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Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1894-10-16
ELECTRIC ELEVATORS.
They Are Not Only SignaIed, But Started
and Stopped by the lightning Fluid.

Aney are MOI Onty SAsflalel. E3ub started
and Stopped by the lightning Fluid.
IT, : vt 6ir2r1-cc between
the latest perfected elevator and the
elevator of a few years ago, says the
New York Mail and Express. The
electric elevator is the latest. The
passenger signals it by a teleseme, as
the appliance is called by which he
presses a button labeled ''Take me
up" Or take me down." as may be, in
response to which faint buzzing in
the car of the conductor of each car,
whether there are two or half a dozen,
draws his attention to an indicator
that shows on what floor the passenger
is and which way he wants to go. The
first car to pass that floor going his
way takes him.
But the most novel point is that
electricity is also used in running the
cars. The conductor does not pull a
steel cable nor grasp handle as big as
the reverse bar of a locomotive. He
presses button and the elevator
rushes up, another button and it de
sends, third and it stops. Before
long the elevator men will be called
Operations at ulis rate, and charming
young ladies, with fluffy bangs and
rings on their fingers, will be doing
the work.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1894-10-16

Lassooing and Tying Down Wild Steers.
Spanish Bull Fight.
Cowboy Tournament.
Broncho Riding.
Ladies' Flat Race Roman Chariot Race
Saddle Horse Race. Donkey Race.
Flag Race.
Shooting Glass Balls From Running
Horse with Winchester Rife,
failing Down Steers.
Riding Wild Bulls. Bicycle Racing
Trick Bicycle Racing.
Throwing the Bolaz (Tnree balls on a
string is used instead of lasso by the
South American Gaucheros.)
Small Boy Contest for Horsema ship.
horses used and graceful ridin
only.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1894-10-16
A Counterfeit schoolma'am.

For forty years the principal of a
young lady's school in Copenhagen has
been respected asa lady. Lately she
became very rude to one of her pupils
and was arrested. After two days in
generation it was noticed that ''she"
needed shaving. Then it became mani
fest that the principal was really a
man.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1894-07-12
Did Not Wish to be Emperor.

The Rev. DR.. Bernard Rogge
preached the sermon in the Versailles
palace, January IS, 1871, when the
German empire was proclaimed, and
ever since he has been known through.
out central Europe as the consecrator
OF Germany. In lecture given by
him in Vienna early in this month he
told of remarkable interview which
he had with the king of Prussia three
days before the great ceremony, King
William requested him to make the
sermon short and exclude from it as
far as possible all references to the
house of Hohenzollern and its head.
"For I have not done it," said old
William. "God in his providence &C.
complished it. shall find it difficult
to accustom myself to my new title of
emperor. My own wish was that at
my advanced age 1 might avoid the
honor, although my son might be
called to accept it; but matters have
turned out in such way that I can no
longer do anything but take it.
When received ON the same day by
the crown prince, later, Emperor
Frederick, Rogge got few more in
structions as to the nature of his SER
mon. The crown prince pointed to
the great hall where the ceremony was
to be held and remarked:
when l first saw the palace on the
10Th of last September said to nv
self; There is the place where the
founding of the German empire
will be proclaimed. "--Chicago Times.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1894-07-12
A Snake.Killing Bird,

The Australian, also called Jardine's
Harrier, is another serpent killer Of
no mean ability, that is endowed by
nature with legs of considerable
length, covered with strong yellow
scales absolutely impervious to any
ophidian tooth. Although it does
not prey exclusively on snakes, but al
80 kills and devours frogs, nevis and
lizards, the barrier is of very great
service in its native country, which
contains 80 many species of deadly
snakes, which it searches for on the
wing, hawking at no great distance
from the ground over the places which
they frequent, and snatching them up
in one of its powerful feet, always taxi
care to grasp the reptile by the neck,
then flying upward to a great height,
and letting it fall, to be killed on. the
hard surface of the earth or ona stone,
II there should happen to be q large
one in the neighborhood.
l must confess, however, to q slight
amount of incredulity in respect Of
the snake-killing' prowess of this very
handsome hawk, for it chiefly FREE
quents marshy ground, and is moro
likely to meet with frogs in such n
situation than with serpents, which, as
rule, at least in Australia, frequent
the hottest and driest places they can
find. Still, as the reptiles, or at least
some of them, seek the water when they
are changing their skins, at which
time their sight is DINNER than usual,
it may be that the antipodean marsh
barrier does fall in with a snake oc-
casionally in the the moist places it
chiefly affects and makes short work
the deadly reptile. Pail Mall Maga-
zine.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1894-07-12
Electric Search-Light.

Among the many interesting things
in the wonderfully attractive field of
electrical investigation, the search
light has, perhaps, been brought to
the notice of more persons than any
other single exhibition of this remark
able element. The thousands who
watched the manipulation of the
search-lights on the top of the Worlds
Fair buildings could scarcely imagine
the possibilities of its future. 1t is
not at all remarkable that this great
light is in fair way to be used as q
pen to write advertisements upon the
clouds. With densely black evening
sky, the light may be SO thrown
through properly adjusted lenses that
magic lantern effect on an extensive
scale may be produced. Letters one
hundred feet long are cut in stencil
fashion from sheets of tin or iron and
projected upon dark clouds or upon
the blackness of night. As already
arranged, these lights may be seen
for more than one hundred miles. It
is thought that in time lights of. such
power may be operated that ships at
sea may be guided for great distances.
1t will unquestionably be one of the
possibilities of the not very far dis
tant future to communicate informa-
ton to wide area by means of letters
projected upon the clouds. Il New
York Ledger.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1894-07-12
The Bahamas.

A most curious utensil of q BAHIA
man dwelling is a big cement oven,
like cone at the back of the house.
In this the family bread is baked.
Bahamas are physiologically starved,
and their thin, attenuated forms show
it. An unvarying diet of fish and
fruit is not nourishing enough, and
the fact speaks for itself in these is
landers. The white Bahamas are
homely and sallow unless burned so
that complexion is thing of the past.
They rarely-some never-wear shoes !;
hence feet in these latitudes are feet
and not merely the ends of legs. I
used to gaze in admiration at the feet
that daily and nightly visited our
schooner. The owners of the appen-
dages could walk where shod foot
could not bear to tread. The skin be-
comes tougher than leather. Black
Bahamas are the finest specimens Of
the race to be seen outside of Africa
-strapping fellows with magnificent
arms and chests.
1t is lnconceivable how simple the
Bahamas are. 1 saw old men in
Spanish Wells who had never seen q
horse, or COW, or q wheeled vehicle.
Nassau is their Mecca. "Why, boy"
said Joe Pinder to me everybody
down here is either Pindar or a
Johnson), "Nassau his city. Hit as
six thousand peopl,, hand the streets
are SO wide carriages kin go along
hand leave room for persons to walk
on beach side. "--Californlan Illus
trated Magazine,
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1894-07-12
QUAINT AND CURIOUS.

Belgian workmen train ROSTERS to
crow against each other.
Evidences of sun worship are found
in the mythology Of every land.
In Damascus, drunken men are
called victims of 'the English dis
ease.
The first paper ever made in the
world was made by wasps. They used
it for building nests.
Swords equally as fine as the famous
blades of Damascus are manufactured
in Bhutan, State in the Himalayas
Jonathan Hulls in 1876 made .
small steamboat. 1t failed to work,
but had all the germs of Fulton's later
invention.
At an auction sale in Chicago few
days ago an inlaid ivory table, which
cost 81, 900 in China fifteen years ago,
sold for SIT.
Cymbals are believed to be among
the earliest musical inventions. They
were used in Egypt at least 4, 900 years
before Christ.
James Watt was an inventor from
the moment he was intrusted with the
repair of piece of costly and intri-
cate machinery.
A flag carried in the war of 1912 is
relic priced by Mrs. E. @. Blount of
Waynesboro, GA. The flag bears
only fifteen stars.
The germ of the guitar is found in
the warriors bow, the string of which
gave sonorous twang as the arrow
sped to the mark.
Cocoanuts and the nuts of the ma
hogany trees are often cast ashore on
the coast of England, unimpaired by
their long journey.
The hand-spinning, with spindle
and whorl, is the same the world over
and identical with that shown in Egyp-
tan paintings $500 years old.
A British clergyman's wife has per-
formed the pathological feat of COM
piling grammar aud dictionary of
the Congo dialect of African speech.
When the masons were laying the
wall for j. Harris house at Byron,
N. T., they found petrifed mud tur-
tie. The head was broken off. The
find weighed twelve pounds.
A bear weighing 800 pounds was
captured near Mount Pleasant, Mich.
1t had a trap weighing twenty-five
pounds attached to one foot. The
trap was very old and very rusty.
The largest oil painting in the world
is one by Tintoretto, entitled "Para-
disc. 1t is thirty-three and a half
feet in height and eighty-four feet in
width, and may now be seen in the
Doge's Palace, Venice.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1894-07-12

though at your masters house this
afternoon when she came there to in
quire for you. got her dead to
rights, as she had lot of pawn tickets
for the stuff, and she said that she
took it when she came to visit you
'The woman caught her breath,
gasped, clenched her hands, and
yelled out in fury: She lied, she
didn't take it took It'll"
"Then, supposing that had really
caught her sister, and that the latter
had confessed in order to save her she
broke down and gave away the whole
story. She had been stealing all the
time, had pawned the stuff, and left
the pawn tickets in the care of her
sister. She told me where the stuff
was pawned, and got it together that
night. 1t included all sorts of things,
and made big cart load. l had it
all in court the next morning, and
compelled the Californian to identify
it against his will. The best of all,
however, was the fact that got evil
dence that she had stolen from the
Police Justice, too, when she was in
his family, and had the pleasure OF
returning to him the things which she
had taken, but which he had never
missed.
''Once I actually had suit brought
against me by woman. She brought
one suit against me for $25, 900 for
defamation of character, and another
for $40, 900 for false imprisonment. ]
had arrested her, and she had been
discharged for lack of evidence.
followed her for four mo nths after she
was discharged, and finally caught her
entering pawn shop. 1t was little
place out of the usual run, and I had
never thought of going there before.
1 got all the evidence I wanted then,
and re-arrested her. Her suits were
never brought to trial.
SIN each of these cases, however, it
was only my persistency and determin-
alton that saved me from trouble. If
l hadn't stuck to it / probably would
have got into serious difficulty, for I
was not acting strictly within the lines
of my official duty. New York Sun.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1894-07-12

In the French, as in all foreign ar
mics, a company consists of $50 men.
This is commanded by mounted cap
tain and has an adjutant, who is a
non-commissioned officer responsible
for discipline, sergeant-major and a
quartermaster-sergeant. There are
four companies in battalion and three
battalions in regiment. A battalion
is commanded by ''commandant"
and a regiment by colonel, assisted
by Northumberland. Authority
and responsibility are not centralized,
as in the American service. Each
captain, for instance, is entirely re-
sponsible for his company, and upon
its efficiency his promotion depends.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1894-07-12

Metal articles manufactured in the
United States are crowding out nipple.
ments of English and German make
in the foreign markets states the New
York Sun. A list of articles exported,
and which find ready sale abroad, con-
tains the following: Tools used by
carpenters. coopers, curriers', masons,
blacksmiths, miners, plumbers and
cabinetmakers, all in great variety.
6hovels, spade hoes, forks. axes,
saws, ploughs, harrows, reapers, NOV.
ers. Orders for 1000 steel ploughs
are received at time. Binding Irvine
and barbed wire in enormous quanti-
ties. All sorts of ship hardware.
Cut and wire nails, tacks, brads and
shoe nails. Builders hardware, such
as locks, knobs, hinges, escutcheons,
etc. Tin, iron and enamelled ware,
tribe cutlery, clocks, lamps and chan.
deliers, stoves, ranges, heaters, plated
and silverware. All sorts of rubber
mechanical goods Pumps, wood
working machinery, iron working ma.
chinery, steam engines, boilers and
sugar working machinery.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1894-07-12
An Orchard Ilyl.

the warm sun shines down on banks OF
white clover;
The honey bee, laden, fits by on the wing;
And Jenny comes down where the peach
trees bend over,
And robin gay rogue, Is beginning to sing.
Blue, SO blue. are the skies where the soft
clouds are swimming,
And blue, yes, as blue, are the maidens
bright eyes,
are brimming.
While there's no hint of rain In the azure
hued skies.
The robin trills louder h is rapturous singing
The pink blossoms drift ON the breeze that
floats by;
But Jenny's heart-throbs, and her thoughts
are a-winging,
As she spreads the white clothes on the
clover to dry;
There is an empty nest in the apple tree hid
den;
There's blackberry vine that is dead in the
sun.
It will rain, for the clouds by the breezes are
hidden,
And the linen half dry, and the washing
half done!
But the robin sang on. And the wind, Idle
rover,
Still drifted the peach blossoms down to the
grass;
For how could they know OF falthless
young lover,
And how could they read the sweet heart Of a
lass?
Still on moves the day. The sun mounting
high,
Reveals new nest in the old apple tree,
And the rays reach the vine that seemed dead
and they spy
A promise Of hope, that the Summer will
see.
And Jenny, slow tripping where blossoms
bend over,
Finds that, silly maiden, that banishes tears,
AS she plucks, with a smile, the hazel-ringed
clover
That bringeth good fortune and drives away
fears.
All Jenny, the robin, his carol still singing.
Is watching the scene with bird-wisdom
wise,
And he notes, am sure, that the wind is
a-bringing
No hint of shower, in the blue OF the
skies.
30 the peach petals drift, as the bee, busy
rover,
Flies home at the close Of the long Summer
hours.
And sees blushing Jenny agreeing her
lover
Where the red robin nests, and the white
clover flowers.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1894-07-12
PEARLS OF THOUGHT.

knowledge throttles faith.
The heart is no philosopher.
Dollars brighten as they take their
aight
The man who knows the least shows.
it the most.
The diligent and frugal never filn
poorhouses.
Sincerity and truth are the bases Of
every virtue.
Never get scared until woman gets.
down on you.
The man on the fence has lots Of
ways to jump.
The man who leans on his blessings
cannot walk straight.
Don't swear off in the morning and
swear on before night.
Good people don't get half the
sympathy bad ones do.
Evil in the heart, like fire in clos
ct, will burn its way out.
The easiest thing for a fool to do is
to tell how little he knows.
A mistake is apt to attract mora at
tention to us than virtue.
Helping the poor with profusiom
puts premium on poverty.
A man is more apt than woman i'm
go crazy when he falls in love.
No woman dislikes other women un-.
til she falls in love with man.
There is no better capital than good
nature. It lasts one a lifetime.
When man loves money, a woman
may expect very little of his love ind
less Of his money.
Women's moral support is as valu-
able to man as his material support
Is necessary to her.
A woman may know man is lying
when he tells her she is pretty, but
she would not have him punished for
the fault
Most rich people do not try to make
themselves attractive, because they are
led to believe that their money does
that for them.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1894-07-12

In the German army promotion
from the ranks specifically unknown ;
but in France about half the officers
become officers in that way. It is the
unanimous testimony of French SOL
diers that officers who have seen ser.
vice in the ranks do, as a rule, succeed
best in securing respect, obedience,
and efficiency in their subordinates
Still, to get commission from the
ranks is by no means easy. After q
non-commissioned officer has been fire.
quently recommended he has to go
through military college and pass
very severe examinations.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1894-07-12

In public address delivered ir
Pittsburg few dayc >-yo, Rev. DR..
Sheldrake, of Kentucky, related these
singular stories: "There was mem.
Der of the Kentucky presbytery, whom
] knew very well, who frequently went
into sort of walking sleep. While
IN this condition hewould preach mos,
eloquent sermons, but when he came
out he could not remember a word
that he had said. On one occasion 9
copy of the French Testament was
handed to him to conduct family wor-
ship at the house of well-known cit
izen of Frankfort. Although utterly
ignorant of the French language, he
read chapter and then commented
thereon at length in English. On an.
other occasion, while in this condition.
he remarked to his friends that Ger.
tain minister in Nebraska was in trou.
bic, and that he had just written let
ter IN Kentucky, detailing the circum.
stances. He then proceeded to give
the contents Of the letter, and his
iWords were taken down by some one
esent. Two days later the letter ar
9 from Nebraska, and it was iden-
- :.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1894-07-12
The Detectives Story.

although the law protects police
officer in the execution of his duty, u
said one of Mr.. Byrne's detectives the
other day, ''yet there are occasions
when the officer makes himself person.
ally liable by arresting citizen. ]
have had several experiences which
left me In doubt for long time as to
my personal responsibility, and I re-
member particularly one case where il
looked as though would get myself
into heap of trouble by refusing to
take the advice of my friends. That
was very peculiar case, one that I
will not forget.
81 had become interested in trying
to work out the solution of O mysteri-
Gus case of theft, and had become so
absorbed in my work that my curios-
ity and desire to come to some definite
conclusion impelled me to go beyond
ordinary bounds. I had nothing but
suspicion and sort of intuitive feel
ing to act upon, and had against me a
threat OF suit for personal damages
and the opposition of all those persons
who were interested in the matter in
one way or another. The facts were
simply these:
"a wealthy family living on the
west side, not far from Central Park,
lost a number of valuable articles in
the most mysterious fashion. 1 was
acting as the detective in that precinct
at the time, and the captain sent me
around to ferret out the thief. I
found that the people lived in beau
tiful house, which was just full of valu-
able articles that could easily be stolen
by person who had access to them.
On the other hand, it was difficult for
burglar or a sneak thief to get in, as
the place was not only guarded by
good locks but had also a burglar
alarm, which was set whenever the
family and servants retired. During
the day and evening there were enough
persons about the house to spot any
thief that might effect an entrance.
''The family consisted of husband,
wife, and baby, and there were four
or five servants, including nurse.
The latter had it about as easy as any
could wish for. Her employ
ers were Californians, had lots of
money, dotted on their child, and were
liberal to its caretaker. They had
been absent for about week, and it
was during their absence that the
thefts became SO alarming as to cause
them to complain to the police when
they returned.
II was SO well satisfied after short
preliminary examination of the house
and surroundings, that the thief was
inside and not outside, that I devoted
all my time to Watching and cross-ex-
aiming the servants. I had no diff
Guilty with any except the nurse. She
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1894-07-12
Fate Of Sea Messages.

The practice of throwing overheard
from ships letters inclosed in sealed
bottles is centuries old. Hollow cop
per spheres and oaken barrels have
also been used as sea letter carriers in
attempts to trace the direction OF
ocean currents or to send word from
persons at sea to friends on land. Bar
nacles readily attach themselves to
these drifting letter holders and sink
them. Only very few Of the many
messages that have been thrown into
the sea have ever been recovered. -
Chicago Herald
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1894-07-12
Another Kind.

1t was about 1890 p. m. and the
young woman was talking to the man
in the case.
"What l like in man," she was
saying, sis energy; one that has some
go in him."
The young man glanced hastily al
the clock, then at the door, then at the
girl, and got up.
"lbeg your pardon" she said BLUSH
ing; 'you may stay as long as you
please; you are the first man that ever
understood that statement properly"
Detroit Free Press.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1894-07-12

The confirmation of the news of the
sinking of the great steel clad monster
Aquidaban by a torpedo boat will, in
the opinion of the Philadelphia Rec
ord, serve to diminish the confidence
of the nations in their costly cruisers
and battleships. 1t has always been
so. As soon as some Goliath gets his
reputation established, along comes
some unexpected David with sling
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1894-07-12
Borrowed a House.

A unique case of borrowing is re-
ported from Sherman Mills. A man
whose house was destroyed by fire
last winter, has borrowed a house
from one of his friends, which he will
have hauled to his lot and will occupy
as dwelling this summer, returning
it in the fall. Il Kennebec (Me. Jour
nal,
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1894-07-12

A French writer points out that
while Greater New York will cover
BIT square miles, equal to SO, 100
French hectares, Paris covers only
1902 hectares, Berlin $500. and Lon
don 10000.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1894-07-12
A Strong Symntom.

'T'm glad Tompkins has struck /.
streak of luck at last.
Smith-So am /. What is it?
II don't know just what. only
know that he talked to me for twenty
minutes without asking to borrow S.
-[Chicago Inter- Ocean.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1894-07-12

Australia mined 4,O37, 929 tons Of
coal last year. The supply is appar-
emily inexhaustible and is counted on
to be an important factor in the future
industrial development of the coun.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1894-07-12
Obs 1n1a Reporter.
-Publishsd Every Thursday 49,
IUKA. MISS.

The population of the United States
doubles in period of about thirty
four years.