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Gulf Coast breeze. [volume] (Crawfordville, Fla.) 1897-19??, 1897-11-19
SCIENTIFIC SCRAPS.

A patient who remained absolutely
unconscious for four and a halfmonths
in Germany furnishes the longest con.
tinued cataleptic sleep known to
science.
An electric locomotive in Scranton,
Penn, coal mine III 300 days did work
for S252S below what the work cost
for II corresponding period with mule
power, An electric pump in the same
mine saved Sljl3 over steam pumps III
go days.
Falcon Island, in the Friendly group,
was first noted ms shOal in 1867. In
1877 smoke was rising from the sea
over the shoal. In October, 1880, an
island 1900 meters long and - meters
high had formed, aud tremendous
eruption was in progress The height
was 80 meters in 1887. The ashes
having rapidly washed away, leaving
u height of but eight meters in 1872,
aud the island is fast disappearing,
The interesting experiment of max
ing mercury tlont ON water is accom-
phshed by Mr. &. T.. Stronger by
shaking together in acylindrical bottle
few drops of mercury, half nm ounce
of water and pinch of red lead, YER
million or other red powder. At first
few small globulcs Of mercury col.
lcct in the centre Of the waters sur
face, hut after repeated shnkings II
large number Of the globules iloat to-
gether in the form of II small dish
about threc-eighths of m inch across
and one.siSteenth vi IN inch deep,
An incandescent lamp Of three or
four candle power is used by NJ. Paul
Noel. French cutOmulogist, for cap
turing insects that swim in ponds Mt
night The lamp is connected 10y
wires to small storage battery on the
bank of the pond, weighted by semi
circle of iron, AMI placed oyer net
having IN opening two feet aud II half
across. The net il Of coarse pack
thread, closed by II string The
weighted lamp and the net are slowly
sunk in the water, the lamp is lighted.
and insects, fish, frogs, tadpules and
larvr of every kind rush up 10 il.
The string is pulled, quickly cnptur-
ing several pounds Of victims.
According to Nikola Tesla, as re-
ported in Industries aud Iron, "of all
conceivable methods Of generating
electrical energy, nothing in the pres
ent nor in the future in likely to com
pure in facility and economy with the
waterfall OF all methods of gencr-
ating power, the utilization of II water.
fall he says, is the simplest and least
wastciul. According to him, even il
it were possible, by combining carbon
in battery, to convert the work Of the
chemical combination into electrical
energy with very high economy, such
mode Of obtaining power, he thinks,
would he no more than mere make
shift, bound to bo replaced sooner or
later by more perfect method which
required no consumption of any mate.
rial whatever.
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OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
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\ few weeks ago there was launched
from the yards of the Columbian Iron
Works, of Baltimore, the Argonaut, a
queer looking submarine craft, which
goes on wheels like n wagon.
This vessel, which is the invention
OF Baltimorean, Simon Lake, is, as
far as intentions and appearance are
concerned, unique. 1t is intended for
commercial work, including the ex-
ploration of the bottom of rivers,
lakes, bays and even seas, for treasure.
seeking and other purposes of kin
dred character
The vessel presents curious ap-
pearance. The cigar-shaped hull has
two big iron wheels attached to it near
the bow. These wheels are about as
large as an ordinary cartwheel, and
are of solid metal. The edges of the
wheels are corrugated and cogged like
those of cogwheel. A smaller wheel
of a similar character is attached to
the boat at the stern. The wheels are
intended to enable the vessel to run
along over the bottoms Of rivers and
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ship. Mr.. Knapp's ideal for passen-
ger service would he about $50 feet in
diameter and nearly 800 feet long, with
engines that would make GOO revolu-
tons O minute. The trial boat il only
twenty-five feet In diameter apd 100
feet long, and tapers to fifteen feet, so
that eacli emu IN kepr weia-snE-sasAtha
water. As II is passenger boat It
will be the strangest ever floated. The
passengers will be on platform on
the inside, swinging from the shaft,
with the wheels Of the engine gravitat-
ing against the inside of the cylinder.
The paddles which will propel the ship
will be fastened in rows on the out
side of the cylinder. New York Jour
nal.
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up to the maxims of the Sermon on
the Mount. As q youth Tolstoi at
tended the University of Kazan, and
at the age OF twenty-three he entered
the army and went with his brother to
the Caucasus. He fought IN the Cri.
mean War, aud at it's closq Resigned
3 illsa.Ig!! 6 End sfsa Sssl'
works, "War and Peace, I" Most APP
praised by Russians. II deals with
the invasion Of Russia by Napoleon.
Since he brought out ''Anna Karenina"
in 1876 Tolstoi has given himself up
to social problems, with the hope Of
supplying mankind with better
moral aud religious philosophy than
that which now obtsins in the world.
"Kreutzer Sonata" appeared in 1890,
presenting a certain theory Of morals
which so shocked some eminent
Christians in America that 1t was
"raided" by the authorities. In 1892
Count Tolstoi finished his autobio-
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crawls," consisting Of fences extend
ing from the shore out into the water.
When the fisherman wants great tur-
tie for market one Of the boys, whose
shiny brown body is stripped bare,
stands in the prov Of the boat as II
is pushed from the shore. He watches
intently, and presently he sees one of
the big turtles taking nap on the
clear white sand OF the bottom. He
dives quickly, and, swimming down
from behind, seizes the turtle firmly
by the shell OF course the turtle
wakes up and like a bucking broncho
begins to dash and plunge wildly
about, seeking to throw its plucky
rider. Not succeeding in this, it darts
quickly to the surface, where the boy
gets his first breath Then down
again it goes tearing through the
water and beating the foam with Its
fippers. But its rider never lets go
for moment, AMI presently the great
turtle grows exhausted, and the boy,
by lifting on the front end OF the
shell forces il to the boat, where it is
quickly loaded aboard and taken away
to market. II is great sport, and the
boys enjoy it as much as our Western
boys like lively young pony to ride.
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New York City, While at Morrisville,
n. Y, the owner, NJ. +, A. Laskey,
said he had travelled from Port Ange-
les, Wash. A cyclometer attached to
wheel gave the distance covered rs
1921 miles.
The house is occupied by a man and
wife and five children, two of whom
were born on tho road. The house is
twelve feet long and six feet high and
is entirely homemade. Inside are q
folding table, a camp stove, high
chair, rocking chair, folding bed and
other convenicnces.
The family left Port Angeles on
March -, 1894, and has been on the
road ever since.
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other bodies of water, the propeller of
the vessel supplying the necessary mo-
tive power. The boat will be so ar
ranged that the divers can come in and
go ont of tho vessel while she is on
the bottoms OF rivers.
-.s3te~AsGaaant SAYS the New York
Journal, il thirty-six feet long and
nine feet in diameter, built Of steel and
strongly ribbed, to resist the water
pressure. She is propelled along the
bottom by on electric motor taking
current from powerful storage bat
terry.
A strong electric searchlight is To-
Gated in the bow, capable of lighting
up pathway in front of the craft as
she moves along the bed Of the ocean.
Lenses are also arranged to project
beam of light to either side of the
boat, so that objects may be seen in
the vicinity Of the vessel as she passes
along.
Her speed is estimated TO be about
Y eight miles an hour on the surface and
about five miles on the bottom. She
will have an electric storage capacity
for run of about 1000 miles. The
crew will consist of captain, an en-
gineer and four divers. II is claimed
that one man can handle her il neces-
sary.
When not engaged in saving valu-
ables from wrecks along the coast, she
- ~, "a, 81 hA xu,t
her string Of barges like tugboat and
her tow. She is also to sink herself
and barges to the bottom of the coast
and run over the hard sands as il she
were locomotive with train Of cars.
The inventor Of the craft proposes
to look for some of the 1000 vessels
sunk and the 800, 900, 900 lost annu-
ally ut seq. The boat may also be used
in laying foundations for piers, light
houses, bridges, docks. breakwaters,
etc. She may also make journeys among
beds Of coral and sponge for business
purposes, or to take down scientific
and pleasure parties for On inside
view Of old Neptune. The boat is to
be able to descend to depth Of 800
feet OF more, aud is to be sunk or
raised at the will OF the operator,
The Argonaut will make her trial
trip in the Chesapeake Bay during
the next few weeks. Probably the
first vessel that the inventor will at
tempt to find is the New Era which
went down off Asbury Park, N. j., in
1852, with 200 passengers and O large
amount of specie aboard.
Another queer craft which electric
ity has made possible, and which In
ventor Knapp, who constructed it, be.
lieves will revolutionize the speed OF
ocean travel, was recently launched at
Toronto. II is called the roller boat
and is certainly novelty, though not
exactly the first Of its kind.
Owing to the strange nature OF the
craft large crowd gathered to see the
mass OF steel drop, or rather roll, in-
10 the water. No doubt many OF them
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Kks.sikers.
II IA & e06dM{t6red. sober crowd Wa

IL iSe g00u10t0red, sober crowd wa
have aboard the steamship, Several
have remarked how very undetnonstra-
tive ii is. OF our passengers one.half
are Americans. They are of every de-
gree and of NIL sorts but dudes. There
is house builder from Brooklyn, a
contractor from Boston, the business
manager Of New York paper, and
boys that seem not over nineteen.
They have all formed parties or part.
nerships, some 10 share every yicissi-
tude or fortune, others only TO last
until the gold.diggings are reached.
Only few are dressed in the loose
rough clothes Of the miner. Several
that l know who are going in have
kept on their city suits, and il has
been amusing to see men unaccus-
toned to rough garments emerge, one
by one, from their staterooms with
their miners rig Of heavy boots and
corduroys. One most picturesque.
figure is swarthy man Of spare but
why build, who turned out in full
buckskin suit, at which some smiled:
but after "A talk with him it was i'm
possible not 10 admit that while the
buckskin might draw" somewhat in
wet weather, nevertheless he was AZ
well fixed az any man on board. He
is u packer aud hunter, and hailsfrom
the Black Hills, and has partner
seven feet tall
One noticeable thing is the total alb
sence of oaths or the sort Of language
one will hear continually from morn
till night among lumbermen. The
conversation is pitched in low key;
men have serious things to talk about
those they have left behind; the
pass ahead Of them; their outfits and
those OF their neighbors. Some are
pretty well equipped; indeed, save
for general lack of waterproof sacks,
they are well prepared for the rainy
country, which, by the lowering
clouds and increasing banks Of fog.
we seem to be entering. -Harper's
Weekly.
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The Pick pocket Got Hold Of Snake.

Ex-Representative Harvey Horner,
OF Sumner County, lisa snake tanner
and usually carries around with him in
his pocket live bull snake with
which he makes lots Of fun. A pick
pocket touched" Horner ut the cir
e1s at Wichita Monday and happened
to get his hand into the pocket where
the snake was kept. The shock made
him scream and Horner held him I'M
til the police arrived. Kansas City
Times.
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RIDING A SEA MONSTER.

Florida Boys Have Fun with Huge Sea
Turtles.
Florida boys have one kind of ex-
citing sport which the young folks of
more northern lands know little
about. Ii consists in catching the
huge sea turtles which frequent the
bays along the Southern coasts of
Florida. The turtles, from which is
made the green turtle soup 80 familiar
to restaurant fare, are confined by the
fishermen i'll huge pens or turtle
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Brief aud Brilliant Career.

Wayworn Watson-I never told you
I'd seen the time when lived at the
rate Of $40, 900 year, did /?
Perry Patettic-No, How long did
you keep it up?
about q minute. - Cincinnati En-.
uuirer.
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A Wonderful Bridge.

In the Forth Bridge there is a
horizontal pull OF 10000 tons on the
chief spans, and a weight Of 100000
tons on their bases. Half q dozen
British ironclads might be hung upon
them without causing any undue
strain.
Gulf Coast breeze. [volume] (Crawfordville, Fla.) 1897-19??, 1897-11-19

John Howells. son OF the novelist,
William Dean Howells, recently re-
ceived diploma in architecture from
a Paris institution, where he had been
. student five years.
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pronounced Tolstoi's masterpiece. OF
Anna herself George Meredith says
she is the most perfectly depicted fe-
male character in oil fiction. Tolstoi
believes in the literalness OF the
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COUNT TOlSTOl.

sketch of The Career of the Great Rus
Sian Novelist and Social Iieformer.
Count Lyof Nickolaivitch Tolstoi,
the most prominent Of the Russian
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graphy, which, with his diaries, he de-
posted with the Rumyanzoff Museum.

A Berlin man makes q living by
breeding rats for viyisectionists.
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BOTH SATISFACTORY.
An Impenetrable Armor Plate fierce" ny
an Irresistible Projectile.

An Uncomfortable Armor Plate fierceu ny
an IrresIstibie Projectile.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 3O.-A plate OF ar
NOR, representing 500 tons, Tor the
eight.inch turrets of the battIeships
Kearsarge and Kentucky was tested al
the Indian Head proving grounds yes,
terday. For testing purposes t"o
eight Inch shells, one Carpenter pro
i.ctile and the other wheeler seer
ling. were fred at the plate, one AT I
hiyh and the other at low veloclty
Neither penetrated nor cracked the
plate. but partially welded themselves
into it.
The test was regarded as entirely
satisfactory and insures the acceptance
Of the armor. The delivery OF the 'oJ
tons will wind up the contracts when
the government has with the Carnegie
company for the supply of armor iol
ma val vessels, and it is not expected
that apv more will be entered pending
a settlement of the whole armor queS
ton by congress.
Subsequent to the test the ordnance
officer, fired third projectlle at th'
plate. 1t was what is known as
capped shell and was fred to show tn
penetrating power of prolectiles o
This character. The results were em'h
emily satisfactory, the shell fred at
high velocity, going entirely through
the plate.
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a DESOi.ATe ISLAND.
That il What Wey'er's Policy has Ma"e
Of Cuba.

New YORK, Nov. So.--A dispatch 10
the World from Havana says; Ihe
Worlds first figures Of Cuba's starVa-
ton were timidly moderate lney
showed the death of only 100000. But
every painful fact unearthed tenus
TO prove them nearly double
that number. When the grim returns
are all in it is now almost
certain the Cuban massacre OF the IN
nocents viii reach 400, 600 And 'l's
awful number does not include those
killed in battle or the thou sands ana
Thousand, of women and children WHO
have died OF exposure, disease and mas
| sacre in the ''managuIs' ana sWanP'
1t now seems certain that more thah
half a million people, for the most part
loyal subject OF Spain. have been k'lieu
by Spanish war in Cuba. A weeks "TRIP
through the provinces of Havana, Ma
tanzas and Santa Clara has tended "
make moderate this tremendously eX-
treme figure. The figures OF Spanish
official reports show bat part Oh Ih'
mortality. They only give the mum
Der buried in colsecrated ground :
they do not give that fully. Anu
vet these otiicial ultrI-Spanisll re
ports of burial permits issued ad
nit that in the province OF SaAt'
Clara there have died ali buried sine
Weylers fiat 7l,s47 persons. Ihe nun
Der of people for whose existence Ney
l.r is directly re,ponsible is l53' l32 Il
+. Santa Clara province. Aud OF these IL
has killed S6,2lt, or over one hait G
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THE liaoiAa VERSION.

The Trouble With Game wa'dens In Coi-
orado-Clnlm They Were PeaceableI That
the wardens Were tho AygressorsI and,
Notwithstanding ths Shooting OF
squaw and Two Bucks. DID Not Retail
ate.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 80. 0.--Capt. Wright
and Lieut.. Cavanaugh, Ninth cavalry
who commanded tho troops in the re-
cen Indian disturbance in Colora"o'
have recommended that an investiga-
ton of the affair be made by the inte-
rior department. Capt. Wright Sc.
cured statement from the Indians OF
the affair, the summing up OF which Is
as follows:
That a small party OF them were
camped on Snake river hunting deer,
the majority OF them in the hills ana
but four bucks were in camp, when
party of armed white men came into
camp. They remained there some
time, the Indians not understanding
them. Finally one, opening his coat,
showed star, saying they were
buckskin police and the Indians
must 20 with them; the Indians
refused, upon which the whites Gov
cred them with their pistols and sew
eral crasping the two bucks by the
wrists struggle commenced' squa"
ran to their assistance when the ponce
literally riddled the two with bullets
A warden on the outside OF the party
: shot the sauaw in the back OF her hea'
and another in the arm. The two sur
viving bucks saw their chance 10 rut
for their horses, which they had IN the
/. brush near by, did so, milking thei'
{ escape.
, The Indians insist that neither a
o that time nor since have lhey hreo
d shot at white man."
+ Capt. Wrights report OF what II
/. found at Vaughan's ranch says:
q "Found there about ten men al
l. two women; the wardcns and arme
d posse, after eating all Of Vaughan
l. winter supplies, had departed Oh th
morning. and the two families fro
~ Lilly Park were getting ready to
"a turn. The citizens there referred
n the affair as not an Indian out
t. white mans outbreak.
"a "Warden Wilcox had previous
n warned the families to leave LAZY pa
e. in anticipation of trouble, as II
could not arrest the Indians he wou
of kill them"
es At Thompson's ranch Capt Writ
found a corrall and hay stacks burr
by the Indians, which they ackho'
edged to have done in theirangef al
,,o their affair with the wardens.
Lieut.. Cavanaugh, IN his report
80 his interview with them, says:
,he "The Indians stated that they co
va not see why the whites had Urea
rev them so. They were peaceaplc' wan
,nt no trouble and had made no reslstai
,ds but had been shot down IN cold DIG
ble They had still remained qnlet
rms were waiting to see what the goVt
,ost ment at Washington would DO oei
in they took any action themselves. L
Lie are anxious that an investigation
ose made.
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CONDENSED TELEGRAMs'

THE dry goods firm of Hilton, hughes
G. Co.. of New York, which faiieo III
1896, ON the 30th, notified its smaller
creditors that their claims VIII oe pau
in full on presentations
A,DREw CARNEGIE has agreed 10 give
the last $40. 900 of the sloo,ooo heeaeo W
h,;,d =, suitable home for the Ginter
Mechanics Institute in Richmond va
THE treasury statement on the SUN
shows: Available cash balance e"io'
76o. 800; gold reserve, Sl57, ll3,9os'
SEVERAL men got drunk on wood al
cohol near birmingham, Ala'' on 'he
3oth and before they had time 10 ge'
sober they were dead
Mrs. CAROLINE NORRIS and her graho-
con sanuel. were burned to death III
their home. log cabin, near rihe
Plain. Md. on the 3oth.
Jrnar HosMER. of the Circuit Cour.
nt Detroit. Mich, on the 29th' oec,'''o''
70 interfere with boycott by employees
of IA milling firm.
Asp,yxIATIoN caused the death 0,
.,,.oo man in the Grand Trunk Rallroao
tunnel at Port Huron, Mich'' on ti'
10Th.
T,prp men. who represented them
: selves as detectives, entered .,e 'o''
Of Mrs. Mary Eppinstein' at chicago u
the Goth. After beating her WIN rs
vo,vers. and after locking her IN room
they made away with her dlamohos
. valued at $1,000,
THE United States Supreme 'our' ~ =
: the Goth affirmed the decision Vi VI
Georgia Supreme Court in the case {
A., Noh,e convicted of the murder
y her husband. She claimed the proce'
r. of law had been denied her
!; Tup Cboctaw and Chickasaw inuian
IS Of a recent session at Antlers' l. - y
e t.rmined to organize a colony ana en-
;" CRATE to Mexico
T. Tur schedules in the assignment
y h. Cuthbert & Co., bankers ~
es ,..,,,ors of New York, who assigned
" Aneust a. show; Liabilities, soso'o'
:. nominal assets, s4so' "4' "''D
ae s16o, 400. - roa,
:. N,s CAROLINE ABKE, aged ~ yea
who lived near Leavenwor'n, nSs,' as,. .
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THREE MEN ASPHIxlATGO.


ponr Huron. Mich, Nov. 3O'-As-
nhvxiation caused the death OF three
men in the Grand Trunk railway tun-
nell Sunday night, The dead are
Henry j, Courtney, engineer Arlhnr
Dunn, conductor; John Dalton brake
A train which was being hauled
through to the Canadian side broke II,
two. The engine backed down to get
th, detached portion OF the train, but
for hours nothing was heard OF the
crew. Finally searchingparty fouho
,h, do,d bodies and also rescued Wm.
Dun, fireman, and VIM. Potter brake
man, in an unconscious eohoitioh
Three members of the searching party
were also overcome.
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The states Cotton Crop.

HIM. John Il. McInnis, railroad com
missioner and member of the board Oh
control. who has just returned from IN
specting the convict farms and the state
crops, says he is confident ,he ''"'s
will make 1000 bales of cotton and
cows he never saw such cropof cotton
in his life. He declares that land whicn
w. m,s under water until the middle OF OF
June ant "" W ~ NJ .or.
make on,