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Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1895-06-27
An Ingenious Celestial Uock.v-

Wynn Molesworth has invented and
constructed a very ingenious celestial
clock" which was exhibited at the first
winter meeting of the Royal Astro-
nomical Society. The entire face Of
the clock rotates under a wire bar
representing the equatorial horizon
md is regulated to perform one revo.
luton in twenty-three hours tifty-si1
minutes four seconds. this being the
time in which the earth turns once
apon its axis. The apparent annual
motion of sun, moon and planets in
the opposite direction is effected by
movable pins, while the north and
south polar stars, that do not rise OF
set for us, revolve simultaneously with
the rest by a separate movement. Thus
may be seen the entire heavens, with
sun, moon, planets and consultations
in their actual places, yer rising and
setting as they rise and set in the
heavens.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1895-06-27

Citizens of this vicinity yesterday
had an opport-aity to behold the
greatest living man in avoirdupois.
John Hanson Craig, with his wife and
three-year-o old child, was visiting James
Anderson and James Mcpherson, rela-
tives. Craig's home is in Danville,
Hendricks County, but he has been in
the show business since his babyhood.
In answer to questions he said: 81
now weigh 902 pounds and am thirty
seven years old. At birth i weighed
IL pounds; at eleven months / weighed
II pounds, at two years 206 pounds.
At that time / tookthe 81, 900 premium
at Barnum's baby show in New York
City in the year 1858. At five years ]
weighed 302 pounds at thirteen years,
405 pounds; at twenty two, 725
pounds; at twenty-seven, 1853 pounds;
at twenty eight, TIA pounds; at
twenty-nine, 791 pounds; at thirty,
500 pounds atthirty-one, $50 pounds +;
and my present weight is just GOT
pounds. l am six feet and five inches
high, measure eight feet and four
inches around the hips, eighteen inches
around the ankle, twenty-nine inches
around the knee. sixty-six inches
inches around the thigh next to the
body. require forty-one yards for a
suit of clothes, and three pounds of
yarn for stockings"
Mrs Craig is a good-looking blonde,
weighs $50 pounds, and formerly ac-
companied her husband in the role of
snake charmer as "Zola Ayres." When
asked how long they had been married
she laughingly remarked that they
were just now enjoying their second
honeymoon, as they were divorced in
January and remarked but a couple
of weeks ago. Mr.. Craig explained
the trouble, stating that his wife had
expressed a desire to learn fashionable
dressmaking, and that he objected.
She applied for a divorce, it was
granted, and she went to Terre Haute
and learned her trade. She then re-
turned home and they were remarked.
MIR. Craig has been all over Europe,
and in every important city in the
world. They went from here to Day
ton, where Mrs. Craig was born and
raised. -Frankfort und.) Dispatch.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1895-06-27
Tomatoes.

Tomatoes were used as food in the
south of Europe three centuries since.
A writer in Chambers's Encyclopedias
(new edition) gives 1888 as the date
of their introduction into Spain, but
Dodonous, writing more than twenty
years before that, speaks of them az
ever then to be found in the gardens
OF some European herballists. Gerards
grew them in his garden in 1897, and
earlier. He says in his Herbal:
I'm Spaine and those hot Regions
they used to eat the Apples prepared
and boiled with pepper, salt, and oyle,
but they yeeld very little nourishment
to the body, and the same naught and
corrupt. Likewise they doe cate the
Apples with ole, vinegre, and pepper
mixed together for sauce to their
meat, even as we in these cold coun-
tries doe mustard. Notes and
Queries.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1895-06-27
How an ERglishman Lives.

Without being luxurious, the whole
globe has played him serving man to
spread his table. Russia gave the
hemp, or India or South Carolina the
cotton, for that cloth which his wife
lays upon it. The Eastern Islands
placed there those condiments and
spices which were once the secret rel
ishes of the wealthy. Australian
downs send him frozen mutton or
canned beef, the prairies of America
meal for his biscuit and pudding, and
if he will eat fruit, the orchards of
Tasmania and the palm woods of the
West Indies proper delicious gifts,
while the orange groves of Florida and
the Hesperidas cheaper for his use
those golden apples" which dragons
used to guard.
His coffee comes from where jeweled
humming birds hang in the bowers of
Brazil, or purple butterflies lutter
amid the Javan m~angroves. Great
clipper ships, racing by night and day
under clouds of canvas, convey to him
his tea from China or Assam, or from
the green Singhalese hills. The sugar
which sweetens it was crushed from
canes that waved by the Nile or the
Orinoco, and the plating of the spoon
with which he stirs it was dug for him
from Mexican or Nevada mines.
The currants in his dumpling are a
tribute from classic Greece, and his
timed salmon or kippered herring a
token from the seas and rivers of
Canada or Norway. He may partake,
If he will, of rice that ripened under
the hot skies OF Patna or Rangoon; of
cocoa, that "foodo of the gods" plucked
under the burning blue of the equator.
Fol- his rasher of bacon the hog ex-
press runs daily with 10, 900 granting
victims into Chicago; Dutch or Brit.
tany hens have laid him his eggs, and
Danish cows grazed the daisies of Ell
shore to produce his cheese and but
ter.
Ii he drinks beer, it is odds that Bel.
GUM and Bavaria have contributed to
it the barley and the hops, and, when
he has finished eating, it will be the
Mississippi flats or the gardens of the
Antilles that fill for him his pipe with
tobacco. -Lon9man's MAGAZINE.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1895-06-27
SuperstitiOns of the Turk,

There is no land on earth where
more superstitions prevail than that
of the unspeakable Turk. Some of
them are interesting. If by any
chance a sparrow or swallow flies in
the window and circles three times
around the room it is a sign that a
blood relation of some one present is
about to die.
There are many Signs and hap
penings that are supposed to predict
marriage. For instance, if a horse
eez when a young girl passes in
the street she is positive that her time
Is nearly ZONE. II her hair becomes
unfastened she knows that she will
be sought for, and if she goes to
eat a peach and finds it's kernel split
she is equally certain that she will
be welded. San Francisco
Chronicle.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1895-06-27

"We encamped near a swamp"
says a gentleman describing a meal!
he had with some cart drivers in
South America, land supped on
sliced pumpkins, boiled with bits Of
meat and seasoned with salt. Tho
meal was served in genuine pampa
fashion. One iron spoon and two
cows horns split in halves, were
passed around the group, the mem
bers of which squatted upon their
launches and freely helped them
selves from the kettle. Even in this
most 'uncivilized form of satisfying
hunger there is a peculiar etiquette,
which the most lowly person in
variably observes. Each member Of
the company in turn dips his spoon,
or horn, into the centre of the stew
and draws it in a direct line towards
him, never allowing it to deviate to
the right or left. By observing this
rule each person eats without inter-
fering with his neighbor. Being
ignorant of this custom l dipped my
horn into the mess at random and
fished about for some of the nice bits
My companions regarded this horrid
breach of politeness with scowls of
impotence. They declared, with
some warmth, to the cook the
foreigners did not know how to eat.
l apologized as well as l could, and
endeavored thereafter to eat accord
ing to gaucho etiquette. New York
World.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1895-06-27

The small evergreen tree from which
cloves are taken was originally q native
of the Spice Islands, but it is now
cultivated in warm climates in all parts
OF the world. The Glove of
is the unopened flower Of the tree.
They are quite small, but grow in
large clusters along the branches.
After gathering, the buds are smoked
by O wooden fire and dried in the sun.
Both the taste and smell of the cloves
depend on the quantity of oil they
contain. Sometimes the oil is separated
from the cloves before they are sold,
and the odor and taste are in conse-
quence much weakened. If you desire
to know something os the form oi the
bud in the natural state soak q few
clo-es for q short time in hot water.
The petals Of the flower will soften
and readily unroA Chicago Herald.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1895-06-27
.victoria R.o to the President.

The treaties which are stored in the
State Department library at Washing
ton are not the only valuable or his
toric documents there. There are
m veI, valuable Washington, JEFF
~ferson, Madison and Monroe papers,
and the original Declaration of Inde-
pendence. Then there are letters OF
the rulers of other countries, telling
of births and deaths and marriages in
royal families. These letters, says the
Philadelphia Times, are bound in vol
umes devoted to the different coun-
tries from which they came. There are
many autographs of Queen Victoria in
the court letters of Great Britain
which fill an entire book. The most
interesting was written February Il,
1910. 1t announced her marriage to
Prince Albert. 1t is q good specimen
of the form of royal communication
with the ruling magistrate Of the United
States. II reads:
Victoria, by the Grace OF God, Queen of the
United Kingdom OF Great Britain and Ire
land, Defender of the Faith, etc., etc, to
the President OF the United States of
America, senieth greeting:
Our Good Frieni-Ths celebration of our
marriage with His Royal HiShness, the
Prince Albert Francis, Augustus Charles
Emanuel, second son of His Serene Highness,
the reigning Duke of Ssxe-C oburg-G otha.
having taken place at London on the 10th OF
the present month, we lose no time In noti-
tying TO you this event. The sentiments of
friendships which you have manifested
toward US on other occasions asord us the
assurance that you will take an interest In an
event which, by the blessings OF the Al
mighty will, we trust, contribute to the well
fare of oup people and secure our own do
nestle happiness, And so with our cordial
wishes for your welfare and prosperity, We
you to the protection Of the Al
mighty.
Given at out court at Windsor Castle, the
fourteenth day OF February, In tho year Of
our Lord 1870, IN the third year Of our reign.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1895-06-27
A oFlying Switch.o

A flying switch is not a mechanical
CONTINUANCE. 1t is a manduvre Of
railroad men. by which the locomotive
of a train IS run upon one track and
the train, or part of the train, is run
upon another track. When the flying
switch is to be made the engineer
causes the train to travel at a consid-
cradle speed, the coupling between the
engine and the train is then undone,
and the engine, at a greater speed,
runs from the still moving train upon
the track already ready for it. Imme-
diately the engine has passed the
switch points the switch is changed to
throw the train, running with its own
momentum, upon another track. A
flying switch is also called "a running
switch.-New York Dispatch.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1895-06-27
Improving the Eyes.

It is satisfactory to be told by Mr.
Ellis that blindness in England il.
SLOWLY declining" though Greati
Britain still stands in this respect be-
hind two other European countries,
and three more come before Ireland
Short-sightedness, however, appears,
to be increasing everywhere, Germany
having a signal and sinister pre-
eminence in this respect.
A French doctor has noted the ro-
markable fact that wild beasts caught
quite young or born in captivity boz
come short-sighted, the conclusion
being that the eye adapts itself to it,
habitual sphere of vision, and unless
educated" to use Mr.. Ellis's term,
to see objects at q distance, loses the
capacity of 70 doing. Even in after
life the eye may be, to some extent,
80 educated, though probably only
when the myopia is not considerable.
1t is thus within the experience Of
the present writer that his sight
greatly improved in days gone by,
when he became a volunteer by
practice at the butts, so that,
while at first he could not see the
target to shoot at without spectacles
at the 300-yard range, after a twelve
month or so he only needed to put on
spectacles at 400 yards. But beyond
that range he was never able to dis
pense with them.
Country. excursion are, therefore,
extremely valuable as means Of
strengthening the sight of town-bred
children; and the conductors of such
excursions should take pain to direct
the eyes of the children to distant OBJ
ieets--to the furthest hill, church,
tower, or other landmark, noting, II
possible, any incapacity to discern the
selected object, and then selecting
some nearer one for the weaker sighted
The Spectator.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1895-06-27

months, by two different subjects, who,
according to DR.. Luys, had had no
means of inter-communication, as emit
ting a green light from the injured
organ.
III it can be established that certain
diseases produce in those suffering
from them a variation in the color of
the emanations, which are ~perceptible
to the hypnotic subject, the existence
and nature of the disease viii be certi-
fed by the tint.
Among the experiments which have
been classified as of a speculative kind,
and distinct from those of practical
worth, hone are more interesting than
those that involve the presentation to
subjects in the hypnotic state of varI-
oussubstances and medicines contained
in Theoretically sealed tubes. The
manifestations, according as the tube
is presented on the right or the left
side of the subject, indicate emotions
of a Numerically opposite nature.
Thus when a tube containing ordinary
red pepper was offered to the left, or,
Us the doctor calls it, the blue side,
of a girl subject in the hypnotic
state, symptoms of keen pleasure
were discernible, which changed
suddenly to an expression of
violent disgust when the tube was car
ried to the red or right side. Accord
ing to the doctor, the human being is
double, and does not feel the same on
his red as on his blue side. Thyme
presented to n patient produced ter
rifying hallucinations; in another it
called forth an expression of calm de-
light. S~ingularly, in the application
of thyme, there was a physiological
effect, also, on the thyroid gland of
the throat, the size of the neck being
increased from thirty to thirty-three
ceDtimeters, or somewhat more than
an inch. Morphine in one patient
bred fancies of an evidently terrifying
nature, in another an intense drowsi-
ness. The effect of frankincense pre-
sented to the left of the neck was an
emotion of terror. Some water in a
tube held near the left side of a hyp-
motto subjects mead caused a series of
spasms resembling those usual to pa
tients, suffering from h~ydrophobia.
The doctor maintains that in each
case the patient was iii total ignorance
of the contents of the tube,
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1895-06-27
The Pariaiis.

The Rev. T. B. Pandian, a Hindu
gentleman of degree who has en-.
braced Christianity, is ~endeavoring to
English sympathy for the Par
iahs, or outcasts of Southern India.
There are $4,000, 900 or 9,0O0,-
900 of them, and, though en-.
tirely free by law, they are sub.
ject to some disabilities by caste
opinion, one of which is. so terrible
that we have no hesitation in saying
it ought to be remedied by force, even
at the hazard Of instruction. They
are forbidden to drink pure water.
There are generally .go public wells
in every village, but the caste men will
not suffer the Pariah families to APP
proach them, ever If they only touch
the water with buckets. The, women,
therefore, have often to go miles to
get water from q stream, and in prac-
tice the majority of Pariahs drink only
dirty water left in burrows and pools
in the fields or jungle. The conse-
quence is that they are constant VIC
Tins of dysentery, and that when any
eJphoidaA dloSdcc btElhtS buo SllldR6
they die like flies. 1t seems to us that
this oppression is too bad, even though
it be based on o religious prejudice,
and the caste men should either be
compelled to give up n of the wells.
or better still, to sink a new well for
the Pariahs, thus spending something
to protect their own ceremonial pu-
rity. We have no doubt whatever of
the exact truth of this statements &c
regards the water, and strongly rec
ommend the grievance to any philan-
thropist in the House in want of work.
1t may be asked why the Pariahs bear
such an outrageous oppression. First,
because 1000 years of slavery have
made them towards; and secondly,
because they believe, or half believe,
the dogma Of their caste neighbors,
namely, that their suffering is just re-
tribution for the sins of their previous
lives. They are losing that faith, and
some day they will fight for five min
utes with torches instead of rifles, and
then civilization in South India will
temporarily end. London Spectator.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1895-06-27
The Inventors Losses.

We read very often of inventors
profits, but we hear very little of in
ventors' losses. Not long since the
suicide of an aged man in this city was
reported. He had been left a fortune
amounting to nearly $50, 900 in addi-
ton to a very excellent business. All
the profits of the latter and the for
tune itself had been entirely spent in
q fruitless effort to invent q clock that
wonld not require winding. He hada
sort of perpetual motion idea, and, of
course, it was not practicable. An
English writer estimates that more
than a. million pounds sterling have
been wasted in Great Britain by in
ventors who have vainly sought to
solve the secret of perpetual motion.
A prominent inventor who is in
the iron trade, in which he has
amassed an enormous fortune, re-
Gently said he believed more money
had been spent in this country in
fruitless endeavors to invent horse
shoe machines han in any other line
of mechanical research. Horseshoes
a be made by machine successfully,
and with great profit. This is done
at the famous Burden Iron Works in
Troy, built up by the invention OF. the
elder Henry Burden, long since dead,
of the first practical machine for turn
ing out horseshoes from bars of iron.
I hear that $3.50, 900 have been spent
by other inventors in this country in
an effort to rival the Burden machine.
Some of these efforts have been partly
successful and no doubt others will al
so succeed. But isn't it remarkable
that so much money has been spent
In a linesof manufacture regarding
which we hear so little?--New York
Mail and Express.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1895-06-27
An Egg Tax.

The State finances in Russia are re-
cruited by a graduated income tax,
commencing at n per cent. on in
comes between 1000 and 1000 rubles,
Ia ruble equals eighty cents) and in
creasing at the rate of one-tenth per
cent. on every additional thousand or
fraction of q thousand rubles. A duty
o. aquarter kopec (about one-twentieth
of a cent? is also imposed on the eggs
OF all kinds of poultry, which tax ON
food realizes several millions of rubies.
Temple Bar.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1895-06-27
Interesting Facts About Snow.

A foot OF newly fallen snow makes
but one inch of water when melted.
Snow seldom falls as far south as
Pensacola, Fla, but has been known
to border the Gulf from that point to
Brownsville, Texas.
One hundred miles north of Key
West is the farthest point south in
Florida that il has ever been known to
fall, at Punta Rosa, on December /,
1876.
The only time snow was ever known
to fell at San Diego, CAL, was during
the great storm period Of January To-
IL, 1862.
Tine average annual fall in Maine is
seven feet, New York four feet, and
Iowa ~ feet.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1895-06-27
s.E Pluribus Unum, on Coins.

The legend sc Pluribus Uuum,"
which appears on a number of United
States coins, was never authorized by
law Its first nse is said to have been
upon q coin struck at N~ewburgh, N.
r., in 1855, before the adoption OF our
Constitution. -St. Louis Republic.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1895-06-27
FOODADULTERATIO
HOW SOME FLAGRANT CASES
MAY BE DETECTED.
Indications OF Healthy Meat-Sansage
and Fish Adulteration-To Tell
Good Butter. Lard and Eggs
Fraud in Spices.
DULTERATING articles of

IN food is by no means an Gin
IN vention" of modern times,
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1895-10-30

the carrying OF parcels j. quite "a
source of revenue and yet wIthal it
j. 70 most decided Inconvenience to
passengers. Shortly after noon
Yesterday o Japanese boarded a car
on King street bound for the city.
He had q bag and a large basket
which he deposited directly in the
doorway. Numerous packages were
already on the platform so thai;
the whole place OF entrance was
blockaded. The driver looked
around in very sleepy manner.
saw the condition Of affairs, ierked
the lines and continued looking far
away in the distance dreaming OF
future events but the parcels re-
manned where they were. Passen-
gers were compelled to step over
them and incur the danger of
breaking their necks. 1t might be
well for the manager Of the com
pany to issue an order TO the driver
To prevent, a far a possible, these
heavy laden individuals from occu-
pying either the front or rear plat
form or depositing their bundles in
the way of other passengers.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1895-10-30
\ Chance for Reform.

1t seems a pity that the tramcars
of the city are becoming more and
more like transfer wagons and bag
gage expresses every day. Notice
has been printed in the columns OF
this paper several times before re-
garding the nuisance OF bundles,
baskets and other articles on the
rear platforms and in the doorways
leading into the cars. With all
the complaints that have been
offered by patrons of the tramcars,
nothing seems to have been done.
1t is a fact not to be ignored that
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1895-10-30
THE
RUDDER.
THE
REGULATION.

work and edgewiSe to the
are used to raise the rudde
so satisfactory that eleven
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1895-10-30
THE
CASTING.
THE
BEARINGS.
are now making mills wi
THE
OTHER PARTS.
THE SIZES.
THE
TOWER.

curelv made and ready to
on corner posts used on m
heavy angle steel. and a
of mill and height of tow
support under foot Of tow,
of 4X4 inch oak in angle
more size in the ground.
they support the corn'
have but a single supp
buclling in extremely s.
protected by patents
GOuld's Windmill
We have Steel Windm
II. II. rs and 18 feet
matter To any one de