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DEVELOPMENT of Human Flight

Otto Lilienthal contributes to the Aero
nautical Annual for 1896 an exhaustive and
very interesting article on Practical Ex-
periments for the Development of Human
Flight" Human flight. he maintains, is
proceeding toward perfection by gradual
development. The laws of atmospheric
resistance, upon which all flying depends,
and regarding which, until very recent
years, the greatest uncertainty has ex-
listed, have now been defined to such an
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Some Notable Dwarfs.

According to Pliny Tullia, niece of
Augustus, had maid in her employ 'who
was scant two feet and hands breadth
in height" Count Borowlaski, Polish
gentleman, born in the first half of the
last century, was only twenty-five inches
high on his twenty-eighth birthday. He
lived to be 9S years old, dying in England
in 1887. Bebe, the favorite dwarf of the
court of King Stanislaus of Poland, was
thirty-three incheshigh. Jeffery, or Geoffry
Hudson, Englapd's most famous dwarf,
was eighteen inches in height.
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January y, and reproduce the accompany

January y, and reproduce the accompany
ing pictures:
''Such lamp as shown in Fig. 1, Figs. 2
and represent the corresponding light
tubes of two different dimensions. These
last, like that represented in Fig. 1, consist
of two principal parts; that seen at the
lower half, which in Fig. is made as fiat
flask, but in Figs. and as tubes closed at
the bottom, and that al the upper half, the
battery, which by means of screw is
fastened alright to the other part.
The battery, which is called a revolver
battery, on account OF its likeness to the
chambers of revolver, consists of three
platinum zinc elements capable
of giving current Of six volts and four to
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formed in close prox unity, and an ample
supply OF water for all purposes connected
with the estate has been provided. The
sail is kept head to wind by smaller
wheel, and consists of large number Of
vanes stretched on iron. The num-
Der of revolutions can be perfectly
controlled by means Of lever at the base
of the tower. When the engine is work
ing In a fair wind the vanes are inclined to
the wind at their maximum ANGLE. e., 45
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ago! And electricity travels about 16, 900
miles second.
Doub1e-wind wheels.

A rather striking type Of English wind
mill Is shown in the cut below, taken from
the London Engineer 1t consists of a
wheel thirty-fve feet in diameter, mounted
on a steel tower forty feet high, situated
on one of the most elevated positions on
the estate. The engine actuates treble
barreleu pump. raising water from well
which was specially sunk $50 feet in the
chalk. A capacious reservoir has been
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five amperes. Fastened to the poles are
the wires of glow lamp (see Fig. 81,
which in Fig. is covered with globe of
thick glass and in Figs. and 3 with q
frame and lenses, and also fitted with re-
Electors, which increase the power of the
lig t. When the lamp is to be used the
bottle or tube is filled with a patent bat
terry fluid and then screwed tight to the
battery. By tipping up the lamp the fluid
is brought into contact with the elements,
generating current and causing the fila
ment to glow with a bright white light.
which with the lamps shown in Figs. /
and 2 will last continuously for an hour
and half and with Fig. 3 for three-quar-
ters of an hour with one filing. Ii the
lamp be held uprisht the fluid flows back
into the bottle or tube, away from the bat
terry. and the light goes out. One
quart OF the fluid is enough to fill the lamp
sixteen times. The lamp may be
carried either in the pocket or in leather
case fitted with straps. .'-Translated for
the Literary Digest.
Curiosities About Coins.
Herodotus says that Cr@sus was the
first ruler to order gold coins made.
In the year 450 B. c., round copper coins
were first made. Each weighed twelve
ounces.
The most valuable United States cents
are those OF 1893, 1899, 1904, 1909, 1911,
1913, 1923 and 1927.
The rarest and most valuable United
States coin of what is called the Irregular
mint series" is the silver dollar Of 1904.
A silver half-dime Of the year 1902 is
worth $50, if in good condition, and from
$40 to $25 if in only fair shape.
The only valuable nickel 5-cent piece is
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An Archaeological Discovery.

An interesting archaeological discovery
has, says Brussels correspondent, just
been made at Bruges. Some workmen
who were constructing a sewer in the
neighborhood of the Church of Notre
Dame unearthed subterranean chamber,
the walls OF which were decorated with
paintings of sacred subjects. dating from
the latter end of the fifteenth century, all
of which were in state of perfect pres
ervafi0n
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Needles of Art.

The microscope in the hands OF pains.
taking German scientist has shown that
nature has things down to much finer
point than man.
The scientist looked long and patiently
at the point of a needle, which goes to
show how thorough is the search that Ger
man scientists are making to know the
world about them.
He found that the needle point instead
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exaggerated" Carlyle's cardinal blunder
was that he took the distance from Paris
70 Farennes to be only sixty-seven
miles, whereas it is i50 / should
imagine that he confused Varennes-en-Ar-
gonne with Varennes-J -Jaulgonne, village
not lying far off the route. now sixty-six
mles py rail. From this blunder flowed
Wnole catalogue of errors, for which l
must refer the reader to the Historical So
cletys transactions. Mr.. Browning's pa
per IS evidently not so we'll known as 1T
should be, lnasmuch as the Marquis of Ri
pom, at the London meeting for the pur-
chase OF the Chelsea house, cited the flight
10 Varennes as an example of CarIyle's
historical gifts. Suffice it to say, that the
pace OF the royal carriage in Carlyle's mar
ratlve became three miles per hour instead
OF six and half, and that the carriage it.
self became huge numbering vehicle.
whereas 1t was a well-constructed post
chalse, gong at an ordinary pace on an
occasion, however, when the pace should
have been unusual.
Mr. Browning is thorough almost mer-
CHESS in his exposure of errors. He could
not, indeed, be expected to pass over Car
lyles description of Drouet as in his nieht-
gown, lnste ad of dressing gown, as ludi-
crous mistake as that with which Car
lyle twltted translator of Faust" who
made the falnting Margaret ask her neigh
Dor at church for her dram bottle in lieu
OF her smelling bottle. But he might have
Deen little less severe on the town of
Varennes being styled paltry little vii
iage; on Drouet being described as still in
the prime of life, when he was only %; on
couchee for coucher; on Pont-de-Somme-
vile for Pont Sommevesle-bot forms
seem to have been used; and on the pres
ence OF sunshine. This last correction is
rather strained.-Westm Review,
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A Pocket Electric Lamp.

A German inventor, Herr Bohwinkle,
has devised form of electric incandescent
lamp, with accompanying battery, COM
pact enough to be carried about in the
pocket. We translate description OF the
device from der Stein der Weisen (Vienna,
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A -. Kind Of Fabric.

A new kind of fabric has been devised
an ornamental india-rubber waterproof
material of little more weight than the or
dinary single-texture waterproof taprlc,
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INVENTOR TORRES EopHor

ton or after; it is then ready to receive a
coat of arrowroot or other suitable SUBJ
stance for producing shot or other lumi-
nous effect
The San Francisco call., 1896-03-01

E< HE latest invention for the benefit
of mariners is an apparatus called
the eophone, by which pilots and
In steersmen on ocean crafts are en-
abled to hear the signals of vessels
either in fog or heavy blow. One has
been attached to the Government tug
Daniel S. Lamont, in New York harbor,
says the Journal.
The eophone has been successfully tested
in high wind. The instrument which re-
ceives the sound looks like an anvil, and
is placed on the roof of the pilot-house.
From it extend two tubes. which pene-
trate the roof and reach point just abaft
the wheel. At the end of each tube is q
transmitting These fit into apertures
on either side of mask, which is placed
The San Francisco call., 1896-03-01

In Italy there are more theaters in pro-
portion to the population than in any
other country.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1896-03-05

DICH RED BLOOD is the foun-
~ dation of good health That is why
Hoods Sarsaparilla, the One True
Blood Purifier, gives HEALTH.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1896-03-05
Common Sense in the Campaign.

some very conservative people as
scrt that rdicule will not be vital
force in politics this year in North Car
DINA. Ridicue has made the fortunes
Of some of the men it was intended to
overwhelm. This State furnishes two
instances of this facI.''
The foregoing paragraph is from the
Raleigh correspondence in the Char
lotte Observer. The two instances IN
this State referred to are Marion Butler
and S. Ohio Wilson. There is no doubt
but that the abuse and ridlcule heaped
upon these men had much to do with
their success and promotion to office.
The more they were derlded and scoffed
at the closer the Fusionists stuck to
them. One-ef the most effective ways
to strengthen the sympathy Of a man
is to prosecute and torment the object
of his admiration. Ridicule is dan
gerous instrument and often does the
person who resorts to it more harm
than its intended victim. 1t is gen
orally the last resort ola public speaker
who wishes to overcome and vanquish
his antagonist The talk of rldlcule
being eliminated from the campaign
this year is good sign that the people
want TO hear the issues and political
questions of the day discussed and not
men. Let it be campaign of edu-
cation and one in which the issues are
discussed fairly and squarely and the
people will be prepared to cast their
vote more intelligently when they 90
to the polls And then ridlcuie is cal
culated to engender bad blood and
array neighbor against neighbor.-San-
ford Express.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1896-03-05
A NEW SOUTHERN INDUSTRY.

1t is probable that the cultivation
of hops will soon become an impor
tant industry in some parts of the
South. Mr.. a. l.. Jones, who came
from the hop region of New York, has
been experimenting in hop culture
near Warrenton, N. c.
He is enthusiastic over the result.
He has procured some specimens
OF the best New York hops and finds
rf9comparison with the product Of
tels own North Carolina farm
that the latter is decidedly superior.
Mr.. Jones goes so far as to claim that
the North Carolina hops are the best
in the world. He says:
dts by far the finest hop l ever
saw, and it was produced at about one
third what 1t costs US to raise poorer
in New York state. North CAROLYN
ians have fine soil, ideal climate, cheap
Lahore erything in their favor
Hops are a very profitable crop
wherever they can be grown success
fully and the expert from whom we
quoted believes that many sections
of the South are suited to hop Gull
ture.
He recommends the formation of
hop growers associations, a number
of farmers clubbing together, getting
an expert hop man TO take charge the
frs, year, build hop curing house
and each member Of the association
plant a small field in hops, the acreage
TO be increased year by year until each
owns lis own hop farm.-Atlanta
Journal
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1896-03-05

But we had not intended to say
more now than that Mr.. Nye as a
friend and Eeighbor and companion,
as a Buncombe man, as citizen, as
one Of US, has been always the true
hearted gentleman. He will be missed
as few of US would be. It does not
seem, indeed, that his life work is fin
ished; but, if so, cheering presence, a
charming personality, and a man whose
heart has been full ofgoodness and love
for his fellow-mar will have lett US
when ''BIll'' Nye is taken. Would
that the day were far distant.-Char-
lotte Observer.
Simon S. Hartman, of Tunnelton, West
Va, has been subj ect to attacks of collie
about once year, and would have to call
doctor and then suffer for about twelve
hours as much as some do when they die.
He was taken recently just the same as at
other times, and concluded to try Cham ber-
lains Collie, Cholera and Diarrh9a Remedy.
He SAYS: II took one dose of it and it
gave me relief in five minutes. That is
more than anything else has ever done for
me-" For sale by NJ. Dorsey, druggist.
Monthly illustrator and Home and
Country.
Outside many art features, ever super
abundant and grand in this publication,
The Monthly Illustrator and Home and Coun-
try, New York, for March, is a magazine
ofspecal excellence. Perhaps nothing it
contains, however, will interest a greater
number OF people than an added new de-
partment in his number entitled ''The
Peoples Forum In this are discussed
"The New Electric Photography" by
Park Benjamin; public High Schools, !"
by William Hemstreet; "The Popular
Bond ISSUE" by Joseph W. Kay, and
"The New Revolution" by Arthur Som
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1896-03-05
Why it is the Most Valuable
Notice of Incorporation.
STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA.
To all to Whom These Presents Shalt Come
-EEEETTNT.

To all to Whom These Presents Shalt Come
-GEEETING:
Knor Ye, That it appears from the
Clerk Of the Superior Court of Vance
county that the following named persons
John d. Cooper, 5. 5. Parham. and J. H.
Parham, heretofore on the 25th day of
February, 1896, signed and filed Articles
of Agreement, for the formation of pri-
vate corporation before said Clerk and
copy of said Articles of Agreement.
duly certified by said Clerk, un-
der the seal of said Court, have been
filed and recorded in this Office, as pre-
scribed in chapter 3lS of the Acts of 1898
Nor, Therefore, Under the power and
authority vested in ME by said chapter 3lS
of said Acts of 1898, l do hereby declare
the persons signing said Articles of Agree
ment duly Incorporated under the name
and style of THE PARHAM BROTHERS
COMPANY. for the period of fifteen year
from and after the 18th day of February.
1896, for the purposes set forth in said Ar
ticles of Agreement, with all the powers,
rights and liabilities conferred and i'm
posed by law upon such corporations.
WITNESS. NV hand and the Great Seal
of the State of North Carolina. at Office in
the City of Raleigh, this Goth day of Feb
ruary in the 120th year of our InGepen-
dence. and in the Year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and ninety-Six.
&. NJ. COOKE.
Secretary of State
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1896-03-05
Resolutions of Recognition,

The following are the resolutions
passed by the Senate recognizing the Gu
bans as belligerents, and which passed
the House later:
ReSoIred, By the Senate (the House
concurrins), that in the opinion OF Con
gress, IL condition of public war exists
between the government of Spain and the
government proclaimed and for some
time maintained by force of arms by the
people of Cuba; and that the United
States of America shOnld maintain a
strict neutrality between the contending
powers. according to each all the rights
of belligerents in the ports and territory
of the United States.
Resolved, That the friendly Offices OF
the United States shall be offered by the
President to the Spanish government for
the recognition OF the independence OF
Cuba,
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1896-03-05
The rlarch Ladies' Home Journal

Just Il few suggestions of the approach
of spring and the coming of Easter give
Il refreshingy poetic and timely interest
to the March Ladies' Home Journal, which
in its literary, artistic and more practi-
cal features, is exceptionally strong and
unusually attractive. The number opens
with II fascinating story by the late Eu-
gene Field-"The Werewolf 1t is eX-
planned by the editor that "The We're
wolf is the only manuscript by the la
mPnted poet and story-writer that has
not been published, and that it was writ
ten and rewritten eight times by the au-
thor before it exactly met his approval.
1t is probably one of the best of all Mr..
Fields writings. Howard Pyle has illus
trated the story admirably. General A.
W. Greedy, L. S. A., presents his first
paper on 1.-The Personal Side of Wash
ington,' which is illustrated by B. West
Clnedinst, and from photographs.
Westinghouse love affairs, and they were
numerous and somewhat complicated,
are treated by the writer, whose work in
this direction is supplemented by Mrs e.
Burton Harrison,,s Il True Colonial
Dame" She discusses in this paper Wash
ingtons great passion, his love for Mrs.
Charles William Fairfax (Sallie Cary),
which the accompanying (hitherto I'M
publlshed) letters bear testimony was
never wholly overcome. Never before
have the duties of Il President, and their
attendant annOyances and veXatlOnS,
been SO clearly revealed as they are in
the March Journal by eX-President Har-
risOn. Edward W. Box talks most inter
estingl.v of Mary Anderson as She is To-
day \ well-written article on ''Pade-
rewski in His Daily Life tells of the ia
nous pianists early domestic SORROWS,
his triumphs, his work and his diver
sions. Emma Nevada, the prima- donna,
emphasizes the ''lmportance of Singing
in Tune and Charles r. Adams, the
venerable and famous vocal instructor,
has another practicable paper" Finish
III Singing in the same number. Kate
Greenaway's delightful little folks, in
pretty groups, we'll occupy Il page, set
daintiIy in "a poem by Laura f. Richards.
Edward W. Box editorialIy considers
New York and Boston from literary
standpoint. women and Tipping he
also discusses. Dr. Parkhurst considers
"The Best Thing in the World to be a
sound body-healthy physical develop
ment-forcibly contending that it is the
superstructure upon which mental ad-
vancement must be built. Spring hats,
bonnets, wraps and coats, and feminine
fancies for Eastertide, are described com
prehensivply, and illustrated. "a $500
Shingle House, ''Home Games" the
fourth of Mary E. Wilkins "NeiShbor-
hood Types" and contributions by va
rlous department editors are also inclu-
ded in the unique March issue Of The La
dies Home Journal BY The Curtis Pub
fishing Company, Philadelphia. One
dollar per year; ten cents per copy.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1896-03-05
RTl,I, NNE,

Pain comes with the knowledge that
the gentle humorlst, Edgar W. Nye, is
dead. He added, while he lived, to
the sum of human happiness. Only
yesterday the Observer received no.
tice from the association through
which bis weekly letters have been
syndica,ed that, owing to his sickness,
it would have no letter from him TO
be released for publication on the
Goth. Alas that it will never have
another! And it is one of the strlk-
ing incongruities of this world, almost
an anachronism, that at the very mo-
ment these lines are being written, the
supplement to this paper, containing
the last of the laughing, rollicking let
tiers of the sunshiny Split is running
through the press. The world will
miss Bill Nye. There are few names
better known than his to the Amerl-
can people and there is no one, living
or dead, to whom they are indebted
for more innocent pleasure. He died,
too, when just past middle life. He
was but 46. The shadow for him had
just turned toward the west. The ed
itor of the Asheville Citizen wrote APP
preciatively and we have no doubt
justly and discriminatory of him in
the issue Of that paper OF Friday at
noon, while the subject Of his remarks
yet lived, and we cannot more 6tly
conclude these observations of our own
than by introducing here the editorial
referred to, affectionately entitled "Our
Neighbour
1t is little to say-and also, i'll one
sense, it is much-that the man who
lies MORALLY stricken at his home at
Buck Shoals has warm spot in the
hearts Of thousands. 1t is doubtful
if there is a man in public life to-day
whose passing away would touch So
many as personal bereavement. as
has the mere news that one Of the
greatest humorists Of our time is fast
nearing his final day on earth. Mr..
Nye has literally added to the gaiety of
a nation. His weekly letter, printed
i'll scores of papers from the Atlantic
to the Pacific, has been regularly read
by thousands, possibly millions, to
their vast entertainment and where
they could read between the lines, to
their instruction as we'll. Nye has not
been merely funny. He has not read
him Alright who has failed to see that
he pricked the bubbles Of sham and
folly; that his writings were possessed
OF sound sense, only half concealed
beneath the easily-apparent nonsense,
and that, at his best, he was satirist
as well as humOrist
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1896-03-05
Advertising and Logic.

The advertising Of firm is built on
regular and successive steps. For the
great voice in the newspaper tells the
world that John Smith has something
to sell, what it is good for, what it
costs. and creates in the customer a de-
sire to find out more about it and to
buy 1T. Then comes the customer to
the store. An attractive store has a
great deal to do right here, and the GUS
toner meets the man who is going to
do the selling.
Up to this time the advertisement
has been sort of letter of introduction
of customer to salesman. Now this is
where ffrst-class salesman shines.
The salesman has most Of the question
to decide as to whether the customer
will buy the goods or no.. OF course,
conditions may prevent even the best
salesman from making a sale. but a
great many times he is the master of
the situation aud can make the advertis-
ing Of the firm pay or not pay.
Then there is another point: The
goods may not be so good as the Gus
toner believed them. so that even a
good salesman cannot sell them. That's
the fault of the advertisements in the
first place.
To make advertising pay. ;ou have
to start-same as in legic-with right
premises. If your advertisements are
good and in the right places to attract
customers; if your store is attractive; if
your goods are the same as YOU said
they were. and if your statesmen are
capable, there's bound to be sale,
some profit and some paying advertis-
ing. Under those conditions. alone,
your advertising cannot help but pay.
But if one of the conditions or ..prem-
ises'' are not right your advertising
may not pay.-The Harduare Trade.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1896-03-05

The small hey in Lincoln, Nebras-
ka, who smokes and squIrts AMBER,
will now have to do so on the sly if at
all. The city council has passed an
ordinance which prohibits the use Of
cigarettes, cigars or tobacco by per
sons under IS years Of age within the
City limits. The police are author
zed to arrest, without a warrant, any
person who comes under the ban OF
this law. The fine t" he Imposed IS
no more than SIS for each ofense.