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The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1892-03-18

and Thetis. The wooden sailing YES
sells include the Constellation, Monon-
Gahela, Portsmouth, jamestown, Sara
6oga and st. Marys, In steel, iron and
wooden steam-tugs the navy has the
CAtalpa, Cohasset Fortune, Leydam,
Mayhower, Ivy, Nelly, Nina, Rocket,
,Standish, Trinton and others
The unarmored cruisers have main
batteries ranging from S-inch guns
down. The Chicago has four of these
with eight 6-iuch and two 5-inch rifles
al the breech-loading pattern, besides
a secondary battery of rapid fire and
Hotchlsiss revolving cannons and Cat
Hing guns.
4 consideration that has not yet re-
oeived its due share OF attention is the
Eaet that while all these warlilie prep
REations have cost considerable money
the amount is not much greater than
chat which would have been expended
anyway in building up the new navy.
The main result in this connection has
been, not an increase of expenditure,
but an acceleration of construction. 1t
a estimated that by the recent activity
On the department the work ON the new
navy has been put forward just about
one year. OF course there are
some expenses which would
not have been incurred under
the usual peaceful conditions, but they
have not been heavy in comparison
with the total, For example there are
rehe expenses incident to the extra hours
C0Ework in getting the Monterey ready
Cor service quickly and in hurrying
along the manufacture of armor by
Carnegie, Phipps & Co., and by the
Bethlehem works,
The cost of rehabilitating the Old
monitors should also be mentioned. 1t
is doubtful if Congress in ordinary cir
.cumstances would have authorized
work on the latter; on the contrary,
they would probably have been suf-
bered to lie idle and go to decay. The
eotal obligations incurred on account OF
these war preparations may be roughly
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1892-03-18

An eccentric lady named Chamber.
lain died recently near Birmingham.
England. She had considerable
means and kept herself surrounded
with animals OF all sorts. For this
purpose she bought two cottages, one
OF which she occupied herself and the
other she gave up to her pets She
conceived an attachment for q donkey
belonging to a neighbour and which
browsed in an adjoining field.
The donkey's lungs became affected,
and she invited him over to her field
and attended to him. The owner OF
the donkey then said: If you are so
fond of the donkey l will make you a
present of 1t"
She accepted the donkey, which be-
came so attached to her as to follow
her about
A favorite dog belonging to the hus-
band having survived him was in ac-
cordance with his previous directions
buried in his grave.
When the w16Vw died there was
some disturbance, and difficulties arose
the result being that the dog was re-
moved and after her burial replaced in
the grave. Chicago Herald.
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1892-03-18
THE CITY OF VALPARAISO.
Rich and Completely at the Mercy o
Warshlps,

Rich and Completely ut the Mercy of
Warships,
There is only one business street in
Valparaiso, and that bears name dear
to both the Chilean and the English
heart-the Gale Victoria. On are all
the banks, hotels, wholesale houses,
principal retail resorts, the government
buildings and the fine private resi-
dences 1t forms a hoop around the
crescent of the harbor A battery on
an American warship would inhict on
its sweeping curve deadly harm that
would strike in an hour an almost fatal
blow at everything in the city. The
tendency has been increasing of late to
build farther up and back against the
cliff sides, the zighag streets being goat
paths, the distances shortened in many
instances by inclined railroads like
those at Clifton and Niagara Falls and
numerous points in the mountains of
Switzerland. Indeed, Chile has been
compared to northern Italy, so like the
moderate ascents of Alps are many of
its mountains on which towns have en-
deavored to fasten roots. Modern de-
vices are in grotesque familiarity with
antiquated and primitive usages in
Valparaiso and Santiago. Electric
lights serve only to make more hideous,
filth and garbage, Pretentious statu-
airy in parks gain no charm by offensive
sights ut their bases. Social life is
brilliant and boisterous, vice is una.
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1892-03-18
WHERE FATHER GOES.

Where are you going, my sonl"
l said b ito five-year old,
The bright little one with tn truthful eyes,
And the locks like FURNISHED gold;
where are you going, my SOM"
And he danced on his dainty toss
As he lisped in his pretty, winning tones,
'pm going where father goes.
How many Of us who slip,
How many of us who stray,
Ever think Of ttS tracks that follow ours,
AS we step from the narrow way!
Let IS order our steps Alright,
That in seeking heavens repose,
Ou7 little ones may say in truth,
ave are going where father goes"
v Saturday Evening Post
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1892-03-18

Dashed, drunkenness prevalent and the
population Of $4,000 as thoroughly
mixed and as easily excited into impro-
priety as that of any other too wealthy
seaboard town dependent altogether
on commerce for its vivacity.
The street cars are doubled-declSers
and the conductors are women. In
most Latin countries women are not
permitted to engage in profitable oc-
equations. In Mexico and most of the
South American countries men per-
form the duties of chambermaids. But
the war with Peru called off the men
from those getting out of the cradle
to those falling into the grave" and as
street cars had to be run it was neces-
sary to let the women run them. The
experiment is said to be entirely sue.
cessful
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1892-03-18
Unbreakable Glass.

OF the various attempts to replace
our present brittle glass by similar
but flexible and resisting body, that
OF the Austrian engineer, Herr Eek
stein, appears, says "Iron," to be
worthy OF record. His process is as
foIlows:-From four to eight parts Of
collodion wool are dissolved in about
L per cent in weight Of ether or alco-
hol; this solution is intimately mixed
with from 2 to 4 per cent OF castor
oil, or other non.reslnous oil, and
from 4 to 10 per cent OF resin or Cana
da balsam. This mixture is spread on
q glass plate and dried under the
influence OF current OF hot air Of
about so deg. Cent, by which it
is Transformed in O comparatively
short space OF time int o transparent
hard vitreOus plate, the thickness OF
which can be regulated as desired. The
material thus obtained is said to
resist the action OF salts, allalies, and
acids, and, besides being transparent,
is odorless. The advantages which it
possesses over glass are that it is hex-
ible and almost unbreakable. It's in
hammability is much inferior to that
OF other collodion combinations, and
it can be further reduced by the addi-
ton OF magnesium chloride, while an
admixture OF zinc-white produces an
ivory appearance. Any color or
shade may be impaired to the new
glass.
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1892-03-18
The LANGUAGE Of sealInp-war,

Visitors TO Paris. says a correspond.
emit may have noticed in the windows
OF fashionable stationsrl rows of seal
ing-wax of all hues and shades, and
ranged in order like the colors OF the
spectrum. 1t appears that meaning
attaches to each of these colors. Thus
white sealing wax means proposal OF
marriage; black, a death; violet con-
dolences. Invitations to dinner are
sealed with chocolate color; vermil-
lion is used for business letters, ruby
color by fortunate lovers Green
means hopei brown, melancholly-de-
rived from brown study blue. con-
stancy; yellow Jealousy. Pale green
conveys a reproof; pink is used BY
ladies' and gray between friends.
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1892-03-18

tan and the New York are already
launched.
The most effective OF the war-ships
Include eleven armor protected cruisers,
namely: The Chicago Boston, Atlanta,
Newark, Charleston, Baltimore, San
francisco, Philadelphia, Cruiser No. O.,
Cincinnati, and Raleigh; the cruisers
No. 0, 10, IL, and six gunboats, viz:
The Yorktown, Concord, Bennington,
Petrel and No. and No 6. There are
three vessels of special class, viz: The
Vesuvius, dynamite cruiser; Dyna-
mite cruiser No. 2, and u
torpedo cruiser. Besides these there
are three torpedo boats, the Stiletto,
Cushing, md Torpedo Boat No. 2;
Geven ironclads--viz.: The Ranger,
Alert, Monocacy, Michigan, Palos,
Rinta and Alarm; and the seventeen
wooden vessels, the Lancaster, Pensa-
cola, Richmond, Omaha, Swatara
Marion, Mohican, Iroquois, Kearsarge,
Adams, Alliance Essex, Enterprise
Nlpsic, Talapoosa, Mantle, Despatch
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1892-03-18

the transmission OF more than one or
two words minute, but the speed
was increased to seven or eight words
by the use OF induced currents.
The following notice OF this tele-
graphic connection was published in
one OF tliennmbers ofthe Gottingschen
gelelrten Anzeigen, or Gottingen Sci
entific Notes, for 1884: eve can not
omit to mention an important and,
In its Way, unique feature in close con-
nection with the arrangements we
have described of the Physical OBJ
servatoryl |, which we owe to our Prof.
Weber. He last year stretched a
double connecting wire from the cab
met OF physics over the houses OF the
city to the observatory; in this a
grand galyanic chain is established, in
which the current is carried through
about nine thousand feet of
wire. The wire of the chain is
chiefly copper wire, known in the
trade as No. 3. The certainty and ex-
actness with which one can control by
means OF the commutator the direc-
ton OF the current and the movement
OF the needle depending upon it were
demonstrated last year by successful
application to telegraphlc signalling
OF whole words and short phrases.
There is no doubling that it will be
possible to establish immediate tele-
graphic communication between two
stationsat considerable distancefrom
one another. The Popular Science
Monthly.
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1892-03-18
Thunder Stones.

Large discoveries offlat implements.
finely polished, and q few bronze ones,
have been made by French scientif-
ic mission to Laos, in the Far East,
and may be seen in the Museum of st,
German. Similar tools have also
been found in Dambodia, and arenow
lodged in the Museum of Toulouse. 1t
is interesting to note that the forms
OF these weapons are identical with
those of the Stone Age in Europe, and
that the natives have the same kind
OF superstitions with respect to them
They believe them to be thunder
stones" fallen from heaven, as the
peasants OF Brittany still do, and they
are in great request for talismans by
the sorcerers of the country.
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1892-03-18
Armorlng Of Ships.

The limit in the heaviness OF armor
applied to ships may, perhaps, have
been reached, and it seems natural
that its development having run a
course much like that of men, may
come eventually to a similar end.
In the middle ages, when gunpowder
was first introduced, the armor OF
knights and men.at-arms was grad
ually increased in weight to meet the
new weapons.
AS the quality OF powder and the
guns improved armor was added to
until it reached point where if a
knight was endorsed it required sew
eral squires to get him into the saddle
again, orr aman fell he could not pick
himself up unaided.
The next step was to limit the ar
NOR to the more vital portions, re-
tanning only the cuirass and helmet.
Finally even those were thrown away.
Somewhat similar may be the tran
sition in modern navies. The guns
having beaten the armor, ships may
have to discard their coats of mail
and rely upon offense as the best pro-
lection, just as intelligent pugiists de-
fend themselves by the counter rather
than by the simple guard.-Chicago
Post.
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1892-03-18
AmerIcnns Erolndod m ohllo.

All nationalities are welcome in San
tiago except the North American.
Gambling, drinking, proAigacy peculiar
to all large and wealthy cities, balls,
dinners, constitute regular incidents in
the leisure of the aristocracy, while the
common people are content with cock
ing mains, racing, running matches,
prize fights, public and promiscuous
dancing like that in Paris on national
feast nights in the streets and in Mexico
every night in the week, where saw
dust and music with plenty of wine OF
stronger drink, may be had. North
Americans are, and have, been excluded
since 1855.
The treasurer of the New York Base
Ball club reports that the club lost
Gb. 449 last season
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1892-03-18
Utilizing Power for Electrical Pur-
poses.

Electrical engineers are continually
discovering new opportunities to util-
ize power that has in the past been
given but little attention. Very re-
Gently Chicagoans have been shown
water falls on the Kankakee River,
Illinois, not more than 60 miles from
Chicago, which can be made to deliver
$500 horse power "a hours run, or
mill time run. Electrical engineers
feel confident that they can transmit
this power electrically so as to de-
liver immense quantities of power in
the city OF Chicago. Considering the
fact that electric power was trans
mitted 10 miles from Neckar
to Frankfort-on he-Main, Germany,
these electricians claims seem very
plausible, and we expect to see the
falls put to use at an early
date.
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1892-03-18
De Wanted Zoo Mnch.

Japheth-' Mildred, will you be my
wife?'
Mildred-"Well not to-day"
Japheth-'Oh, Mildred, how can
you speak so flippantlyP"
Mildred-"F lippantlyP How do you
suppose could possibly be your wife
to-dayP i should want It least two
weeks to get ready in"
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1892-03-18
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.
USEFUL INFORMATION ABOUT
SCIENTIFIC MATTERS.
Scientific Progress--Loadlng a Gun
on a Modern War Shlp--The
Real Inventor OF Telegra-
phy--ArmorlnR Of Ships
80 Thunder Stones"
Scientific Progress.

Intellect is the great factor in com
mercial success, whether ofindividuals
or nations. Take the case of the
skilled bricklayer and the hod- carrier.
The first is using brains on his work;
the second is using brute force. When
he goes up the ladder with his hod OF
bricks he has also to carry his own
weight, thus wastefully expanding
force. Someone notices this, and sub.
stitutes for the brute force OF the hui
man that OF the horse; then the horse
is displaced by the mechanical force
OF the steam engine, which can do the
work Of 10 men or OF two horses in
the same time. Coal converted into
heat is doing all the work. The coal
mined each year in the United States
represents in actual work more than
the sum OF the force OF the total pop
ulation OF the globe, assuming all to
be strong men. Thus the substitution
OF natural force for human power
vastly increases the productiyecapac-
ity OF the human race Guided by i'll
tellect, taught by science, the natural
forces can do in q few hours what the
unaided labor of men could not do in
a lifetime. 1t was not prophecy, but
flash OF genius, that drew from
Stephenson the assertion that it is the
sun that drives the locomotive engine
by being liberated from the coal in
which it has been stored for ages. But
man can neither create forces nor en-
dow anything with properties. All
that he can do is to convert and COM
bine them into utilities. The man
that does this with knowledge is
spared the dismal failures OF ignor-
ance, but he that tries to use powers
without understanding them is newt
ably punished for his rash presump.
ton. 1t is this presumption that
causes the morality and disease that
follow in the wake of civilization.
Natural law, like the civil, never adj
mits ignorance as an excuse. In this
century three scientists have revo-
lutionized commerce-Oersted, of Co
penhagen, and Faraday and Wheat
stone, OF London. 1t was of Falady
that Huxley said, in effect, that any
nation would do well to spend $500,
900 in discovering such q man, and
an equal amount in educating and
setting HIM to work. Bessemer, study
ing away in steel, has revoluntionized
ship building. DR., Joule's studies in
the mechanical equivalent ofheat pro-
duced the compound engine, by which
the necessary amount OF coal for car
rying u given cargo has been reduced
more than 40 times; that is, steam
ship that in 1850 carried cargo at
an expenditure OF $4,000 pounds OF
coal to ton now does thesame work
by burning about 350pounds. Joule's
studies in heat have made it possible
for q cube OF coal that will pass
through ring the size OF a twenty
five cent piece to drive one ton OF car
60 for two miles in one Of the most
improved steamships. In 1880 the
rate OF grain from New York to Liv-
erpool was o. pence; In 1886 it was l
penny bushel. The reduction was
primarily due to the scientist.-Alum-
mum Age.
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1892-03-18

Stated as between 100000 and s4,-
10000, and deficiency appropriation
70 that extent may be necessary. 1t is
Thought that Congress will make no OBJ
lection to such an appropriation, and
there will be general agreement on
,shis ONE bill, if on no other: owing to
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1892-03-18
Fat First" Etc.

He-Will you be miner"
She-Your what?
He, of Chicago, My .hird.-FroN
Puck.
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1892-03-18
The Real inventor Of Telegraphy.

The Real inventor of Telegraphy.
Weber was the first who established
a permanent workable telegraph line,
and thereby demonstrated the prac-
tical value OF the electric telegraph.
Weber's house in the city was connect
ed with the astronomical and magnetic
observatories by line between three
and four kilometres lover two miles
in length. The signals were made by
the deviations OF the needle of q gal
vanometer to the right and left and
wereinterpreted according to conven-
tional alphabet. The use of interrupt
cd Orreversed currentsdid not permit
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1892-03-18
Loading a Gun on a Modern Shll
of War.

When we are ready to load mod
Srn gun the second gun captain turns
o little crank on top OF the breech,
which revolves the breech plug, there
by unfastening it. He then takes
hold of q handle and pulls, and the
gun opens on q hinge like door. The
sponge is run in from the breech and
plenty OF water is thrown in, thus
quickly and thoroughly cleansing the
chamber of the gun. Two men come
up with the the shell in a pair oftongs
like an iceman's They insert the
nose OF the shell in the gum and
another man steps up with rammer
and pushes it in. Two more men
come up with the powder charge, and
it is pushed into the chamber in
the same way. The man at the
breech plug closes it, turns the crank,
and it is locked. The gun captain
opens little flap in the gunlock,
which is in the center of the breech,
and inserts q primer. He cocks the
lock, which works with a spring,
anu SCepS DICK WIFI Ine LOCK
string. The second captain sets the
breech sight to to the proper range.
On top OF the sight is a little siding
eaf which can be set so ito allow for
the speed ut which the ship is passing
the object is to he fired at. Now the
trainers take their places, one on
each side OF the carriage at the train
ing cranks. by means OF which the
breech OF the gun is raised or lowered,
The gun captain steps back, and
glancing over the sights, directs the
trainers to move the breech right or
left, as he desires, and the elevators
to raise or lower. The instant that
the sights are on the object, he fires.
No one needs to move away from the
gun, and it can be fired even while the
training and elevating gear is in mo-
ton. The moment the gun is dis
charged, the order is given to sponge,
and the operations above described
are repeated.
La correspondencia de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 1890-1943, 1892-11-27
Recortamos de EI Not1caero de Ponce:

"Ayer Sc nos ha exibido I'm trabajo ingenio,
so de merito, Y que consiste en- un cuadrO con
mas de trescientas fguritas esculturales de made
ra, encerradas en- una bonita GAIA de CRYSTAL. Re-
presenta una f6ria i fiesta de nuestros puebos
perfectamente caracterizada. Una galera con
todas las dependencies utensilios del case; una
jugada de gallos, cantinas, poizontes guardia ci.
vii, broncas gorot0s, borracheras una porcion
de detalles incidentes mas que disoraen la vista,
revelando I'm caudal de curiosldad de paciencia
admirables. EI artffce es don Francisco Rome
70, Official So de esta Aduana, que en- las horas
que le dejan ibres las ocupaeiones de su destino,
y sobre por la noche ha empleado un a1o su
curiosa obra sin mas instrumentos que I'm corta-
plumas, una pima unas tjeras. LIE invltamos
para que la exhiba en- Ia proyectada Exposition
de Puerto Rico, nos dijo que asl 10 harls 81 an
tes no la realizaba, cuyo efecto Ia pondrla en-
exhibition para que el pdblico la conociera. Lo
repetimos: el trabajo del senior Romelo es digno
de verse;"
La correspondencia de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 1890-1943, 1892-11-27
Recortamos de I'm colega de Ponce:

" En- una reyerta habida antes de anoche
la salida del pueblo para Juana Diaz, entire peo.
nes-camineros carreteros por no llevar estos los
faroles encendidos salieron her1dos dos de los
primeros de los segundos. 81 capataz de
los carros falt6 todo respecto la Guar,
dia Municipal, conducido al Dep6sito, guar.
dia de O. P. le maltrato con ell sable. Pero como
arrest6 su subordinate 10 puso disposci6n
del Juzgado. Asi Sc hace Captain; y por ese ca
mino va llegaremos tener una polcla cumpido
ra en6rgica de sus deberes reglamentarios, al par
que morigerada en- el tratamiento hasta de los
mismos dencuentes."
La correspondencia de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 1890-1943, 1892-11-27

Resultado del principle Tontino de la NesO-
YORK. Life ms. Co, en- TEXAS: 10 Dividendo 48
por 100 de los premios pagados.-2.o La liquida-
cion en elective demuestra un costo neto al con-
tado de menos $3.50 por $1,000 al aho~-3O Por
IN seguro ordinarlo de vida con Is premios anua-
les, ell asegur1do obtiene SECURE de $1,000 por
Is amos, un SECURE por ell resto de su vida.-
10 Hay otros benefcios que quedan la election
del asegurado y que pueden acomodarse sus Cir
ounstancas especiales.
La correspondencia de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 1890-1943, 1892-11-27

Han sido remitidos nforme de la Comisi6n
provincial, el recurso de don Pedro j. Rivera
contra IN acuerdo del Ayuntamiento de Morovis;
el expediente declarando sujetos al impuesto de
consumes el pan y las galletas en- ell pueblo de
Guayanillas; las cuentas de Yauco para el ejer-
cicio de l89O-9l, elexpediente de consumes de
Barranquitas para el 1892 el repartimiento or
dinario de la Cidra para .892-93.
La correspondencia de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 1890-1943, 1892-11-27

Habiendo presentado la renuncia de sus car
gos casi todos los indivlduos que componen la di-
rect va de la Camara de Comerclo de Ponce, aun-
que apazando sus efectos hasta fin de alo, SO ha
acordado convocar asamblea general para el 4 de
Diclembre q las u de la noche, con el obieto de
proceder Ia election conslguiente.
La correspondencia de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 1890-1943, 1892-11-27

Nuestro estimado colega la Revista de Puerto
Rico, reproduce ell suelto que publicamos, propo
niendo una Loteria Extraordinarla para dedicar
su producido los gastos de la Exposition regio
nal cree que no esta NAL pensado el referido
proyectO.
La correspondencia de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 1890-1943, 1892-11-27

Han sido aprobados con algunas modifcacio-
nes los presupuestos ordinaros de Cayeyy Ciales
ell extraordinario de Yabucoa para 1892 SO, pro.
visionalmente el exped1ente de consumes de Hu-
macao para 81 nismo ejerccio ell presupuesto
extraordinarIo de Arecibo con las limitaciones
dispuestas por circular del Gobierno General de
Ia de Septiembre 1timo