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The St. Johns herald., 1891-12-17

When the earth was young, says Dr. Ball, astronomer royal for Ire land, it spun around at such a rate that the day vas only three hours long. The earth was liquid then, and as 1t revolved at that fearful speed the sun caused ever increas- ing tides upon its surface until at last it burst in two. The smaller part became the moon, which has been going around the earth ever since at an increasing distance. The influence of the moon now raises tides on the earth, and while there was any liquid to operate on in the moon, the earth heaped up much greater lunar tides.
The St. Johns herald., 1891-12-17

Miss Eugenie Sellers is young English woman who is creating quite furore in London by her lectures on Greek Statues and dramas. Although born in Lon- don Miss Sellers received her early education at sisterhood.:near Yer sailles. Later she studied Tn Athens, and finally finished her school life by graduating from Girton College. In her lectures she aims to present the Greek myths and dramas in such vivid manner as to inspire a love for antique art and litera- ture.
The St. Johns herald., 1891-12-17

A new variation of the nickel-in- the-slot machineis an apparatus by which you "lay a parcel on the shelf and have it delivered. The customer steps on a platform, on which is an oblong box of steel. The top flies open and steel shelf comes up, on which the package is laid; the sender afixes a stamp valued at 15 cents, and retires, when the box closes. Wagons make hourly collections. The stamp has a coupon attached, which the sen- der keeps as a receipt.
The St. Johns herald., 1891-12-17

A remarkable law firm, under the name of "Pier," exists in Milwau- kee, and consists of a mother and three daughters, all graduates of the law department of the Wisconsin State University. By a recent act ofthe State legislature Mrs. Pier was made Court Commissioner, and is now allowed to sit among the bar risters. Miss Kate Pier is the trial orjury member of the firm, Miss Harriet is in the office with her mother and sister and Miss Caro- line is making a special study of the admiralty law.
The St. Johns herald., 1891-12-17
NUMBER 10,

News comes to Solomonville to the effect that the wife of Joseph Cudd, living near Duncan with her five children, have had noth- ing to eat but bread and water for two or three weeks. If this is true there should some sort of relief af- forded her. Her husband was sent to the penitentiary at the last term of our court for three years, but the helpless mother and children should not suffer on account of his sins. A gentleman informs us that it is the desire of Mrs. Cudd, to go to Yuma where she can be near her husband.-Bulletin.
The St. Johns herald., 1891-12-17

eye, however and he had heard of Finnegan. There was the usual parade, with brass band and speech making, and Finnegan rode in the front carriage with the General. Af- ter it was all over they took a drive out to Silver Lake, and on the way the General took occasion to broach the subject of the mules. But Fin negan was not disturbed. Bless you, he had been there before. Just as the General asked him what had become of them they chanced to pass jack rabbit as big as a year. ling calf sitting under a bunch of cactus, Finnegan ordered the car riage stopped at once.
 My dear General" he said, "do you see that animal standing there just under that bunch of cactus?"
 Yes" replied the official some what puzzled.
 "Well," observed Finnegan. sol "that is one of those mules. Shrunk, sir. Shrivelled up by the heat in this internal climate, The other one is there, too. He is so bloody small you can't see him. Oakland Times.
The St. Johns herald., 1891-12-17
4 Desert Tragedy.

Brown and Crawford, the Coco
 pah mountain prospectors, confirm
 the report that mud volcanoes ex
 ist at the northern end of the Go
 copah range. and give an interest
 ing account of them in the Lower
 Californian. Brown says the vol
 canoes are not what Colonel Allen
 cracks them up to be, but still he
 describes them as weird and awful
 and worth going a long way to see.
 The fumes of sulphur arising from
 them can be detected two or three
 miles away, and as the volcanoes are approached blubbering sound
 is heard, caused by the mud being thrown from the craters, All the craters are on a level with the sur rounding plain and none of them
 throw mud more than q few feet in the air. The earth for a long dis tance around the volcanoes Is in tensely hot, and animals have a dread of the locality and cannot be induced to go near. Even men are afraid, and instinctive fear keeps them from making too close an ex- animation of the uncanny region. After procuring new supplies and getting back to the camp in the Co., copahs, Brown and his partner left in a direction south of east for new fields. The first camp was in the laguna, thirty miles distant, and al- most midway between the Cocopah range and the Colorado river. They prospected along southward to the old sulphur mine, and one day came upon the body of a man who had died of thirst. The body was apparently that of a German and had been dead at least a week, but was not decomposed, the dry air of the desert having preserved it to a remarkable degree. There were evidences of the man having suffered terrible agony, and his fin ger nails had been torn off in his efforts to reach water by digging in the sand. The body was buried by the two prospectors, who then con- tinued their journey. Two miles further on they found the skeletons of two burros, and the packs which the animals had carried in life were still attached to their bones. The outfit had no doubt belonged to the German prospector and the packs yet contained the bacon, flour and nardtack which is found in every outft.-Yuma Times.
The St. Johns herald., 1891-12-17

An intesesting archaeological dis covery has just been made in the forest of Eawy, near Saints-Saens. The excavations undertaken by MT. Gaston Le Breton have recently brought to light the;walls of a build ing seeming to be the remains of a little antique temple belonging to the second or third century. It is quadrangular in form, and stands completely alone. Among the deb- ris they have found some statutes of the Venus Anadyomene in baked earth.-Paris La Nature.
The St. Johns herald., 1891-12-17

The tools used by blacksmith of the present day are almost iden- tical with those used in the same trade over three hundred years ago. In a book on Mining" published at Basic, Switzerland, in 1857, one of the illustrations represents a blacksmith shop, in which the an vii, hammer and tongs look like the tools still found in every shop.
The St. Johns herald., 1891-12-17

Dom Pedro has been deeply en- gagged in the study of Hebrew, and as the result of his labors has just had printed for private circulation a book entitled "Poesies Hebraico -Provencales du Retuel Israelite Contadin," In addition to the He brew text, the volume contains a French translation of some poems to have been written by Mordecai Ventura in the sixteenth
The St. Johns herald., 1891-12-17

MT. Archibald Forbes, the great war correspondent, holds himself at the command of his editor-in- chief at all hours. He has two en- tire equipments, one for cold coun- tries, the other for the torrid zone. Firearms, clothing, saddles, are all ready, even to purse full of gold and passports for every country on the globe. An order by telephone, and instantly he departs for Zanzi- bar or Moscow.
The St. Johns herald., 1891-12-17

The study of Shakespeare is hav- ing a great revival i'll Germany. The German Shakespeare Society, whose headquarters are at Weimar, has several distinguished members, among whom are the Emperor, the the Grand Duke of Baden and the Prince Regent of Bavaria. Fix.
The St. Johns herald., 1891-12-17

The ceiling of the entrance hall of the Imperial Museum of Art at Vienna, is covered with one i'm mense painting by Munkacsy. The canvas on which this was painted was single immense sheet, woven expressly for the purpose, and so large that special building had to be constructed for the studio in which it was painted.
The St. Johns herald., 1891-12-17

The most expensive postage stamp in the world is said to be the Dun dee stamp, valued at $500. It is owned by Sigmund Friedl, a dealer in stamps at Vienna. It was dis played at the Postage Stamp Mu- scum held at Vienna as the great est attraction among the 5000, ,000 stamps exhibited.
The St. Johns herald., 1891-12-17

According to La Nature (Paris) a treasure composed of pieces of gold as large as twenty-marks piece, has been found at Beuthen, in Silesia. The pieces, of which there are said to be about a million are stamped with portrait of King Otho of Bohemia, and bear date of 150S.
The St. Johns herald., 1891-12-17
Curing Drunkenness by HypnOtiSm.

Hypnotism or hypnotic sugges
 ton is being employed by physi
 clans of standing in England and
 on the Continent as a cure for drunk
 enness and the opium habit. IT.
 some of the hospitals of Paris il
 has come to be quite usual to throw
 patients suffering fromz alcoholism
 and especially from delirium tre-
 mems into a hypnotic sIeep as the quickest and safest way of check ing their rawlings, and it has been found that in most such cases 1t has been possible to prevent the re- turn of the violent symptoms by prohibition by the will of the hyp- notizer. So successful have been these experiments, and so carefully and systematically have the more common phenomena of hypnotism been studied, that regular course of procedure has been laid out which is followed as carefully as would be the case in the admins tration of any accepted remedy. In practice the process of cure is to hypnotize the patient and tell him as firmly as possible that he has lost his desire for stimulant, and that he must not and cannot lon- ger indulge in it. Dr. Bjornstrom, A Swedish authority on hypnotism, cites a number of cases from hos pitals in several European cities and from private practice of phy- sicians where cases of dipsomania of long standing have been cured Some cases were received in deli rum tremens, others in bad stages of alcoholism, and others who had been victims of the habit for years, but so far as known the cure in all cases were permanent. Dr. Charles L. Tuckey has given in the Novem Der Contemporary Review another list of cases, some of them very l striking, which have all resulted in permanent cures of the drink hab- 1 1t. It is curious to note that in some cases a single reduction of the patient to the hypnotic state was sufficient to enforce the sugges- ton of abstinence permanently, while in others the permanency of this impression has only been secured after some weeks of such treatment. In all these cases cited by pr. Tuckey the suggestion was made that alcohol was poison and that the subject loathed it, and that loathing has continued. Interesting differences may be drawn from these experiments, notably that dipso- mania is disease subject to cure by the will of the patient. Per suaded that they must not drink, these drunkards cease to drink and cease to want to drink. If the will could be aroused in any other way 1t is probable that the cure would be as complete-unlesS 1t be in that way the will of the sub ject is reinforced by the will of inc Another inference is that the permanence of these sug-S gestions is the principal guaranty of the permanence of the cure, and 1 that if the hypnotizer will it, or a stronger influence be brought to bear on the patient, he may relapse. But it is to be said that relapses are possible under any circumstances, and that so far these reported hyp- notic cures have been permanent.- Springfield Republican.
 
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The St. Johns herald., 1891-12-17
Worlds Fair Notes.

Theodore Thomas has been con firmed as musical director of the 1 Exposition.
 Madagascar will have an exhibit
 of it's resources and products at the
 Exposition.
 Ceylon has sent, through Sir
 Henry Wood, a request for space
 upon which to build a tea house.
 Ladies s'auxlliary committees have
 been organized in fifty-fve counties in Pennsylvania, and are at work to secure a fine showing of women's
 work.
 Mir. Sallus, an artist of Ecuador, will execute especially for the Worlds Fair two paintings, one a scenic painting of Chimborazo and the other life-size portrait of Co., lumbus.
 It has been decided that all goods manufactured in foreign countries must be entered, if at all, as foreign exhibits, even though the capital of the manufacturing concerns has been furnished by Americans.
 Medusaline, a new composition designed as a substitute for brick and building stone, has been adopt ed for the sidewalks and driveways in the Exposition grounds. The price is 6 cents per square foot.
 The jewellers of Hanau, the great jewelry center of Germany, have decided to make united exhibit at the Fair. Members of the Associa- tion have received great encourage ment from the Imperial Govern ment.
 The great dome of the Adminis- tration building, which will be the most conspicuous architectural fea- ture of the Exposition, and the four smaller domes, will be covered with | aluminium bronze, newly y-discov- cred amalgam, which is said to glis- ten brighter than gold. The con- tract for gliding the domes has been let tor $54,000,
 According to conservative esti- mates by those who have given the subject great deal of study, the average daily attendance at the Ex- position will be upwards of 150.000. It is believed that on some days the will reach more than approximate number of those who visited the Paris Ex- position of 1889 on it's last day.
 The monster Manufacturers and Liberal Arts Building:requires more han 200 car loads of lumber, or B. 100000 feet, for it's flooring alone, md five car loads of nails to fasten t down. Three electric saws Ire kept running night and day awing and sizeing the flooring. z Twenty buildings the sizing of the Auditorium, or 1 ,000 houses 25 by ,0, could stand on this mammoth z loor.
 The Supreme Court of California las affirmed the constitutionality of he act of the Legislature appropri- ting $300,000 for maintaining a California exhibit at the Worlds v. Columbian Exposition at Chicago T 1893. This will enable the Cal |" 'ornia commission to go to work V t once to make preparations for he Worlds Fair and to insure Cal ' 'ornia's being adequately repre- ' snted at the great Exposition.
 The ceiling of the entrance hall . the Imperial Museum of Art at
The St. Johns herald., 1891-12-17

A commission of French archi- tects and archeologists has been appointed to explore Sardes, the capital of Lydia and'the residence of Cr9sus.
The St. Johns herald., 1891-12-17

It would be hardly fair to call a jack-legged lawyer a limb of the law.
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A. J.CAMMEYER,
Sixth Avenue. cor. l3t:n 1T
He Was Married to 10th.

Jacob Wclti. tailor. AZ years old. OF IT'S
Ludlow street. was arraigned before Justice
Ryan at Essex Market yesterday on charge
OF bigamy. He married his first wife in No
vember. 1873. and tho second on Oct. "a. 1885,
About month ago. when tho second wife was
singing a song and arranging the furniture in
her apartments at 14l Ludlow street. a woman
knocked at tho door and was admitted She
snid she had come from Buffalo to find her hus-
band. wh0had abandoned her.
What has this got to do with me?" asked
the other woman.
Only this" continued the first. II have
with mo my husbands photograph. and per-
haps you may hav" met him."
She showed the picture and the other woma9
is my husband"
Mine also" said the caller.
Then the two women went to the Essex
Market Court and swora out n warrant for
Wclti's arrest for biGamy. Court Officer Fay
crested Welt on Friday night in the Bowery.
He admitted the two marriages.
My first wife left mo seven years. ago." he
said, and not hearing OF her believed her
dead. Then married again"
He was held for examination.
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Tn. Meso.,s Accuse Each Other.

Mrs. JGnc Susan McGocy and her husband.
William. who were arrested on Friday night
charged with having attempted to burn tho
three story tenement at 80 East Thirty first
street. in tho basement OF which they have a
candy store. were arraigned in the Yorkville
Police Court yesterday. McGoey is an ex-con-
Wet. and works when hc works at all. on q
cattle steamer which plies between New York
and Queenstown. Each prisoner accused the
other of the alleged crime.
1t appeared from the statement Of Capt.
Ryan oil tho Thirty.1fth street police that Me-
Goey had come to tho station and given warn
house in order to get Sl.5OO insurance ON
their stock. Mrs. McGoey said her husband
merely wanted to get her out OF tho way so
tice Grady held Mrs, McGoey In $4,000 bail
and McG0ey IN $1,000.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1891-12-27
SINGLE IND 2S At TIE STdTION
Forty-cight ard Married When He Got TO
Police Ionrt-Was Lewis Robbedf

| Charles Lewis. a good.looking. well-dressed
| man with his head and face all bandaged up
| appeared before Justice Hogan in Jefferson
| Market yesterday as complainant against
Christian Maurer. u Swiss. OF 212 West Twenty
| sixth street. whom he charged with assault.
Lewis is 2S years old. and lives at G2 Wcst
Nineteenth street. On Christmas night he was
walking up Seventh avenue when young
woman accosted him and invited him to her
room. He accompanied her to tenement
house in Twenty sixth street. between Seventh
and Eighth avenues. She took him to room
on the third floor. and asked linn to take of
his hat and coat He did SC. and the two sat
down and began to talk. About five minutes
after that the door was suddenly burst open
and an apparently angry man with n heavy
cane in his hand dashed into the room. and.
after shouting. How dare You be hCre with
my wifef", began to beabor Lewis about the
head and shoulders with his cane.
MS he , could Lewis f"llowed. The irat. hns.
band didn't follow. but slammed tho door shut
LEWIS wet RAG M as he r" nm "wm tc Stairs and
told him to wash the blood off his face. He did
nd then ran 2gt Int" Il" strSs Wasre n
street station. He told him the story of them
sault and the officer accompanied him back TO
the room. whege they found Lewiss assailant
Want, my. coat and hat" said Lewis.
WHIT 40 know aboutthcm saldthe man.
Well They're not hero now"
the staEon no%ss tmG ado ' eSs at
Of assault against him. The man gGvo his
name as Christian Manrcr., 1;cwi;'s Int and
oyercoat could not be found. TO the Sergeant
at the station house Mnurer is alleged to have
said that he was. - years old and single. In
court yesterday he said the woman who Ind
brought in Lewis was his wife, AND that he
himself was ~ years old. He heat Lewis lie
declared. as he would have beaten any man
whom he found alone with his wife in n room
at night. He denied that he had said he was
sinGl" ut the station house. Justice Hogan
remnnded him until to-day. when tho station
lousr blotter will be produced in court. Tho
Justice ordered tho policeman to arrest the
woman II he could find her.
Victor Ceannn. an Italian OF 14G East Fifty
third street. mot Florence Hicks II white
woman. on Broadway on Christmas night: and
accompanied her Ia Il room at lIU East Fifty
third street. There no says. n co!orcd man
kicked him all around the rom. stole $50
from his pocket and then threw him down
stairs. Policeman MangHn arrested the woman
Market yesterday. They said they were
George and Florence Hicks. husband and
wife Hicks SAID he found the ITALIAN with Ills
wife and gave him u good licking. He denied.
However. that he had stolen any money from
him; Justice Hogan hold both prisoners for
trial.
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Hindle and her wife had lived in this
coscy nest. which Hindle had built many years
ago with her s%s,yings The peiighbors +, re-
tnrb them with It's gossip That they could
live together openly rs husband and wife. the
husband In female attire always, and yet cause
proof Of the. esteem in which those around
them held them. No children were born to
them. and perhaps that IL why Annie Hindle
with tears In her eyes. told o SuN reporter the
other day that tho best OF her 1ife is gone. "A
not strange figure on the American stngeY
In conycf sation she is engaging. and she
has aged gracefully. 1t was imlnaterial to
norter addressed her as ''Sir" or Madam.
Either term. she. added. was acceptable. 1t
was purely a matter Of choice with her inter-
viewer. and he naturally addressed her ns
Mrs" She 1. rich in reminiscence Of the
American variety stage. She Is proud OF her
successes OF twenty years ago. and she is not
uncharitablo when she speaks Of those who
followed In her train rs male impersonators.
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High " ords with . Man Dust Before Her
Enll.

Mrs. Cohen. janltress Of the flve-story tene-
ment at Ii Eldridse street, was awakened
about o'clock Christmas morning by the
loud talking OF n man and "A woman in the hall
In front at the door Of her apartments. which
are on the first floor. She opened the door and
heard the man go down the stoop and walk
away. Then she heard the woman gropc along
/ ~ long. narrow hall toward the rear. At the
rear twelve steps lead to n stone courtyard
Mrs. Cohen says she heard nois" AZ il y tody
had tumbled down these steps, Tho kallnOver
family. n door Of whose apartments is ut the
right. OF the landing at the foot Of the steps.
also heard the noise.
Policeman HcrLolsheimer Of tho Eldrdeo
street station WAS summoned, He found n
woman unconscious Mt the foot 81 the steps
She was taxi to the station house where She
was rrcosnizrd as Rose Bradley. II woman who
has often obtained lodging there. From the
station house She was sent to bellevue Hos
ptnl Her skull was fractured and both arms
were broken. The surgeons said sho could
not recover
The police think tho woman fell down tho
stops and that the man who MAS with her had
nothing to do with tho affai".
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