davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-09-15

M -~..apveu; strongly made
glass vessels which the metal enclosed
are shattered into Fragments
In the profoundest abysms of the sea
are strange forms of life that never, save
when broughtup by the trawl. see the up
per light. The work carried on by means
of the United States fish commission YES
sci, the Albatross. has established the
fact that forms of sea life inhabiting up
per waters may descend to about 200
feet from the sarface, but that below
this. to a depth of 800 or $50 fathoms,
barren zone intervenes where marine
life seems absent. But still deeper,
strange to say, has been discovered an
abundant and varied fauna, new to sci
ence, living under conditions of tremen-
dous pressure and paucity of the life
sustaining element of oxygen that in
duced an eminent zoologist to say quito
recently, "What we know of the great
est ocean depths forbids us to expect to
find them inhabited 10y living organ
isms." Here indeed survive forms of
life the like OF which no inhabitant of
the upper world, not even the sun him.
self, has looked upon before the drcdges
Blake and similarly equipped vessels
dragged up marine creatures from con.
genial cold and dark.
1t might reasonably be supposed that
these deniZens of great sea depths would
be built moro firmly and strongly than
surface animals to resist the pressure of
the element in which they live, but it is
jnst the contrary. The most universal
characteristic of these creatures is the
looseness and fiabbiness of texture they
exhibit Indeed they seem to need tho
excessive pressure of tho water about
them to keep their parts together, for
when they are brought to the surface
they arc ready to fall to pieces. 1t is a
problem. so strangely are some OF them
formed, how they can move from place
to place. Were they not entirely below
the disturbing element of wave action,
they would, to all appearances, be help
less.
lnhabiting these abyss,nal spaces, as
completely cut cff from communication
with the upper waters as We are from
the inhabitants of other planets, we can
only vaguely speculate on their habits
and judge their manners of lfo from
their somewhat remote analogies to the
surface species nearest akin to them.
Plant life is entirely absent from their
place of abode, and although they doubt
less prey upon each other some original
sources of food supply mus f course be
conjectured to xist.-Cosmup olitan.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-09-15
To BE Buried Aliye,

The mind reader, A. ]. Seymour, Is
generally known in Illinois, and his pro-
posed attempt to be buried and remain
in the ground while crop of barley Is
grown on his grave creates interest
throughout the state. DR.. E. C. Dunn
IF Rockford has been selected by Sey-
mour as manager. DR.. Dunn says:
"There is no question that this feat
can BIO performed. 1 have seen it per-
formed successfully three times in India,
Mt Allahabad, Delhi and Benares."
For several days Seymour will be fed
upon diet of fat and heat producing
food. He will then throw himself into o
cataleptic state, the lungs will be filled
with pure air to their fullest capacity
and the tongue placed back and partially
down the throat in such manner as to
completely close the aperture to the
lungs. The nose, eyes and ears will be
Theoretically sealed with wax.
After paraffine has been spread over
the entire body to close the pores it will
be ready for burial. The body will be
put into an extra large casket. This
will be placed inside another, and both
will be perforated in order that if any
poisonous gases oxudo from the body
they may make their escape and be alb
sorbed by the soil. The interment is to
be made in o clay soil.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-09-15
Electric Freight Engines.

The three electric locomotives being
constructed by the General Electric
company to haul cars through the Bolt
railroad tunnel are nearly completed.
The machinery is about finished, and
the generators are we'll under way. Tho
locomotives will be of ! 200 horsepower
each and will consist Of three separate
trucks coupled together to form one
motor. The weight on drivers will BIO
100 tons, and the number of drivers to
each locomotive will be 10. The maxi
mum weight ,of freight trains to be
hauled is placed ut 200 tons, which can
be carried at speed of 10 miles an hour;
maximum weight of passenger train,
800 tons; speed, 80 miles an hour. s'-'s
Each axle Of the locomotive has mount
ed upon it gearless motor flexibly con-
nected to the driving wheels, and means
are provided for controlling the motors
and communicating them, so that high eff
ficiency can be attained at nearly all rates
OF speed by running the motors either in
series, multiple series or multiple, ac-
cording to the load to be hauled and
speed desired. The current will be sup
piled to the motors from the generators
by the regular trolley wire, with ground
return Though the rails. Where switches
and sidings occur special arrangements
will be made to prevent the trolley by
any chance from jumping the wire.-
Baltimore American.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-09-15
-wATERMELoN' PARTIES.
They Give Rise to New Question OF Eth
quette In Maryland.


One of the things in society is the water
melon party. The new diversion was in
dulged in in Howard county, just above
Ellicott City, the other night, and from
the latest accounts it has broken out and
promises to become epidemic down in
Anne Arundel, where the melons grow
in all sizes, species and favors. Just
how a watermelon should be served at q
watermelon party is knotty question,
and it has caused considerable debate
and some little unfriendly controversy
among the Four Hundred of the melon
growing counties.
Some contend that it should be cut
crosswise. Others say it should be split
longitudinally and eaten without fork OF
knife. This diversity of opinion may
relegate the melon party to the rear of
the picnic for the present season, as the
time of the fruit is limited now taa few
weeks, sbut the latent element in favor Of
the pastime may break out again next
season, just as the ague does every year
down in Pincy woods.
Another difficulty in the way of eat
ing watermelon artistically is to get
clear of the seeds. 1t is said that on one
occasion a guest at one of the parties in
sisted that it was proper to pick the
seeds out with the right index finger,
and if by accident one should get into u
guests mouth it should be swallowed.
A debate followed the proposition, in
which one man said he did not propose
to make n watermelon patch of his in
ternal makeup by planting seeds in it,.
The party broke up, and the hostess had
a lot of melons and an antipathy to such
parties left on her hands.
The outcome of the new fad is puzzling
the people i'll uppertendoln in the cities
and villages and rural districts. From
what could be gathered in the last few
days on the subject, the watermelon
party does not promise to be a pro-
nounced success. One of the great OBJ
jections is the uncertainty to what they
may lead, for if the watermelon party
takes with society it may in time be fol-
lowed by IL squash party, or II yellow
pumpkin party, or IL green tomato party,
or a sassafras root or tea party, or some
other thing Just as erratic. and the Four
Hundred it seems, would rather content
themselves with tho pink tea and other
diversions whereof they are familiar
than rush into new ones that might lead
to an endless amount of unrest Bnlti-
more American.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-09-15
The Energetic Camera rionh.

For several days an enterprising pho
toSrapher from Kansas has had ainasked
camera so arranged in a tent at the main
crossing into the Cherokee Strip that he
can take negative of everybody pass
ing without his knowledge. AS the
department. holds that every person who
now goes upon the strip is a sooner" and
loses his right to take land there, these
negatives will become very valuable evil
dence against those going i'll now to hunt
out good claims, and the owner of them
can command Il good price from each
subject to have his negative DESTROYED,
or can sell the same to contestors or the
government attorneys employed to hunt
up evidence against perjurers.
Cor. Chicago Herald.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-09-15

y very pleasing innovation was intro
duced i'll a musical programme rendered
before the queen at Osborne house Il
night or two since which deserves note.
Nine. Nordica and Mr.. Plunket Greene
We're the vocalists with Sig. Tosti as a.
companist on the piano, and III addition
to the accustomed repertory there were
given two old Irish songs arranged by
DR.. Nilliers Stanford, an old Scotch
song arranged by Miss Lucy Broad
wood and an old Cornish song, where
Be GoinG:" arranged by Mr.. Arthur
Somervell, all being sung by Mr.. Greene.
The introduction of this last into IL royal
programme may be considered due to
the labors of the Rev Sabine Barring
Gould, the well known novelist. whose
collection of the words and tunes of the
half forgotten songs of the west country
deserves all praise. -Birlningham Post
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-09-15
An international Episode.

An international incident of an I'M
usual and amusing sort has given inter
est to the news of the week from Cam
ada. Admiral Magnaghi arrived at
Montreal with his ship Etna, and as he
dropped anchor he fired q number of
guns prescribed by naval etiquette as
salute 60 the flag of a friendly nation.
But Montreal has a mayor who does not
recognize the kingdom Of Italy, and by
his orders the salute was not returned.
1t is understood that he bases his refusal
b recognize King Humbert on the
ground that Victor Emanuel wronged
the head of the church of which he is u
faithful member, and that the king of
Italy is, therefore, in some way n usurper.
The mayor Of Montreal is evidently a
long way behind the times But Adj
mirl Magnaghi is not, and he forthwith
telegraphed the Ottawa government, de-
nanding that the prescribed amount of
powder be burned in honor of the Italian
flag, and intimating that unless this
We're done without further offensive de-
lay he should feel compelled to resent
the indignity by sailing. right away out
of the St Lawrence. SO the premier at
Ottawa ordered the mayor ut Montreal
to fire the salute, the admiral is APP
Ieased, and the international INCIDENT is
closed.-Boston Commonwealth.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-09-15
An Old Carpet Worth 50, 800.

Tho longer n carpet is used i'll the
cOinels' department at the United States
mint the more it is worth. Wear and
tear do not diminish its value. Yester-
day thick wooden carpet that HES been
on the ooiners' floor for seven years was
taken up and carefully crcmated. The
precious ashes were scrupulously gath
cred together, as if they were the relics
of come departed saint, and by an elab-
crate refining process the government
recovered 270 ounces of gold, worth over
$500. The metal had been deposited
there by the infinitesimal abrasions and
disintegrations of the yellow metal while
being converted from bullion into coin.
Even the heavy gloves of the lnen who
handle bullion are moderated, and the
gold is brought back to Uncle Sans cof-
fers. Even the smoke from the furnaces
used for melting the metal is made to
redeliver the treasure with which it is
trying to escape, and from the SCOT in
the chimney cunning little bars of the
yellow stuff are secured San Francisco
Examiner.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-09-15

Postoffice Inspector Fleming has 81
bin which he says he will have framed.
lie got it from the bureau of admissions
at the fair on demand for the return of
money paid mt the gates. Nearly !;
month ago the inspector and Andrew
lr!e of the inspectors Office had special
call from the Office inside the grounds.
1t was case of stay out or pay to get i'll.
They paid under protest and got re-
ceipt. 'This bill is II curiosity" said
Fleming as he opened letter from
Horace Tucker, because it represents
the first case on record where post
office inspector had to pay to get into Il
postoffice. Chicago Times.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-09-15
Died For Love at Ninctx.nine.

AT Rostoff, on the Don, Prol,op Dogo-
bionko, an old corporal of the Russian
army, aged 90, committed suicide by
hanging. Before perpetrating the deed,
however, he drank IL litre of spirits, &C
cording to Russian custom. Dogobionko
had fought in the battles of the Beresina
and of Leipeic. Prepaaaaons were being
made at Rostoff to celebrate the corpo-
rails birthday when the old gentleman
made away with himself. Under Dogo-
bionko's spirit bottle letter was found
which stated the motive for the suicide.
He was madly in love with a girl of 16,
who would have nothing to do with him
and who had styled him an "old gentle
man" Petersburg Herald.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-09-15
: nypnotss,nc witnes,ess, 3 In court.

DR.. j. 8. Wintermute, complainant In
o $41, 900 damage suit against James Stin-
son, Chicago stockman, was accused in
the United States court of hypnotizing 8
witness who was on the stand. Winter
mute is said to be able to mesmerize and
hypnotic people.
couple of years ago. They were placed
on Wintermute's farm for breeding pur-
poses, and now Wintermute has sued
Stinson for services and the use of his
farm properties. This morning the court
denied motion for nonsuit, and Stin-
son, who had engaged able counsel, be-
gan to introduce his evidence.
One Of his witnesses ''could not re-
member" He halted and hesitated re-
peatedly, and finally Stinson told the
court the witness was being hypnotized
by the complainant, Wintermute. Judge
Sanford did not seem to consider the
objection seriously. The examination
was ordered continued and the witness
asked more questions, but he still seemed
confused. Again Stinson arose and
called the courts attention to the wit
ness's mental condition and insisted that
he was under a hypnotic spell. Winter
mute was observed to be making curl
Gus passes with his hands in the direc-
ton of the witness. He was ordered to
keep his hands down. Stinson says
Wintermute hypnotized persons in his
house at Chicago and is positive he had
the witness under his inhuence.-Tacoma
Cor. Chicago Tribune.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-09-15
a silver statnette of sunol.

The Ames Manufacturing company OF
Chicopee, Mass, has completed coin
silver statuette of Sunol hitched to Il
sulky, upon which is seated an equally
well known driver. The piece of statuary
is one-fifth life size and Is mounted upon
a bronze standard. The sculptor is C. E..
Dallin Of Salt Lake City. The whole
piece of statuary was nodded from silver
dollars. 1t required 1871 ounces of silver.
The sulky is an exact facsimile Of the
one in which the mare made her record
of 2:OS4. The piece is to be presented at
Il coming banquet in New York.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-09-15
ri.e White Cruiser Chicago at Dublin.

The stars and stripes are as familiar
TO Irish eyes as the flag Of green, but not
often is the symbol OF the United States
of America seen on an American battle
ship in Dublin bay. \ w;Tsllip is re-
garded AIS IL part of the teI1itory of the
state to which it belongs, and therefore
the Chicago may be looked upon us the
part of the great country i'll which SO
many of our people have found home,
and not few of them have found fame
and fortune. 1t was only natural, there
fore. that her advent TO our shores
should have stirred Irish hearts, and
that the flag flying above her should
have conjured up visions of battle days
WHEN side by side with 1t was carried
the flag of green Ireland gave Barry
to the American navy, and the blood of
Old Ironsidcs coursed through the veins
of Charles Stewart Parnell, and the
Irish nature would have ceased to be
Irish if our warmest affections were not
successfully appealed TO by the sight of
part of the armed force which the genius
of Barry helped To create and of the flag
under which the grandfather of the
Irish leader served and fought.-United
Ireland
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-09-15
A Provision In "A Doc.or,s VIII.

A Philadelphia physician who died the
othcr day left will containing some
queer provisions, including this one: IF
my family never settled with Mr.. Foster
concerning the dog, wish and want
them to give to the boy Foster who was
bit the sum of $40, but if they have set
tied with the said Foster, then they are
not to pay any money to said boy. This
is i'll fulfillment of a promise l made to
them when was III trouble concerning
the dog"
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-09-15

Gentlemen Who Aspire to he IIunkeys.
With the exception of Lord CARING
ton (who did very we'll indeeD the Off
cial actors i'll the ceremonial at the
dukes wedding appeared to be very i'm
perfect i'll their parts, and it is wonder
that no accident took place. 1t was odd
indeed to see number OF aristocratic
personages walking backward with the
appearance of being saturated with the
most slavish servility, but even more
grotesque and remarkable were the con-
slant and profound bowings and scrap
inys of all the courtiers.
Lord Palmerston once remarked tc
Lord Dalling, who repeated the saying to
Charles Lever, What happy arrange
ment it is that i'll an age when our fun
keys aspire to be gentlemen there ara
gentlemen who ask nothing better than
to be fiunkeys,' and lie never said n bet.
ter thing. Truth.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-09-15
EALTHY CHILDREN.
F,w THE BOYS AND GIRLS OF THE
RICH ARE BROUGHT UP.

Young People who Travel All Over the
Their Studies = Plain Food and Few
Il Swcetmcats For Most of Them.
4 There are in the United States about
400 children who, upon arriving at the
age of maturity, will come into the pos
session of very large fortunes. They will
each have many millions of dollars. In
TACT one-sixth Of the wealth of the United
States is supposed to be in the hands Of
I20 millionaire families, and each child of
each family will some day own the mil
lions that have been accumulated for it
Iby its parents and grandparents.
The parents of the children who will
some day own one-sixth Of all the wealth
in this country are very careful about
the training and the education of these
fortunate youngsters. They are bring
ing them up as carefully as ever the chill
dren of the royal families of England and
Germany were brought up. Their teach
ers are selected from the best in the
world, and they are taught, disciplined
and drilled in wonderful way-a way
that many children would consider very
hard, strict and tiresome.
These millionaire children must be
well trained, because they will control
many of the railroads of America, tele-
graph companies, and gold, silver and
oil mines, besides iron interests and other
great industries
AS a rule they travel great deal, and
some of them have been over our whole
country.
Take the Vanderbilt children for ex-
ample. They are constantly on the go.
In the summer they are at Newport.
Later they visit Lenox. Then they go to
Europe in a private steam yacht and re-
turn just in time to spend Christmas at
home. From February until June they
travel through the west in private car.
But during all these trips their studies
are uninterrupted A corps of teachers,
Igoverness and private tutors accompany
them everywhere. Their studies are no
more disturbed by departure for Next
co than public school child's studies are
disturbed by hailstorm.
Some time ago Mr.. Seward Webb and
his wife and children journeyed to the
Worlds fair in a special train. They
stopped to visit Mexico, Texas and Cali
fornia first. During all this long trip
the Webb children and some little cous-
ms who accompanied them went or
with their studies as usual. There was
q special car just for that purpose. The
car was called the "Idler," and it was
gorgeously hung with blue tapestries ant
fine pictures. 1t had blue carpet ant
blue chairs, and all its furnishings sug
gested q daintily appointed schoolroon
rather than railroad car
While on such trips the childrn" -
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-09-15

III their daily lives, their goings and
their comings and their play, nearly all
OF the little American aristocrats are
brought up alike. And that is with ex-
IRENE simplicity. They dress with one.
half the elegance of other children, and
they eat palmer food Such children as
these wear no jewelry at all. They do
not know what it is to have gold rings,
4 bangle bracelets and necklaces. Nor do
4 they carry watches.
4 Mrs. Paran Stevens, who is very rich
woman, says that her daughter, who is
now the wealthy Mrs. Arthur Paget of
London and New York, went wild with
'elight over simple little ring given to
~ sr when she was IS. 1t was her very
Sst bit of jewelry.
skaMrs. Whitney, the wife of ex-Secreta
Whitney, used to make it q point to
her lunch at the childrens dinner
and it was then that she took &C.
sion to teach her little ones by precept
i'd example the little elegances of man
ar which mark the we'll bred person.
IRIS. Flagler, the wife of the rich Stand
I'd Oil man, goes farther and often
lunches with her children in their school.
room and devotes many hours to person.
#al instructions.
But of course the daily life of rich
children is not all discipline. Though
they do not have candy and jewelry and
rich clothes and rich food, they have
-4uxuries which other children do not
have. They own beautiful horses and
fine dogs, all of the best breeds A mil.
lionaire boy has his saddle horse and of.
ten his tandem team when at his coun.
try home, and some Of these boys have a
four in hand. When one of these boys
wants a new horse, he buys one or Sc.
lects one from his fathers stables. He
has kennel of dogs, besides rare birds
and other pets. And If he wants to own
a collection Of stamps or stones or but
terfies or any other one thing, his father
gives him money to buy the best that
can be bought.
When young William Astor Chanler,
who is now exploring the heart of Afri.
ca, was spending his summers at Lake
George not many years ago, he was
seized with fancy for owning boats Of
all kinds. He wanted canoes, duck
boats, yachts and launches.
4 And he got them all. But the chill.
dren of the neighborhood used to say
Il that poor Willie Chanler" was never
allowed to buy soda water or candy.
lOne day the temptation to buy candy
became too strong for the boy million.
aire, and he marched boldly into candy
store with company of Lake George
4 boys at his heels.
Give me 20 cents worth of candy
said he, "and charge it to William A.
New York Press.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-09-15
Nearly Chokesl by IA Snake.

George Traley, employed near Lou
donville, o., raised pitchforkful of hay
and dropped it pretty quick. a black
snake fell therefrom upon his neck af-
fcctionately and came near throttling
him before the other fellows pulled him
off.-New York Recorder.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-09-15
4 We'll Filled Postal Card.

AT tho Dusseldorf exhibition few
years ago gentleman showed postal
card upon which the whole of the first
three books of the Odyssey We're written,
the remaining space being filed with tho
transcript of long debate which had
taken place in the German parliament a
short time before. The whole card con-
tanned $4,000 words. boston Common
wealth