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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-14

shining in the gray of the dawn and his
heid well in the air. You reserve your nre
till you can see the sheen of his eyes and
then let drive at him with your right barrel,
and. if only wounded, you take The gobbler
on the wing as he rises, and the game rarely
escapes you unless some bad luck scares the
wary bird away before he reaches within
gunshot of the blind. On the 18th OF No
vember three of US killed two hens and four
gohblers by 9 o'clock in the morning, rising
at o'clock TO reach the turkey roost.
81 care nothing for hunting deer, as it in
wolves walking or riding many miles when
the game is started, unless the gunner has
the patience that makes good still hunter.
The last day Ben Soov and Dick were out
they wounded buck by breaking its fore
leg, and it led them chase for six miles
around dense swamp, and then, when
wounded again, drove both the boys up
big cypress tree, charging on them when
their guns were empty.
fortunately the buck was so badly
wounded that they only had to hold the tort
an hour till the deer died at the foot of the
tree in which they were ensconced.
THE BRUTAL sAwFIsH.
"You saw at nv house in Beaver some
immense blades with teeth two inches long
and wondered what they were. Well. these
are the swords of the saw6sh, a very differ
ent animal from the Block Island swordfsh,
which are good to eat, aud give great deal
of sport off the Rhode Island coast in sum-
mer.
''The sawfsh is big sea brute and often
weighs ], 500 pounds and is terrible nui-
sance when he gets into the fishermen's net,
winding the same all around his huge body
till the fish has to be killed with a rifle
His flesh is of no use. With this terrible
l. 1t. - n
mullet and at every whack cuts hundreds
of the little fish into pieces and devours
them at leisure. Even a shark never at
tac&s a saw6sh.
''Tarpon is the king fish of the bays and
estuaries near the sea. The excitement and
pleasure of bagging and his lordly fighting
qualities have not been exaggerated. 1t is
the gamest of our big fish. My last tarpon
weighed 156 pounds, and after swallowing
the mullet bait he swan away in the most
indifferent manner till he elt the barb Of
the hook bite; then ne dashed off and towed
my little boat three miles up the bay, jump
ing ten feet at time and savagely shaking
his silvery head in vain to break my hold.
THREE MONSTER FISH.
SIT was the longest fight 1 had in No
vember with a tarpon, but when the big
fish turned, as they often do, and went
straight back to where he was hooked he
ran in between two splendid specimens OF
the sawfsb, which weighed at least !, 200
pounds each.
"My big fish got tangled up with the
fighting sawish, and every moment 1 ex-
pected to see him break away. All three
monsters worked into shallow water, where
the tarpon always feeds, and while the
negro held my big tsrpon 1 killed both
sawfish with Ballard rifle and pulled the
tarpon into shallow water and gated him
safely. The stories of sharks killing tar
pom are q good deal exaggerated. Gener-'
ally speaking the tarpon can hold his own
even against the scavenger o: the ocean"
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duced raises solid carbon or carbon dust to
a white heat, and the white hot carbon is
what produces the light.
For example, \ in q Bunsen burner CIV
ing blue flame we have intense heat and
no light, but il we sprinkle little carbon
dust into the fame bright light will at once
be produced, due to the incandescence of
the carbon dust. In the candle flame or gas
jet light is produced in the same way;
particles of SCOT and dust are made incan-
descent by the heat generated, and from
them we get light. And so it is in any
electric lamp. Electricity Is converted into
heat. and this heat causes carbon to become
incandescent, and thus emit light.
TEMPERATURE OF THE ARC.
The temperature of the electric arc is, ac-
cording to the latest researches, between
10000 and 10000 G. This Is the most in
tense heat known to man and of the greatest
value in scientific researches. The arc
light is best suited for street lighting; it is
also very useful in factories and places
where general illumination is all that is
needed. But 1t is quite unsuited for dwell
ings and stores, and in fact any places where
detail work is to be done, such as writing,
reading or the distinction of colors.
For interior lighting and places
where the light would not be needed
after midnight, one pair of carbons Is suf-
ficient, but for all night work double set
is required so that when one pair has
burned out, the current is automatically
switched over to the fresh carbons and the
light thus kept up during the entire night.
The consumption OF carbon is about twice
as much in the positive carbon as in the
negative, and the total consumption is
about one-tenth of grain per candle of
light per hour. The average street arc
lamp gives about 1000 candle-power. but if
globes are used much of this light will be
absorbed, the amount depending on the
character of the glass of which the globe is
made. SCIRE FACIAS.
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QUEER DOGS IN THE oLYMPIcs.
A Western Exploring Party Claim to Find ;
Race of Whistlinp Animals

A western Exploring farty claim TO Find
Race of Whistling Animals.
One of a party recently returned from a
tour in the Olympic Mountains gives the
Whatcom Reueille the following account Of
some strange animals discovered there: One
night we camped near Sentinel Rock, about
a mile from the divide. This rock stands
boldly out alone, like a massive fortress,
guarding the entrance to the valley of the
Dungeness.
Suddenly the mountain sides seemed to be
alive with men whistling TO one another,
when-and one would turn sharp around
only to hear another and shrilIer whew on
the other side; and soon we saw lots of ami
mails, about the size of a fox, with long,
bushy tails, running about from rock to
rock, sometimes lying down, but more often
sitting bolt up, erect, like ferret does. We
shot couple of small ones that night and
aiteward shot several more larger ones.
Campbell called them whistling dogs, and
declared they were good to eat; but the
smell was enough for us. Their odor is
peculiar, but not fragrant. They have two
long teeth in 'front.' like beaver and feet
almost shaped like squirrels feet.
1 believe their right maine is mountain
beaver. Whenever We went afterward to the
mountains as long as there was grass we saw
these whIstling dogs, as we got to call them.
1 like to see them; they seemed to make the
amusing to watch. In winter they have long
burrows under the snow, aud their coats get
a dark gray; in summer they are yellow.
Their skins should make good fur, and,
think, would pay for being trapped in winter
ne
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FRIED OYSTERS BY THE FOOT.
South Australia Claims to Guido the
Ancients Along This Line.

South Australia Claims to Guido the
Ancients Along This Line.
From oysters and All About Ihen.I
Pliny mentions that, according to the his
torians of Alexander's expedition, oysters a
foot in diameter were found in the Indian
Seas, and Sir James E. Tennent was unex-
pectedly enabled toicorroborate TO the correct
ness of this statement, for at Kottier, near
Trincomalee, enormous specimens OF edible
oysters were brought to therest house. One
measured more than II inches in length by
half as many in width. But this extraor-
dinary measurement is beaten by the
oysters of Port Lincoln in South Australia,
which are the largest edible ones in the
world. They are as large as dinner plate,
and OF much the same shape. They are
sometimes more than a'foot across the shell,
and the oyster fits mis- habitation so well that
he does not leave much margin.
1t is new sensation when q friend asks
you to lunch at Adelaide to have one oyster
fried in butter, or eggs and bread crumbs,
set before you; but it is very pleasant ex-
perience, for the favor and delicacy of the
Port Lincoln mammoths are proverbial even
in that land ofluxuries
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THE CHANGE IN CARPETS.
The Colonial Style of Furnishing Makes .
Very Radical Revision.

Inc COlOnAdA OtJAO VI uAake3 =
Very Radical Revision.
What change there is in the style of car.
pets now that the Colonial style OF furnish
ing is in fashion. The carpets are made tn
match it in designs and tone both. The
Scotch Administer carpets are efavorites now.
and come in tints that are delicately exqui--
site, the carpets being of plain centers in all
the favorite colors, surrounded by rich bor-
derIngs in horiated and set designs. The
Aubusson, Wilton, moquette and body
brussels are also in new colorings and de-
signs. A novelty in the design of a carpet,
chiefly in the Administer. is the orchid de-
sign, the flowers scattered artisticslly over
the center and turned in a garland for the
border. The design in any color Of ground
ing desired. The pale gray, however, is
quite the swell color for a carpet and looks
exquisite when furniture and drapery cor
respond to its tint. The furniture covering
is French in design, TOD, pretty style being
tapestries, with the seats and backs in land
scapes, or in great odd flowers. Draperies
and curtains this year are of the richest
brocatelle, and are in the pale tints. The
drapery is above all things beautiful this
year, and the cost is quite in keeping with
the other extravagant luxuries of the day.
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Old Man Thurman.


George Horton, in Cleveland Plaindealer.l
[Allen G. Thurman usually addresses hi
wife as 'Sweetheart"1
A song for old man Thurman.
And sing it clear and strong;
Ris life has been sermon,
Now let it be song.
And this shall be its burthen
To give us greatest joy,
He calls his old wife Sweetheart"
And loves her like boy!
There is no fairer story
In all our nations life;
Nobetter, purer glory
In all It's peace and strife.
True Is hat man and steadfast.
Fine gold with no alloy.
Who calls his old wife Sweetheart"
And loves her like q boyi
Who cares for his position
On questions of the day?
He has a higher mission,
A nobler part To play!
Smiling and patient ever.
Though age and pain annoy,
He calls his old wife Sweetheart"
And loves her like boyi
A fg for howery diction
OF sDecious eloQuence!
A hg for all the Notion
OF wealth and vain pretensei
Here Is a man whose glory
No envy can DESTROY
He calls his old wife .'sweetheart"
And loves her like . boyl
We we'll could spare the splendor
And tinsel of these days.
Give us true hearts ndtender,
And plain, old-fashioned waysi
OF men like Allen Thurman
This world will never cloy.
T1x< nnIla 1..-. 1t1 = - a
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A November Note.

A November Note.
Alfred Austin in the Spectator.l
Why, throstle, do you sing
In this November haze?
Singing FOR what? for whomf
Deem you that it is spring.
Or that your woodland lays
Will stave of winters gloom9
Then did the bird reply:
~ sing because 1 know
That spring will surely come;
That is the reason why,
Though menaced by the snow,
Even now am not dumb.
"But few are they that hear,
And fewer still that feel.
The meaning of my song; t
Until the note be clear,
Re-echoed be the peal,
Early and late and long.
"But you have heard aud owned
The sound of my refrain,
Yet tentative and low.
Thus poet, be ihtoned,
Your own foreshadowing strain.
Trusting that some will know:
THAT some will know and say,
When greetings of the spring
Wake winter from its bed;
This is the self-same lay
We overheard him sing
When dead hearts deemed him dead"
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ADINNER GIvER's SECRET.
Roswell P. Flower Turns His Little Ban
quets to Good Account.
rwRIrTES FOR f4IE DIsPArcHI

Roswell z. Flower Iurns MS Little Ban
quets to Good Account.
WRITTEN FOR 14IE DIsPArcH.I
Roswell P. Flower, Of New York, gives
some of the best dinners of the Capital City.
He dined nearly every member of Congress
last session, and he is now one of the most
popular men in publis life. 1 learned last
night the secret of these dinners. Theywere
given on the ground floor OF goo6 fellow
ship in the first place, but in the second
place they were also given to educate Mr..
Flower to the peculiar tastes and natures Of
the men who dfned with him.
Under the sparkling bubbles Of Flowers
champagne the Senators and Representatives
burst forth in their real feelings as to public
matters, and Flower now understands how
to work each of them as to his own plans in
regard to national interests and as to the
axes of his constituents. Flower is one of
the best diplomats in Congress. He mas a
big heed and brainy one. When he
smiles he smiles all over, and he never
smiles in vain.
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ADrunken Mans FalL

George Tompkins, a drunken logger at
Marysville, WASH, fell from the second
story window Of the Pacific Hotel, in that
town, to the plank sidewalk, some distance
below, striking with such force as to break
the sidewalk. Picking himself up from the
wreck he coolly walked indoors. remarking
that he was in search of a companion who
had fallen out Of the window. He was ap-
parently uninjured by the tumble, which to
. man in his sober senses would probably
have proved serious, if not fatal.
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An Oriole.
BY Mrs. Mary E. Blake.l
A dazzle Of yellow, culver Of wings.
A fash like beam from the suns rays
shaken.
And high on the tree tops an oriole sings,
Dizzy with gladness, like hearts afioat
On an ocean of love- in fairy boat,
While the joy bells of life unto bliss awaken.
Only an instant, and then away
Like the flight of thought through the sum-
mer weather;
But still and forever the song shall stay;
To wake in my soul through the winters
night
The rapturous thrill of that keen delight,
When it and the oriole sang together.
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Love Can Tell.

Cape Csd Item.l
Say Papa darling" the mother cooed.
lTopened its big eyes blue. ~
With wondering eyes the visitor viewed,
And laughed and said "Goo-goo."
"Say Mamma darling" the mother said;
Say Mamma sweet one, do"
1t tugged at the hair OF its curly head,
And laughed and said .Goo-goo"i
"Now say 'Goodby,'" and the mother smiled
With Joy that was pleasant to view;
Now say 'Goodby,'" and the winsome child
Responded and said "Goo-goo. -.
Then the mother embracing the little dear,
And kissed it again and again..
AS she gurgllngly said, did you ever hear
A baby that talked SO plain?" 49,
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An After-Dinner Man.

New York sum-
"Depew," said an enthusiastic admirer Of
the genial DR.. Chauncey NJ, sis the best
after-dinher man in the world"
You do him an injustice" replied his
friend. "Do you know that an 'after-diuner
man is really a deep drinker? Read up
and you'll see, and, having seen, you won't
malign great public man bv any such
charge as that again."
man" is really the old English idiom for
the hard drinker."
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How Sunday opening works.

In Philsdelphis, says the Inquirer, the
Mercantile Library. which is open to read
ers on Sundays, isopposite the st. Stephens
Church. and a candid and impartial specta-
tor would be forced to admit on any Sunday
that the open library and the decorous con-
duct of its irequenters interfered no more
with the church than the chimes of ths
church in.erfered with the readers at the
library,
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THE REALM OF RHYME.

IGARNERED FOR THE pIsPATcH.]
A Trihing Correction.
An Old English Epigram.l -
Says Tom, who held great contracts Of the ma
tion,
"I've made ten thousand pounds by specula
tion.n
Cries Charles, by speculation you deceive
me;
Strike out the $ indeed, and I'll believe thee"
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The Dreams of Youth

The Dreams of Youth.
Nora Perry, in Brooklyn Standard-Union.]
The daisies blow, the roses grow,
In garden, field and wood.
And care is sweet, when youth Is sweet,
And God is very good. 3.-
still must weave and still believe
My dreams will all come true;
For hope is bright, and sorrow light
When lite is fresh and new.
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FORTUNES IN REAL ESTATE.

New railroads are being built out from
Washington in every direction. Three new
elsc ric lines are being constructed and the
rails are already down between the Treas
ury and the Patent Office of the new G
street line, and cars will be running, it is
said. by the LIST of January. The business
part OF Washington is changing. A few
years ago all of the chief business houses
were on Pennsylvania avenue. Now the
f street property is the most valuable busi-
ness property in the city. Hon. John w.
Thompson, Washington's millionaire bank
er, bought last spring the corner of F and
Thirteenth street. Just below the Ebbitt
House, and paid S225, for it. This was
considered an immense price, but MI.
Thompson went off to Europe during the
summer, and, after a nice trip through
Norway and Switzerland, returned few
days ago and sold his property for $3.50, 900,
making S125, 900 off il in six months.
TIE G street railroad has made great
boom in G street property. and it will soon
be as busy as T street is now. The owners
of residences along it have grown rich, and
houses which three years ago were worth
S., 600, are now worth $4,000.
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LIGHT FROMTHE ARC.
An Explanation of the Electric Lamp
Used in the Streets.
TIE SOURCE OF ILLUMINATION
How the Carbon Points Are Kept the Re.
quired Distance Apart.
THE CAUSE OF THE FLIcKERlsG
WRITTEN FOR THE DISPATCH,

WRITTEN FOR THE DIsPATCH.i
In describing incandescent lamps we
have shown how that in the lamp flament
the electric current, or better its energy, is
transformed into white heat through the
friction between the current and the fla
ment. The light of the arc lamp is pro-
duced in the same way except that in this
lamp there is combination of effects
namely, the white heat of the carbon tips
due to the passage of the current to and
from the air, and the white heat of the air
due to the passage of the current through it.
The ordinary arc lamp consists of two
vertical carbon pencils about half an inch
in diameter and IL inches long placed end
to end. with abont quarter of an inch air
space between these ends, and a suitable
electrical device for automatically keeping
this quarter of an inch air space
while the carbons slowly burn away. If we
firmly fasten two arc light cartons in the
positions Just described and force about ten
amperes of current to pass through from one
carbon to the other, that is jump the air
space between them, light of dazzling bril-
liancy will be formed between the carbon
ends
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THE THEORETICAL ARC LAMP.

The electrical and mechanical details of
an arc lamp are m any and complicated and
could not possibly be entered into here, but
the main principles involved will be readily
understood from figure 1. which represents
purely theoretical lamp. Let sd" repre-
"b'' its negative; "g" and ''h'' are the
carbons and these are connected, one to one
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QUITE A SUBSTANTIAL TOWN.

General Denver, the man after whom
Denver was named, tells me that his land,
lady was the other day offered S54 900 for
house which she had bought for 81 000 and
there is negro woman who owned little
S. 900 property on street some years ago,
who has made S75,0e0 on it. Ex-senator
Buckalew, of Pennsylvania, and General
Denver were chatting together last night Of
the wonderful growth of Washington and of
its elements of prosperity.
''The people outside of Washington" said
General Denver, cant understand it. They
say the town has no manufacturers, no
water front, and no commerce, and they
can't see anything to make it grow. 1t has,
in fact, the biggest factories in the United
States, and its hands are the best paid.
There is the Treasury factory, with its 5000
employees receiving an average of about
81, 900 year. There is the Interior De-
partment, which has 5000 or 1000 more
high-nriced hands. And there is the PEN
sion Office, the War Department and the
| dozen of other governmental institutions
which must increase in size, and which dis
tribute millions of dollars here every
| month"
LOTS OF MONEY SPENT.
eyes" said Senator Buckalew, "and there
is Congress, with its 400 men getting s., 900
spCHuluS uOIS YUAN SO,UUU
year here on the average. There are the
thousand odd people who hang around Con-
gress wanting to get something out of il, and
there are the ma hobs who are coming here
from all parts of the country for their winter
residence, and spending here the income of
their millions. There are millions OF dollars
spent every year in a social way, and WASH
ington has, believe, the best elements of
growth of any city of its size in the
country"
"Yes," said General Denver, "and the
transient element of Washington brings
great deal into the city. Every inaugura-
ton brings 100000 strangers, and he is a
mighty close calculator who can pass
through Washington without spending at
least $40 on the way. Washington gets
81, ,000, 900 out OF every Inauguration, or an
average OF $500, 900 a year from
this source alone, and it has conven-
tions of all sorts from week to week, year in
and year out. To-day it is the dentists to-
morrow 1t is some branch of scientists, and
the next day it is something else. 1t is
city of low taxation and of fair taxation,
ard it will be the Mecca of the capitalist
for years to come"
FRANK G. CARPENTER.
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NATURE OF LIGHT.

Although we talk Of the electric light,
yet, strange as it may sound, electricity does
not produce light; neither do oils or gas
produce light In the oil lamp, the gas
burner and the arc, or incaudescent lamps,
light is produced in the same way. In each
case it is transformation OF some form of
energy into heat energy, and the heat pro-
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"Our State contains about 10000 square
miles, and you could lose the six New Eng
lsnd States inside of it. Some oil our county
seats are 175 miles from a railroad. Ne
vada is decreasing in population, but our
population will steadily grow, and we will
have, think, one OF the great States of the
Wet. We have one of the richest mineral
reg ons in the United States. Our coal and
irOu will eventually make us a great man.
utacturing State, and we have 30, 600 square
miles of good coal. Some OF our iron can
not be surpassed in quality and quantity,
and we have copper and lead and gold and
silver.
ave have considerable agricultural coun-
trv, and il the Government would give
Wyoming its arid lands, stock companies
could be formed for its irrigation and great
tracts of desert could be made to blossom
like the rose. We have some of the richest
oil regions in the United States. 1 have
Gsen oil wells which would throw a stream
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CLIMATE OF PERU

Being situated under the tropics and at an
elevation of only 512 feet it might reason
ably be expected that the climate of Lima
would be too warm for comfort, but such is
by no means the case. During the six