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The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1894-01-06

big enough to excavate the hard frozen
ground in front of the Darapski palace
to the depth of seven feet and loosen the
hinges of dozen window shutters.
When the troops of General Havelock
chased Mana Sahib out of Cawnpore, the
defenders of the rajah' castle flung down
bomb that shook the town like an
earthquake, and Judging from its frag-
ments seems to have measured four feet
in diameter, the largest explosive contriv-
ance probably ever constructed-if we
except the plot of 1912, when the Rus
slams worsted the conqueror of Moscow
by devoting whole city to the purpose
of loaded bombshell.
New Explosives.
The invention of new explosives. how
ever, has enabled modern cohspirators To
conduct their campaigns with smaller
missiles. Nit:oglycerin in some of its
forms acts with the force of IL fourteenfold
quantum of common gunpowder, and
the Spanish anarchists on several occa-
slons used mixture that could be made
to explode under water and in a manner
wholly obviating the telltale phenome-
non of preliminary smoke. The deto-
mating fluid was made to melt its way
through the plug of small glass bottle
and rend the outer shell into fragments
at the moment of contact.
The difficulty of getting access to the
main hall of the French chamber of dep
uties obliged the plotters of the recent
alternate to resort to the old percussion
shell method, but with results that prove
the portentous force of the explosion.
According to all the obtainable evidence,
the size of the fatal zinc box appears not
to have exceeded that of large sardine
box-say 10 by 5 inches, and hardly 3
inches high. Yet the explosion of that
pocket shell wounded ~ persons, and
but for slight characterization in the ar
rangcment of the time fuse would have
strewn the hall with corlpscs
From republican point of view the
significance of those facts implies, how
ever, the partial consolation that if the
Improvement ofinfernal machines should
continue at its present rate dcspotism
will have become II risky trade before
the middle of the twentieth century.
+. l.. OSWALD.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1894-01-06
A Dear Old Spot Revisited.
Special Correspondencc.l

RAVENSWOOD, n. Y, JAN IL could
not help thinking, Il week or two ago, as
| meandered through this much changed
place to renew my youth, what has be-
come of the once popular game of shin
ney. | paused near the old long pond,
which was frozen and dotted with
skaters. but it was not the long pond of
over 20 years ago. l missed the once
familiar boy three or four sizes too
small for his clothing who, with trou-
sers and sleeves rolled up in mad at
tempt to make them fit. used TO wildly
glide along the ice on one skate, while
he kicked the unskatcd foot to add to
his speed and blew on his knuckles to
warm them mp bit.
| also missed the boy with the red
skates, which think have glided into
the past with the game of shinney. 1t
made me think of the dear old DAYS
when we builded IL fire of logs and rails
beside tho pond and roasted potatoes
and apples that we might not have to
trudge home to dinner. And then there
was always boy who had good ma
tured dog that loved all the boys, and
this dog would run across the field and
hit the ice with his feet, and turn swiftly
over and go sliding along on his spinal
column while he yelped for joy. And
how he ran after the ball we used in play
ing shinney, and how we got tangled,
dog and all, and went rolling on the ice
in mad heap!
But didn't see anything of this kind
the other day, and was surprised to no
tice how the boys have changed since
was n boy. All the fun and hi.aritv sec M
to have gone out of skating, and the
game of shnney is lost. it seems, forever.
1t didn't seem like the long pond of the
past-the landmarks were gone. probably
to join the lair that used To flourish on
the top OF my head, and | felt lonesome
and honcsick as pressed on ny way
secretly longing 10 go back 30 several
years and joir my playnaies for Il good
old game VI shinmey On The clear block ice
Il. X. MUNKITTKIcK
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1894-01-06
THE ROANOKE TIMES, SATURDAY, JANUARY s

and that Of his master, though tho
glass windows of the carriage were shat
tered and several horses of the escort
badly mangled. The cart of the conspira
tors contained 200 pounds of powder and
several bushels of grapcshot and broken
nalls, and the force of the explosion NAV
be inferred from the fact that it shat
tered the walls of several adjacent
hoEses, killed some go persons and
wounded 53 others.
Nihilistic Work.
Felix Orsini planned his attentate with
less indifference to the safety of his own
hide. His bombs were bristliny with
projections and percussion caps and ex.
ploded with precision at the intended mo-
ment, but at Il safe distance from the
standpoint of the fanatic who, but for
the shrcwdness of the Paris police. would
have escaped with all his accompliccs.
AS 1t was, he had to plead guilty under
the weight of circumstantial evidence.
but died game, regretting only the blum.
Ger Of not having made his bomb q few
sizes larger.
Inc Russian nihilists appear to have
acted on that hint. for the bomb that ter
minated the career of Alexander III was
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1894-01-06
Especial Corrcsuon,lcnc.1

CINCINNATI. Jan. The PHILOSOPHER
Bentham calls the history of the world =
chronicle of misdirectcd efforts, and
suggests that the records of the human
race should be devoted to important in
ventions rather than sicges and battles
But inventors, too, have often enough
abused their talents for the affection of
their fellow men. and. without mention
ing gasoline stoves and patent distiller-
les il might be demonstrated that slim
wreck would lave become impossible if
life saving contrivances had been per-
fected with the ingenuity that has been
wasted on implements of destruction.
In the progress of mechanical inventions
the destroyer has indeed frequently out
stripped the constructor.
Scientific Crime.
The net result of ancient civilization
is generally Il pile of ruins; the battering
ram has prevailed against the derrick of
Archinedes. The Improvement of de-
fensive arnor has been relinquished as IL
hopeless task, but the range of death
dealing missiles has increased from a
hundred yards to three miles and a half.
at which latter distance the cigarette
still pierce Il human body. The golden
rule OF medical philosophy, the let alone
plan. seems 20 have been anticipated by
Hippocrates, four hundred years before
the beginning of our chronological era.
but the science Of murder by machinery
has achieved an undeniable progress since
the time when the Parthian insurgents
placed spear traps in the path of the
Roman cavalry.
The Caliph Almolltader was severely
wounded by an arrow discharged from
a box or basket which an assassin
handed to him in the name of n friend,
and Caesar Borgia is said to have re-
moved his enemies by means of IL poi
soned needle inserted in o finger ring,
but the golden age of internal machines
dawned only with the invention of gun
powder. The idea of letting an auto
matte contrivance destroy an enemy in
the absence of its constructor strongly
recommended itself to the attention of
discreet assassins, and about the end of
the sixteenth century Italian chronicles
mention the disastrous effectiveness of
powder casks placed near the doors of
dwelling houses and exploded by means
of dropping weight.
a Deadly Petard.
Bombs We're invented hundred years
later, and i'll 1852 Il gunsmith of Frank
fort-on-theMain avenged the execution
of his son by fiinging petard against
bench of the old Rath Haus, where its
explosion caused the death of three of
the assembled Judges and grievously
4 I'll
tus could be made to explode before the
invention of percussion caps seems n
puzzle. unless the assassin used lighted
fuse. but the mechanics of the old Free
Town were really ahead of their age, as
attested by the construction of their
Jimballs and the story of the condemned
highway robber who came within an
inch of saving his life by Offering the
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1894-01-06
a Computation of Aver,,.s

In the Grccian war of independence
Ncgropontc dcsperadoes rushed into the
ranks OF the enemy, swinging petards
that effected their work of destruction
at the cost of their bearers life, and
there seems no doubt that the leaders of
the conspiracy against the life of the
first consul deliberately braved q SINH
lar risk. The speed of the consular car
riago in its progress through the crowd
ed streets of Paris was wholly uncer-
tain factor of calculation. The outrid-
ers might come in sight at the corner of
the next street, pass half the block at a
sharp trot and be, after all, DELAYED for
minutes bya sudden obstacle before they
could reach the critical point where the
plotters had posted their powder maya
zineon wheels. In an enterprise of that
sort it would not do to trust to a computa-
ton of averages and the only alterna-
tive was the plan to use quick fuse and
light 1t in the first fraction of the decis-
i've second.
That plan st. Regent. the conspira-
tor in chief, seems actually to have
adopted with entire disregard of his per
sonal safety, and though he darted out
of tho way at breakneck speed, after ap-
plying the match, the explosion knocked
him down, or rather hurled him against
lamppost with n force that broke his
left arm. The consuls coachman was
under the influence of liquor, and with
the proverbial luck of tipsy men drove
at ferocious rate and saved his life
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1894-01-06

aldermen bet that he could put II dozen
musket balls through the wcathercock of
Il gate tower from a distance Of 500
yards. The first | shots almost Int the
center OF the target, but the last struck
the edge of the roof and sealed the fate
OF the luckless b"igand, whose achieve
mcnt would have doubled the sales of
the best modern rifle.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1894-01-06
Foreigners Took thc Uon,r.

1t appears from the full exhibit of
awards made at the Worlds fair that
the foreigners secured Go per cent of the
prizes, the Americans taking the re-
naming 81 per cent.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1894-01-06
INTERNAL MACHINES.
DR.. FELIX OSWALD ON THE SERVICE
OF SCIENCE TO CRIME.

Ingenious Inventions of Men OF Disc,s.,,
rdoas-Whoicsaie Slaughter Made Easy.
Novel Observation-Disclosures of Nissan
Piled SlSill-i Partial Consolation.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1894-01-06

The young Earl oF DudIcy's valuable
life is insured for 81. 900.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1894-01-06

THIS SPACE is RESERVED
FOR THE ADVERTISEMENT OF
A SPECIAL CASH SALE, WHICH
WILL BE HELD SHORTLY AT
ENOCk BROS. NEW YORK BA-
ZAAR.
1T WILL PAY EVERY LADY
TO WATCH THESE COLUMNS
FOR 1T.
'ICASH WILL BE "RULER,'
leash WILL BE "KING."
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-09-05
MIRANDA'S PEOPLE SAFE
A Fishing Schooner Reseues
the Cook Arctic Expedition
! Struck a Rock.

Z NORTH SIDNEY, C. b., Sept. 5, 1884,
The fishing schooner Rigel of Gloucester,
| Mass, Captain George w. Dixon. arrived
here this morning with the passengers
and crew of the Inflated steamship Mir
anda, which left New York July 7th,
carrying DR.. Cooks Arctic Expedition.
The Miranda after making repairs at
ST. Johns, consequent Upon damage re-
ceived by collision with An iceberg off
Belle Isle on July 18th, made a second
attempt to reach Greenland, sailing on
July 9th. Heavy fogs and ice impeded
her progress and she made harbor at
Sucker Topper, Greenland, latitude $500,
on August 7. She started for Holsten-
borg August 9.
The vessel struck a sunken rock outside
the harbo There was a heavy wind and
sea prevailing at the time and a large
hole was stove in her bottom under
water; the ballast tank was filled
with water and the pumps were useless.
The tank did not burst however, and
the Miranda succeeded in getting back
into Sukker Toppan safely, but was not
considered fit to return to st. Johns with
her passengers. A relief party, compris-
ing DR.. Cook. Rogers, Thompson. and
Dunning of Yale University, Laid. of
Harvard University, and Porter, of the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
set out from sucker Toppan to Holsten-
borg, 140 miles distant, with five Esqui-
meapx in an open sail boat for assistance
Several American fishing vessels were
reported to be in the neighborhood.
THE RIGEL'S HELP.
The journey was made in five days I'M
der very stormy conditions. Couriers III
the native Kayaks were sent North and
South along the coast. The schooner
Rigel by han was met with. Captain
Dixon generously responded to the ap-
peal of the explorers and returned to
Sukker Toppan with the Miranda party.
Captain Farrell of the Miranda arranged
with Captain Dixon that the company
should pay $4,0 900 for carrying the passen-
gers home, this being a fair recompense
for the loss to the schooner's crew in
abandoning her fishing trip. The pas
sengers and food were transferred to the
Rigel, and the Miranda then started
for Labrador with the Rigel in tow.
LEFT TO HER FATE.
On August q, about midnight, while
about 300 miles out the Miranda sent up
signals of distress. Enormous ocean
sweils from a distant storm caused her
water tank to burst, and the vessel be-
gan to fill and Captain Farrell was
obliged to abandon his ship. The crew
ard officers were transferred at day
light on August % to the Rigel, and the
Miranda was left to her fate.
Ninety-one persons were crowded into
the cabin and hold of the schooner.
which was of 107 tons burden, and 80
feet long. Two meals a day We're al
lowed to all. Fogs, head winds and
light winds delayed the progress of the
vessel. A Northwesterly gale was en-
countered in the Southwest straits of
Belle Isle. All arrived here we'll.
A parting dinner in honor of Captain
Dixon and Farrell is to be held in South
Sydney tonight. Most of the passengers
will return to their homes by rail or
steamer. Hardly any of the baggage or
property was saved from the Miranda.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-09-05
FEW BACTERIA IN SEWER AIR

No less than one hundred samples of air
from a Berlin sewer have been examined
by DR.. Petrie, and on one occasion he is
said to have found no organisms in it at
all. In another experiment only one bac-
terium was traced and three molds. Curl
Gus as it may seem, it would, therefore,
from microbes, is frequently superior to
that which we inhale in our houses and
compares very favorably in this respect
Mr.. Laws, Commenting OF these expert
ments, says that although the organisms
of sewer air probably do not constitute
any source of danger, they may contain
some poisonous chemical substance capa-
BILE of affecting the general vitality to a
very serious extent.-Invention.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-09-05
BICYCLE COSTUME.

must be rinsed In warm water, pulled
lengthwise, dried as quickly as possible
and ironed when completely dry.
The pretty black and white gowns in
thin goods, such as muslins and main
socks, so much seen this season, would
have been still prettier If some manufac-
turer had been clever enough to bring out
o line of fast black washable laces in cot
ton or linen, like valenciennes or torchon
lace, which could have been used for trim
ming them. The black laces at present
Oh the market are only fit to be employed
on gowns that are never damp and come
to no hard wear.
Changeable taffeta enjoys as much favor
as ever. Most of the large shops are sell
ing off their summer silks, plain, change
able and figured, at q great reduction, and
excellent opportunities are offered to OBJ
tain q light silk of good quality at q mini
mum cost.
Many women are freshening up their
worn SILK bodices by, adding a p~lastron
and sleeve trimmings of mousseline de
sole or chiffon. This sort of decoration is
fragile, but very effective while 1t lasts.
Sometimes these diaphanous materials are
arranged to form q girdle with long ends
fastened to the skirt by choux and full
epaulets or a capelike collar. Almost all
hats also are trimmed with mousseline de
sole combined with ribbon or flowers OF
both.
Small capes or pelcrines made Of tafeta
are coming into favor, Sometimes the
capes are double and are made of two
shades of silk, the lower cape just visible
below the edge of the upper one. The
edges of both are indented.
In order to give the skirts Of gowns the
proper flaring shape petticoats are worn
trimmed with three or foul aounces OF
graduated widths arranged at different
heights on the body Of the petticoat in
such q way that the bottom edges of all
the lounces are even.
The bicycle costume shown is of dust
gray cloth and consists of extremely full
zouave trousers and a double breasted
round bodice.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-09-05
CUT A GROWLER FIEND.
John Lewis Experience with An
Eleventh street Gang.

John Lewis, colored. of No. 524 Mon
mouth street, was arraigned before JUS
tice Potts this morning to answer a
charge of cutting Dennis Coyne, of No.
312 Eleventh street, in the back twice
with a razor.
Counsellor Klink for the defendant,
showed that Coyne and four friends who
constituted a GROWER gan had told an
Erie Railroad flagman that they were
laying for the Niger and proposed
doing him up.D
Mr.. KIink characterized Coyne and
his friends as ..~jail-birds," and declared
that the people of the vicinity where
they hang out were afraid of them.
Lewis testified that the men demanded
money for a pint of beer from him. He
refused; and they attacked him with
rocks, finally knocking him down. He
drew a knife in self defense, and while
rolling in the street with Coyne, stabbed
him. Justice Potts reserved his decision
until tomorrow morning.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-09-05
MAYOR WANTS THE LAW ENFORCED

Mayor Wanser waited upon Chief of
Police Murphy this morning and request
ed him to nave the city ordinance pre-
venting the throwing of papers in ash
barrels more rigidly enforced. During
June and July the ordinance was en-
forced to the letter, but the policemen
have become negligent and the streets
are agai becoming Uttered with pa
pers.
Chief Murphy promised to comply with
the Mayors request.
The hearing in the case against Chas.
jackson, colored, charged with keeping
a d~isorderly house at No. 4S Montgom-
cry street, was again postponed by JUS
tice Potts this morning. Counsellor Sey-
mour was on hand, but Jackson's wit
nesses were not. Final disposition of the
case will be made tomorrow morning.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-09-05
NOTICE ro Contractors.


Sealed proposals win be received by the
Board of Street and Water Commissioners on
Monday, September 10. 1891. a s o'clock PM,
the asphalting of the walks in
A WORST PARK.
in accordance with specifications for the sans
on file in the office of the Chief Engineer,
corner of Jersey avenue and Mercer street.
where blank forms of bid and agreement OF
sureties must be obtained.
Proposals must be enclosed in sealed en-
velopes, endorsed, Proposals for Asphalt
Walks directed to ''John e. Macarthur, Esq,
Chairman OF Committee on Public Buildings
Docks and Parks, and handed to the Clerk
Of the Board in open meeting when called for
in the order of business relating TO sealed pro-
posals.
No city official Will be accepted as surety.
nor will a substitution of s~ureties be allowed.
or all bids if it considers that the best in
terests Of the city can be conserved by SO
doing.
The attention OF bidders is especially called to
Section 4 Chapter 1S4, of the Laws Of 1891.
under the terms whereof no contract shall be
binding upon the city or become effective Or
operative until the bondsnen offered by the
contractor have been approved as to suficiency
by this Board and as to form by the Corpora
ton Counsel, the President of this Board hay
ing power to examine the proposed bondsrnen
under oath.
By order of the Board of Street and Water
GEO. T. BouToN.
Dated Jersey CITY, August 81. 49,
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-09-05
The 1uaLa ney JURY.
IMPROVING TIE CAPT. o.
Changes About the Big Building
and Grounds.
Special to the JerseA Citu Meas

TRENTON, Sept. 5, 1S94.-Custodian
| Bonnell has made many improvements
| about the State House during the past
few weeks, and if the State Capitol Com
mission carries out its plan, New Jer-
sey's Capitol will be the beauty spot
in old historic Trenton. Mr.. Bonnel has
made the lawns nearly perfect. The
walks have been r~earranged and made
firm, the trees nave been trimmed and
new benches have been placed in the
park, while all benches have been re-
! moved from the entrance and taken to
the terraced bank overlooking the pic
turesque Delaware River through the
growing new trees of the recently-made
River Park in the rear of the Assem-
bly, Chamber
The antique and dilapidated wall di-
viding the Water Power from the State
grounds mas been modernized and treat
ed to a coat of lime, while the bullweeds
growing at the bottom of the Water
Power, and which were responsible for
the offensive stencil which filled the As
sembly Chamber when the wind blew
from the west, nave been removed.
Inside the building the main corridor
has been relieved of all the old tile and
others nave been raised. until now the
corridor is as smooth as a piece of glass.
The walls have received the attention of
a mason, and the woodwork a new coat
of oil, while the massive carving has
been relieved of the crust, giving all a
fresh, CHEEKY appearance. Varnish has
been literally used upon the staircases
and the painter has touched up the
doors and other woodwork. The pas
sage leading to the cellar in the rear
of the restaurant has been plastered and
several new steps added, while the cor
ridors of the cellar running from vault
to vault have been covered with a coat
ing of concrete and the walls have been
whiteWashed.
There is much yet to be done in this
fore it will be in any kind of pre-
| sentable condition. Document Clerk VIM.
H. Meseroll is badly in need of more
~commodious quarters, for the business of
his department has become of great
Importance at the Capitol. AT present
he occupies a corner in the cellar adj
joining the boiler room, and when in his
office he is kept busy fighting fleas
which infest the room.
The Capitol Commission expects to
take up the propositions sent in at its
request for the finishing and decorating
of the new wing of the State House,
comprising the Comptroller's, Treasur-
er's, the Governors private chamber and
the rooms over them, in a few days,
| probably this week. The bids for the
| work have all been handed in, and it is
| understood their reasonableness has i'm
| Treasurer, and that the work will soon
be under way. This portion of the State
House has never been formally trans
ferred to the State, owing to the failure
of the old commission to complete its
work.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-09-05
AMOS CUMMINGS TO SPEAK HERE

The Executive Committee of the Young
Mems Democratic Club of the Fifth AS
sembly district held q meeting Tuesday
evening which was largely attended.
An able discussion vas had as to the
probable results of the division of the
county into ward lines. The next regu-
lar meeting of the association will be
held at the Fischer Building, corner of
Newark avenue and Erie street, Monday.
September IL. This will be the opening
meeting of the fall campaign, and will
be attended by many prominent speak
ers, among them being Congressman
Amos Cummings of New York.
The young men of this district nave
distinguished themselves as able poll
ficians and earnest workers in the past.