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The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1893-12-09
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The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1893-12-09

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The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1893-12-09

All Goods as represented, Prices as Low
rs the Lowest, no trouble to show Goods,
and a full corps of polite clerks always
on hand to wall on customers. jail
Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1893-06-01
The Guns of The ssvesuvius.n

~, o. Davidson In the juno st. Nj cholas.
The most recent applications Of the
blow-pipe principle, however, are the three
air guns of the United States "torpedo
cruiser" (or, as she is also called, tho
"pneumatic cruiser'O "Vesuvius." This
vessel of war is two hundred and ffty-one
feet nine inches long, twenty-si1 feet five
inches wide, draws nine feet of water, and
has displacement of seven hundred and
twenty-five tons; she is of 1874 horse
power, and she darts over the waves at q
speed of twenty-five miles per hour. She
is too beautiful and fast craft to be called
.'blowpipe gunboat;" but that is exactly
what she is, because of the blowguns
which stick up through the deck at the
bow. Most of these guns lie at an angle
sIanting back and downward to where the
air -coupressors lie close to the heel.
Into the somewhat bottle-shaped steel
Assks. which are shown In the diagram on
page 500, air has been forced until 1t is
compressed under . strain OF two thou
sand pounds to the square inch, by en-
eines especially constructed for that pur-
pose. The shells, or bombs, or darts fired
from the guns are made partly OF iron, OF
brass and Of copper. They are ten feet
long, fifteen inches wide, and while some
are Of uniform width, others give up half
their length to thin spindle or tail hav-
ing metal fans at the end, and looking
somewhat like . huge, clumsy arrow.
These darts are kept in three bArrsl-hke
| ssreyolvers," and AZ there are five darts In
each, the Vesuvius can throw fifteen pro,
| jsctiles In rapid succession.
When Q gun is to be loaded about TWEEN
ty feet of its lower end drops down by
| means of hinge, and from the revolver
| directly In front Of 1t one of the bombs ID
pushed back into the lowered end, which
Is then pulled up again In line with thu
Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1893-06-01
The Summer s.tttux.Room.

The lounges and upholstered chairs will
repay covering with ruffied skirts of ere,
tonne or grsss- cloth, writes Mrs. Hamilton
Mott in the June Ladies' Home Journal.
Wicker furniture Is, of course, always to
be preferred for the summer sitting room,
but as 1t is not always obtainsble, the
heavy furniture may be made cool In ap'
pearancs by fresh linen covers made with
an eye to beauty as well as to use. The
pictures and mirrors and gas fixtures
should all be covered with white mosquito
netting, the mantel drsped with q scarf of
summer silk or cheese-cloth, and only the
daintiest pieces of brio brac and the cool
est looking of photographs in light wood
frames be allowed upon 1t. Covers, with
ruf1ed borders of figured Irish lawn, will
add to the attraotiveuess of your sofa
cushions and will also serve as protec-
tion to their winter bravery. The tables
will look bstter If covered only with Gov
ers of a washable material, and sire xn
with the new magazines, the latest novels,
and numerous paper knives and fans.
This Is the room par excellence for the
dainty tea table with its pretty embroi-
dered tea cover, its dainty teacups, silver
kettle and tea-caddy, inviting the chancs
or frequent guest to hospitality. A bowl
of ice and jug of water and glasses
should also be close at hand. The open
desk should display lavish supply of sta
tionery of varying siz.s. Many women
have their summer paper printed instead
of engraved, and as this is done In fancy
types and in many different colors, the
prettiest effects are possible. Glass paper
weights, a glass stamp-bo1 and 9 glass
candlestick give quite pretty appearance.
A hammock hung across one corner of the
room, heaped with olive sateen cushions
which have been covered with lawn, will
add greatly to the attractiveness of your
Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1893-06-01
The nY.tery of Atmo.phcre.

From the Christian Union.
On dark or lifeless days the lighting of
the fire works a kindred miracle In the
study; il flls the room with life, color,
change. The four walls are unchanged;
the books look down in the old order from
the shelves; the table overhows as of old
with magazines and volumes In the act Of
being read; IL Is the came room; and yet
1t Ia not the same, for 1t Is prevailed with
. different atmosphere, but nothing holds
more of the magic of beauty and the charm
of life. 1t is, indeed, very subtle and
pervssive form of life; the form which fnds
its delicate and fadsless record In art
Thope transparent dsvns which the lover
of Corot knows 30 well are but marvellous
Impressions of atmosphere; the wonder is
not In earth or sky, IL Is In the fusion of
light and sir. There Is no bit of nature
that a man loves which has not his spell
for him; rocks, trees and running stream
remain to-day as they were yesterday, but
| they are changed, for q different atmos.
phere enfolds them. There Is no symbol
| of permsnency On this perishipg earth of
ours SO impressive as q mountain range:
| but there is no created thing so full of
mystery and change. Distance, height,
mass and relation are never the came two
| hours together. On come mornings the
hills are remote, inaccessible, immob!le of
| unbroken surfacs; but when the afternoon
1 comes, behold they are near, soft OF tone,
| with outlines that seem almost fluid In
their mobility, and with great assures, full
of golden light, opening their very heart to
the day.
Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1893-06-01
Worlds Fair Architecture.
t.


A travelled Frenehman WAS ssked the
other day how the buildings of the Colum-
bian worlds fair compared with those of
the last exposition in the French capital
After rejecting a moment he replied, ''The
buildings at Chicago are what you might
have expected In Paris; the buildings in
Paris were what you might have expected
in Chicago" That is to say, in the capital
OF the world of art the exhibition srchitec-
tuIe-snd architecture Is an essential part
of a worlds exhibition-in Its utllitsrisn-
ism made little effort to rise above the COM
monplsce, while in typical industrial city
of the New World the display Is of the no.
blest and most refined classic art. The
creation has avoided the eccsntrio SIS com
pletely as 1t has escaped the commonplace;
has achieved the grand without pretension
and has been mindful of beauty and hsr-
| mony that the severest critic cannot gibe
at it's ambitious magnitude. At the same
time utility has not been sacrificed to show,
nor the practical object of the exhibition
| to ostentation. No worlds exhibition was
| ever better housed or more conveniently
arranged, and the promise now Is that Ii
will be seen to better advantage and with
less weariness than any of Its predecessors
have been. As it stood on the day of its
formal dedication In October, incomplete,
its decoration in progress, with the scAf-
folding and building .stages, stIll msrring
the architectural effect, in the midst of the
| debris OF 10, 900 workmen driving on the
work night and day, IL was already suf-
| hcient answer to the doubt whether the
American genius is equal to the creation OF
| any works except those of mechanical in
genuity. The distinction of the Columbian
exhibition is not its magnitude: it Is no
that 1t contains the largest building evel
erected in the world; It is in its beauty
its harmonious grouping, Its spiendil
landscape and architectural effects.
Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1893-06-01

rest of the tube. When all is ready q
lever In the coming tower is moved
enough air Is admitted from one of the
reservoirs, and away goes the dart flying
through the air to distance of one and a
half miles.
The operation, which seems 60 simple,
does not look very formidable as q method
of warfare; but that dart whirled away by
the blowpipe Is in reality the most deadly
weapon known to war, afoat or ashore,
for in the head of the missile Ia stored Eve
hundred pounds of gunootton, than which
no more terrible explosive is known that
can be 30 used. The name guncotton
sounds innocent enough, and the material
lie nothing more than the cotton waste,
with which you have often seen engineers
cleaning their engines, soaked In nitric
and sulphurio acids, and washed clear
again. A pound of this will burn quietly,
but when 1t Is struck or "detonated," Il
explodes with force sufficient to blow up
good-sized house. If upon an anvil is
laid piece of paper with one or more let
ters cut out, and pound of guncotton is
exploded on 1t, the letters or figures cut
in the paper will be stamped into the metal
one quarter of an inch deep. Just think
of such force, and then imagine Eve hun
dred pounds of guncotton exploding on a
ship or fortl
Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1893-06-01
Copper from Birds.
IFrom the London Iron. ]


1t has long been known that 6 or = pel
cent. of copper could be obtained from tu
racin, crimson pigment yielded by tn,
feathers of the turseou, the African plan
tain eating bird of which there are twenty
five distinct species; but some new light
has recently been thrown on the subject
by Professor A. 81. Church of London. OF
the twenty Ave kinds of turacou, eighteen
namely, all those belonging 10 the three
genera turacus, gallirex and nusophsgs-
contain, according TO this gentleman, the
pigment turacin In from eight to eighteen
of the primary and secondary feathers OF
each wing. 1t occurs also In the head.
feathers and crests of some of these birds
The pigment may be extracted by the
most dilute alkaline hquide, producing q
magnificent crimson solution and it has q
perfectly well absorption spectrum.
When single red feather Is burnt, the
green fash Of copper can, 1t 10 stated, be
distinctly seen. 0nly one other animal
pigment containing this metal Ia known
that is kemooyaniB, respiratory pigment
like the hanoglobin of blood, not . mere
decorative pigment like turscin. 1t con.
tsins, however, but q small proportion OF
copper The average composition of tura,
Gin Is: carbon So 60 per cent, hydrogen
60, copper Z OIL, nitrogen 6 90, and oxy.
gen 27.74 per cent. The presence of cop.
per In the substance Is easily accounted fol
by the fact that bananas, the chief food Of
many of the turacou birds contain thi.
metal. The amount Of copper in the turs
Gin of single bird is not quite one fifth Of
q grain.
Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1893-06-01
DOUBTFUL.

Wild Eyed Mani want some soothing
sirup, quick Druggist-What sized bot
tlei Wild Eyed Aan-Bottlel l want 6
keg. It's twins.-New York Weekly.
"Things are coming my way at last, ,
murmured Hsmphat, the trsgedian, as ht
lodged deceased cat and received an
ancient egg in the right ear.-Philsdelphis
Record.
Chappie-I started to call lawst night,
but the dog bit into me 80 had to &c
away. Ethel-That's strange. He lie
usually very fnicky about what he eats
Vogue.
"Why, what's the matter with the boyF
81 wuz q seein' how many animals from
my Noah's ark could hold in my mout',
and I've been an swsllered giraffe an a
zsbrsl"-Life.
Old gentleman-How am to know that
you are not marrying my daughter for my
money! Sutherland how am / to know
that you won't fill inside of year!-New
York Weekly.
Love and Logic Meier Comprehensive
Are you certain you'll love me when I'm
olda He-Yes, Pm positive. False hair
and teeth may even be an Improvement,
you know.-Life.
A poor rule that won't work both ways
DO they always send people to prison for
misbehsylor, pspai Not alwsys-Warden
Brown was sen. away from prison for mis-
behavior.-Puck.
Miss Penstock-I am going over to Paris
this year to zee If cannot get something
decent to wear. Miss Pinkerly-You have
never been there before, have youa-De-
troit Free Press.
Mistress-It appears to me that you are
entertaining good many male callers in
the kitchen. New Girl-Yes'm; but yeh
needn't be scared, mum. 1 amt goin' to
marry any of 'em.-New York Weekly.
An Idea of Esss.-Tommy-I think a
bicycle is great deal better than sled
Papa-Why do you think SO, Tommy
Tommy-Why, because you can ride 1t up
hill instead of having to haul it up.-Puck.
Miss Kelly Ito dry goods clerk)-Hsve
you got any busiest Clerk-A few. Bus
ties are going out, you know. Miss Kelly
They bel Gracious, if they go out much
further we girls will have to STAND up all
the time.-Texas Siftings.
Indignant tourist Ito Partisan hotel man
ager who has just presented his bilO-See
here, you have charged me fifty centimes
you have not furnished me with scrap.
Mansger-Oui, monsieur, but 1t is for the
paper on which your bill is made out
Tit-Bits.
Fond Mother-I au, to understand, then,
that you have accepted Mr.. Lorry's pro-
pesala He's an excellent match you know.
Ethel (demurely)-Oh, yes mamma!
Fond Mother-Of course he told you he
loved you Ethel-Oh, dear, no mamma;
I didn't let him get SO familiar as that
Pick Ne Up.
Mr.. Penhecker-Er-my dear, there is
going to be a-sr-very important-er-
election at our club tonight, and may be
somewhat Ia Mrs. Penhecker-Very
well. I'll wait up to hear the returns.
Mr.. Observation-Disclosures you inter
ested in the returnss Mrs. Penhecker-
Yes-in yours Punch.
Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1893-06-01
As I'm slave Times.
TKate Fields washing ton. I

In portions of the south the old time ne
gro still fingers, preserving toward the
race the exact. relations of forty years ago,
90 far as outward Difference goes. A south
ern friend Of mine, while visiting in New
York, ran across an old cook who had
faithfully served her family for three quar-
ters of lifetime. She had wandered
north, and was trying to satisfy the north
ern appetite on orthodox southern dishes.
produced painfully in the eisht-by-ten
kitchen of an up town fiat. She begged 90
hard to be sent home that my friend yield
ed and bought her q ticket for the sunny
south. On the appointed day the young
woman went down to the ferry with Aunt
Cindy to be sure the latter was started on
the right train. The old dsrky was rad.
isntly happy, but seemed to have some,
thing on her mind. At last 1t came out.
"Yo' s'pose yo' could git me er HIP tin
cup, Mics KsteI" said abe when It was al.
most time for the train to leave. 81 like
ter died for . drink when come MORT"
why, wasn't there q cup In the train,
Aunt Cindyf asked the other In surprise.
'Lor', yes, honey" was the reply; "bu,
they WANT but one, n all the white folks
had ter use that. Yer po' old Aunty Clndy
didn't get drink fer most two days"
Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1893-06-01
WOMAN AT THE FAIR.

Woman was expected to shine at the
Fair. There is Board of Lady Managers
of the Columbian Exposition. There is q
Womans' building. There are all kinds of
exhibits of woman's work and skill. The
idea was that at Chicago Woman would
show this country and the world how
much ahead of Man she is and how capable
she is of padding her own canoe.
The exhibits are all right. They are in
structive and impressive. So are come of
the exhibitions of herself which Woman
has felt obliged to give at Chicago. First
We had the ladylike row In the Board of
Lady Managers of the Columbian E1-
position. Then there was the spatting and
splitting when some of the ladies gobbled
up tho Duchess of Veragua so that the
other ladies conldn't get chance to lay
the foundation for saying "When met
the Duchess of Vsragua," etc. Then there
was the dress discussion in the Women's
congress, where a number of the most ad
vanced of the congress women appeared in
what they now call Syrian, but what, in
truth, is the antiquated aud never pretty
design by Amelia Blcomer, of New York,
who was taken up in it as maudlin more
than forty years ago. And 1t was noted
that leaders of the revival who, standing
on tables, exhibited their costumes in the
morning session at the palace of arts, ap-
at an afternoon tea the same day.
All of which is more or less ridiculous
OF humorous, as one chooses to look at it.
But more serious things are told about the
conduct of gentle and lovely Woman at
the Fair. 1t is related that at the Con-
gress one afternoon q woman tainted away
because she could not get her foot from
| under the leg of chair in which a stout
| woman sat to her left. This unfortunate
| woman told the stout woman that the chair
but the stout woman refused to bulge un-
til at last the victim to this outrage
actually tainted away from pain. The
same day a woman tainted in the crowd
the heat and the press were 80 overwhelm
| ing. A man came to the rescue and
tried TO carry THIS woman INTO tne open
air. The women, orowding around, re-
fueed absolutely to make way, altheug gh
persistently appealed to by the benevo
lently disposed man. The sturdy Offices
of policeman we're fually required tt
make passage through the crush Of sci
fish women for the exit Of the helpless
creature who had tainted. Tales of e1
periences similar to these we have citec
abound A woman who attended most O.
the sessions of the Congress says: "Afte
having viewed the scenes enacted last weel
find myself wondering what right VI
women have to expect tender considera
ton from the men when publicly we trea
one another so brutally."
Woman is pushing for recognition. Sh
will get it if she pushes hard enough. Blu
with it's coming will go some of the polit
and pleasing fctions which have done suol
long and kindly service. If Woman in
sists on standing on her own feet with tn
feet of Man under them she can't expect +
be told that she has pretty little feet. Ma
has corns, and NO fest which step on ther
look small or feel small.
Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1893-06-01
THE "BAPTIsM OF FIRE.n
The Prince Imperial's Account of 1t.
[Archibsld Forbes In the June Century.l

Inc IE1HCc ACCOuht ol He
[Archibald Forbes In the June Century,
I knew the prince well. On the first
two occasions saw him 1t was through q
binocular from a considerable distance.
On August 2, 1870, the day on which the
boy of fourteen, in the words of his faith
er. "received his baptism of fire." I was
Watching from the drill ground above
Saarbruck, in company with the last re-
naming Prussian soldiers, the oncoming
swarm attack of B.taille's tirailleurs, fir
ing as they hurried across the plain. The
tirailleurs had passed little knoll which
rose in the plain about midway between
the Spicheren hill and where stood, and
presently 1t was crowned by two horse
men followed by great staff. The glass
told me that without a doubt the senior of
the foremost horsemen was the Emperor
Napoleon, and that the younger, shorter
and slighter-mere boy he looked-wss
the Prince Imperial, whom We knew to be
with his father in the field. fortnight
later, in the early morning of the 18th, the
day before Mars -la-Tour, when the Ger
man army was still only east and south of
Metz, accompanied German horss-bat-
terry which, gallopirg up to within five
hundred PAGES of the chateau of Tongue
Vile, around which was French camp of
some size, opened fire on chateau and
camp. After q few shells had been fred
great confusion was observed about the
| chateau and in the camp, and 1 distinctly
discerned the emperor and his son emerge
| from the building, mount and gallop away,
| followed by suite and escort. Years later,
| in Zululand, when the days work was
done for both of us, and the twilight was
falling on the rolling vsldt, the prince was
won't occasionally to gossip with me about
thoss early days of the great war which we
had witnessed from opposite sides, and be
told me his experiences on the morning
spoken of. A crash awoke him with 6
start, and he was sitting up In bed bewil
dered, when his father entered with the
exclamation: Cup, Louis, up, and dress
The German shells are crashing through
the roofs" As the prince looked out OF
the window while he hurriedly dressed be
saw shell fall and burst in a group o.
officers seated In the garden at breakfast
and when the smoke lifted three of them
| lay dead. That the story of his nerves
having been shattered by the bullet fire q
Saarbruck was untrue seems proved by ar
episode he related to me of that SAM
morning an hour later. On the steep as
cent of the chaussee up to Chatel the i'm
psrial party was wedged in the heart of I
complete block of troops, wagons ant
guns; long delay seemed inevitable. Blu
the lad had roticed wayside gate whenc,
track led up through the vineyard. h
followed it to the crest and marked 1t
trend; then riding back, he called aloud
"This way, paps" The princes side
track turned q block, and presently tn
party were in the new quarters In the au
beree of Gravslotte.