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Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-12-20
Motion.

The snail moves half an inch per Sec
ond;' a maj walking, 4 feet; a snowshoer,
10 feet; Halley's comet, when in aphelion,
II feet; tho current of a rapid river, 10
feet; a balloon, rising during a calm, 20
feet; a fast runner, 90 feet; a fly, "a feet;
a fast steamer, ~ feet; a bicycle, 81 feet;
boat, 81 feet; a practical skater, IS feet; a
race horse, Al feet; a mountain torrent, AZ
feet; an express train, 81 feet; ocean
waves, 10 feet; a carrier pigeon, 81 feet; II
windstorm, 14s feet; swallows, 22O feet;
the worst cyclone known, $50 feet; the
Krakatoa wave Cat the fearful volcanic
catastrophe in the Sunda islands Aug. ~,
1898, when a new island rose out of the
sea), $40 feet; sound in the air, 1,O95 feet;
the surface of the globe at sea level, on the
equator, l 800 feet; a cannon ball, 1925
feet; the maximum of a spring flood tide,
1880 feet; tho moon, $3.50 feet.
In miles per second, explosion of gun
cotton, 81 miles; the sun, 81 miles;
Sirius, 9 miles; our globe, 10 miles; me-
teors and shooting stars, on the average,
"a miles; Halley's comet, in the perihelion,
235 miles; storm in the sun, $50 miles;
electric current through a submarine ca
BILE, 2 ,400 miles; electric current on tele-
graph wires, 1000 miles; induction cur
ront, 11,04O miles; electric current in cop
per wire armatures, 81, 900 miles; light,
100000 miles, and discharge of a Leyden
bottle through copper wire of o~ne-sixteenth
inch in diameter, 27S, 100 miles per second.
This last is the greatest rapidity that has
been measured until now.-Philadelphia
Record.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-12-20
A Man Under ThirtY-Aye,

Miss Lillian Bell, the clever Chicago
authoress, prints rather q caustic view Of
"The Man Under Thirty-fve" IN The La
dies Home Journal. She asserts that con-
versation with a man under 35 is impossi-
BILE, because the man under 35 never CON
verses. He only talks. And your chief
accomplishment of being a good listener
is entirely thrown away on him because
he does not in the least care whether you
listen or not. Neither is it of any use for
you to show that he has surprised or shock
ed you. He cares not for your approval or
~disaprroval. He is utterly Indifferent to
you, not because you do not please him,
but because he has not seen you at all. He
knows you are there in that chair. He
bows to you in the street. Oh, yes! He
knows your names and where you live. But
you are only an entity to him, not an in
dividual. He cares not for your likes and
dislikes, your cares, or hopes, or fears. He
only wants you to be pretty and we'll dress
ed. Have a mind if you will. He will not
know it. Have a heart and a soul. They
do not concern him. He wants you to be
tailor made. You are a girl to him. That's
all
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-12-20
SWEARING IN THE NAVY.
Some Old Heroes Renowned For Their
Command of Strong Language.

some Olu heroes renowned For Their
Command of Strong Language.
How the army swore in Flanders is his
toric, and the profanity Of some old salts
of high rank in tho United States navy is
proverbial throughout tho service. Once
a month at muster on a Sunday, when the
articles of war are road, tho youngsters
grin to hear the eloquent denunciation of
profilno swearing rs conduct unbecoming
an officer and a gentleman. Tho younger
men of commanding 1ank are less given
to strange oaths than q few crusted old
fellows some grades higher. A subordinate
now and then surprises such Il superior by
making complaint by communication to
the department. touching specific instances
of the habit, but even Il rcprimand from
the highest source cannot break I'D the
manner of Il lifetime, and nobody expects
permanent amendment in tho case of tho
men 40 years in tho service.
There are amazing stories of tho Ian
guage commonly used by grizzlcd heroes,
often the idols of tho navy. Ono venerable
officer with II wife and II family of daugll.
tiers is famous for his seemingly inadvcrt
emit lapses into the most s%ulphurous oaths
at his own table and in the presence OF
guests. The stranger first hearing it
catches his breath with astonishment, but
the ladies have learned to hear without
seeming to understand. AS these outbursts
occur in the old gentleman's blandest mo-
ments they come with the additional shock
Of the unexpected.
There is a story in the service of the
way in which a renowned admiral received
a young officers suit for the hand of tho
old sea dogs daughter. just what the old
gentleman said may not be set down here,
but it was a %brutally profane and insult
ing outburst. Tho youngster had tact tit
ted to the occasion, for, instead of finch
ing or speaking the old man fair, he re-
piled with equal profanity and won his
future athcr-in-law heart and consent in
the same instant.-New York Sun.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-12-20
An Ancient Telegraph.

o Telegraphy as a means of conveying in
formation to a distance by means of sig
nails, etc, was used by the Grecian gem
erals in the time of Aristotle. This early
mode of t~elegraphing consisted of two or
more earthen vessels, exactly similar in
shape and size, and filled with water. These
vessels were each provided with faucets of
exactly the same caliber, SO that an equal
amount of water could be discharged from
each in a given time.
In these vessels several uprights were
fixed, each with disks attached, on which
were certain letters and sentences. When
all was i'll readiness, the party desiring to
communicate with another started q sig
nal which was continued until it was an
swered by another which signifed ssgo
ahead. When that signal was given, both
turned the faucets and the water com.
menced to escape. Tho water continued to
flow until the sender Of the message re-
lighted his torch, when the outlet to both
was instantly stopped. The receiver then
read the message on the disk which was
standing level with the water, andi if every
thing had been executed with exactness, it
correspondent with the message which the
sender desired to convey, and which Of
course was the one also shown on the disk
standing on a level with the water in his
Louis Republic.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-12-20
WRITTEN IN THE SKY.
A Monogram Signal Which May Be Used
on Land or Water.

h virtues of an electric monogram sig
nal have always been referred to in these
columns. The device is O sort Of type
writer de~liyering>lts message, letter by let
ter, in midair, or at any distant point in
gigantic characters of light. The observer
may be miles away and yet read the mes
sage with ease.
The Keyboard is manipulated precisely
ms in an ordinary typewriter, and it's func-
ton is to switch in OF direct the current
through a series of distributing wires,
which are carried in a cable to the mono
gram or display frame. According to a
predetermined scheme the keys exercise q
selective function, and each one switches
in the leading wires only, which connect
with the members of the monogram con.
shutting the letter of tho alphabet which
that particular key represents.
By reference to the monogram one may
easily trace any letter of the alphabet in
form so nearly conventional as to be readily
understood. Thus if on the keyboard tho
A button is pressed, the lamps of all the
members Of the monogram entering into
that letter shine out simultaneously, while
all other lamps upon the display frame re-
main dead. And SO III, for every letter.
b observer has only to follow the let
ters as they flash out one after another to
spell out tho words of the message. 1t will
be seen that this is a sort of visual tele-
graph, and that it may be made to talk in
almost any language spoken by man. 1t
Is also serviceable for cipher writing &C.
cording to any prearranged code. The
monogram frame is 5 feet high by 81
feet wide, equipped with 16 candle power
lamps. Signals flashed from this frame are
visible to the naked eye for distances from
one to three miles, depending on the
weather. With a glass the signals may be
easily read up to ten miles. Some frames
are made much larger and can be seen
farther.-Electrical Review.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-12-20
St. COLUMBIA.

On n occasion tho saint blessed a knife
SO that 1T never could hurt Il creature
afterward. His blessing produced exactly
the opposite effect on u stake. A very poor
peasant brought it at the saints bidding.
St. Columbia sharpened it with his own
hand and then blessed it. "Keep il" he
said. 1T will hurt neither man nor beast,
only wild animals and fish. So long as
you keep it you will never lack flesh food
The peasant fastened it in the ground, and
the very next day found a very fine stag
impaled. Not a day passed without some
wild creature being thus captured. The
wife was frightened. "Some one will get
hurt, she said. "Then we shall be either
killed or sold as slaves" The peasant re-
moved it and laid it by in his house. The
next day his dog was killed by it. He put
it in the river and found a marvelously
big salmon on it. The next place was on
the roof, where it proved fatal to u crow.
Persuaded by his wife-"per sociam, nj
ADAM says the biographcr-he cut it up
and burned it and was as poor as ever all
the rest of his life.-London Spectator,
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-12-20

A Learned Theory That Boys Are Savages
at a Certain Age.

The history Of our public schools affords
plenty of examples Of boys who have tor
tured their fellows in a way which would
have disgracod a savage. 1t is to be feared,
indeed, that it Is accident moro than any
thing else which saves boys of this kind
boys whose feelings have become petrifled
from actual crime. They are unable to
feel, and their lack Of experience of tho
world makes the fear of punishment but a
small detriment. II is not to be wondered
at that boys in such Il temper of mind
may be converted by a series Of unlucky
chances and opportunities into the thought
less perpetrators of really grave iDiquities.
Fortunately these boys of petrified feel
ings do not necessarily grow into bad men.
Tho hardening of their nature rs often as
not undcrgoos a complete change with
manhood. Their characters grow sensitive
again, and the lad Of 20 would be utterly
incapable of doing things which tho boy
of IA could undertake without the faintest
touch of remOrse. We believe that school
masters of experience will bear us out in
this and say that they lave known plenty
of utterly callous boys who later have en-
tirely lost the savage faint and have turned
into normal men. In this dangerous in
sensibility to which boys are so prone at
ID and IA the boy is not the father of tho
1t is difficult to say whence this inscnsi-
bility comes and why the child may be
full of right feeling, tho boy almost cal
lous, and tho man again perfectly scnsi-
tive to the promptings of the heart and
conscience. Though we arc not among
those who would make tho normal nature
nothing but an affair Of physical well be-
ing, and the soul Il matter of clinical treat
ment, we arc inclined to believe that the
temporary and partial pctrifaction of the
feelings and tho moral sense during boy
hood may be due to tho great physical
changes that are current with it. Those
changes affect the boys whole body and
absorb all his energy left with which to
give his heart it's rights. Every ono knows
how difficult a thing is II 2 O'Clock in the
morning courage, and how hare it is to
feel kind II self sacrificing when one is
half asleep. Sleepiness or extreme weari-
ness makes one, to u certain extent, cal
lous and Indifferent and insensible to the
fate of others. Well, the boy who is grow
ing up and down M across all at once
and with Il speed which takes ones breath
away, is physically as much oppressed as
the man who is weary from overwork or
loss of sleep. 1t is true that the exhaus-
ton of rapid development takes u very
different form, but it exists none the less.
NO doub there are boys whose insensibil-
ity is deeper and Can only be explained on
the same lines as defects of character in
nature. Fol the ordinary normal boy,
however, whose insunsibilIty is not per-
manent, but temporary, the best explanu-
tion is, we believe, that which we have
suggested. The stress of growth, to q Ger
tain extent, puts the normal nature under
a sort OF chloroform. London Spectator.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-12-20
Mental Geography.

The most populous country is Obligion.
Many go there; few return.
The largest river is Time.
The deepest ocean is Death.
Tho region where no living thing hath
habitation is called Yesterday.
The most highly civilized country is To
day.
The highest mountain is called Success.
Few reach the top save those who watch
sharply for the passing Of the spirit of the
mountain, Opportunity, who carries up
ward all those that seize hold upon him.
The region where no maj hath ever set
foot is called Tomorrow.
The greatest desert is called Life, and it
hath many GASES. These are called Hope
and Ambition and Love and Charity and
Home. And Of them all the last is most
beautiful. Besides these are many others,
smaller III extent, whence the traveller OBJ
talneth refreshment during his journey
through Life.-Chicago Times-Herald.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-12-20
Unlucky "Ouarter to six.~

"~Seventy-five per cent of the people we
discharge every year. remarked the head
floor walker of a mammoth dry goods es-
tablishment which employs over l, 900 peo-
pie, "lose their places on account of "a
quarter to g."
"A quarter to g. is the hour at which
preparations are made for closing the days
business. At that hour the male clerks
begin to cover their stocks, and the female
CLERKS to arrange themselves to
go nome. Usually u number of ladies
come in at this hour, and the clerks, eager
to go home, in answer to questions of Gus
toners, usually say, We are just OUT of
just what the customer happens to want.
DAY after day we discharge girls for
this reason, and Is times out of 20 Won
ask a girl why she lost her place, and she
will Invariably answer on account of "a
quarter to 6. New York Herald.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-12-20
VANITY is HUMAN.
Both of the sexes Are Subject to Its Harm
49, ----.- lasa Vonnnsos --..---- ---

Both of h Sexes Are Subject to Its Harm
less vagaries.
"Iam tired of this talk Of feminine van
tty," said a woma a while ago, "and Of
the instances drawn from our supposed
peculiar love of dress. There are count
less authentic examples of the like conceit
and the like fondness for fine raiment in
man, although seldom one is given SO pro-
nounced Us a fact told me by an official at
Sing Sing prison. He declared that some
OF the prisoners are as particular about the
arrangement Of their striped clothes as if
they were expecting to take a stroll down
the avenue. They even preeerve, at no lit
tie trouble, a crease through the center of
the trousers legs"
Probably a second woman went on,
"the average ma would contend that it
was not fair to class the dude, in Sing Sing
or out, with the rest Of his sex, but I re-
member an instance of masculine vanity
in quite another sort Of man. This person
was over go years old, a grandfather, so
brilliant intellectually that l have heard
him rated as the best thinker in America,
and by a competent critic too. I never
saw q person more devoid Of conceit in re-
gard to his brain work, but ono day in a
pert mood I happened to remark to him
his peculiarly becoming dress, and the
truth that he, although far from a hand
some man, was looking particularly we'll
on that occasion. If you will believe me,
he silnpered and tossed his head with de-
light, precisely as a silly schoolgirl would
do"
"That pleasure in a new kind of compli-
ment," r%ejoined the first speaker, ''has
something touching in it's general excess Of
expression. [ once heard appointment pub
lie reader praised for an evenings enter
tainmcnt, and marvoled at the GOODNESS
with which sheaccepted the warm phrases
from so high a source, but, when l., a
stranger, dropped a word Of f1attery to her
beautiful eyes, she actually ran across the
room to me, seized me by the shoulders md
cried: DO you mean it9 Do you think I
have fine eyes?' And leaning over she
kissed mo on both checks" And so the
conversation got around to womi,n's van
ity again, after all!-Now York Times.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-12-20
HOW DO THEY DO IT.
The Clever Men and Women Who Tel
Good Stories.

r.. H".-. 0OOu SCOIAcss -Ea#-- saFa
If abundant instruction would make us
into novelists the people of England
ought to DO a nation of Holdings. 10
produce some such result is perhaps hardly
the aim of the author of Chow to Write
Fiction, y originally a set of letters to a
lady, who improved immensely under her
tutor. We nave no belief at all in this
kind of education. Tho novelist, like the
poet, is born, not made. No amount Of
t'coaching'' will teach a man to be a story
teller. If he wrote like an angel, and yet
had not the Unborn power Of telling a story,
people would say that his book was Every
nicely written" and nobody would read
1t. If heaven made him a story teller, no
delinquencies of style, were they as strik-
people from reading him. Who taught
Miss Braddon? cut Nomo"-why, no
body, as the schoolboy translated Horace's
HQui fit Mecenas''-who made Macenasa.
Who "made' Miss Bronte2 Nobody but
her Maker. George Lewes, himself as I'M
readable (qua novelist) as Mr.. Stevenson
found McCric, attempted to "coach'' Miss
Bronte after she had produced "Jane
Eyre" It was as if a private in the vol
unteers were to lecture Lord Roberts.
Nobody, as far as we are aware, in
structed Mr.. kipling. NJ. Guy de Maui
PEASANT alone 9 to a private tutor, M.
Flaubert, and we have no doubt that
Flaubert should have improved under his
pupil. However, he really fell off. Miss
Austen was a mere chit when she wrote
pride and Prejudice" She had never
heard any dull, pedantic twaddle about "a
science of human nature any more thar
the Maid Of Orleans had attended the Staff
college. She was born with humor, taste,
insight and gcnius-qualities which dull
little manuals cannot bcstow.
The story teller is a story teller, as Scott
was, from infancy. True a very stupid
man, by collecting grimy anecdotes ana
retailing them in an affected jargon. may
get other stupid penmen to praise him,
but 'as for reading him, it is impossible
and cannot be DONE" When Fielding
took up his quill, he had no model or mas
ter, only a competent classical education
and genius. Yet Fielding remains the
king of his art, undethroned by all tho
%pretenders who babble a popular science
and cheap Darwinism over the water
London News.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-12-20
Weighing Common Air.

The weight Of air has often been tested
by COMPRISING it in receptacles by the air
pump. That it really has weight when so
compressed is shown by the fact that the
weight of the vessels is increased slightly
by filling them with compressed air and
that such vessels become specifically
Tighter as soon as the air contained in
them is exhausted. Many elaborate exper-
iments on the weight of air have proved
that one cubic foot weighs $50 grains, or
something less than N ounces.
The above experiment IN the weight of
air is supposed to be made at the surface
OF the earth with the temperature at so
degrees F. Heated air, or air at high Gle
v%ations, is much lighter.-St. Louis Re-
public,
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-12-20
CHASE OF TAE BUFFALO.
How tho Indians Brought Down the Big
Game with Arrows.

How the Indians Brought Down the Big
Game With Arrows.
The chase Of the buffalo was the In
dams chief amusement rs we'll as ono Of
his means of livelihood and was carried en-
usually on horseback, formerly with bow
and lance, latterly with rifle also. In this
exercise they became wonderfully expert.
Mounted upon his strong, fleet "Indian
pony" well trained for the chase, he
dashed off at full spool among the herd
and discharged his deadly arrows into
their hearts from his horso's back. This
horse was tho ~flootest animal of tho prairie
and easily brought his rider alongside of
his game. Both the horse and the rider
had been stripped beforehand of everything
shield, CULVER, dress and saddlo-which
might in the least incumbcr or handicap
the horse for speed, tho Indian carrying
only bow and CULVER, with half Il dozen
arrows drawn from it land held lightly and
loosely in his left hand, ready for instant
use. With u trained horse the Indian rider
had little use for tho line, which was fas-
tened around the horses neck with a moose
around the under jaw, falling loosely over
the horses neck and trailing behind, pass
Ing to the left side of tho rider. This was
used for a great variety Of purposes-to
stop, to guide, to secure tho animal, to
throw him and bind him when down.
All this tho Indians did with great skill.
Tho approach was made upon tho right
side Of the game tho arrow being thrown
to the loft the instant tho horse was pass
ing the animal heart or some vital organ,
which received tho deadly weapon "to the
feather" In fact, Indians have boon
known to sc.ld their arrows with such
force as to drive them completely through
tho buffalo.
The Indian generally rode close in the
rear Of tho herd until he had selected the
animal he wished to kill. He then sepa-
rated it from the throng By watching for
IL favorable opportunity, and, dashing lii:
horse between, forcing it off by itself and
killing it, thus avoiding tho danger OF be
ing tramplcd to death, us he was Liable to
be ii operating within tho massod herd
General n. A. Miles in North American
Review,
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-12-20
On the Spot

Charlotte Cushman was once filling an
engagement at the opera house in Bel
more. A man in the gallery created such
a disturbance that it seriously impeded the
progress Of the play, and finally brought
1t to a standstill. Immediately the audi
ence, furious with anger, cried: H1Thro,y
him over! Throw him over!'' Miss Cush-
man stepped to the edge of the footlights,
and in q sweet and gentle voice exclaimed:
"No, I beg Of you, dear friends, don't
throw him over. Kill him where he is!;'
This story has been told of a good many
other actresses besides Charlotte Cushman.
But we will let it go at that.-San Fran
cisco Argonaut.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-12-20
No Time to Lose.

Mr.. Binks-Here is some money for the
grocer. He usually sends around for it on
the first Of the month. You'll be in all
day, I supposed
Mrs. Binks-IIl be in all the morning.
I'm going shopping this afternoon.
Mr.. Binks lat the grocer's shortly artery
Say, I left money at home for you. Send
the collector around at once. If you wait
until afternoon, you won't get a cent
New York Weekly.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-12-20
Telltale Human Nature.

You can not hide any secret. If the art.
list succor his tagging spirits by opium or
wine, his work will characterize itself as
the effect Of opium or wine. If you make
a picture or a statue, it sets the beholder
in that state Of mind you had when you
made it. If you spend for show, on build
ing, or gardening, or on pictures, or on
equipages, it will SO appear. We are all
physiognomists and generators of charac-
ter, and things themselves are detective.
Emerson.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-12-20
A Scent Bait.

One of the best bats for striped bass is
q piece out from the side Of amulet. The
mullet is an oily fish, with rather a strong
flavor, and 1t makes an oily streak in the
water. 1t makes q scent bait. It attracts
the fish BY smell as well as sight.-New
York Sun.