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The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1896-03-20

Storing Cabbage.-Dig trench deep
enough so that when a cabbage is
placed in it with the head down the
root of the cabbage will come only a
little above the level of the soil, and
as wide as desired. Cover the bottom
of the trench with straw or hay to pre-
vent the cabbage heads coming in con-
tact with the ground, to which they
would freeze If in contact. Place cab
bage in trench head down, just as
pulled. DO not trim the heads in any
way. Pull it out of the ground with as
little breaking and bruising of leaves
as possible and put it in the trench at
once. Store only sound, good heads,
and put them in when dry-free from
moisture Of melted snow or frost and
rain ,-Cultivator.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1896-03-20

Keeping Beets in Winter.-Beets are
very tender and easily injured by freez-
ing. They are therefore most common
ly put in the cellar, as that can be
watched more closely than pits and
there is less danger of frost entering
before the owner is aware. Yet as a
matter of fact beets are better kept in
pits than in cellars. If put in the cell
lar at all some earth should be thrown
over them to keep them from willing.
Care should also be taken not to have
the cellar too warm or the roots will
sprout and thus injure their quality.
Mangel wurtzels are better keepers
than beets. They ripen later and will
not sprout so early when put in cell
lar. In feeding the beets should be
given out first and the mangels re-
served until later in the season.-Ex.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1896-03-20
During the transition Period.

She-Er-George!
He-W-well, Laura?
Shell think we understand each
,ther, George, but-but is IL my place
,r yours to put the question, and ought
to speak to your mamma about it or
ought you to go and ask papa?--Chi-
.ago Tribune
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1896-03-20
7E hours New Orleans to San Francisco.

Direct Connection from all points in
Michigan is made by leaving Chicago
Saturday and Tuesday nights Tor We'd
nesday at a. n.y. in through sleepers
with
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1896-03-20
Sunset Limited Trains

kDullSCt lLlilllbCNi blllS
Comprising: Compost Cars-Includ-
ing bathroom, barber shop, cafe, lib
rary, smoking room;
Sleepers-Double drawing room and 10
sections, also combined compartment
and Ladies' Parlor Car, rivaling in
perfection of detail all former achieve
ments of car building on the continent
especially designed for lady trav-
elers;
Dners-Meals served a-la-carte. The
entire train Illuminated with Pintsch
Gas.
LEAVING New ORLEANS SEMI-WEEKLY,
MONDAYS AND THURSDAYS.
THE SUNSET ROUTE
Is the first line in the United States to
recognize that heretofore Accommodations
for lady travellers have been adequate to
requirements. The ladies are more
especially taken care of than in any cars
heretofore built. Instead of being COM
PEELED to sit up all day in the "cubby"
seat of sleeper, while the liege lords
may perambulate the train, and gather
in a special compartment to smoke,
talk, etc. one end of the boudojr and
drawing-room car accompanying each
train is to have special room nltted up
for the ladies, with library, the latest
magazines and periodicals, reclining
touches and other needed comforts.
These cars are sixty-nine feet in length
and have seven boudoir sleeping com
partments, each with seperate entrance
and capable of being thrown en- suite.
Each compartment has two sleeping
berths, wash-stand and the necessary
lavatory fittings, and opens onto a hall
way on one side of the car A Ladies'
Maid accompanies each train for the
accommodation of lady passengers, more
particularly for those travelling without
escort. The train is also accompanied
through from starting point to destina-
ton by an experienced and courteous
representative of the Passenger Depart
ment, who acts as a personal escort.
For information concerning Cali
fornia, time tables, rates of passage or
any particulars regarding the journey
to California, address w. g. NEIMYER,
Gen Western Agt.. Sou. Pac. Co.,
300 Clark ST., Chicago.
S. F. b. MORSE,
G.. p. and Il. A., Sou. Pac. Co.,
New Orleans, La.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1896-03-20
A LOCK OF HAIR.

HE city of Megara
lay smiling In the
summer sun. Its
marble palaces, its
tall columns, its
towers and turrets
were gay with flow
ing plume and flag;
for it was feast-day.
The sun had been
up only an hour, but
already the streets
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1896-03-20
Probate Order .

BY KATHERINE Il. KELSEY,
Probate Register.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1896-03-20
CITYs MEXICO

and offers more Attractions to the
Sightseer, Tourist, or Traveller than any
other Route. Traversing country un-
rivaled in Scenery-ripe with Ancient
History-to the land of the Montezumas
and the Aztecs.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-02-23
HATTERAS' BIG LIGHT.
THE SKELETON TOWER PLANNED
FOR OUTER DIAMOND sHOAL.

II Would he the Most Imposing Light
House I'm This Hemisphere, Would
Cost 81 900, 900, and Would BE a
Triumph of Engineering skill.
Dangers From the storms on the
Much Dreaded Cape.
From the New York Sun.
Washington. Feb. l5.-One OF the great
est engineering feats OF the day is to be
attempted by the lighthouse board. For
years the officers in charge Of lighthouses
have talked Of a station on Outer Dia-
mond shoal. particularly dangerous point
of Cape Hatteras. celebrated among mar
liners for its fearful storms. once a con-
tract was made with New Jersey firm
to erect a light house and maintain the
station for a year. The firm never sue
ceeded in anchoring its Golfer dam, which
was a mere preliminary toward beginning
the foundation of the light. A storm tore
the great structure to splinters and left
nothing to show for the months of hard
work and outlay of money save the minute
fragments Of plank. The lighthouse peo-
pie never abandoned the plan. When Maj
F. A Mahan, a brother of the famous
naval officer and strategist, was engi-
neer commissioner Of the lighthouse board
he conceived the idea that the work might
be accomplished by the government ex-
perts, and, although he was displaced by
another engineer officer, the plan has
been completed.
The difficulties of successfully establish
ing a light on the treacherous shoal are
many. 1t is known that the bottom is
sufficiently solid to sustain a structure,
but the question was how to anchor the
steel members so as to support the aw-
full strain which, any day or night may
bear upon them. 1t is certain that the
work can be carried on only under great
danger and many Interruptions. The Of
fcers feel that they can accomplish the
work, however and have designed an in
genious plan.
The structure is to stand in about thirty
three feet of water, and will be supported
on disk piles sunk thirty feet in the sand.
The floor of the watch house will be for
ty-seven feet above high water. Forged
steel will be used in the main structure,
and the principal joints and connections
Will be of steel castings The essential
parts below the water line will be of mas
sive dimensions. Bolts, pins, tie rods, and
other parts Of small sections have been
avoided as tending to weaken the struc-
ture. The massiveness of the steel MEM
bers will be continued above the portion
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-02-23
THE HAMADRYAD SNAKE.
From the philadelphia Times


One of the most interesting sights to
the tourist in India is the snake house
in Madras. 1t is maintained by the gov
eminent and contains representatives. of
every native reptile. The venomous class
are kept separate, and the terrible hama
dryad has a den to himself, for he is a
snake eater and would soon depopulate
all the other cages. OF all the poisonous
species he is the most aggressive and
deadly with an average length of twelve
feet and fangs three inches long.
1t is January, the heat damp and stiff
ling. The cobras are all active and en-
ployed in running along the glass fronts
of the houses, pressing their heads against
the glass and leaving behind a green, glu-
tinous streak. This is their poison, with
which the fangs are overcharged. The
keeper will show you a pint in a.glass
cup that has been scraped off. 1t looks
like dried mucilage.
There is a rock python in the snake
house thirty-four feet long One crush
of his steel muscles would end a mans
life as etfectually as cannon ball, but he
hangs inert from tree branch and the
native attendant cleans his quarters with
out molestation. Not SO inert is the ham
adryad. As soon as your shadow falls on
the glass he makes a dart and races up
and the cage, following your movements.
Nothing but the quarter-inch glass saves
one from death. Capt Kew, of the Mad
ras Infantry, saw one pursue a native
along the high road. The man dropped
his turban. The snake pounced on it,
coiled and bit and then resumed its pur-
suit of the man, who had sprung into the
river and boarded a native boat The
snake was at his heels and was killed by
strokes of an oar.
The hamadryad has about the same
range as the cobra, but its best known
habitat is the country of the Gonds in
Here the land is covered by dense thick
cts of wild fig trees and on these the
snakes lie coiled. The people We're All
robbers fifty years ago and no native force
would invade their coverts until Sir James
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-02-23
TALKING ABOUT RECORDS.
The Weather knocks Out More of
Them Than Horses, ships or
WheeImen.


From the New York Tribune.
The bicycle record has been accounted
a fragile institution. but it stands like
the Rock of Gibraltar compared with the
weather record. We do not scruple to say
that the weather record has been broken
in some particular every day for the past
six months, and to think that no one would
have known thing about it If it had
not been for the weather bureau! There
is nothing more wonderful than science
impelled by a fostering government.
Indeed, if it were not for the scientific
officials none of us would have the least
notion that the weather record could be
broken in so many different ways. Tire
was when plain folks understood that
there could be a coolest day, and hot
test day. and windiest day; and that was
about all. But the weather bureau has
multiplied this modest and unscientihc
trio by 10000 and squared the result and
then pulled out the sum obtained like
an accordion and wedged all the figures
IL had left into the open spaces. Thus
we may not only have the coolest day
of the year, but the coolest day in the
past five, ten or twenty years; the coolest
day since 1881 or 1874; the coolest day
since the establishment of the weather
bureau, or since the invention of thermo-
meters, or since the chief of the bureau
a
Washington crossed the Delaware, or since
a mysterious individual struck Billy Pat
terson; the coolest day following a warm
der any of the before mem
toned conditions; the coolest
day. or sunshiny day, or fog
gy day, or windy day, with due
regard to the chronological considera-
tions enumerated above; the coolest Sat
urday, or Wednesday, or FRIDAY, under
any of these circumstances of time; and
as often as any one of these conditions
turns up, crack goes record And, of
course, il would be idle for us to call at
tention to the fact that this all applies
to the hottest day as well as to the cold
est day, not to mention the windiest
rainiest, foggiest, and so forth; and that
variety is introduced by occasionally Of
fering the coolest or hottest forenoon or
afternoon, or a day with the coolest fore
noon and the hottest afternoon, or vice
versa. Nor need we pause to mention
that a grateful public is often treated to
the coolest, or hottest, or muggiest, or
muddiest, or slipperist 5th of November.
or 18th of January; or, perhaps, under
o'clock p. m or the hottest ten minutes
to four; always keeping in mind, of course
that ii may be the hottest ten minutes
to four since Columbus discovered Amer
lea. or Nausen the North Pole, or-but we
will not repeat even the slight hint which
We have given as to the infinite possibil-
tiles with respect to time known to our
weather bureau. So the crush of records
and the wreck of superlatives go on.
In fact, ii seems to be practically set
tied every morning before sunrise that a
record is going that day to be broken.
And to think as we said before, that we
should never know 1t if we were not told
by the weather bureau. 1t makes one
sympathize with the historic person who
talked prose half his life before he dis
covered ii.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-02-23

as calcium does with light; and the energy
received radiates from 1t till 1t has return
ed all it has received: in other words, till
it is spent or emptied.
The extent of the luminous atmosphere
around b and the force of the luminous
flames which flow from his nose, and eyes
and mouth and ears, appear different to A
at different stages, depending upon the
depth of the hypnotic sleep into which b
has plunged. When the sleep is light his
surrounding luminous atmosphere is very
faint and shallow: but when he is thor
oughly hypnotized his luminous atmos-
phere is intense, and extends far away
from him.
The colonel immersed a small wax statue
of a man in this ''life" of b that was
surrounding his body, and found that
when he pricked this statue with a pin
concealed from BIS eyes, B could exactly
located the pin pricks on his own body,
and would exclaim: You are pricking my
arm" or you are pricking my face with
a pin" The colonel could not find that
than fifteen of twenty feet from his body,
except in extraordinary cases.
This so-called 'exteriorization" and
transfer of a mans senses of feeling to
inanimate objects has a wonderful bear
ing on the subject of contagion in disease.
Still another bearing of the same dis
in an experiment, with a magnetized me-
tallic crown. This magnetized crown had
been originally used for the treatment of
patient in the hospitals. When subse-
subject in the state of hypnotic legarthy
this subject showed every symptom of the
disease from which the patient, who orig
inally wore the crown suffered. In other
words the luminous effiuvfa" of the sick
patient had SO permeated the crown that
when 1t was placed on the head of a well
man, and the man hypnotiZed, he caught
the disease from the crown.
These investigations appear to be proof
positive of a theory of my own, which 1
have been led to form from results at
tanned in various directions This theory
is that a well man with a strong will is
positive" / mean to say that his life
principal. will, mentality, or whatever you
choose to call it, eXudes from his person.
and flows from his eyes and ears and other
organs, like the long tongues of flame that
we see mounting up from high chimneys
at night. But in case of a man with weak
will, or of a hypnotized subject these
flames or outward visible signs of the in
ner fire, are so weak as to barely leave the
surface of the body.
So, too, l may contend that the will of
the hyDnotizer and the will of the subject
to be hypnotized struggle together The
stronger flame beats back the weaker;
what was at first defeat becomes finally
a complete surrender, and the flames of
the hypnotizer's will find their way to the
very brain centers of the hypnotized SUBJ
ject. S. Wilmington Miller. NJ ID.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-02-23

From the salubrIa ddahol Glitter


Married in the middle of the road, at
the west end of the Weiser river bridge,
in Middle Valley, on Sunday, Jan 10, John
w Adler and Miss Bertha Pickett, the
Rev. +. n. Elton of Salubria, officiating.
The wedding was to have been solemn
ICED in Salem school house at the close of
the regular church service. Some sixty
friends had gathered at the school house
to participate in the services and to wit
ness the marriage ceremony. The bride
and groom failed to put in an appearance.
1t was not their fault. Together with
some forty friends from the west side of
the valley, they had started for the school
house, but on reaching the bridge found
their way effectually blocked. An ice
gorge had torn some forty feet off the
west end of the brick slick and clean Even
love couldn't jump the chasm; but 1t was
not to be baked in that way, and a way
out of the difficulty was found Word was
sent to the school house, about one mile
distant, and at the close of the services
there the preacher and congregation has
tened to the bridge, where the would-be-
married ones and attendant friends were
awaiting their coming with such patience
as they could command. In spite of the
wide gap in the bridge separating the
minister from the young couple, the matri-
monial knot was successfully tied. The
east side friends did not kiss the bride,
and, what may hurt the feelings of some
of them more, they also failed TO get
share of excellent wedding dinner pre-
pared by Mr. and Mrs. Levi keithley.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-02-23

Ex-Secretary William NJ. Evarts is
leading a quiet life in New York. His 81 ghr
is somewhat impaired, but he is as vigor-
Gus mentally as he ever was.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-02-23
WHAT DARKNESS REVEALS.
5. WELLINGTON MILLER DESCRIBES
PHENOMENA CONNECTED WITH
HYPNOTIC TRANCE.

Light From Living Orgnnisms-It IL
Eliminates the Face and Flows
From the Finger Tips-FeeIing
without TOuching-A Theory Adj
vanced.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-12-13

not been for the fact that Noah Lynch
and his cohorts were making particular
efforts TO induce young country girls
TO become converts. and in several
cases had succeeded One of the last
converts of this. kind was the daugh-
ter of family famed for its respecta-
biiity in the vicinity, and although the
father and mother exerted strenuous
efforts to induce -theN girl to return to
her home, she resisted all appeals
The fact that the Sanctificationists
are followers of the, Mormons in the
matter of their domestic life, also
helped to bring about the uprising
against them The. feeling had been
very strong prior TO their efforts to
convert young girls. owing to the num-
Der of homes which had been broken
up by the deseFtion- of either the father
or the mother.
Beginning Sunday, Dec. 90. there will
be the biggest kind of a revival, and it
will be kept up until Christmas day,
when the Sanctificationists expect to
see the waters rise and the earth OBJ
liberated. For the past six weeks the
band has been collecting all kinds of
provisions. Many barrels of sailed fish
are stored in the holds of the barges,
together with sacks of potatoes, flour,
meal and boxes of bacon. They have
food enough to last them two months
although they expect to land on the
earth again after the lapse of 40 days.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-12-13

purposes that the most striking con-
trast between Europe and America is
seen. Over here the gas engine is al
most a stranger, 1t is looked upon
with suspicion and sometimes with
contempt. There are more gas en-
gines in Lopdon alone than in all this
country. The total number in use in
Great Britain is above $4,000. In Ger
many, which shows within recent
years, perhaps the greatest mechanical
and industrial advance, and now ranks
as probably the first industrial nation
in the world, there are $4,000 gas en-
gines in use.
1t is difficult to understand just why
this country should have been so in
different to the new motive power since
in Germany, at least, the price of gas,
varying from 80 cents to $1.30 per thou
sand feet, is not much lower than over
here. 1t is rather significant that the
chief reason set down is Americas ex-
travagance. 1t is also to be said that
the first gas engine introduced into the
country was not success, and fur
Their that the Otto patents and others
that have now largely expired, likewise
held back the industry.
Now, however, there are something
like half a hundred gas engine makers
in the United States. and their product
is being rapidly introduced. The en-
SAlltS dic liidQt al the way one
third to 100-horse power, and special
types have been made and are now
running in England of as high as GOO
horse power. They have been so rapid
" perfected that where an average of
% cubic feet per horse power per hour
was required in 1882, this has now
fallen to an average of 49, feet. Mean
while gas has generally fallen in price;
in some Of the smaller cities, at least
from % to So per cent.
Compared with steam engines it is
estimated that not less than 80 per
cent of the heat energy put into a
steam engine can be converted into
work where the gas engine may at
tain an efficiency of as high as so per
cent. Roughly stated, the best type
of steam engine in practice converts
about 10 per cent of its theoretical
efficiency into work, while many Of the
better types of gas engines attain near
" 80 per cent efficiency. An elaborate
series of tables recently published in
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-12-13
Begsnrs of the Queen.

People often write to Queen Victoria
asking her to lend them small sums
and promising to repay her in install
ments. Sometimes they write saying
they are unable to pay their taxes and
trusting that she will allow the ac-
count to stand over bit. The presents
the queen receives by post form a
curious collection. They are invariably
returned. Poets send her poems,
tradesmen, specimens of their wares;
ladies, mittens, stockings and other
articles of attire worked by them
selves When any member of the
household is i'll, medicines pour in
from all parts of the world, and at
Christmas the queen is the recipient of
some hundreds of Christmas cards,
many of them of the most expensive
nature.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-12-13
- % -
The Vale o. namely PIoys

Some glory N the game o golf,
Owre fitba' some gang daft,
Owre cricket same get halfins aft
On tennis some are saft;
An ithers find their dearest JOY
In spinnin' on the road,
But leeze me on the fine old ploy-
The guild aur farrant Brod.
At nae mans hobby would we sneer,
Sac lang's it's fair and clean,
But still we baud COR ain maist dear
o. a the ploys we've SEEN
Your games o. chance are roguish rakes,
They lack life in themsers.
Ar maun be played for CROWN stakes,
Or else their pleasure staleS.
But Dameh needs nae lures 10 please
The pleasures in the ploy,
Its endless possibilities
Are changed wi endless joy.
Ar hish an low in it hae found
\ solace on hfe's road:
They meet on equal level ground
Across the checkered brod.
1t suits the simple an the sage
o 'ilka 4 rice an cline.
1t fits itsel to youth an age
An manhood's lOrdly prime
II s quite at hame in hut an ha,
In rich an poor abode,
1t smiles alike on ane an a,
The caste-destroyin' Brod.
1t holds high coort within the club,
II nestles in the hame,
And only ignorance wad snub
Our good auld-farrant game.
lanes OSs, in Aberdeen Free Press.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-12-13

Germany show that the efficiency of
gas was in many cases double and
sometimes triple that of steam.
The points of advantage claimed for
the gas engine as compared with steam
are: F'irst.-No fire, no smoke, no
ashes, no engineer. Second--A gas
engine can be installed in a dwelling,
in barn, in 2 store in a basement, or
on a topmost floor. Third.-Boilers and
their endless repairs, annoying clean
ings and high insurance are unknown
But beyond all this-no danger from
explosions. The record of steam boiler
explosions is a long one, and the killed
and injured from this source are said
to outnumber those killed and injured
on our railroads each year. Fourth
No waiting TO get up steam. no waste
of coal when noon hour arrives or no
power is needed. no fires to bank at
night, no insurance. no water tax
Fifth.-Economy OF operation. Roughly
stated, a gas engine viii cost to run
on the average l to IL cents per