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The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1895-08-03

IT is stated that Grover Cleveland will
positively refuse the nomination for
third term. No doubt Of It. lie is well
aware that the people have had great
sufiiclency.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1895-08-03

Forest fires are raging In the vIcisity
OF Gladstone.
The Wadsworth dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1892-1899, 1895-05-15

are equally chimerioal. unless they can
be merged into actual spots Or have
persisted since their discovery. All over
the Atlantic rocks just rising above the
surface had d place on the charts Of a
century ago. For instance, between st.
Helena and Cape Negro. the African
Pilot" of 1899 places ''St. Helena
Nova" al doubtful, F" and between the
bay of Biscay and Newfoundland, the
Isle of Mayda," the DEVILS Rocks and
the Green island. But of all of these
spots in mid-Atlantic, st. Paul's rocks,
or the Penedo of st. Pedro. are about
the only ones which have survived the
unimaginative o~artography Of the pres
emit day.
We hear nothing Of the others. Where
are they3 Did they aver exist? The At
lantio is go much ~traversed and retra-
versed every year that 1t is scarcely
possible for any spot to be overlooked.
Indeed new islets are no longer among
the annual discoveries of seamen in the
Pacific, though now and then we hear
Of submarine volcanoes throwing up
cinder heaps. We are therefore justified
In specializing whether the forces of ma
ture may not perhaps have saved the
credit of the old navigators by occasion
ally submerging an islet in the Atlantic.
The Wadsworth dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1892-1899, 1895-05-15

An American decision on the law Of
cats seems to have taken some English
people by surprise. A citizen Of Balti-
more recently annexed a fine Maltese
cat from his neighbor, and the latter
had the annexer arrested for theft
When the case came on, counsel for the
prisoner pleaded that You could not
steal a cat, and the attorney general for
Maryland has supported his plea on ap-
peal. But there is nothing new about
this. 1t is the common law of England
that there is no property in a cat. The
harmless necessary cat, yer a most
valuable Persian, cannot be the subject
of larceny by III common Law. Lon
don Standard.
The Wadsworth dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1892-1899, 1895-05-15

The secretary Of agriculture is in TO
ceipt of a communication from q leading
manufacturer and business man of
Omaha giving the result Of his observa-
ton and inquiries during a recent trip
through the state of Kansas as to the
present outlook for the wheat crop in
hat state and the extent to which wheat
has been fed to stock by Kansas farm
ers. Concluding his letter this corre-
spondent says, I'm Kansas. Nebraska,
Iowa and a portion of Missouri I should
estimate that between 33H per cent and
so per cent of last years crop has been
80 used, and il the farmers continue the
present ratio more than one-hah Of last
years crop will be fed to stock"
The Wadsworth dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1892-1899, 1895-05-15

Too dry air IN brooder.
Overcrowding in breeders.
Weakness from delayed hatch.
Neglectipg to sort out the sizes.
Not enough bone forming food.
Improper ventilation of brooder.
Removed from incubator before thor
dried -Farm Poultry.
The Wadsworth dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1892-1899, 1895-05-15
why Do the Chickens Die.

Lice.
Sour food.
Filthy runs.
Inbred stock
Hens too fat.
Want Of grit.
Damp houses.
Too much meat.
Breeders too hot.
Breeders too cold
T,aok ~ Oraou food
The Wadsworth dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1892-1899, 1895-05-15
MAKING GEOGRAPHY.
A SUPPOSED PRE-COLUM6lAN DIS
COvERY OF AMERICA.

An "Authentic Island" and the Ingenious
Deductions Made From Its Supposed Lo-
catlon-Mr. oldham and Other Eminent
G~oographors ON the Question.
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1895-08-09
UNDERNEATH rus
A Professional Diver. r.,
of psou,. ZIP

a Professional Diver. Fir. l
| of Pearl, Trip
Pearl fishing means
Tor pearls. but also 70, not q, oal|
pearl shells in which ths sne q
The shells, which are w vasy ~
cents each in the London dop'a aY
really really the principal source " ,aaI !
q divers n,. income, says a v S. q
Youths Companion. "fi'e1
AN. Not many years ago fowl,
little bark named the ia bay lT no'
cd me in the almost uni,n usvl
Cossacl, at that time ttha a
OF the pearling fleet. Il neaa
! first became interested h y
ing, and finally decided u !.
business. 70"
9'ah ! oonght a sn,,
ton lugger called the Vera ', \
her six months provisions
good crew, hoisted the sails 7,
craft and steered for tSs y
grounds, two hundred ,"u
northward. Having no knO e1
diving, | hired a regular diva,
man. known as "Coclney ,Ios
IN three e, days we dropped on osI
amid the pearling fleet,
Let me picture this ol,o.
Hundreds of miles from .ba
men stretches a lou,
coast, almost destitute Of ,n|
or vegetation. To the south
Is one vast yellow desert. n
and west roll the blue wata,
indian ocean. Beyond N
roams the wild bushman Of 4
beneath the sea sweeps the N
man-eating shar1;
'rient-and in depths are soI
pearls for future diadems.
For a week all went WE'LL
IN a good patch" and Joe !
ng up many shells. Then, \
nay, the Vera began to leak
hat we were obliged to run
learest creek for repairs. 4
ortnight before we were real
gain, and in the meantime
0 drinking.
The high tide upon which
7as to float out Of the cre,
yer the twisted roots Of d
'roves. l called to Joe,
shore, to hurry up" but, to
rise, he refused point blank.
,g that / could do nothing
i'm, he coolly told me he want
avs more to finish his spreI
expenses going on and nothind
!, l was anxious to get to vol
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1895-08-09
UNDERNEATH THE SEA-

/ had a few hot words with !
finally | left the creek without
determined to try to dive myself
To describe my feelings al
rapidly to the bottom | shOu'
had a photograph, for l yelled
way down. In the first place
in my ears caused by the unusq
sure of air in my eardrums, wa
ciating, and in the second pal
my hold of the rope and
tumbled down.
l remember tumbling one
somersault on the way, and w0
how far it was to the bottom
nately, like a good acrobat, "a
my feet. Instantly all pain stop
l looked around with eager cur
From the monotony OF sea
above / had dropped through
fathoms of crystal water in'o
dens of a summer sea, where
sponge growths, flowers an
shells and sea fans in curious
vivid colors lay undilturbed y
and made a very fairyland., y
a page from the Arabian Ng
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1895-08-09
SOME PECULIAR PETS.

A Fierce-LoOking Lion Ys the Mascot OF
French Regiment.
In Algeria, North Africa, the officers
of the Third Chasseurs d'Afrique have
pet lion which they took, when very
young, from the African desert. 1t is
great pet and very gentle. As rule
it lies outside the officers mess on the
veranda, and looks just like an arti-
fetal one. Many have been the visitors
who took to fight on beholding his
majesty rise to greet his guests. The
lion by way of assuring them that he
was harmless, or perhaps as sign Of
his disapproval of their impolite actions,
would generally send gentle roar after
them, which, instead of having the de-
sired effect of recalling them, would
make them increase their pace, If it
were possible to do so.
In the British army several regi-
ments have pets. For instance, the
Twenty third Welsh Eusileers have
regiment. The Seventyfourth Highland
infantry, the Seventy-eighth Seaport
Highlanders and other corps have pet
deer that also march in front.
In India the soldiers make many pets,
such as monkeys, parrots, owls, crows,
hawks and squirrels, but their greatest
pet is the minot, bird like startling,
but larger. This bird, after having its
tongue split, will talk quite well, and
will follow its master about constantly.
Often it will follow a dragon regiment
for four or five miles on a field day,
and will fly round and round the regi-
ment until he finds his master, on whose
shoulders he will settle, even though the
horses are going along at full gallop.
A trooper in the Cape Mounted rifles
in South Africa had green water
snake for a pet, which would follow its
master through the grass to the river
and go in bathing with him. The
trooper, who was an expert swimmer,
would worry the snake by diving under
water and coming up dozen yards |
away. He fed it ON frogs, raw meat
and little fish. 1t slept in his jack boot
at night. He, however, was not
doomed to have it long, as before he
had it quite five months hawk car.
ried it off before anybody could rescue
the poor little thing.
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1895-08-09
THE CARD SKINNER.
A Simple Toy That Affords Lots of Harm
less Amusement.

Simple Toy That Affords Lots of Harm
less Amusement.
The simple toy illustrated here can
send card whirling like boomerang
to height of fifty to hundred feet.
Its construction is simple, but very in
genious. The general makeup is
shown in Fig. /. A slotted handle re-
ceives a pivoted slip of wood. Around
the handle and notched inner end of
the slip a strong rubber band is
sprung. If the slip is drawn out of
position, as shown in Fig. 1, and re-
leased, the rubber band jerks it violent
ly back. On the end of the slip is
short, sharp pin and slight cone,
shown in Fig. 3. In use the card is
stuck on the pin point. the pivoted
piece is drawn back, as shown in Fig. 1,
and released. 1t springs forward, car
rying the card with it. As soon as it is
In line with the handle, or just passes
such position, its motion is arrested
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1895-08-09

by the band. The card then swings
around on the pin point, its edge
mounts up the side of the cone as Il
does SO and 1t is lifted off the point and
flies whirling through the air to an
astonishing distance. For band an
umbrella ring may be used. Excellent
effects are got by using little boomer
angs instead of square cards.@Scien-
tific American.
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1895-08-09

Martin Luther found Bible. The
greatest discovery a man ever makes in
when he finds Bible. It's dreadful
thing--it's like finding dynamite. It's
the making or ending of man. II he
puts it aside, it's the end of him; II he
takes it to his heart, it's the making of
him.-Dr. Alexander Mckenzie.
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1895-08-09

of bituminous coal over one third
Is produced in Pennsylvania, while
Pennsylvania and Illinois together
produced little over one-half.
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1895-08-09
In the Art CasIerv

Uncle Treetop = These artists are
pretty aged chaps, aren't they7
William Ann-What makes you think
20?
Uncle Treetop-This picture IL signed
Hawkins, e5."-N. Y. World.
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1895-08-09

There are people who never recor.
nize one another in church, bit ex.
pect to know each other In Heaven.
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1895-08-09
chinese Bridge BuIldsS

The greatest bridge in the y
planned by q Chinese eng
built by Chinese wOrknss :,
stone. and reaches across 80
the Chinese sea by 800 sT I'..'|
the pillar of each arch ree s.sl,
carved from q block Of . I -, 7
long. The roadway IS ~ ~
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1895-08-09
An Amateur Plumbers MISC

A story which is almost ,.' III
be true is told of an EngiisaI;]
prided himself upon his son
amateur plumber. He deS~
gas connections into his nous
Il himself. He went 70 W.
great flourish, hammered anu
and fitted away, and al lss.
hour of final triumph nss r.
family into the parior' h
great chandelier. He turns
with taper in hand, anu -,
showers of water gushea Il;
them all. He had made Ins T..
connecting with the water ~
of the gas pipes.
Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1895-11-19
PLANET COLLISIONS.
should Stars Knock Together the Firi
W0nld Ne Indesoribablo.

should Stars Knock Together tho Firs
WOnld Ne 1ndasoribablo.
Professor Ledger Of London, whose
series Of Gresham astronomy lectures ON
''Knochs In Their Relation to Astrono-
my has been completed, I'm his last dis
course pointed ont that the universe,
instead Of being fixed, is alive with mo-
tion, each star with It's attendant plan
cts hurrying through space II star were
TO knock against star the intense heat
and fierce FIRE generated by the enor-
nous velocity and vast momentum of
the two masses would be such as to pass
human conception.
II may be that the sun was formed by
the collision of two stars. The effect Of
two such bodies attracting each other
and meeting would be 70 reduce them
70 a violently agitated gaseous mass,
which would oscillate, first inward, pro-
ducing inconceivable heat, and then out
ward again, ultimately assuming the
condition Of the sun. The general re-
suit would be that the two bodies would
revolve around their common center Of
gravity--that is to say, around each 9TH
er-creating a double star. Lord Kel-
win has calculated that II $4,000. 600
solid globes, each Of the mass Of the
moon, should be scattered over q spher-
ical surface 100 times the radius Of the
earth's orbit, they would come together
and be raised to q temperature Of
100, 900 degrees. They would oscillate
outward and inward, reaching to a less
distance each time, and ultimately set
Ting down into q sphere.
The nebul@ wo see around MS may,
Professor Ledger suggests, have been
produced by the knocking together Of
two great bodies rather than by the ag-
gregation Of many smaller ones. The
collision Of two huge suns would thus
lead to orejuvenescence and the formation
Of new systems. Phenomena indicating
that something very much in the nature
Of collision had occurred are the out
bursts Of temporary stars such as those
observed by Tycho Brahe in 1912, by
Kepler in 1904 and those Of lS4s, 1866,
1875, 1885 and 1902, the last being the
now star Auriga, which declined through
ten magnitudes, or became 100, ,00O
times less bright in two months. The
great increase in the Light Of a comet as
it approaches tho sun may be due TO a
tidal disturbance in the bodies forming
it, causing them to knock against each
other, and thus generate heat and light.
In the same way the twinkling of the
stars may be caused by the knocks Of
the molecules Of the atmosphere ON the
ether, whose undulations carry theii
light to us. The excessively great ano
the exceedingly small are all interde
pendent, and the past, present and prob
able future of nebulous bodies all hing
ON the relations they bear to the knocks
Of the mol cules Of their gases, whil'
the knocks of immense bodies depend
ultimately ON the knocks of their constit
ueut atOrta
Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1895-11-19
reeentrlo nlonl.I.h seulptor..

The work Of the monkish sculptors.
both in wood anu stone, shows a vast
amount Of humor. Witness the gar
goyles Of our old churches and the
devils, half human, half animal, which
adorn the upper galleries and form the
corbels and brackets Of many oathedrals.
These one can scarcely believe to have
been modelled seriously as conceptions
Of the spirit Of evil, for, If the doctrine
Of the personality Of the devil were held
faithfully, It Is scarcely probable that
artists would have expended their satire
upon as terrible aud vindictive a person
as tho arch fiend, nor would the monks
have allowed their miserores aud stalls
20 bo decorated with burloaquos Of his
satanic majesty. Good Words.
Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1895-11-19
TIE UNHAPPY cAeMAN.
one Of the Gotham Fraternity Tells Tai,
Of Woe.

Of Woe.
"a claimants life amt all beer and
skittles, said an up town Jehu tho 9TH
er day. Nobody ever thinks of givin
poor cabby n tip, and lots Of 'em seem
to tako sort of prido in never payin a
cent more than the legal fare. A man
don't haggle over 10 cents in store, but
he win fuss over that rate card till he's
black in the face for fear he'll give me
too much. After that they'll walk OF
and stick out their chests as though they
had done a good action. They calls it
bein strong minded, s'pose, and strict
ly Just and all that sort o. blarney-
mean, calls il. More than once I've
driven well dressed man down town
and had him jump ont and so into one
o. them big Office buildings.
"'Wait, ses he. 'I'n be out in q min
ute.
"Well, say IfI'd waited till he come
out I'd be there yet. All thom buildings
has two or three entrances, and ho goes
in one and slips ont o. the other.
"Why q man should take cab down
town when hos hard up beats me- 1
s'pose he can't fool tho cable car out Of
a nickel, but he can do me out of dol
lar. Some Of 'em win get out Of cab
in somo mysterious way when they gets
owhere they want to go. You drive on
to the address they've told you, likely
10 or 12 blocks farther ON, and find your
cab empty. How they do it is one too
much for me. It makes lots Of noise get
tin out Of a cab when it's movin, but
they do it. Women don't often beat q
man out Of his fare. but they're pretty
bad about payin 'em. I'd rather take
my chances any day ON bluffin q man
out Of more'n his fare than woman.
You can't rattle q woman half as easy
and she's twice as obstinate.
About tho only time we get a cinch
is in winter when there's lots o. slush
around There amt any talk thon about
drivin 10 tho station house and asllin
the sergeant at the desk what's the faro
from Twenty y-third to Fifly-eighth
street. Take it AL round, cabman 3
life Is q dogs life, and yet thoro's just
as much competition as ia anything
else. New York Tribune.
Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1895-11-19
cRoMwELus FIRsr sTATuE.
An Image of Wood and wax Carried
Through London In 1883.

An Image Of Wood and wax Carried
Through London In 1883.
Whom Edward Burrough, the Quaker
Apostle Of London" vhom George
Fox called his 'SOn Of Thunder, A" was
passing through Charing Cross ON his
way to the city, upon the "22d day Of
the nirth month, . 1858, no found the
streets crowded with people. "The
guards Of soldiers, horse and foot, " says
he, ''stayed me and stopped my horse and
said might not pass that way. Nei-
ther, indeed, will, " adds he, "by rea-
son Of the throng Of people.
When he inquired tho reason Of "this
thronging and pressing Of multitudes, "
he was told that they all came out 'sonly
to see dead. image and invented fea-
ture, without life or breath, which would
be carried this way" Il was not the
great Protectors body, but a dead image
Of wood or wax, arraycd and decked
with foolish inventions, and it twas to
be carried from place to place that day
between Somerset House and Westmin-
ster, as was usual in the time Of popery,
for multitudes Of foolish people to gaze
upon and wonder after and admire. 1"
The jealous Quaker thought the statue
Of Oliver Cromwell all the more an in
suit to his memory because che was
once a great instrument in the hands Of
the Lord to break down many idola-
trous images and grievous idols And
have they now, said my spirit, made a
costly image of him? And are such MS
were once his soldiers, who pulled down
images and crosses, and all such popish-
like stuff wherever they met with it,
now guarding his image and watching
over it, and his children and officers
following it, multitudes Of the inhabit-
ants of London gazing after it? This is
sad, said 1, and a great pity. Is this
the end and final farewell of once noble
Oliver?"
Edward Burrough concluded that il
was "a judgement" upon Cromwell to
be thus wronged after his death, because
no had suffered the servants of tho Lord
(the Quakers) to DO persccuted and i'm.
prisoned for crying against such things
as were popish. He says that Cromwell
himself would have been angry mt it.
II knew the man when he was living
and had the knowledge Of his spirit
And am perswadcd if it had been asked
him in his lifetime if such an image
should be made like him. and then sol
up in such place, believe he woult
have denied, l say, and said, 1t shal
not be there for me, when am dead.
If it had been his bones, " added tbs
Quaker, II should not have had aughf
against it, whereas it was but an image
made by hands. So Burrough wen
home and wrote his Testimony Agains
Great Idolatry. Westminster Gazette
Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1895-11-19
nut Wales Die Not dc.

The dangerous illness of the Prince Of
Wales in December, 1871, was the cause
Of events--curious and amusing--which
will ever find a place in the history Of
British journalism The death Of the
prince seemed inevitable, for the doctors
had begun to despair. One day the an
nouncoment went forth that his royal
highness could not survive many hours,
and accordingly every daily newspaper
in the kingdom had its obituary Of the
prince "sot, - or put into type.
But the expected telegram announcing
the death never came, and so at mid
night, when the hour for going to press
was close at hand, many a newspaper
editor who had relied ON his biograph-
ical sketch Of the prince filling six or
eight columns Of his paper was COM
PEELED to fill up the blank columns with
standing matter Of all kinds. such as
old advertisements and older news The
principal newspaper editors subsequent
ly sent the prince, at his own request,
proofs" Of the obituaries, and pasted,
in a bulky scrapbook, they now form
one Of the strangest and most curious OBJ
jects to be seen at Marlborough House.
Chambers Journal
Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1895-11-19
aonn nnhbIaa.

n. Izarn has communicated to the
Academy Of Sciences a new method for
obtaining soap bubbles lasting a much
longer time than those obtained from
the soap water generally used He has
recourse to a resinous soap made by the
following formula: Pulverize together
10 grams Of pure rosin and 10 parts
Of carbonate of potash add 100 parts Of
water and boil until complete solution.
We obtain in this way q thick solution
which may be kept in stock to be diluted
for use with from four to five times its
volume Of water. II can be kept indeh-
nitely even when exposed to the air. The
bubbles produced are very persistent and
consequently can be made useful in the
study Of phenomena relating to thin
lamin@ and in making photographs in
which soap bubbles play a part
Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1895-11-19

Mrs Patton, tho Scotch missionary's
wifo, in ono of her letters from the
New Hebrides humorously describes the
simple hearted astonishment Of the ma
tivos at some Of the wonderful things
shown them by their new teachers:
Two rooms have been added to our
island home, one q little study, which
has to Eer7e also as a drawing room.
The Aniwans call this the Great House
and are perfectly lost when they get in
side, four rooms being quite too much
for thoir comprehension. And although
they saw them being built they ask in
each room, with bewildered faces.
whether they are north, south, east or
west
Sometimes we have to take them
through the house several times in
day, and it is genuine fun to watch
them--a perpetual play. Some of the
scenes are truly dramatic. One fellow,
the other day, got 80 Enthusiastically ex-
cited when / set the sewing machine
going that he performed a war dance in
the middle Of the floor. flung his arms
all about and called Justify for his dead
father.
A skeleton timepiece, under a glaSs
shade, comes in for q large amount Of
interest They will stand and watch the
pendulum go for ever so long and ask
all sorts of questions. "The path of the
sun" was what they called it, after we
had explained how the hands and fig
ures indicated the suns course in the
heavens.
Yesterday l tried to explain that 10
was the earth and not the sun that was
going round, but was promptly inform
ed that was liar