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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-08

suburbs, using the word in the English
sense. that make the stranger jealous. You
get here what you do not get in the city
well paved or asphalted roads, planted with
trees, and trim sidewalks studded with
houses of individuality not boorishlv fenced
off from each other, but standing each on it's
plot OF well-kept turf running down to the
pavement.
1t is always Sunday in these streets of
morning. The cable car has taken the men
down town to business, the children are at
school, and the big dogs, three and a third
to each absent child, lie nosing the winter
killed grass and wandering when the shoots
will make it possible for gentleman to
take his spring medicine In the afternoon
the children on tricycles stagger up and
down the asphalt with the proportion of
big dogs at each wheel; the cable cars COM
ing up hill begin to drop the men each at
his own door-the door of the house that he
builded for himself (though the architect
melted him to that vile little attic tower
and useless loggia) and, naturally enough,
twilight brings the lovers walking two By
two along the very quiet ways
The rchitec.ure of tho West.
You can tell from the houses almost the
exact period at which they were built
whether in the jig-saw days when it be-
hooyed responsibility to use unloyely turned
rails and pierced gable-ends; or, during the
colonial craze which means white paint and
futed pillars; or in the latest domestic era
a most pleasant mixture that is, of stained
shingles, hooded dormer windows, cunning
verandas and recessed doors Seeing these
things one begins to understand why the
American visiting England is impressed
with the old and not with the new. He is
not much more than 100 years ahead of the
English in design, comfort, economy, and
(this is most importantly labor-saving appli-
ances in his house. From Newport to San
Diego you shall find the same thing to-day.
One little brown house at the end of an
avenue is shuttered down and doctors
buggy stands before it. On the door large
blue and white label says, 'Scarlet Fever"
Oh, most excellent municipality of st.
PAUL. 1t is because of these little things
and now rowdying and racketing in public
places that nation becomes great and free
and honored. In the cars tonight they will
be talking wheat, girding at Minneapolis
and sneering at Duluth's demand for 20
foot of water from Duluth to the Atlantic
matters of no great moment compared to
those streets and that label.
EUDYARD KIPLING.
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An Astronomical Ouandary.

1t is seldom that the charge of impeding
scientific progress can be laid at the door of
electricity, but it now appears that the ac-
curacv of astronomical observations is be-
ing seriously impaired by the glare from
electric street lights Prot. Swift states
that since electric lights have been brought
into general use in the cities the difficulty
Of discovering new nebule or faint comets
has materially increased, and that the sky
illumination fogs the plates and photo
graphic work. He suggests that inventors
have now an opportunity Of earning the
eternal gratitude of astronomers and photo
graphers of celestial scenery bv devising
some means of overcoming this difficulty.
His own idea of remedy is means of
maintaining the light at one level, and that
near the bottom of the globe, during the
entire night. If this were done, and the
upper half of the globe of the lamp were
painted white, Prof. Swift contends that
not only would the illumination of the
street be improved, but that nine-tenths of
the light would be prevented from ascend
ing skyward.
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happy to be of service to her kind
benefactor; and the last their friends were
ever to see of them was as they stood on
deck waving their handkerchiefs as the
steamer bore them out of the harbor toward
their fate.
In August, 1890, the writer of this article
received letter from Mr.. Carl Steckelmann,
Loangor West Africa, announcing that
Paul Crampel had arrived there with a
large lot of trade goods to pay his way
through the country. To all who asked
whittier he was bound he repliel merely
that he was not at liberty to divu'ge his
plans. The white men he met could learn
only that he was going to Brazzayille, on
Stanley Pool.
Pan to Beat the English.
Geographers in Europe were as mystified
as the traders on the coast AMI it was not
until the explorer was far on his way that
the facts about his mission became public.
Crampel mad been instructed to ascend the
Kongo and its greatest tributary, the Mo-
bangi, to the most northern part of that
river Then he was to march overland
about 700 miles, to Lake Tchad, on the bor-
der of the Sahara. He was to make treaties
on the way with the various tribes, placing
them under the protection of France, and
if possible he was to secure commercial
treaties with the powerful Sultans of
Wadai, Bagirmi and Bornu. In short he
represented France in the great race for
Lake Tchad, in which France, Germany
aad England competed, though England
alone reached the goal
Our map shows Ell Kouti, where he was
killed when 300 miles on his way. When
Crampel, with four white assistants, started
north from the Mobangi in January. 1891,
he had 230 loads of merchandise and IS por-
ters. He was met at the outset BY the i'm
possibility of hiring men enough to carry
his goods. He heard there were Mohamme-
dams in the north who could supply pack
animals. He had as a guide an Arab who
had been released from prison n Algeria
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"Eeep her on her course again. It's moth

keep her on her course again. It's moth
ing on, bloody Yankee whalerp'
Dav after day he weather now grew per-
ceptibly cooler. Slowly the old craft
rlolChed along till at length we passed the
Cane, aud on February Il we were agre.-
ably surprised to meet the bark Atlantic
arain. She had taken some 800 barrels of
oil We CANNED" all day, and L came
away richer by three pounds OF tobacco.
On February Il We ran down between
Hog Island and the Twelve Apostles,
s,E0Dg the Crozet Islands, where few
years before the English ship Strathmore
As wrecked and Al persons, including one
;sGr. lived over six months on a barren
rock. sUhsistirg on crabs and mussels, when
the whalar Young Phoenix, Captain Gift
ford. of New Bedford, rescued them.
While our people at home were cele-
hra.inc Washington's Birthday, we were
cutting in huge whale which made over
100 barrels OF OIL
| shall not attempt to give an attempt of
our Grearv cruise around Desolation Island,
hdt al last the Captain gave orders to head
iar Amsterdam, one of the ST. Paul group in
the Indian Ocean, where We hoped to OBJ
,ain a supply Of fresh fish. After a favor
able passage we arrived one morning of
low. rocky island, where the kelp was so
thick around the shore that it was almost
impossible TO force a boat through it,
The bark hove to and two boats were low
erred. equipped with lines and salt pork for
bat. We pulled within short distance of
the shore, and then threw over our lines.
Great fish, small fish, fish of all colors,
came tumbling IN, and occasionally some
huge fish would be hooked which would de-
camp with the gear. In fact we lost about
al our lines in this way finally, but not
until we had loaded the two boats to the
waters edge. They were a treat to us
irs-n, but the bulk of them were salted for
:uture use, and we resumed our long voyage
.or New Zealand with nothing to chronicle
OF interest until April IA, when our third
mate, who had long since been replaced by
NJ. Perry on account of his failing health.
passed quietly away, and we buried him at
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-08
HARASSED BY A NAME.
McGinry Thinks of Disposing Of His Patro-
nymic Very CheapIy.

mcGtnty thinks OF DtspOsinE OF HIS Patro-
nymic Very CheapIy.
St. Louis Republic.l
II am sorely annoyed and harassed by a
name" said dapper little man with keen
gray eyes and fierce mustache, at the La
clede. bear name that for centuries has
been born with pride and that to my posi-
tive knowledge has never been dsgraced.
1t is an honorable name and is associated
with many of mans greatest achievement
And yet in these degenerate days of the
comic song writer and his arch conspirator,
the wandering minstrel, my name is weigh
ing down my ambitions and nv hopes of
prosperity and posterity. My name is Nc
Ginty-Michael j. McGintv-but not one
man in fifty to whom 1 am introduced be-
lieves either my introducer or myself when
with the most digni6ed solemnity we as
sure him that that is my real cognomen.
81 have surrendered all hope of ever
utilizing the telephone, for as soon as the
man at the other end OF the line asks me
who it is that has rung him up, and tell
him McGlnty, he rails at me for disturbing
him with my jokes and snappishly rings me
off Inever attempt to introduce myself to
anyone as other men do for would only be
considered an imposter who was trying to
disguise his identity for some sinister
motives or an individual entirely too fresh
About the queerest experience that my name
has occasioned me occurred last summer on
one of those magnificent steamboats, that
ply the Hudson. Joined party of friends
for an excursion up the river. In the party
was one of the most beautiful young women
I ever saw. 1 at once sought an introduc-
tion to her, and imagine my heartburns and
cnagrin when 1 was introduced to Miss
Rooney. l tried to relieve the embarrass-
ment we both felt by nv making some
jocuar remark about the singular coinci-
dence, but Miss Rooney wouldn't have it,
Her great, liquid eyes filled with tears and
she turned her back on me. All this may
seem funny to you and other people, but 1
tell you the thing has gone so far that there
is no fun in it to me"
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send letter from FayaI, and this day in
Mongonui L was repaid for nv trouble a
thousandtold, for, as we had since become
very good friends, 1 looked around for him
to see if he had received any letters, and
also to show him mine.
AT length found him slowed away by
the heel of the bowsprit, seated on coil of
rope, with letter in his hand and the tears
rolling down his cheeks. 1 stole softly
away, and after awhile he came and held
out his hand, which 1 grasped, fully under
standing the thanks which he could not find
words to express. He atterward told me of
the joy his letter had brought his aged par
ents, and how happy he was to hear from
them once more, and for the rest of the voy-
age his mail compared tavorably with mine.
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whohad been over 60 years at sea- He was
accompanied by his wife, who had spent
nearly all of her welded life with him on
whale ships, and was frst-rate sailor
They were near neighbors of mine at home,
and was kindly remembered by them, and
presented with letters and large box of
home comforts sent by my mother and sis
ters.
One of our Portuguese died of consump-
tion shortly after we left the Horatio, and
we buried him at sea-
Nothing occurred to break the monotony
for several weeks, until, at last. we met
the English ship Splendid, from Dunedin.
She had a motley crew, including an e1-
Lieutenant in the British army and Maori
prince, who informed us he shipped "for the
fun of the thing, you know"
At length we turned toward New Zealand
once more, and on June 1 we dropped
anchor in Mongonin to reft our ship and
prepare for a cruise among the Friendly
Islands.
ITO Be Continued Neat Sunday
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-08

Few industries have profted more by the
introduction of electrical applications than
mining. When the owners OF mineral prop
cry began to see that by the use OF the cleo
trio current not only could radical econ
omy be effected in the operation of existing
mines, but that workings long thrown up
could be again operated at a profit, they
soon set about the adoption of new methods.
The development of the new applications
has been so great that in many mines cleo
tricity is now practically the only power in
use, and the drilling. ventilatiag, pumping,
hauling and winding, signaling. explosive
firing and lighting are all done by means of
the electric current. Great improvements
are being made in drills, and several cleo
trio rotary drills have been used with sue
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-08
AN EBONY PRINCESS.
Her Part in the Tragedy That Ended
Explorer Crampel's Career.
WAS GIVEN TO HIM BY A CHIEF,
She Shot Down a Mohammedan Who Came
to Attack Her Master.
FRENCH ENTERPRISE ON THE KONGo.
WRITTEN FOR THE DISPATCH.

WRITTEN FOR THE DIsPATCH.l
About four years ago Paul Crampel, a
brilliant young Frenchman, who had made
a name by exploring the depths of the
French Kongo country, was welcomed home
to Paris with the honors and attention that
the French bestow so lavishly upon those
who achieve conspicuous success. He
brought with him young black girl, and
the French were greatly entertained by her.
novel and romantic story. ALI the news
papers and magazines published pictures of
Paul Crampel and Marine, the bright,
jolly girl from the greatest tribe in West
Africa. the Pahouin, who had thwarted Du
Chaillu and opposed De Brazza, but among
whom Crampel had lived and wandered for
many months.
To-day CrampePs bones are bleaching
near the banks of the upper waters of the
Shari river, where he was treacherously
murdered year ago; and poor Marine, if
she is alive, is wearing the yoke of slavery
among the women of some fanatical Arab
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-08
The Te,ephone rs an obstructionist,

Travelling statesmen do not look upon the
telephone with kindly eye. Many firms
have reduced their staff of drummers, owing
to the tact that their customers have fallen
naturally into the way of transmitting
their orders direct 10 the house over the tel
ephone instead of waiting, as formerly, for
the periodical visit of the salesman. An
other bitter drop has been poured into the
cup of the commercial traveller. who finds
that after quoting prices or selling goods to
over the telephone to other concerns, and
thus the difficulty of making subsequens
sales at elastic prices IS increased.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-08

in the Soudan. It was not until four weeks
ago that the report of the Dybowski search
party reached France settling conclusively
the fate of the brave explorer, and giving
all the facts of his cruel taking off, that are
likely ever to be known.
The Daughter of a Chief
Crampel had lived for months In the
wholly unknown eastern part of the
French Kongo, wandering from chief to
chief of the great Pahouin tribe, that num-
bers at least million souls One chief be-
slowed upon him many special marks of his
favor, and he greatly surprised the young
explorer one day by remarking:
II am astonlshed that you have come
through all the country of the Pahouins and
are now about to return alone among the
whites The chiefs have treated you badly.
A great man like you ought to take home
women from all the nations he meets. Now
1 am going to show you that 1 am the
friend of the whites. fof 1 shall give you one
of my daughters to take back with you"
In vain the explorer protested that he
did not want such present. Crampel had
a scanty following, and was in no position
to turn a powerful friend into a relentless
enemy. So this young girl was taken from
her native forests, which only one white
man had ever entered, and introduced to the
wonderful sights of the sea and its big ships
and the country beyond, with its countless
marvels, where she was to learn to read and
live out her years. But one day the plans
for Niarinze's future were all changed.
A secret Mission to the Interior.
Crampel received commission to go to
part of Africa that no explorer had visited.
1t was believed the influence of the wide
spread Pahouins extended there No one
knew what languages would be met, but
the people probably understood Pahouin.
Crampel needed Pahouin interpreter. His
missi IN, political in its nature, required
CELEBRITY This young girl, coming her
French lessons, was an Interpreter to his
hand. So Marine cheerfully turned her
back on the life she had learned to love,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-08
THE WORLD A CocoANUr SHELL
The South Pacific Islanders Believe This to
Be the Case.

Be the Case.
Washington Star.1
The savage islanders of the South Pacific
believe that the world is cocoanut she'll of
enormous dimensions, at the top of which is
single aperture communicating with the
upper air, where human. beings dwell. At
the very bottom OF this imaginary shell is
stem gradually tapering to point. which
represents the beginning of all things. This
point is spirit or demon without human
form, whose name is "Root OF ALI Exist
ence" BY him the entire fabric of crea-
tion is sustained
In the interior of the cocoanut shell, at
its very bottom, lives female demon. So
narrow is the space into which she is crowded
that she is obliged to sit forever with knees
and chin touching. Her name is ''The Very
Beginning" and from her are sprung
numerous spirits. They inhabit five differ
ent floors, into which the great cocoanut is
divided From certain of these spirits
mankind is descended The islanders, re-
garding themselves as the only real men and
women, were formerly accustomed to regard
strangers as evil spirits in the guse of hu-
manity, whom they killed when they could,
Offering them as sacrifices.
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varnish Taken From q Tree.

Leisure Hours.1
The Rhus coriaria, or varnish-tree, grows
in many parts of what may be termed the
Mediterranean district. and its juice is
known for its deleterious or injurious prop
critics, and has consequently been let alone.
The japanese, however, seem to understand
it, and it is certain they make beautiful
lacquer or varnish from the juice Of their
trees; but they keep the processes secret
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-08
Candle Power in Electric Lamps.

A public 81, 200 candle power lamp that
gives an effective power of 1 200 candles is
about as rare as reputed pints which will
hold 20 fluid ounces, and the public are be-
coming quite alive to the desirability Of
getting all the light theys pay for. 1t is
now found that good deal of the blame for
insufficient lighting power rests more on
the kind of globe used than on the lamp
itself. A ground glass globe, when clean,
absorbs 42 to IS per cent of the light, and
opal globes "a to 10 per cent, and, OF course,
the percentage absorbed when the glass is
not properly cleaned is proportionaIly
greater One of the best forms of shade is
frosted bulb, which reduces the light in a
very slight degree, and even what absorp-
tion of light there is is due to the dirt which
the frosting collects. One Of the most agree
able kinds of globe has thin layer of opal
glass flashed" on a clear body, and frosted
or etched. A maximum of 80 per cent
should never be exceeded for arc light, and
if globes that will make this limit of atsorp-
tion absolute are used, the chances are that
little dissatisfaction will arise on the part of
the consumer, as difference of Is volts in
the current supplied to an 85-volt lamp
would make so little difference in the per-
ceptible light that hardly anyone but cleo
tricians would notice it.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-08
A New system of Electric traction

A Baltimore inventor claims to have pe,-
fected remarkable electric railway system.
In this system neither overhead wires.
storage batteries, surface conduits nor nm.
derground conduits are EMPLOYED. thu
motive current being conveyed to the car by
induction from buried conductors extending
along the line of travel. The details of the
invention are not yet given out, but if the
claims made can be substantiated most
important advance in the art of electric
locomotion may be looked for.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-08

to 60 with Crampel, because he was familiar
with part of the country to be crossed.
Betrayed 10 the Mohammcdans.
This traitor found means to send word to
the NJ Mohammedans that Crampel was ad-
vancing in small force, ani would fall
an easy prey. With treachery
in his camp, food very scarce, his little band
of porters depleted every week by deser-
tions, CrampePs situation grew more
desperate; and this was the position OF af-
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-08

Paris provides new employment for wo-
man in the capacity of "diner taster." She
goes each day regular round, visiting the
houses where she is employed, tasting and
suggesting Improvements in the dishes pre-
pared tor dinner If requested she teaches
the cook ways preparing new dishes AS
she already rides in her carriage the busi-
ness must be profitable one.
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A Sonnet to My,

PUBLIC LedRer.1
Welcome! Welcome! bonny MayI
Regal goddess of the spring!
Bloom and joy around you fling
Month of flowers and new-mown hay,
Month when birds delig,t to sing
Old-new song at break of day:
Monuh when butterfly and bee
Love to gather sweets OF thee.
Thus to mortal just as sweet,
First fair daughter of the yeari
Youth and maiden lit Is meet)
Thee o April much prefer
She was ever tears and wilea
Thou art constant-wreatEed in smiles.
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Cranks of the Collectors.


The latest novelty in the way of collec-
tions is reported from Philadelphia 1t is
a collection of door mats. In the same town
is also a man who collects tin tags, and who
owns them by the thousand. A Boston man
devotes his surplus energies to gathering
pen-knives, and one in Albany goes in for
railroad time tables A Buffalo woman is
forming collection Of more or less worn
out gloves
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Cost of Electricity for Domestic Use.

In recent lecture in London, in which
the practicability of electric ventilation,
electric knife cleaning, electric hat and
linen ironing and electric cooking were
fully demonstrated, the question of cost of
current was also discussed. The result of
the discussion went to show that the use of
electricity for these purposes has not yet
been brought down to the economical
basis that will permit the enjoyment of the
luxury by persons of limited incomes
1t was found that it cost about 4
cents an hour to maintain an ordi-
nary fatiron at the proper temperature
by means of zigzag OF insulated wire en-
bedded in its face. There was, however,
the set-of of the rapidity and ease with
which it could be heated at short notice, the
constancy of temperature attained, and the
absence of waste of time in taking it to and
from the fire. A frying pan constructed on
the same principle was raised to the re-
quired heating point at a cost of two-6fths
OF cent, anG an omelette was cooked in it
in about minute and half Setting aside
the question of expense, the great advant-
age of the electrically generated heat was
that it could be applied where it was wanted
with a minimum of waste, and joint could
be roasted without nearly roasting the cook
as well, which is decidedly wasteful
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-08
CHAPTER VII

A MODERN ROBINSON CRUsoE-
Somewhere about the year 1s4S an Eng
lishman named Hunt came from England to
New Zealand with his wife and infant son,