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The Bryan daily eagle. (Bryan, Tex.) 1895-1898, 1897-01-22

Gilhoy-"l understand that Judge
Marrimorc Is breaking up housokccp.
Ing"
Gadmnn-"rhat can't he; he's very
busy those days deciding divorce
caaoa"
Gnhoy-"woll, isn't that What
saldl"- Roxbury Gazette.
The Bryan daily eagle. (Bryan, Tex.) 1895-1898, 1897-01-22

You need not be frightened at tn
sppearance Of the little monster depict.
I'd IN the accompanying cut II Is la
The Bryan daily eagle. (Bryan, Tex.) 1895-1898, 1897-01-22

Mrs. rcck-lu,i think % d. Here Il
a corplc who have urNcr q,arroiel. ana
they hive iecn married afcen frar. 2
Henry ivtk lu. Another 6s.n ~
mtled az the nliar phIlatlelphla
North Amcrlcan.
The Bryan daily eagle. (Bryan, Tex.) 1895-1898, 1897-01-22


iahe tho tremendous leap over
me great nlr. and thus pass
through tho fearful turmoil OF tho
rapids and Whilpool8 beneath With
"'N, or un harm Bu, after nayng
reached ODE placid waters OF Lake On
Iilo lnry rapidly perish. and almost
'n'i''i disappear This and many
".N'r similar facts we're addueed 20
.n'" ihl' quiet subsistence ln undls-
.lI''l water o. ar more fatal 10 bac-
l.''' lii' Man The most violent agl-
, s'.on In contact with atmospheric air.
-. ~ Frank argues that
-, = -se Of water IN reservoirs is
"a. excellent method Of freeing % from
microbes
The Bryan daily eagle. (Bryan, Tex.) 1895-1898, 1897-01-22

a brutal murder was committed az
California. q lmal town twenty-five
miles irom Jefferson. go. tho other
The Bryan daily eagle. (Bryan, Tex.) 1895-1898, 1897-01-22

"no yon believe that banda ten an~.
thines askcd ihe ala eAa WIS lnir-.
cstcd IN faln,rle
Certainly. said fte Practical xnnnr
man. WHEN thQ, telon. Il a.s
moles NeN lork Sournai
The Bryan daily eagle. (Bryan, Tex.) 1895-1898, 1897-01-22

Proposals have been made to con-
sifret a new railway between Liver
pool and Manchester. 90 a. TO meet The
competition offered by the ship canal
The Bryan daily eagle. (Bryan, Tex.) 1895-1898, 1897-01-22
SCIENTIFIC CORNER.
CURRENT NOTES OF tNvEN-
TON AND DISCOVERY.

Microbes Leap niagara pals Discover.
"E Consumption m the Hood
''''n'' ni'd the Great elite. an fn.
'''''''ns Ilporimeut The IIio rianL
The Bryan daily eagle. (Bryan, Tex.) 1895-1898, 1897-01-22
A PREACHERS CRIME
REV. {. 6. BAILEY rs ACCUSED
or MURDER.
Other Recent Tragedies A Missouri
Farmers wife Shot aud Mu,liaicd by
Desperate Hurled his wife BEFORE
Life Was Exiinci.


HE body Of Mra
Eliza Bailey was
found IN an lce
pond at Wcstchesi-
or. Pa. last week.
The woman's hus-
band o. under ar
rest Mrs. Bailey
was the wife Of
Rev Eleven SAM
uol Bailey pastor
Of the Zion African
The Bryan daily eagle. (Bryan, Tex.) 1895-1898, 1897-01-22

smilh-so you were married on eicc.
ton day. were ycuf You dldnI vote
then. hrown-Nc I was paired L..
somrryille journal.
The Bryan daily eagle. (Bryan, Tex.) 1895-1898, 1897-01-22

ROT FRANK.
land told some very
interesting things
about microbes IN
water during a re-
cent lecture at the
Royal Institution
he said that these
littlo organisms
acnt into the Mag
ara River from the
.r. 90 nwu.f.
The Bryan daily eagle. (Bryan, Tex.) 1895-1898, 1897-01-22

force residing IN ihc OF liquids.
called "nperh..ai tension - phi.a-
dclnhia Times.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-05-16
NEW DYNAMO FIRE ENGINE.
Plan to upersede the Costly Steam
 Engines by an Electric Motor.
To Cope with sky-scrapers-Trerne dous Pressure Combined with Light Apparatus--Would Reduce Cost
 of Fire Departments.
lcopyriglt. 1ss7.I

The cumbrous fire apparatus of all our great cities must go.
 At least, that seems to be the pros pect, since Yankee genius has come forth with a great scheme for simpli- flying matters.
 1t is not a patented idea. 1t is some thing that can be adopted by any city or town that has spasm of reform and economy.
 It is right in the line of up-to-date progress, too; for it is electrical. In a word, it is to do away with the ponder ous fire engines and substitute little light-running dynamos that lady horse can draw
 The power that is to pump the streams of water through this appar- ently frail carriage machine is to come from electric wires connected with each hydrant. That is the secret of it's econ omy In order to do this city would simply need to have every hydrant con nected with the regular power circuit of one of the large electrical plants.
 By this means there would be no ex- pensive steam plants to be maintained nt each station house, in order to keep the boilers in the fire engines at steam point; no expense of kindling fires as each engine starts on a trip; no con- sumption of coal during a large fire, requiring constant hauling of fuel to keep the engines running. It is esti- mated that it costs the city $50 for every Harm Of fire to which engines respond. to get up steam before a drop of water is thrown. The cost of keeping the water at the boiling point at the fire
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-05-16
No End of Inventions.

The United States still leads the world in the number of inventions. and it is safe to say that the value of the prod ucts of Yankee genius is commensu- rate with the number of the designs. The total number of applications for patents for inventions during 1896 was 42,077. The total number of patents issued to citizens of the United States was 21,2s5, and to citizens of foreign countries. 2.027. New York heads the list of states with 3,sS2 patents, while Nevada stands at the bottom with nine. Connecticut leads in the proportion of patents issued to inhabitants. the total number of patents being 9s3, or one to every 759 persons in the state.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-05-16

conduct an entire naval war at the be- ginning of the century.
 With this greatly increased cost of firing off gun on board ship has come! a positive necessity for great skill and cool judgment in .'the man behind the| gum A fleet in which the gupnersI simply fired off their guns as rapid,vl as they could without hitting anything. unless by accident. would start q na-. tion on the road to bankruptcy with-| out doing much harm to the enemy Hence the need of constant targets practice, discipline and instruction. Yet. target practice is itself expensive, ands only the rich nations can afford to givez their fleets the requisite amount of it.s Only the wealthy nations of the worldE can afford to fight them If the North Atlantic fleet fought for four hours it would use up in the value of powders and shot the entire yearly revenues of Greece.
 One interesting thing to be seen fronls the table given herewith is that it8 costs considerably less to fight those| effective vessels, the monitors Puritan. Amphitrite and Terror, than it does the second-class cruisers Montgomery. Ra-s leigh and Marblehead. The monitors' carry four heavy guns each (the Puri-E tan 12-inch and the others ten-inch) and could engage battle ship, while the cruisers mentioned have no guns larger' than six-inch. The Iowa, also, it wilt be seen, is more economical ship than the other two frst-class battle ships, the Indiana and the Massachusetts. As the monitor type is distinctly American and as the first monitor on that glorious day at Hampton roads revolutionized naval warfare, and was the germ from which all modern fleets have sprung, this is particularly grati- flying. The only fault with ships of the monitor class is that they are of neces- sity slow.
 To illustrate again the immense ex- pense of naval warfare, take two ships out of the table, say the frst-class bat tie ship Indiana and the frst-class cruiser Brooklyn. The contract price of the Indiana was $3,020,000 and of the Brooklyn $2,966 ,0oo, and both of these ships won large bonuses and their armaments cost a big fortune. But take them at their contract price alone and wehave two ships, one of them not battle ship, costing together $6,006, ,000,
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-05-16

expending nearly $2oo,OOo in shot and shell in one hours fight. It is hardly to be supposed that from naval en- gagement fleet would come out entire- ly unscathed, and when to the cost of keeping the North Atlantic squadron in. action for one hour in the matter of powder and shot is added the certainty of great injury being done to the costly ships and the probability of the sinking of one or more of them, the figures which would really represent the ex- pense of such fight to the government mount up not only to $1,00o,000, but to several. The very multiplication table when naval warfare is in question cries out: "Let us have peace" It would seem as if a prolonged naval warfare were impossible in modern times from the great drain it would make on the resources of even the richest countries. if for no other reason.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-05-16
ONE MILLION DOLLARS.
Cost of Sixty Minutes Fighting by the North Atlantic Squadron.
Enormous Expense of Naval Warfare --The Warships Indiana and Brook Iyn Alone Would Use Up S20nr-
 900 Worth os Ammunition.
fCopyright, 1S97.l

At Newport on June 1 the naval off cers assigned to form the class of in- ytruction for the term will assemble at the war college to study the most ex- pensive problem with which nations have now to deal in their plans of de- fense and offense.
 Naval warfare has become so eX- oensive that naval strategy must be un- derstood thoroughly by naval officers in order that the greatest results may be obtained with the least amount of ac- tual fighting. For this reason every year number of naval officers are sent to the war college to study the nose effective employment of sea power. Modern naval warfare is the most expensive sort of fighting.
 Approximate figures gathered from the best authorities show in startling manner how costly naval warfare has become.
 It would cost $1 000 0oo in powder and shot alone for the North Atlantic fleet to fight one hour.
 The cost of the powder and steel that one modern battle ship would fire away in one hours fighting is as great as the cost of building creditable man-of- war in the days before the nations be gan to build fleets of iron and steel The Indiana, for instance, in an hours fight would expend powder and shot to the value of sill, 1,654.4o from her main battery alone, and to that must be added the cost of the fire from her ma chine guns and rapid fires of small caliber.
 The United States has five squadrons a1oat-the North Atlantic, the South Atlantic, the European, the Asiatic and the Pacific. Of these the most power. ful is the North Atlantic. To keep that fleet in action for one hour would cost at least s1,ooo,Ooo for powder and shot One of the big battleships would burn up about 60 tons of powder, and pow
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-05-16
.ls..... .s289. .2o2 10 $546. .252 co SS25, ,454 10

This is the cost of firing the main batteries alone. A ships main battery consists of all guns of over three-inch caliber. The main battery is supple mented by battery of machine and small caliber rapid-fre guns.
 The estimate in the table as to the cost of shot is based on the cost of com mon shell for the 13-inch, 8-inch, 5-inch and finch guns and of armor-piercing projectiles for the 12, 10 and 6-inch guns. In actual battle a greater per centage of armor-piercing projectiles would be used and the cost for the main batteries much augmented. With this and the expenditures of the light guns (the machine and small rapid-fre) it can be seen at a glance that $1,000,000 of Uncle Sam's money and over would disappear in the course of an hour.
 It might be argued that a ship would not put all her guns in action at the same time, but in modern naval tac- tics the ships circle about and "yaw" from one side to the other, so as to keep as many guns bearing as possible, and are so constructed that at all times the heavier guns can be kept bearing on the enemy. All things con sidered, S1,oo0,000 is not large esti- mate for the cost of powder and shot expended in one hours hard fighting.
 Some idea of the cost of firing big gun may be gathered from the fact that an armor- piercing projectile from 12-inch gun costs $377.62, and it takes 43o pounds of powder to send it on it's mission of destruction. A 12-ineh gun can be fired once in every three min utes.
 A common shell for 13-inch gun costs $116.e3, and the armor-piercing proiectiles for the same gun at least $500 each. One charge of powder for a 13-inch gun is $50 pounds. An s-inch gun can be fired once q minute; finch gun 42o times an hour. But it is the to- tal cost of powder and shot fired away in one hours engagement which is most impressive as illustrating the inn racnse strides which the costliness of naval warfare has made of late years. One single naval engagement of any duration would cost more in the value of powder and shot expended by the op- posing fleets than it would have cost to
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-05-16

Philadelphia, $S99,750. In all these cities it is safe to estimat te, as in the case of Boston, that over half goes to maintaining the fire engine ss vice. Ii this annual item were reduced by from 30 per cent. to 75 per cent. ie would mean the saving of hundreds of dol lars.
 It is claimed by firemen that some great improvement in fire engines IS necessary to cope with the growth Of sky-scrapers. The steam horse eng ne has reached it's limit of power, and yet is inadequate. The self-propeller. or horseless steam engine. has been called into service. because an engine of the necessary weight and pumping power for fighting fire in the high buildings of business centers cannot be pulled with sufficient speed even by the strongest horses. It's ponderousness makes it un- manageable.
 But with the electric engine almost any desired power can be obtained. The ordinary fire engine, for instance. has about 20 horse power. But with 220 volts on the Edison triple-wire system the electric dynamo engine can be grad uated up to from 50 to 150 horse power. There would then be hardly any limit to the height of stream and volume of water that could be thrown upon a fire and this. too. by comparatively frail engine. weighing 2,ooo pounds or less. The original cost of such dynamos would be only abort $2,0o0, while the present steam engines cost from S3,50o to $4.000.
 The adoption of electricity as pump ing power would naturally lead to the attachment of an electrical search light to the engine. With a good arc light with reflector and lens mounted on fire engine the darkest recesses of smoking building could be lighted up. The electric search light is of course an impossibiIity with the present steam fire engine.
 Another great improvement is sug- gested to go into effect with the dyna- mo engine. IL is a system of electric
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-05-16
MAIL SERVICE IN INDIA.
1t Is Fairly Efficient in Spite of Nu-
 merOus Difficulties.

India's postal service is conducted un- der conditions somewhat more difficult than those encountered here. Nothing shows this better than that part of the last annual report made by the Indian: post office, which relates to the acci- dents that have befallen it's carriers in the last 12 months. One story is of mail runners overwhelmed by an ava- lanche on the road to Gilgit, and sec ond tells of a mail boat attacked by river dacoits in the gray mist of early morning in eastern Bengal, and of the courageous conduct of the boatmen, who, although severely wounded with spear thrusts, beat off their as- sailants with their bamboo poles. One. mail runner was drowned while cross- ing torrent in northern India and an- other was killed by tiger in the central provinces. To use the postmaster gem erals own words: .sTo these perils by snow, by flood and by wild beasts new peril has been added, if the reports of local officers in Mysore be believed. A mail carrier in that province was brought in with a broken thighbone, due to some mysterious accident which had occurred when he was carrying tha mails at night. The police officer and the subordinate magistrate of the My sore state, who first inquired into the matter, were satisfied that the injury was caused by an evil spirit or the devil, but the more prosaic European officer who subsequently, dealt with the case came to the conclusion that it wns the work of an enemy who had lain in. wait for the runner" Despite all this, and the many languages and innumer- able dialects spoken in India, the ssSsss' office succeeded in delivering all but ten out of every thousand articles intrusted to it.-N. Y. Times.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-05-16

stations, in readiness for service, is an enormous annual expense, far exceed ing the cost of operating the engines at . fire.
 It is against these useless expenses that the new electric engine plan is aimed. Cities would then pay by me ter for the power actually used, just as manufacturing concerns do.
 The dynamo pumping engine re- quired would be simple affair that al- most any machine shop could build. It would consist of a pair of magnets set upright in the position of the boiler in the present steam fire engine. In front of the magnets would be pump, pref erably rotary. This would be connected with the air chamber. The speed of the dynamo would be regulated by a switchboard, similar to that used by the motorman on trolley car. Two men only would be needed for this dynamo engine, the driver and the en- gineer. firemen and other helpers being dispensed with. Its weight would be about 1,500 to 2,000 pounds, instead of the heavy 5000 to 17,000-pound fire en- zines now in use-in fact, the light carriage wheels of this dynamo might be equipped with pneumatic tires, like su1l<ies. One horse could draw this light-running little apparatus at great CT speed than two or three horses now haul the big steam engines. There would be DO such impeachment to traffic as at present-no tremendous commo- tion ard flying of sparks through the streets, with serious risk of setting fires and causing accidents. The dynamo would shoot ahead rapidly and noise lessly. like the chiefs rubber-shod wagon When storage batteries are fur tller perfected they could easily be ap- piled to this engine, making it q self propeller and dispensing with the use of horses altogether.
 Experts who have figured on the ref atiye cost of equipment and mainte- nance of this kind of dynamos com pared with the present steam engines declare that city's expenses would be reduced from one-half to three-quar- ters. The present cost of the fire de partment of the city of Boston, for in stance, is S1,13s, ,0o0. Of this amount &657 ,227, or more than half, is devoted E maintaining the 4s fire engines, an average of $15,2S4 for each engine. In New York the annual cost of the fire <partBnent is s2.345, 300; in Chicago,
 TT. .6oo in Brooklyn, $1,031 ,29o; in
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-05-16
Bombastic Coin Motto.

The inscription on one of our coins, Tn God we trust" is to be moro than matched by the legend that is to ap- pear on the new coins that are to be issued by Menelek, the king of Abys- sinia. The coins are to be struck in France; they are to be of silver and the unit of value will be the "talari," which will be practically the value of the American dollar. On one side of the coin will be the face of the king, with the inscription, Johannes Menelek, King of the Kings of Ethiopia" On the other side will be the figure of lion, representing The Lion of Judah" with cross, and the inscription, ''Ethi- opia Stretches Out Her Hand to God Alone"
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-05-16

hose signals, by means of which the man who directs the stream can give crders to the engineer for turning on and off water, for increase or decrease of pressure, can signal danger, help, and other messages by simply pressing button in the nozzle. This would do away with the old-fashioned practice of men shouting from one to another sta toned for that purpose along the line of hose. Boston fire engine is al- ready equipped with an apparatus of this sort, and, while it is yet only in the experimental stage, it is thought that it will soon be perfected and brought into general use throughout the coun-
 try. HERBERT HAYWOOD.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-05-16

der costs the government 27 cents a pound. The whole North Atlantic fleet, including the Iowa, would burn up over 535 tons from the main bat teries alone. And that is powder used to send projectiles from the guns, and does not include the bursting charges of explosives in the shells.
 This table will give some idea of the expense in powder and shot of fight ing the North Atlantic fleet for one hour.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-05-16
Recognition.

First Tramp-Dese railroad mcnopo- lists seem to be grabbin everything.
 Second Tramp Don't be too hard on 'em, pardner Dem freight trains save us lots of walkin IN, <. Tribune.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-05-16
Threw in n Poem.

The clergyman who tied the knotHf e West Poland (Me.) couple recited a1 impromptu poem as part of the ce1ee
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-05-16
Makinr HimseIf Solid.

She-I have heard that you said I was fond of the sound of my own voice. He We'll, you have yourself admit. ted that you like npsic z t Bill:
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1897-09-04

known as the Reign of Terror, which
none had a greater hand in creating
than he. So frightful were his cru
elites that Charlotte Corday, u quiet,
modest woman of the people. was
stirred to what the sans culottes be-
lieved genuine heroism. aud today in
the minds of the French people she is
more saint than assassin.
Assassination has been the sword of
Damocles suspended over the heads of
the czars of Russia. Twice has it fall
len. Once, March "a, 1901. and again
March IL, 1881. The first event of this
sort was the death of the Car Paul.
who in an actual fight with his mobiles
and officers was strangled The sec
ond death was that of Gar Alexander
I H., who on the date mentioned, While
driving at st. Petersburg, was killed by
dynamite bomb cast by Nihilist.
| Coming down to more modern times
we have the assassination of President
Lincoln, April IA, 1865. In this case
| the weapon used was the pistol, and
] Sergeant Corbett, who died in Kan
/ sas last year. avenged the President
by fatally shooting Wilkes Booth two
weeks after Mr.. Lincoln breathed his
( last.
The United States furnished the as,
sassination following that of the Tur-
| kish sultan. From Guiteau's pistol
came the shot that was heard around
the world. and fatally wounded Pres
ident Garfield, July 2, 1881. The sto-
ry of that time is as familiar to the
American as the battle of Lexington.
Not since the death of Lincoln has this
III
as by this action of man who, clear
~ insane, in degree, nevertheless
represented the same socialistic ele-
ment which runs through the entire
chain of deaths at the assassin's hand.
France furnished victim for the
assassin June "a, 1894, when Cesario
Santo fatally stabbed Sadi Carnot, the
President of France. At the time of
the assassination President Carnot
was in his carriage. Santo dashed out
from the line of people along the street
and stabbed the president before any
one could interfere. He was immedi-
ately captured and afterward guillo-
tined. He was confessed anarchist,
and like the assassin of Canovas, an
Italian.
A question which naturally arises
after one has digested the informal
ton given is. "What has assassination
accomplished? In 90 per cent of the
instances referred to innocent men
have died, their assailants punished if
captured, and the world made no bet
ter off. Perhaps the answer may be
found in those famous words of Victor
Hugo: "The assassin's knife never
vet Fighter a wrong-it never will
Exchange.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1897-09-04
IT SAVES THE CROUPY CHILDREN

Seaview, Waive have q splendid
sale on Chamberlain Cough Remedy,
and our customers coming from FAR
and near. speak of it in the highest
terms. Many have said that their
children would have died of Group II
Chamberlain's Cough Remedy had not
been given.-Kellam d Ourren. For
sale by all druggists and dealers.
Benson, Smith & Co., wholesale agents
for the Hawaiian Islands.