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Der fortschritt. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1891-1915, 1892-11-24

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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-21
THE CAUSE OF Foaa
Terrestrial Radiation and the Intermingfing
of Air Currents.

Terrestrial Radiation and the IntermingfinS
of Air Currents.
Pearson's weekly.l
Fogs, during winter, are primarily due to
two causes-either terrestrial radiation at
night, or to the intermingling of two cur
rents of air of somewhat different tempera-
lures and different degrees of dampness.
The first cause-terrestrial radiation-is the
most general With a clear sky, the surface
of the earth becomes cooled as evening
draws on by reason of heat being given off
into space, and the temperature of the
layer of air in contact with the ground is
often fully ten degrees below that of the air
three or four feet above the surface. The
vapor thus held in suspension is visible, and
as night progresses this layer of cooled va
por-which has become fog-deepens so that
by the morning it is dense enough to pre-
vent the suns rays reaching the earth.
The second cause of fog-the intermin-
Cling of two currents of air of varying de-
grees of temperature and dampness-is
largely the result of our geographical posi-
tion. Unless when modified BY particles of
SCOT and smoke in its slow passage over
large cities and towns, fogs thus generated
are not usually of the dense, pungent char
acter of those which originate from terres-
trial radiation, and which assimilate the
smoke emitted from chimneys in the course
of their formation.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-21

life-and have lived In American nearly
48 years, that ever witnessed q oelebra-
tion-of Washington's Birthday. The 49er
was the Pilgrim Father of the Pacific coast.
And his children do what fhe rest of Amer
lea hasn't time to do; they lose whole day
Der the Father of his Country. We built
the Washington monument too soon; it
should have been erected in Golden Gate
Park. Well, we can't all be Calitornians;
one has to be born that way. Or else
emigrate very young.
1t appears to be very difficult for the
critic of this day to find very satisfactory
place for Washington in the worlds his
tory. There are few men in the United
States to-day who could not have conducted
the military affairs of the country better
than he did. That is, they could now.
Thev couldn't have done it then, probably,
but that doesn't make any difference to q
critic. You may have observed that Provi-
dence is very prone to keep back the great
est critics from being born until some time
after the events which they have criticised
have passed away. Nothing can be more
appalling to critic than to be suddenly
confronted with a condition upon which he
has been theorizing, and which he has been
criticising for 20 years.
Painting Pictures of a Good Man.
Such thing is only resorted to by Provi
dence in extreme cases, and when there is a
critic whom it is necessary to fit into his
mummy case. Patriots of to-day are very
apt to teach their children that Washington
was a good man, but, for a man of his rep
utation, singularly deficient in the elements
OF greatness. WheI. the child asks in what.
greatness consists the patriot gives him a
description of a truly great man, descrip-
tion upon which the describer himself could
be arrested ten feet away from the speakers
stand. Washington was sadly deficient in
many things. 1t is probably that he didn't
know how to steal Legislature or buy
Governor. He was deficient in the art of
saying one thing while he was thinking an
other.
He couldn't look you in the eye on cleo
tion day and tell you that you were his
choice, first, last, and all the time, with his
Iocket SO full Of the other fellows pastors
that he couldn't walk straight. The things
in which the Father of his Country was de-
fcient would fill book-pocket book, most
likely. He never stole dollar; he wouldn't
lie to save his life; nay, more, not even to
save his hide. He swore a little, on oc-
casion, but only when the provocation was
SO great and the crisis so imminent that
mugwump language wouldn't serve, and he
always swore at the right man. And while
there is but one instance on record of his
using weekday words, see how regularly
he went to church and how often he said
his prayers Wrote his own, too. Probably
because he was too patriotic to use the
English prayer book.
His Nurse ana His Body Guard.
There is one very large and continually
increasing class of citizens to whom the
name Of Washington will ever be an inspi-
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-21
THE LOST CHORD.
London Punch. ]

London Punch.]
Seated one day in my study,
/ was anxious and ill at ease,
And tapped at the window wildly
And ratified q bunch uf keys;
Unless l could manage to scare him,
All hope of repose was f1oored,
For borne like a wall on an easterly gale
heard that dread Lost Chord %
made unambiguous signals
That wanted the tune to cease,
For had my work to finish,
And he was a foe to peace;
But the grinder only answered
With fixed demoniac grin,
And steadily turned the handle,
And poured his distracting din.
know not of what he was dreaming,
AS softly stole aside,
And thoughtfully lifted a scuttle Of Goals,
And opene the window wide:
Though judged from his satisfied simper
That his dreams were Of anything but
OF blackened mound and mufi1ed sound
And a window suddenly shut.
1t may be they'll take the pieces
To his far Italian home,
And carve from his bones mosaical stones
To pave st. Peters at Rome;
Or if they don't--it's the same to mo,
But this I'm prepared to maintain:
That the Chord" lie started to play 10 loa,
And will never be found again.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-21

he found it impossible to concentrate his
thoughts upon the subject. After an hours
unavailing effort he became violently ex-
cited, sprang from his chair shouting
Another man overheard! Nothing left now
but to die!' brought his razor from his
dressing room and gashed his throat A
doctor was brought Immediately and he is
said now to be calmer, but there is small
hope of his recovery.
magoric story lie Horla," showing that 1t
clearly contains the germ of the brain dis
ease which has at length swept the un-
happy man into an insanity which it is
feared will last his life. The symptoms de-
scribed in the story exactly correspond with
the incipient stages of the ailment, and
must have been transcriptions from NJ. de
Maupassant's own experiences.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-21

indignant citizen, who purchases MS stamps
in job lots of cents worth at time and
receives his mail at long and irregular inter-
walls at the general delivery. will lift up
his voice in unmuzzled wrath upon dis
covering that the postoffice is closed in tho
afternoon, and in fine burst of indignation
will threaten to report the postmaster to the
department, adding thereto boisterous hints
about "having pull" which statement
may be confirmed by the incredulous who
investigate his breath, and are thereby con-
vinced that he has had two or three and
long ones at that.
What Children VIII Want to Know.
Here and there the school children will
be surprised to learn that holiday has un-
expectedly fallen upon the second day of
the week; why, great many of them will
not know. On being told that it is Wash
ington's birthday, they will at once express
the liveliest interest in the affair, and with
childish eagerness demand to see the baby.
Here and there some eager, inquisitive boy,
will ask his father when Washington was
born? And his sire will look over the top
of his newspaper and respond, "Hey?
What? Who? Oh, Washington? Why,
February %; why, bless me, that's to-day,
isn't it?" And the boy will say, eyes, but
what year?" And the father will be speech
less
n. B.-If the grateful fathers of America,
at least such as are the proud parent of in
quisitive boys, do not send this office little
hatchet for this pointer, republics are un-
grateful. You know very well, you who
read these lines, that for the life of you you
cannot tell the year of Washtngton's birth.
Well, now you have time to look 1t up
quietly before your son corners you.
There are some American cities, however,
in which the day will be ioyously remem-
bered. will always hold San Francisco in
exalted esteem and profound affection as
the only city in which ever saw an OBJ
servance Of Washington's Birthday. I have
witnessed, and with thousands of Americans
have participated in the patriotic celebra-
tion of Saint Patrick's Day, Saint Bis
marck's day, Saint Olaf Olaftssonn's day,
Hi Wun Lungs birthday, and the natal
days of sundry other saints who have pull
in American politics, but Washington was
overlooked, until L happened to sojourn in
San Francisco one 22d of February.
\ How California Gets Patriotic.
There was an American holiday for you.
The entire city poured itself out of town,
into the parks, out to the Presidio; out on
the bay; the very Chinese caught the patri-
otic infection and made holiday in their
own way; military maneuvres, games, par
ades, sports-the Fourth of July wasn't
preface to it" 1t was the only time in my
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-21

ration. 1t is the Class composed of the old
nurse and his faithful body servant.
Heaven and earth and the pension list may.
pass away, but when all things slide from
under them, thenurse and the body servant
will be left sticking out in the air. Eng
land, ever short-sighted in dealing with her
colonies, missed her opportunity to strike
terrible blow at our liberties when she
failed to smite these two immortal retainers
Of mortal hero. 1t would have been
cold day for the colored people of this gen.
Grafton had the founders of the race of
Washingtonian nurses and Wallets lost their
heads before establishing their dynasty.
Their occupation would have been gone
before it begun. And when thing is gone
before it starts, the fellow who sets out IN
pursuit of it is left indeed.
One of the wonders of history to-day is
not that Washington maintained the war so
long as he did, but that ne should have
been able to accomplish so much while sit
ting down. People who live in remote and
uncivilized portions of the universe of the
United States cannot understand this so
well as do the residents of Pennsylvania and
New Yolk. But the fact is, and it is at
tested by tradition, (which" as Agricola
Fusilier wisely observes, "is much more
authentic than history" the greater part of
Washington's active life was passed in sit
ting down and getting up again. He moved
merely to change chairs.
The Chairs Washington Sat In.
We fancy that one pair of boots may have
lasted him clear through the war. But
what it must have cost that heroic man in
trousers would astonish Berry Wall Un-
less he wasn't above wearing patches.
Which, being Virginian, he probably was.
The Widow Curtis did not bring to Mount
Vernon that New England thrift and skill
and nervous industry that could set a seal
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-21
CHAPTER XVIII.

The unqualified member from Cherokee
strip was in state of deep detection. For
good while, now, he had been leading a
sort of life which was calculated to kill; for
st had consisted in regularly alternating
days OF brilliant hope and black disappoint-
ment. The brilliant hopes were created by
the magician Sellers, and they always
promised that now he had got the trick,
Sure, and would effectively influence that
materialized cowboy to call at the Towers
before night. The black disappointments
consisted in the persistent and monotonous
failure of these prophecies
AT the date which this history has now
reached, Sellers was appalled, to find that
the usual remedy was imperative, and that
Hawkins low spirits refused absolutely to
lift. Something must be done, he reflected;
st was breaking, this woe, this smile
Jess misery, this dull despair that looked out
from his poor friends face. Yes, he must
be cheered up. He unused awhile, then he
saw his way He said, in his most conspic-
uously casual vein:
'Er-uh-by the way, Hawkins, We are
feeling disappointed about this thing-the
wsy the materializee is acting i mean-we
are disappointed; you concede that?''
"Concede it? Why, yes, if you like the
term
'FVery we'll; so far, so good. Now for the
basis OF the feeling. 1t is not that your
heart, your affections, are concerned; that is
TO say, it is not that you want the material
izee itself You concede that?"
eyes, concede that too, cordially"
Very well, again; we are making progress.
To sum up: The feeling, it is conceded, is
not engendered by the mere conduct of the
materializee; it is conceded that it does not
arise from any pang which the personality
of the materializee could assuage. Now
then" said the Earl, with the light of tri-
umph in his eve, "the ine1orable logic of
the situation narrows US down to this: Our
feeling mas it's source IN the money loss in
vOlved. Gene, isn't that SOP"
Goodness knows concede that, with all
my heart
Every we'll When you've found out the
source of disease you've also found out
what remedy is required-just as in this
case In this case money is required And
only money"
The old, old seduction was in that airy,
confident tone and those significant words
usually called pregnant words in books
The old answering signs of faith and hope
showed up in Hawkins countenance, and
be said:
''Only money! Do you mean that you
know a way to"
"Wsshington, have you the impression
that have no resources but those I allow
the public and my intimate friends to know
about?"
well, Ter"
'Is it likely, do you think, that man
moved by nature and taught by experience
TO keep his affairs to himself and cautious
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-21
SAD STORY OF MAUPAssANL

Morphia, Hasheesh and Ether Show Up In
His Last Story.
CORRESPONDENCE OF THE DISPATCH,
LONDON, Feb. 12.-The inquiries that
have been male into the attempted suicide
of NJ. de Maupassant have revealed sad
story of paralysis of the brain, resulting
from an indulgence in morphia and hash
eesh eating, followed by a consumption of
himself were committed in fit of violent
madn ess. He was engaged at the time of
his la st illness with his new novel, 'I'An.
gelus s." He'had written nothing for few
days, and, on attempting to resume work,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-21
DRINKING A DINNER
To q Gentleman the Diners Know
Very Little About
WILL BE THE RULE TOMORROW.
The Jewel Of Consistency in Washington
Birthday Celebrations
HOW HISTORY HAS GOTTEN TWISTED
FOR THE DISPATCH. !,

O-MORROW is the day
we do not celebrate.
Here and there q politi-
cal club. composed for
the greater part of men
who are such strangers
to truth that they have
to be introduced to the
lady every time they
meet, will get together
and drink . dinner to
the memory of the great
man whose distinguish
ing characteristic was
his inability to shine in
the principal accom-
plishment of practical
politics.
Here and there some
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-21
WI, e,.d,,on. Lives So Long.

Gladstone has the happy gift of sleeping
whenever he wishes to sleep, or changing
his current of thought at will, entirely BAN
ishing from his mind what previously en-
gagged him. That is the secret Of his great
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-21

. WE carry large force Of expert furniture
packers, and furnish estimates on packing,
storing and shipping Of household goods
HAUGH & KEENAN,, 33 Water street.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-21

As wealth grows and luxury increases
there seems to be constant desire among
The World. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1891-1896, 1892-12-30
An Odd Eng.

A curiosity in beetles which seems di-
rect successor of Pope's famous gold bug
is now in London. 1t is in the possession
of Mr.. w. G. Dudley Wyatt, who bought
1t in the City of Mexico. 1t is about an
inch in length, and not only has it a gold
embroidered coat actually sewn to its
wing cases, but its legs, thorax, head, and
antenn@ are gilded. 1t is alive and has
small gilt chain and pin attached to it,
and Mr.. Wyatt seems to carry it about in
all sorts of odd positions, sometimes
pinned to his coat, at other times in his
waistcoat pocket. He left Mexico, where
beetles decorated as his are worn by the
ladies in all the smart sets, and has car
ried it with him all through the East and
India during some seven months. He
says it has had nothing to eat during that
time, and will live a captive for from
three to four years.-Boston Gazette.
The World. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1891-1896, 1892-12-30
a Test for the Eyes.

The theory OF the OFFICIALLY perfect eye
is that parallel rays of light entering it
are brought to focus on itsretina. Amy de-
Walton from this condition constitutes an
error of refraction, and requires for it's cor
rection an artificial variation of the lum-
fnous rays. The generally adopted method
OF determining the refraction of the eye
Is to use test types placed at such a dis
lance that the rays Of light emanating
from them may be regarded in practice as
parallel, and the deviation from paral-
lelism necessary to correct a retroactive
error is effected by placing lens in front
of the eye. There are many other methods
of changing the course of luminous rays
coming from a test object, and of these
the single convex lens is the simplest and
the most often used in optometry. A new
instrument is being used by the most
progressive opticians, which fulfills all
the required conditions, without the dis
advantages of the single convex lens.
The instrument co1ai ,ts of cylindrical
tube about fifteez centimetres long,
mounted on stand sad 80 fixed as to adj
NIT OF regulation for height and inclina-
tion. 1t contains convex and concave
lenses so disposed that as the patient
looks into it the state of his vision can be
quickly ascertained and thus the usual
somewhat trying ordeal of prolonged ex-
animation is dispensed with.
The World. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1891-1896, 1892-12-30

"Going to church is a great picnic
down in Nicarauga," said banana
planter to the Delegate recently. 81
have on my plantation about fifty ia
maica negroes who are very pious, and in
sist upon going to church regularly, nc
matter what may become of the crops. Still
1 cannot blame them, for every worship
per takes along rooster under his arm
nurses it through service at the Moravian
mission, and after he has cleared his con-
science goes outside, where hundreds OF
cock pits are improvised, and where, Sun
day after Sunday, rival cocks contend in
the bloody arena. This custom is uni
versal, and every man has a rooster, from
the humblest laborer to the grandest
alcalde, and the whole daysafter services
is spent in this bloody sport. "-Cincin.
natl Times-Star.
The World. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1891-1896, 1892-12-30

At meeting of the Epidemiological
Society DR.. Pringle quoted a remarka ole
passage from an ancient Hindu work.
which showed that true vaccination was
known and practiced in India centuries
before the birth of Jenner: "The small.
pox produced from the udder of the COW
will be of the same mild nature as the
original disease. The peck should
be of good color, filled with clear
liquid, and surrounded by circle of
red.
"There will be only slight fever of one,
two or three days, but no fear need be
entertained of smallpox so long as life
endures." Pasteur's attenuation of virus
by successive cultures has been applied in
India for hundreds of years to inocula-
tions with variolous lymph, which the
documentin question directed to be taken
from the most favorable cases." and he
has seen series of such selected inocula-
tions in which there was no general erup-
ton, and the local phenomena were
scarcely distinguishable from those oil
ccination.-Science.
The World. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1891-1896, 1892-12-30

The word " corker" is a much abused
one, for the reason that it's real meaning
isunknown to the vast majority of those
who use the word. 1t is derived from the
French word "corquer," and it comes
from the Latin "corcare," which, in turn,
was born of the Greek word korka,''
signifying " Incompatible one. Through
out the Homerian epics the goddess whom
we call Venus is referred to as Venus the
corker, and the epithet as originally APP
piled seemed to imply not only natural
end inherent qualities, but also shining
and distinguished accomplishments
personal and intellectual beauty, attrac-
tions, charms, gifts and arts. Our word,
perverted by the ribald usage OF the pro-
fanely needless, has come to imply GER
tain disregard of consequences, so that
when one speaks of another as a corker
the multitude gathers therefrom that he
who is designated as a corker must neces-
sarily be sort of we'll meaning but heed
less pyrotechnist in speech and action.
The word thoroughbred" corrupted
and debauched by the brutal familiarity
of idle tongues, has come to have similar
meaning.-Chicago News Recorder.
The World. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1891-1896, 1892-12-30

II Is a curious fact that the earthquake
scare ia the one danger to which we can
never become accustomed by familiarity.
The oftener we feel 1t the more we become
demoralized. ] cannot better illustrate
this than by story told me by Colonel
Bailey Peyton, United States Minister to
Chill, in 1852, and city attorney OF San
Francisco in 1856, says a writer in the San
Francisco Chronicle.
To a party OF friends In 1856 he said:
"Boys, it's OF no use talking; we can be-
come accustomed to all dangers, no mat
ter how imminent, by familiarity, except
the danger of earthquakes. The more
you feel 'em the more you don't like 'em,
and the worse you hate 'em. 1 have heard
the whistles OF bullets and the roar Of
cannon In battle, and never lodged. But
my experience in Chill took the starch
out OF me. / had been but few days in
Santiago, the capital of Chill, when l
visited the leading store on the Plaza in
that city. While standing behind the
counter, in an instant, without any pre-
monition, the proprietor and twenty
clerks simultaneously leaped the counter
and rushed out Of the front door.
81 looked at them in establishment, and
said to myself, Are they craZyl w aats
the matter with them?' Slowly they re-
turned to their places. l asked them what
was the matter. They replied, Ell temb-
lori Didn't you feel the temblor?"
"To me it was a trifie. Two weeks
later / was giving swell dinner to the
diplomatic corps in Santiago. In the
midst of it came tenn blor, very lively
one, and every man of the party leaped
from his seat and rushed for the door or
the window. l said to myself, 'Of all
the towards ever met with, these people
exceed.
"But, boys, hadn't been in that coun-
try more than three months before no
quarter horse in Tennessee could beat me
in break for the front door when one Of
those temblors made his appearance. You
can stand bullets and cannon balls, but
the temblors will fetch you"