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Connecticut western news., 1893-09-07
Wash Goods.

800 Yards Genuine Scotch Ging- hams at 15 cents, always sold at % cts. per yard. Don [ want a yard here Sept. 1st.
 800 YARDS of our regular I2I.c. Ginghams to 20 at Sets. yard. Don't want for dress.
 1000 YARDS yard wide CHALLIES, all CIV patterns, all the season 10cts. n yard. Now your choice a, 614 cts. a yard. .. Fa
 800 YARDS light and dark CHALLIES, at will go quick. f ..f, ..a
 PINE APPLE TISSUES and oRdANDIE CORDS are now 10c. a yard, heretofore 12L and 15 cts.
 A DOTTED NULL with colored figures, to close at 15c a yard,-25c was the price till now. This is one of the most desirable fabrics made this season.
Connecticut western news., 1893-09-07
SALISBUR Y.

Miss Gertrude Suydam left town Monday to attend the State Normal school at Willimantic.
 Jos. R. Bennett and Geo. E. Parsons are spending the week in Brooklyn. N. Y. ..a .- rass ..#
 Mrs c. F. Wanger and daughter are visiting relatives at Clermont, N. Y.
 P. O. Langdon with his daughter Miss Louise Langdon and also his sons Robert and Fred started for the Worlds Fair last week.
Connecticut western news., 1893-09-07

The greatest song writer was ocnuperJ. He produced over POO songs.
 The ancient Romans were very fond of sandwiches and called them ''offula."
 Lemons will keep an indefinite length of time if placed in sour milk or water.
 Once in every eight years all locks on the United States mailbags are changed to insure safety.
 More than 70 towns and postoffices in the United States and other countries are named Columbus.
 An old Indian adage runs, "While place and time endure, chastity shall abound in woman"
 "Goodby" is the saddest word ever spoken. It may mean but moment. and 1t may mean forever.
 In some of the southern states black snakes are kept ill barns in thehope that they will catch mice.
 The river approaches to Lake Nicara- qua abound with the only species of fresh water shark known to scientists.
 Fourteen logs, each 16 feet long, were cut from a sinslo sugar pine in Sierra Nevada logging district last winter.
 Every man who was ever president of the United States was lawyer or e sol disx and in numerous eases was both.
Connecticut western news., 1893-09-07

One of the best magazine articles, on the Worlds Fair, that we have seen, ap- pears in the September Cosmopolitan. The article is finely illustrated and should be read by everyone who is in- terested at all in the Exposition.
Connecticut western news., 1893-09-07
Shirt Waists.

We wish to call your particular attention to our line of Ladies Shirt Waists, which for va- riety of styles and low prices cannot be sur passed in Western Massachusetts.
 A nice Plaid Gingham pattern Waist, plait- ed back and front. at 3S cents worth b8 cents.
 Fine quality Percale Waists, fast colors, plaited back and front, an extra bargain at AS cents, worth 75 cents. .sA
 Extra Fine Quality Percale Waists, with rufille down the front, in all colors at 6Sc. made to sell at 98 cents.
 An Elegant Striped Lawn Waist, figured, ruffie down the front, plaited back at 7b cents. value, Sl.19. .- .. .+T5.
 How's this2 fine STRIPED LAWN WAIST with Derby Collar, plaiied back, at 98 cents. Made to sell at S1 .5O.
 SPECIAL values in WHITE LAWN WAISTS at 89 cents, Sl. l.00, 1.25, 50, 1.75, 200, 2.60
 FRENCH SATINE WAISTS, in Navy and Black grounds with dots and stripes, at 7bc. Reduced from $1.2b. Be quick If you want one as there are only few of them. ts
Connecticut western news., 1893-09-07
Clearing Sale!
 Bargains. ...

This week we commence our Midsummer Clearing Sale in all Departments with advan- tages to buyers that cannot be secured tt any other time during the season, nor equaled elsewhere. The representative attractions presented below speak for themselves. ...
Connecticut western news., 1893-09-07
How Do You PerSpfre?

The greetings of the diverse people on the Midway plaisance at the Columbian exposition are said to be deeply interest ing to those who are sufficiently ac- quainted with the languages to under stand them. But the Egyptians is the salutation which appeals most strongly to the broiled sightseer in this cosmopoh- tan reservation. He anxiously inquiries, How do you perspirer' There is won derful affinity between this greeting from the land of the Nile and the croco- dile and the familiar question put by Americans, from the Atlantic to the Pa- cific and from the lakes to the gulf, "Is it hot enough for youY'-Pittsbury Chronicle Telegraph.
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1893-10-28

one case break was caused by .
whale which got entangied in loose
portion of cable that hung between
two steep slopes 1t is important that
a cable s hould lie on the bottom
throughout its entire extent,
Incidentally to the surroundings OBJ
seryations were made of the bottom
temperature. Below half mile in
depth the water of the ocean is intense
ly cold. remaining both winter and
summer at a point only slightly above
freezing. Life in the vast waste OF
water called the Pacific is either near
the service or at the bottom The
abyssal fishes cannot live except under
the enormous pressure OF water
Such fierce, carnivOrous fishes as
exist in the depths of the ocean areun-
known TO the surface. There Is the
..black swallower," which devours
other fnny creatures ten times as big
as itself. literally climbing over its
victim, first with one jaw and then
with the other. Another species is
nearly all mouth, and having almost
no power of locomotion. it lives buried
| almost in the soft ooze at the bottom,
| it's head alone protruding. There is a
\ ferocious kind of shark resem bling an
/ eel. All of the abyssal monsters are
black as ink. Come of them are per-
1 fectly blind, while others have enor-
| nous eyes. No ray of sunlight ever
4 pierces the dark; unfathomed caves
in which they dwell Each species is
| gobbled up by the species next bigger.
/ for there IS no vegetal life to feed on.
/ The ocean bed across which the
cable viii lie is fairly well populated
with living species, most of which are
/ applies particularly to the larger fishes
which cannot be brought up with the
trawl The total length of the lines
surveyed by the Albatross and Thetis
between California and Hawaii, was
G,7s5 miles. In the sounding opera
! tions 179, l42 feet of piano wire was
lost, representing an expense Of about
5000.
The work of the government is
about completed. The object has
been merely to discover the praetiea-
bility of laying cable and to deter
mine the best route. A private COM
pany must do the rest toward carrying
out the scheme. This is the first step
toward c,ble running all the way
across the Pacific to Japan, China or
Australia. Such a cable is desirable
and necessary The circuit world
would then be complete with connect
ing wires. and a message could be
sent round the globe dozen times OF
more in the space of a minute. The
lines of the Eastern Submarine Iele.
graph company extend 70 India by
way of the Mediterranean and Suez
and the lines of the Eastern Subma.
rine Extension company enter undel
the seas of China, Japan. Australi;
and New Zealand
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1893-10-28

ton was obtained. has retarded the
work. The contract price Is Sii3,500,
and will not exceed that sum.
The William Window, the new reve-
nue. cutter on which work has Just
been commenced, Is intended for SER
vice at Baltimore. This ship will be
III feet long, 2s feet wide and 10 feet
deep. lie engines will be Of the triple
expansion, twin screw type and steam
viii be supplied by Scotch marine
boiler Weighing 10000 pounds. She
will have a cabin on the main deck,
handsomely finished in cherry and ma
hogany, with large masts, calls, etc.
The contract price OF this cutter is
sas, 500. IL will be completed early
next spring. When the big thirteen
foot canal from Chicago 10 the Illinois
river is completed Torpedo boat No. z
can be transferred from the Mississippi
10 Lake Michigan in few hours.
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1893-10-28

Tic ''declInation circle" the large
Wheel near the counterpoise weights
q eight feet in diameter and is made
OF cnst iron. 1t fits on the sleeve that
Is On the polar axis. and, as the
,..essointcz'' Is carried by thespinlle, the
circle Glands still, and the pointer
travcls around and reads the degrees
which are printed In large white
biia,....c end figures on the rim Of the
circle. The degrees can be readily
tean from the floor and give merely an
lnoproximate reading. This is called
| the coarse circle" The fine circle
\ fo. accurate reading is placed on the
lLesliiation axis near the tube, efd is
/ rec i by the observer from the eye end
By iacans of small telescope.
Tic driving clock is in the top sec
tioa o. the hollow column It is 2
wcieh. clock and the mccE2iisra is
srch that when the Telescope is
! jropcrly set upon any particular car
\ ID is Kept in the field autom@u lily.
/ TIE clock Is self-winding, for ~ inc
7 proper time il switches on 2 gma y
electric motor, and is wound Up again.
Electricity is used as power for
moving the telescope, and the observer
or his assistant can turn it by touch
ing d button. In the clock rom are
I three motors; one for winding the
clock, one to give a quick mo.icn in
declination; and one TO give quick
motion in right ascension. This mot.
ors can be thrown in or out from TIC
balcony ON the column or from Inc
floor. On the tube and on the deeli.
nat on sleeve are moto.s for giving
slow motion in declination and right
ascension, which can be switched q
and out from the eye end.
The application of power is m-
tarough o worm gear, Of WHICH tGS
wheel is ~ fcet in diameter, wcign
ing ~ tons. The wrecl IS 81 gas
[ iron, VIII phospher broh-e ria hay
; ing the teeth cut in tho b-oA4e. Til.
, worn Is of hard steel The telcscopi
( I can also be moved by hand, fer on tk-
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1893-10-28
YERKEs TEL scoPE, MANUFACTURERS BuILDlNG. =

the telescope. is that many inches in
diameter. This dimension places the
Yerkes telescope at tho head
of the refracting telescopes. Next
10 Al comes the Lick telescope
on Mount Hamilton. California, that
was built in 1857 by the same firm. Its
object glass, made by Aiving Clark OF
Boston, who Is making the object glass
for the Nerkes telescope. Is SO inches
In diameter. The next largest instrn-
ments are the ones at Pulkowa and
Nice, each having a So-inch object
glass. A 9s-inch telescope in the
Greenwich observatory comes naxL
aud then the 27-inch instruments in
Paris and Vienna and the 26-inch
glasses In the University Of Virgin
and az Washington, ID. c.
In the matter of mere size even tho
Yerlkes instrument Is little compared
10 the huge rejecting telescopes IN
various observatories. Lord Rose, ut
Birr castle, Ireland, has reflector
seventy-two inches across; the Bessc'
mer reflector In London Is tifty-four
and one-fourth inches in diameter;
Herschel and Melbourne rchectors
measure forty -eight inches across, and
the one at Paris forty-scven inches.
But a refracting telescope is so much
superior TO rejecting instrument in
power and general ndaptability that
the Yerkes telescope in the manufact-
ures building is called the Ia 'gest in
the world.
Its tube of hard steel is GA feet long,
and without any accessories or glasses
weighs four tons. The steel has q
varying thickness Of from fivc-siS'
teenths to one-eighth of an inch, the
thickest steel being in the center,
where the tube is hung, The table Is
somewhat cigar shaped, for II is 3.
inches in diameter in the center and
gradually tapers to A. inches at the
object glass and 80 inches at the eye
end With oil the rods, arms, finder:
and other accessories the tube weighs
seven tons. The column or pier upor
which the telescope is poised is made
of cast iron In five sections, having an
aggregate weight Of forty-two tons
The lower section or base proper flare'
out to t5xis feet and weighs eighteen
tons. At the floor level the pier is 6 xxi
feet aud gradually tapers to the head
casting, which rests on top of tbs
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1893-10-28

o. h side OF tue head are TWO ~ |
" h sells by whicI the assist IN asia on
ome- can Get the telescope. Time is
read on the coar4e hour circle, which
is on Ghe pola. axis. The circle is
space into twcnty-rour hoars, with
five-minute divisions, and is intended
for approximate reading. The Gnc
lou. circle for accurate reading is
placed just inside the coarse hour cir
Gle, anil is read through microscopes
by an assistant on the ba cony, which
is reached by spiral stairs. All the
bearings for moving parts arc of Bah
bitt metal, with means for accurate
adjustment, and self-oiling devices.
so well balanced is every part and so
eTcnly poised is the whole thing, q
child can move the instrument with
the greatest case.
The object glass i'll not be ready
I before the last OF the year, for the del
icatc work Of polishing and correcting
the glasses requires time as well rs
one of crown and the other of flint
glass. This is 10 correct chromat:e
alteration or color.
When the instrument is mounted in
its observatory tho co umn will stand
north and south. The details for the
observatory have not been completed,
but work on preliminary plans has
/ begun. With an object glass Is per
cent greater in area than any other
rcfractor, astronomers predict great
results from the telescope. II will be
used chiefly in spectrum analysis, and
the spectroscope and spectrograph arc
made and on exhibition in the gallery
| Just northeast of the telescope. With
out the glasses, the telescope as 1t
stands towering in the main aisle
seventy-five feet in the air, cost about
500, 900. A remarkable feature of 1t is
that practically it was designed end
bui. since last December.
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1893-10-28
True to rAfo nut Not diplomats.

One of Rider Haggard's earliest at
tempts in the literary line was called
"A Visit TO the Chief Secocoeni," and
very nearly got the writer into
trouble. II was then" says Mr.. Hag-
gard, serving on the staff of Sir
Theophilus Shepstone, and the article,
signed with my initials, reached
South Africa In its printed form
shortly after the annexation of the
Transvaal In the course of my arti-
Gle had described the Transvaal Boer
at home with fidelity that should be
avoided by members of diplomatic
mission, and had gone even the
length of saying that most OF the
Dutch women were fat Needless TO
say my remarks were translated into
the AfrilSander papers and somewhat
extensively read by the ladies in
question and their male relatives.
Shortly atterward there was
great and stormy meeting of Beers at
Pretoria. As matters began 10 look
serious, somebody ventured among
them to ascertain the exciting cause
aud returned with the pleasing intelli-
gence that they were nll tllking of
what the Englishman hal written
about the physical proportions of their
womenkiud and domestic habits and
threatening to take up arms TO avcnge
it. OF my feelings on learning this
news / will not discourse, but they
were uncomfortable, to say the least
OF It, Happily in the end the gather
ing broke up without bloodshod, but
when the late Sir llartle Erere came 70
| Pretoria some months afterwards he
administered TO me sound and WELL
deserved lecture en- my indiscrction."
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1893-10-28

of things In nature SIR JOHN TENNfEI..
and in his Imagination. Like most
great artists, he began 20 draw almost
es soon as he begin TO walk. While a
mere boy his first picture was exhibited
and sold at the gallery of British
artists in Suffolk street, London. He
studied art In his own way, and may
be said 10 be self taught. He was 0
successful candidate in ono Of the car.
toon competitions at Westminster hall
In 1s45, and painted a frcsco in the
palace Mt Westminster, but has pro.
duced only few paintings since, and
these have been for private collections.
He became a member of the staff OF
Mr.. Punch forty-two years ago and
has contributed 10 Il ever since. For
many years he has, without the break
of single week, produced the politi'
cal carlo n, which forms one of the
chief features of each issue, and may
thus claim place not only as an art
ist but as historian of his time.
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1893-10-28
nntchInr out AIllgators.

Alligators' nests resemble hayco ks
more than anything else to which they
can be compared. They average alb ut
4 feet in height and about feet in
diameter, and are constructed OF
grasses and heritage. First the mother
gator deposits one layer o eggs on .
mortar-like floor, and, having covered
tins with q stratum of mud and herb
age about eight inches thick, lays
another set of eggs upon that, and so
on to the top, there being commonly
from 100 to ZOO eggs in a nest, With
Their ills the parents then beat down
the tall grass and weeds 10 prevent
the approach of unseen enemies. The
female watches her eggs until they
are Matched by the heat of the sun, and
then takes her brood under her own
care, defending them and providing
for their subsistence.
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1893-10-28

and few people pass the ggantlc
comet hunter without paying an cx--
elamatory tribute to its size. For
month or more the huge iron column
or pier which bases the telescope stood
In a state of dignifed incom-
pleteness. but expert workmen
from the shops of Warne *
swasey. In Cleveland, Ohio, where
the telescope was built, put the big
tube into position a few days ago. and
In a week the telescope will be com
plete. This is the gift that Charles 4
Yerkes made 10 the University of CHI.
eago. After the Fair il will be take n
10 Geneva Lake, Wis, and there per
manently mounted to do ito share IN
advancing the fascinating science Of
astronomy. The telescope has clear
aperture OF forty inches That is, the
object glass, the great round eye o.
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1893-10-28

rwfx SCREW STEAMER WILLIAM WINDOW.
The Ericsson Is $50 feet In length.
i5{ foot beam, II feet high 10 main
deck and Is feet high 20 the top Of the
s.turtle-b back which is raised 20 allow
room for working the torpedo guns,
the largest Of which Is stationed on
the extreme bow. The hull Is built
entirely Of steel, aud Is conical IN
shape. resembling huge egg, and the
outside plates are galvanized 90 pre-
vent rast from contact with seH water
The boat Is divided into sixteen
water.tight compartments by longi'
tudinal aud gross bulk heads, 10 that
II could be pierced In number OF
places and still be in no danger OF
sinking.
This vessel Is pronounced by ex-
merits 10 be by far the strongest vessel,
the weight OF material considered,
that has ever been designed. Every
inch OF available space has been util-
ised, nnd The officers quarters. though
larger than those OF the crew, are not
much more roomy than q stAteroom ON
a Mississippi river BOAT.
The machinery compartment u only
n feet IS ide and ~ feet long, but IN
this small space Commodore Melville
has succeeded In placing machinery
that will add fresh lRurels 20 the al
ready enyiable reputation won by his
designs for the machinery Of ''the new
navy" None Of the foreign nations,
notwithstanding their larger expert
ence In building topedo boats, have
been able % secure the same amount
OF power without IN increase OF at
least 20 per cent In weight over this
boat
In the machinery compartment
proper are placed the main propelling
engines. These engines have two
steel shafts IS feet long and ; y inches
in diameter These shafts were TUNED
ont Of the Iowa iron works of this
eltv, on the only lathe west Of Bcthle.
hem, Pa, capable OF making a shaft
Of such dimensions. The vessel has
five steam pumps, surface condenser,
distiliing apparatus, electric light
plant, ice machine. and every appli..
ance necessary to convenience and
utility. The engines have,a capacity
Of 1900 horse power. The drainage
system OF the vessel Is so arranged
that in case OF accident It's entire
pumping machinery can be connected
with any single compartment.
The main torpedo gun is located on
the extreme bow and is capable OF fir
ing torpedo weighing over l,700
pounds. There are two other guns,
located on either side of the boat, near
the center. These are of lesser proper
tions and power. The main gun fires
torpedo that Is self-propelling after
IL strikes the water. The gun sends the
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1893-10-28

THE ROUTE OF THE HONOLULU CABLE.
The iodine contained in sea weeds de-
stroys iron rapidly. Accordingly To-
calities VIII CHI run quickly into deep
water over bottoms of mud or sand are
chosen for landing places at each end
of the route. BY selecting the gully
at Salinas LANDING for starting
point the minimum length OF cable is
exposed TO damage from such sources
as well as from the anchors of vessels
and from the wear and tear of break
ers. In shallow water great injury is
done 10 cables by the bivalvular msl-
lnsk, called the 'teredo," or ship
worm, as well as by shrimplike
erustacean ca led 'linnoria.
The latter is a very small creature,
only about one-eighth of an inch long
and covered with minute hairs But
its members are so great and its jaws
so powerful that il will demolish
wooden piles at the rate of an inch OF
their thickness per aunum. In the
shoal water near Honolulu the tenn
perature is about e degrees Fahren-
heit in whit ! r. This warmth might
interfere with the Insulating proper
ties of the gutta percha, and hence u
Recommended that india rubber shall
be used for the core at the end of the
line.
Instances are known where cables
have been cut by the swordhsh IN
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1893-10-28

b.
tions were placed cABTNEY.
In the highest rank Of the Chinese
nobility. This thing Of comforting
the rank Of nobility on people who
have died sounds little odd 70 oc-
cidentAl ears. but in China Is a
very high mark of esteem. Sir Halli'
day resigned his commission in the
English army and entered the service
OF the Chinese emperor thirty years
ago, and both as soldier and military
organizer during the FIRST half Of this
period an as dip.omatist during the
second he has rendered conspicuous
services 10 that country. Sir Halliday
Mccartney, who was born 10 the year
isss, Is the head OF the family of the
Maeartneys Of kirllcudbrightshire, OF
which the Earl Of Mccartney, who
was the first English ambassador 70
PelSin. in i7g2. was scion, Sir HALT
day entered the army medical depart
ment ia i65s, after taking degree az
Edlngbnrgh, and he served for short
time IN India before proceeding with
his regiment-the Ninety-ninth-to
China. In .s62 he entered the
Chinese service. and he eo.operated
la all the measures taken by
Ii Hung Chang. whose right
hand man he became, against
the Tapping rebels. lie won several
engagements ia the fed at the same
/ time that Gen. Gordon was leading the
ever victorious army" against the
main body Of the insurgents, and after
the rebellion was suppressed he organ
I ized the FIRST modern arsenal at Nam
I kin and remained in charge OF Il down
I TO 1876. when he was transferred 70
( the diplomatic service and sent as
English secretary with the FIRST Chi
/ nese legation accredited 10 Europe.
I The increased respect in which China
Z s. held, not merely in London. but
Z also ia Paris, Berlin and st, Pet rs
burg, has been largely due 70 his pow
Z erful advocacy and 10 the uncomprom-
+ ising manner in which he has always
7 upheld her dignity. Sir Halliday mar
1 rfed first In China princess OF the
\ Tapping royal family, by whom he
I had several children. His second wife
/ Is u French lady.