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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1894-10-11

Wednesday, Oct. 8.
The sugar trust has closed the Spreck-
els sugar refinery in Philadelphia
The cash balance in the treasury is
$129, 535, ZIG, of which $58, 873, 5S8 is
gold reserve.
Milwaukee and st. Louis are engaged
in new effort to secure the San Fran
cisco beer trade.
George M. Pullman denies the report
that he will establish branch of his
car works in the East.
DIR. A. Conan Doyle, the novelist, has
arrived in New York from Southamp-
ton. He comes to fill an engagement
The National Liberal congress at
Frankfort has adopted resolutions indi-
eating great discomfort with Chancellor
Won Caprivi.
The Portuguese government has de-
cided to send two warships to Lourenzo
Marquee, where rebellious natives are
in armed opposition to the Portuguese
authorities.
c. D. Bliss, more Familiarity known
as "Pop" Bliss, who played in the Yale
championship team Of 1892, has been
engaged to coach the Haverford college
football team.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1894-10-11
Friday, Oct. 3.

,>e-f. FRIDAY, OCT. b.
Ebenezer M. Byers the wealthy iron
merchant of Pittsburg, has been de-
clared lunatic.
The italian minister has obtained q
pledge from Japan that her forces will
not attack Shanghai.
The town of Buchanan, w. Va, was
nearly destroyed by fire at an early
hour Friday morning.
Sioux City was thrown out of the
Western Baseball league in the reor-
ganization which took place Thursday.
Jim Hall has issued a challenge to
Steve O'Donnen Offering to fight him
the night Of the Corbett- Fitzsimmons
contest.
The Chicago w. c. T. U. has entered
upon a crusade against the objection
able theater billboards and the exposure
before the footlights Of scantily clothed
women.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1894-06-08

A ships officer who has spent much
time on the st. Johns river, Florida,
thinks that he has solved the problem
as to the origin of the shell mounds
that occur along that stream. The
river twists about in an extraordinary
way, so that in many places view
along the water extends for only few
rods, but he finds that tall object or
the smoke of fire shown from the top
OF one Of these mounds could be seen
from those next below and above. and
he believes that these eminences were
Indian signal stations, by means of
which the natives were able to an
nounce the approach Of hostile force
along the river. as the Greeks signaled
the news of the fall Of Troy TO their
home cities by lights on the mountain
tops. that were repeated from peak to
peak
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1894-06-08
A Cats Trip to India and Bacn.

A good cat story, says the London
correspondent of the, Yorkshire Post,
comes from Bombay. In August a
Liverpool resident proceeding to Bonn.
bay took out with him a cat which
he intended to present to a friend
in India. Some days after the arrival
of the steamer in Bombay pussy was
missed, and, though she was searched
for high ard low, she was nowhere to
be found. Her owner had quite given
her Up for lost when he received in
telligence from England that the cat
had made her appearance at her old
Liverpool home on the 25th of October
rs calm and collected as though trip
to India and back was quite in the or
binary course. of her life. The facts arc
vouched for by a Bombay paper, and
there is no reason to doubt their sub
stantial accuracy.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1894-06-08
MODERN ATHENS.
It Ia Raising Its Standards ID rhaJe of
Classical Greece.

e" WHISTLE ~ N'.'Il'.IEo' To Th"le OF
Classical Greece.
l once hai chat with Tho late
IroI. oophocies' the famous native
wreck professor OF Harvard, on the
suolect OF the pronunciation of our
language as taught IN America said
Tue "reeh consul MI d. /. iiTayen'
SIS recentiy' 10 reporter for tce Los
TON Herald. asked nm why &c taught
u pronunciation "hlch he "new was
not r.5At'
IL uoeSn MAKE any difference
"H"I t''o'i'' IL lloh we teach. he re-
piIct -,...a5a these boys wiz never
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1894-06-08
AN UNDERGROUND ROAD.
London's Electric Railway IL Three Hun
dred Feet Eciow the Surface.

Lonoons Electric Railway IL Three Hun
dred Feet Bciow the Surface.
London's electric railway runs from
the city" to Stockwcll, a distance OF
four miles, more or less, and lies buried
IN the ground at a depth of three hun
'dred feet nearly, at the city end, and is
reached by elevators, says the Boston
Transcript. This great descent is
rendered necessary for two reasons
FIRST the rosd goes under The bed of
the Thames, and second the city CON-
missioners of sewers, who had a great
say in the matter, agreed that if it
were so low down they would only
charge a small sum for the ground.
The train consists of an engine and
four vestibule cars, SO that it is pos
sible TO pass from a smoking-carriaGe
to nonsmoker and vice versa. The
seats are not ARRANGED like our Pull
man, but are fixed in the same manner
as are the seats in the electric cars
here.
The train is drawn by an engine
with a storage battery and works very
we'll unless the power gives out, when
there is delay sometimes OF half an
hour-not very agreeable in a tunnel
just large enough for the train, ad-
mirably ventilated as the tunnel is.
Since the opening of this unique rail
road the fares have been altered and
improved terms made, for now you can
go halfway ii. e., to Kensington OVAL
for one penny, and the journey from
Stockwell to the city is regularly done
In fifteen minutes. There are no
tickets, but you can get Communication
tickets for three, six, or twelve months
at reasonable rates. The air in the
tunnel is always fresh and, even in
summer, cool.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1894-06-08
a CURIOUS CASE.
II Established the Fact That There are
Some flights Which Can't lie Waived.

1t Established the Fact That There Sre
Some Flights Which Can't lie Waived.
A defendant in "a murder ease in New
York state was once placed GA trial be-
fore a jury OF twelve. SAYS the Brook
Ign Eagle. A rncmber Of the jury died
during his trial. The prisoners coun-
sci agreed with the district attorney
that the tSal should continue before
eleven jGrors and that no record Of the
death OF one Of their number should he
entered on the minutes of the court
The prisoner was convicted and sen
fenced 10 pcnisLmcnt. An appeal was
afterw2rd taken to the citcct that
neither Ais counsel nor thr district az
torney nor the court nor the prisoner
had right 70 waive the lattcr's right
to trial by twelve jurors. The con-
viction was set aside for that reason.
As, however, nothing in the record
showed in a formal and Official way
that the trial occurred and that the
verdict was rendered ty less than
twelve jurors, it was also held that the
man had been put once in jeopardy
and could not be put twice in the same
position. He was, therefore, dis
charged. He was thus tried and not
tried, found guilty and not found gull
ty, convicted and practically acquitted
all at the same time and under the
same proceeding. The contention was
that every nan indicted and tried for
crime previous to his arr2i gnmc.t. and
everyone who might be so indicted and
SO tried after his arraigDnont had an
interest in hi5 trial by twelve jurors. a
right to his trial by twelve jurors. and
that when he waived his oy:1 right he
impaired their right in their trial and
their right in his trial. and that the
thing could not be permitted. This
illustrates how a man holds some Of
his rights in trust for all tLc past and
for all the future. OF such rights he
cannot divest himself and cannot be
Invested.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1894-06-08
AT TIE eOTTOM OF THE SEA.
No Trace of WreclzpSe In the Deepest of
the Oceans Depth.

tht f'tPths
An extraordinary circumstance that
has been noticed with interest and
that always creates surprise when first
icGr0cl is the entire bsence of foreign
matter in the deepest part of the
oceans floor. OF all the vessels lost in
Ilid-ocean; of all the human beings
that have been drowned: of all the
rcar,ne animals that have pcrished; of
al the clay. sand and gravel let fall by
Giseolving icebergs, of all the va
riOus substances drifted from every
shore by shifting currents, no trace
remains, but in their place water from
orc thousand to twenty-five hundred
fathoms in depth covers the uniform
deposit of thick, blush. tenacious
slime called glObigerina ooze, says the
CO .1oDoi,tan MAGAZINE.
4 bit OF this u1dcr a poverS;,l lens
IS declared - be a reveal .iCu o. beauty
not rca lily forgotten. The ooze j.
COMPOSED a'no-t CT ircly of The dcin-
test. mot dclicat0lv beautiful shells
imaginable. At d>pths greater than
twenty-five hur .lroI fatlOmS the bot
tom of the sea consists mainly OF prod
net arising from exposure. for almost
incalculablc porioii, to the chemical
action of sea water, OF purnice and
other volcanic matters.
This finally results in the formation
of red clay deposits that are considered
characteristic of a the profoundest
depths of the ocean. Carbonate of
lime. which in the form of shells ot
forarninifera makes up so large part
of the globigcrina ooze, is here almost
entirely ab5cnt.
Soda water Is very nearly a universal
solvent. and before any shell. large or
small. reaches the bottom of these ire
mendous abysms it is chemically eaten
up, literally diSeplvel---a result which
the Cno"H;1S prc- :ura OF the water
must materially IA Ten.
At one thousand fa.loTn5 the weight
Of the water prcSSrr, Oh all sides of
an Object inmerscl = that depth is
verT nearly one ton u tlr 5qulre inch,
or more than one hundred times that
sustained at the sea level, and at the
Creates depth the pressure is SO in
creased that it would sccJA nothing
could withstand it: in fact. heavy
metal cylinders let down with the
sounding apparatus are sometimes, on
being dravn up again to the surface,
found bent and collapsed; strongly
made glass vessels which the metal in
closed arc shattered into fragments.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1894-06-08
UNDERGROUND AvGLANCHES.
Evidences OF SaOterranean Commissions
Amons the Mountains Of Pennsylvania.

Evidences OF Sloterranean Commissions
Anon; the Mountains Of Pennsylvania.
The curious phenomenon formerly
exciting the wonder of people living in
the vicinity of Thick Head and Sand
mountains, south of Tusseyville, Cen
ter county. Pa, which has not been
noticed for five years. has made its pres
ence known again. For twelve years. at
irregular intervals, the jewellers in that
part of Center county had been dis
turbed by loud and mysterious noises
which came from the ground between
the two mountains named. In the
spring of ISIS these noises were heard
daily, with increased volume, for a
week The noises, according to the
Chicago Herald, We're sometimes like
the rumble of distant thunder and then
like the deadened crash of thunder
heard in the air close by. On the sew
enth day OF this prOtracted disturbance
beneath these two mountains a resi-
dent of TuSseyville was climbing
Thick Head mountain, when the
rumbling began in the mountain OPP
posite. At first it was deep and low,
and it increased in violence until it be-
came as the tuInult of a mass of rock
rolling down a mountain side. The
person who heard the sounds said that
they convinced him that they were
caused by a subtcrranean avalanche,
as. it began at the very top of the
mountain. increasing in violence and
SY.nAl . 4
ing III a terrible crash at the bottom.
After that day the Thick Head noises
ceased, and were not heard again until
a week ago. when they began just as
they had terminated in a similar SUBJ
terrar"a0 land or rock slide, except
that this time the hidden avalanche oc-
Cured somewhere in the depth of
Thick Head mountain. instead of in
Sand mountain. In Potter county, Pa,
between Roulette and Burtville, is q
hill in which rumblings of the same
nature are heard at irregular inter-
walls. This elevation is called Thunder
hill, and it rises from the south bank
of the Allegheny river. The noises
that occur in this hill sometimes make
the earth tremble for long distance
around. and they have been heard for
a mile away. The theory of local saw
ants is that a strong vein of natural gas
undcrlies the hill, and that when the
great retort is disturbed by some I'M
derCround CONFUSION it rises in its
might and tumbles rocks and things
around in the confines of the hill until
everything huns. Still no one has con-
tidence enough in this theory to hand
out the money that is being asked for
to send n drill down into the alleged
gas cauldron, let out its treasure and
make everybody in that bailiwick rich.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1894-06-08
Hired Gue,ta.

English society Is raising a nationa,
lament because men no longer dance
Hostesses have for long time been a.
their wits end to secure partners for
young women at balls and dancing par
ties Now the situation is worse than
ever and remedies are being eagerly
sought The suggestion is publicly dis
cussed that dancing agency be estab-
hshcd similar to such institutions in
Paris and Berlin. Hired guests, armed
with guarantees of fitness and respecta
billy. would appear at the proper hour.
warranted to dance every number or
the card and not give more than three
dances to one young woman. Some
such plan Seems to be the only hope Of
saving the art cf dan ing in Erc,srd-
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1894-06-08
SAVED BY HIS HORSE.
Very Peculiar Escape of Man from .
Break In the Ice.

The story comes up from below the
city, says the Lewiston (Me.) Journal.
about man who attempted to cross
the Androscoggin on the ice and was
swamped, together with his team. He
had been tauling wood across the river
for several days, and had just one more
load to haul.
As the water was up on the face Of
the ice he first thought to put off haul
ing it, but the thought that perhaps
there would not be another chance to
haul it made him go across. When he
started back he thought he wouldn't go
in the same track where he had hauled
the rest. so he went little above.
The ice began to crack slowly when
he got to the middle. Quick as a flash
he unfastened the two tugs and one
holdback. Then he struck the horse
violently with the whip. At the same
time the sled load of wood went
through with a crash. lie commenced
to sink with it, but when the horse had
been struck he jumped ahead and,
breaking the off holdbaclx, ierlied the
man off the load and dragged him to
the shore with the reins There he
stopped and the man got up.
When he looked back the top of the
wood and the shafts could be seen stick
ing out Of the hole in the ice. He says
that he haj rather lose the wHod than
go near the hole again. 1t is frozen in
now
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1894-06-08
HIS MOTH-R'S E!OlE.
The Cook on which President Cleveland
Took the Oath of Office.

Among the relics stored away in the
clerks Office OF the supreme court of the
United States, writes Washington cor
respondent of the Philadelphia Times,
is handsome moroccO-covered Bible of
large octave size. 1t is the Bible that
was purchased eight years ago to adj
minister the oath of office to President
Cleveland at his Inauguration on March
4. 1t had been the ipyariable custom
before the Inauguration of Mr.: Cleve-
land 70 purchase Bible for use at the
Inauguration ceremony and to present
this interesting memento afterward to
some member OF the presidents family.
Following this custom, the clerk pur-
biased a Bible to use in the inaugura-
ton of President Cleveland, but Mr..
Cleveland notified the committee Of ar-
rangemcnts Of the senate that he wished
10 take the oath on the Bible given to
him by his mother when. as vourg
man, he started ont in the world to
make his fortune The committee nat
urGlly respected this sentiment of the
prcsiGent-clcct and so Mr. Cleveland
took the oath on his mothers Bible. 1t
was a small book, morocco bound and
gilt-edgcd. So far as is known here,
Mr.. Cleveland still has the book. and in
the belief that it viii be used Mt the
coming ceremony the clerk of the su-
prcme court has not purchased 4
Bible 70 be used on that occasion 1t
was planned fom years ago to use the
Eiblo purchased in 1855 at the ceremony
of 1889; but after considering The mat
tar the cicrl; determined to purchase
another Bible for Mr Harrison.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1894-06-08
ZONE SYSTEM IN HUNGARY.
Ondctai Figures ri,ow 1t Is . Complete
Success.

Three years ago The Hungarian gov
ernment adopted the zone system Of
rates for railroad fares. The principle
involved large reduction in rates. cs-
pecially to locg-distance travellers. With
Buda Pesth as center the circumfer-
ence OF the first zone was about one hum
dred miles away, the second two hun
dred, and so on 70 TIE extreme limits Of
Hungary. Onlya slight reduction in rates
was made in the first zone, much larger
in the second. and increasingly larger
in the outer zones. The gross reduction
was in the roighborhood Of sixty per
cent hungary was an ideal place for
trying the plan. as I'll reads run to
Buda-Pcsth and the city itself was prac-
tically in the center of the country.
Railroad men everywhere declared the
plan foredoOmed to failure. even where
The conditions were rs favorable as in
Hungary.
The first official figures on the sys-
tenn have been published. Commenting
on them. Transport says:
Excellent results have. according to
the official figures just published. been
shown by the working Of the zone sys-
tenn on the railways of Hungary. The
eyes of Europe have been turned with
good deal of curiosity and interest to
this. the most daring and systematic
method of discrimination in favor of the
long distance as against the short dis
lance traveller in the world The vari-
Gus zones or circles within which GER
tain fares are charged are fixed by reg
ulation, the principle adopted being the
greater the distance from the capital
the less the proportional rate per mile
travelled. The system has been greatly
appreciated by the people living III the
more distant parts of the country. as
the result shows. For some years be-
fore the introduction of the system the
number of travellers averaged 6.001, 900
annually. In the first year of the zone
tariff the number rose to $4,000. coo; the
second years returns showed that 49,
000, 900 had used the railways. while
during the third year the number of
travellers totaled $4,000, 900. 1t is salts
factory to note a corresponding rise in
the receipts, advancing from 9,7O5. 900
gulden during the last year of the old
system to $4,000 900 gulden during the
year just closed"
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1894-06-08
OLD WOMEN,
1neir Great Age Due to Their Grea. Talk.
Ing, Says 7 ssot.

1aeir Great Age Due to Their Grea. Talk.
Ing, Says ssos.
1t = an acknowledged fact that a
great re is attained by women often
er than by men. Tissot. with doubt
fui gailaatry. accounts for this by de-
: elaring that the large amount Of u k-
ing for which women are famous l. 8
very healthy exercise and promotes
circulation Of blood without overex.
'crting the organs. The true reason.
PROBABLY, lies in the quieter and more
regular life usually led by women.
whose nervous systems and brains arc
consequently not worn O2t as qaickly,
Do rue. as those OF men, says the st.
-. g st-Dispatch.
one OF the most famous female cente-
narIans was the countess of Desmond.
VINO i,ved to be ono hundred gnG fortv-
I'VE ann died in the reign OF James /.
from the effects of an accident This
wonderful woman found herself. at
INC a@c OF one hundred, SO lively and
S'rohg as'to be able to take part in a
oance. and when she was one hundred
ana forty she travelled all the wav
from Bristol to Londcn-no triGing
Journey in those days-;n order to at
tend personally to some business af-
fairs.
Lazy Desmond is. however, quite
thrown into the shade by a French
woman. Marie Prion, who died in st.
colombo in June, lSSS-it is said-at
the wonderful age OF one hundred and
nfty-eight. Toward the end of her
iiIe She lived exclusively on goats
mix and cheese. Although her BODY
was so shrunk that she weighed only
1orty-six pounds, she retained all her
mental faculties to the last.
1t is an extraordinary but incontesta-
ole fact that some women, at the are
when most people die, undergo sort
OF natural process of rejuvenation-the
hair and teeth grow again, the
wrinkles disappear from the skin. and
sight and hearing reacquire their for
mcr sharpness.
A MarQuise De Mirabeau is an exam
pie OF this rare and remarkable phe-
Eomenon. She died at the age of
eighty-six, but few years before her
death she became in appearance quite
young again. The same change hap
pened to nun OF the name of Mar
guerite Verdur. who. at the age of six
ty-two, lost her wrinkles, rcgained her
sight and grew several new teeth.
When she died, ten eary later. hr' ap-
pearance was almost that of a young
girl.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1894-06-08
THE SLE-piMG SALOON.
John Bali's Curious Lc-s:on Of an Aner!-
ran Lea.

John BARS Curious Lc-s:on Of an AIneri-
ca1 Lea.
Between the British conception of
saloon and that i.I voruc on this side
Of the Atlantic there !, this in common
that both are entered b. a side door
after nightiau. There the resemb-
lance ccas Is. john Bulls saloon is
an exhibit il the a-,portat.on build
ing, wherein it is fail as difficult to
look upon the wine when il is red as it
OUGHT To be in Evanston or Bangor.
John Bulls saloon i Is dry as his
comic papers. lie tables it sleeping
saloon to distinguish il from all-night
places where we never sleep. 1t oc-
cCpies q position in the rear of the
LorGon * Northwestern Railway com
pany's highly vanished t'ainlet, in
geniouslv constructed to defeat the
ends of the trailicller in popcorn, Eve
q bag"
The British sleeping saloon is our
Observation-Disclosures Pullman car. 1t
is the great American sleeper" as it
would have been had it been invented
before the war. Entering by it the
British passenger finds himself in n di-
minutivc closet where he is permitted
TO smoke his pipe. Two rigid-backed
chairs would elbow each other for
standing room if they had any elbows.
The man in charge says: Ills i what
a man as to put up with in Tchicago."
as he opens the door. Siy berths are
slowed away on either side of the
smoking saloon. The berth saloons
are divided into compartment saloons,
four departments coEpria!l" the en-
tire carriage. Two Of the compart-
ments contain four bCrths devoid CT
any evidences OF curtains in front.
This remaining couple are of scmi-se-
elusive character. cont2iuing two
berths each, and being intended for
roomnates or elderly married couples
The car is probably half the Length of
the ordinary Pullman, and is destitute
of even the adjournment OF the harmless
necessary darby with the appetite for
quarters.