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Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1894-03-27

Electric quantity and tension-or in
tensity-are terms based on the assump-
ton that electricity Is a fluid. Guam
tity is the amount Of tho fluid that a
body contains as its charge and the ten
sion or intensity on any point of it's sur
face-insulated electricity lies on the
surface-is the depth, or if the depth
remain the same the density of the fluid
at that point. The quantity has refer
enc to tho number Of particles e%lectri-
fed and the amount Of force lodged in
each; tho tension has reference simply
to the inductive force lodged in each.
Particles that are highly electrified
must polarize powerfully the particles
near them, and If powerful enough
cause discharge. Tension or intensity,
therefore, is tho power to polarize and
effect discharge. The quantity of cleo
tricity passing in n current is estimated
by the power Of tho current to defect
the magnetic needle by the chemical de-
composition it effects, or by the temper
allure to which it raises q wire of given
thickness and material. The tension or
intensity Of the current is the power
which it has to transmit a current
against resistance, such as that offered
by a bad, long or thin conductor. Ten
sion, strictly speaking, is not a property
of the current, but OF the battery which
generates the current. brooklyn Eagle.
Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1894-03-27
10 Keep ones Youth.

A distinguished English scientist, Mr..
william Kinnear, in "A magazine article
insists that the secret Of perennial youth
is to be found in the use of distilled
water and phosphoric acid. He says
that death, or disease that produces
death, Is caused by the deposit in the
human system Of ~calcareous or earthly
matter, and that the drinking of dis
titled water, which is itself a great dis
solvent, and the use also Of from 10 to
10 drops Of diluted phoIphoIic acid in
each tumblerful of water will remove
such deposits and prolong human life
to the very latest limit. In several Of
the great hotels In New York distilled
water is provided at the table and for
the use Of the guests in their rooms, and
the advertisement OF this fact attracts
many patrons. Detroit Free Press.
Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1894-03-27

Snow is sometimes found in polar and
Alpine regions, where it lies unmelted
from year to year and the annual fall
is email, coloIed red by the presence of
innumerable small red plants. In its
native state the plant consists Of bril-
liant red globules on a gelatinous mass.
Red snow was observed by the ancients,
a passage in Aristotle referring to it,
but it attracted little or no attention
until 1860, when Sanssure observed it
in the Alps and concluded that it was
due to the pollen of a plant. 1t was
also noticed by the arctic expedition
under Captain Ross on BafIin's bay shore
on a range of cliffs. the red color pene-
trating to a depth of 10 feet. Less fire.
quent is a green growth on snow.-La-
dies Home Journal.
Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1894-03-27
THE rlRsr IRISH POTATOES
slr waitor Raleigh Planted Them Nsap
Cork, but the People Feared Them.

sir Wnitor Raleigh Planted Them Nsnv
Cork, but The People Feared Them.
Sir Walter Raleigh was an unprin-
cipled adventures and failed % an adj
ministrator and %colonizer, but no had
q most oommendable taste for planting
and gardening. and ia these branches
OF effort his influence remains potent.
Three hundred years have passed since
ho lived In IRELAND, IN the county Of
Cork, on the vast estate which had been
bestowed upon him, but the yellow wall
flowers which he brought 20 Ireland
from tho Azores still flourish ard bloom
In tho very spot where he planted them.
Near by, at YoughaL near Cork, on
The shores Of the Blackwatcr estuary,
stands tho Afiane cherry which he
planted. Some cedars which he brought
TO Cork are still growing at a place
called Tivoi. Four yew trees, whose
branches have grown and interlaced
into a sort Of summer honse, arc point
ed out as having sheltered Raleigh when
be first smoked tobacco in his garden at
Youghal.
Raleigh tried to make tobacco grow
in Great Britain, but the climate was
not found suitable to It. He succeeded,
however, by Introducing the habit of
smoking 1t, In making it grow in plenty
In other places.
More important to the world than the
spot where Raleigh sat and smoked his
Indian weed Is another spot in his gar
den at Myrtle Grove, III this same
Youghal. This spot Is still bounded by
the town wall of the thirteenth century,
1t was hero that Raleigh f1st planted e
curious tuber brought from America,
which throve vastly better than his to-
bacco plants did.
This tuber Raleigh insisted was good
to eat, though common report for a long
time pronounced it poisonous. Some
roots from his vines he gave TO other
land owners in Munster. They Guilt
waited them and spread them abroad
from year to year.
This plant was the Irish potato. Be-
fore many generations 1t became the
staple food Of the Irish people-almost
the only food Of a great many of them.
1t was the Irish potato" which
came back to America and became the
groundwork, go 10 speak, Of the Amer
lean farmers and workingman's daily
breakfast and dinner. Sir Walters
curious experiment in naturalization
became an economic step OF the very
FIRST consequence, and the spot at You
ghal which was its scene deserves mark
ing with a monument much more than
do the places where the blood Of men
has been shed in battle Youth 3 Com
panion.
Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1894-03-27

ing GO pounds to the bushel:
against the universal standard Of
60 pounds. The standard weight
Of oats is 80 pounds to the bushel;
the New Mexico grain weighed 46
pounds.
New Mexico has long been fam
GUS for the salubrity Of It's climate.
Tubercular diseases arc unknown;
no case OF consumption has ever
originated in the Territory.
1t has been asserted chat the
people of New Mexico are not
Americans, that they speak a for
eign language, and that they have
no affinity with American institu-
tons. 1t is true hat a large por-
ton of the population in New
Mexico speaks the Spanish Ian
guage, but 1t is also undoubtedly
true that there are very few per-
sons in New Mexico under thirty
years Of age who aro unable to
speak English, and that year by
year the use of the English Ian
guage is taking the place of Span
ish The people of New Mexico
realize that they are a part of the
United States, and that the Eng
lish language is the national Ian
guage, and it is a fixed and definite
principal among them all that the
English language shall be taught
to every child in New Mexico.
English ID now taught in every
school.
If New Mexico becomes a state,
her mines will be developed, her
railroads extended, her schools en-
larged, and she will take upon her
self new encouragement for prog
ress. When once the natural re-
sources of New Mexico are devel-
oped, the whole nation will Won
der that SO rich a section of our
country should SO long have re-
NAMED a Territory. Differing in
many points from the other parts
our great Union. she will minis
Ter to the wants of the whole coun-
try.
Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1894-03-27

The proposal to transfer the In
dams supply depot from New York
to Chicago is receiving special at
tention from the house, sub COM
mittee on Indian affairs. The
proper place for this depot is
Denver, whence al the In
dian reservations and agencies Of
the West could most read
lily. be supplied. The Ne
braska members are work
ing to have the depot moved to
Omaha, but if the Colorado repre-
sentatives would get to work and
urge tho claims Of Denver they
ought TO be able to get it. Colo
radios interests are identical with
New Mexico's and Arizona's to-
day. Let us see and remember
how Colorado now troats US.
Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1894-03-27
RnsI,In,a rrothodlonlnenE


Never has a man been more method
zeal in his work than Professor Ruskin,
nor more precise in obedience to the
rules he has laid down for his guidance.
His working hours have always been
from 2 in tho morning until noon, and
on no account whatever would he ex-
coed the limit. Within those five daily
hours has all his work been produced
books, lectures and business, public and
private correspondence. Work in the
afternoon has always been by himself
forbidden, unless 1t took the form Of
reading. His earlier works, of course,
were written at HeTne or at Denmark
Hill or while on a tour on the CONT
nent. His later ones have been wrought
in great part at the flower docked table
Of his study, overlooking ConistoD lake.
A wonderful room, that long study Of
his, with his Turner's upon the walls
and ranged in ranks in the great Turner
cabinet upon the floor, with its book
cases Of wonderful missals and manu-
scripts and early black letter books and
the original manuscripts of n half dozen
of Scots novels, with its superb Lucca
della Robbia Virgin and Child" over
the fireplace at one end and the mineral
cabinet at the other. With what pleas
ure did Ruskin show them to me on my
first visit-the u~nrivaled collection of
agates and the equally perfect collection
of gold ores and the est.-McClure's
Magazine.
Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1894-03-27
Tyndan's I-maslnatisn.

This instructive imagination-for we
are not concerned with mere reminis-
cent imagination-hero resulting in the
creations Of the poet and there in the dis
ooveries Of the man Of science, Is the
highest Of human faculties. With this
faculty Professor Tyndall was largely
endowed. In common with successful
Investigators In general, he displayed it
in forming true conceptions of physical
processes previously misinterpreted or
uninterrupted, and again In conceiving
modes by which the actual relations Of
the phenomena could be demonstrated,
and agaiu in devising Et appliances to
this end. But to a much greater extent
than usual he displayed constructive
Imagination in other fields.
He was an excellent exposition, and
good exposition implies much construct
i've imagination. A prerequisite is the
forming of true ideas of the mental
states of those who are to be taught,
and a further prerequisite is the imagin-
ing Of methods by which, beginning
with conceptions they possess, there
may be built up IN their minds tho con-
ceptions they do not possess. OF on
structive imagination as displayed in
this sphere men at large appear to be
almost devoid, as witness tho absurd
systems of teaching which in past times,
and in large measure ut present, have
stupeied and still stupefy children by
presenting abstract ideas before they
have any concrete ideas from which
they can be drawn. Whether as lee
turer or writer, Professor Tyndall care
fully avoided this vicious practice
Herbert Spencer in McClure's Maya
zina-
Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1894-03-27

The homely luxury, gingerbread, has
been popular ever since the fourteenth
century. 1t was then made and sold
in Paris. In those days it wal prepared
with ryemeal made into a dough, and
ginger and other spices, with sugar or
honey, were kneaded into it. II was in
troduced into England by the court Of
Henry Nv for thoir festivals and was
soon brought into general use, treacle
being ai'er q time employed 90 the
manufactures instead Of honev
Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1894-03-27

A remarkable sight to be seen from a
balloon is the bottom Of lakes and ponds.
While over Lake Erie Carl Il, Myers,
the balloonist, says he saw clearly a
wreck lying under 70 feet Of water. 1t
was that Of a schooner, sunk 40 year.
ago. At a height OF half a milo tho en-
tire bottom Of a small lake or pond can
be clearly seen, and Mr.. Myers believes
that on a clear day IN a%eronaut OF good
vision could see from a height of a mile
submarine objects at a depth Of 400 or
900 feet beneath the water.
Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1894-03-27
The ChIncne unnohhncA.

I nm reminded Of a picture I pur-
chased some time ago. / bought it be-
cause l thought it was the ugliest pic
ture l had ever seen. l tried to find out
the history or meaning of the thing for
some time without any success until a
few days ago, while studying Taoism, l
found the ugly man was one of the
Taoist gods. On his early days his spirit
had the power of leaving his body and
roaming over the universe alone. When
off on one of these trips, wolves came
and ate his body. So when his spirit re.
turned it found only a few bones. After
hunting around for awhile the spirit
found the body Of a dead hunchback
beggar VINO walked with an iron cane
in his lifetime. The spirit crawled in
this body and has lived in it over since.
Til Kwalei, for that is the gods name,
carries a gourd on his back, which, if
the breath were blown out Of II in the
heavens, would bring back his original
body. According to last accounts, the
breath has not flown out of the gourd.-
Canton Cor. Louisville Courier-Journal
Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1894-03-27

ENoRMoUs pressure has been
brought to bear on the President
by eastern bankers and gold men
to force him TO veto the seignorage
coinage bin. 1t seems however
highly probable that he will refuse
to be- governed by the eastern re-
publicans and will calmly and
powerfully take his own course
and sign the bill to judge by the
following telegram which was sent
in response to the notification of
the New York chamber of COM
merce that it's colmitee was about
to proceed to Washington to pres
ent a powerful memorial against
signing.
George Wilson, Chairman Of
Commerce, New York.
l will hear them if they come,
but strongly advise their not com
FOR lie President.
III. j. Thurber
Secretary.
boy. Grorsrl
Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1894-03-27

The little leahet called "Cur Ian
guage" isstiIl engaged in promoting the
reform Of spelling. It's scheme of a
"digraf alfaabet' is very well illus.
trated in the following extracts:
Bal a fonetik alfaahet a chaild mel
bii toat dhi aart ov riiding-not huuon.
til, but wel-boeth in fonetick and in
oardineiri bucks, in Thrill munths, al
oftn in twenti aurz ov thuroe instruk-
shun-a task hwich il raerli axiom
plisht in thrii yiirz oy toll bal dhi Geld
alfabet. Hwot faadhuar oar tiichuer
viii nit gladli he'll and uarnestli wuark
foar dhis greit bum tue odyuukeishun
-dhis paurfuol maashiin foar dhi di-
fuzhun ov nolejf Dhis paraagraf kon-
teinz oal dhi saundz in dhi Ingglish
langgueij.-New York Tribune.
Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1894-03-27

Next to the man who invented or dis
covered FIRE, the greatest benefactor of
the human race will be the man who
abolishes smoke. Nothing else will go
change the conditions of life in our
great cities. Without saying that this
result is already at hand, a great step to-
ward 1t is made by the new invention in
hreplaces. By this system a fire can
undoubtedly be produced without
smoke, and though at present a special
fireplace must be employed for the pur-
pose there is no reason why every one
who henceforth fits up a kitchen range
or a furnace should not have a smoke
less one. expect to see the time when
every householder as well as every man
ufacturer will be compelled to consume
his W smoke. In the meantime, how
ever, there is the strongest inducement.
short Of compulsion, for doing 50, for
the system, like all which are based on
perfecting the combustion of tho fuel,
gives a largely increased heat for a re-
duced consumption Of coal.-London
Truth.
Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1894-03-27

KossUTH, the great Hungarian
patriot, is dead. He was to Hun
gary what Washington was to
this country. His death has caus-
ed a profound grief throughout
his native land, which is deeply
sympathised in throughout all civ
iltized countries.
Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1894-03-27

The Silver City papers and tax
payers are complaining because
the Jail Is full of prisoners. Nc
one has heard the sheriff make
any k~ick.-Liberal.
1t is not the Silver City papers,
it is the Grant County Taxpayers
who II complaining.
Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1894-03-27
An EnpliHh naner niYaa Id fnllnWinr

An English paper gives the following
sentence as the perfection Of bad gram
mar; Them Sleeps is yourn." How
about the famous reply Of the Yorkshire
children when ''Dr. syntax" told them
that their mother was calling them?
John Leech, we think, reported and IL
Illustrated it years ago; Her amt a-call.
ing we. Us don't belong to She"
Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1894-03-27

Inc utie colonel comes from the word
almost the same in several languages,
signifying a column. Tho colonel was
so called because he led OF commanded
tho column.
Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1894-03-27

With the exception Of the Indians two
languages furnish the keys to mission
airy work in South America Portuguese
70 Brazil and Spanish to all the other
republics.
Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1894-03-27
AS a continent Africa is tho nome Of

AS a continent Africa is tho home of
a vigorous race of mankind, which,
while resisting assimilation with Euro
poan civilization, defes permanent con-
quest. European travellers, traders, mis-
sionaries, conquerors, may at their will
and at their peril penetrate into this
dark sanctuary, but their %sojourn ia for
a day, and on the morrow the faint
traces OF their passage are ob~literated
by the exuberant growths Of baTbarism.
Grudgingly as it is snmotimes conceded,
1t is nevertheless a fact that the bulk Of
the continent Of Africa is still untouched
by western civilization. l for ono can
not believe that Africa will even be
Europeanized or brought within the
pale OF western progress, for in order
that Africa may progress it IS absolute
~ essential that it be developed along
natural lines, but as yet the inherent
powers Of native genius have neither
been discovered, nor in tho absence Of
any cohesion among native tribes and in
view of European rapacity are they,
even If discovered, ever likely to be en-
couraged or fostered. Not Africa is a
continent fatod to be conquered and ex.
plotted by the hoirs Of civilization, to
whom II may pay tribute, but homage
neYeI.-Nineteonth Century.
Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1894-03-27

AS a leaper the kangaroo is ahead Of
all. II readily jumps from 90 10 20
feet. A horse has jumped 81 feet and
a man 25 foot 0lS inches.
Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1894-03-27

The French law treats the frog as ~
1t were a fish and doclarf al FISHING
for ~ hy Night 20 be poacling.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1894-01-18
Conflict of Authority.

1t was expected that the creation of
the new Office of controller would cause
conflict of authority in county affairs,
and this expectation has been realized
in Schuylkill county. The new office
does away with the major part of the
duties heretofore performed by the
county auditors, an ii as result there is
dispute between the auditors and the
county commissioners, which promises
to result in legal proceeding
After the auditors had organized they
made demand upon the commissioners
for the county books which was refused
on the ground that they could be hand
ed only to the county controller. 1t is
now claimed that there is no use for
auditors further than to draw their
salaries.
Subpoenas will be issued on the COM
missioners and if they do not turn over
the books to the auditors an attachment
will be issued.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1894-01-18
WITH Annual BaII.

The fifth annual ball of the Tigers
Athletic Club will be held at the opera
house on Monday evening next, and the
members are preparing to accommodate
the large number which is sure to at
tend. The ball given each year by the
club is generally considered among the
best of the season, and no effort will be
spared to make the coming one success
in every manner. The popularity Of
the club is shown by the large atten-
dance at any affair held by it, and also
by the many propositions of those eligible
to become members, the number of
which is limited.
The money made by the club by balls,
ETC., is expended for base ball purposes
and in maintaining the well-equipped
club-room on Walnut street, which is
always open to the public.
The music for the ball will be furnish
ed by DePierro's orchestra and St.
Patrick's cornet band. During the first
intermission Con Carbon and Phil Coyle,
of Wilkes-Barre, will introduce several
of their popular songs and recitations,
and during the second intermission
Denis Coyle and William Burke, also of
Wilkes Barre, will give an exhibition of
step-dancing.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1894-01-18
SEIGE OF BAGE.
Rebels RepuIsed With Big Los
Copyright, 1894, by the United Press.

ouPsiiSlu, loof, ny INC Dniueu I'feSS
RIO JANEIRo, Jan. 1.-THE minister of
foreign affairs, acting for President Peix-
oto. authorizes the representative of the
United Press to send the following:
The siege of Bage by the insurgent
forces has been raised. After the rebels
had resisted for Is days the sorties of the
government troops, who are commanded
by General Carlos Telles, made a final
sortic and put the insurgents to flight. 1t
was complete rout for the rebels, who
abandoned their baggage and munitions
OF war The government loss was 36 kill
ed and 80 wounded. The insurgents lost
400 killed and wounded.
Two days after the battle one the two
columns that had been despatched to the
relief of Bage arrived at that town. The
relieving column at once started i'll pur-
suit of the insurgents but it is under
stood they did not succeed in catchin up
with the main body of insurgents. Many
of the latter deserted
1t was found that the insurgents had
sacked several houses, and several men
were found with their threats cut
The government soldiers who had been
captured by the enemy were burned alive.
General Carneiro, who is ON the frontier
between the state of Parana and Santa
Catarina, recently fought an engagement
with the insurgents and defeated them
The British steamer Hilda, which has
arrived here from Porto Allegro, capital of
the state of Rio Grande do Sui reports
that the government is in undsturbed
possession of the coast of that state.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1894-01-18
Fought Over n Girl.

John Rinka, Slayonan, was found
unconscious on road in the lower part
of the city of Wilkes Barre on Monday
morning, with one eye gonged out, a
severe scalp wound, his neck cut in sew
eral places, his throat torn and bruises
all over his body. He was taken to the
hospital and recovered sufficiently to say
that Matsik Paul had attacked him.
Paul was arrested at his boarding
house and when the handouts were
placed on him, calmly said he was glad
he had killed Rinka. He said they had
quarreled about a girl and had hard
fight, which he described in detail. He
said that he had knocked Rinka down
and then pounded his head with a stone,
choked him and cut big sashes in his
cheeks.
The fight occurred at midnight and
Rinka must haye lain unconscious for
over six hours. He has slight chances
of recovery.