The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1892-12-15
A VSIT FROM The CAR.
1t Causes an Endless Amount of Trouble
and Vocation In Russia.

1t Causes an Endless Amount of Trouble
and Vocation In Russia.
Many troubles and vexations were
caused by visit which was paid the
other day by the ear to the military
camp at IzOra. The latter place is a
village on the Neva, about ten miles
from st. Petersburg, and accessible by
water or rail. On the occasion of the
visit soldiers were placed on the rail-
way. Not far from the city are num-
Der Of mills, the wOrkmen at which live
on the opposite side of the line, going
home daily for their meals. These
worEmcn got to their work on Satur-
day morning, but were not allowed to
cross the line again the whole day, be-
ing obliged to 90 without their food or
buy it in public house. No traffic was
allowed. Even people who had their
own farm lands on the sides of
the .railWay were forbidden to walk
across. The trains from Moscow
were stopped, and were sent off all
within a quarter of an hour of each
other in the evening. The river traffic
was also entirely suspended.
1t can be readily imagined, writes a
correspondent of the London Daily
News. what discomfort such suspension
of traffic OccasiOned, and it is only
Rus ian official who can see the good of
it. On the way back the cZar wanted a
cup Of tea, but owing to a sudden jerk
of the railway carriage the tea was up
set. The next morning $50 goes the
story the whole line between St.
Peters burg and Izora was carefully
searched by numbers of men, ordered to
ind hat ipI.l-p1 the oz1r'S fpapJ1nf
Every time the ear goes up and down
to PeterhOtf the steamers have to be
decorated, traffic is suspended on the
river, and occasionally even the loading
of steamers is stopped. :.
In Mems Minds 1t Seemed to Be Odd
Things Many Years Ago.
Muschcnbroech. for example 1892
TOD, is admirable in his exposition of
the physical properties of matter as
known and admitted by the best minds;
but when he passes into the region of
conjecture, he appears to be another
and inferior man, says the Philadelphia
Press 1t Is scarcely credible that so
able teacher should have spoken in
the following manner of lightning of
the nature OF which he was ignorant
and that Dr. Johnson, in his diction-
airy, under the word thunder" should
have quoted a portion of the same.
z l&3S. The matter which produces
the fire Il. E., the lightning) is the oil
Of plants. attenuated by the heat of the
day. and raised on high. Then what
ever has cEhaled from the earth that is
sulphurous or oily, which is dispersed
up and down IN the atmosphere, and Is
not continuous, is set on fire by turns,
am e-n ..4lu~ dIates itself as far as the
tract oi that cEh2lation reaches. Some
other Substance pendent apd floating in
the an meets with this als5 with which
it cE.iCgs an eftervescence, takes fire,
and flashes along with it.
"a 1899. Thunder is most bright
flame, rising on a sudden, moving with
great violence and with a very rapid
velocity through the air; according to
any determination, upward from the
earth, horizontally, obliquely, down
ward, in a right line, or IN several right
lines, as it were in serpentine tracts
Joined at various angles, and commonly
ending with loud noise or rafting"
A Sunken Treasure.
Capt. SymOns, who is searching for
the treasure that went down in the
British man-Ofwar Hussar off Port
Morris III the days of the revolution,
has SO far recovered from the depths OF
the sound, says the American Register
according to the log of his dredges, the
Little Giant, the following articles:
SlXty-SevCn grape shot, seventv-five
lead bullets, fifty cut :. fiints. two
gulneas bearing date of 176O and 1906
respectively, half guinea of 1771, fit.
teen brass buttons several conner
belts numerous copper tacks and bits
OF oak, supposed to be portions of the
Hussar, two composition guards fol-
guns, a pair Of manacles, a pewter
spoon broken bits of crockery and
broken glassware, several buckles and
four copper pennies.