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Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-06-21
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The San Francisco call., 1896-04-12
Alligators Attack a Team.

]. A. Dalton of Barton returned lately
from mis- tomato farm, near White Haven,
and tells q thrilling story of battle with
alligators. Dalton's partner, J. B. Lover
ing, drove q wagon, to which two horses
were attached, into Lake Winterset, to fill
some barrels with water. While Lowering
was at work the horses began to scream in
mortal agony. and he realized that they
were being attacked by alligators. The
horses plunged violently. but soon fell
down, their legs having been broken.
When the horses fell the gators rose
and began to tear the bodies of the
animals. Lowering had Winchester,
and began firing at the gators. hoping to
drive them away. The shots, however,
increased the anger of the saurians, and
they made rush for the wagon and over
turned it. Lowering, holding to the rife.
fell into the water near big gator, which
Immediately made for him. AS the
gator came Lowering thrust the rifle into
its mouth and fired, the bullet inflicting a
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When Eleanor had reached as far on
her way as Grantham she sickened
and died. The remains must, of course,
be buried at Westminster. and the funeral
cortege started in that direction. Dur
ing the time this royal funeral process
sion was slowly winding its weary way
toward the capital thousands of people
focked to the wayside to get a glimpse OF
it. 1t was great event in the history OF
the rural districts and they did everything
possible to make the solemn occasion a
memorable one. Wherever the procession
halted for the night or for other cause the
people afterward set up memorial. One
of the longest stops was made at Charing,
and subsequently a richly carved memo
rial cross was erected on the site of the
camp. This was the Charing Cross of
history. 1t stood until 1647, when the last
vestlge of it was destroyed during the
civil wars of Charles l, the vandals who
destroyed the relic claiming it to be a
monument of Popish superstition" Char
ing Cross as seen to-day was erected by
the Southern Railway Company In the
year 1865.-St. Louis Republic.
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Thoughts Read by Machine.

If the accounts given of a new machine
Just completed by Julius Emner of this
city, says the Washington correspondent
OF the Philadelphia Times, are not too
hopeful 1t is the most wonderful of dis
coveries, for 1t lifts man out of the plane
of the material and reads his most secret
thoughts, laying bare his mind as if be-
meath 4 microscope, and recording each
idea as it is given birth in the brain. II it
was great feat to photograph through q
solid substance it is an almost miraculo US
performance to take mental photographs g.
which can be secured unknown to the
person, photographs which will tell every
intangible dream which floats through the
soul.
The machine, which is now in the hands
OF patent LAWYER, is a cylinder about six
or eight inches long and an inch and a
half in diameter. 1t is coated with an ex-
ceedingly sensitive chemical, which is
easily decomposed by the electric current.
In front is fine needle of aluminium,
coated at its point with chemicals, and
resting on the cylinder, while the base is
set in diaphragm of aluminium, a very
thin plate OF the latter being used. In
front is large, open, somewhat horn-like
arrangement. which is intended to convey
the vibrations direct 10 the recorder. The
machine is put in action by means of a
sinai HioIoI, WHICH IeFolNeS tne cyllnuer,
the thought forces causing the needle to
make upon the surface of the cylinder i'm
pressions which correspond with the vi
brations.
There is, of course, an electric induction
coil connected with the apparatus. The
person whose thoughts are to be read is
seated about three feet in front of the ma
chine and let's his mind pursue any train
of thought he desires. The motor is set
going and within few moments the cyl-
inder has done it's work and finer and
more delicate needle is put in place of the
recording one, for the mind is to be rerd
from the impressions. Connection is made
with the secondary induction coil and
wires leading from the electrodes are
placed at the base of the brain of the
reader. The ideas which had passed from
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An Old-Timo Doctor.

DR.. Hiram Corson Of Philadelphia, who
has just died, in his ninety second year,
was one of the best-known old-time doctors
in the country. "For more than sixty
years." says the Philadelphia Times, ''he
was the presiding genius of the whole
Plymouth region, the guide, philosopher
and friend of everybody, and there prob,
ably never was a man who had
helped more people into the world,
though doubtless some have helped
more out of it. His general family
practice was as successful as it
was extensive, and it is one of the remark
able things about him that while he never
turned his back on the accumulated wis
dom of the elders, he was always pro-
gressive doctor. He was one of the most
earnest of the old-time abolitionists, and
one of the most level-headed. so that he
actually accomplished more for humanity
than many that were more heard OF. 1t
was fine type, that of the old general
practitioner, who joined the rugged man
hood of the country with the learning Of
the town, and the university should honor
the memory of Hiram Corson among Its
great alumni"
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A Hint From Afar.

A telegraphic operator on one Of the
morning papers recently told me a story
of how he got rid of a too frequent visitor
whose nightly calls during business hours
had come to be nuisance. The intruder
was also an operator, but was temporarily
out OF job. One evening he came in as
usual and planted himself in chair. Re-
ceiving no answers to his questions, he
lapsed into silence and listened to the
steady click of the instrument. Suddenly
look of disgust crossed his face. He
arose, glared at the operator, who kept on
writing, turned on his heel and walked
out. This happened week ago, and he
has not called since. What was the cause
Of his sudden departure? That is cas- ly
answered. In response to previous re-
quest the operator at the other end of the
line sent this message: "ls that idiot with
you again tonight ?"-Syracuse Post.
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the first person into the machine are now
transmitted into the mind of the second
person with absolute fidelity and perfect
accuracy, the thoughts being received in
an unconscious manner-that is, not by
any sound or any written word, but the
conception frames itself in the mind of the
second person just as it was given being
in that OF the first. 1t is just reproduced.
That the machine will do all that is
claim ed for it has, it is said, been proven
not only by the inventor but by several
other persons. An experiment was tried
with two friends to whom he had been ex-
planning his invention. Mr.. Emner had
thoughts recorded and then let his friends
read them by placing the wires from the
electrodes at the base of their brains. AS
soon as they had finished expressing their
astonishment one of them was placed near
the cylinder, and when Mr.. Emner read
the record it ran, "Am l in an insane
asylum or am l hypnotized?" showing
that the mans mind was full of wonder
at the things he was experiencing. When
he went away ne told that he had been
hypnotized, not being able to comprehend
that such wonderful power existed as
thought recordings
As thoughts vary in intensity, Mr.. EN-
ner showed that the degrees would be
marked upon the machine. He procured
a dog, and by teasing it threw il into a
record showed that the dogs MIND was
powerfully agitated, for the vibrations
were intense, hence it is to be seen that by
Emners invention not only human feel
ings, but those of the animal creation are
open to our minds eye.
The uses to which this invention can be
put are numberless. To be able to pre-
serve the record of our own thoughts,
which we can read off at will to be able
to take down the thoughts of another
when they may be unconscious of the
operation; to fathom the brain of the
poet; to examine the minds of the insane
to discern the secret thoughts of our
friends, and to trace the workings of crime
in the brain of the criminal are all fields
OF unlimited boundaries operations OF
which science has as yet scarcely dreamed.
The business man can sit at his desk,
think out replies to his letters without
opening his lips, and his clerk write them
| out from the cylinder while the man is
miles away.
The author need no more dictate to a
stenographer, for this machine will take
the ideas in their very birth, and hold them
for posterity. The maid whose lover is
bashful can detect his tender thoughts
There can be no deceit practiced on one
whose office is fitted out with such a con-
science-percIng friend, for the aims and
motives of those about US will be, if they
are echoed in their thoughts, as clear to us
as the day. The murderer will be con-
fronted with proof of his crime, and the
punishment Of offenders will be an easy
task.
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-12

" TOOK in one of the kinetoscope-
rooms on Broadway this afternoon,
having for companion a gen.
II tleman who has just returned
from Europe, says the New York
correspondent of the Pittsburg Dispatch.
After he had taken few peeps at the
latest things with which the interesting
toys have been loaded he said: "These
are all very well in their way, but they're
not in it with the cinematographe." The
word made a big mouthful, and he
paused awhile before resuming in this
wise: Just before left London l was
one of select company present at pri-
vate view of the cinematographe. What
Is II? Why, as Celia says in AS Y You Like
1t, oh, wonderful, wonderful, and most
wonderful, wonderful 1t is the latest de-
veIopment OF instantaneous photography,
by which an accurate development is pro-
duced in pictures of real, living, moving
scenes. To obtain an idea of the i'm
preston produced, you have only TO i'm
aglne a photograph come to life, with
every movement faithfully reproduced. 1t
is photography taken in tie action and
applied, not to single living figures only,
but to whole scenes. A puff of smoke
from steam engine, the spray of the sea,
the gestures and movements of every indi-
vidual member of a crowd-all this is
shown on the screen upon which the
pictures are projected. The figures are al
most life-siZe, and the remarkable effects
produced are almost indescribable and
positively uncanny in their realism.
Wonderful as was each one OF the
series which 1 had the pleasure of viewing,
| will only bore you with couple, which
l consider the most wonderful of all-the
Arrival of the Train and bathing. In
the first, you see the rush of the locomo-
tive, the gradual slaekening. the stoppage
at the station; the crowd on the platform
steps back, the carriage doors open, the
passengers alight and others take their
places. All is hustle and confusion. In
bathing number OF lads dive from a
pier into the sea. AS they meet the water
the spray rises from the waves that are
rolling with a verisimilitude that is start
ling. But the interest of the thing is in
e1haustible, for once the flush of novelty
Is passed, the attraction may be revived
and revived again by new pictures. Where
all this is going to end one cannot tell.
For the present, however, in this French
development of Edison's toy, London has
the biggest attraction of the sort that it
has had for years. Of course the cinemato-
graphe will astonish New York ere long.
When you see it you'll not set me down
q romancer, either" We'Il wait and see
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-12
Ho1d-Fast Wrench.

Here is new form of wrench, the inven-
ton of two English mechanics. It is de-
signed to provide q tool which will give
the requisite gripping power without slip
ping and will not bulge or damage the
work The wrench com prises bifurcated
hand lever in the double eve or Jaws OF
which is mounted upon square spindle a
non-rota table sprocke or studwheel of suit
able diameter with which gears a fiat
linked or other suitably constructed pitch
chain of convenient length. One end OF
the chain is attached to the free end connec-
ton of a pair of swinging links mounted
preferably on the same center as the
sprocket wheel. When operating on a pipe
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the Philadelphia Record. The action from
the force of current is wholly automatic,
the float upon which the superstructure
and bell is mounted cuts and shifts from
side to side, causing the float to list. The
ball confined inside the tube, having free
passage, strikes the bell with great force.
The bell will ring equally as we'll by the
action of the sea. The feature that is most
novel is that it is most efficient when the
water is the smoothest. Just so long as
there is motion in the water, whether tidal
or current, II is sufficient to ring the bell.
This feature will be most appreciated by
masters and pilots for the reason that, as a
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at the Czar's Coronation.

The United States army will be repre-
sented at the coronation of the Czar Of
Russia by Major General A. McD. Nc
Cook, retired, and Captain George P.
Scriven, Signal Corps, military attache of
the United States embassy at Rome. Or
ders to that effect have been issued by the
Secretary of War. 1t so happens that there
is no military attache at the st. Petersburg
legation at present. General McCook, be-
ing a retired officer, under ordinary cir
cumstances could attend the ceremonies
only as a private citizen. His special
designation as a representative OF the
United States army. however, will give
him an official standing and insure him
much greater consideration by the Rus
sian officials than he could otherwise ex-
but it is understood he is now in Paris
Washington Post.
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but its mass is so enormous that it has
considerable tide-producing influence.
The force which the sun exerts is the same
on both sides Of the earth at the same
time, the tide-producing force of the great
orb being about four-tenths that of the
moon. At the time of both new and full
moons the 'wane spheroids" produced by
both the sun and the moon have their
"axes coincident," that is to say, the two
great orbs unite their energies on the
fluids of our planet, and as a result the
tides are higher than the average for the
remaining portions OF the month. These
are the "spring tides" The "neap tides"
come in the time of the moons first and
third quarter and are not as great as the
average, because the moon and the sun
are each working in opposition to the
other
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scope" invented by Thomas A. Edison, to
enable surgeons and others to observe
directly the bones of the limbs without the
Intervention of photography. To-day there
upper end is made to fit the head around
the eyes much the same as stereoscope,
and when the light is turned on the device
is held over the part to be examined with
the light beyond. The appearance of the
bone at once appears on the inside of the
screen, which forms the bottom of tho box
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-12
Bicycles on Railroads.

Bicycle riders are constantly transport
ing their wheels on the railroads during
the summer months, and the delicate con-
struction of the bicycle makes it difficult
to handle. OF late years the traffic has be-
come so large that plans are now being de-
vised by which the bicycles can be carried
safely and without hindrance to boxed and
Grated merchandise. Last week Western
railroad issued instructions that it's bag
gage-cars ba supplied with bicycle racks
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or the like the chain is fitted around same.
and its free end passed between the links
and carried over the fixed sprocket wheel
gearing Herewith. Then on the applica-
direction the wheel teeth pull upon the
chain and cause it to grip the article
firmly and with equal force all round. In
the illustration the pipe is shown in posi-
ton of being wrenched. When the lever
is depressed the teeth of the wheel tighten
the chain until the grip and levera ge are
together sufficient to turn or wrench the
pipe as required.-Philadelph Record.
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Decreases the Duck Supply.

One of the most remarkable accusations
brought against the new photography is
that of an American Field writer, who
says: 81 think photography has done
great deal to decrease the supply of ducks,
which" he very properly adds, Twill be
news, no doubt" TO many of his readers.
Sportsmen have been saying that nothing
but the general adoption of cameras in
stead of firearms will save the game, and
now TO run up against such statement as
that Is to say the least astonishing.
1t appears that "for the purpose of per-
fecting the picture albumen must be used,
and this can be procured only from eggs.
Chicken eggs are too valuable as food,
therefore the Hebrides Islands of Scotland,
Lofoden OF Norway. Labrador, Green
land, South America. and, in fact, every
conceivable breeding ground of wild birds,
are robbed of eggs by natives or men from
extensive sailing expeditions. This is
especially hard on the ducks of various
kinds. particularly in Labrador, where
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mortal wound. In his death agony the
saurian swung its tail and knocked Lover
ing out of the water and onto the beach,
twenty feet away. At this juncture Dali
ton arrived and dragged Lowering away,
as the gators were again rushing for him.
Assistance was procured and the horses
and wagon pulled out. The horses were
dead, having been horribly mangled by
the gators. 1t is thought Lowering drove
his team into a den of gators, judging
from the number that was seen.-Florida
Times Union.
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to the receiver of any ordinary portable
lamp. The mode of operation is described

lamp. The mode of operation is described
as follows: First, the small heating ar
rangement-resem bling night lamp with
regulator-shown centrally in figure Of
our illustration, is set going. The alcohol
is carried from the reservoir by wicks pass
ing through four columns Gig. Al into
the dome B, and is vaporized.
The vapors ascend through c, Fig. 2,
into d, where they may be lighted. The
hanging cylinder, G (whose material is not
mentioned) quickly becomes incandescent
yielding a pure white light of dazzling
brilliancy. The inventor estimates that
one of these lamps, having an Illuminating
power of fifty candles, will consume, per
hour, from forty to fifty grams of alcohol,
costing, in France, franc per liter of 500
grams. 1t would seem, therefore, to be
nearly or quite as cheap as kerosene, while
stated to be much less dangerous.-Popu-
lar Science News
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for the use of wheels. Similar steps will
likely also be taken on all the roads
throughout the country. In France, where
the bicycle uses the railroads a great deal,
very simple contrivance has been
adopted, as is shown in the illustration.
1t is small hook, which is attached to
the bicycle and caught on strips in the
ceiling and sides of the cars. This plan
removes the wheels from the floor space of
the car, so that they do not interfere with
any other class of baggage.
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ders the housekeeper independent OF the
city collection. 1t is a perforated cylinder
that is filled with drained refuse, inserted
into the stove or range pipe, where the
contents dry, without smell escaping, and
are converted into sort of charcoal that
burns nicely.
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What Queen Victoria Roads.

Her Majesty has during the recent
months been busily reading the works of
various poets beginning with those of Mr..
Henley. The great lady positively de-
lights in the earlier novels of William
Black. 1.-The Princess of Thule' was at
one time her favorite book, and she is de-
voted to the works OF George Eliot. AL
though the Queen, in her literary as we'll
as musical tastes. is inclined to be some
what conservative, it need not be said that
she neglects the work of newer writer's.
She much likes William Watson's poems,
and has read and reread his "Lachryme
Musarum. Woman at Home.
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I other gun thirty feet in front of him, while
the shot from that struck the trigger of
still another gun thirty feet behind him.
Finally the shot from the fourth gun went
through an apple on the top of his head.
all the guns having been arranged by the
shooter with that end in view.-St. Louis
Republic.
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rule, when thick fog hangs over the waters
a death-like stiffness everywhere prevails !;
slowly along, listening for some familiar
sound to safely guide him. He has no
hope of hearing bell that IS alone actn-
ated by the sea. He knows the tide is
moving, either ebb or food, and that the
tidal bell buoy is at work, giving forth in
clear tones its notes of warning.
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they breed in thousands of nests to the
square mile, while the scavenger birds of
the sea, the various gulls and terms, suffer
from these depredations. The birds can
not stand this drain long, and the ques-
ton arises what will happen when all the
eggs are gomez"
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The Sun, the Moon and the Tides.

Most people suppose that the moon
alone is responsible for the phenomenon
of tides, but the attraction of the sun is
also an important factor. Or course the
distance of the sun from the earth is un-
thinkably greater than that of the moon,
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A Tidal Bell Buoy.

a patent for current-actuated bell buoy
with many novel features has been re-
Gently granted to a. L. Woodwork, says
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A Boon to Housewives.

almost solved the problem of garbage Gre
nation, by introducing device that rem
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A Remarkable Shooting Feat.

At Wichita, Kans., the other day Tom
Clark Smith sighted gun over his shoul-
der and fired. The bullet struck the trig-
ger of Q gun thirty feet behind him. The
shot from that struck the trigger of an
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An Alcohol Incandescent Lamp.

In France an apparatus has lately been
invented for producing an incandescent
light rivaling that of electricity, from a
lamp fed solely by alcohol. 1t is called
the callophane burner, and can be adapted
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Charing Cross.

In reading English history you will hap
pen across numerous references to Charing
Cross, but the chances are you will won
der if the allusion is to real cross erected
as a memorial or simply a cross roads.
Charing Cross was formerly one of the
noted landmarks of Britain, and its his
tory is as follows: In November of the
year 1891 "Good Queen Eleanor" as she
was called by her loyal subjects, was
called to join her husband, who was then
making an expedition into Scotland.
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The FIuoroscope.

There has already appeared in these
columns description of the ''Fluoro-