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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-04-10

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Successors to I-atimer Il Sloan.)
SPECIAL.
A Large Collection of
Rare Antique Furniture,
Hvories, Chinese Porcelains,
Old Pottery, &c.,
Including selected examples
of genuine
Chippendale, Sheraton,
Colonial, Louis XVI,
And Empire
IF r N 1 t u r e.
Alarge assortment of Royal
Vienna Sevres and other
European Ceramics.
The whole to be sold at
public auction within our
Art Gallery,
H4o7 G Street,
Wednesday, Thursday and
Friday,
April 10th, nth and n2th,
AT III ann. and 3 pm. each
day.
GRAND EXHIBITION
rNonday and Tuesday,
April 8th and 9th, from 9
ann. until e pm.
y. B.-TlIiS SALE IS BEING MADE BY ORDER
OF A LARGE LONDON HOUSE, WHO INTENDED
10 LOCATE A BRANCH IN WASHINGTON, BUT
FOR REAsoNS HAVE ORDERED THEIR AGENTS
TO CLOSE OUT THE ENTIRE STOCK AT ACC-
1lUN AM, RETURN no EUROPE THESE
GOODS ARE ALI. FIRSrCLASS AND RATHER
UNUSUAL AND WELL. WORTH THE ATTENTION
OF THOSE IN SEARCH OF RARE PIECES FOR
THE EXPERIMENTATION OF BEAUTIFUL HOMES.
c. q. SLOAN & CO. ACCTIONEERS.
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AUCTION SALES.
FUTURE DAYS.
WALTER B. WILLIAMS & CO., AUCTION

WALTER B. WILLIAMS & CO., ACCTIONEElsS
FOR EASTER.
BEAUTIFUL PLANTS IN FLOWER, FROM JOHN
SAUL'S NURSERY, VIZ, AZALEAS, CINEItA-
RIAS. ROSES, &C.; ALSO PALMS AND OTHER
DECORATIVE PLANTS.
On FRIDAY, APRIL TWELFTH, AT ELEVEN
O'CLOCK AM, AND FOUR PM, We will sell,
within sales room, corner 10th and Pennsyl-
vana avenue northwest.
apIO-2t WALTER B. WILLIAMS l. CO., Aucts.
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c. G. SLOAN & CO., AUCTIoNEERS, l4O7 ST.
Successors to Latimer 4 SlOan.l
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Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1895-04-25

the ground, and DIR. n. Lewis Jones
proposes that this should be done by
covering the floors of all high-pres-
sure stations with thick layer of as
phalt, or with insulated platforms of
considerable extent, and by covering
the walls, as fur as possible, with u
non-conducting lining OF wood, the
insulating resistance of which might
be increased by ilnpregrating it with
paraffine wax, or tar or varnish. The
point to be gained, would be to make
1t impossible for 4 workman to touch
any high potential conductor or ma
chine. except when he stands upon a
non-conducting surface, nor should he
be able to touch Mt the same time any
part Of the building which is in cleo
trical connection With the earth. The
danger to workmen employed on the
street mains, is, of course, best avoid
ed by permitting no work to be done
upon them until they have been cut
out of circuit, but in any case, the use
of rubber boots has been proposed as
n better protection than the rubber
glove. If the use of both rubber boots
and gloves were insisted upon, the
risk would be greatly decreased.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1895-04-25
A strange Telephone.

Some of the proIrietors of large wes-
tern farms and ranches are making
their wire fences do duty as telephone
lines, in many instances with salts
factory results. Mr.. G. Thompson,
proprietor of large nursery near
Rapid City, S. D., has barbcd wire
renee telephone line in successful OPP
sration. The line is little over five
:lilcs long and the fence which is
uscl for the transmission line has
been standing for twelve years. The
wire is fastened to the posts with Or
binary staples. ".rhcrc are no glass
balls used" write Mr.. Thompson. II
consider them of no use-thcy may be
ornamental" About April 1. 1893, Mr..
Thompson contracted With the Ncbras-
ka Telephone Company to extend one
of it's Rapid City lines. about Il mile
so as to connect with his barbcd wire
fence. Where the line had to pass
gates and cross the roads poles twelve
feet high We're erected to carry the
line across. The line crosses the road
four times and passes over five gates
MIR. Thompson, by means Of his barb
ed wire fence telephone has commune
cation with all the lines i'll the Black
Hills. and there is no better line and
few as good i'll the Hills.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1895-04-25
Improving Woven Cloth.

There has lately been brought to no.
tice Il composition designed to. impart
silky appearance to fabrics, the
downy tibres, giving strength to the
yarn, facilitating weaving and insur-
ing glossy finish to the woven cloth.
The composition is produced by boil
ing one bushel of flax seed in twenty
four gallons of water until it has eyap-
orlted to twcnty-three gallons, by
which time thick liquid is formed,
this being strained In sleeves and then
through cloth to remove all foreign
matters. Sixteen ounces of Iceland
moss are boiled in five parts of water
and strained, and the two liquids are
mixed thoroughly together i'll the pro-
portion Of one quart of the former to
one pint of the latter; one ounce Of
white vegetable wax and one-half an
ounce of spermaceti are dissolved in
two wine glasses of boiling water, this
being stirred into the liquid when hot
and, after well mixing and allowing
to cool, half a wine glass of strong
liquid ammonia is added to three pints
of the liquid and thoroughly stirred.
When in its finished condition the
composition is put into size of flour
or other farina commonly employed
for dressing yarns or threads for
weaving, i'll the proportion of about
twenty or thirty wine glasses of tho
former to ten gallons of the latter, ac-
cording to the fabric to be treated.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1895-04-25
The Rubicr of nurmnn.

A large quantity of the worlds sup
ply of rubes GENES from the Burmah
mines. which have been actively work.
cd since the annexation of Burmah
by the British government. The ruby
district is about twentysiX miles long
and twelve broad and lies at cleya-
tions varying from 1000 feet to 5000
feet above the sea level. Sonle of the
mines lave been worked by the ma
tives from very remote periods; i'll
fact, old workings are found over an
area of siNty-siX square miles. 1t is
In the lower clay beds OF the river al
lllvia, and in similar deposits formed
III gullies in the hill-wasl, that the
rubies spincls and other gems arc
found. In the alluvia, square pits
from two feet TO nine feet across, i'll
geniously timbercd with bamboo are
sunk to the ruby earth, which is drawn
up by bamboo baskets. In the hill
wash long open trenches are carried
from the sides of a gully. Regular
mines are opened in some places; in
others the limestone is Quarricd.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1895-04-25
A Gigantic sea,vcch.

The giant of the seawccd family,
and the largest known specie of ma
rine algac, bears the scientific name
of Ncrocystis 1t occasionally attains
a length of 300 feet, and is kept afoat
on the occah's surface on account of
being buoycd by bladdcr-likc enlarge
ments of the stem. which are filled
with air. AS the plant grows older
these globose, bladdcr-like excres-
ccnccs swell into great retort-sllaped
cylinders, six to seven feet in diane
ter. Where this plant grows in any
considerable quantity it becomes i'm
possible for small crafts to pass
through them on account of the densi-
~ OF this floating mass OF vegetl ti0n.
The natives of tropical islands use
the bladder-like enlargements men,
toned for water vessels and for stor-
ing away grain.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1895-04-25
A Hinge Derrick.

The largest derrick in the world Is
said to be that used in the granite
quarry of G. E. Tayntor & Co., at
Barre, vt. Its mast is 80 feet high
and is held by ten guys, each running
out about 200 feet to heavy anchor
ages. The boom can swing around a
circle 142 feet in diameter, and, like
the mast, is built of Phoenix columns.
The loads are hoisted by means of a
steel wire rope one and one-quarter
inches in diameter, and the boom IT.
self is handled with similar rope
three-quarters of an inch in diameter.
Over n mile of steel rope was used in
rigging the derrick, and Its weight,
exclusive of rope. is about 5000
pounds. 1t Is operated by means Of q
hoisting engine, and SO we'll are all
parts designed that = pull Of 800
pounds at the end OF the boom will re-
volvc the whole appliance when the
boom Is horizontal and loaded with
BY tons. The derrick has been tested
with load OF 57h tons, although de-
signed to carry only 40 tons; and it
the ropes were heavy enough, the re-
mainder of the apparatus has had SUI
ficlent strength to carry loads Of 80
tons.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1895-04-25
1nain hummer Erom o,l

Artificial India rubber from cotton
seed oil is one of the latest industrial
products. The discovcrcr states that.
while experimenting with cottonseed
oil to produce varnish for painting,
lie obtained substance entirely for
cign in it's makeup and properties to
what was sought-not varnish but q
rubber. So simple is the process. as
alleged, that it is not within the pro-
lection of a patent-the only safe
guard being. therefore, in the secrecy
of the process, by the use of which it
is asserted only u per cent is re-
quircd of the genuine rubber to pro-
duce an article which can in no way
be distinguished from the ordinary
crude India rubber.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1895-04-25
Uncertain Age of the Earth.
Prof. ohm Perry has been causin

Prof. ohm Perry has been causing
quite cOmmotion in scientific circles
by inSinlmting that the earth is much
more ancient than we have been ac-
cuStOmcd to believe. Lord lIclvin's
estimate of the age of the earth, as
a solid or crllStcd body, which is 400
millions of years for its upper and any
thing down to ten or twenty million
years for it's lower limit, has been hith-
erto accepted without suspicion. Prof.
Perry has called into question this
theory of the comparative juvenility
of our globe. and insists that Lord KEEL
vim has taken the conducting power
of hot rocks as lower than it really is,
and hence that the earth had cooled
and consolidated from Il liquid state
much earlier than 400 million years
ago. at least 40 times earlier; that
u.s. $4,000 million years ago. These
hoary figures drove Lord Kelvin to his
laboratory from whence he has now
emerged with most reass uring data.
He has been experimenting on the COIL
Quoting power Of rocks at high tenn
some valuable results of experiments
made by DIR. Robert Weber, from
which it appears that Frof l. ATTY was
mistaken III assuming the greater COIL
ductivity of intensely heated rocks.
With some kinds of rock. for instance
slate, and sandstone. there is. on the
contrary, a diminution of conducto-
witty at high temperatures. Lord KEEL
vim sees no ground for abandoning his
former estimate and lie quotes the
confirmation of DIR. Clarence King,
the well-known American gcologiSt.
who says that I'VE have no warrant
for extending the earths age beyond
twcnty-four millions of years." This
accorls with the fifteen or twenty
million years for the age of the sun,
as calculated by uelmholtz, Ncwcomb
and Kelvin.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1895-04-25
Boys interest In War.

AS an example in the exceedingly die
verse interests that may depend upon
the success of the Japanese army, we
quote the following letter which was
recently received by Marshal Yanla
gaia:
General: am an ordinary school
boy scarcely 8 years old. l stay in
Berne. In the atlas Switzerland is
smaller than Japan. l am very glad
YOU have met your enemies as my
forcfathers met theirs. and that the
brave general has always won. 1t is
to be hoped that you will conquer the
great Chinese empire and pull down
the Great Wall that surrounds it.
believe this wall is to blame for my
not having any Chinese stamps i'll my
album yet. hear you are kind man.
Will you be so good as to send me
some of the many Chinese stamps,
Which you are sure to find among the
bootyY'
The marshal was of course. much
amused at the letter; and although lie
has not yet had time to pull down the
Great Wall, he has made such ar
engagements that 1t shall no longer
stand in the way of his youthful cor
respondents ambition.-Westminister
Gazette.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1895-04-25
A Few Hint. for Girls.

This Is what wanted to say to you
about books, girls. They seem to me
much like pleasant countries with
paths leading here and there, aud
when You open a new one it is like
taking a little journey. You never
are sure of what will be the next sur
prise. Cultivate a love for books. L
know that school girls have not much
time to devote to reading, their les
sons and other duties taking up their
days so fully, but one can secure Il
half-hour now and then, and it is
good plan to keep good hook on
hand. A half-hour every day will
make itself felt in the course of u
year, as you will be convinced IL you
take the trouble to make list, one
by one, of the hooks you read.
Now for step to something quite
different. Can any girl explain why
most girls are SO mucl. opposed to
wearing overslloes. Don't ask me to
put on rnbbers," says Molly. when the
spring rain is pouring in flood. My
shoes are thick. and hate rubbcrs
anyway" If your shoes have cork,
soles you may venture safely out-of
doors on Il moderately wet day with
out other protection but the ordinary
boot is not thick enough to let you do
this safely. have Il fancy TINT girls
ought to please their mothers in u lit
tie thing of this kind.
In conversation, girls. it is as well
not to set people right in case of their
making unmportant mistakes. Char
loitc is describing person she met
last summer. He was very TAIL" she
Gays: las tall as Reginald, and looked
so strong and we'll" ooh. no. sister,"
interrupts Anne: "hc was no taller
than Max; and when we saw him lie
was very pale"
You can readily understand that the
interest Of the little incident, what
ever it is, does not depend on the
inches of the hero; and in setting
Charlotte right Anne throws the story
Off the track, disconcerts her sister,
and makes everybody uncomfortable.
--lIarper's Young People.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1895-04-25
A Wooden hallway.

An interesting Illustration of what
Il plucky community can 10 in the
way of helping itself where more con-
Servativc folks would fold their hands
and wait for something to come from
Florida. The people of the two cities
agreed that Il transportation line con-
meeting them across Il sandy and n,vr-
ly level tract or country would be Il
common advantage; but they were
not rich and it was found impossible
to raise funds for the further discus
sion of ways and means. A director
said that metal was not the only thing
that rails could be made of, and lie
proposed that they should construct
the road of wood. Each property-own-
err along the right of way could con-
eribute his share of wooden rails, and
the company could see to the rest.
The idea was Immediately taken up,
and 1t was decided to construct the
road. The wood rails are to be large
enough to be laid so that they will be
half embedded in the sand without
other ballast. They will be held in
position by wooden pins two inches
in diameter and eighteen inches long,
while the ends will be connected by
plank couplcrs placed underneath and
pinned down. Although the line will
be forty miles long, not a pound of
metal will be used in the laying of the
track. 1t is calculated that the vege-
table and passenger business between
the two cities will soon make the line
a paying concern, and as soon as the
road can afford it steel rails will take
the place of wooden ones, which will
be used for ties. A small steam dunn
my will furnish power. and the line
will soon be in operation.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1895-04-25
Scientific Notes.

Mica is reported to be satisfactory
substitute for selenite for use in polar
izing outfits.
M. Bay, Persian, is the inventor
of new sort Of ornamental glass.
which closely resembles hoar frost on
glass in the feathery forms upon it,
Electric heat has been applied with
success to the thawing out of frozen
water pipes in England. A wire is
run into the pipe until it meets the
obstruction and then the current is
turned on.
A New York dispatch says that the
new illuminating gas, ecetylene men,
toned recently, may soon be offered
for general use there, and that it's cost
will not be more than Z cents per 1 900
feet.
1t is said female Goldfish will Ii y
4o.OOO.OW eggs during single sea-
son. Piscatorial authorities say that
were 1T not for the work of the nat
''lnl enemies of fish they would fill
all the available space in the seas,
rivers and oceans.
Pure coffee Of the strength in which
1t is used as beverage is II germi-
cide. Experiments made by n Ger
man investigator showed that power
full cholera bacilli were killed by it in
three hours and those of typhus in
twenty-four hours.
The tensile strength of iron Mt 400
degrees below zero is Just twice what
it is at 10 degrees above. It will take
strain of sixty instead of thirty tons
to the square inch, and equally Curl
GUS results have come out as to the
elongation of metals under these con-
ditions.
A workman in limestone quarry
at Maqnoketa, Iowa, the other day
found Embedded in the rock, twenty
tive feet below the surface, a fly. The
fossil Is perfect. The feelers and legs
and delicate wings, as we'll as lie
body, are as complete as when the in
sect alighted and stuck in the ooze
away back in the upper Silurian
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1895-04-25
Anccdotc of Hawthorne.

A very good story relating to Nath-
aniel Hawthorne is being told. AT one
time the famous author was the Unit
cd States Consul at Liverpool. Dur
ing this period there walked into his
office one day a young man who de-
sired assistance He was Yankee,
he said, and had left home to make
fortune in foreign fields, but hud fail
ed. and now, tired of the struggle in
strange land, and heartily homcsick
as we'll. he wanted the consul to pro-
vide him with money enough to pay
his way back to America.
The chief clerk regarding the lad
with suspicion, and feeling that his
story was cooked up for the occasion,
Informed him that Mr.. Hawthorne
could not be seen. but the boy was
persistent. and finally carried his
point The clerk yielded to his
solicitation. and went into Mr.. Haw-
thorne's private office.
There's a boy out there who insists
upon seeing YOU" he said. Gle says
he's an American, but l don't be-
licvc it.
"l'll see him." said the Consul and
walking out into the main office. he
said. well, my lad, what do you
want!"
The boy told him his story.
What part of America do you come
from?"
Omitted States"
what StateT'
New Hampshire, sir"
"What town.
Exeter"
Hawthorne looked at the boy
Exeter, eh?"
Yes, sir replied the boy.
"Who sold the best apples in your
town!" asked Hawthorn.
"Skim-milk Folsom, sir" returned
the boy.
Hes all right" said lIawthrno.
with smile to the clerk "Give him
his passage"
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1895-04-25
Electric Lighting for carriase

A new tilamcnt is being made spec
tally for electric carriage lamps, which
are now much used in Europe. In
Paris. especially. carriage builders are
waking up to the advantages and bril-
liant effects Of carriage lighting. and
lamps of improved construction for
this purpose are being placed on the
market. A great stimulus to the in
tlustry has been given by the fashion
set by the Prince of Wales and the
Emperor of Germany Of lighting both
the inside and the outside of their car
ringes by means Of electric lamps.
The statement that the Prince Of
Wales was the first to adopt this sys-
TEN in London has been questioned
in letter from Il London electrician
to an American electrical Journal.
The writer says: II had the honor of
lighting the lord mayors carriage for
Mr.. Alderman Knight, the then lord
mayor Of London, as far back as 1883,
ever lighted in England by electricity"
the same as those now in vogue. The
antediluvian equipage known in Lon
don as 1.-The Lord Mayors carriage"
WIS III ny p1aIiuE NAASA SAAS >ct1NA
mans seat Il small "eight-cell, TWEEN
ty ampere-hour" storage battery.
which served to light three sixteen
volt low-rcsistancc" glow lamps, two
in the lanterns as side lights, and one
i'll n frosted globe, Enclosed in n sill
vcr-platcd fluted reflector, which dis
tributcd the light evenly throughout
the carriage. AS showing how Sin
gle firm may sometimes Ike instrument
tai in stopping the way of progress of
Il whole nation, it is mentioned that
although until recently there was n
difficulty in getting storage batteries
recllargcd at moderate price, the
great drawback to the advancement
of carriage electric lighting in England
for many years has been the attitude
Of the holders Of the Fnure battery
patents, who would neither do that
class OF business themselves nor al
low others to do it. AS the Faure pat
ents have now expired. and many
charging stations have sprung up all
over the country, the electric light
will doubtless soon bc as common in
carriages rs it la in houses.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1895-04-25
Strength of the Jumping Mouse.

In proportion to it's size, l believe
the jumping mouse is the most active
and powerful Of all vertebrate ami
NAL. This tiny creature-no larger
than mans tl,umb-is from two and
onc-half to three inches in length.
with tail abort twice as long as tho
head End body. 1t is therefore no
longer than a house mouse, but it has
light forequartcrs, strong hindquar-
tiers, very loD;.. hind legs, and it can
jump from eight to ten feet! II q
mouse weighing two ounces (average)
can jump two feet, how far should q
10O-pound boy of equal agility be able
to jump? Figure it out for yourself,
and wha,l you have obtained the corr
recr answer you will probably appre-
ciate the hind legs of this wonderful
little mite.-W. T. Hornaday in April
st. Nicholas.