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Hermanner Volksblatt. [volume] (Hermann, Mo.) 1875-1928, 1893-02-10

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Hermanner Volksblatt. [volume] (Hermann, Mo.) 1875-1928, 1893-02-10
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Hermanner Volksblatt. [volume] (Hermann, Mo.) 1875-1928, 1893-02-10
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The Irish standard., 1893-07-29
DIFFERENCE IN DERIVATION.

genealogical Distinction Drawn Between
Apartment Houses and Tenements.
The writer of an amusing article on
APARTMENT house life in the Cosmopol-
itan says:
s"The distinction between an apart
ment house and tenement house is
somewhat hazy until the etymology of
the two words is considered. sTene-
ment' is derived from the Latin verb
'tenere' ito hold), and is the name
properly given to building that is
designed to hold or give shelter to the
largest possible number of persons at
the least possible cost to each indi-
vidual tenant apartment however,
is an, Anglicized derivation of another
Latin verb, 'parsere' Ito divide1, and
with equal propriety is applied to
a dwelling house, Of which the struc-
tural and social intent is to separate
family from family and to crafty the
desire for privacy that every house
hold naturally feels, at the same time
reducing the expense of that gratiA-
cation to a low estimate that is pras,>
ticable only through cooperation in
the fixed charges Of domestic manage
ment. Economy, therefore, is the pur-
pose Of the tenem comfort that OF
the APARTMENT"
The Irish standard., 1893-07-29
CHICAGO THE AMERICAN CITY.
What an English Writer Has to say-A
Comparison with New York.

What an English Writer Has to SaY-A
Comparison with New York.
The very essence of American prog
ress is it's unitarian spirit, and of all
the great cities of America. Chicago is
the most American in this sense, says
a writer in the London Hotel. To at
tempt to Judge that city and it's mar
velous productions by the concen-
trated test of untold generations of
artistic development is an injustice
1t must not be judged in comparison
with either ancient Rome, buried Pom
peii. ruined Athens or modern Paris,
but it may be compared with any and
all of the existing hives of industry,
homes of manufacture or centers of
commerce and rapidly growing wealth
with surprising honor, glory and fame
to it's energetic citizens. Chicago is
the center of industrial, commercial
and agricultural America. 1t is the
most American of all it's great cities, it
has made the most phenomena, prog
ress, has recovered from almost ruin
ognized highest position amongst the
marvellous cities of the great republic.
AS a center of commerce its tonnage is
almost equal to that Of London and
Liverpool combined; ss city its
houses are the largest and highest on
the surface of the globe, it is the home
of several of the largest industries in
the world, and it's population is grow
ing at pace which must inevitably
soon make it the most populous me-
tropolis in the universe. These are
hard utilitarian facts, appealing per-
haps but little to the artistic mind,
but full of fruitful reflection for the
social and political economist.
New York is almost . foreign city as
compared to American Chicago, and
were it not that New York S unrivaled
position makes it the leading port from
the old world it would long ago have
ceded it's title of empire city to the new
ly crowned national metropolis of the
great west. Chicago is a city which
has sprung into it's high position under
the energy and fostering care OF the
younger generation OF New England's
sons. It's leaders have been the scions
of the best stock of old English blood
found in America, and their latest eff
fort has been the organization and
completion Of the greatest and grand
est jubilee exhibition which the world
has ever seen. The Chicago exhibition
is huge success, insomuch that it out
does everything ever done before, and
is the browning triumph of the Ameri,
can spirit of Chicago.
The Irish standard., 1893-07-29
Cost of Training q Sailor.

A few years ago there was much
criticism because SO much money was
spent in educating cadets at the An
napolis naval academy. 1t also costs
a good deal in other countries to edu-
cate officers for the navy, especially
for the British navy. A complaint was
published in one of the London papers
a few days ago because each cadet
costs about $500 a year On the train
ing ship Britannia at Dartmouth there
are 24s cadets, with staff of 102 in
structors, and it costs about 5000, 900
wear to maintain them. OF this amount
the parents and guardians pay to the
government about $S5, 900 year. The
royal naval college at Greenwich is
said to be another quiclSsand for the
public money. 1t costs $25o,o0o year
to keep it running, and according to
the average attendance each officer
there instructed costs the country
about 1850 year.
The Irish standard., 1893-07-29
At a Washington Reception.

The comments of high life below
stairs on the fashionable entertain
ments given in Washington are char
acteristic and amusing, says Kate
Fields Washington. The last large re-
ception given by ex-Postmaster Gen
eral and Mrs. Wanamaker, it will be
remembered, was to the employees of
the post Office department, withoutre
gard to age. sex OF previous condition
of servitude. In speaking of the ap-
preaching entertainment one of the
guests of the house, thinking to please
the dignitary of the kitchen by remark
ing on the great number of acceptances
received, said: I'VE shall have great
crowd here tonight: we have 1,o33 ac-
ceptances. eyes," responded the
chef. loftily ignoring a respect Of per
sons in his reply, ''and they will bring
1903 empty stomachs with them
The Irish standard., 1893-07-29
ROOF GARDENS.
rhoy Arc Successful In New York-Maay
Moro Are Wanted.

rhey Arc Successful In New YOrk-MA1y
Moro Are Wanted.
The experiment of giving light the
atrical entertainments upon q roof, ap-
propriately decorated and lighted and
open to every breeze that blows, has
proved so grateful to the summer
population of New York that there are
now four such roof gardens in success
full and popular operation, while talk
of others in the future is abundant.
Their success, says the New York
Press, is not surprising, for the closing
of nearly all of the usual resorts OF
amusement during the interval be-
tween the regular dramatic seasons
deprives many people of an ordinary
source of recreation, while the attrac-
tions of the evening of relaxation amid
cool air and more or less diverting
spectacle with more freedom OF move
ment, conversation and refreshment
than are possible in an inclosured audi
torium are self-evident.
The popularity of the theatrical roof
garden suggests the application of the
idea in other directions. Already the
Bowery branch of the Young Mems
Christian association has fitted up the
roof of it's building with tables, chairs,
innocent games and opportunities for
smoking. chat and other harmless recre-
ations. The experiment has proved so
attractive that the usefulness and in
fuence of the association promise to
be enlarged by it. 1t is we'll known
that the inhabitants of the crowded
tenements on the East side and else
where have instinctively sought the
roofs of those buildings in the even
ing, until the practice has become an
estab lished feature of family life in
tenements, and excites no comments.
! Why should not all the inhabitants
of New York recognize that during
three months of the year they live in a
climate of tropical temperature? 1t
would be quite practicable for the own
ers of great apartment houses. and of
the smaller fiat buildings as we'll, to
build protective and ornamental para
pets about their roofs and to arrange
| them as common resort for their ten
ants. Many of these roofs command q
view that at night embraces the glare
of Liberty's torch, the sparkling arch
of the Brooklyn bridge and the freely
fringe of Jersey City Heights and the
Palisades. The air from ocean and
river sweeps over them. and with
trifling expenditure for light and com.
fort many acres of elevated space might
thus be made safe and available for
thousands of families
Such a plan, too, would promote the
element of neighborly acquain lance
which is so conspicuously absent in all
great cities. The idea might even be
extended to many private houses. In
tropical cities the roof is the usual
evening resort of the jewellers in every
house. The theaters and the tene-
ments have both pointed the way to a
practical addition to the health and
comfort of town life in summer,
The Irish standard., 1893-07-29
IN THE HEART OF A POPLAR.
The Strange Place in Which Kentucky
Skeleton Was Found.

The Strange Place in Which hontucky
Skeleton Was Found.
A surveyor of McCracken county,
KY. recently told the Paducah CORE
spondent of the Louisville Times about
a discovery made by some workmen
on his farm, about ten miles from the
former place. The men felled a large
poplar tree, some five feet in diameter
at the base. The surface of the trunk
Was perfect except in one spot where
a "catface' indicated that there had
once been hole into the interior. On
chopping up the trunk and splitting
It, a hollow was found to run through
it, and in that hollow was the sAele-
ton of a man. The skull and teeth
were intact, and also a good portion of
the vertebre, the breast bone, the
knees and the feet. 1t stood upright,
the lower part being about two or three
feet from the ground. The thinnest
part of the wood covering these bones
was fifteen inches. When the discov-
ery was made hundreds of people in
spected thetvonder. and carried off the
bones as relics. Various were the
..
expressed as to how and when this hui
man Skeleton became imbedded in the
very center of an apparently perfect
tree.
Those who are familiar with the
growth of forest trees were of the opin-
ion that it must have been encased in
it's upright coffin at least eighty years.
Was it an Indian Or white man? Had
he taken refuge there from an i'm
pending danger, and, being unable to
extricate himself, had he died and be-
come encofined by the natural growth
of the tree, or is it the secret of some
terrible crime committed in the long
distant past? These are some of the
questions which none could answer.
When the surveyor was asked why he
did not preserve the bones for scientific
examination, he replied that before
anything of that sort suggested itself
the skeleton had been broken up and
distributed far and wide.
The Irish standard., 1893-07-29
The Modern Picnic.

sWhen we went on picnics when !
was a boy" said middle-aged man,
1--WE used to carry our cake and things
in baskets. They were pretty heavy.
going, but we used to think how much
lighter and easier to carry they were
coming home. and we were quite will
ing to carry them. But see how N
this latter part of the nineteenth CEN
fury even that little detail OF lie mas
been made simpler and easier. heard
nv twelve year-old boy this morning
saw to another boy with whom he was
going on picnic: Bring your things
IN paper bag and then you won't oe
bothered with anything to lug around
after the picnic is over. :"
The Irish standard., 1893-07-29
THE sNAIL's MOUTH.
It Il Well No Big Wild Beast Has On
Like II.

It IL Well No Big Wild Beast Has One
Like It.
sit is a fortunate thing for man and
the rest of the animal kingdom said
the naturalist to New York Sun
man, that no large wild animal has a
mouth constructed with the devouring
apparatus built on the plan of the
insignificant looking snail's mouth, for
that animal could out devour anything
that lives. The snail itself is such an
entirely unpleasant, not to say loath-
some, creature to handle that few
amateur naturalists care to bother
with it, but by neglecting the snail
they miss studying one of the most in
teresting objects that come under
their observation.
"Anyone who has noticed a snail
feeding on a leaf must have wondered
how such soft, dabby, Shiny animal
can make such sharp and clean-cut
incision in the leaf. leaving the edge
as smooth and straight as if it had
been cut with knife. That is due to
the peculiar and formidable mouth he
has. The snail eats with his tongue
and the roof Of his mouth. The tongue
is ribbon which the snail keeps in a
coil in his mouth. This tongue is in
reality band saw, with the teeth on
the surface instead of on the edge.
The teeth are SO small that as many
as thirty thousand of them have
been found on one snails tongue.
They are exceedingly sharp, and only
few of them are in use at time.
Not exactly only few of them, but a
few of them comparatively, for the
snail will probably have four or
five thousand of them in use at once.
He does this by means of his coiled
tongue. He can uncoil as much of this
as he chooses, and the uncoiled part
he brings into service. The roof of
his mouth is as hard as bone. He
grasps the leaf between his tongue
and that hard substance, and rasping
away with his tongue saws through
the toughest leaf with ease, always
leaving the edge smooth and straight
'By use the teeth wear off or be-
come dulled. When the snail finds
that this tool is becoming blunted he
uncoils another section and works that
out until he has come to the end of the
coil. Then he coils the tongue up
again and is ready to start in new, for
| while he has been using the latter por-
tions of the ribbon the teeth have
grown in again in the idle portions
the saw has been filed and reset, SO to
.speak-and while he is using them the
teeth in the back part of the coil are
renewed. So think am right in say
ing that if any large beast of prey was
fitted up with such a devouring ap-
paratus as the snail has it would go
hard with the rest of the animal king
DOM"
The Irish standard., 1893-07-29
a Woman Turkish Soldier.

A Turkish woman has lately been
discovered serving in the Fifteenth
regiment of the sultan's army, under
her brothers name, where she had
shown herself capable soldier, and
for period eff three years her sex was
not detected. Her reason for serving
was to save her brother, who was the
only support Of Their widowed mother.
The sultan, on hearing her story, and
also that her conduct had been in
every respect above reproach, sent her
home, bestowing on her the Schefakat
order third class and a life pension Of
five pounds sterling (Turkish) per
month, and has also exempted her
brother from serving in the army.
The Irish standard., 1893-07-29
THE BOSS BORROWER.
e Obtained n Million and a Half With
out ANY Security.

e Obtained " Million and a Half With
out Any Security.
''The man who can start in life on
nothing and borrow a million and h
half without security is a beauty
said a traveller to a st. Louis Globe
Democrat man. Yet know Il man
that did that Identical thing. In fact,
he was an uncle of mine, my mothers
hrother-i1-law.
HE was German: and lived all his
life in Berlin. He was a very suave,
smooth gentleman, knew everybody
worth knowing, hobnobbed with the
mobiles of Emperor Williams court, and
loved to live. He was engaged in ,liv-
ing; that was his entire occupation in
life, and yet he was one OF the great
est artists in Europe.
''Whenever he thought himself ON
the wane among those who looked
upon him as an idol he painted pic
ture, put it on exhibition. had all Eu-
rope talking about it, and then he did
nothing for couple Of years.
''Some years ago the art fever broke
out in most malignant form among
the weather. Germans of Cincinnati.
They meant to have the best of mod
ern painters do a lot Of work for them
My distinguished relatives name was
well known among them. and he was
invited to Cincinnati. -
"He came over, and for d couple of
months he was lion. He was toasted
and entertained most royalty. He sub
mibted some ideas for painting. and
the people who brought him over went
crazy over his plans. Finally he in~
du led them to advance him seventy
FIVE thousand dollars on the work. and
he returned to Germany to do his
pain ting.
"He died about a year after and
when the Cincinna tians started to
look up the paintings they found moth
ing but the original sketches. He
hadn't touched them since the day he
first submitted them in Cincinnati.
'sThat started an inv stigation, and
it was found that he had borrowed in
the course of his career something
over one million five hundred thou
sand dollars. He hadn't dollars
worth of security, and had simply de
voted his time and talents to the pur
suit of living"
The Irish standard., 1893-07-29
A VIRGINIA MARVEL.
Great Natural Icehouse on Stone Noun
tain. in Scott County.

Great Natural lcehOuSe ON SCOne NOUN
tain. in Scott County.
In the north side of Stone noun tain,
six miles from the mouth of Stony
creek, in Scott county, Va, has been
discovered natural icehouse on a
grand scale. One of the old settlers
first discovered it about 1880, but
owing to the fact that the. land on
which it is situated could not be bought
he refused to tel it's whereabouts and
would only take ice from it in case of
sickness.
He died, says the St. Louis Republic,
without revealing the secret to even
his own family, and but for a party of
"seng" diggers entering the region it
might have remained secret for gen.
erations, as it is situated Oh an unfre-
quented part of the mountain.
The ice was only protected from the
rays of the sun by thick growth Of
moss resembling d texture, and like
the moss that can be seen dangling
from the oaks Of Louisiana and Texas
Its formation was after the fashion of
a coal vein, being q few inches thick
in some places, while several feet in
others. The formation indicates that
it had been spread over the surface in
liquid state and then CONCEALED. BY
what process it freezes or was frozen
is a matter of conjecture at this stage
of investigation. Some think that it
was formed in the winter, and had
been protected since by the dense
growth of moss which covers it, while
the more plausible theory is that be-
meath the bed is situated a great
natural la laboratory whose function is a
formation of ether, and the process of
freezing goes steadily on through the
heat as we'll as the cold. The growth
Of moss resembles the hanging moss
around Hudson bay and indicates a
frigid temperature. The bed covers
one acre and if it proves inexhaustible
it will be valuable, since it is located
near the Three Cs railroad.
The Irish standard., 1893-07-29
REPRODUCING PAST CONDITION.
An Austrian Physicians Interesting Ex-
peri1nents With q Human Subject.

An Austrian Physicians Interesting Ex-
peri1nents With Human Subject.
At general meeting held the other
day by the Psychological and Neuro-
logical Society of Vienna at the gen
eral infrmary DR.. Baron Won Kraft, a
physician skilled in the treatment of
nervous maladies, conducted series
of experiments intended to throw light
on the possibility of the mental repro
duction of an earlier condition of ex-
istence, says the New York Evening
Post. These experiments dealt, he
said, with a question of the highest
psychological interest-thatis, whether
it was possible by artificial means to
put person back into the condition of
former period Of his life. Either
what he had to show them was d piece
of consummate acting or a repercep-
ton of unconscious existence. In the
latter case the experiments would
prove that nothing which had once
been experienced was SO completely
forgotten that it might not in certain
exceptional circumstances be restored
to consciousness. The woman upon
whom the experiments were made was
thirty-three years of age. and had fo1
four or five years acted as medium for
an amateur hypnotizer-a fact in itself
enough to excite suspicion. The doc
tor said that he would successfully
suggest to her while in the hypnotic
state that she was, first, at the age OF
seven, then of fifteen, and lastly OF
nineteen years. and take specimens OF
her handwriting at each stage of the
experiment. Her manner, he said,
would correspond to the various ages.
The medium was then introduced and
put through the experiments, in ali OF
which she is said to have exhibited a
marked naturalness and a striking
change of voice, attitude and move
ment in accordance with the different
periods of life, her handwriting also
undergoing many changes. In the dis
cussion which followed it was general.
ly held that the power of reproduction
of past conditions of existence through
hypnotic suggestion had not been
established. and that the possibility OF
error or deception had not been ex-
Guided. The experiments. however,
were considered to be of sufficient in
terest to e.ll for further Investigation.
The Irish standard., 1893-07-29
When CARLYLE was Happy.

The following story of Carlyle is told
by Lord Houghton, the viceroy of Ire
land. whose father was friend of the
great Scotchman: It appeared that
the grim old Chelsea hermit had once.
when child, saved in a teacup three
bright halfpence. But poor old Shet-
land beggar with bad arm came to
the door one day; Carlyle gave him all
his treasure at once. In after life in
referring to the incident he used to
say: ''The feeling Of happiness was
most intense. would give one hun
dred pounds now to have that feeling
for one moment back again
The Irish standard., 1893-07-29
THE MELUNGEONS.
y Strange People Who 1.-Two In the Noun
tains of Tennessee.

y Strange People Who 1.-Two I'm the Noun
tains of Tennessee.
It is not generally known that in the
Mountains of eastern Tennessee there
ives class of peculiar-looking people
whose origin is wrapped in mystery
q I'd who are called by the whites Melun-
peons.
The legend of their history, which
hey carefully preserve, is this: A great
many years ago these mountains were
settled by society of Portuguese adj
9enturers. men and women, who came
from the shore of Virginia, that they
raw backs imposed upon them by any
form of government. They made them
ealves friendly with the Indians, and,
reed, as they were, from every kind OF
sacial government, they uprooted all
conventional forms of society and lived
In kind of delightful Utopia of their
own creation, trampling upon the mar
riage relation, despising all forms OF
~eligion and subsisting upon corn-the
only possible product of the soil-and
he game of the great forests. They
IN termixed with the Indians and SUD-
sequently with the negroes, and thus
F,r1ned the present race of Melungeons.
Iney are tall, straight, well-formed
people, of dark copper color, but
W tn Circassian features. They were
privileged voters in the old slave days
sad accredited citizens. They are
brave but quarrelsome, and are hospit-
able to strangers. They have no
preachers among them and are almost
without any knowledge of a Supreme
Being. They marry by established
forms, but husband and wife can sepa-
rate at pleasure without meeting with
any reproach or disgrace from their
friends. They have but little associa-
son with their neighbors. and are in
every respect, save that they are under
the jurisdiction of the state govern
n1ent. separate and distinct people. i