Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1888-11-18

Mrs. Wallace says OF her travels:
"She would be queen again IN another
empire, XenObia, n ruler IN tho desert,
and her willing subjects should be the
untamed and untamable Bedouins. To
fit herself fer fresh adventure and sway
their imaginary sceptre, Lady Ellen
studied Arabic.
UNcBOwEED QrFES.
"Tbere nre old citizen OF Beyrout who
remember the stir among an IDLE popu-
lace when the great English lady landed
at the seaport, and. uncrOWncd, yet a
queen. set ont for the shadowy realm
where she should rule by Divine night.
Lady Ellen bought n palace at ia
Tnascus and iurnshedit luxuriously. SAID
one Of her countrywomen, resident at
Damascus, she was always the perfect
lady in sentiment, voice, manners.
speech for those who enjoyed her con-
fidence it was treat 10 pass hours IN
her society. The vari-colorcd shows OF
Damascus had q strong hold on Lady
Ellen. and they amused her for time
but her palace was filed, end the mo-
notony Of the place palled upon her:
one morning she abruptly announcer
that she WAS tired Of Damascus, and
loDged to sec Bagdsd. Why should she
be cooped up in stone walls when the
free desert was wooiDg her? she went
into the desert under the escort OF Sheik
Autar and small retlnue.
DESERTED HIS WIVES FOR HER.
"Very naturally be fell in love with tho
unveiled Giaour, and finally he proposed
10 divorce all his Moslem wives and
marry Lady Ellen. One half the year
be would pass with her in Damascus, and
the other half in tho desert. She mar
red him in his tent with no witnesses
bat bis amazed companions. To her
horror. she learned that she had, in SO
doing, lost her nationality and become a
Turkish subject But she never re-
pcntcd. Sne made over to HIM
her palace and her gardens at Damascus
and for six months OF each year she
was on the desert. For fifteen years
she lived this life, and was never scpa-
rated from her husband, 10 whom she
vas deyotedlv attached. 1t w8s said
that she never lost anything Of the ing
lish LADY. nor the softDess Of "A woman {;
70 the last shc was fresh and Young,
brave, refined, and delicate. Her grave
Us beautiful shrinc--a shady pavilion
O.. rosy ycinod marble pillared with silver
and pearl and celed with yermilliOn and
blue. She was worshipped by the tribe,
and fo this dav tho Arabs OF the desert
sing the tender romance of their Chief
lnsen, whose hair was Of amber, whose
ewes were ike SIRIUS when the Nile be-
gins to swell.
PONDEROus MACHINERY IS IRON.
Every year the machinery in the iron
mills of Pittsburgh. Pa, is being made
moro pondor0u8 The necessity for this
lies i'm the demand for immense castings.
Everything is growing larger than IL
former times. Ships are bigger, loco
motives are more powerful, iron-iront
buildings arD higher, and agricultural
implements are vastly larger. The de-
ycioumcut Of mil apparatus to meet this
increase has been gradual, but within tho
last two years 81 wonderful impetus has
been given the forward movement 10y the
building of the new war vessels for the
United states navy.
Andrew Carnegie has just completed
the binding Of mill at lraddock, one
of the suburbs OF Pittsburgh, expressly
intended for the manufacture of this
Government work. There is not q SINGLE
bit OF apparatus in 1t bat what Is the
largest 81 its kind in The world. Tho
shcors. which snap a bar Of iron in two
as though it wero tissue-paper, exceed
au7thIn0 IN eize that has ever been
known by the SONS Of Nulan. The
lathcs arc greater, the rolls are longer
and heavier than anything the balance Of
the country can show, and even the
steam boilers are the largest ever made
by the band of man.
THE LARGEST HAMMER.
In tho Black Diamond Steel Works,
Thr,ieth street. Pittsburgh, there If the
largest stcsm-hamincr ~ tho United
States. 4 he blow OF fifty tons which it
strikes every second Of time that 1t is III
operation shakes the earth for two squares
around the mill. Yet it IS SO easily con
troled and 30 nicely adjusted that the
Zimmerman has placed on the anvil
block beneath It dc icate wincglass CON
tanning an cCg, and tuning on the steam
full force would let the ponderous weight
above fall until at a certain distance, and
then shut the steam oil. In this way tho
hammer has been kept for several min
utcs gently tapping the glass and egg
without breaking them.
A MONSTER CRANE.
Put now tho Government itself is
going 10 throw all these marvellous
achievements IN the background 10y tine
improvements at the navy yard IN Wash
ineton city. They will transform that
quiet place into the most powerful work
shop IN the universe. For instance,
there was not found in the mills and
fouudrics OF tho whole United States
" travelling cranes big enough to move
about the Immense castIpge AMI wrought
iron parts of large cannon which the
War and Navy departments have pro-
iecied. These cranes are very familiar
objects in the yards of iron mills
everywhere. They are simply
block-aGd tackle arrangement 90 fixed
upon u steam-car that they will pick up
heavy piece of metal and rush of
speedily to any part OF the buildings
with It, The largest OF these travel
lers in Pittsburgh win carry burden of
ihirty tons with safety to the ropes and
rigging. In the Midwife Steel Works,
pennsylvania, a Unwilling crane Of