The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1893-03-15
Melange.

Balloons, dynamite, steel plate and
smokeless powder, also 100-ton guns
just think of the enormous size-are
likely to be fully tested in the next
European war. These huge guns will
require more than nineteen hundred
pounds Of powder to drive their two
thousand pound cylinders, freighted
with hundred of bullets, to the objee-
tive points. When Will the nations
establish high court of arbitration
upon the Geneva precedent?
The battalion of mounted Marylan-
ders, who acted as an escort for the
Cleveland and Stevenson Clubs, cap
tivated and captured all who saw them
in the brilliant presidential procession
at the inaugural in Washington Satur-
day the 4th. It was battalion of hand
some Maryland girls, and their beauti-
full faces were sufused with bushes
when they reached their journeys end.
The young ladies were all related to the
gentlemen who formed the clubs. It
was one of the most notable features of
the august occasion. The bushes were
caused by the admiration their appear
ance elected.
Submarine communications from
Europe, recently, told that on the
4th instant the citizens of Sandgate,
coast town in Britain, were startled
from their sleep with the st1lrge SEN
sation> Of their houses slipping away
to the sea. ''The town was built upon
a cliff foundation. Two hundred houses
were destroyed by this movement of
the earth. The trouble covered a
square mile" The inhabitants fed for
their lives to neignboring towns. There
has been great deal of this land-sink-
ing or sliding of late years, but mostly
confined to districts where mining ope-
rations are carried on.
And now comes "Mahummet"Webb,
a native American, who has returned
from India confirmed Theosophist.
He proposes to organize society, pub
lish paper, erect mosque and seek
converts to Islam. He will surely get
them, as weseem to be in the .apostasy,.
so many of the people of the United
States being apparently ready for any
departure! For what with transcenden-
talists, modern spiritualists, free-lovers,
passional attractionists, elective-ahini-
fists, nihilists and Mormans, there may
be room for Mussulman colony. They
may not be very much worse than ag-
nostics or iconoclasts generally.
Pneumatic tubes, by which postal
packages are sent from the main Office
to the sub-ohice in Philadelphia, at the
rate of a mile minute; and converse
ton comfortably carried on through
the telephone at distance of twelve
hundred miles, as between Boston and
Chicago, are 10 be followed by tele-
phonic newspaper, as per patent in
Germany. The claims are that "the
paper will be ably edited and the news
transmitted to subscribers through the
instrument by strong and clear, yet soft
voiced speakers" We will suppose the
case of az afiuent and luxury-loving
subscriber, something also of an inva-
lid, who is seated in his sumptuous
apartment listening to the voice of a
good reader as he pours the news into
his waiting ear. Without the effort at
reading the telephone patron will be
all the more able to exercise his mind.
During the summer-so!stice, in addi-
ton to this literary luxury, where would
he ''be at," RECALLED in rocker with an
automatic music-box, beneath his chair,
japanese fan above his head,
and an atomizer, filing his room with
minor-keyed music and delicious air!
But, seriously, the possibilities of the
telephone paper, suggests the necessity
of the press of to-day adopting the epi-
gramatic style of writing. There is too
great volume and variety Of news to
deal with these days, to longer submit
the columns of the newspapers to volu->
minous dissertations, captious contro-
versy, personalities, etc. The average
reader has time only to read bare
statement Of facts, written for truth as
well as for history. SANS SoUcI.