San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-04-19
Shock, so got All ready
A GREwSOME MOMENT.

Shock, so got all ready
A GIlEwsoME MOMENT.
"The door gave way at last and broke
into kindling wood like fash. The con-
cussion of the water flung the bodies to-
ward me like lightning shut my eyes.
and reaching out to grab the bodies,
caught the woman's AS she flew toward
me. | signaled and was taken up Then
went down to hunt for the little girl. |
found she had come out when her mother
did, and fiOated under the cabin table.
Why, that table was set just as when the
vessel sunk, and there was food on the
plates at that very time, ! was pulled up
with the little girl" &
Pausing, the old diver began to laugh,.
and when asked what it was about he said
it was the air pump. In former times the
pumping had been by hand, but now it
was by steam. He preferred steam, for it
kept up a regular supply of air When it
was done by hand, if diver wanted more
air they were liable to pump too fast, and
if he signaled this was so they very likely
sent it down too slowly. He told of trick
he once played on a water pipe boss who
went down to inspect the pipes on the bot
tom of Toronto bay. The fellow was
tyrannical Englishman, and was hated by
all the men. One day when the boss was
under water workman remarked that
he'd like to shut off the air for awhile.
Mr.. Littlefield said that was wicked, but
asked the workmen to light their pipes
and smoke near the pump, saying that
would do as well. as shutting off the air.
They didn't all see why, but they did it.
A pump sucks up everything in the air
at its orifice, and very shortly it was car
rying down tobacco smoke by the cubic
foot Two minutes elapsed and then the
boss gave three wild pulls to be taken up.
He arrived at the surface very sick and
frightened out of his wits The first thing
he asked was if the pump hadn't got afire.
MIR. littlefield said he guessed it had, and
ordered a man to pour water on the bear
ings. This satisfied the boss, and the men
went into fits behind his back. The man
would never go down after that; he said
ne thought he had had an attack of heart
disease.-Providence Journal.
VIA llsF b Early Trade. -TI&
The earliest evidence of peaceful trade
and employment is to be found in the in
scriptions of Wady ell Magharah, valley
of the cave, in the Sinaitic desert. The
mines in this country, from which the
Egyptians obtained mafek, or turquois-
whence the region was called Mafka-were
worked in the time of Senoferu, ninth king
of the third dynasty, whose tablets still re-
main carved on the rocks, and copper is
also believed to have been thence obtained.
The date of this monarchy is very uncer-
tain. 1t has been placed as early as 5000
B. c., but the method by which scholars
endeayored to ascertain such dates is open
to criticism, since it supposes an average
reign of thirty years for each king, which
seems much too long period if we COM
pare the average in later times, when the
regnal years are exactly recorded. SenO-
feru, however, cannot have lived much
later than $500 B. c.
About the same time the great Akkadian
conQueror, whose name is usually read as
Gudea, had established his capital on the
lower Tigris, and had conquered northern
Syria, whence he took cedar wood for the
building of his temples He states, in an
inscription recently discovered at Tell Lob,
that the diorte in which his statues were
hewn came from Ma-gan-na, "the land of
the wall" and the evidence of other texts
shows clearly that the country so called
was Sinai The term answers to the He
brew Shur, 1.-The WALL" and in addition to
this statement geolOgists assure us that
the material used for the statues is the
same diorite found in the Sinaitic PENN
sula. At this very early period, therefore,
the Egyptian and the Mongol Akkadian
appear to have met, in the Sinaitic region,
in times of peace, and the stone from the
quarries was transported over the distance
of 1000 miles eastward to the Tigris.-
Scottish Review.