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Arizona weekly citizen. [volume] (Tucson, Ariz) 1880-1901, 1892-01-30

drastic mineral potash" The potash Theory is
old and obsolete Joys Vegetable Sarsaparilla is
modern. Ii goes to the seat of the trouble. II
sroascs the liver, kidneys and bowels to health
.ul action, and invigorates the circulation, anG
the impurities are quickly carried of through
the natural channels.
Try it and note its delightful GA
sction Chas. Lee, at Beamish's q
Third and ,iarkct Streets, = f, D. -
writes: al took il for Initiated ~ .s%AD
blood and while on the first bot %:s
tie became convinced OF its mer- ~ IA
its for | could feel it was work Sr5sAAS- IS -
Inc Al change. 1t cleanSed. puri- ;.sk2l FsT Ns13
fed and braccd me up generally,
and everything is now working full and regUlsr.'
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The sleeves are very full and have ribbon
flippant style of garniture. Black will pc
the fayorite color for these meetings, and
black has hundred charming posi-
bilties.
in the picture you will find pretty gown
for the end of summer. 1t is made up in
figured linen, or you might choose batise.
There is a plastron of surah, and a belt OF
pleated ribbon below which the arm is COW
cred with open-work silk mitts. The skirt
is set of at the bottom by two narrow floun-
ces oft material.
Lace is much used for tunics, set on the
e,lre of square yoke from which Ii falls
straight down over the dress and is not belt
ed in or set off with any dTapery or sas!: OF
any kind. such garment IS very trying
and calls for tall, rroportioned figure,
which, of course, is dim!y seen through its
TRANSPARENT folds These tunics, which, b.
the way, may be made either Of piece silk,
tul!e or cause may be worn in light colors
over dark, or in dark shades over light I'M
derskirts, as ecru tulle over pale green satin,
OF fine black chant;l!y over corn-cOlorell
silk.
The illustration gives an idea of bit of
headgear for morning wear.
1t consists of lace colored guipure over a
round FORM gathered in the center and set
off with large bow Of double-faced ribbon
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CIGAR-sHAPED BALLOON.

In 1890 q navigable balloon was sue
cessfully constructed by Professor Carl
Never. The balloon itself was some
what the shape of cooked hat, why, it
is hard to say, as this shape does not ap-
pear to have any advantages over the
cigar shape, usually adopted for navig-
able balloons. The propeller was driven
from crauks worked by the feet OF the
operator like those of bicycle. The
speed attained was about ten miles an
hour.
Though the problem of navigating
balloons has no: as yet been completely
solved, great advances have been made
in tue last few years, and it is certain
that in the future aavigab.e balloons will
be employed in war, even if no other use
is found for them.
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As is we'll known, the first balloon
ascent was that of NJ. Pilatre de Rozler,
in Montgolfer's fire balloon, which took
place on October Is, 1888. The air in
the balloon was rariied by fire beneath
it, and the aeronaut stood in gallery
formed round the mouth. The ascent
on this occasion was limited to a height
of about eighty feet by ropes, but q
month later, on November 21, the same
gentleman ascended with companion
in fire balloon and descended in safety
some five miles from the place be started.
Several ascents were afterwards made in
fire balloons, but before long they were
abandoned, owing to accidents having
occurred through their becoming
iguited.
Though the use of hydrogen gas as a
means for raising balloons was proposed
as early as 1867 By DR.. William Black of
Edinburgh, no attempt was made to
utilize it except for toy balloons until
August 1888, when NM. Charles and
Robert sent ups large balloon from Paris.
The balloon rose to height of 5000
feet, and fell fifteen miles away in the
country, where it caused great conster-
nation among the inhabitants, who i'm
agined it to be of supernatural origin.
On December 1st of the same year the
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makers of the balloon ascended in it from
the Tuileries, and descended safely after
o journey of about three miles.
Before the end Of the last century it
was known that a gas could be obtained
from coal which was lighter than air,
and its use for aeronautical purposes was
proposed as early as 1885 by Tiberius
Cavallo. 1t was not, however, employed,
except on small scale, till much later,
owing to the difficulty Of making it in
sufficient quantity. When coal gas came
into use as an illuminant at the begin
ming of this century, it was available for
aeronautical purposes, and was soon
made use of. At the present day it is
almost invariably used instead of hydro
gen gas, though it is much heavier, and
it is cheaper and is easier to procure in
any quantity.
1t was obvious from the first chat bal
looms would not be Of any great prac-
tical use unless means could be devised
for propelling and steering them, and
inventors, therefore, soon turned their at
tention to the subject. In the illustra-
ton of an airship designed in 1884 by
M. B, of Paris, it will be noticed
that the ship is fitted with sail, which
could have no effect on vessel floating
in the air.
Many attempts have been made to use
wingless oars or paddles for rowing bal
looms through the air. The Dolphin was
to have been worked in this way. The
propellers were set like fins near the head
of the fish-shaped balloon, and were to
be worked by levers extending down to
the car. The construction Of the DOL
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pbin was commenced in 1917 by Mr..
s. Paully, the money required, which
amounted to $4,000, being found by
Mr.. Oars Egg, gunmaker, we'll known
at the time. The envelope was made
of cold-beater's skin, and the fins
and rudder of silk and whalebone. The
completion of the apparatus was pro-
tracted by dissensions between the pro-
prietors, and eventually both died with
out the machine being finished. Some
considerable progress must, however,
have been made, as tickets emitting the
holders to view the machine were
printed; on them was picture, OF
which the illustration is copy.
Some inventors have recently pro-
posed to use wings or paddles, worked
mechanically. In the specification of
patent applied for last year, for instance,
is described a canoe-shaped balloon with
self-feathering paddles, driven by steam
or electricity. Though it Is quite pos
sible that wings or paddles might sue
cessfully be used, the machinery for
operating them is necessarily more com.
plicated than that required for turning a
screw propeller, and, therefore, the
latter is almost invariably now en-
ployed.
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The Lapps.

The Lapps call their country SABINE or
Same. and themselves Samelots, and the
term lots has generally been supposed to
be a contemptuous nickname given to
them by torei gners, derived from the
Finnish 'lappu," and meaning simply
Gland s. -end-1olk. A more plausible
suggestion, however, is that Of Professor
Friis, OF Christian;a. who refers the
term to an old Finnish root "lappaa,' '
signifying to roam or wander about,
in aIlusion to their nomad habits.
In the mouth of southern or
more civilized Lapps it appears to have
become synonymous with rude or bar
barous, and is 30 applied by them to the
less cultured northern communities.
Anthropologists seem to have some
difficulty in assigning to the Lapps their
e1nct place in the human family, but it
may be safely affirmed that they are a
combination of Caucasian and Mousolian
types. Be this as it may, :heir physical
characteristics are remarkable; decidedly
more remarkable than attractive. They
are probably the shortest race in the
Eastern Hemisphere, unless it be Mr..
Stanley's demoniacal dwarfs. A man
over FIVE feet in height would be giant
among them, and the women are rarely
more than four feet six inches. They
are also the shortest headed and thinnest
skinned people in the world. Some OF
them, indeed, are long-headed enough
in the intellectual sense and know as
we'll as any how to drive bargain and
deal with strangers, but they are none
the less pre-eminently what the scientific
people designate as "brachYcephalic. -
Good Words,
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bracelets, and the openwork silk gloves
should be of the shade of the ribbon used for
garn!ture, and they may, ifyou choose, be
sewed to the slaeves.
The illustration to-day shows the bookish
girl. She wears very pretty gown in plain
striped surah. AS sheis a!mos! invariably
tall and slender. the corslet and blouse
effects are very becoming to her. Speaking
of books reminds me of the rumor that
literary societies are to be great fad Tor
the coming winter season, and you may be
expected to dress for the occasion. and not
make your appearance wearing gown in
frivolous tone. or display any eaudv or
to which you add lace loops. Such hat
is suitable for young married woman, and
should be worn with an ivory white gown
trimmed with the same guipure.
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The first successfully propelled balloon
seems to have been that of Rufus Porter,
an American, who, in 1888, constructed
model some twenty feet long, which
was worked by small steam engine.
The apparatus was exhibited in New
York and worked successfully, but no
attempt seems to have been made by
this inventor to construct balloon large
enough to carry a human being. An
other model was made by a Frenchman,
NJ. Julien, in 1850, which worked sue
cessfully, and was exhibited in Paris at
the Hippodrome. Two years later a
balloon was made by Gitfard, which
could be propelled through the air on
calm day, and could be steered satisfac.
torily in a strong wind, though it could
not be propelled directly against it.
During the siege of Paris ordinary bal
looms were much used for carrying letters,
etc., and before the siege was raised NJ.
Dupuy de Lorne was intrusted by the
Government with the construction OF q
navigable one. The war terminated,
however, before it was completed. It
was afterwards finished, and tried with
eight men in it working the screw pro-
pellor, the experiment proved fairly sue
cessful, though the strength Of the men
was insufficient to cause it to travel at
any great pace. Another successful
French balloon was that invented by the
brothers Tissandier. The balloon was
driven by an electric motor of one and
one half horse power worked by bat
terry. The balloon steered we'll, and
speed of nine or ten miles an hour was
obtained.
In 1884 balloon named ''La France"
was built by Captain Renaud and M.
Krebs, again Frenchmen. Out OF seven
trials FIVE were completely successful, the
balloon, after covering considerable
distance at speed OF ten to fifteen miles
per hour, being brought back to its
starting point. On one of the remaining
trials something went wrong with the
electrical apparatus, and on another oc-
casion the wind was excessively high,
and the balloon could not make headway
against it.
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Admitting that Capt. Andrews voyage
may not benefit science, add that he may
not convince travellers that a small boat is
superior to an ocean palace, would con.
tend that every passenger in an Ocean Grey.
hound should sleep easier in his comfortable
berth when he knows that the great sea has
been successfully crossei in a cockleshell;
and may not many lives be saved by this
plain object lesson, showing that wooden
boat is unsiakable? On lake, and river, and
BAY, hun ireds 60 down annually who lose
presence of mind because they fail to re.
alze this simple fact. AMI is there not a
lesson to be learned in courage. in endur-
ancs and good seamanhlp? Does not any
man who successfully controls the elements
add to mans confidence and benefit the
wlole community?
Visitors 10 the Worlds Fair, at Chicago.
will eagerly seek out this American Coum'
bus aud see TOR themselves his little folding
beat, the "Sapoiic,' with which he is scour
iro the seas to show the world that modern
men and modern metno Is are far ahead Of
the year l4g2. w. A. NUZUM.
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During early fall we shall have to content
ourselves with old conceits. The queen bee
of fashion is brooding; she has Withdrawn
to her thinking chamber to hatch out new
ideas and fancies. What will they be? Ah!
if I only knew, bat at this moment can
only guess. Perhaps we shall sit in grand
state this winter with square toed shoes
thrust solemnly out from under short
skirts, or mayhap we shall find ourselves
wearing bag gowns or paniers. Who can
tell? Anyway, the flying hour has quite
enough to carry it along till the new styles
have been promulgated. What could be
pretlier than gown in a percale or in satin
finish stuff, sky blue, water green, pink,
sulphur or mauve, skirt and corslet in one
coming up over pleated silk blouse with
ribbon belt? In the picture you will find
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Electric Sea Fighting.

One of the apple atoms of electricity
to submarine mining is where stationary
torpedoes or mines are exploded by an
electric current from an observing sta.
tion on shore, after the position of al
cucmy's ship in relation to the mines has
been ascertuined by means Of range
finding instruments in two observing
stations at q considerable distance. An
electrical apparatus has also been de-
signed and experimental with for en-
abling a boat, without any person in it,
to be sent from safe distance into an
ensmy's mine field, to explode and thus
render harmless the mines laid there.
By this apparatus the boat can be steered,
the engines stopped or started, aad the
countermines dropped when desired and
exploded. In this way very risky op.
Grafton can be performed without danger
to life, and the worst casualty that can
happen is the loss of the boat.--Boaton
Transcript.
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How "Tim0thy" Grass Was Named.

The hay grass known to US MS "tim-
o:hy' is the "hcrd' grass Of Europe
and Western Asia. 1t grows wild
throughout all the vast region between
the Mediterranean Sea on the south and
tae North Sea in the direction the name
imIlies. 1t is not known exactly when
it was first introduced into the United
States, but this much is certain: Il
takes its name from one Timothy. Han.
son, farmer OF Maryland, who brought.
it into general notice as u hay grass, after
having cultivated it extensively for his
own use for years. Its botanical name
is p5leum pratease. I. is curious fact
that. although Its native home is Europe,
tIc United States is the first country in
which it was grown, cut AMI cured 10,
hay. Not longer ago than 1875 some
timothy heads, seeds AMI blades were
taken to England and exhibited US curl.
osities.-Phlladslphia Press.
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The Moment to Yawu.

In certain affections of the throat,
such as acute pharyngitis, cstarrh OF the
eustachian tube, with pain in the ear, O
Swiss confrere says that he obtains ex.
cellent results from making the patients
yawn several times day. 1t produces,
1t seems, almost instantaneous relief, the
symptoms rapidly aubside and the car
ache disappears. frequently the affcc.
ton is cut short by this novel treatment.
Yawning produces, rs every ono knows,
a considerable distension of the muscles
OF the pharynx, constituting kind OF
massage, and under this influence the
cartilaginous portion of the eustachian
tube contracts, expelling into the
pharynx the mucosities there collected.
According to NJ. Naegeli yawning is
much more efficacious for affection of the
than the methods Of Valsalva Politzer,
and is more rational than the Insulation
of air, which Is often difficult to perform
properly.-Medical Record.
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A Legend About Cholera.

One day the Angel Of Death visited a
country in Asia. The King of the coun-
try asked him what plague hc brought
under his sable wings.
"The cholera" answered the messen-
ger.
"Aud how many victims will tho
plague claim"
''Six thousand"
Cholera ragged throughout the Kings
domains. Twenty-Five thousand people
died.
Some time after the King saw the
Angel of Death again.
"You did not keep your word" he
said; "you promised Inc the cholera
would take but 5000 OF my subject. I
have lost 25, 1000"
~ did keep my word" answered the
sombre enemy. "Cholera killed but 5000
in your kingdom"
"And the other 10, 900, of what did
they die9"
'Of fear"
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The above report was later confirmed BY
cables from Madrid, one Of which said:
The Captain of the Vera Cruz describes
Captain Andrews as hale and hearty. Cap
tain Andrews, he says, resented a question
as to whether he wished to be taken aboard
the steamer, declaring that he was certain
that he could reach Huelva without assist
auce in time for the October fetes. He
asked only one favor-that the Captain OF
the Vera Cruz should hand letter to the
American Consul at the first Spanish port
he entered. Captain Andrews then tied his
letter to piece of scrap iron and threw it
aboard the Vera Cruz and after mutual
farewells and wishes for a prosperous
voyage the two vessels parted.
On the following day, August 9th, tho
'Sapolio" fell in with the German ship
"Adolf," Captain A. Scheepsma, who writes
that ON that date he supplied Captain An
drews with "fresh water, fresh bread, eggs
and claret also with lantern and length
of line, captain and boat being all right"
We give it just as written, showing that our
German friend can be as lioeral with his
letters as with the fresh bread, which must
have proved so grateful to the daring lone
goyager who carries no fire, and on whom
the baker does not call in the morning.
=.
The New York Herald, in an editorial ar.
ace on August Goth, rather unjustly com.
mentet Captain Andrews trip. 1t said:
The cable disp arch published yesterday
giving news of the intrepid Captain Ander-
son, Of dory fame, has given encouragement,
II not assurance, to his friends.
There can be no scientific value in voyages
Of this sort and no results can come from
them that are Of much interest to the gen.
eral pub lie, save the proof that sixteen
foot boat may in exceedingly calm weather
cross the Atlantic. Were Captain
Anderson to prove by his attempt that q
transa tlantic voyage was infinitely more
pleasant an ra oii in . small boat than in
IN ocean palace. then the community might
be grateful. Most interest now centres in
the possibility OF his finishing his trip alive.
Just how Captain Andrews mot Ander.
son, as the Herald has it, could select sixty
days of "e1ceedngly calm weather. re-
mains for the Herald weather makers to
show. Ii this voyage draws out such an e1.
traordipary contribution to marine science,
it will almost equal the di covery Of gravi.
tation. But there are other things to be
claimed in behalf Of the venture, some of
which are well ste:ed in the following letter
written in reply to this criticism:
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ing adventure, says the New York Re-
corder.
Soon after the publication of Tori
cells discovery that air was weight, 1t
occurred TO another Italian--Francesco
Lana--that it would be possible for q
body to rise in air, provided it weighed
less than the air it displaced. He ac-
cordingly proposed to make an aerial
vessel to be raised by means of globes
from which the air was exhausted. In
his design the wicker-work car is at
tached to four large spheres OF copper,
and a sail is fixed in the center. We
have no record of the apparatus having
been constructed, and it is quite certain
that it was not successful. Theoreti-
cally, there is no reason why balloon
should be constructed on the vacuum
principle, though it is doubtful if even
at the present day vessel could be
built sufficiently strong to withstand the
pressure of the atmosphere and at the
same time sufficiently light to rise.
Nevertheless, patent was granted last
year to an inventor, who stated In his
specification that vacuum balloon is
not an impossibility. He gives ca!cuia-
tions which if there be no flaw in them,
show that a vessel can be constructed
weighing 1875 tons and capable of rals-
ing fifty tons more than its own weight
when three quarters of the air is pumped
out of it.
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Not as Many Stars Us We Imagine.

There seems to be little doubt that the
number of the visible stars is really linn
tied. Most astronomers now admit that
the total number of stars visible in ouI
largest telescopes cannot much exceed
100, 900, 900. This is, of course, large
number, but compared with an infinite
number it is really very small. 1t may
be proved mathematically - and the
demonstration is very simple one-that
were the number of stars really infinite,
and equally distributed through infinite
space, the whole heavens would shine
with the brightness of the sun.
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Muscular MOlluSks.

4 writer in Nature states that the
limpet. deprived of its shell, pulls in
the air 1854 times its own weight, and
about double when immersed in water.
He adds that the pulling power of the
cockleshell Venus verncosa) of the
Mediterranean, when deprived of its
shell, is 2O71 times the weight Of its
body. The force required to open an
oyster appears to be 1875 times the
weight of the shell-less oyster.
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TIE plow said to have been left
standing in the furrow by Gen. Put
nam ll6 years ago when he rushed to
the defense of his country is on exhi-
bition ut u hardware store in Daniel
sonville, Conn. OF the lurrow, we
regret to say, no trace whatever now
remains.
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IT has come to be generally under

IT has come to be generally under
stood that there is no such thing in
this country az the title of "honor-
able" except as it Is given by courtesy.
This is almost true, but not quite.
There is one Official who has legal
title to be called honorable It is
the Lieutenant Governor Of Massa-
chusetts. His title Is given him by
law,
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According to very good authority
the middle is declared to be the note
most frequently used in vocallsm, as it
seems to be the note which best avoids
the extremes and is most within the
general compass.
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A OisrInRuished Physician,

Every one has heard of DR.. Hoxsie's Certain
Group Cure. This great remedy was used by
most notable fanIit 8 In Bnfaio, n. J., with
unfailing success for Congestive CGds, Pneu-
monia, Group and Bronchitis. Sold by drug
gists. SOC. Manufactured by A. P. Hoxsie'
Ruffa1o " V
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THE REALM OF FASH ION.
WHAT TO WEAR AND HOW THEY
MAKE 1T.
Pretty Attire For an Afternoon Indoors.
Stamped S1rah and Lace:

lTH the arrival OF
September there is a
period of suspense
until the new styles
have been promul-
gated. Cold winds
and rain have blown
away the summer
girl and blighted
her wardrobe. At
present house gowns
are in demand. In
the initial illustra.
ton you see a very
pretty gown for af'
ternoon indoors, a
stamped surah, sal
mon toned, with
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SCrOfuIa

Afflicted me four years
blotches all over my
body, swelling in my
neck, and in less than q
year had lost 40 lbs. ]
was induced by H. L.
Tubbs, our druggist, to
try Hoods Sarsapa'
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