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Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1893-12-27
cHINA's CURSE OF OPIUM.

People Who Become Confirmed Smokers
Live Ten Years on an Average.
"Seven-tenths of the people of China
are opium smokers, and two millions
of them die annually from it's effects"
said Chinese missionary recently
who has spent twenty-five years of his
life in the Flowery Kingdom.
This habit is rapidly growing" he
went on. sit is confined to no class or
sex, but men and women, officials and
coolies, use it alike. AS soon as opium
smoking becomes a confirmed habit
with a Chinese coolie he knows that
he has about ten years to live. That
seems to be the average. l consider it
easier to reform a sot in the gutter,
one of your lowest type of drunkards,
than an opium smoker. Place them
behind iron bars, if you like, and after
being imprisoned short time they be-
gin to beg and plead for opium. They
rave like maniacs and their sufferings
are terrible to behold. They act like
wild men.
''The opium vice is running China.
The people know it and the govern
ment knows it, but they take no ac-
ton. In twenty-five years it has in
creased fifty per cent. Fertile fields
that were once used in the cultivation
of rice are now growing the opium
weed. The provinces in northern
China, where the terrible famine oc-
Cured few years ago and where
thousands persisted for want of food,
had been for years given over to the
production of opium instead of food
grains. When food was short the peo-
pie found they could not live on opium,
SO they starved to death.
ga parallel to the suffering during
that famine is hardly equaled by any
event in the history of the world.
Human beings died in the streets of
villages and on the roads. People
turned cannibals. Some dug up roots
and others were found on the roadside
where they had died biting the bark off
the trees. The dead were not buried,
for the living had all they could do to
take care of themselves.
"Now to-day rice is one-third higher
in price than it was score of years
ago, because the crop has fallen off.
Opium shops are everywhere. You
may be travelling along with your chair
coolie when the first thing you know
he will put you down and leave you
sitting in the streets while he goes in
to take smoke"
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1893-12-27
FACTS ABOUT THE HEART.

Interesting Statistics Showing the Vast
Amount of Work That Organ Does.
The human heart is hollow muscle
Of conical form placed between the
two lungs and inclosed in the pericar-
dunn or heart sac, says Leisure Mo-
ments. The ordinary size of the heart
in the adult is about five inches in
length, three and one-half inches in
breadth at the broadcast part and two
and one-half inches in thickness.
Its weight is from ten to twelve
ounces in men and from eight
to ten ounces in women. DR..
Benecke, of Marburg, has made
known his observations on the growth
of the human heart, the fact appear
ing that the increase is greatest and
most rapid during the first and second
years of life. its bulk at the end of the
second year being exactly double what
it originally was. Between the second
and seventh years it is again doubled
in size. A slower rate of growth then
sets in and continues during the period
of maturity of other portions of the
body. After the fifteenth year up to
the fftieth the annual growth of the
heart is about .061 of cubic inch, the
increase ceasing at about the fiftieth
year. The heart, although SO small, is
a wonderful piece of mechanism, and
of great power. With each stroke or
beat it projects something like two
and half ounces of blood into the
conduits or channels of the body,
throwing it for distance of nine feet.
This it does sixty-nine or seventy times
a minute. The number of its pulsa-
lions varies in the sexes and according
to posture. In the male it beats 81
times minute when standing, II when
sitting and 66 when lying. In the fe-
male it is 81, 81, so in the similar posi-
tions respectively.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1893-12-27

listening to the counsels of their king,
the wise Lobengula, the trouble was
warded off. But the grumblings of the
fighting men continued. They partial
ly believed Lobengula's explanation
of the course he was pursuing. He
had told them that his ambassadors to
England said that for every drop of
English blood shed fresh English
man would spring into being. The
medicine men said: "Let US kill these
here and see if what they say will hap
pen," but Lobengula's counsels pre-
vailed. The FESTIVE feeling finally
grew beyond that sable monarch's con-
troll and now the cable brings news
that the young men have risen and are
marching upon Forts Victoria, Sails
bury, Tuli and the others, comprising
the foreign military system in that
country. If the uprising is not speedi-
ly suppressed England has a serious
job on hand. The Metabeles are of the
same stock as the Zulus. Their mill
tary organization is almost perfect.
The population of Metabeleland proper
is about two hundred thousand. The
standing army is said by the Pittsburgh
Dispatch to number fifteen thousand,
divided into ferals or regiments and
commanded by Indunas. What is more,
these fellows can fight. They are born
soldiers, and as the troops are almost
as thoroughly organized as the British
they will make quite struggle. The
favorite weapon is the assegai or
spear, but many are equipped with
good guns and know enough to pick
out their men to shoot at when doing
battle.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1893-12-27
A SUN SURFACE.
Sir Henry Bessemer Tells of the Failure
of an Experiment..

OF Au EXPERIMENT.
Sir Henry Bessemer, the well-known
inventor Il . steel process which
bears n,ns .ells how he tried to
CONSTRUCT n LIN furnace" and failed.
His invention, says the Pittsburgh Dis
patch, was intended to revolutionize
not only the science of metallurgy, but
the whole world. 1t was to attain
temperature of nearly sixty thousand
degrees, and therefore fuse anything
and everything, and Sir Henry puts
the blame of its failure to fulfill these
expectations on the stupidity of a
country lensmaker. The ''sun furnace"
consisted of a wooden building thirty
feet high and about twelve feet square.
A few feet from the ground was fixed
a large inclinable mirror for catching
the rays of the sun; from this, mirror
the rays were to be reflected onto a
number of powerful super imposed
lenses above, which, by a simple ar
rangement, were to throw the enor-
mously concentrated rays upon what
ever object might be in the crucible
below. Such was the mighty plan, but
the manufacturer of the upper glasses
brought it miserably to naught, for in
stead of turning them out uniform he
made them all different and thus
spoiled the focus. Sir Henry was so
disguised and disheartened that he re-
fused to go over the ground again and
so the pretentious scheme lapsed, but
the peculiar furnace remains to this
day remarkable monume nt of what
might have been.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1893-12-27
GARNERED GEMS.

LOOKING back is more than we can
sustain without going back.-Cecil.
I LOVE, indeed, to suffer; but I can
not tell whether / am worthy to suffer
St. Ignatius.
DIVINE things are known to be di-
vine because humanity is endowed
with the gift of direct vision into divinI
ity.-Jonathan Edwards.
ONE of the illusions is that the pres
ent hour is not the critical, decisive
hour. Write it on your heart that
every day is the best day in the year.
No man has learned anything rightly
until he has learned that every day is
doomS1av -EmerSOn
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1893-12-27
SOME LARGEST THINGS.

THE largest European city park is in
Denmark. 1t is called Deer park, and
contains 1900 acres.
THE largest library in the United
States is that of congress. In 1886 it
contained $4,000 volumes.
THE longest wire span is a telegraph
wire over the River Ristuah, in India.
1t is over 5000 feet.
THE largest locomotive was built
four years ago for the Northern Pa
cifc, 225, 900 pounds in weight.
The largest iron bridge is over the
Firth of Tay, Scotland. It is 1852 feet
in length and has eighty-fve spans.
THE largest stone arch is the Union
arch of the Washington aqueduct, $40
feet broad and 100 feet high.
BROOKLYN has the largest suspension
bridge. It's entire length is $3.50 feet;
the main span, 1885.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1893-12-27
THE CAUSE OF SEASICKNESS.

Beginning in the Three Aural Tubes 1t
Eventually Reaches the Stomach.
Seasickness starts in the ear, says
writer in McClure's Magazine. In it's
cavity are three small tubes, each bent
in circle, and filed with fluid. The
three sit at right angles to each other,
like the three sides at the corner of
room or box. Consequently, in what
ever direction the head is moved, the
fluid in some one of the tubes is given
a circular motion. Hanging out into
the tubes, from their sides, are hairs
or ella, which connect with nerve
cells and fibers that branch off from
the auditory nerve. When the head
moves the fluid moves, the hairs move,
the cells are fired of, nervous cur
rent is sent up to the brain and feel
ing of the heads peculiar motion is
consequent. AS for seasickness: This
nerve current, on it's way to the brain,
at one point runs beside the spot or
''center" where the nerve governing
the stomach has its origin. When the
rocking of the head is abnormally vio-
lent and prolonged, the stimulus is so
great that the current leads over into
this adjoining center" and so excites
the nerve running to the stomach as to
cause wretchedness and retching.
Deaf mutes, whose ear "canals" are af-
fected, are never seasick. But normal
ly the amount of ear-feeling which we
get by reason of moving our head in a
particular direction comes in a curious
way to be a measure of the direction
of sound. The feelings we get from
our skin and muscles in turning the
head play similar role. We turn our
ear to catch sound. We do this so
frequently for every point that in time
we learn to judge the direction of the
sound by the way we would have to
turn the head in order to hear the
sound best. Thereafter we do not
have to turn the head to get the direc-
ton, for we now remember the proper
feeling and know it. This memory of
the old feeling is our idea of the pres
ent direction. If we never moved our
heads we never could have any such
notion of the location of sounds as at
present-perhaps none whatever.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1893-12-27
DUKE OF EDINBURGH.
He Is Now the Ruler of the Duchies
Saxe-Coburg and Gotha.

He Is Now the Ruler of the Duchies OF
Saxe-Coburg and Gotha.
Prince Alfred Ernest Albert, duke o.
Edinburgh, who has succeeded the lat
Duke Ernest on the throne of Saxe-Co
burg and Gotha, is the second son
Queen Victoria, and was born on Au9us
6, 1874. He was educated by privat'
tutors and entered the English nav
in 1858 as cadet and at once bcga,
active sea service. His advancemel
was as rapid as is usually the case wit
royal personages in the service of the.
country; in 1867 he was appointed t
command the frigate Galatea, and i,
1872 was promoted to the rank of vice
admiral, and subsequently to that of
admiral of the feet. He was created
duke of Edinburgh, earl of Kent and
earl of Ulster in 1866. In 1874 the duke
married the Grand Duchess Marie
Alexandrovna, only daughter of the
Car Alexander II. of Russia and sister
of the present car. They have had
five children. The second daughter
WdS HILL leu d SlIOI L ull1lC olSO w IlHCt
Ferdinand. of Roumania. The duke of
Edinburgh shares the musical predilec-
tions of his family and has some repute
san amateur violinist. The new duke
has the reputation of making shilling
go farther than most men. 1t is said
that when he was in Australia some
years ago he showed no hesitation in
publicly selling in one portion of the
colony the handsome presents that had
been offered him as tribute of loyal
ty by his mothers subjects in another
portion of the dependency. The new
duchess is the only sister of the present
car and woman of great strength of
mind. She is not very popular in
England, but possesses sterling value
and great common senSs. She is the
sole member of the British royal
family whom Queen Victoria does not
attempt to domineer. The duchess
answers her royal mother-in-law in the
latter's own fashion, and the result is
that no one enjoys SO much consider
alton at Windsor as Marie, the new
duchess of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha.
1t is understood that Prince Albert,
the dukes son, will succeed his father
when he comes of age, the present
duke resigning in his favor. He is
now nineteen years of age.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1893-12-27
THE FRACTIOUS PERIWINKLE.
Canarsie's Veteran Mariner Talks of Its
Eggs, EdibiIity and TribuIations.

VBIerdH IaIKS
Eggs, Edibility and Tribulations.
''Did you ever see periwinkles'
eggs?" said the deacon, as he cast his
line for snappers off Carnarsie. "Fish-
ing last summer over at Broad chan
mel, between Rockaway and that strip
of land yonder, I pulled up some
from the bottom. They were in long,
jointed strings, foot or more in length,
that made me think of rattlesnakes'
rattlers. I asked an old fisherman
aboard with me what had got.
'Them's periwinkles' eggs he said,
and, pulling some of the little COM
partments open, showed me the eggs
lying within like a golden pulp. AT
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1893-12-27
EVERY MAN A FIGHTER.

The Metabeles, Who Have Risen Against
English Colonists in Africa.
About three years ago the warlike
and intelligent Metabeles, of Mashona-
land, threatened a war upon the Eng
lish colonists in that country, but,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-12-21
4 GRAVE ACCUSATION.

One of the Marion county judges In the
course of conversation regarding courts
and trials, said that one of the things which
take considerable sums of money from the
county treasury is the custom of criminals
being permitted to have their trials in other
the accused has confessed the crime for
which he will be tried, who has chosen to
be tried in another county There is no pos
sible ground for the assumption that he
will not receive an impartial trial in Marion
county. If he goes to another county to be
tried said this Judge, the court will assign
him counsel and If it turns out like other
cases of the kind several lawyers will get
into the case and Marion county will be
compelled to pay excessive lawyers fees.
two or three times as much as should be
cases pending.
There is no doubt that the Judge who
thus freely expressed himself in private
conversation represented the matter as 1t
Is. III ne ul0, IL OlSclOSeS q serious
of affairs, because it makes it appear that
judges sworn to a faithful discharge Of
their duties are really guilty OF a con-
spiracy to defraud taxpayers in neighborlng
counties. The judge who assigns two law
yers or four lawyers to case where one
or two are all that are necessary, and APP
proves their bill for two. three or four
times as much as should be paid for the
defense of an accused person. is guilty of
a gross injustice. No law can reach him.
it is true; but is it necessary to enact laws
TO prevent judge from robbing taxpayers?
If so, we are in a worse condition than
the most pessimistic has yet claimed. 1t
is hard enough upon taxpayers to be COM
PEELED to pay lawyers to defend criminals,
but for judges to make such expense two
or three times as much as they would pay
If il should come out of their pockets can
best be labeled as a crime.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-12-21

Who are the men who have signed the re-
port approving the Wilson bill? Mr.. Will
son, of West Virginia is a free trade the
orist connected with industry. He is a
lawyer. but his attention has been devoted
to the free trade dogma branch of
craftsmanship. Benton McAIllin. of Ten
nessee, is a brilliant and bitter supporter OF
Calhounism, lawyer who would as soon
think OF engaging in any manufacturing
venture as he would of renouncing his faith
in State supremacy. He is jealous sup
porter OF all the ex-confederate war claims.
Alexander B. Montgomery. of kentucky. is
like Mr.. McMillin, except i'm capacity. He
is serving his fourth term. and nobody ever
heard of him and no one can imagine why
re has been put upon the ways and means
committee except to show he change OF
sentiment and deterioration OF capacity i'm
Kentucky since the lays of Henry Clay.
Mr.. Whiting, of Michigan. has died since
his appointment. Doubtless he was put upon
the committee because he did not represent
-hANiAohi eNhN'hNhN' NAis NNNhioiii VI ANNN
York. stands next. probably to represent
he importing interest of New York city
Moses r. Stevens. OF Massachusetts,. is a
wooden manufacturer who is for free wool
and free coal. but is said TO be dissatisfied
with the reduction Of the duties on wooden
goods. Mr.. Bryan. of Nebraska. comes next.
He is the boy wonder Of the transmissis-
sppi. theoretical free trader with per-
petual motion tongue and an intellect bomb
proof against facts. He is a lawyer and
has no interest in any manufacturing en-
terprlse. Mr.. Breckenridge, CT Arkansas, is
lawyer. a narrow and ultra disciple of
Calhoun. and a resident Of a district and
State which may be said TO be absolutely
without varied industries Mr. Bynum comes
next Every manufacturer in this district
| knows that his theories and his methods
as a politician make him hostile To him.
| Tarsney. OF Missouri. is u second Bynum.
| Mr.. Turner. OF Georgia, is now serving his
seventh term in the House. Did any reader
OF the Journal ever hear OF him I'm any de-
bate? or course, he is nomlnally a lawyer
and politically narrow and sectional These
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-12-21
A POLICY OF DUPLICITY.

No feature of the Hawaiian business
shows the insincerity and duplicity of the
administration more clearly than the in
structions to Minister Willis. The minister
was accredited to the provisional govern
ment. and the letter which he presented
from President Cleveland to the President
of the provisional government was almost
fulsome in its professions Of friendship.
Yet at that very time he had in his pocket
secret instructions from Secretary Gresham
to address himself at once to the work of
undermining the provisional government
and restoring the monarchy. Mr.. Cleve-
lands letter to President Dole was ad-
dressed Great and good friend" and it as
sured him of 1.-The friendship, interest and
hearty good wilr' which the writer enter
taine1 'for you and for the people of this
island realm" In the light of this letter
and Minister Willis's address to President
Dole emphasizing its sentiments. read the
following from the minister's instructions:
The President has determined that he will
not send back to the Senate for its action
0hC lANolS NlilC4l hC NltliiitW 4Ioil
that body for further consideration the
9th day of March last. On your arrival at
Honolulu you will take advantage of an
early opportunity to inform the Queen of
this determination, making known to her
the Presidents sincere regret that the rep
rehensible conduct of the American min
ister and the unauthorized presence on
land of n military force of the United
States obliged her to surrender her SOW
ereignty for the time being and rely the
justice Of this government TO undo the
fragrant wrong.
The minister was further instructed to
inform the ex-Queen of the Presidents de-
termination to reinstate her on certain
conditions, which it was presumed she
would accept and this being done he was
to advise the executive of the provisional
government and his Ministers of the Pres
dents determination of the question which
their action and those of the Queen de-
volved upon him, and that they are ex-
pected to promptly relinquish to her her
constitutional authority" These conflict
ing expressions show that the administra-
ton policy was one of duplicity and deceit
towards the provisional government, offer
ing the hand Of friendship at one moment
and stabbing it i'm the back the next
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-12-21

There is trouble. or. rather. was much
trouble in Virginia over the election of
United States Senator. When a scrub of a
person named Martin was nominated by
the Democratic legislative caucus for
United States Senator over Governor Lee.
scendant of Light Horse Lee and others
equally famous in the history OF the Mother
of Presidents. it was given out that the
nomination had been purchased, actually
purchased. in Virginia for filthy lucre. An
investigation was ordered, but the election
took place all the same, regardless of The
quisher of the Lees. was on Tuesday elected
Senator. Even before the vote was taken
Ex-Governor Lee testified to the legislative
committee that the railroads had contrib
uted $4,000 to the Democratic campaign
fund. only $1,000 of which had been used
in the regular canvass; the other S. 400 was
handled by the railroad officials. Mr. Cleve-
land contributed $1,000. Ex-Governor Lee
further expressed the opinion that rail-
roads have a right to contribute money to
campaigns to protect their interests" It
appears that Mr. Martin is the favorite
of the railroads. and it is probable that
while the Virginia Democratic members of
the Legislature were being assisted in their
canvasses by the railroads, they made them
certain against Ex-Governor Lee for Sena-
tor. 1t is sad blow for the first families;
and it may be added that when the chiv-
airy Of the South frankly admits that rail-
reads may expend money In campaigns 70
take care of their interests, it has fallen
away from the high estate which it so long
claimed
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-12-21

are the eleven who have signed the Wilson
who entertain all the heresies Of Calhoun
ism. Three of them are Northern men so
intensely hostile to protection that they feel
irnpelled to assail any Industry which pros
pers by it.
So much for eleven Democrats, who are
the putative fathers OF the Wilson bill
pathy with the great Industrial interests
of the country. Yesterday the Journal con-
tanned an interview with well-known and
prominent business Democrat President In
gals. Of the Big -Four railway system. His
business brings him in contact with the in
dustries of three or four of the North Cen
trail States. 1t measures the volume of in
dustry and the condition of trade Indeed.
there is no more certain or prompt in
dicator of the condition of business and in
dustry than the railroad, which is the ar
life-blood of industry. Mr.. Ingalls, is Dem
ocrat. He comes from one of the most con-
sentative Democratic families In Maine. He
has more brains than any of the eleven
named, and more practical experience re-
garding the industries of the country than
all the Southern free trade law
yers in the House. The opinion
Of such a man regarding the eff
asked when business would revive. he re-
piled: when these foolish Democrats throw
the tariff bill under the table. or modify it
To such an extent that our industries can
safely bu