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The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1891-02-22
FOR THE YOUNG FOLKS.
FACTS AND FANCIES LIKELY TO
PLEASE THEN.

Navigating the Air-why Shall 1t Not be Done
in the Course Of Time--IIibernating AMI
maIs-How They Managed TO Pass the Winter
Housed Up.
Recent experiments in Pittsburg and Chi
caeo have stimulated interest in the question
whether il is possible for man 20 navigate the
air by mechanical contrivancc. balloon, as
we all know, il hardly more than very dan
gerous plaything. although balloons have
been effectively used for military and meteor
oIoc;cal observations. But balloon is moth
ing but gas bag. at the mercy OF every
breath of wind. and is as uncomfortable as -
saw-loa in a cataract. Notwithstanding the
discouraeements and disasters that have at
tended ballooning. however, there u strong
hope. oven in scientific minds, that aerial
navigation may be within the compass OF
human ingenuity.
There are apparently only two problems IN
the question, and one of these was practically
solved more than hundred years ago by the
Montpelier brothers. French paper makers.
The first problem, manifestly, Is TO sustain
Yourself in the air. and the second 10 60 III
any desired direction. regardless OF wihd or
weather. The balloon accomphshes me hTst
part. but the second part has puzzled the
brains of inventors for many years. =,
No device has yet been exhibited with the
means of propelling and guiding an air-ship
ms steamers are managed at sea. Inventors
keep up public interest in the subject by as
surances from time 10 tine that aerial transit
lines are about 10 be established, but the tu-
ture tense never stops long enough Tor the
present TO Overtake IT.:
fhqYp
much cause for encouragement in the expert
,ncnts made within the last few years,
French inventor has sailed over Paris with an
air-ship apparently under good control, and
very encouraging experiments have been made
in our own country.
Nitrogen gas for buoyancy and electrity for
prounlsiOn are apparently the means To which
we must look for the realization of the
dream of aerial navigation. We know
that nitrogen gas can be made twelve
times lighter than atmospheric air. The
extreme lightness of this gas was disc0v-
cred by an Englishman named C&vendlsh, VINO
published a small volume called Different
Kinds of Air" The perusal of this book gave
the Montgofers the idea of continlng q sub
stance lighter than air in bag and sending II
skvward, although their experiments were
made with fire balloons and heated air.
A balloon sixty feet in diameter, filled with
nitrogen gas, has a lifting power of nearly
eight TONS. III an apparatus Gun bt hlt'l' iidi
will weigh. for exemple. not more than two
tons. it follows that it can take skyward n
pretty fair railway carload Of people-about
forty, if they don't average more than hun
bred pounds each. Then, if the balloon Were
long and pointed so as to encounter the least
possible resistance from the air, and then pro-
PEELED by electric power-well, even then we
might wait o good while to hear the aerial
guard announce. "Cloudland Junction, ten
minutes for refreshments"
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1891-02-22
Iial,Y.

A little form, 50 dainty small.
80 soft. 80 tender and 50 dear
A llttle voice whose helpless call
Is music 10 mothers ear;
Alitile pulse Of delicate breath,
Like ewes when zephyr whisphereth.
I'M lc arm that neryeless lies:
49, led. curling tngcrs-,iniest things:
Two round. blue. upward-cezing eyes,
All nllet with silent wondCrings.
That. as the kiss of heavens hght bids.
Now ope, now close their doWny lids.
A little head. so smooth and white,
Pert. rosy mouth and fairy chin,
And cheeks all rounded 10 the sight.
Save where dimple draws them in;
All IN one tiny frame enwOye.
As light rs laughter, Soi. as love.
w. IREGo WEBB.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1891-02-22
Night ON the MississippI.

4 LIQUID plain the mighty river lies.
IwiXt shadOwy banks uprising sheer and
steep,
Another heaven, in whose azure deep
The gassed stars shine as in their native skies.
No ripples kiss the sedge; the tall flags rise
UnyeXt by waves. lOn white sails scarcely
creep.
Is II a dream or doth tho great flood sleep
In perfect rest. luled 10y the winds low signs?
Father OF waters. rolling to the sea
In such majestic silence not in vain.
Let me behold thee Teach. oh. teach 20 me,
And all who strive IN WEAKNESS and pain.
To guide onr live, that they NAV How, like thee.
Serene and strong TO the eternal main.
CHARLES I. DAzEY.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1891-02-22
Fortune Teller.

Have Your past, present ard future life
reveal led correctly hv the greatest living
Astrologer Gives initials Of those you arc
70 marry. causes speedy and happy marriages
oyercomcs evil influences, love and lucky
charms given; for further information. send
stamped envelope 10 ASTROL0GEB, Box ~
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1891-02-22

Roses, yioiets and Lilies of the Valley, &c.
Largest Stock and best assortment IN the ciiy
Flowers shipped 20 any point. Wedding lol.
quets and Plant Decorations furnished a. saor;
notice. W. A. HANMoSr.
iO7 east Broad street.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1891-02-22

The grounding pokes his nose out of his
winter door Just as the bear does, as soon rs
no thinks there is a possibility Of finding
something TO fill his empty stomach. If the
conditions are favorable he Will go in search
Of food. rs the bear does, but # there IS no
announcement he goes back IN disgust, IKE q
hungry and disappointed tramp.-fhiladel-
,,Lin lfrnos
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NOR RENT.


No. 7Oill east Leigh street. 10 rooms, syn
No. 40 west Broad street, store anu d"r-.At
No. II Morris street, between Main and Cary
40. ijO5 east Main street, store and dweiAn''
40. ii5 Beach street. store and dwelling. s-9
No. 10 Morris street, new frame, eight Ioo-'
40. SIC Brooke avenue. new brickeieht rooms
500.
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500. ....,
No. 1910 east Broad street, store ana d"t-.-''
800. ,
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40. 1919 Williams avenue. store aud dgelIn;
No. lo7 Beach street, between Cary and Taylor
20. lis Beach street, between Cary AMI Taylor
sis0. ..g
No. 30l Reservoir street corner ChaGn SIS,
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Chelsea Hill -Four new dwellings, STA
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- Graham street near Tompkins' 3 l''
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Twenty street between 7 anu =
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No. 1905 Moore street g. per month.
No. 1907 north Twenty-seyenth street 80 p''
month. -
No. 5s3 Henry street near Leigh. 6per mon'l
No. GA Oak street near Leigh. 81 per month
No. 1915 Buchanan noGr Seventh street - ie'
month.
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The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1891-02-22
Sound Words to Girls.

II is 10 be remembered that healthy young
girls should not differ greatly from boys in re-
gard to agility, but only in regard to endu-
rance, and such muscular strength a. involves
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1891-02-22
Reiilrinbcr.

The sun gives coz. 900 times as much light az
the full noon 1000 600. 900 times rs much rs
the brightest star in the sky, and j6,OO0.OOO.
times rs much as all the stars in the heavens
combined: in size the sun equals 100000
earfhs. but owing 10 its smaller density It's
wciqht EQUALS only 5000 carths.
The organs Of smell in the turkey vulture
and carrion crow ARE So delicate that they can
scent their food for distance of forty miles.
The period Of "a generation" has been
heightened: II used 20 be thirty years and was
later increased To thirty -four. now, "a scientist
saws the average term of human life has in
creased in the last fifty years from thrty-four
10 fOrty-twO years.
In the photograph Of the heavens, in course
Of preparation in the Paris Observatory, II Is
calculated that g.. 900 900 of stars will be rep
resented. In the nebulg Of the Tyre. VI. bail
land took q photograph. 4xjH inches, which
revealed 10 the naked eve 1900 stars.
An English astronomer states that the oldest
historical record Of solar eclipse ia in Ho-
mers Had xvii, 3G7).-Current Literature.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1891-02-22

/ am no longer with the Booth Wall Pa16
Company Joseph Rindsberg). Can be- found u
No. rs east Main street.
Sd. DAVIS, Paper-Hangar
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1891-02-22

HICKOK'S 40. I, II. ID. C., FIG AND
CAROLINE SUN-CUEED ARE PURE, CLAN
AND CHOICE SUN-CUKED TOBACCOs. Thy
THEM.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1891-02-22

VAR BROUGHS mild hurley" To-
BACCO DOES MOI MAKE you NLR-
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ST0RE FOR RENT.

ST0RE FOR RENT. e
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No. sO3 east Broad street has been kept asa rs
tail Shoe Store for the last ten years A llhHt
CLASS STAND. Good for any business. Sh,f's,
ing goes with the store. Possession MAkS
1871. FRANK ID. HILL < co,
le2.-it Real Estate Agents and Brokers
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1891-07-15
THERE IS NOTHING NEW.

ALEXANDER the Great had copy Of
the "Iliad" inclosed in a nutshell, and
1t Is quite certain that it could not have
been written without the aid of mi
eroscope.
In all that pertains to sculpture and
painting the ancients knew so much
that their superiority has never been
questioned aud their work remains as
unsurpassed models.
ALL the mechanical powers, the screw,
lever, pulley, incline plane, wedge,
wheel and axle, were known to the
ancients and used in everyday life.
They were expert builders, as existing
relics testify.
In our schools at the present day we
use "Euclid's Elements of Geometry"
written by Euclid two thousand two
hundred years ago. Euclid also wrote
on music and optics, antedating much
which we think we discovered.
THE people Of Tyre were such experts
In dyeing that the Tyrian purple re-
mains unexcelled to this day. The
Egyptians were also wonderful 'dyers
and could produce colors SO durable
that they may be called imperishable.
THE ancients were wonderful glass
workers and discovered method Of
making it malleable, which we have
not been able to do. They could spin
glass into garments, dye it into every
shade of the rainbow, and etch it with
marvellous skill.
TWENTY centuries before the birth OF
Watt, Hero of Alexandria described
machines whose motive power was
steam. He also invented double force
pump, used as fire engine, and antici-
pated the modern turbine wheel by a
machine he named "Neolpile."
LAYARD found in the ruins of Nineveh
what Sir David Brewster pronounced
to be ''magnifying glass;" and nearly
four thousand years ago the Egyptians
and Assyrians observed the stars
through q sliding tube" which we
have reason TO believe was telescope.
In medical skill the Oriental physi-
clans of India practiced vaccination
1000 years ago. An@sthetics were
known in the days of Homer, and the
Chinese 1000 years ago had a prepare
ton OF hemp, known as luna yo," to
deaden pain--something similar to the
modern cocaine.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1891-07-15
the 0oELl
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Like printing press 1t produces sharp, clean
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We offer Al, 900 to any operator who can
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oDELL.
Reliable agents and statesmen wanted. Spe-
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Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1891-07-15
THE SUCCESSFUL PoULTERER

SEE that every fowl gets its share of
feed.
FArrENINs fowls should be fed at
least Ave times a day all that they will
eat up clean.
KEEP the fowls gentle; they will be
much easier managed than if they run
every time you go towards them.
GATHER the scraps from the table
and give them to your fowls. There is
NO kind Of food that is better for them.
KEEPING handful of old nails in the
drinking water will afford good tonic
for the fowls, or an iron vessel can be
used to hold the water.
THE best plan of supplying charcoal
to the poultry is to burn corn; not
black but nicely Drowned; give them
all they will eat up clean.
CRUDE carbolic acid is one Of the best
materials to use among the poultry. 1t
Is good to destroy vermin, to prevent
cholera and to use rs a tonic.
THE hen is an excellent agent for
scratching and working over manure,
and she will find many dainty morsels
therein that would be of little value
otherwise.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1891-07-15
EVENTS OF INTEREST.

AN Iowa man has brought suit for
e20, 900 for the loss of two fingers.
4 FARMER in Norwalk, Cal, has real.
lied $4,000 this year from sixteen acres
of onions.
TOWEL supply" companies and Car
pet cleaning" companies are now sup
plemented by building cleaning" COM
panies.
JOHN HAUsER a horse trainer of
Hicksville, L. l., has received two live
deer, which "he will train for carriage
driving"
THE Tennessee Supreme Court decides
that mortgage is not property, but
simply security, and that it therefore
can not be taxed.
To SETTLE bet man in Van Vert
County, O.. wheeled wheelbarrow
containing $50 cats for three miles over
muddy country road.
A COMPANY has been organized in Chi
cago for the delivery of parcels and
lightweight goods throughout the city
and suburbs by means of bicycles.
AT the christening of Chinese baby
In New York few days ago, each guest
presented the child with a twenty-dol-
lar gold piece wrapped in red paper.
A WOMAN Of New York met with q
singularly fatal fall recently. She
slipped on the pavement and fell back
ward. Her head struck the earth with
such force that it drove her hat-pin into
her brain.
THE Springfield (Mass.) police have
adopted the plan of giving trampsa soup
breakfast and making them saw wood
for four hours after the meal, which is
having the effect of thinning out those
dodgers at the city hall.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1891-07-15

NEW HOME SEWING MACHINE CO.
725 Market st.. San Francisco, Cal {.
Pacific Department.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1891-07-15

The above trains are run daily ana make
close connection at Mound House with
trains OF the Virginia aud Truckec Railroad
for ViIoir.ia City and Reno. and with tho
Central Pacific at Reno, via the Virginia and
Truckee, for all points Eas. and West.
Stage Connections.
Al Hawthorne with the United States Stage
Company's coaches for Aurora, % miles /;
Bodie, 81 miles; Lundy and Bridgeport, and
stages for Coreyville, IL miles
At Luning, l25 miles from Mound House,
with Gilmer, Salisbury L. Co.'S tri-weekly
stages leaving Mon days Wednesdays and
Fridays for Downeyville. GrantsviIle and
Belmont.
AT Candslaria with the stages cor Celum.
bus. miles; Silver Peak, MOntezuma, Aida
Valley, Cold Mountain, etc.
At Keller. with stages for Cerro Gordo,
miles; Darwin, 90 miles. and Panamint
II. NJ. YERINGTON. Gen. Supt.
r. j. LAWS, Assistant Superintendent.
D. A. BENDER,
General Fl eight and Passenger Agent
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1891-07-15
A FREE LUNCH

Is always spread for Customers, and the
choicest Liqaors and Cigars are
kept In stock.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1891-07-15
Weekly Examiner

The coming year promises to be crowded
with stirrinp events.
In the United states the entrance OF new
issues into the political arena has been fol-
lowed by change of administration.
Europe is vast camp. Army corps patre,
the frontiers and milliens of monIawait the
signal for the most titanic war the world has
ever seen
The Examiners news gathering machinery
10 uncqualed. Its correspondents dot the
habitable globe. Nothing can escape their
vigilance, and no expense 10 spared In spread
ing the results Of their efforts before the Elk
Aminers readers.
The most noted writer's Of fiction in the
world contribute to the weekly Examiner.
Jules Verne, author of "Trip to the Moon"
ETC., Robert Louis Stevenson, author Of
" Treasure Island" etc.. Rider Haggard, au-
thor of "Shc," etc.: Anna Katherine Green,
author OF he l.eavenworth Ccse," have all
written stories for the Examiner and will
continue 10 do so.
The EXAMINERS Commercial News is
compiled by experienced men. who carefully
guard the pioducer interest In all market
reports.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1891-06-11
Men Who Work After Dark.

Did it ever occur to you to be thankful
that you don't have to drive a delivery
team for dry goods and millinery firm
Saturday nights? One Saturday night
Smith & Murray had over 200 bonnets to
deliver after dark. 1t is bad enough to
be walked up in the midst of ones first
sound slumber which follows the con-
seriousness that the labors of the week
have been well performed to take in your
wife's new bonnet, bill pinned on the
back But think of having to wear away
the early morning hours of the Sabbath
in trespassing about destroying the phys
ical and mental, moral peace of the COM
munity in that way.
Still there are men that enjoy this sort
of thing not only one night in the week,
but seven-the Boston and Albany "call-
ers," for instance. They go about all
over the city andWest Springfield thump-
ing on the doors and windows of the men
connected with the railroad freight serv-
ice to tell them when it is time to get up
and go to work, and if there is an acct
dent on the road during the night the
resident officials hear from them in a
very pointed way. And these men grow
fat in this sort of work-the continual
disturbing of the peace of their fellow
men-and build them happy homes or
the proceeds of such labor. Springfield
Homestead.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1891-06-11

The buzzard's wonderful sense of smell
is curious subject that has often been
discussed, the discussion of the matter
having resulted in a general uniformity
of opinion among scientists that they To-
cate their food by their sense of smell
alone. G. l.. Hopkins, the noted biologist,
says that he has noticed that in Florida
they never leave the roots where the
night is spent, especially on damp, foggy
mornings, until the moisture has been
dried by the sun. They then move slowly
across the wind until "scent" is struck,
when they move more slowly up the
wind" until the carrion is located. Some
times they will drift down the wind past
their prey, until they have struck the
scent, which they follow up until they
have found the object of their search
sometimes in the densest thickets Mr.
Hopkins says that he has upon severa
occasions killed wild hogs in the thickets
and after dressing them and taking what
meat he wished would see twenty Oh
more buzzards coming down with the
wind. On one occasion they had discov
cred some animal remains he had covered
up, and on another had found dead
snake which he had buried. st. Louis
Republic.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1891-06-11
CArionlua a pnlue-
One Way Savages Have of Choosing Wife

One Way Savages Have of Choosing Wife
When Many Men Want Her.
The oblong wedge, the Maori order Of
battle. advanced, singing in a low tone,
and gesticulating in what they would
have called mild manner. On they ad-
vanced, the movement raising no suspic-
ion in the breasts of their adversaries, it
being part of the customary ritual Of the
war dance, until the thin end of the pha-
lanx overlapped the Mania, and stood be-
tween them and the gates of the pa.
Suddenly change was visible in the
antics of the Ngatiroa. Their gesticula-
tions became violent, their eyes protrud-
ed, their heads were thrown back, and
their threats uttered a mighty shout.
AS the cry passed their lips stream of
warriors rushed up the banks of the
gully and joined the cluster of their COM
rades, now swollen to compact mass of
600 men.
When the Mania realized the ruse prac-
ticed upon them they never for mo-
ment thought of giving up the fair cause
of the incursion without struggle. Into
the pa poured both parties-the Mania to
rally round the girl; the Ngatiroa, except
the small party expressly told off to
carry away the lady, seeking every man
an opponent to wrestle with. Each party
was anxious to avoid bloodshed, both be-
ing Tribes of the River" The uproar
was therefore greater than had they been
engaged in actual warfare. it being more
difficult to master man by strength
of muscle than to KNOCK a hole through
him. AT length superior numbers pre-
vailed.
Those who fought around the lady
were dragged away. She was roughly
seized, and such tugging and hauling
ensued that, had she not been to the man
ner born, she must have been rent in
pieces. AT last but one young man. a Sc.
cret admirer of the lady, retained his
hold. An active young fellow, he had sc
twisted his hands and arms into the girls
hair, and fought so vigorously with his
legs, that he could not be removed until
he was knocked down senseless.
The contest ended, and the bride being
borne in triumph to the canoes, both par
ties proceeded to pick up their weapons
and smooth their feathers. Everything
had been conducted in the most honora-
BILE and satisfactory manner.-Lieuten-
ant Colonel a. 3. Ellis in Popular Sci
ence Monthly.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1891-06-11

Eve Cohen Bacharach was born in
Prague in the latter part of the Sixteenth
century. The mother, who was a woman
ofgreat knowledge" carefully educated
the daughter, and together they took
great delight in studying rabbnical
literature. The most abstruse works
written by the learned men among her
people were thoroughly appreciated by
the youthful pupil. Later in life her
explanations of the festival and peniten-
tia prayers" were listened to with rare
pleasure. She was, it is recorded, in
"Aramaie translations and paraphrases
on the Bible quite at home" mo less
marb'ed was her proficiency in Hebrew,
which she read and wrote with ease and
elegance"
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1891-06-11
A Victim of Circums stances.

81 might a been rich oncet," said the
man with straw colored whiskers, "but
circumstances was too much FIR me-"
"Tell us about it."
"Well, you see, it was jest this way
was workin' on farm down here or
the Wabash, when | meets wilder at q
hoedown with a quarter section of bout
as good land as you find outdoors. She
sorter cottoned to me right ON the jump
Went to see her three or four times, an
was gittin' thicker'n winter m'lasses
when tuck the chjlls and fevers. Evea
have 'em? Shake all the life out of you
one day; next day you kin eat like 8
hawg. Well, goes to see the wilder
on my well day, AN 10 and behold, she
had the chills. Next day | had 'em
next day she had 'em, next day p
"Well?"
"Well, the upshot of the whole bust
mess was, thai fore could get rid o
them shakes IA tramp preacher come
along that was in the habit of having
the shakes simultaneously with the
widder. as it were, an cut me clean out.
4 tell you. boys, when old Billy Circum.
stances has it in fer n man he kin jest as
well give it Gp."-Indianapolis Journal