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The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1894-12-22

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practical test, which is probably a for
tunate circumstance for somebody.
In most of these experiments the mo-
tive force has been mans own mus
cles. Designs in which it has been
proposed to use artificial force have not
been less numerous. The first difficult
ty encountered by these e1perimenters,
which has, in fact, never been over
come, was that of equilibrium.
A bird relatively is immensely
stronger than man. It's muscles also
contract at much more rapid rate
than those Of other animals. It is
hardly therefore, to be expected that
man will accomplish much in the way
Of flight by depending on his muscles.
A man can run up staircase at the
rate Of three feet a second while a
sparrow can rise vertically at thrice
that speed.
No less than six artificial birds have
been designed which fly successfully,
the motive power being supplied by
twisted rubber, but the models are so
wasteful of power that no motor has
been found sufficiently light to supply
in a large machine the place of the
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1894-12-22
De Bacqueville's Idea-1742.

De Bacqueville's 1dea-1742.
wings, incurvated from point to back
on. parabolic lines, and sinuous in the
direction Of their lengths. The area of
sustaining surface was eighty-six
square feet. There was a horizontal
tail and a vertical rudder or keel. The
framework was made Of willow and
covered with sheeting fabric The
weight Of the whole apparatus without
the operator was 1916 pounds.
Starting from the top of the hill
against the wind he managed to fly
about eighty feet. He is continuing
his experiments and may add a me-
chanical motive power.
Hiram Maxim has designed, a large
number of flying machines, the last of
which, according to report, only failed
to hy because equilibrium was not Sc
cured.
Mr.. Maxim describing one of his
machines, said: my large apparatus
Is provided with plane 11O feet long
and 40 feet wide, made Of a frame of
steel tubes covered with silk Other
smaller planes attached to this make
up a surface of $500 square feet
There is one great central~plane, and
to this are hinged various other planes
very mucn smaller, Which are used for
keeping the equilibrium correct and
for keeping the flying machine at a fix
ed angle in the air
"The great amount Of force with
the minimum amount of weight can be
obtained from a high-pressure steam
compound engine, using steam at q
pressure from 200 pounds to $50
pounds to the square inch, and lately
l have constructed two such engines,
each weighing 800 pounds.
'sThese engines, when working under
a pressure of 200 pounds to the square
inch, and with piston speed of only
400 feet per minute, develop the push
OF screws over 100 horse e-power the
push Of the screws collectively being
over 1000 pounds"
Maxim's machine was started on z
railway.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1894-12-22
FOR BOYS AND GIRLS.
INTERESTING; SUBJECTS FOR THE
H:.SS. :zz<-f'z} ~. YOUNG.
Babicca, the sCid's< Horse--Dangerous
CouraEe-AnS Old-Time Boarding
school-A Word for the Boys.

What Bucephalus was to AleXan-
der Babieca was to the <Cid-a faithful
servant, a devoted friend, and a sharer
of. all his dangers on many a battle
field. Says the New York World.
Babieca is said to have been more like
q rational being than like an animal.
The Cid when ayoilth asked his god
father, Don PepreSPringos, to give him
a colt, and they went into the paddock,
to choose one. Rodrigo (that was the
Cid's name) let all the horses and colts
pas by and took lnone until the
last Of all, a yerySugly colt, and he
chose that one. His godfather was an
CRY and said. 'BoQby!" C'Bablieca")
''you have made a bad choice"
The horse kept the name, but did
not deserve it, for it. served his master
faithfully for forty-tWo years.
His first battle was with the Moors
when, his master was only twenty
years ?old; and after that his adven-
lures were many and varied. Once
the queen led him: up for the Cid to
mount because she wanted to do him
honor. Babieca no doubted enjoyed
himself. In all the wars with the
Moors and in all the Cid's private ad-
ventures, which. were numberless, this
wonderful horse went with his master
and though he must have been wound
ed in battle more tha an once, he al
ways recovered, and seemed not to
lose hi strength OR show any signs of
age He understood his masters
slightest touch Oh the rein and was as
obedient as he was brave
After a while the Cid became very
i'll and knew that he was going to die
He left directions which were to be
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1894-12-22
MISER WORTH 900.
P1ummer Jewell Had Seventeen
Bank Books Hidden Away.

Quite q sensation was created at
Manchester, n. H., when it was learned
that Plummer Jewell, who died on
June 1S, last, and was supposed to be
q poor man, had been miser. He al
ways lived in the cheapest manner pos
sible. His shabby dress created much
comment and attracted not a little
pity.
1t appears that shortly before he
died the family where he was board
ing discovered that he had money One
day, being unable to get out himself
he asked one Of the household to 20
to the Merrimac River Savings Bank
and draw some money for him, at the
same time giving the lady a handbook
on which she was startled to fina~he
had deposited over $1,000. She sup
posed this was all he had, but after
his death a cearch Wasm ade of the
room and seventeen bank-books We're
found. The sums on deposit in these
institutions amount to over $4,000.
The books were on banks in Man..
chester, Lawrence and Concord.
In nearly all of them it had been
many years since the, interest and divi-
dends had been added. One of them,
which contained a. deposit Of about
$1,000, had no interest charged since
1S4S. With interest and dividend add
ed to the deposits in all the books the
aggregate will foot up to over 100000.
Three hundred dollars was also found
in JeWell's room: "A legacy from de-
ceased, aunt. started. him on the road
to wealth. During; il the war he bought.
real estate, improved it, and profted
thereby. -.
He had also accumulated much
wealth by buying up mortgages and.
in various other ways, all his dealings
being in very quiet manner.
Jewell has a brother in Nashua and
two sisters in Lawrence, and the books
We're turned over to the former. These
relatives are also said to be very
wealthy Boston Herald. s..1',sa
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1894-12-22

Herr Li1ienthaTs F1yer-1S92.
IS to be rapidly stopped, or in which
the retarding force Of gravity may be
brought to do the work by simply ris-
ing to a perch.
The argument of Mr.. Chanute's work
is that man will only contrive a flying
machine by adopting the principles of
bird-fight.
Birds, he says, perform all their
manoeuvres by regulating the intensity
Of their action and by changing the
angles, at which they attack the air.
Hence the important thing to know is
what pressure the air exerts .lnder a
wing. or, to simplify the question, un-
der a plane surface, when it meets the
air at a certain velocity and with a
certain angle of incidence This has
been made possible by Prof. aIsangley's
table of approximate percentages Of
normal pressure. .~st#
Prof. Langley infers that mechanical
flight is possible with engines we row
possess, since effective steam engines
have now been built weighing 'ess than
ten pounds to one horsepower, and ex-
periments show that if we: multiply
the small planes which have been ac-
tually used, or assume aslarger plane
to have approximately the proD .srties
Of similar smaller ones, one horsa-now-
er, rightly applied: can sustain over 200
!;ounas IN ti!e air at q horizontal ve1cc-
tlty. OF over twenty metres per second
t(about forty-fye miles an hour). and
sun more at still higher velocities.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1894-12-22
CALIFORNIA; Queer Cavern.

On the north side of Table noun
tain and near it's top is an opening
in the lava that has since it's early days
been known as the lions den." It
was so named from the fact that for
years it was the lair Of band of fero-
cious California lions, that, when the
country was largely devoted to sheep
raising, made mighty depredations upon
the focks and caused the owners much
annoyance and loss When pursued,
the animals would seek refuge in this
den o1ld no hunter would dare to enter
it. The ground about the entrance
was covered with the bones and rem
nants Of sheep and other animals. With
the increase Of population the lions
have gradually disappeared, although
as late as last spring two Of the ami
mails were seen to enter the cave. A
party Of young men have made ar
rangenlents to explore it, and If posi-
BILE penetrate to it's bottom. That it
is of great depth is certain, for: one can
stand at the opening and heave great
stones down the decllvity and the sound
will gradually die away in the distance.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1894-12-22

followed after his death. He told
chem to saddle Babieca and tie his
dead body on his back, that they might
go out once more to battle. He said
also that Babieca when he died was
to be carefully buried, ''that no dogs
should eat the flesh Of him who had
trodden down so much dogs flesh of
Moors''
On the twelfth day after the Cids
death they led for Babieca. They
set the Cid's body on his back, strap.
ping it firmly to the saddle and tying
his feet to the stirrups. The bishop OF
Valencia led Babieca by one rein and
Gil Diaz his masters servant, by the
other. So Babieca carried his master
into battle for the last time. The
Moors were beaten and the trio went
on their way to CASTLE. Wherever
they halted on the road they took the
Cid's body from Babieca's back and
set 1T on a wooden horse that was
made for the purpose.
Babieca lived two years after this
carefully attended by Gil Diaz, who
never allowed any one to mount the
horse that had carried his master sc
faithfully. When the animal died al
last he was buried before the gate of
the monastry, inside of which his mas.
ter's body lay:
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1894-12-22
: :COMBE AND DR.. SYNTAx.

How Popular Publication Was
started-The Original Idea.
1t was in 1910 that Combe was first
introduced to Ackermann. Ackermann
was German who came over to Eng
land to draw designs for coach build
ers, and about 1896 opened a print
shop, first at 96 and afterwards at 1O1
Strand, there ultimately becoming one
Of the most famous Of the London pub
fishers, says the Gentleman's Nlaga-
zine. Combe was engaged to contri-
butte to Ackermann's "Poetical Maga-
zine" and write up to RoWlandson's
Illustrations and itw as in 1910 when
he was three-score and ten, that the
most famous Of his compositions, but
for which his name would now be un-
known to all but literary students.
'The Tour Of DR.. Syntax in Search of
the Picturesque" was first issued.
The history Of this work is somewhat
curious. 1t is thus told by Adolphus
in his memoirs Of John Bannister"
Dining at tavern with John Ban
mister and third person, RoWlandson
was asked: What are you about,
Rowly?' why, nothing in particular;
1 think my inventive faculty has been
sluggish of late-I wish one of you
would give me a hint Being asked
of what kind, he answered: I feel in a
humor to sketch a series where the
objects may be made ridiculous with
out much thinking. have been max
ing tour in Devon and Cornwall with
a friend, who, although made
sketches on the coast for him, wishes
me to introduce adventures at inns,
and .other comic incidents. But what
can do for such a hero-a gentleman
weighing seventeen stone? For such
scenes he is quite out Of the question.
I want one Of a totally different de-
scription.' I have it, said Bannister;
you must fancy a skin-and-bone hero,
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1894-12-22
Dangerous COURAGE.

Besides the regular tanners of wild
beasts, Of whom the public know from
having seen them at their work there
are some more obscure heroes in wild
beast show, namely, the grooms. These
are the men who live among the Wild
beasts; who go into their cages every
day, and sleep within few feet of the
iron bars in order to be ready for any
emergency. Cleveland Moffett. in Nc
Clure's Magazine, says that from living
thus in an atmosphere of perpetual
danger, the grooms come to have curl
GUS indifference to claws and ia lgs.
Every one must admire a man who
can bear pain and face danger The
Ion-tamer, William Philadelphia, is
such man. Many times had 1 watch
ed him in his 'act' with Black Prince,
and wondered whether the lion was
really in earnest when he struck and
roared with such apparent viciousness,
or whether he had simply been trained
to play part. Certainly the lion look
ed as if his one desire was to kill the
little man who teased him so with rod
and whip, smiling all the time under
his yellow mustache.~
One night Black Prince sprang ten
feet through the air straight at Phila-
delphia, who saved his life by lodging,
but did not escape the sweep Of the
lions forearm. .-
No one knew that however, for the
tanner showed no sign of injury, but
brought his heavy whip down with a
singing cut over the lions head and
went through the .'act,'' holding a hand
kerchief to his face now and then, but
smiling as before.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1894-12-22
A Word for the BOYS,

The manly, energetic boy, is the one
who aserts his right to be in the world,
and who promises to be Of still greater
service when maturity has ripened his
faculties to their fullness, and strength
ened his mental and physical powers.
Such a boy is the hope of the future
and he justifes that hope. He may
not be an immature intellectual mar
vel, and it is far better that he is not,
for these youthful phenomens are US
ually disappointment as they grow
older, failing to realize the high antici-
pations they have aroused and often,
like too early ripening fruit, as quick
ly and unreasonably going to decay.
There is place in the world for a
good, healthy, industrious boy, who is
fond Of recreation in it's season, and
who IS helpful, courteous and obedient
at all times. Such a boy enters with
as CHEEKY a smile Into the, perform
ances Of the home chores as he does
into the boyish games and pastimes,
and his bright, chleerful disposition is
like a CLEAN Of sunshine to all who
know him. There Is a jocund rinH in
his voice, and an honest sincerity in
face and word. He is a natural,
healthy boy, brimful of youthful spir-
it and enthusiasm, and Of the buoyant
sanguine temperament that becomes
his years.
He is not aself- sufficient miniature
old man, who knows more than his pa
rents. The latter is not a boy at all,
however his years may classify him,
for he has developed into a sort of
nondescript neither boy nor man, and
nuisance generally. All honor to the
bright, helpful spirited boy, the joy of
the present and the hope Of the future!
He is the one who is properly fitting
himself to take up the serious business
Of life when comes the time that we
have to retire and resign it into his
younger and more vigorous hands,
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1894-12-22
An O1d-Time Boarding School.

An Old-Time Boarding School.
Here is a. glimpse of an old-fashioned
boarding school for young ladies which
may well make our modern girls equal
ly thankful for the present scientific
methods of instructing their minds
and for the liberty and athletic training
accorded to their bodies. The unfortu
nate little maiden of ten who records
her impressions asa pupil was not,
happily for herself and the world
long condemned to such repressive
existence. She was. in after years
krown as Mary Somerville, the great
mathematician.
although Miss Primrose was not
unkind, she had an habitual >frown
which even the elder girls dreaded.
My future companions. who We're all
older than /, came round me like q
swarm Of bees, and asked if my father
had title, what was the name of our
estate, if we if we kept a carriage and
other such questions, which first made
me feel the difference Of Station. How
ever, the girls We're very kind, and Of
ten bathed my eyes to prevent our
stern mistress from seeing that I was
perpetually in tears: so =
"a few days after my arrival al
though perfectly straight and wel1-
made. I was enclosed in stiff stays with
a steel busk in front, while, above my
frock bands drew my shoulders back
till the shoulder blades met. Then a
steel rod. with a semicircle which went
under the chin, was clasped to the
steel busk in my stays
I'm this constrained state I, and
most of the younger girls, had to pre-
pare our lessons. The chief thing I
had to do was to learn by heart a
page Of Johnson's dictionary, not only
to spell the words, give their parts of
speech and meaning, but as an exer-
else Of memory to remember their or
der Of succession. Besides, I had to
learn the first principles Of riting
and the rudiments Of French and Eng
lish grammar" ~
~. And this was the best to be had for
the instruction Of the most powerfully
INTEL ectual woman of her time! It is
pleasant@Io think that she lived to
hail ia her Qldaa ge,4 the establishment
Of the Girton College, for Ladies' at
Cambridge, to which, after her death,
her scientific library was appropriately
presented.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1894-12-22

and also tail like boys dart, and a
longitudinal keel-cloth to preserve the
equilibrium, the whole weighing tWen-
ty-four pounds and giving sustaining
surface Of 40 square feet. Mr.. Spen-
BssEerA eel was an athlete. He took prelim-
mary run down a little hill and was
then able to make short horizontal
flights Of about 120 feet, during which
he was wholly sustained by the air.
Mr.. Spencer's experiments seem to
have been the most successful ever
made.
A great many Of the flying machines
designed have never been put to a
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1894-12-22
Breant's De vice-1S54.

the revolver barrel was to- have been
rubber The expenditure Of energy in
the best model was 6OO-foot pounds
per pounds of twisted rubber.
A wonderful thing was the steam
bird machine exhibited by E. P. Frost
in 1890. The wings, which were thir-
ty feet from tip to tip are an exact
imitation Of those Of a crow. The
weight Of the machine was about $50
pounds without the man. The engine
maker failed to provide the necessary
.nQwer. Il. .....,....&
n. Trouve put in practical working
a model in which the motive force was
supplied BY exploding cartridges from
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1894-12-22

pedantic old prig in a shovel hat
and rattletraps and place him in such
scrapes as travellers frequently meet
with hedge alehouses, second and third
rate inns, thieves, gibbets, mad bulls
and the like. Come, give me a sheet
of paper and we will strike off a few
hints
The paper was produced, Bannister
gave his ideas, Rowlandson adopted
them, Combe explained them by a well
written poem and of this conversation
and to the lively invention of Ban4is-
ter the public is indebted for a highly
favored publication sS -:
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1894-12-22

r. When he left the ring it was found
that one Of the lions claws had laid
his cheek open almost from eye to lip;
and yet the man was smiling. 4zs
He meant to kill me-" said Phila-
delphia, as his face was being bound
up. -,E>5 :, :.
= ts'We will never show that lion again.
said the manager, much excited. zttt
sob, yes, we WILL" answered the
wounded tanner. II will make him
work tomorrow as usual" 49,
And he did, teasing and prodding
him that day as never before, as if dar
ing him to do his worst. -
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1894-12-22

a revolver barrel. In larger model
replaced by explosions Of compressed
hydrogen. -
Herr Lilienthars flying machine, al
ready described in The World, is the
most recent to obtain a certain meas
ure Of success. His position is that
bird flights should be made the basis
Of artificial fight. Dexterity, alone, he
says, makes the bird superior to the
man, and mans efforts should be di-
rected to attaining that dexterity as
far as possible. One Of Lilienthars
devices consisted of pair Of birdlike
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1894-08-08
CAPITAL AND LABOR.

The negroes OF the coke region are dis
,ontentcd, and many Of them are leaving.
The only United States troops still in strike
service are those pushing forward mail trains
on the Northern Pacific in the Ceur d'Alene
district
It is said that the ear builders at Pullman
will quit the model town in n body and go
with the great rival car company that Is
to locate near st. Louis.
The bill to protect American labor by pre-
venting foreigners who retain residences
across the Canadian and Mexican borders
from crossing the line to work has been re-
jected by the house committee on immigra-
ton.
The Cleveland. Lorain and Wheeling rail-
road has Just completed deal for the Kidd
mines west OF Bridgeport and nearly 1000
acres OF coal land adjoining. The company
will begin work ut once developing the prop
erty and will give employment to from 400
to 600 hauds.
The Point Bottle works at Rochester, Pa,
have resumed operations In all departments,
giving employment TO over 100 hands. The
factory has been idle for month or so, but
the management reports plenty OF orders
ahead. The factory is able to run pretty
steadily the year round, turning out an i'm
mense number Of fruit jars us well as other
green glassware.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1894-08-08
PATTISON ON LABOR TROUBLE
The Governor Charges immigration as
the Cause.


In explaining the labor situation in Penn
sylvania Gov. Pattison in an interview said
the most dissatisfied class was the miners.
They were kept down in wages because a
number OF unmarried miners in Virginia
were working for 80 cents per ton.
1.-THE present commercial and financial de-
preston" he said. sis not as bad as others
that we have had. The country has been
plunged into financial panic and trade
stagnation about every twenty years. II
comes as n natural consequence. We are In
the midst of a migration OF labor. Men who
have been willing to work for reduced wages
In all trades have forced out men VINO were
employed, and employers have been compelled
70 make the change"
'Now, what will become OF the men who
were thrown out? They will have to go
hungry or work for the reduced wages which
the men who pushed them out get. People
talk about our immigration laws and the in
flux OF foreigners who come here and work
for little or nothing but they do not consider
the business side of the question. The steam
ship companies have placarded Europe with
their announcements to carry passengers TO
the United States. and their agents are work.
ing industrionsly to drum up trade. When
the man who makes the trip arrives in New
York the railroads are ready to carry him to
any part OF the United States. aud the news
papers lend aid to the transaction by publish
ing the rates and time cards OF both steam-
chip and railroad lines.
"All these concerns are connected with tho
emigration OF foreigners from the business
there is in It, and the only way we can keep
out people who do not come here with the en-
pectation of making good citizens OF them
selves is to impose fines and penalties upon
the corporations which make money out OF
the passenger traffic. Until we separate
business interests from the exactions OF good
government we will have labor troubles lik Q
the present"