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Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1894-08-24

atm asphere, and begin to unders land
why you grew so asthmasic as you
came up.
up here we lead n rather humdrum
existence, you know" says n. G.
Myers, the keeper, in response to your
question Taking our observations
and tabulating and reducing the data
give us plenty of mental eXertion; and
as for physical exercise, the climb in
winter is sufficient and the less of
either one undergoes the better it is
for him"
They cook up on the Peak just the
same as they do any where, but it takes
much longer, as water boils at ls7 de-
grees Fair 1t is rather hard on a
Bostonian, however, for it takes two
days properly to prepare the classic
bean.
Water is obtained by melting snow.
of which there is no lack, for it SHOWS
I here every month in the year Last
year the highest temperature was 40
degrees above zero, while 1t remained
below freezing for 324 days out of the
year.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1894-08-24

know. But we'd Just get out our axes
and chop that iceberg down, and the
bear would roll over Just as easy as
IL he wanted to, l tell your
That was quite an exciting chase,
Billy"
Eyes, and we got lots of bear skins,
you see. and we could eat the bear be
sides. We had plenty Of other things
TO eat, like EsquimauX have. There
were tallow candles and whale oil
and blubber and 'pemmican.' / read
the other day that pemmican. is the
chief food of arctic explorers, and that
it is made Of dried beef and tallow
mixed together. 1t doesn't sound very
nice, somehow, and l don't believe
any OF those things are as good as
turkey and pumpkin pie, or ice-cream.
And / can't see why arctic explorers
can't have good things 10 eat as well
as other people. / wonder why they
don't take good things with them, so
long as they have TO take something or
other"
There may be some secret reasons,
Billy, you see" L began.
"Oh, yes-well! Of course we had TO
eat those things if the other arctic eX-
plOrers did. And then when we got
tired Of hunting bears ana Of eating
pemmicans we used to make eXpedi-
tons to the coast to see if the relief
expeditions We're coming yet. You
see. whenever they send out an Arctic
expedition they always send out a re-
lief expedition to rescue it. And the
relief expedition always comes out the
next spring. and finds that the greater
part Of the Arctic expedition had per-
ished the previous winter Of cold and
hunger"
And is that the way you did,
BillyT'
"Oh, yes" responded Billy cheerful
~. Arctic expeditions always do that
way. you know So Of course, we had
10 do it too. So when the sailors got
tired Of eating pemmican and tallow
candles they said: Now. l suppose
we'd better perish with cold and hun
GER and some OF the other sailors
said: Well, you can if you want to,
ana the survivors can give your names
10 the relief expedition when it comes
SO the other sailors said: Let's! and
so they did,
well, If that's the end OF them,
Billy, it seems TO me it's about time
"Oh, they didn't all die, you know"
interrupted Billy, hastily. "Some of
them came back and they showed
specimens Of pemmican and Esqui-
mau dogs in the museums. l saw
them there myself once"
Whether the expedition is all res
cued or all dead. Billy. or partly res
cued and partly dead, does not matter
The important point at present is that
you should perceive it is bedtimc;"
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1894-08-24

eve Had n Very Good Ship"
air, rs one TO whom such n choice
would be easy but immaterial. But
l happened to know some fellows who
were going on n polar expedition to the
arctic regions, you know, so l concluded
to 60 there first
There was another reason conf
dentially) why l preferred 10 go to the
arctic regions just then instead Of TO
the wilds Of Africa. 1t was just begin
ming to be summer, so L thought the
arctic regions would be more comforta.
BILE in hot weather than Africa
would"
THAT was a most natural conclusion,
Billy"
I'VE had n very good ship to sail in
something like Peary's. l think. It's
name was the Snow Bird. Don't you
think that was n very good name fol
an arctic yesSelT
Excellent. Excellent, Billy"
I'VE had lots Of dogs, big white and
brown ESquimau dogs, you know, and
we had lots of sledges and fur robes
to keep us warm. And donkeys. Wen,
we began to sail. We sailed and sailed
way up north And after Il while 1t
began to get colder and colder. And
whenever we saw any lanu it was COW
cred with snow. And then, presently.
we began TO meet icebergs floating
along. They were tremendous great
things. like mountains of ice, You know.
! And when the pilots saw them coming,
they got scared and said, Captain,
LET'S get out of the way of those ice
| bcrgsr And the other sailors said:
'Yes-let'sr So we did. BY and by we
came TO the arctic regions, and then
w. began to see the frozen ice ana
snow all about us, and at ,ast we came
TO the place where the ships always get
| ice-bound. We sailed along us far as
we could, and we lodged around ice
bergs and got the ship through cracks
I'm the ice. and we got along as near
the north pole as people always do
ret But we had to come to the place
at last where the ships get ice-bound,
and some of the sailors said, Captain,
let's get ice-bound And the other sail
ors said: 'Yes-lets! So we did"
You mean that you thought it was
necessary to do all the proper things,
Billy?"
II don'tknow whether it was prop
or" answered Billy cautiously, care
4 1ul not 10 COInlHll hlHlSSh'
know that's what arctic expeditions
always do. SO, of course, we had TO
do that too"
''Yes, see, Billy"
$50 then we went into winter quar-
tiers. and we built snow houses and
lived in them all winter. Only l never
could tell" interposed Billy, how
folks could tell in that country when
it was winter. Cause If there was
ice and snow on the ground all the
time-all the year around, you know
why summer would be just the same,
and how could winter be any different
you see?"
THAT does sSrr, % be n profound
question, Billy. Perhaps it would be
better not to open the discussion to
night"
Then when we were encamped fol-
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1894-08-24
Practical Jokes of : Crow.

The crow has always loved mischief,
but his pranks have not always been
malicious, ms were too many Of the
jokes of bird that bore the ma ne Of
Richic-which, as n pet name for birds,
was surely not an Improvement upon
time-honorcd Dicky. This crow used
to be fed on biscuit and water from
his mistrcss's window, and it was not
an uncommon thing for him to seize
the tumbler in his bill and dash 1t
to the ground. Sometimes he would en-
ter room Oh the sly, and amuse HIM
self by taking the corks out Of bottles
and pouring their contents over the
carpet. or by scattering pins, letters,
ornaments and the like on the floor.
One day he flow away with q pencil
and pcrchcd on a tree close by. TO
punish him his mistress refused TO
know him, and pushed him away from
the window the next time he came for
food. In a short while he returned,
bearing the stolen pencil unframed. ex.
cent that the rubber end piece had
vanished. Gravely laying 1t down on
the window sill, he bowed and cooed
i'm the best style. as If to say, Come
now, Let us lie friends again"
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1894-08-24

GREAT numbers OF valuable lives
are lost In the water every summer
by the most deplorable carelessness.
All children ought to be taught to
swim. But all children. whether
they can swim or not, and all grown
people, also, ought to be cautioned
against taking reckless risks in the
water Children or adults who go
in bathing without knowing the
depth OF the water, and without
knowledge OF currents or of under
tow are foolishly endangering their
lives. Silly pranks in rowboats and
stupid neglect of'squalls in ailboats
ought to DO avoided with as much
care as people show in trying to a.
cape from earthquakes, cyclones an
explosions
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1894-08-24
A STRANGE PROBLEM.
rinanciers Must Confront the Future of
Life Insurance.

h-ito
1t is not often that the financiers of
New York have to confront problem
so difficult of solution as that involved
in the existence of what is known as
the insurance situation.
Tho insurance situation consists
of the competition of sever
al companies all more or
less immense from the point of
view of financial resources, but it is
becoming more and more evident that
some of them must succumb in the
rush for business
The prospect of the dissolution Of
three very important corporations is
giving serious concern to numerous
directors. There is at this time fund
amounting to some millions, which
must be invested in very short
time to enable one great concern
to go out of business, while
another organization, housed in
magnificent quarters on Broadway is
trying to arrange favorable terms
with a rival for reinsurance.
The final result of all this will be
that few huge corporations will, be-
fore many years, have practical
monopoly of the insurance business.
The tendency to consolidation is ire
sistible, and the financial power
welded by the officers of
these concerns with hundreds of
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1894-08-24
NiicrnI,e PhntoErnphs.

Prof. Marshall Ward has made n GU
rious discovery in photography. He
has found that direct sun and electric
arc light. and more especially the blue
rays. kill microbes. Hence, il he Gov
crs Il plate of glass with gelatine over
a colony of microbes and exposes 1t to
the sun, the gelatine remains clear in
the light. but grows black in the shade
by reason of the development of the
organisms. By this means he has sue
ceedcd in taking photographs OF per-
sons and landscapes. IL is stated that
no sensitive film or developer Is re-
quired. and that the picture simply
forms on the plate during exposure.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1894-08-24
FOR YOUNG PEOPLE.
INTERESTING READING FOD BOYS
AND GIRLS.
Dilly's Expedition To the Arctic Re-
gions and Some of the Queer Ex-
perienccs He Met With-IIow
Names Grow Up.

att was while 1 was very young
that ] became an arctic explorer" be-
gan Billy, slowly.
Billy had one eye upon the clock. 1t
was bedtime, and consequently Billy
was struck with the necessity Of reel
ing another yarn out Of his fertile,
small brain. 1t is easy to make such
deductions about Billy, you see.
II wasn't sure whether I'd discover
the wills OF Africa or the north pole
first" he remarked, with an off-hand
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1894-08-24

be plainly seen. Inside the case the
following inso viption is found Phil:
Mela: Colt: ilein: die: Ehr: 1870.
philip Melanchthon, TO God alone all
honor. 1900
This is perhaps one Of the first time
pieces intended to be carried on the
person. In the beginning Of the six
teenth century the first watches were
made The inventor. Peter Henlein,
died Nov. 1G 1912. The watches were
then nicknamcd Nuernberger cier (Nu-
ornberg eggs Specimens Of these are
now 50 scarce and valuable that Mt an
auction Of antiquities in Paris Il watch
made by Peter Henlein brought 12,450
francs
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1894-08-24
ELANCHTON'S RARE OLD
TIMEPIECE.
Used Both cS watch nnd Clock by
the GSA ANN RcfoFmcr.

NhG Wa AHh
Among the Melanchthon nomontos
In Germany is shown n curlously
shaped timep iace, which the great re-
former used as n watch and also as
table clock in his study. The watch
was presented TO him by an admirer
during the Diet at Augsburg. Nothing
more unique exists in this line. it is
ball-shaped and four and one-half inch
co In diameter. The three little gold
feet attached to the lower half of the
case served as pedestals when 1t was
used as ''standuhr" on Melanchthon 5
table.
There was no glass to protect the
dial and the movement is entirely OF
iron. 1t is plain and coarse-four small
wheels, n spiral spring turning to the
left, and only one hand 10 Indicate the
hours The case itself is heavily gold
plated and tastefully engraved. Both
parts Of the case can be opened; under
the upper cover the dial is revealed
lad under the lower the movement q.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1894-08-24

millions at their disposal, will be enor.
nous As it is, the heads of one or
two Of the malamoth companies en-
JOY financial prestige which makes
Croesus seem rather weak in compare
son.
Altogether, the insurance situation
will afford one of the most curious
problems ever presented in the his
tory of New York finance, and that
before long.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1894-08-24
n. @. MYERS.
Chief signal onlcer. pixies Peas.

Chlei signal OHlcer, Plke's Ieab
the whsris, vanes and cups of the
complicated weather machinery were
put in place
A regular clock on the wall shows
the lonely officials how slowly time
passes, and checker board in the
corner hints as to the efforts made TO
while away some of the hours; sc
of telegraph instruments shows one
means of communication with the
world below, and the jingle of tele-
phone bell in an adjoining room indi-
Gates another. Ranged along the
walls and on the broad sill of the low
window are various meteorological
instruments. The barometer up here
reads between seventeen and eighteen
inches, and you realize that you are
nearly in the center of density Of the
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1894-08-24
of Ascent.

peak that bears his name. he found
what In many respects is the
most interesting mountain of our
country. Since that day, for
nearly century, it has been
the objective point for the count
less thousands who have swept across
the continent to the land of the setting
sun. The hardy pioneer, the sides of
whose prairie schooner bore the legend
pixies Peak or Bust" and the modern
millionaire who travels in n palace
car, have alike gazed eagerly at the
snowy pinnacle as it rose above the
western horizon.
Ever since the ffties when Pixies
Peak and the Gold Diggings'' were
synonymous terms, faint bride paths
have led to the summit. A carriage
road was later constructed, and since
1890 n cog railroad has wound it's
sinuous course from Manitou Springs
for nine miles upward 10 reach the
top mile and a half higher. The
ascent nowadays, when the road is
running, is comparatively quick, easy,
and entirely safe. AS the train pushes
slowly out of Manitou, the cogs of
the engines drivers fitting into the
spaces in the middle rail, it is inter
esting to speculate that this is the
type of railroad that in the early
DAYS of steam travel it was
supposed would be as necessary on a
level as on an incline The cog road
sto,'>s running in October about the
time tn snow begins to drift heavily,
and does n 1t resume operations until
the drifts me. the following May.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1894-08-24
Exhaust steam sound-Rcduccr.

A sound reducer is being introduced
In Germany. which, IL is claimed, en-
tirely overcomes the noise occasioned
by exhaust steam. The apparatus Is
applicable to all kinds of exhaust en-
gines steam, gas and petroleum en-
zines, while 1t at the same time serves
40 purpose of an oil, and water
segai.,or. A largo rcducer, IA feet
high. ias recently been constructed
for use In connection with 400 horse
power winding engine at Il Westpha-
lian calllPry
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1894-08-24

ALL we have to say to Colonel
Denison who told the people of Lon
don at a recent banquet that only a
fear of the British navy and 5000
000 Canadians restrains the United
States from making war on England,
IA that he really ought to have had
his hat checked in the cloak room,
dou't you know.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1894-08-24

IT is curious that the fastest model
for a racing ocean steamer should
have come out OF Philadelphia,
which has never been noted for rap
idIty. But already the experts say
that Mr. Painton's ship could never
get across the blue in three days, as
he thinks
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1894-08-24
UP ON PIXIES PEAK.
THE MOST INTERESTIN0 McVN-
TAIN IN MERICA.
AT Its Summit Stands the Signal italian
of the United States Weather Bureau
The Cog Railway anA Other Means
of Ascent.

HEN CAPT. ZE-
,bulon NJ. Pike of
the little army
which the young
| r e p u b Ii C t h c n
boosted, while ex-
|ploring the vast
territory acquired
by the Louisiana
purchase, discov-
cred, on Nov. p,
'lsO6, the snow-clad
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1894-08-24

JACKSON won't fight in the South
and Corbett won't fight In the North.
Corbett won't fight in Europe and
Jackson prefers Europe. The
amount OF trouble necessary to get
these two brutes together is strain
on the public patience. But the Y
will fight finally. 1t is all part of
the playa formality almost as
time-honored as the preliminary
handshake.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1894-08-24

A CoUNTRYMAN in Scotland who
feels that 10 ought to be laureate
publishes a pisa for the honor He
says he ''can wNte poetry at any
moment and in any place." aad he
"has repeatedly wri tten half dozen
1;2ems in q single evening" IVY hat
! Once wrIts I Gan 6nss17>Ar erase" he
remarks further, ''as l always 'hinA
deeply before | write"
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1894-08-24

The police OF Boston have fallen
under the ban of suspicion and they,
too, are to be subjected to the Or
deal o. .. Lexow committee inves5r-
Sssstion. The seed sown by the venal
in New York seem to have been
scattered in other cities, so that the
necessity follows for a simultaneous
harvest OF the noxisus weeds. Which
American city wilf be the reXt?
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1894-08-24

A NEW YORK writer, discussing
the imperturbability of the modern,
sophisticated girl. that the lat
ter is nowadays rarely observed to
cry. But this writer may be mis-
led by the fact that owing to the
state of the temperature in New
York whatever tears come TO the
eyes Of the New York girl immedi-
ately pass off in steam.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1894-08-24

ALTHOUGH the war news is largely
monosyllabic it must almost kink the
cable to say it quick and get 1t ex-
actly right The Chen Yuen, kow
Shung and Tsao- Kiang from Hang
Hoo and Hung Chung struck ker-
bang the Wo Gee, Haw Buck and
Gee Haw from Wo Back and strewed
the wreck pellmell on Ding Dong
from hoo Moo TO SO Kow. and so on.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1894-08-24

The wooden leg OF one Aherns of
New York is a very troublesome
member. He is in the penitentiary
for using it as a club upon his wife
a nd the wife has just used it in the
same way to break the wrist OF
neighbor, Mrs. Rigney. There must
be something inherently bad in that
wooden limb.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1894-08-24

SPEAKING OF Japan as small
nation, IL has a larger area than
Great Britain and greater popula-
tion than France. AS to the fight
ing quality OF the Japanese, they
are not leaving any room for dis
cussion about that.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1894-08-24

THE Imperial Chinese declaration
OF war says that the Japanese ruff
fans In Corea wero repeatedly en-
Joined to Ego home and return to
virtue" The Japs seem to have re-
garded this as Mongolian joke,
with sauce Tartar.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1894-08-24

"Cnptain, Let's Get lcc-bound."
the winter we used TO go bear hunt
ing. We had sledges and dogs TO take
us around. And we took our guns
and climbs over the icebergs to find
the bears. The polar bears are white,
you know, and 1t is not easy to see
them. but we used to kill lots of 'ein.
We just chased them all around, and
then we'd get the bear up to the top
OF an awful tall iceberg. just as IL he
were climbing tree, you know. And
then he'd think he was safe, cause
we couldn't climb the Iceberg, You
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1894-08-24

Is the Chinese government going
to call into service that native band
which formerly played in Midway
plaisance? And will not civilized
and humane Europe feel impelled to
interfere?
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1894-08-24

BREvITY is the soul OF defeat in
some advertising. Grain won't grow
to fruitfulness the day it is planted.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1894-08-24

We would ChOp the Iceberg Down.
Billy is incorrigible. His look Of suf-
fering, angelic goodness and injured
mcekness was sight TO see, as he re-
luctaItly wendell his way bedwarl.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1894-05-16
Dressing Up Old Pictures.

Mr.. -, new y made millionaire has
distinct social aspirations and does not par
ticularly care to own up TO what he thinks
Is his somewhat plebeian lineage Not
withstanding this little weakness, however,
he was ever an affectionate and dutiful son
to the plain old farmer and his wife who
toiled and moled to give him his first start
in the world. One of his first inheritances
when they died was pair of portraits done
by "A rural painter-two pictures with no
merit whatever from an artistic stand
point, but startlingly like as such daubs
often are, with the homely Sunday clothes
of the wearers realistically represented.
Mr.. - meanwhile had become quite cele-
brated for his art collection, and his first
impulse on receiving these staring aud nm
mistakably bourgeois portraits was TO rele-
gate them to the garret
Filial affection, however, pleaded for the
familiar old figures, and in the midst Of
his perplexity brilliant idea struck him.
He sent for Mr.. A., a famous artist, and in
duced him to dress up his old parents in the
most aristocratic garments OF their day,
| leaving the dear old faces intact, but even
going to the length of arranging the old
lady's hair so that when the picture was
hung in his magnificent hall she might
have been taken for duchess, so regal
were her attire and surroundings, while
the old gentleman, fondling the head of the
| setter between his knees, looked like "a real
old English gentleman all of the olden
time. New York Tribune.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1894-05-16
New Brickmaking Machine.

new brick baking machine is to be
noted among the recent mechanical novel
ties. 1t is a simple contrivance, consisting
of a table covered with iron brick molds,
to which an electric current is applied, the
table being s by IA feet and holding 900
molds, Joined together like pigeon holes.
Each mold Is the size of brick which has
been pressed but not baked, and each has a
cover so fitted as to follow the brick as it
shrnks. The bricks are taken from the
presses and placed in the molds. the cover
adjusted and the current turned on. The
iron sides of the molds form the ''resist-
ance," and the bricks are virtually inclosed
by walls of fire The bricks having shrunk
10 the proper size, the sinking covers Of
the molds automatically turn off the cur
rent, the baking is done, and the bricks are
dumped New York Sun.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1894-05-16
A oueer Electrlc CLOCK.

I, f. Hudson, convict in the Maryland
penitentiary, has constructed real horo-
logical oddity in the shape of an electric
clock. The dial is "A semicircle OF white
marble with II marked at each corner, the
other numerals for the hours being figured
along the arc. 1t has one hour hand and
two minute hands, the last two set opposite
to each other and in such manner that
one Is seen at noon and the other at mid
night, and at no other time. The seconds
are marked on a dial that turns from right
TO left, while the pointer, or second hand, 10
stationary. Hudson is born genius, and
nearly every room in the prison is adorned
with specimen of his ingenuity.-St Louis
Republic.