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The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1886-09-04
AFRICAN "SOUNO TELEGRAPhY." !"
A Primitive Solution of the Problem of
Short Distance Communication.

A Primitive Solution of the Problem Of
Short Distance Communication.
The system Of sound telegraphy used by tho
people living on the border of the Gulf of
Guinea, West Africa, is OF interest as prim-
tive solution of the problem Of communica-
ton through short distances. The instrument
Is made as follows:
Take q log OF hard wood, about two feet
long and about a foot in diameter Plane OFF
ono side longitudinaIly to u surface four or
five inches wide In the center of this surface
mark off an elongated and somewhat distorted
Greek cross. The longer arms are placed
longitudinally, and occupy about one-third of
the plane surface. The transverse arms are
three times as broad, and extend entirely
across this surface. The natives dig out the
wood within the outline of the cross, and from
there gradually hollow out the whole log
The sides, beginning at the center, are trim
med of laterally toward the ends, which are
rounded OFF. The instrument is now ready.
1t will be perceived that by the methods above
described we have a hollow drum with four
tongues in the center, each of a different
thickness, ss to produce different sound
when struck
Two pieces of bamboo, the size of a mans
wrist and about two feet long, are selected
and stripped of the hard outside, which leaves
the soft, pithy portion for use. This bamboo
is Of a peculiar kind, free from knots and
solid throughout. With these sticks, used in
proper manner on the four tongues of the
drum, n combination of sounds is produced,
which, in connection with time rs used i'll
music, forms a perfect telcgraphic language,
readily understood by the initiated, the air
being the transmitter. With this simple in
strument the natives of the Gulf Guinea read
lily communicate with each other for a dis
tance of a mile at least ON land and n much
longer distance by water. Messages can lie
sent long distances i'll IA short time by parties
at different points passing them along from
one to the other. The writer has seen canoes
coming down a river from the bush markets
signaling people III the town and giving and
receiving general news at distance of fully
three miles-Scientific American.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1886-09-04

TER resort is situated one AZ lie south Of
the MntanZlS Inlet or
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-05-30
Local Bits.

The Bakers union has secured bail for
three of the four who were indicted and i'm
prisoned, and efforts are being made to Sc
cure the release of the remaining one. The
union put $1,000 cash in the hands of a gen.
tleman to secure the release of one of the
party.
By tomorrow all the plumbers in the city
will be at work and both sides are glad that
the end has been reached. The amount of
work that has accumulated during the strike
and the large amount of building going on
insures busy season for the trade.
r. F. Corridor, of the GLOBE news room.
delegate to the International Typographical
union, will leave next Thursday for Pitts
burg, to attend the annual meeting of that
body. An interesting session is expected.
Workmen on the Langevfn block excava-
ton in West St. Paul struck Thursday for the
three weeks, pay due them. They received
their pay an@then quit entirely.
Delegates Casserly and Corridor of the Typ
ographical union leave for Pittsburg on
Thursday to attend the meeting of the Inter-
national union.
At its last meeting the Bricklayers' union
expelled several members for working on a
scab job.
The German Carpenters union has given
Sl5 to the families of the indicted bakers.
The Painters union is on solid footing
and is an assured success.
Nearly all the carpenters in the city are at
work.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-05-30
NoRTHwEs FERN NOTES.

Half the mills in the Chippewa valley are
running ten hours and the others eleven.
Last week a Knights of Labor assembly of
Eau Claire petitioned the Valley Lumber
company, the only one in that city running
eleven hours, to reduce their time to ten.
The petition was denied, and the company
stated that no man that struck would be
taken back.
The Western Indurated Fibre company of
Winona has Incorporated, with capital of
$4,000, and proposes to manufacture pals,
tubs, etc., from wood pulp.
Striking coopers at L. Raymon's shop, Wi
mona, have settled and returned to work,
Log drives are being conducted with I'M
usual advantage and success this year.
Six hundred men at Beef Slough are raft
ing logs at the rate of 100000 600 per day. =.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-05-30

may be stranger or sojourner, that he may
live with thee. Take thou no usury of
him, or increase; but fear thy God
that thy brother may live with thee. Thou
shalt not give him thy money on usury, nor
lend him thy victuals on increase. Deuter-
onomy XIV, LIST and 3D. AT the end of every
seven years thou shalt make release. And
TINS Is the manner of the release: Every
creditor that lendeth aught unto his neighbor
snail release it; ne shall not exact of his
neighbor or of his brother because 1t is called
the lords release. 1t will perhaps be new
reading for the church members TO read this
chapter through; for certainly if this is the
word of God which never changes. the church
must have ignored its start and loc< its bear
lHgs and must almost be total wreck in a
strong part. Think those matters over, and
then perhaps you, the church, will find some
inhdehty among the cloth, as well as among
the laboring class. Although We are told
from the pulpit quite frequently there are no
classes in free America, hoping the indul-
gence of a little space in this paper once u
week, would like TO follow this through the
Bible, and then give a few thoughts on the
great social problem that is now shaking the
world, as seen through the eyes of laborer.
THos. II. LUCAS.
NJ Inn AZ
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-05-30

Mayor Sutphin, anticipating Chicago
riot telegraphed Gov Hubbard for permits
sion to call out Company K. of the First
regiment in case of an emergency, which
was Immediately granted. On the
same day about twenty-five men, mostly
Finlanders and Bohemians. employed at the
Ohio Coal company's docks struck for ST.. rs
for ten hours work and 40 cents per hour
for unloading vessels, the old wages being
$1.5O per day and So cents per hour At
noon. by persuasion and threats, they in
duced the employees of the Northwestern
Fuel company to join them, and work at
the coal docks was at standstill. On
Tuesday the millmen returned to work at
the old wages, but the dockmen did not
and work remained at standstill. Yes
seis waited to be loaded and unloaded,
loaded cars waiting to be moved, and vast
quantities of ore accumulated rapidly.
Finally, on Wednesday, the coal companies
acceded to the demands of the strikers and
peace was restored
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-05-30
MINNEAPOLIS COOPERS,

The Cooperative Barrel company will be-
gin the manufacture of one-stave barrels
upon the arrival of heavier quality of stock
Peter Carlson and Fred Martin have pur-
chased stock in the Minnesota shop. John
Olson and Charles Whiting have withdrawn.
3 j. FL. Long has leased power of the Stevens
shop, and will start a cotton batting factory
in the adjoining building.
The Northwestern claims to be doing more
than any other shop of its capacity in the
City at present.
The new shop of Doud & Son has started
up with seventeen coopers on hand work at
IL cents.
G. A. Smith of the Sixth street shop is going
to retire from the company.
A. Muir continues as superintendent of the
Doud shop.
The Stevens shop will start up this week,
probably.
The Acme is making full elm barrels.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-05-30
Practical Corporation.

The Knights of Labor have organized the
ST. Paul Cooperative Mercantile company
with a capital of S25, 600. The objects OF
the association are quite extended in their
scope. embracing wholesale and retail
business in food, clothing. etc, and to
establish as soon as practicable a self-sup-
porting home colony, in which cooperation
will be eXemplitied in production. distribu-
ton, education and government. Shares
are worth So each and no member shall
hold more than fifty shares. \ meeting III
the stockholders will be held to-day.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-05-30
MINNEAPOLIS CRED Hors.,,

The Trades and Labor assembly will pres.
ent a communication to the city council at its
next meeting asking why the request for the
appointment of practical man as plumbing
inspector was not only ignored, but the com.
mittee snubbed. The communication will
further state that advices have been received
from many cities, which state that similar
requests of journeymen plumbers have in
variably been complied with.
~
It is certainly as important that practical
man should inspect the plumbing of build
ings, which has direct influence upon the
health of the community, as it is that a COM
petent architect and builder should be the in
spector of buildings. The council has GER
tainy stultified itself by its opposition to a
very reasonable request, which concerns the
welfare of the public, besides coming from
men who have right to demand that their
work shall be inspected by man who under
stands his business.
~
The Presbyterian general assembly grace
fully lodged the Chinese labor question a
commissioner introduced a resolution which
expressed sympathy with the men who had
been reduced to poverty by the competition
of a lot of rat-eaterS, who could live on 10
cents day. He was from California, and
stated from observation that the driving out
of Cinnamon at different points had given
thousands of workmen the opportunity to
earn a living who had been unable to get
work at wages that would keep them alive
~
What was the answer? Why, that ssthe
American workingman is abundantly able to
take care Of himself The sentiment was
received with hilarious applause, and the res
olution was almost unanimously defeated and
others passedin condemnation of the outrages
inflicted upon the Chinese ir the country,
which no one attempts to defend.
~
A correspondent elsewhere states very sue
cinctly just why union workingmen must re-
fuse to work with non-union. 1t is a simple
matter of necessity in order that their organ
izations may exist.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-05-30

came to our shores of his own free will
The imported article never was. and never
VIII be, welcomed by the American work.
ngman. Only those who are eligible and
willing to don the mantle of American
citizenship should be permitted to find an
abiding place in the country.
hope that, having discovered that ''the
agents are sending over too many blood
spllling spirits" the managers under whose
control these agents work, will call them
home.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-05-30
Tho Mass Meeting.

All preliminary arrangements have been
completed, and the first mass meeting to
voice the sentiments of the Twin Cities.
will be held at Market hall tomorrow even
ing. Among the speakers will be j. S.
Rankin. r. II. Shadrick and w. II. Grim
shaw of Minneapolis, and NJ. F. Kahn. A.
l.. Robinson, Otto Haese and &. A. La
fayette of st. Paul. A large number will
be in attendance from Minneapolis and
rouSing meeting is expected.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-05-30

Ward of the committee appointed to make
arrangements for mass meeting on the
prison labor question, reported all arrange
ments completed, and a meeting would be
held at Market hall Monday. Following
nominations were made for the ensuing
term, to be acted upon at the next meeting:
President, E. R. Harroun; vice president,
q. II. Hopper; recording secretary, L. +.
Cole and William Kahn: financial secretary,
A. l.. Robinson; treasurer, G. H. Fisher;
statistician, E. r. Harroun; sergeant-at-arms,
L. Allen; trustees +. Casserly, NJ. +. Kahn,
Thomas Ward
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-05-30
RlnNN APOLHS NslLLERS.

The mills in operation are the Pillsbury
A, Phoenix, Pallsade, Anchor, Cataract,
Columbia, Crown Roller, Dakota, Galaxy,
Holly, Minneapolis, Northwestern, Petit,
st. Anthony Washburn A, b and C. Pillsbury
and humboldt, which are making about
$4,000 barrels daily, with capacity of 30,T75
The mills idle are the Standard, Excelsior,
Union and Zenith, with capacity of 3,40O.
The south side of the Washburn A, whic h
has been idle all spring, started up yesterday,
which adds l, 400 barrels to the output of the
null, that has lately been making about 2,3UO
barrels daily.
Automatic sprinklers are now being placed
in the Columbia mill.
The Head Millers association meets to-day
Considerable bark is reported in the can al.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-05-30
The Labor LYceurr,.

The last meeting of the labor lyceum con
sisted of little general gossip carried on in
the anteIoom By about a dozen members.
who were on hand in spite Of rainy weather.
There was a unanimous sentiment thatSthe
meetings should be kept up, and it was
agreed that at the meeting this evening a
new start be taken under different name.
The methods of the meetings will perhaps be
also somewhat changed. The subject for the
last meeting, cooperation, will be taken UP
this evening, and an interesting and practical
discussion is eXpected.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-05-30
The seamen's Union Succumbs.

CHICAGO, May 29.-The Seaman's as
sembly (union), at a meeting held to-day.
formally repealed its previous action in es-
tablshing wages at 50 per day. Members
OF the union are now at liberty to ship at
any wages they can get. so long as they adj
here to the rule not to ship on vessel car
rylng non-union seamen. This action was
was brought about by the determined stand
Which vessel owners made against the union
when it fixed wages at 50 per day. 1t was
next to impossible for union seaman to
get berth on any sort of craft so numer-
Gus did non-uniOn men become. Hence it
became necessary to reduce Wages
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-05-30
LOST In CLOUDS OF BLUE.
Recognized Fashions in the World
of Smoke and Smokers.
Character Indicated by the Way a
Smoker Handles His Cigar.

The man who does not smoke is as great
rarity as the politician who does not use
lemonade, and cigar dealers are as certain
of selling their wares at some time or other
as they are of having to pay gas bills.
Handsome young ladies who have no big
brothers, and are therefore not supposed to
know much about smoking. imagine that
all men smoke alike. This is as great an
error as to think that chunk of ice weighs
as much as the iceman asserts it does. There
are as many different ways of smoking as
there are of killing cat and to properly
enjoy good cigar man should know how
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-05-30
THE STRIKE Ar DULUTH.
MilImen Fail and the Dockmen Sue
ceed

CeeQ.
On Saturday the 22d inst, the employees
OF Ragray's sawmill at Rices point struck
Tor ten hours work instead Of eleven, at ten
hours pay. On Sunday they went around
to different mills melting others to strike, and
on Monday seventy-five of the strikers Wis
tied Croft 6 Murray's mill and undertook
to force an entrance and make the men
quit. The police soon appeared, arresting
the leaders and dispensing the crowd. The
strikers were a little demonstrative and
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-05-30
FROM SHOP AND MILL.
What Men Do Who Work for the City and
the Compensation They Receive
for Labor.
Some Of the Improvements Made in Street.
Cleaning Apprenticeship Con-
tract System.
The Strike at Duluth. in Which the
Millmen Fail and the Dock
men Succeed
Explanation of the Refusal of Union
Men to Work with Those Out
side the Union.
woRKrNGmEN AND THE CITY.
Facts and Theories About the Cit
as an ErMplOyer.

Facts and Theories About the City
as am Employer.
But comparatively few workingmen are
employed directly by the city, and that few
is almost wholly comprised in the force en-
ployed to clean and repair streets and
sewers. Of this force IA men and 2
teams are employed on sewers and lei men
and 30 teams are at present upon the
streets. OF this latter portion large per
cent. make up the street sweepers or the
broom brigade and this class is one of the
ever present features of the street. On a
rainy day or where the dirt is of unusual
depth they use the hoe of enormous dimen-
sions that everybody has seen, and in a
pavement that is only reasonably dirty the
broom comes into play. The spirit OF
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-05-30
They have Esrected a Uompromise.

They Have Effected a Compromise.
ST. LOUIS, May 29.-The st. Louis Re
lining company, employing 500 men, will
resume operations next Monday with a full
force. The works were closed down three
weeks ago on account of the eight-hOGr
agitation. A compromise has been eff
| fected.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-05-30

INV Ats
Congressman,
aldermen and sa-
loonkeepers who
expect to join
TIL e Sc favored
classes some day,
always smoke
prime 25-cent ci-
g ars, especially
ii so m e O dy
gives them away.
The cigar is held
IN the left-hand
corner Of tn e
mouth at an an
gle of forty-fve]
degrees. In orr
der to prevent
tn e S m o k e RS
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-05-30
THE CIGAR CHEwER,

UT. UoIHS THE CIGAK CHEWER,
burned it's often HON. BARON BUCK.
kept unlighted, and the alderman thus con-
tracts the bad habit of chewing cigars.
Many well-known men prefer chewing a
good cigar to smoking it, and lots of them
would rather accept the pure Havana as a
gift than pay for them. Although it is
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-05-30
No oleomargarine Issue to Make.

WASHINGTON, May 29.-In a letter to
Speaker Carlisle, Z. V. Powderly, general
master workman of the Knights of Labor,
denies that his order has any interest in the
oleomargarine legislation now pending be-
fore congress
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-05-30

Our manufacturers guarantee every pair of
Boots and Shoes to us and we simply do the
same to our patrons SO we esteem it favor, if
a pair crack or do not wear well, to bring the
old ones back and get a new pair. We want
your trade and will keep it if good honest goods
and low prices will do it.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-05-30

Statistical information is a most valuable
and reliable guide for legislation and agita-
ton, and the only means of obtaining an in
telligent knowledge of the labor situation and
its needs. The lines of investigation, which
can be profitably pursued in this work, are
almost unlimited.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-05-30

He has prepared lists of inquiries to be cir
culated as extensively as possibly among the
working people Of St. Paul, and from the
answers received and his personal investiga-
tons there may be expected a valuable and
interesting array of trade information in this
city.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-05-30

E. R. Harrouu is the sole nominee for the
office of president of the Trades assembly,
and will of course be elected at the next
meeting. As he is the only competent man
in the assembly who can devote the necessary
time and take the interest required to make
it success, the assembly very wisely i'm
posed on him the additional duties of the
StatiStician.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-05-30
ST. PAUL TIME.

In number of the prominent buildings of
the city the boards and timbers of the floors
are decaying with the dry rot. This occurs
where the wood is eucaSed in tilng, fire.
PROBING, etc., which completely excludes the
air. 1t is something that cannot be easily
foreseen or guarded against, and seems to
teach that in Minnesota building timbers cam
not be safely enclosed in an alright casing.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-05-30

But this statistical information is exceed
ingly hard to get, and the task of the statis-
tician who undertakes to do his work thor
oughly is Herculean in its proportions. The
only feasible method aside from that of the
census take r, is that of sending out printed
lists of questions to be filed out and re-
turned. The universal experience with this
method is. that an exceedingly small per
cent. of the inquiries sent out are answered.
The parties addressed do not appreciate its
Importance, or are simply too negligent to
give it notice. II this most important step
in this local field is made, in any degree. a
success it will be by the earnest and untir-
ing cooperation of every labor orga liZation
in the city.
~
During the past week Il noticeable boom has
set in in building operations in the city, and
contractors are getting all they can do. Indca-
tons point to ii busy and prosperous season
in the building trades. This revival is largely
the result of the more settled condition of
affairs. THE TIMEKEEPER.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-05-30
Two-FAcED AMERICANS.

1t is no credit to us as a people to have
among us class that pirates so much about
love of country, ''Americanisms," and
''American-born CITIZEN" etc., and at the
same time be engaged in the nefarious BUSH
ness of inducing people by lying and decep-
ton to come to this country to take the
places of American citizens. The Ameri-
can-born citizen is no better or worse than
the foreign-born citizen, for if you scratch
an American you draw foreign blood, unless.
indeed, you scratch North American In
dian, and as a genuine American we do NOT
appear to take great deal of pride in him.
We have ALWAYS welcomed the man who
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-05-30

can take more real, solid comfort out of
pipe than Jay Gould can out of his i'm
ported Havana.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-05-30

tney lnnale Tile II
full disregard of
the feelings of
angry damsels.
There are lots
of w orkin G.
men who an
afford to smoke
Havana cigars
b e fore break
fast, but few of
them pur S u e
this line of ex-
ira va ga n C e.
The ordin a ry
wo ki n e m an