth inch
thick, weighing one pound, made Of the
hardest steel and OF the strongest mag
Detic force possible) the earth's magnetic
force ms equal to S,464, 600, 600, 600, 900,
100000 such magnets. The attracting
or lifting power of such magnet IL
about ten pounds, which would make
the attractive power of the earth 1870,
000, 000, 000, 600, 900 tons.
II this magnetism we're equally die
tributed throughout the mass of the
earth, the magnetic Intensity of each
cubic yard would be equal TO six Of these
magnets, or about sixty pounds attrac-
tive force.
Prof. Mayer has shown that this mag
netic influence, this invisible force, 10
power filing space 10 an unknown dis
lance and radiating in the lines OF mag
netic force very much % the rays Of the
sunlight, the lines Of the earth's mag
netic force being from south TO north, ~
indicated by the compass needle.
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-03-15
Curious Facts About stIk-worms

A writer in Land and Water SAYS the
ideas of the ancients upon the subject of
the origin of silk were rather vague, some
supposing 1t to be the en- trails of spider
which, fattened for years upon paste, at
length bursts, bringing forth its silken
treasure; others, that it was spun by a
hideous horned grub in hard nests of
clay-ideas which were not dispelled till
the sixth century, when the first silk
worm reached Constantinople, introduced
and cultivated, like many other benefits,
by the wandering monks.
From thence they were soon imported
into Italy, which for long period re-
manned the headquarters of the European
silk trade, until Henry Nv. of France,
seeing that mulberry trees were IA plenti-
full In his southern provinces as in Italy,
introduced silk-worm culture with great
success.
Kirkby mentions the following inter
esting extract from the Courier de Lion
1910, as showing the extraordinary
quantity of silk there annually consumed
at that period:
iso" SIN auuuiiy CObcuuicu Iucfc, Is,
100000 of Kilograms, equal 10 2,205, ia
pounds English, on which the waste in
manufacturing is per cent. As four
cocoons produce graine (grain) of silk,
1000, 100000 of cocoons are annually
consumed, making the number of cater
pillars reared Gncludiug the average
allowance for caterpillars dying, bad
cocoons, and those kept for eggs 1922
100000.
The length of the silk of one cocoon
averages 500 meters q ,526 feet English, }
so that the length of the total quantity
of silk spun at Lyons is 6.5O0,000, 000,-
900 (or six and half trillions) of Eng
lish feet, equal to IA times the mean
radius of the earth's orbit, or 5,494 times
the radius of the moons orbit, or 81, sos
times the equatorial circumference of
the earth, or 100000 times the circum-
ference of the moon"
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Exchange

The bravest women in the world lives
In Birmingham. She is not yet twenty
years Of age, and has immortalised her
self by her courage. She has shown 1t
in tackling, single handed and alone, the
ferocious mouse. While the other ladies
of the house ran screaming away from
the animal, and found safety only In
mounting the chairs ard tables, our her
oine, with unblanched cheeks, walks in
to the pantry, where the vicious beast L.
lurking behind the pans or dishes, and,
regardless of her personal safety, begins
the hunt by rafting the tinware.
In moment the mouse is scamperipg
along the shelves; spurred up to its ut
most activity by the hands Of the plucky
girl, who is determined to capture the
animal alive. A live mouse in q woman's
hand!
Can you realize the courage il requires
for woman TO handle live mouse? A
little cry of delight and the victory is
won. The girl comes out of the pantry
with smiling face and cheeks rosy with
the excitement of the chase. She goes
into the sitting-room holding the prize
in her hand, the little fellow struggling
to get away. The ladies, still perched on
the chairs and table, set up chorus Of
screams, much to the delight of the brave
young lady, who sometimes varies the
sport by letting the captive loose on the
table or floor. The scene that follows, il
it could be reproduced on the stage Of q
theater would make fortune for the
manager.
This girl has got stick with twenty
nine notches upon it, each notch repre-
senting a mouse caught by her own
hands. In the eyes of her female rela-
tives she is greater heroine than Joan
of Arc
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Evidence Of n Native written Ian.
guage Among the Pacific
Islanders.

Capt. William Churchill, Paci6,
Ocean salt, seeks to show by the record,
of deep-sea soundings aud from archie
illogical remains that the Pacific island,
are only the remnants of a submerged
continent, whose mountain peaks and
lofty nights are all that remain above
the surface of the ocean.
Polynesian antecedent civilization i:
revealed, he thinks, through ancient i'm.
plements, statues and sculptured stone
slabs found on few OF the groups. more
notably the Feejees. The studies OF
Eoophytes and coral formations taken
from depth of 1000 fathoms and more
also confirm this belief of :. the subsistence
of the prehistoric continent. On Pit,
cairns Island, and also on Tahiti and
Tonga-Tabu have been found remains
which show the existence of a long-for-
gotten tribe.
At Tonga Tabu monster trilithon is Ia
be seen. 1t is composed of gray volcanic
stone, with neatly dressed edges. 1t ia
l0x12 feet square, and stands twenty
feet out of the ground. 1t is surmounted
by huge kava bowl Capt. Churchill
considers this relic to be of great arch@o-
logical value.
He describes the implements and
metals in use by the natives of several
of the groups before the advent of the
white voyagers, and said that iron and
steel were not unknown to them before
their discovery by civilized persons. He
gives minute description OF monolithic
statutes of stone and sculEtured wood
found on Easter Island. The monoliths
were found standing in rows of five or
six, only a few feet apart. They were
hewn from volcanic rock an! were either
very crude in workmanship pr else they
had suffered from the ravages of time.
One row of these statues was quite
well preserved. Each of them was ten
feet high and they represented human
heads and bodies, with kind of cap or
other head covering on the top.
These are the same statues seen and
described by Capt Cook in bis works on
travel and discovery. A finely sculp-
tured hand of dancing girl and some
polished wooden slabs, on which were
numerous hieroglyphical figures in long
rows. have been discovered in an ancient
and half-ruined stone house on Easter
Island. This il the only relic of a writ
ten language ever found in the Pacific
islands.
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done for his fellows? where has he shown
generosity and self-abnegationi when has
he been father To the fatherless aud the
that outf How he has worshiped God
will not be asked in that day, but how
has he served man.
(which of the two great divisions OF
the Anglo-Saxon race is sooner TO reach
something akin 10 the ideal, is not 20
easily answered as one might suppose
from looking at the respective positions
of the mother and child lands to-day.
Certainly the republic has clear lead at
the start. But il is not always the best
starter which wins the race.
There are forces ut work in Britain
much more radical and destructive than
can be found here The present tenure
of the soil, for instance, and its use by
private owners, Is much more secure
here than in Britain. Such measure
as the Irish land act, by which rents are
fixed not by what can be obtained in
open market by the fiat of a court,
would not be tolerated here. The re.
public Is much more conservative than
the monarchy upon many questions.
The territorial aristocracy of Britain
have defrsuded and oppressed the people
to such an extent that when the inevi-
table rebound comes il must split society
at several if not many points. But which
ever division wins in the race 10 better
day for the masses-my native or my
adopted land-the example OF the one
must be followed by the other, for they
now act and react upon each other with
irresistible force; and ], for one whom
our president introduced to you a. of the
millionaire class. say, God speed the day
when great accumulations of wealth, in
any form, either i'm America OF Britain,
or anywhere else, even for one genera
ton, will give place 10 much more
equal distribution of property among the
masses! Unless this is to come, the
Brotherhood of Man is but an idle
phrase. ! am not afraid to sing, with my
national poet Che who, of all men, nestled
closest 10 the bosom of humanity:)
Then let us pray that come II may.
A. come " will for n that.
That man 10 man the warld DER
Shall brothers be an a THAR