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, 1893-05-24


Journal Of the American Chemical Society.
The Sugar Beet says: 1.-The Ptn1s lambsrtidnG,
from which sugar has been obtained, occurs
in the Oregon Cascade and coast RACES, also
near the Mackenzie river and the valley of the
Rogue river. Tue question of the pine-tres
sugar had been examined by Berthelot in 1855,
Considerable difference bet ween the rotatory
power of the product called Pinite BY Berthe
lot and the p~ine-tree sugar Analysed by DIR.
Wiley determined the latter to make further
Investigations. In the meantime q paper
was written in France under the title Of a
New Sugar with an Aromatic Nucleus. The
product called Beta Pinats melts at 1o6 TO
ls7 deg. F., aud when purified by a second
cry stallization from week alcohol, melts at
246 deg. DR.. Wiley says that the product
called beta pinits should be known as Pinite
A very interesting fact relating to this sugar
has been pointed out by Girard, :. e., that
from Madagascar caoutchouc o sugar may be
extracted which is identical with the several
pine-trse sugars above mentioned. The
original research is to be made by the chief
chemist Of tho Agricultural Dep IT. ent at
Washington. "-American Grocer.
, 1893-05-24
HIS SOLEMN OATH,

A popular comedian tells a story Of wait
er at one of the London restaurants who was
sadly given to drink. A parry of young men
determined TO reform him, and one day they
read to him an imaginary paragraph from a
paper relating a terrible accident, III which
an inebriate in blowing out a candle, was Kill
ed by the fame lighting the alcoholic fumes
If his breath. James pIioked up his ears at
this, and requested that the paragraph might
be read to him again, which was done, to the
evident horn or Of the poor lnalt, who immedI-
ately went in search of a Bible. Returning
with this he desired to take a solemn oath
upon it, bemoaned the fact that lie had been
a sorry tippler, and WAS bringing himself to
ruin, and then swore that never again, 80
long rs he lived, would he attempt to blow
cut a candle.
, 1893-05-24
THE BUOYANT FEELING in SUGAR.
CIRCLES
From The Louisiana 4 lanter d Sugar
MGnufGctm or.

A very noticeable feature of the situate"
IN Louisiana this season is the easy cohhdehoe
10 the future that is manifested oy nearly III
Of those interested in the in dus1ry, notwlth-
standing the fact that the political situation OF
sugar is thought to be dangerous. The Gem
mon conviction sesms 10 be that as the
American sugar producers have acc epted the
law Of Oct. |, 1890, in good faith, and have
gone forward and invested millions of dollars
III The industry an0er that law, and accepted
is conditions, one of which was that 1t shall
continue in force until 1904, that they will,
not be intelfered with by adverse legislation
and il legislation is had in the matter, that
common justice will suggest, if not demand,
that those who have accepted the law in good
faith, and who have proceeded under it, shall
be protected by other legislation equally
effective.
Discussion of this matter, however, seema
somewhat premature, and we only refer to it
in connection with that buoyant feeling that
is now pre-, ailing among our sugar producers,
and which seems 10 be based upon the Won
erful progress that we have made in our cane
culture and sugar manufacture during the
last decade, and especially since the OF ganiza-
ton of our Sugar Experiment Static n and the
accumulation Of the vast amount Of daia that
has been got together there, together with
the general habit of study induced through
cut the State at large by the publication Of
the experiments of the Sugar Experiment
Station and the checking up Of our compare.
BILE results on every sugar plantation of the
700or more in operation in this State, as we'll
as by those in operation in Florida and
Texas.
The sugar section of our State has become
one vast school, with every person Interested
therein, from employer down to fireman, d..
ing his best to obtain better results a.ong
1ue whole line of culture aud manufacture.
We now see the old processes RAPIDLY going
out Of use, and many old sugar houses d.
7uantlei and the work concentrated Iii fewer
houses Of modern construction, nechanicll
appliances of the very highest class being
erected in various parts OF the State for the
coming crops, and determined Effort making
in all directions TO get the very best results
that human energy, persistance and skill can
obj in.
, 1893-05-24
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, 1893-05-24

An observing man was asked, why r Young
Ladies' Boarding Academy reSembled a sugar
house. The dear fellow replied ;-"Because
both refine what is already sweet"
, 1893-05-24
pINE.TREE SUGAR.

The monograph by DR.. Wiley on Pine-Tree
Sugar was printed ia October, 1891, in the
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-01-19
A DIFFICULT FEAT.
To Catch Fall Dropped from Height
of Five Hundred Foot.

of Five Hundred Foot.
A few years ago-in 1884. l believe
several well-known baseball players at
tempted the impossible feat of catching
and holding regulation Spalding
dropped from the top OF Washington's
monument, says the ST. Louis Republic.
The experiment was tried by Trott,
Hines, Baker, Snyder and several lesser
lights in the fraternity, but none of
them succeeded in holding it or even
materially checking its progress to the
ground. The men named above were
all experts at their trades, but it is evil
dent that they gave their sports more
attention than they did their philoso-
ply during their school days, otherwise
they would have known that Il body
dropped from such height would be
travelling with a speed OF 1S7 feet per
second at the time of it's contact with
the earth. The reason why no living
man could catch and hold Il ball travel
ing with such velocity in plain enough
by making some hasty comparisons:
The greatest distance ball has ever
been thrown is 1915 yards l foot and Is
inch. The longest Shit" on record is a
few inches over 200 yards. In this last
instance the ball was sent into the air
at an angle of forty-fve degrees. Now,
mind this: Allowing the same ball to
have been hit in the same direction at
the same angle, with sufficient force to
give it the velocity at the starting
point that it would acquire in falling
in falling from height of 555 feet, it
would have gone 544 yards instead of
bare fraction over 200 yards. And then,
even think of trying to catch ball the
instant it leaves the bat on a 200 yards
trip! Ouch! Is it any wonder that the
boys let the ball slip through their fin
gers when it was on the "home stretch"
after having fallen from the apex of the
memorial to the father of his country?
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-01-19
IRREGULARITIES OF THE HORSE.
Why tho Equine IL Mover Sick ut the
Stomach.

Why tho Equine Is Mover Sick Mt the
Stomach.
There are many odd things about the
anatomical and physiological makeup
of the horse that are seldom noticed or
mentioned, even by the so-called writ
ten "authorities'' on such subjects, or
by veterinary surgeons themselves, SAYS
the st. Louis Republic. Emetics have
no more effect upon n living sick repre-
sentative of the genus cquus than they
would on marble representation of
AleXander's famous old Bucephalus.
Do you know why this is? 1t is be-
cause horse is unprovided with a gall
bladder. When one of the human fam
lily gets badly injured the gall bladder
acts in sympathy, and the result is
"deathly sickness" or fainting away
entirely With the horse it is different,
not because he is not sensitive to pain,
but for the reasons given. Some au-
thoritics consider that the most highly
organized of the domestic creatures.
One even says: There is no living
creature, not even hysterical woman,
SO ncrvously sensitive as horse; and,
as for the contention that horse does
not feel pain, think that he even
suffers more from an injury than a
man would from hurt of the same
magnitude" And yet this ''ncrvously
sensitive" creature has been known TO
eat u hearty meal when his cntrails
were trailing on the ground as q re-
suit of an encounter with q trained
bull in the arena, or from gunshot
wounds received in battle with human
foes This for the reason that he could
not possibly got sick ut his stomach"
because there is no overflow of gall to
cause such sensations
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-01-19
QUEER PHENOMENON.
An Explanation OF Florida's Curious spIdc,
Web Rain.


Web Rain.
A subscriber living in Gainesville.
Fla, sends to the Scientific American
for Identification a white thrcad-lillc
substance which he states fell to the
earth in large quantities during a rain
on September 90. A sample of the ma
terial had already been forwarded by
another person to the Smithsonian in
stitution and was thence sent to DR..
George Marx, of the department of ag-
riculturc, who makes tho following re-
port:
THE sample of white substance
which fell in large quantities in Gaines
vile, Fla, has been handed me by the
botanist of this department for cxami-
nation.
This very interesting material is
without doubt product of the spinning
glands of Il spider, or rather thousands
of spiders. The chemical rcagcncics
prove it is not Il vegetable matter, but
animal, and the fact that strands can be
dissolved nl3;cst infinitely into minute
threads, and further, the great length
of the strands, hundreds of yards,
causes the Inference that only spider
could manufacture it.
''The species of this spider is unknown
to me, but it is not improbable that it
might be u Nephila, a very largo orb
weaver, which abounds in the southern
part of the United States and the West
Indies.
The young spiders of many genera
avail themselves OF their spinning
products to migrate from their birth
place by floating through the air to
localities at a great distance. Should
rain moisten these weavings, the spider
web becomes too heavy to float in the
mir, and sticking together in great
masses, falls from above.
"a similar occurrence was reported to
me from Vallicita, Calaversa county,
Cal, November 1G, 1891. 1t has oc-
CURED there for the last four years in
October and November"
This is the first time this phenome-
non has occurred in the south. The
web is perfectly white and appears to
be a mixture of silk and cotton, but
mostly silk.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-01-19
AMERICAN FOUR MAsTED SHIP RoA-
NOKE.

The Roanoke is not the biggest Amor
lean ship ever built, but she is now the
largest wooden ship afoat. This dis
tinction of being the biggest belongs to
the Great Republic, which was evon
larger than the colossal steel five.mas-
ter Franco. The accompanying descrip-
tive matter of this large ship we arc en-
ab.cd to present to our readers through
the courtesy OF the American Ship.
builder. Tho Republic was built in
East Boston by Donald Mckay in 1853
Her master, Capt. Joseph =. Hamilton,
is the same Hamilton who now com
mands and partly owns tho Roanoke.
Tho Republic was not 30 heavily
spared as the Roanoke.
She carried 1858 square yards of
canvas, while the Roanoke spreads
nearly 10000. From boom end to boom
end-that is from the tip OF her bow
spirit to the tip of her spanker boom
tho Roanoke measures $40 feet. Hor
length on the keel is 81 feet, and her
length over all is 341 feet. Her e1.
treme beam is 49.3 feet, and her depth
20 feet; and her draft 81 feet. The
golden ball (truck) on tho top OF her
main skysail pole is nearly 600 feet
from the deck. Her main and mizzen
lower masts are % feet high and
her fore lower mast is 81 feet
high. Her fore, main and mzzen top.
masts are Sc feet high, and her jiggor
topmast is SO feet high. Each OF her
three topgallant masts is 90 feet high,
her three royal masts 10 feet, her sky
sail masts Is feet and her skysail poles
feet. Each Of her three lower yards
is 95 feet long her lower topsail yards
IS feet long, her topgallant yards &C
feet long, her royal yards SIS feet long
and her skysail yards "A feet long.
The Roanoke has loaded over 5000
tons Of general cargo for San Francisco
in Sutton's line. She carries crow Of
about forty mon. The Shenandoah,
sister ship, is 3,25s tons register. The
Rappahannock, which burned last year,
was 1858 tons. The Susquehanna is
another four master of about ., 900 tons
register. The Roanoke's lower rigging
Is set up with the modern wrought iron
turnbuckles now used altogether in
stead of the old fashioned hemp Ian
yards. One man and boy can do the
work OF whole watch in setting up the
rigging, and can do it in less than one
quarter of the time occupied by the old
way. These turnbuckles were made by
the Cleveland (OhiO Forge and Iron Co.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-01-19

In the window of No. or saw some
newspapers, and it seemed probable
that books might be sold also, though
the principal business i'll the outer shop
was, apparently, tl,e sale of cigars
"IIavc you books inside?" l asked of
the man behind the counter.
Nav" said he; "dcy amt nuttin' go
in on. Tommys maxim his book at dc
track desc days"
perceived that this was one of the
cigar stores which serve us the portals
for gambling dens. The man who buys
twenty-five cent cigar on the way in
usually cannot afford to borrow light
when he comes out. l went out into
the street and passed orc. which is n
dive. and 9S1, which is another dive.
No. 9S3 is ex-Alderman Swaglcv's place,
but the name over the door is McGilli-
gan. This is not n bookstore. No. 9S5
is candy store; No 9S7 is saloon; No.
$50 is n real genuine cigar store to the
best of my knowledge and belief,
though l should not be surprised to
learn that Ali Baba rented the second
floor and paid one hundred n week to
the captain of the precinct. The next
few doors that were open for business
admitted the unwary to the Cimis hotel.
There was once newsstand and book
stall in n corner of the barroom. but [
found that the proprietor had removed
it and put in Il free lunch counter. All
his customers can eat, while compare
lively few can read.
Beyond the hotel is drug store.
went in ind got patent medicine
almanac in order to guard against n
total dcarth of literature Then came
a dry goods store, followed by a wet
goods store. No. zoos is Retldv Gal
laghcr's. He has saloon and pool
room on the second floor, and above is
hot and glittcring den where one has
large and liberal choice of gambling
games. It's funny, too, that whichever
one you choose, it's hundred to one
that it gets the better of you. Next
door, uptown, is Levi Israelstein's
pawnshop. His real name is lothian p.
Perkins, of PASSPORT, but he has
changed ii by application to the lcgis-
lature because it interfcrcs with his
business
Nobody in distress would put himself
! into business relations with a Yankee
horse trader when by walking eight
blocks he could get loan from Solo
mon Isaacs Above Israclstein's is
Willig's bakery. I regret to say that
the tracks in the mud of the pavement
before Israclstcin's door led either into
the pawn shop or out of it toward Gal
laghcr's. Nobody wanted brcad-or
books. approached Il policeman who
was standing at 4 corner, and respect
fully removing my hat l asked if he
| could direct me 10 book store.
"Dcy ulster be one on Fourt aver
| moo. near T'irtecnt' street." said he.
but, my Gear SIR replied, ''that
is more than two miles from here.
"What t blazes. he rejoined I'm
responsible for that? AS 1 was sayin',
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-01-19

AIRY, with hot and cold water in the
kite hen and nobody to bring it up to q
fellow if, by chance. he should want to
use it; on street which was very quiet,
except for the evidences of negligence
on the part of the street cleaning de-
partnent, and these became very loud
I'm hot weather. 1 was to meet hin,
there at o'clock, or, if he should be
put, was to wait till he came in, and
he might be quite late lie was ont
when l arrived. Probab some hours
tof waiting were before me. sat down
ITO finish the evening paper. On the
way uptown had read everything OK
'ccpt the society notes and other, more
or less palutnbie, advertisements. l
disposed of these in n few minutes.
and time began to hang heavy on my
hands.
Why, ut such times, does Providence
always deny us the consolation of good
reading matter? These are the occa-
sions when history could be got into us,
or the principles of English grammar,
or tariff statistics, or THE Light OF
ASIA" by Sir Edwin Arnold, but we al.
most never get chance to learn any
thing in these moments, when even q
soap lad" lin four unknown Ian
jguages, including English as she is
wrote for such purposcs) would be a
blessed relief. + looked around my
friends room for n book. He had none
then read railroad time table which
was lying on the table. 1t contained IA
description of n vcstibulcd express train
with a dining car attached. This was
very fair fiction; the style was good
the plot was clcvcrly worked out, and
the humor, to anybody who had ever
ridden on the train, was delicious. But
1T was rot long enough. 1 was soon at
1.-THE mercy of my own thoughts. And,
do you know, when a man has spent the
best part Of his life in such apart
fments," and has afterwards escaped by
the desperate hazard of matrimony, the
thoughts which they bring back to him
are cold and desolatc enough to chill
the marrow of deep-sca devil fish. /
fell into n desperate black trance in
which l was conscious of nothing OK
ccpt the fear that 1 might wake ane
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-01-19

1t was Helen lluntJackson, it is said,
who named Tho Garden of the Gods"
in Colorado. Riding past the cabin of
q proprietor from the south in one OF
the carly days of the settlement, she
waSattractcd by beautifully kept gar
den, ~ which two negro servants, n
man and n woman, were working In
answer to n question the man informed
ncr that his name was Jupiter and tho
woman's Juno, whereupon she ex-
claimed: Then this must be the garden
Of the gods"
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-01-19
THE THIRST THAT PAYS.
1t Isn't the Thirst for knowledge,
According to This Story.
howard Fielding Tries co Buy hook In
. New York, and Passes Some Thousands
I of Saloons on tho Way to tho
Nearest Store.
ICopYR1cur, 1892.

This story has moral, but not with
my advice or consent. 1 am aware that
stories which show the authors. the
characters and the readers to be en-
Hrely without morals arc dc rigeur (as
I've say on the boulevard) in these days.
and would rather lose my self re-
apect than fool away my time on man
@scripts that are sure to come back.
AND yet was not always thus. | was
raised in New England village where
only one woman wore n lowcut dress,
hnd she did not from any improper mo-
tive, but because the sharp edge of her
Dollar bones would be always wearing
but the goods. However, this is di-
gression.
! L had very important business with n
fnan who had apartments-no, let's be
honest, he had a room up three flights,
In the rear, swept every Goth OF Febru-
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-01-19

town"
l didn't hear the remainder He
was a twenty-four-carat, full-jewcled
tough, and his raiment was more gor-
geous than the leaves of autumn. A
a plain, ordinary man could put on n
suit of clothes like that, and borrow
money almost anywhere. And though
his waistcont alone was worth more
money than any suit of clothes ever
wore, knew its value was greatly en-
HANGED by rectangular package in one
of its pockets, consisting of United
States notes, beginning with thou
sand-tollar bill and sloping gently
down to one on the outside.
/ turned from this Glittering and
successful gentleman, and strolled
slowly down to "Fourt' avernoo and
T'irtecnt' street" Sure enough,
found the bookstore. The proprietor
an old man in the last stages of dilapid-
alton, sat in the light of single small
jet, with his head in his hands
Glad TO find you in" said; GIVE
had long search for book store"
81 generally close the shop before
this time" said he, but I've been wait
ing in the hopes somebody might drop
in"
could not help contrasting his APP
pcarance with Gallagher's, and came
near asking him why he didn't get ont
of his business and sell something that
people want. But | looked into his
mild and honest eyes and couldn't bear
to give him pain. Probably, l thought,
he cannot get license on account of
his character HOWARD FIELDING.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-01-19


hnd that time had turned backward and
the room was mine.
Deaths head and crossboncs," I ex-
claimed; "let me be sane when John re-
turns will 20 out and buy book"
The nearest avenue was all aolow.
Every place Of business appeared to be
open, and 10000 clerks were working
twenty hours day because it was the
holiday season = for other people.
There was n drug store on the corner
and another place for the sale of liouor
next door Beyond that was Eddie
Gillie's saloon, where Tom Nolan was
shot in October. The place has been
very popular since then, and on this
evening it was doing a rushing business.
The number is 075, but if you must visit
the place, don't drink with strange
man. If ycu Go, you will go to sleep in
about five minutes, and aftcrward
wake up on the street in q suit of sum
mer underclothcs kindly loaned to you
by the stranger in exchange for what
ever you may have had with you when
Son accepted his invitation.