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The Olneyville tribune. (Providence, R.I.) 1893-189?, 1893-09-09
SIZE OF THE SEA.
stupendous Figures Concerning the Propor-
tions of the Different Bodies of Water.

tions of the Different Bodies of Water.
One gallon OF water weighs ten
pounds. SO the number OF gallons in
the Pacific is over 200 trillions: an
amount which would take more than
a million years TO pass over the falls
OF Niagara. Yet, put into sphere,
the whole of the Pacific would only
measure 126 miles across.
The Atlantic could be contained
bodily in the Pacific nearly three
times The number OF cubic feet Is
III followed by IL ciphers; number
that would be licked OIL by one nil
lion clocks in $40, 900, 900 years. Its
weight is 325. 900 billion tons, and
the number Of gallons in 1t is 73 trll-
lions.
A sphere TO hold the Atlantic would
have TO be 1884 miles i'm diameter.
IL IL were made TO fill circular pipe
reaching from the earth TO the sun
n distance OF $4,000, 900 miles-the
diameter OF the pipe would be 1887
yards or rather over mile while
pipe OF similar length To contain the
Pacific would be over mile and
tnree-quarters across.
Yet the distance TO the sun is so
great that, as has been pointed out,
IL a child were born with an arm long
enough To reach TO the sun IL would
not live long enough TO know that IL
had touched IT. for sensation passes
along our nerves at the rate OF 100
feet second, and To travel from the
sun TO the earth at that rate would
take "A century and half. and such
an abnormal infant Is an unlikely
ccntenarian.
The rest OF the sea includes the In
dian ocean, the Arctic and Antarctic
seas, aud various smaller masses Of
water; IL covers an area OF -, 900, 900
square miles, and would form circle
OF I, 300 miles In diameter.
The average depth may be put at
1000 fathoms az, 900 feet) and the
contents at 90, 900, 600 cubic miles.
1t weighs 800, 600 billion tons, and
contains s79 trillion gallons: while IL
would form a column reaching 10 the
sum OF >, 900 yards in diameter.
III we now combine into one vast
whole these figures, we arrive at
some stupcndous results In answer To
the question, "llow big is the sea?"
It's area of li0 600, 900 square miles
could he confined 10y circle 13, $50
miles across The relative size OF the
areas OF the whole surface of tho
earth, OF the whole sea, the Pacific
and the Atlantic, are represented by
circles the diameters OF which are I'm
the proportions to one another OF l5S,
1872, 03. and 62 respectively; or by a
crown for tho surface OF the earth, "a
halt crown for the surface OF the
whole sea. a shilling for the surface
OF the Pacific, "A threepenny piece for
the surface OF the Atlantic.
Supposng the sea To be formed into
n round column reaching to the sun,
the diameter OF the column would bc
nearly two and half miles The
Pacific would form 80. 900, 900 miles
OF It's total length OF $4,000, 900 and
the Atlantic ~, 900, 000
II IL were a column OF ice and the
entire heat OF the sun could be con
ccntrated upon H., 10 would he all
melted In one second and converted
into steam In eight seconds, which
illustrates the heat OF the sun rather
than the size OF the sea. New York
| Advertiser.
The Olneyville tribune. (Providence, R.I.) 1893-189?, 1893-09-09

lar Ia the guild, for he holds
them in the highest esteem.
Oh. yes, / almost forgot. When
this story came out in the papers,
and my part OF il was set forth, as
only reporters knew how TO do such
things, Isabella, OF course, heard OF
il. and one moonlight night she said
10 me:
major. / thought once you we're
10 marry, but I've changed my mind. ("
I feel under obligations 10 those
burglars myself Free Press.
The Olneyville tribune. (Providence, R.I.) 1893-189?, 1893-09-09
Latest style ofGotham Honeymoons

A wild.eyed, red-headed man, about
thirty years OF age, rushed into the
Charles street pol ce station in New
York and told the sergeant at the
desk that he was Dr. William B.
Shepherd, OF II Abingdon square.
He said that he was married on sat
urday and that he had been drinking
ever since.
ii have spent s175 in bottled
beer" he said. 'and my wife and l
have been in an awful condition since
our marriage She is now home, be-
ing watched by two friends. AS Tor
me, IL is utterly impossible for me TO
get sober and i want you TO commit
Inc 20 the island for few days"
a pol ceman escorted the man to
the jefferson Market police court
Justice Hogan sent the man into the
prison, indorsing the commitment
paper: "Until he gets perfectly
sober"
The Olneyville tribune. (Providence, R.I.) 1893-189?, 1893-09-09
Conscientiousness I'm Animals.

Hunters know how difficult il Is tc
approach animals which live in herds
and communities The duty OF
watching over the safety Of all is
generally performed by a few only,
but with such an unseltlshness, and
SO conscientiously that men can
hardly equal it. And yet the ani
NAL watchers do not seem to stand
under compulsion. Pelicans fish in
satisfy their hunger, driving the fish
towards each other by turns The
buffaloes Of America, on the approach
OF danger, take the weak and young
into the middle OF the herd, and the
bulls will often defend a herd when
they could easily have saved them
selves by flight. Brehm relates the
case Of a young monkey who defended
an old and decrepid one against a
number of dogs, et the risk OF his
own life. Capt Stansbury noticed a
pelican in the lake of Utha which
was quite blind and old, yeJ appar-
entity very fat He watched the bird,
and found that il was fed by Others
younger than itself Prof Agassiz
has pointed the conscientiousness in
dogs; and indeed their faithfulness
towards their masters is not suf-
ficiently regarded. If we are told
that this il the result OF training,
NAV we not also point out that a
similar exhibition of scrnpulous be-
hayiOr I'm men is the result of educa-
tion only?-La Espana Moderna.
The Olneyville tribune. (Providence, R.I.) 1893-189?, 1893-09-09

THAT which woman calls her ''in-
tuition" Is really what she has
known all the time, but never admits
until she marries
The Olneyville tribune. (Providence, R.I.) 1893-189?, 1893-09-09
REALRURALREADING
A DEPARTMENT FOR OUR LOCAL
AGRlCULTURISTS.

How One Can Mako u s-iau Farm Pay
Caring for the Horses rceth-Improvc-
ment of the Soil Hooded stock-Farm
NoteA
The Indianapolis journal., 1893-11-14

In the field. The gauge was put in on its
completion, and flow exceeding four mil
lion feet was shown. 1t Is one of the best
wells drilled I'm the past year or more, and
Is in a territory that promises even greater
things.-kokomo Dispatch
w. w. Coles. our popular florist, who
thought he had already captured every
thing in sight at the worlds fair and Indi-
annapolis flower show, received notice Fri
day from Chicago that he had been awarded
the grand gold medal on his collection or
Kaiserin Augusta Victoria roses The last
award is the highest honor In the gift Of
the worlis exposition.-Kokomo Tribune
Last Thursday night party OF coon
hunters killed wildcat three miles south
east of Morgantown weighing thirty-eight
pounds and measuring five feet three inches
from the end of it's nose to the end Of its
tail. The dogs treed the animal and, one
member of the party thinking IL to be a
coon. climbed the tree to shake ii down TO
the dogs. He was surprised when nearing
1t to see the animal spring at him, but
ducked and it passed on. alighting on the
ground 1t whipped the dogs in short or
der, but was pursued until ii took shelter
under culvert. gun was borrowed from
Uriah Wishby, near by, .and the animal
was shot by Fielden Musselman. 1t was
skinned and will be placed on exhibition at
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Republican.
The Indianapolis journal., 1893-11-14
THE SITUATION IN HAWAII.

The lates news from Honolulu, brought
by the steamer China, which arrived at San
Francisco yesterday, does not contain any
definite information as to the development
Of the Cleveland d-Gresham policy. Minister
Willis had reached Honolulu, but had not
yet had an audience with the President of
the provisional government, and, pending
such audience, had declined to make known
his Instructions All the indications, however,
pointed to an abandonment of the provision
Il government by the United States. Ad-
miral Skerret, who was relieved by Admiral
Irwin, had taken his farewell leave of Pres
ident Dole, and he and the naval party ac-
companying him had marched out of the
provisional government building to the tune
Of "The Star-spangled Banner" The new
minister will probably march in to the tune
OF God Save the Queen" On The night be-
fore the China sailed from Honolulu there
was large gathering of the Queens sup
porters at the house of one of the number,
and word was passed around that the Queen
was 10 De restored to the throne. 1t is be-
lieved by the anti-monarchists in Honolulu
that the Queen has all along had secret
sources of information In regard to the in
tentions of the United States, as every state
ment and prediction that she has made has
thus far been verified. 1t is probable that
the policy of restoration of the monarchy
was decided upon before Commissioners
Blount went to Honolulu, and that he had
secret instructions to keep the Queen in
formed to the policy of the adninistra-
ton. The dispatch says: 'It is the opinion
Of those who came up from Honolulu on the
China that the annexationists will make no
resistance if the United States orders the
Queen put back, but that her government
will have to keep a force of men constantly
on shore to maintain her on the throne"
That would be a spectacle for gods and men
an armed force of the United States used
to overthrow an infant republic and to re-
store corrupt Queen to a rotten throne.
To this complexion are we likely to be
brought by the Cleveland Gresham policy.
The Indianapolis journal., 1893-11-14
w. It. sTEAD-CHARACTER SKETCH.
Plain Speech of the Eccentric En-
glishman to ChicagOans.
Chicago Journal.


William t. Stead is a queer combination
of orthodoxy and heresy, of idealism and
iconoclasm, of egregious egotlsm ana SIN,
unostentation-a mixture of genius, crank
ideas, and sound sense. of UNCONSCIOUS self
conceit and conscious power of intellect
Whatever else Mr.. Stead may be he is
not conventional. His sharp corners of in
dividuality puncture the silken bounds of
accepted forms whenever he turns around.
No man who is governed by the proprieties
would say such things as Mr.. Stead says
and does. Last night he spoke to a throng
of Methodist students and professors In
Northwestern University chapel at Evans
ton He told them that the trouble with
church members was tnat they were too
damned comfortable" He even repeated
the phrase to make sure that tney under
stood it. He told them that in conflicts
between orthodoxy and heretics the here
tics were almost invariably right and the
orthodox sticklers almost invariably wrong.
He told the young biblical students that
they could learn more from blackguards
than from preacherS-that il there was any,
body in Evanston who was totally disrep
utable in their eyes that was the person
who in all probability had the greatest les
son to teach them.
Going even further in his heretical doc
t-ines, Mr.. Stead announced his belief
that drunkards were often such because
of the Christlike element in their nature; d
lump of clay never gets drunk, but q man
with a longing for the esthetic and the ideal
drinks for the inspiration ne seems to get.
y bit of harmful sentlmentality like this
naturally led Mr.. Stead to the subject of
spiritualism. He assured his hearers that
disembodied spirits were all around them.
and that his life was only segment out
of an endless life that began ages ago
Mr.. Stead confided TO his audience the
fact that he had come to the dividing OF
the ways of his life-that he knew not what
would come of his Daily Paper scheme, but
that he was absolutely sure, when the time
came. God Almighty would tell him in un-
mistakable terms which fork of the road
to take-that, in fact, he should feel very
considerably swindled if God didn't keep
MS promise in this regard.
The character OF this remarkable man is
shown in the spectacular yet laudable
conference of preachers, reforners, ed
itors, workingmen, Anarchists. criminals
and fallen women which he has hired Cen
trail Music Hall for the purpose OF holding
Sunday afternoon IL Is shown in the act
i've part he has taken toward preserving
the worlds fair buildings. and in the Un-
questioning assurance with which he has
gone to work TO reform city in which he
has lived as much as two weeks and which
he expects to leave about day after to-
morrow.
MIR Stead is a character unique AMI
refreshing as it is strong and optiTnistically
self-sanguine. His comet-like advent into
the heavens of popular cognizance is due to
his remarkable versatility OF brain power
coupled with two invariable elements-Jhe
spectacular and the reformaIory. Time
tries all such characters by their works
The Indianapolis journal., 1893-11-14
AMERICAN SENTIMENT.

The administrators Hawaiian policy is
fully as un-American and contemplate as
patriotic citizens feared it would be.-Kan-
sas City Journal
The Courant has known the American
people for a good many years. Its belief
is that they VIII not take kindly to Mr..
Cleveand's Hawaiian policy d.
vulged after the elections.-Hartford Cour-
ant.
In restoring Liliuokalani to the throne.
the administration is perpetrating blum
der which will precipitate bloodshed. What
the end will be there is no telling. Mean
while the world wonders at us.-Cincinnau
Comlnercial-GaZette.
1t is the first time in American history
that the power of the Republic has ever
been used to force a monarchical yoke
upon a people who had once won their in
dependence. 1t is act Of national self
StuitiEcation.-BoSton Journal.
President Cleveland has taken a bold
course in Offering to restore the native
dynasty to the throne Of the Hawaiian
Islands, and this country may be involved
in very serious complications before the
affair is oYer-Providence Journal
= The grotesque barbarlsm of the United
States beating down established govern
ment of honorable men and thrusting the
Queen back on her throne is suggestion
in every way unworthy of the Secretary or
State of the United States.-Chicago Rec
ord.
1t will not do. Let the people give to Mr..
Cleveland the enlightenment he seems to
seek without the candor to call for it
American bayonets uplifting and upholding
a monarchy, and such monarchy, would
be a source Of universal ridicule.-New
York Tribune
Never before was such deed done by
an American President. Never was the
right to do it assumed by the chief magis-
tratc of free republic. 1t is a blot on the
, history of the United States, an infamy
for which Americans will blush genera
tions hence.-Buffalo Express.
Mr.. Cleveland, in his latest and most un-
American recommendation-the restoration
of a rotten Hawaiian monarchy and the
overthrow of reputable and friendly re-
public-as usual diSmiSSeS the indignation
that his monstrous act has called forth as
more jingoism.-Chicago Inter Ocean.
The power of the leading Republic of the
continent is to be used to destroy repub-
ncan government almost at our very door,
and to put in its place a monarchical au-
thority which had been repudiated by its
subjects and which typifed in itself an
Ignorance shiftlessness and corruption un-
known elsewhere in our day within the
confines of the Western hemisphere.-St
Louis Globe-Democrat
The Indianapolis journal., 1893-11-14

Senator Voorhees, attack upon the Pen
sion Bureau will deceive no sensible vet
eran. In the last campaign Mr.. Voorhees,
most earnestly supported Mr.. Cleveland.
knowing that he would pursue just the
policy he has pursued. He knew that Mr..
Cleveland, when President before, had We
toed hundreds OF pension bills. employing
the most undignified, not to say brutal,
language in his veto messages. He knew
that Mr. Cleveland had vetoed a dependent
pension bill much less liberal than the dis
ability law OF 1890, and he must have known
that all OF the special Cleveland organs
assailed liberal pension legislation. In view
OF such facts, his scoring of Hoke Smith
and the pension policy will deceive no one.
except it be Mr.. Voorhees, himself. If he
expects to induce Indiana veterans to vote
for him and his party. Mr.. Voorhees, has
never been OF any use to veterans when his
help has been really needed.
The Indianapolis journal., 1893-11-14
ALL AROUND THE STATE.

We know Of a young woman VINO, In thlS
year Of grace, 1893, with her own hands,
has raised a crop of tobacco that she may
go away to school this winter.-OwensViile
Messenger
An old gentleman from the country was
in. Fdinburg on Monday with a wagonload
of hickory nuts. which measured out thirty
bushels and were sold to one or our gro
GERS for 80 cents per bushel-Edinpurg
Courier
Garrison McFan brought in this morning
the two finest fish we have seen this sea-
son. They were both pike, and one weighed
twenty pounds and one nine and one-half
hounds They were killed with a gig in
White river by McFall-Bedford Mail
The ladies of the Presbyterian Sewing
Society will spend one afternoon every
other week sewing for any one wishing
them to for one dollar for the afternoons
work, or six ladies will meet and sew on
any afternoon for fifty cents.-Attica
Ledger.
James F. Boots has in his possession a
well-preserved corncob and a piece OF the
husk which came from an inner room of a
cliff-dweiler's home in Colorado. Though
they may be centuries old both the cob and
husk are as well preserved a last year s
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Journal.
1t is beautiful drive along the gravel
road between Newport and Dana. The
road winds in and out Of lovely valleys and
aScendS
twists, and all the time presents pano-
rama Of changes in landscape that cannot
be excelled anywhere in this State.-Clinton
Argus.
The lady teacher of Center township
who interested and assisted her pupils in
gathering and selling walnuts for the pur-
pose OF procuring n list of the Young Peo-
ples Reading Circle books for the pupils
OF her district shows the right makeup
for frst-cless teacher and lady.-Ply-
mouth Republican.
Last Monday Sam Fritch fully demon
strated that an oil barrel filled with water
10 which was added the pressure OF fifty
feet of water in a half-inch pipe, pressing
downward into the barrel would not burst
OF some heated arguments on the subject.
-Fairmount News.
A courageous and sure-footed old horse
made the trip across the Few railroad
bridge over the river yesterday. walking
on the ties and never missing a step. EN-
over the race bridge of the railway IN the
same manner, but made a failure, falling
into the water when about half way across
the bridge.-South Bend Tribune.
The croal1ng ravens who are predicting
the failure Of gas In the Kokomo field
should visit the we'll drilled in yesterday
for the Kokomo Gas and OIL Company by
Contractor Sweeney. 1t is on the Becker
farm. south OF t.le city. and Is we'll down
The Indianapolis journal., 1893-11-14

advocated by all the ultra free trade and
Democratic papers in the East. During
April. Nay and June there was no censure
of the pension system and of those seeking
too severe for these papers to publish. A
large majority of the Democratic papers in
the North defended the Hoke Smith pension
policy when at it's worst 1t is too late for
them and those they represent to make
Hoke Smith a scanegnat now
The Indianapolis journal., 1893-11-14
FINAxclAL STRENGTH OF FRANCE.

A few years ago Italy borrowed gold upon
its bonds with which to establish specie
payments. Last year Austria purchased
gold by "a sale of bonds for the purpose Of
resuning specie payments upon a gold ba-
sis. Both nations were following the exam
pie of Germany in demonetizing silver. The
Austrian government has undertaken to sub
stitute gold for its silver. as did Germany.
until the great loss from the depreciation
of silver compelled the latter to suspend the
sale of silver bullion The stronger govern
ment OF Germany has been able to sustain
itself upon its gold basis, probably because
II has used much silver which 1t could not
sell as legal tender money. Nevertheless,
the latest reports from Berlin are to the
effect that Germany is suffering from the
narrowness OF it's monetary system Aus
tria IS In a bad way. The gold which II has
purchased II cannot keep, and its finances
are dcranged. But Italy is bankrupt The
The Indianapolis journal., 1893-11-14

The long delay of the Soldiers Monu-
ment Commissioners in awarding the con-
tract for the side groups of statuary begets
a fear that an insidious effort is being made
to work off something cheap. There have
been some outcroppings of this disposition,
and unless it is promptly net it may sue
ceed in working great and permanent in
Jury to the monument. The side groups
are n very essential part of the work, and
1t is of the utmost Importance that they
should represent the highest phase of art
attainable 1t is the end that crowns the
work, and if these groups fall below an
ideal standard the artistic merit of the en-
tire monument Will be conspicuously and
permanently marred. We can assure the
commissioners that they greatly misinter-
pref public sentiment in this matter If they
think any attempt to economic by adopting
anything short of the highest standard for
the side groups will be approved. They
should not think of awarding the work to
any but a strictly first-class artist of estab-
lished and approved reputation, and the en-
ployment should be given on such terms
as will insure his best efforts.
The Indianapolis journal., 1893-11-14
A warming TO Trustees.

The fate OF embeZZler Weeks is another
wholesome warning TO trustees who yio-
late the confidence reposed in them by spec
ulating with other peoples money. He had
; been intruSLed with the care OF fifty-fOur
estates aggregating more than 81, 600 600 in
value. mainly the sole possession of widows
and orphans. He began by mixing his own
money with that OF his clients indiscrinl-
inately, and his losses in his business
transactions were heavier than his gains |;
but he continued for years 10 pay over
money to those for whom he held funds in
trust, until the inevitable collapse came
and he fled the country, only 10 return
confess hts guilt and get a sentence Of ten
years in Sing Sing. He was possessed Of
brains, education and social position in
New York city, but he made bad use OF
them, and he takes the consequences of his
folly.
The Indianapolis journal., 1893-11-14

Stephen W. Dorsey, who left Colorado a
few days ago, says: 'Tn conversation with
ieading real estate men in Denver Friday
before left they all reported property val
ues as having jumped % per cent, as the
result of the election, reports notwithstand-
ing. Colorado is as prosperous as any sec
ton of the country. 1t has long since re-
covered from the silver slump" The silver
mine owners who drew such terrible pictures
OF ruin in Colorado ought to be ashamed of
themselves. The indications are that with
the active resumption OF gold mining the
State will turn out more value than ever.
while its agricultural resources have be-
come an important factor in its prosperity.
The Indianapolis journal., 1893-11-14
Mrs. ConI<lfng's VIII.

The will OF the late Mrs Roscoe Conk-
ling, which has just been filed for probate
shows that sne executed II only 2 few
months after the death Of her distinguished
husband, leaving ali OF that great properly
which Mr.. Conkling accumulated after he
began practice at the bar here 10 her oausn-
ter, Mrs Oakman. II was one OF the sor-
rows or Mrs. Conkling's life that the Sem
atoE seemed never recOnciied TO the mar
rlage OF his daughter TO Mir. Oakman, al
though were he living now he would pro5a-
bly, have as great pride in the successful
career OF Mr. Oaknlan in the railway world
"a any OF his associates have. Mrs. Conk-
ling seems 10 have made haste. and as soon
as she could decentiy do il after her hus-
bands death, TO make such manifestation
OF her own confidence rs the imn-etliRte ex-
ecution of such viii as this would show