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money. At last in June of that year the
ship came across the Atlantic with only
forty-two passengers, and although
100, 900 persons visited her, paying a
fee, the expense of the trip far exceeded
its receipts. In 1861 she was in dry
dock for repairs. With the single ex-
ception of a voyage to Quebec with
troops the great ship never did anything
of value or Importance, and was finally
abandoned as worthless for her original
purpose.
Causes of the development of ship
building have teen in equal degree war
and trade. As rapidly as England be-
came the buyer and seller of the world
she became also its shipbuilder. She
boasts more shiryards than all other Ma
tons combined, and she has built not
only the greatest merchant marines and
the finest of armed fleets for herself, but
has also constructed the war ships of
nearly all other Nations. She attained
her highest proficiency during our Civil
War when the necessities of the Confed-
crates gave her the most profitable or.
ders ever issued by foreign people,
while the prostratlon of the cotton in
dustry throughout England in conse-
ouence of the blockade of Southern
ports added still greater stimulus to her
designers and contractors.
While ships continued to be be built
of wood shipbuilding in the United
States enjoyed healthful and gradual
growth down to the time of the Civil
War. The American feet of clipper
ships was, at one time, the greatest in
the world. The father of Henry Bergh,
founder of the Humane Society, was one
of the first noted American shipbuilders.
Christian Bergh was accounted in his
day the most astute expert in the lines
of e ship. He was appointed by the
United States Government to superlntend
the construction of the President and
other war vessels in the Brooklyn navy
yard, and at the breaking out of the War
of 1912 he was sent to Lake Erie to
build craft to be used against the
enemy. In his own shipyards at New
York were built many of the finest YES
sells for the Atlantic lines, both to the
British Islands and to the Continent.
In 1906 the first steamboat in the
world was constructed in the yard of an
other American shipbuilder, Charles
Browne. The design was by
Robert Fulton, who had brought
her engines from England. She was
called the Clermont and was intended to
ply between New York City and Baltl-
more. The first notable steamers Of the
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WORDS OF WISDOM.

A wicked man is his own grave dig
ger.
The truth never lodges, no matter who
shoots.
Don't look back and you won't want
to 60 back.
Most anything can be forgiven easier
than sel6shness.
The only easy thing to do in this
world is to love.
A fool thinks he is right because he
can't see very far.
A step in the dark is very apt to be a
step toward death.
Sometimes we take long step by be-
ing put down bit.
Indecision is the greatest robber on
the face of the earth.
1t never takes a fool but a few min
utes to tell all he knows.
A hypocrite's mouth has more death
in it than that of mad dog.
The party who won't forgive is the
one who is always in the wrong.
Beware of the man who always dips
his tongue in oil before he speaks.
No college can do much for the man
who thinks he knows it all himself.
The man who brags much On his
goodness will bear good deal of watch
ing.
Don't have much to say about your.
self, if you want to keep clear of hypoc-
risy.
Until a man has been tried he will al
ways have reason to be afraid OF him
self.
A good way to lose all that you have is
to be in too much of hurry to get
rich.
There are people who shiver every
time they hear that there are spots on
the sun.
No man who can be frst-class some
thing has any right to be fourth-rate
nothing.
It's only those who are afraid of the
light who are afraid of their own
shadows.
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Horses With Wells.

It is very comical to see in the streets
of Colorado Springs horses decked out
with wells. We have grown accustomed
to the jaunty little hats worn by many
horses in our own towns to protect them
from the heat of the sun. We can even
see an umbrella fastened over their heads
without surprise, but veil gives to the
noble beast dandyish look that is very
droll. Some of these wells, belonging to
fine saddles, are mere fringes of fine
strips of leather that hang before the
eyes; others are pieces of mosquito
netting drawn tightly back and fastened
like a lady's nose veil; but the most
stylish, and altogether effective, are OF
netting drawn over hoop which holds
it away from the eyes, yet completely
protects them. Anything funnier than
pair of horses going gravely about the
streets wearing these exaggerated google
arrangements is rarely seen. These wells,
however, though fashionable at the foot
of the Rocky Mountains, are not worn
for fashions sake. They are indeed o
stern necessity, and the comfort, if not
even the life of the horse, demands it.
Colorado, with all its great attractions,
has one plague-the plague of flies.
Flies of all sizes, from the least up to the
enormous bluebottle are everywhere.
Most parts of his body the horse can
himself protect if not deprived OF his
tail, but his eyes he cannot, and these
delicate organs are special obj jects OF at
tack by the fly tribe. 1t is the least
man can do to provide protecting veil
for his most faithful servant.-Congre-
nationalist. 80.
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and greatest resistance to the force of
the sea and the stress of diverse winds.
The problem of the mechanical engineer
for the steamship never remained STA
tionary for great length of time. After
the adoption of the propeller principle
to obtain the greatest carrying capacity
for freight and passengers with the least
outlay in fuel. manipulation in machin-
cry became the paramount question of
the time. How the two problems, that
of fast sail and of mechanical power, are
being solved constitutes one of the most
interesting stories of the age.
The Great Eastern was built to repre-
sent, as was then believed, the highest
achievement in steam naval architecture.
Th, original purpose was to use her be
tween England and India. An eastern
steam navigation company was formed
and it considered chiefly the question,
"Can we not build a steamer so large as
to contain coal enough for voyage to
India and back2' In 1858, after three
years of effort, capital enough was raised
to build the monster. 1t was resolved
that both paddle wheels and the
screw propeller should be used
because, as it was then be-
lieved, there would be greater average
speed with the same power, greater
uniformity of speed, greater power of
gradual stopping when needed, less
vibration and pitching and less necessity
for standing rigging and less strain and
wear. The length of the ship was
ordered to be $50 feet, her breadth
eighty-fve feet, her depth ffty-eight
feet, her screw and paddle propulsion
So, 900 horse power. It was calculated
that she could carry 10000 tons of coal,
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ColOrs in the Human Eye.

It has been concluslvely proved that
women have larger proportion OF brown
eyes than men. If in parents the
mother has brown eyes and the father
blue, the chances are eighty-eight to
twelve that the girls of the family will
be brown.eyed, the percentage in favor
of the boys having blue eyes being sew
enty-two to twenty.eight. If the
parents have eyes of like color, the
chances in favor of the children, both
male ard female, having eyes Of the same
color is ninety-two to eight. Candol!e,
the investigator, says that the health of
dark-eyed persons is much superior to
that of the light or blue-eyed type.-ss.
Louis Republic.
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A wHALEBACK STEAMER.

5000 tons of goods, 500 frst-class
passengers and greater number Of
second or third.class or troops. It was
believed that she would reach fifteen
knots an hour and would reduce the voy-
age to India to thirty days. 1t was pre-
dicted that every trip would pay forty
per cent. on the capital invested. with
out Government subsidy or mail con-
tract. Although the order to build had
been given in 1853 it was 1857 and the
ship was not finished. In 1859 trial
trip was made along the coast. Four
steamers towed the Great Eastern out,
but as she was nearing Weymouth the
steam cylinder burst, killing and wound
Ing a number of persons and destroying
everything in the great saloon. During
this voyage the furnaces consumed ten
tons of coal per hour, but the
speed fell far below expectation.
The year 1850 arrived and the
ship had done nothing, although
shareholders were clamorous for their
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No ONE ii the world can tell what
will happen tomorrow. Instead Of
spending your money on some on7
WHO thinks he can pruphesy, save it,
and you will know that no matter
what happens you will not be penni-
less. A fortune-teller cannot know
anything about the future except
that the people are credulous, and
that her bank account gets fat
through their credulity.
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The Oldest Ex.Speaker.

Robert G. Winthrop, Of Boston, Mass,
the oldest ex.Speaker of Congress- Is
eighty.three years old. Mr.. Winthrop
enjoys the distinction of having known
personally every President OF the United
States except Washington and Jefferson.
In 1882 he saw Charles Carroll, the last
surviving signer Of the Declaration OF In
dependence, at his own house in Baltl-
more. and in 1886 he visited at STRAIT
ham, N. H., Paine Wingate, then
ninety.nine years of age, the last surViv'
ing member of the first Senate OF the
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was held to be perfectly solved as we'll
as mechanical conditions permitted,
proved, in fact, to be the most eyre
glous error OF marine experiment. From
that time the question that became para
mount in trayersing the ocean was to
find the type that would carry most at
least cost, and to the solution of this
question it was necessary to bring the
type of hull with largest interior cave
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however, has received greater notice
than any similar event that has occurred
for the sheep represent the highest breed
ing of French merino in the world.
The sheep are not to be sold, but are i'm
ported to improve the breed.-San Fran
cisco Examiner.
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United States, who had dined with
Washington on the day of his first in
auguration. Mr.. Winthrop is in excel
lent health.
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There are at present in China only
1922 citizens of the United States.
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CHANGES IN SHIPS.
THE WONDERFUL PROGRESS OF
NAVAL ARCHITECTURE.
From the Indians Dugout to the
Ocean Liner-Story OF the Great
Eastern-Lake Vessels - The
WhaIeback Steamer.

edly inaugurates a new epoch in the
naval history of the United States. 1t
is creditably declared that the Inman
Line has resolved fully to Americanize
itself and that orders for addition to its
feet on improved notifications of the
City of Paris and the City of New York
have already been given to an American
shipbuilding firm.
ONLY last week the man who built the
first steamship that ran from this side the
water to the other died. The name of
Goudie more than generation ago was
worthily conspicuous in the annals OF
Atlantic shipbuilding. It passes away
almost as unnoted as the designs of the
epoch in which the young architecture of
the ocean made its timid beginning.
The steamers of the great lake traffic,
more than rival for the seacost trade Of
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-12-06

~ had poor health FOR several years.
Have been under the treatment of many
doctors, but they did me no good. The more
medicine took. the weaker | grew; was so
bad at last that could not eat or sleep, and
had a cough that almost racked me TO pieces.
] had pains in my chest which made breath
ing very difficult
LAS my father, brother and sister had died
with consumption, thought my time had
come. With much pleasure and gratitude. |
can now say that have been entirely cured
OF my troubles by DR.. Greene's Nervura blood
and nerve remedy.
"My appetite is excellent. food dgests
easily, sleep is refreshing, and altogether l
feel restored TO health once more.
IL most earnestly recommend DR.. Greene's
Nervura blood and nerve remedy TO all who
are afflicted with sobstinate chronic, nervous
or painful diseases. / have recommended il
TO many sufferers, and am pleased to say that
il has given general satisfaction"
We should certainly advise those who have
any weakness of the system whatever % i'm
mediately use this remedy. II will make you
well and strong again. II is not one of the
so-called patient medicines, but is a physi-
clans prescription, the discovery indeed of
one of our most eminent and successful
specialists in curing chronic and long stand
ing diseases, Dr. Greene of "a Temple Place
Boston, Mass. The doctor can be consulted
free. personally or by letter, and this fact
alone guarantees the great value of the
remedy. All druggists keep IL for 81 90 per
bottle, and it is purely vegetable and harm
less.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-12-06
SHEPARD'S COINS.
He won't Get Those Souvenirs In, Such "a
Great Hurry

He Won't Get Those Souvenirs IN. Such "a
Great Hurry.
CHICAGO. Dec. 6-Col. Elliott +. Shep-
ard will not get the first souvenir coins
struck at the PHILADELPHIA mint. Until
yesterday Col Shepard thought he
would. Some time after the board Of di-
rectors decided TO sell the sovenirs for 81
each the colonel bought 10. 900 OF them.
On Sunday morning JohI =. Shriver,
Shepard's Washington correspondent.
reaci @ I town with an order from the
treasury department for 10000 Of the
coin.
Mr.. Shriver bore a commission from
Secretary Foster designating him as a
special agent rom tHe treasury depart
ment. He presented his credentials and
an order from Col Shepard for the coins
to President Higinbotham to-day. Mr..
Higinbotham's signature to the order was
necessary before the souvenirs could be
released.
President Higinbotham declined 10
sign the order. He read the contract
made with Col. Shepard very carefully.
"We cant give Mr.. Shepard the coins
until we get them ourselves" ne said.
THE coius will not be released from the
mint for some days. probably week.
The contract says that we shall ship him
10000 coins thirty-sx hours before they
are put on the market in Chicago. We
Will do that, as matter Of course,
but we cannot do it until they reach
Chicago
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Championed by a Woman LAWYER.

HELENA, Dec. 6.-Montana Republi-
cans made the first move yesterday in
their effort to control the legislature. G..
Il. Leech of Choteau county applied TO
the Supreme Court for writ OF manda-
mus directed to the board OF canvassers.
Choteau county, requiring them to issue
To him a certificate of election rs member
of the House OF Representatives from
that county. The writ is returnable next
Friday. leech alleges that the board
acted illegally in throwing out the vote
box OF Elder precinct. Thomas IL. Car.
ter is the principal actor I'm the affair, aud
Miss Ella Knowles, the Populist candi-
date for attorney general OF the State at
the last election, is the leading counsel
for Leech.
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CAUGHT ON A CAR POLE.
A Hack Horse Badly Gouged by q Ho,

A Hack Horse Badly Gouged by a Hook.
Soon after IL o'clock this morning one
of the horses attached to hack owned
by Billings Bros. met with severe acci-
dent. The hack was being driven
down Westminster street aud was
in the center of the street di-
rectly in the line of an approaching
Olneyville horse car. The car was bowl
ing along at n fair rate of speed and be
fore il became apparent that the carriage
would be run into the car could not be
stopped. Carriages were on both sides
of the street preventing the back from
turning out ana when the car was
eventually stopped the horses on the
hack were almost against the pole Of the
car
The car driver pulled the horses up
sharply and AS the pole was raised in the
air the hook on the end catching one Of
the hack horses in the BODY directly un-
der the forelegs. AS the pole struck the
animal he jumped aud the hook tore an
ugly cash in the body.
Both horses were terrified and at
tempted to run, but were immediately
stopped The injured animal was assisted
to the stable aud received the attention
of veterinary surgeon.
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A DOUBLE BOGTic.
The Rhode Island Loeom tiv, Works 10
Responsible for g..

The Rhode Island Loeom tivb Works 10
Responsible for {.
The Rhode Island LocJi civ Works
made trial to-day of a Jon ton ouble
bogie compound engine. W, ch has
just completed for the Mexio.n Q .tral
Railroad Company. The engine is the
first Of the style made by the locomotive
works. Ii worked In a satisfactory man
ner and will be shipped to its destination
AZ soon as possible. The engine weighs
i25 tons. The high pressure cylinders
are thirteen inches in diameter and have
"A inch stroke. The ratio OF the cylin-
der is 3 TO /.
This is probably the largest engine ever
built in America, ii not In the world. l.
was designed for mountal nous roads and
heavy curvatures. Ohe popularity of il
Is the valve motion. No links or eccen
tries are used but the entire motion is
taken from the crosshead.
There are twelve drivers and pair of
leading truck wheels. Every part Of the
machinery seems To be remarkably easy
OF access, the two throttles being worked
by one lever. Tue engine is controlled by
one reverse lever.
The boiler is SO inches in diameter and
is OF the Belpaire type. The drive whee Is
are 4S inches in diameter.
A year ago six compound engines were
built Tor the same road after Johnston's
design and they are eifecting an economy
Of 20 per cent in fuel.
III. A O'Brien, an inspector connected
with the Mexican Central road has been
here watching the construction of the en-
zine
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Mgr. satolli is Delegated by Leo with
Extraordinary Authority in America.
BALTIMORE. Dec. 6.-The announce
ment that Mgr. Satolli had been ap-
pointed by the Pope, with full power to
settle without appeal all religious ques-
tions between bishops and priests in the
United States, has caused considerable
excitement In Catholic circles here
The announcement was made by Car
dinal Gibbons. An effort To interview
him on the subject was unavailing, the
only thing that came from him being "a
confirmation OF the report
Why Cardinal Gibbons should be over
looked aud such penary powers be given
to one directly from the Vatican Is only
one among the many perplexing ques-
1t had been rumored that Mgr. Satolli,
In addition TO the reasons above named,
had been sent TO America on a secret mis-
sion AS special representative of the
Pope. but none had conjectured that he
would be intrusted with such autocratic
power as would practically make him the
Pope OF America.
The chief reason for the action and the
one that obtains general credencs is that
Pope Leo's long-continued ill-health has
determined him to delegate such duties
as properly devolve upon him to one
whom he can implicitly trust
Such a man is undoubtedly M0r. Sa-
TOLL, who, next to Card nal RAM la. is
generally credited with standing nearer
the Pope than any other among the
Catholic dignitaries AT Rome. 1t is
plausible reason, but whether IL Is the
true one cannot of course be dein.t ly
known ut present.
An interesting subject that came up in
this direction Is whether DIR. McGlynn's
case will be taken up by Mgr. Satolli. IL
is well-known fact that the excommu-
nicated priest is desirous of being restored
To orders.
One of the chief reasons why he re-
quests "a hearing Is that sufficient evil
dence was not presented in his behalf at
Rome. lie has frequently stated that IL
the evidence had been taken In New
York, his controversy with Archbishop
Corrigan would have resulted in his
favor.
Now that such an opportunity is offered
him it Is not thought that he will let IL
pass, and probably the first action taken
by Mgr. Satolli in his new official capac-
itv as arbitrator will be a reopeniDg Of
the case.
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THE ROADS,.
Public Hearings to be Held In Different
Parts of the State.

Public Hearings to be Held In Different
Parts of the State.
The road commission held meeting In
the judiciary room at the state house this
morning, the principal business Of which
was the discussion of the advisability of
holding public hearings in different parts
of the state for the purpose of learn
ing the views of people from diff
ferent sections regarding the matter OF
better highways. 1t was finally decided
TO hold five of these hearings, in different
parts OF the State as follows: Bristol,
Dec. 13. 2 o'clock p. NJ; Newport, Dec.
Is, l:3O I; M; Agricultural Experiment
Station, Kingston. Dec. 20. 10:3O A. Nj;
Phenix, Dec. %, Il. NJ; State House.
Providence. Dec. "a, 10 O'Clock A. NJ The
commission has recently met the road
commission of Massachusetts at Boston
and leorned a great deal about
the work which Is being done in that
state. The work Of examining the roads
OF Rhode Island is practically finished,
and the report of the commission will be
made in due time at the January session
Of the General Assembly
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1T Is NOT TRUE,
And the Exact State of Things
Should be Known.
We Wish Here and Now to Set Right
a Very False Matter
We Have the Proof and Evidence at
Hand to Perfectly Settle all Doubt.

False notions sometimes become deeply
rooted.
There is an extremely false idea prevalent
among the people that inherited consumption
or an inherited weak and delicate condition
is necessarily sure at some time To prove
fatal.
This Is decidedly ana emphatically wrong
and leads TO fears and apprehensions upon
the part of persons who thus inherit a weak
ness of the lungs. tendency to cough, catarrh,
or bronchial irritation. or a feeble, delicate or
debilitated constitution.
OF course il such weak condition of the
lungs or enfeebled state of the body is neg
lected, consumption and premature death
Will almost surely result. But by observing
proper care ana making use of the proper
means, all danger can be ayerted and good
health and strength maintained.
In proof OF this now well established fact
we have known many affected people, or
those having naturally weak and delicate
constitutions, TO continue In sound health by
keeping the blood good, the nerves strong aud
the digestion perfect by using that great
health and strength giver, DR.. Greenes Ner-
vura blood and nerve remedy
Many such cases are constantly occurring.
but we will here cite only one, a most Won
derful restoration from inherited consump-
ton, which came under our personal observa-
ton. This lady, Mrs. Addie l. Cragg of l0l
North Portland avenue, Brooklyn, n. Y,
stated the facts to us personally, and we will
give them to our readers in her own words: