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Der fortschritt. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1891-1915, 1894-08-16

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The Opelousas courier., 1894-10-13
FATIGUE OF METALS.
Why Machinery Sometimes Breaks Down
in o Mysterious Manner.

why Machinery Sometimes Breaks Down
in o Mysterious Manner.
The phenomena of muscular fatigue
corresponds very closely to the fatigue
of metals. Fatigue of metals phrase
which has come into use only in recent
years-6escribes a condition of the ma
terial not previously understood. 1t
Expresses the ~straining of the relation
ship to each other Of the molecules of
which the metal is constituted, a mean
ing which the term WEAKNESS, or lit
eraIly wornness. does not convey
Engineers are familiar with the fact
that parts of machinery break down
after having worked satisfactorily. and
apparently with safety. for months. or,
it may be, for many years. The cause
of such breakage, once a mystery. is
new known to be fatigue. This prin-
ciple is illustrated in the break
ing of a piece of wire. 1t is
bent backward and forward until
raptures take place-from fatigue II.
however. metals are strained beyond
the elastic limit, but mo- broken, and
II the ~strain:ng is not continued. the
material will cover its elasticity by
rest alone. Prof. b. W. Kennedy has
clearly demonstrated this recaperatfye
property of metals. Bars OF steel AMI
IRON. strained IN a testing machine be
vond the elastic limit. and 50 weak
ened thereby that it they Wsaa eestas!
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take permanent set at one-third or less
of their former load, would. if allowed
to rest for about two years, be found
not only to have recovered their orig
inal elastic limit Of strength; but to
have exceeded 1t, aid I'd have become
stronger than before in the direction
in which they had been pulled. If the
period of rest vas materially short
ened., the restoration of strength was
found to be tottesTotidingly incom-
plete. This theory of fatigue holds
good in regard to muscles as well
as metals. Prof. Michael Foster
pointed out last year that the
muscles in the leg of a frog severed
from Il. = body. and caused under
electrically timulus to exert themselves
IN work until thoroughly wearied. and
no longer able to respond to the elec-
trical excitation. will. with rest alone,
recover their elasticity and be able to
resume work as before. Prof. Foster
demonstrated that the WEAKNESS was
in the muscle and not in the Nerve.
The worn tissue could not, of course,
be restored, but from the fatigue the
muscles did cover, and it is clear that
the fatigue which we experience in our
own bodies must be largely fatigue in
the technical sense in addition to
WEAKNESS proper. or wornness. Rest
is. therefore. required, not only to en-
able wasted tissue to be restored by
fre>l, material from the blood. and by
CARRYING away of waste material, but
also to afford opportunities for the
strained molecules to recover a state of
repose. -knowledge.
The Opelousas courier., 1894-10-13
HORSES.
Those of Dark Color Are Held In Highest
Esteem.

Those of Dark Color Are Held In Highest
Esteem.
The kings of horsekind are those OF
a dark color" is an Arab %proverb. while
another eastern saying is that lone
should be slow to buy a chestnut horse
and still slower to sell one of that color.
which has turned out we'll" If we
visited a horse fair in Meath or York.
shire, it would be easy to find plenty
of farmers and dealers who would
recognize in these savings from a dis
tant land opinions which they cherish
just as warmly as the Arab of the
desert. We see this similarity, too, in
the defects of the two races.
The disease known as SPAWN is
prevalent among Arabian horses; it is
a constant ailment likewise of the En-
glish race horse; it is a disease, so to
say. of the speedy horse, or that which
is much galloped. Curb and ringbone,
also diseases with which the horse
owner in the country is only too
familiar, are equally well known to the
Arab, and the foot, which in our day is
so frequently the seat of lameness, is
also, though apparently not to SO great
a degree as in the west, likewise
troubled with defects. But into these
technical details this is not the place
to enter: it is sufficient to say that the
qualities which GO to make a good
horse are the same all over the world,
and though the Arabian horse has some
features which give him a character OF
his WI yet. so far as the qualities OF
a good horse are concerned, he differs
little from his western brother.
We must not. however. pass away
from the typical Arabian without a
word as to color. I'm England an anti
quated idea fingers that the authentic
Arab must be gray" Such an impress
sion NAV, perhaps, prevail among per
sons altogether ignorant of horses, but
the sport of racing in India has so in
creased our knowledge of the Arabian
horse that sounder views now exist
among horsemen. Two extracts from
Gen. Tweedee's work will give all tn.
information that is needed upon this
point. His highness, the late Amir Fai
Sal of Maid, who was a high authority
on Arabian horses. stated that the finest
may be of any color; that the preva-
lent color among the first blood was
various shades of gray; that, on the
whole. color went for little, and height
for nothing, and that blood was every
thing" Another author sums up the
matter thus: practically the Ku-hai-
Ian colors are bay and chestnut, and
the numerousodifferent shades of gray
and roam" Into--the relation of color
| of temperament it is impossible here to
enter. Such a discussion, interesting
as it would be to the lover of the horse,
belong. not only ito the Arabian. but
to the equine race all the world over
Edinburgh Review.
The Opelousas courier., 1894-10-13
A BInCH BARK AFFAIR.

their ancestors enjoyed copper-eolored
flesh and blood. After a well-nigh
s1eepless night it is always pleasant to
get out upon the water again. The
pleasure-seeker who has a good guide
with him can learn q great deal Of
local nomenclature, a greater portion
Of which is aboriginal. There are Tar
Kiln Point, Stump Neck, Possum Nose
and Chicamu1en creek, which were
famous resorts Of the blockade rum
ners during the war Of the rebellion.
At Budd's Ferry, a shady point just
below Chicamuxen creek and thirty
miles below Washington, we had our
lunch beneath a huge tree, and a mile
further down the beach we decided to
make camp, as two copious springs
were found and a high bluff gave us a
most desirable camping spot. Just
across the river the entrance to Chapo-
wamsie creek, a mile below Potomac
city, could be seen, and eight miles
away, on the Virginia shore. the broad
surface Of Aqua creek g~listening in
the sunlight. The famous quarries on
the shores Of this creek, which were
purchased by the government in 1892,
provided the freestone from which the
executive mansion and the older por-
tions of the capitol were built. During
the war Of 1s61-65 a great supply depot
Of the United States army was located
there.
There were many more historic
places seen on the cruise, for the
Potomac Is becoming a very interest
ing historic stream. All along its
banks history has been made and is
being made. But. after all, what we
started out to talk about was the
CANOE. / have not yet been convinced
that the Mariner is properly classed.
It is not an .honest Iniune canoe. The
inventors OF the craft would resent the
use Of the name for such q speedy and
luxurious saile-. But the modern
canoeist says that the same argument
might be used to prove that a modern
steel man-o-war is not a battleshin on
account Of its improvements. or thai
d cannon firing . projectilc eleven
miles is not q gun However that may
lie. we had . nice trip down the
Potomac and returned on a steel
cruiser. SMITH D. FRY.
The Opelousas courier., 1894-10-13

come awaits us. After a short call
here and an appetizing lunch under
the spreading trees we are away again,
passing Doag creek, just below Mount
Vernon, where, it is said. Gen. Wash.
ington used to go duck hunting, and he
also made a careful survey Of this
creek and gave it soundings on some of
his charts.
But George Washington never went
cunning in such a craft as this. He
had yawls and skifs propelled by oars
in the hands Of sons of Ham, who
worshiped him as their master. He
used a fint-lock gun, too; and they do
say that when powder and flint failed
to work satisfactorily that great and
good man sometimes said things which
have found no place in history. His
favorite explosive was an anglicism OF
that Gallo expletive useo by the COM
mander of the Old Guard at Waterloo.
Below Doag creek the river widens
and begins to turn gradually south
ward, and, after passing Marshall hall,
the course is laid for the steep wooded
bluff on the Virginia shore, at the base
Of which the well-known Virginia
white house nestles cozily among the
great trees. This point, now complete
" abandoned, was once a famous sum-
mer resort. and as early as 1872 several
lively skirmishes occurred between the
colonial batteries on the shores Of
White House cliffs and Indian Head
and the far superior British force, con-
sisting OF ten vessels, carrying 173
guns, which were then retreating
down the Potomac after the British in
vasion of Washington. Just below
White House is Gunston cove, on the
south shore of which is Gunston hall,
one Of the famous mansions Of Vir-
ginia. On Poh1ck creek. too, a tribu-
tary of Gunston cove, is old Pohick
church, erected in 1893, of which Wash
ington was a vestryman; and among
those who also w~orshiped there were
the Masons and Fairfaxes. It is a
good days sail to Mattawoman creek,
and a good place to camp for the night
is at Deep Point, Md, nearly opposite
Quantico, Va. But those creatures Of
Divine providence, the mosquitoes, en-
Joy feasting upon the tender dermis Of
. eity-bred canoeist fully as well a.
The Opelousas courier., 1894-10-13
THE FAD OF NERVOUSNESS
Soda Fountains Responsible for Much HUI
man Misery.

Soda Fountains Responsible for Much HUI
man Misery.
Nervousness is as much of a fad as
anything else" said DR.. Egbert Dixon,
of Buffalo, and the modern soda wa
ter fountain has more to do with the
increase in the mania than anything
else. In days of old, when soda water
was first added to the wares of the
druggist, it wa devoted entirely to
satisfying the public taste for some
thing cool, sweet and refreshing. Fruit
sirups Of a harmless character were
fixed up to a proper degree of gaseous
bubbling, and the mission of the soda
fountain was a commemorate one.
Nowadays it is devoted to bromos,
~nervines and lots of other things that
are made from the deadliest sort of
drugs. while they are hung with signs
inviting people to become their own
physicians by trying some of the
countless nostrums which are al
legged to cur anything from a
headace to an improving toe
ably small space of time. The
tired-out individual sees one of the
nervine signs and mistakes his weari-
ness for nervousness. and straightway
proceeds to doctor himself with some
thing. he knows not what. but which
on account of it's powerful properties,
braces him up and makes him feel
bright. The natural result follows.
He takes some more of the soda water
fountain stuff whenever he gets tired,
and in a month OF so his system is on
the road to q general breaking up.
Drugging ones self at a soda fountain
is dangerous, and. as I said in the be-
ginning. nervousness is largely q fad.
If supposed sufferers from at
taeks would only go out and split
wood for half an hour, if men. or take
a brisk walk, if women, and then take
a bath and take a nap, there wouldn't
be SO much heard of this silly rot about
nervousness being our national dis
ease."-Washfngton Star.
The Opelousas courier., 1894-10-13
Common Sense

IS a somewhat rare possession. Show that
you have a share of 1t by refraining from
Violent purgatives and drastic cathartics
when you are constipated, and By relaxing
your bowels gently, not violently, with Hos
letters Stomach Bitters, a wholesome. thor
bush aperient and tonic. This world fanfShs
medicine conquers dyspepsia, malaria, liver
complaint, kidney and bladder trouble and
nervousness, and is admirably adapted for
the feeble and convalescent.
The Opelousas courier., 1894-10-13

There is a man in Sixth avenue,
New York, who makes it a part of his
hard times he finds plenty to do. Shirts
OF very respectable folks come to him
TO be cured of their ills. and go forth
looking like new garments. Ii a man
of fashion be not content, like ordinary
mortaIs. TO tuy his shirts at one dollar.
two dollars. or three dollars each. but
must pay sixty dollars per dozen when
hard times overtake him and anns pour
IL. his only recourse Is tie shirt re-
pasre..
The Opelousas courier., 1894-10-13

JEFFERSON DAVIS MnT6S, :she newly
appointed chief Of police Of Ell Paso,
Tex, Is q son Of John Milton. the con-
federate war governor of Florida, who
committed suicide when he heard OF
Gen. Lees surrender.
The Opelousas courier., 1894-10-13
Facts Of the Case.

Mrs. GadaboutI don't believe that
Dr. Newhand knows a thing about
medicine.
Mrs. Nextdoor-Why?
Mrs Gadabout-He told my husband
that al I needed was q res in some
quiet country place. when he knew
that / was just dying for . tour on tis
contiusuk-AuSHsg4
The Opelousas courier., 1894-10-13

BARos NATHANIEL RoTHscH11D, OF
Vienna, has conceived the generous
idea Of giving his famous castle OF
Reichenau, near Vienna, to the war min
sstry for Transformation into an asylum
Tor invalid officers.
The Opelousas courier., 1894-10-13

FORTUNE TELLER -"Y6tr husband
will be rich, handsome and c1eveS."
Brown Ito fancee)-"By Jove. wonder
full! How did she guess it?"-From
Gl<A$aA
The Opelousas courier., 1894-10-13
Tho True Laxative Principle

AMAN on being asked what kind of wine
he preferred said: "Other peoples Tit
The Opelousas courier., 1894-10-13

OF the plants used in manufacturing the
pleasant remedy, Syrup of Figs, has a per-
manently beneficial effect on the human sys-
TEN, while the cheap vegetable extracts and
mineral solutions, usually sold as medicines.
are permanently injurious. Being well in
formed, you will use the true remedy only.
Manufactured by California Fig Syrup Co.
The Opelousas courier., 1894-10-13

Halls Catarrh Cure
| a Constitutional Cure. Price 75c.
The Opelousas courier., 1894-10-13

IT is always best for 4 man to keep his
temper. No one else wants it.
The Opelousas courier., 1894-10-13

FoRr1FY Feeble Lungs Against Winter
Pixies Toothache Drops Cure in one minute.
The Opelousas courier., 1894-10-13

A~wKwARDNEss is egotism in a state Of in
toxication.- Young Mems Era.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1894-06-01
Found on Decoration Day.

Among the boys who ran away from
home and enlisted in the army in
1863 was one from Central New York,
whom all his comrades called "Sonny,"
on account of his youthful appear
ance. But no truer soldier or more
devoted patriot wore the blue than
this brave boy. He had been little
away from home, and his gentle man
ners soon made him the pet of the
regiment. Every possible comfort
was given sonny" and great pains
taken by the soldiers to tighten his
load.
His mother had died soon aIuor vno
firing upon Sumter and his army life
was never frightened by a mothers
loving epistle, SO cheering to a sol
dier. His sister wrote to him, but it
was only to convey the local gossip
and inquire after army news, closing
with the sentence that if John lived to
return they would be married and
"Sonny" could live with them after
the cruel war was over.
But after the next engagement the
sad intelligence reached Sonny" that
he who was to become more than q
brother-in n-law to him was among the
killed in battle. This was a terrible
blow to the sister in the far-away
home, amid the hills made sacred by
the death of General Herkimer, at
Oriskany, and it well-nigh destroyed
her reason, but poor Sonny" while
he was not numbered with the killed
in battle, soon found himself a pris-
oner and among the dead and dying
in the prison pen at Andersonville.
But having strong constitution
for boy he bravely fought his daily
battle with disease and the living
death of the prison. Time rolled on
his sisters life was very sad and lone
ly. Her brother, whom she thought
dead, had been discharged, but with
reason so dethroned that he could not
locate his early home.
Years passed and on one Memorial
Day regimental monument was to be
dedicated at Gettysburg. 1t occurred
to "Sonny's" sister that perhaps she
might secure some slew from the hun
dreds in attendance SO she undertook
the journey. The ceremonies were
about 10 begin when she saw man,
small of stature, step forward to hold
the horse of the marshal of the day,
aud by an old-time smile his sister
recognized "Sonny.
The restoration, the long journey
home and the thought of no more
separation made this Memorial Day
the happiest in their lives.
'Sonny's" mind soon recovered its
healthiul yigor under the influence OF
his old home and the kind care OF his
beloved sister, Mail aud Express.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1894-06-01

Pillow and othes ,laces. The Ander-
sonville (Ga.) Cemetery, the COM
panion institution to that of Sails
bury, contains the bones of IS, ,702
prison victims, whose names, happily,
are all known save 923. Fortunately
the Union prisoners there were per-
mitted to bury their comrades and to
keep careful record of interments.
In the Chattanooga (Tenn.) Ceme-
terry sleep Is, O5S of the fallen from
the CORY fields of Chattanooga, Chick
amauga and Resaca. Next to it in
populousness is the Chalmette ceme-
tery, near New Orleans, La, on the
site of part of the old New Orleans
battlefield. There lie the bodies of
49, Union soldiers and sailors,
brought thither from all parts of the
State.
The Jefferson Barracks National
Cemetery-once an old military post,
but enlarged-contains the bones of
IL ,682 soldiers, including HOG Con-
federate prisoners, taken in the early
battles of the war in Missouri. At the
Marietta (Ga.) Cemetery repose the
remains of 10, 100 Union soldiers, col
lected from various parts of Georgia,
and at the Beaufort Is. C.) Cemetery
rest 9279 bodies of soldiers and sail
ors who died on the seaboard of South
Carolina, Georgia and Florida. Half
of these are unknown.
Next to the above in point of size
are the cemeteries at Hampton, Va,
with $685. interments Richmond, Va,
with 6545; the Soldiers Home, Dis
trict of Columbia, with 6424; Stone
River, Tenn, with 6146; Poplar
Grove, Va, with 6199; Corinth, Miss,
with 1924; Little Rock, Ark, with
515S; Mound City, ILL.,, with 1858;
Cypress Hills, New York, near Brook
lyn, with 5100; Antietam, Nd, with
4736; Winchester, Va, 1882, Flor
enoe, S. c., with 3013; Woodlawn,
near Elmira, N. Y, with 3075, of
which 296S were Confederates; Firms
Point, N. j., with 2645, of which
1884 were Confederates. Over nine
thousand Confederates are buried in
the national cemeteries, all told, prin-
cipally, however, at Woodlawn and
Firms Point and at Jefferson Barracks,
Camp Butler, City Point and Loudon
Park.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1894-06-01

old Lee mansion on the east side is
the "Temple of Fame"-a circular
structure composed of eight columns,
surmounted by dome, the pillars
bearing the names of Washington,
Lincoln, Grant, Farragut, Mcpherson,
Sedgwick, Reynolds, Humphreys, Gar
field, Mansfield, Thomas and Meade.
Among the prominent Generals bur-
ried there are Ricketts,, Baxter and
Crook.
On par with Arlington in public
regard, although comparatively insig-
nificant as regards the number of
their dead, are the national cemeteries
at Shiloh and Gettysburg, the former
marking the scene of the most impor-
tant contest in the West, and the lat
ter the most pomentous in the East,
the turning point of the war. The
Shiloh metropolis contains only 3597
tablets IN all it's rows and aisles and
avenues--1235 for the known, and
1862 for the unknown-and that of
Gettysburg just five headstones less
1892; but their situation and the
deathless memories attaching to them
the goal of countless pilgrimages.
The bodies that sleep there are almost
exclusively those who fell in action.
Not all of those who fell are there, to
be sure, but all those that are there
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1894-06-01

the friends of deceased are constantly
having bodies removed from the
cemeteries to private burial places, SO
that the total number of graves under
the care of the Government changes
but little from year to year.
The most beautiful of all the ma
tional cemeteries, and the greatest as
regards the number of identified dead,
is that on Arlington Heights, near
Washington. 1t contains 16, ,565 in
erments-12, ZIG known and 4349 un-
known. Its location, overlooking the
Potomac and directly facing the Capt.
tai, is, perhaps, the finest in the world.
Interments of soldiers were first made
in it on May 13, 1864, and the first
soldier placed beneath it's sod was a
Confederate. Previous to that time
most of the interments in and about
Washington were made in the Soldiers
Home Cemetery, northeast of the city.
Eight thousand soldiers who had died
in the innumerable hospitals around
the Capital had been buried there.
Further room was becoming scarce,
and Quartermaster-G General Meigs,
glancing over the magnificent Arling-
ton estate one evening in company
with President Lincoln, suddenly con-
ceived the idea of devoting it to the
needs of the hour, and the order was