The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1886-01-06
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The last slave in this country. the Thomas
vile tGs-) Register asserts. was Milby Rey-
nolds, and she was owned by a negro. Collins
Aston. who, having become his Own master.
saved enough to buy Mildly, and kept her in
bondage for nearly year after the emanci-
patton. She finally secured her freedom by
accepting refuge with a white woman in
Townsville.
1t appears that Victor Hugo's father was
during the French regime of Joseph Bona
parte in Italy the General who was the Mill
tsTy Governor of the Province of Avelino.
and. as such, ordered the hanging OF ezra
Diavole,' as the brigand Colonel, Michael
Pozzo' was called. This took place in 1896.
when Victor Hugo was a little boy, living
with his father in Italy.
The Prince OF Morocco took several hun
dred floats to the Azores last summer, and,
sailing in northerly direction, he dropped
them one by one into the ocean, allowing an
interval OF mile or two between them. In
the interior of each is paper giving the lat
itude and longitude OF the spot where it was
dropped, and mariners have been requested
through the usual channels to note the time
and place of their picking up any of them
they may happen to fall in with. II a sufi-
Gent number of these observations can be
collected, a much needed light will. il is
hoped, be thrown on the direction and veoc-
Ity OF the gulf stream.
An explosion in a coffin that was exhumed
lately IN Yorkville, S. c., is reported by the
Enquirer of that place. The coffin, which
contained the remnants of a child three or
four years old, was buried in 1875. Recently
the parents of the child bought family lot
in cemetery, and the disinterment was for
the purpose of transferring the body, which
is said to have been found in an excellent
state of preservation. There was a glass
paLei III the css1et, and the heat OF the SUI
shining or tins IS believed to have caused a..
EXPANSION of gases within the coffin. result
ing n t be EXPOS on. which Is reported 70
have equalled that of a dynamite cartridge
in force.
The manufacture of base balls in this
country has become an important industry.
and an ingenious one, too, according to the
description given OF the process: First, there
is a little hard rubber ball, around which
there is wound strong blue coarse yarn, and
when this reaches prescribed size ii is firm
ly wrapped with white Venitian yarn. The
balls are now placed in an oven and baked
until the moisture is taken out of them and
they are reduced in size, this making them
solid. They are then coated with cement
which causes the balls 10 retain their shape
and they can not he knocked crooked After
this some fine blue yarn, and around the
whole is placed fine white gilling twine
The hslls are weighed, each TO have a certain
weight, and the covers are put on, these be
ing made of the finest hOrse-hide. 1t con-
sists of two pieces, each cat in the shape of
fol II IN sr.
one way and tie other in an opposite direc-
ton, complete cover is obtained This is a
simple and effectuai substitute for the for
meT method OF covering with four pieces of
leather.
An examination of the musical sands of
Kauai, Gala, which have excited SO much
interest the part of biologists and Others
shows that they possess a peculiar micro
scopical structure. The grains are found to
he chiefly composed of small portions of
coral and apparently calcareOus sponges;
they are all more or less perforated with
small holes, in some instances forming tubes,
but mostly terminating in blind cavities
which are frequently enlarged i'm the interior
of the grains, communicating with, the sur
face by a small opening. There were also in
the sand small black particles. formed prin-
cipally of CRYSTALS of augite, nepheline and
magnetic oxide of iron, embedded in CLASSY
matrix. The structure of these grains eX-
plains. it is thought, why sound is emitted
when they are set in motion; that is, the
friction against each other causes vibrations
in their substance. and consequently in the
sides of the cavities they contain-and these
vibrations being communicated to the air IN
the cavities, under the most favorable condi-
tiops for producing sound. the result is the
loud noise occasioned when any large mass
of sand is set in motion, there being. in fact,
millions upon millions of resonant cavities,
each giving forth sound.