Morning journal and courier., 1893-09-04

1898.
doorkeepers seized and hurried him before
Sergeant at arms Bright, who asked:
"Whst has he dont,' "Applauded when
Senator Gordon stopped speaking" said
one of the doorkeepsrs," who did not know
that he was saying anything funny. "Dis-
charged" said the Sergeant alarms.
The flying machines do not fly, and the
attempt to call together in Boston con-
vention of the inventors to tell why, In
their opinion, their machines do not fly
threatens to be equally failure. Ar.S Sam
uel Cabot, chairman Of the committee hav-
ing the project In charge, says that the
responses to the call for the convention are
mostly from fying-mschine cranks who do
not understand the scientific problems to
be solved In aerial navigation, but have a
notion that they can build in day ma
chine that will fly through the air at cy-
clonio rate of speed. The Boston commit
tee has no desire to get these people to-
gether in convention.
The people of Denver are trying to find
a way to utilize q strange water supply
which has been discovered about eighteen
miles from the city. A cave Of consider
able extent has been found. In subter-
ranesn passage below the cave a stream of
ice cold and perfectly clear water about elk
feet square rushes. At times the quantity
Is said to be 30 great that IL cannot find an
outlet through the passage and rises up so
as to food the cave, out of which 1t flows.
The company's men are tied with safety
ropes and lowered into the water passage
in an endeavor to find some feasible method
of blocking the passage, SO the water will
rise inte the cave and flow out to the pro-
posed reservoir. The volume of water
is said to be immense and the main diff
Guilty Is to control 1t.
There is one place where the certainty of
taxes cannot be coupled with the certainty
of death. 1t is Hibbert's Gore, In Maine.
Only six families reside there-forty per-
sons in all. The gore comprises 800 acres,
bounded by Waldo, Knox and Lincoln
counties. and by some mistake was omit
ted by the engineers when these counties
were laid out. Having no connection with
any county and never having been organ
lied as town or plantation, the resldents
of the gore neither pay taxes nor vote.
They build their own roads, however, and
Rend their children to the schools nearest
by. By special provision of the statutes
she paupers of the gore are cared for by
the Oldest adjoining town, Palermo, but
there have been only three paupers in the
last forty yeara.
Search lights have become indispensable
to steamers of all classes and IN mill
tary and naval operations. By their
use objects miles away can be revealed
and illumined in the darkest night,
and their powerful beams of light
can be thrown in any direction. One of
the earliest applications of the search
light In marine work was to vessels pass
ing through suez canal. Formerly the
passage could only be made In daylight,
and was very tedious and costly; now the
electric light Ia at the service of every
ship as 1t enters the canal, and the journey
is, in nearly every case, pursued uninter-
ruptedly. A most excellent innovation
has been made by the Suez canal authoIi-
| ties, who have pronounced that 1t shall be
obligatory after October next on all ves-
| sells passing through the canal by night to
employ an apparatus for dividing the light
| of the protector into two divergent rays.
Approaching vessels may, by this means,
travel right up to each other without their
| respective helmsmen being blinded. The
| diverging apparatus which is to be used
has been devised by one of the agents of
the company.
A party of foreign agricultural commits
sioners to the Worlds fair, under the es-
cort of Governor shortride of North Da-
kota, saw some harvesting operations in
that great wheat country a few days ago
which must have opened their eyes, sccus-
toned as they are to the small acresges of
Europe. Driving through q vast wheat
field bounded only by the horizon, they
beheld as many as forty three twine bind
ers moving in a steady procession half a
mile long and cutting great swsths of grain.
They we're told by the owner of this farm
that in harvesting time he cut square mile
of grain in day and employed eighty men
to shock il up. He also told them that 1t
cost him from 81. 80 to So an acre to raise
wheat and that even In this year of low
prices and light crops wheat still paid 10
per cent. profit On an investment of SIS an
acre for land. At noon the visitors ss,
down to a prairie chicken dinner on g
mammoth scale, which excited their sur,
prise almost as much as the prairie acre.
on which they gszsd. Afterward they
visited the famous Dalrymple farms, Gov
ering %, 900 acres of ground, and saw nu
merous threshiDg machines making theil
inroads into the stacks of wheat which 4
required $50 twine- binders from two t.
three weeks to cut.