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The Olneyville tribune. (Providence, R.I.) 1893-189?, 1893-10-14
How Lightning Kills.

In my article "Why Lightning Usually
Kills." which appeared III Notes for the
Curious on January 7, of this year, |
stated that the electromotive force devel-
oped by ''bolt of lightning" of the
regulation size was $500, 600 volts, the
current about IA 600, 900 amperes and the
time Of discharge about 1-20, 900 part of
a second. There is no way OF measuring
the extraordinary amount Of energy thus
developed so as to give it in figures that
would be correct beyond all question,
but it is worthy of remark, that the best
scientists and electricians say that it is
not less than 2, 400, 100000 watts, which
would be equal to stroke of 3,2Si, lS2
horse power!
At the time the article above mentioned
was written was not in possession of
data that would give clear explanation
of the cause of death from lightning
stroke, but have since secured it in
the following, which is from the pen
] of one of the best electricians of
| the day: "The cause Of death by
lightning is the sudden absorption of the
electric current. When a thunder cloud
which is highly charged with positive
electricity bangs over any certain place
the earth beneath it becomes abnornally
charged with the negative electric cur
rent, and a man, animal or other object
standing or lying directly beneath also
partakes of the last mentioned influence.
If, while the man, animal or other OBJ
iect is in this condition, q discharge
takes place from the cloud above, the
restoration of the equilibrium will be
sudden and violent; or, in language that
we can all understand, the negative
current from the earth will rush up to
join the positive cloud current, and in
passing through the object which sepa-.
rates the two currents, if it be an ami
mate being, will do so with such force as
to almost invariably produce instant
DEATH"
According to the above, which seems
a tenable hypothesis, to say the least.
fellow is really 'struck" by the ground
current and not BY the forked fury from
above at all-ISt. Louis Republic.
The Olneyville tribune. (Providence, R.I.) 1893-189?, 1893-10-14

TIE HYGrESE OF THE TEETH. -"All
decay of the teeth" says the LONDON
Lancet, ''begins from the outside, no
such thing as internal decay having ever
been demonstrated hence, il the surface
could be kept absolutely clean, no decay
could take place, however poor the
texture Of the teeth. This is OF
course impossible, but much may be at
tanned by attention TO nygienic rules.
Parents often ask dentists and medical
attendants: When ought teeth TO be
cleaned?' The answer assuredly is AS
soon as they are teeth A very small
toothbrush charged with some precipi-
tated chalk. favored with an aromatic
drug to make it pleasant, is perhaps the
best means"
The PULSE AND THE TEMPERArCRE-
IL you take thermometer on a hot sum
mer day, and watch it until il runs up
under the influence of the sunshine 10
9S.4, you will see it, when it reaches
that point, at the exact temperature OF
your body, If you are in normal health.
Your temperature may fuctuate frac-
tion above or below 9S4, according 10
the time OF the day or night, but it never
varies TO any extent until fever or some
other kind of disease sets in Then the
temperature begins TO do what the pulse
would not do-tell just how dangerously
sick the person is. And one OF the strange
things about il is that it does not vary
many degrees from this normal point OF
9S 4, no matter how i'll the patient may
become. II there is high fever, it NAV
run up TO l0i or l0J, and sometimes
to l06, but il seldom stays at this
.ast point for any length of time.
II it goes up TO los, the good
physician who is watching at the
bedside of the sick person concludes that
death will soon put all end to the suffer
ing. Sometimes, as in cases of cholera, it
may drop several degrees below 9S.4 but
it seems to be impossible for 1t to change
many degrees from the normal point.
There are cases recorded where the tenn
perature ran up 10 40 or lie and the
patient recovered The pulse, on the
contrary, may change many beats, and
still the sick person will not be in danger
OF death But. as rule, il the temper
ature reaches los or l09 death soon fol
lows. A tiny thermometer, called a
clinical thermometer. is used to indicate
the temperature. 1t is placed under the
tongue, or close TO the skin in the axiia,
or arm pit, and left there for few min
utes. BY an ingenious arrangement the
mercury in the slender glass tube is self
registering so that you may tell how high
it was any time after the temperature is
taken if the mercury is not disturbed.
The Olneyville tribune. (Providence, R.I.) 1893-189?, 1893-10-14
AN ANITDOTE TO CARE.

Think that the grass upon thy grave is green;
Think that thou seest thine own empty c. air
The empty garments thou vast wont ia
wear;
The empty room where long thy haunt hath
b en-.
Think that the lane, the meadow, and the
wood,
And mountain summit feel thy feet no more,
Nor the loud thoroughfare, nor sounding
shore;
All mere blank space where thou thyselfhath
stood.
Amid this thought-created silence say
To thy stripped soul, what an / now, and
where?
Then turn and face the petty, narrowing caro-
Which has been gnawing thee for many a
day,
And il will de az dies wailing breeze
Lost in the solemn roar of bounding seas.
-[James Smetham.
The Olneyville tribune. (Providence, R.I.) 1893-189?, 1893-10-14
THE JOKERS' BUDGET.
JESTS AND YARNS BY FUNNY
MEN OF THE PRESS.

Compensati6n-The Critic Rebuked-
Against Her VILLA Parallel Case
Etc, Etc.
The Olneyville tribune. (Providence, R.I.) 1893-189?, 1893-10-14

II is only the women who can law
fully hold upa train. New York jour
nal.
The Olneyville tribune. (Providence, R.I.) 1893-189?, 1893-10-14

COMPENsATIOS.
II at first you dH~'t succeed,
Try, try again,
For perseverance overcomes
All things Of mortal ken;
And if you do not get the girl
You want or think you DO,
You re safe in betting you will get
The girl that's wanting you.
II Detroit Free Press.
The Olneyville tribune. (Providence, R.I.) 1893-189?, 1893-10-14

And that. boys, y the old musicians
story, just as he told 1t to me. You can
have il for what il is worth. At any rate,
il throws new light on that young fel.
lows life, and who can say but what he
was right Az least he saw the better
side, worse luck to me- Washington
Star.
The Olneyville tribune. (Providence, R.I.) 1893-189?, 1893-10-14
AGAINST HER WILL.

Mother-If that young man kissed you
against your will, why didn't you call
met
Daughter-He--h he held me so tightly
in his arms / couldn't call.
"Why didn't you call after he let you
go"
"Oh. there wasn't anything to call for
then. - Good News.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-01-29

thorp, T. Dewitt Talmage, Bishop Coke,
the three Drapers-John w, Henry and
John C.-be SO described9 Yes, and odd
as it may seem, the explanation is an easy
one.
Distinctly apart from its strictly aca-
demic functions the New York university
building has long possessed a peculiar
characteristic investing il, in the mind Of
the average passer- by. with a certain de-
gree of mystery not altogether devoid of
romantic charm This is the custom of
renting rooms upon the upper stories to
tenants engaged in pursuits wholly IN
connected with collegiate affairs. 1t is
generally known, In an indefinite sort of
way, that there thus exists, in an atmos-
phere of art, bohemianism and solitude,
a little colony, apart from the madding
crowd.
Few Americans are unacquainted with
the novel 'sCecil Dreme, written by
Theodore Winthrop in the university
building. Winthorp's own career was in
its way as romantic as his novels. If you
stand at the corridor window which looks
into Waverly place from the third story
above the sidewalk, the room lmmedi-
ately to your right and now numbered 81
is the room where Cecil Dreme, the hero
of the novel, lived and had his being, and
where so many prominent scenes of the
story are laid. The corresponding room
on the second floor, and now part of the
library, was once known by the imposing
title of s'Rubbish Hall, y and during the
period it was rented BY the distinguished
architect, Richard Hunt, Theodore Win
thorp occupied it as his guest, and not
only wrote "Cecil Dreme'' within its
four walls, but identified it with most
important portion OF his plot. Rub
Dish Hall'' formerly opened into a
smaller chamber at the rear where
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IN the fair heroine was confined
by Densdeth, the villain of the tale,
whilst her friends believed her to be dead.
The original of Densdeth is said to have
been no less parsonage than the bril-
liant and cratic journalist, William
Henry Hurlburt, who subsequently had
the small annex to ssRubbish Hall"
for part of his own costly suite of apart
ments which he vacated on his departure
for Europe in 1855. Robert G. Minor, the
famous landscape artist, was until recent
Nv the tenant of Cecil Dreme's room, and
while it remained his studio several nota-
bic events took place there. The society
reception to the great Spanish dancer.
Carnencita, was given in the studio a
wear ago, and al the adjoining rooms on
the same corridor were pressed into SER
vice as well. Il was the most notable So
cial sscrush'' of its kind ever seen in the
metropolis and was attended by all the
leaders of New York society.
There is hardly anyone now living who
has any personal recollection of the au-
thor of stCecll Dreme. - The late George
William Curtis was perhaps his closest
friend.
William Henry Hurlburt had the suite
of rooms opposite the library on the Wav-
erly place side of the building, lit by five
windows looking out upon the latter
thoroughfare. They are situated on the
first floor above the street entrance and
were splendidly furnished during his ten
ancy. Mr.. Hurlburt entertained consid-
erably. but his guests were selected much
less from among his fellow tenants than
from outsiders. In fact, his movements
were always mysterious, and he did not
admit everybody to the full freedom of his
chambers, which had certain alcoves and
curtained recesses tacitly recognized as
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-01-29

mented parapet and corner towers stand
out boldly in relief, forming an excellent
setting for the famous scene. You could
readily imagine yourself upon the walls
of the ancient castle at Elsinore, where
the melancholy Dane confronted his
father's shade. The company sat in a
corner smoking and Barnard, attired in a
white sheet. would go through the scene
with precision, to the infinite pleasure of
his audience. They used to say of him
that but two things IN America suited
him-green corn and the University
building.
The strange case of Hermit Gammage,
who was found dead in his room, No. SO,
in the University building last February
is one of the somber incidents that have
occasionally checkered its history. One
Saturday afternoon a servant found his
door open and key in the lock. Just
after she entered the room loud screams
were heard and the next room tenant, who
was one of the first to come on the scene,
gave the writer a vivid description Of what
he saw. 'sThe servant woman had
tainted. and no wonder, for her feminine
nerves could not be expected to stand the
strain. The night of brief February day
already fallen and the deep gloom of the
chamber was revealed only by the glim-
mer of a single candle guttering in the
socket, and the flame from one Jet of a
small oil stove. Old Mr.. Gammage was
sitting on the edge of his bed, his body
bending forward and his forehead resting
on the top of the stove. the flame of which
had already burned away portion OF one
side of his head. He was quite dead and
had probably been so for twenty four
hours. When they lifted his face from
the stove they found that his features
were calm and untouched by the flame,
and the greater part of his long white
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-01-29

private. Considerable changes have been
effected in the administration of the build
ing since his time, and very many Of the
old tenants have vacated and scattered. so
that information concerning his habits is
rather scant. One story, however, is cur
rent which tells of distinguished look
ing lady who used TO come and go, visit
ing his apartments unchallenged and ap-
parently always able to gain admittance
at any hour OF the twenty-four, whether
the owner was supposed to be at home or
not. Nobody seems to know who she
was or whence she came, but one fact
WIS undisputed, she never either entered
or left the building save alone and unat-
tended. In personal appearance she is
described IS having been possessed of
more than ordinary attractions of face and
figure. When Mr.. Hurlburt went abroad
some seven or eight years ago, having
previously disposed of his entire house
hold effects, the lady simultaneously van
ished. Whether the peculiar collection of
pictures which Mr., Hurlburt was known
to have owned. and which hung in chosen
parts OF his rooms for the inspection of
chosen eyes, were sold by public auction
or by private contract at the time he
broke up house, does not seem to have
been placed on record, at least it could not
be ascertained even upon close investiga-
ton. Anyway, he led a free and easy,
gay bachelor existence when within his
college precincts.
:. Samuel T. B. Morse, the father of the
electric telegraph, once lived in the top
room of the northwest tower at the
Waverly place corner of the building, and
some of his first experiments in tele-
araphy were made upon its roof. The
Diapers also experimental there with
photography. Commander Gorringe, who
performed the feat of transporting safely
from Egypt the famous Cleopatra's needle
which stands in Central park, New York,
was for time tenant of the university
structure, and lived there nearly to the
date of his death.
The English artist knew his Shakes
peare from cover to cover, and was besides
gifted with considerable dramatic power.
A favorite amusement upon moonlit
nights was reunion on the university
roof, when the ghost scene from "Ham-
let'' would be performed by Barnard.
Anyone familiar with this roof knows
how, upon a bright night, its battle
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-01-29
The Romance of University
Building in New York.
TALES OF WELL-KNOWN MEN
The Mysterious William Henry Hurl.
burt and His Company.
Wonderful ColIectio~ of Pictures Now in
Sealed Room Where the Scenes
of 'sCecn Dreme'' We're Laid,
ETC., Etc.
Copyright

NEW YORK, Jan. PA picturesque
corner of Bohemia, one that has sheltered
many a personality OF more than national
fane--is soon to yield to the memorable
hand of fate. The grey stone battlements
and turreted building of the University OF
New York, for the past sixty years land
mark of the American metropolis, Is to be
removed-reverently RACED to its found
alton, stone by stone; but every block
will be carefully numbered and the his
torie pile will raise again from noble
campus of forty-two acres, beyond the
Harlem river, near 2OOth street. Thus will
disappear from the limits of the city
proper one Of New York. most familiar
monumental venerable structure from
time to time, the nursery and
the home OF American genius. Why
should / allude to it as a
corner of Bohemia? Can the academic
walls that claim Samuel F. B. Morse,
Richard Grant White, Theodore Win
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hair was also uninjured. 'sThe poor old
recluse had died alone and unnoticed, and
had it not been for the fact of his leaving
the key in the door the body might
have lain there for weeks undisrturbed.
For thirty years Henry Ten Brock
Gammage has made his home in that
dusty, half furnished, comfortless cham
Der. He had no intimates, nor even
casual visitors; the servants of the build
ing never entered his room to clean it, for
he performed that function himself, and
what water he used he carried up stairs
each evening before retiring. The one
thing he took any interest in was the ex-
traordinary collection of pictures, the
exact value of which has never been de-
termined, and which were found stored
in his room in piles like lumber There
were more than 800 canvasses and he
always claimed that at least three were
respectively original works of Velasouez,
Gainsborough and Reynolds. When the
hermit's memoranda was searched a
letter was found addressed by him to SEN
ator Leland Stanford Offering the senator
the entire collection for Palo Alto uniyer-
sity and stating that the pictures had been
gathered from the galleries of Cardinal
Fersch of Rome, Daveschoort of Client
and Meert of Domberg. He had always
valued the Veiasquez at $40, 600. Curl
ously enough the estate of the dead her
nit is still in the hands of the public ad-
ministrator and the room where he died
remains officially sealed. 1t is therefore
just as it was the day his corpse was dis
covered and the dust gathers thicker and
thicker upon the art treasures he left be-
hind him in its cherries undisturbed soli-
tude. No one knows what wealth NAV
be lying buried in that sealed room, for
the pictures have never been appraised.
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Secret societies were sometimes gotten
up by the tenants and their friends. Their
object was conviviaiity. The members
used to issue round robin, - signed
by each, excepting the member selected
as victim, and to whom the robin was
directed, calling upon him to provide en-
tertalnment for them upon a certain
evening, when an immense punch bowl
was filled to the brim and partaken
of by the assembled guests. Ex-
traordinary artistic ingenuity was
these round robins Many of them
are genuine works OF art and also most
amusingly worded. The ambrosial nights
organized by the issuance of a round
robin, were always especially favorite
occasions.
When the building leaves its old site,
to be re-erected on a new one, surely If
there are ''sermons in stones,' those
that composed the university's walls can
preach eloquently of the past 10 their new
environment. THOMAS DoNNELLY.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-01-29
CHINESE GIRLS SMALL FEET.
A Freak of Fashion that Causes Fright
tuI Suffering.

An English paper quotes from writer
in the japan 1Ndit, who appears to have
special knowledge of the well-known
Chinese custom OF COMPRISING the feet
of female children OF the better classes in
China. He hopes that Jews of his readers
have been so unfortunate as to see the
naked foot OF an orthodox Chinese lady.
But many have looked at photographs of
this terribly twisted and distorted mem
Der, and the sight must haye suggested
thoughts of barbarous suffering inflicted
upon a particularly sensitive part OF the
human body.
Year by wear hundreds of thousands of
little girls throughout the wide empire OF
China are subjected to ruthless process
which brushes the bones and wrencheS
the sineWs of their tender feet until at last
revolving defornity is produced and the
foot, crumpIed into a shocking mon
strosity, becomes almost valueless as
means of locomotion. The wretched girl
energies from her period of feverish tor
ture mutilated cripple, condemned to
! hobble through life on feet which preserve
no semblance of natures beautiful
mechanism, having become as hldeous as
they are useless.
At intervals the missionary cries out,
the traveller writes, and the charitable
agitate; but the poor children never bene-
| fit For them there remains always the
same ruthless bending of bones, the same
agonizing application of tight hgatures,
the same long months of bitter pain and
unavailing tears. Perhaps. he suggests,
! it is to this singular contrast between the
general refinement and cultivation OF the
Chinese, on the one hand, and this cal
lous cruelty on the other, that we must
attribute the periodical appearance of
apologists for the appalling custom.
Some people say that, though the foot
is ultimately deformed. though the
woman is indeed condemned to be little
better than cripple. yet the process is
not very painful after all. The bones are
soft, they say, in early youth, the slnews
supple. Twisting, crushing and wrench
ing are operations that may be performed
without much suffering on baby feet,
whereas adults may be maddened by the
torture. To this the writer replies:
"Let no one talk of the yielding char
acter of young bones or the pliability of
baby sinews. We have listened with our
own ears to the cries OF little girlu
going the torJuring process. Such agon-
izing walls never before fell on our ears,
They were the shrieks of a child abso-
lutely wild with suffering. When the
ligatures were loosened and the shocking
succession OF breathless screams ended in
long drawn walls of exhaustion and mis-
cry, the listener turned almost sick with
horror and sympathy. Yet a mother was
the deliberate torturer of poor baby,
and father callouSly listened to its heart
broken cries.
s'Think that this fiendish barbarity is
being practiced daily and hourly through
out China.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-01-29
BaIIard's snow Linlrnent.

This Linimeptis different in compost
ton from any other liniment. on the
market. 1t is scientific discovery which
results in it being the most penetrating
Liniment ever known. There are numer-
GUS white limitations, which may be re-
commended because they pay the seller a
mand Ballard IS Snow Liniment 1t posi-
lively cures rheumatism, neuralgia,
sprains, cuts, bruises, wounds, sciatic
and inflammatory rheumatism, burns,
scalds, sore feet, contracted muscles, stiff
Joints, old sores, pain in back, barb wire
cuts, sore chest or throat, and is espec-
tally beneficial in paralysis. Sold by q.
C, NJ. I. Drug Dept. Q
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-01-29
What Stronger Prom

Is needed of the merit of Hoods Sarsapa-
rilla than the hundreds of letters contin-
ually coming in, telling of marvellous
cures it has effected after all other rene
dies had failed? Truly, Hoods Sarsapa-
rilla possesses peculiar curative power un-
known to other medicines.
HOOPS PILLS cure Constipation by re-
storing the peristaltic action Of the ali
mentary canal. They are the best family
cathartic. 131
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The Deseret SAVINGS Bank.

The attention OF those desiring to open
savings accounts is called to the Deseret
Savings bank, which allows interest on
deposits at the rate of per cent. per an
mum, compounded quarterly Money to
loan on approved real estate security. Its
officers are as follows:
JAMES T. LITTLE. President,
MOSES THATCHER, Vice President.
Z. a. SMITH. Cashier.
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An EASY Winner.

The solid vestibuIe trains of the Chi
cago, Union Pacific & Northwestern line
distance all competitions with ease. 1t
has the shortest line, fastest time, union
depots and no change or delay at the Mis-
souri, river.