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The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-08-01
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Little Prices on DOmestiCS,

Two of nice quality Light Prints, pretty Patterns &C
worth &c yard; 60 ~
Two superior quality Indigo Blue Prints; worth 7c
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The balance of large of extremely pretty patterns
OgandieS PecAles and other wash goods worth from 10
SC to I5c yard, all to go at the price of "
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CARBONDALE.

1.-THE Carbondale correspondence OF The
Tribune has been placed in the hands OF
Mr. C r Mum, Salem avenue ana
Church street, to whom news items may
be addressed. All complaints as to tr-
regular delivery. etc. should be made to
Roberts G. Reynolds. news agentsl
Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-03-06
MENACED BY WILD DOCS,

Ranging through that section of the
United States where New Mexico and
Arizona meet, are bands of wild ami
mails whose bite is more to be dreaded
than that of the centipede and is as
fatal as the venom of the rattlesnake.
They are known as the wild dogs of
Arizona and so, bold have they become
that the residents round about the field
of their operations are organizing to
hunt them down.
These brutes form species by them
selves and no natural history tells of
them. Indeed, the accompanying illus
tration will indicate their appearance
to most people for the first time. Their
origin is not positively known, but they
are supposed to be cross between a
combination of Siberian bloodhound
and bulldog stock and the large timber
wolf of Arizona. The first of these was
taken into New Mexico by cattle men
resident there, about nrteen years ago.
1t was not very long after that when
the first of the present species of ami
mails that is now creating so much
trouble was seen, and for time their
depredations We're Slight Timber
wolves were not over plenty in Arizona,
and While occasionally a sheep, colt,
horse or steer would be pulled down by
Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-03-06
A Capital by Accident

Nature never intended Berlin for
anything but provincial town. 1t has
been made into the capital of great
empire deliberately malice afore-
thought. 1t has, in factss been victim
lied by favorable circumstances. To
the stranger, there is nothing about it
that fascinates; nothing that excites
the imagination. 1t has neither the
architectural beauty of Vienna nor the
reckless gayety of Paris; neither the
vastness that surrounds London. 1t is
a sprawling commercial town in the
middle of a sandy plain. A muddy and
most melancholy stream wanders un-
obtrusively through the center of the
city as if rather ashamed of itself To
the north and south are forests Of pine
and plains of sand; to the east and
west are plains Of sand and forests OF
pine. W
Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-03-06
SOLVED TIE SECRET
OF THE BOOMERANG,

Civilized people, especially of the
English speaking races, pride them
selves upon their discoveries in cleo
tricity with which they now operate
the guns OF great ships of war, and
they point with fear and trembling as
we'll as satisfaction to the perfection
in all sorts of dynamite bombs and ex-
plosiVes which they may, on occasion,
use to kill people by the hundreds; but
with all their eleverness they have
never learned to make what naked
savage can fashion out Of crooked
stick. 1t has been stated on good au-
thority that there is nothing made Of
wood which a Yankee boy cannot copy
with the aid Of his jack-knlfe, but the
man who said that had probably never
heard of a boomerang.
Horace Baker, who spent several
years in Australia, and went bonner
ang crazy" is the first white man who
ever made boomerangs that would
''go" and he learned to make them by
almost living with the savages and
watching them as they sat whiting
away at piece Of wood with their
crude stone hatchets and sharp shells.
He makes them now, when he has lit
tie leisure from his regular occupation
of wood odengraving, but ordinarily he
sits in his little New York studio work.
ing over microscope as quietly as if
he had never whirled kangaroo into
eternity with one Of those bewitched
pieces Of deformed wood.
Beside those which he has made him
self Mr.. Baker has the largest colIec-
of III,
boomerangs in this country There are
almost hundred of them, and a queer
lot they arel Some Of them are hag-
gled as if the savage had used his
teeth to make them, yet as true to the
boomerang principle as the carefully
carved specimens which decorate his
wallis. He keeps them hung up in clus-
tiers as some men have their guns and
pistols arranged with view to proud
display before their friends A few Of
these date away back to the time when
Captain Cook landed on the coast of
Australia and took possession in the
the name of King George, for the saw
ages hand these things down as heir
looms just as our Revolutionary heroes
left us their muskets and military coats
by which to prove military family
tree
Why is it so difficult to make a
boomerang2" said this connoisseur of
the crooked stick "Well, because it is
SO delicately balanced that the least
divergence from the proper angle win
alter It's course in the air and prevent
the perfect revolution which is neces-
sary to its flight When correctly
made, a boomerang should balance ex-
actly on a knife blade held at it's CEN
ter If it doesn't balance, some more
whiting must be done on the heavy
end. That seems easy enough-to whit
Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-03-06

leans when he wishes to rest, and in
this way manages to get along very
comfortably.
There is another proposition to face
when winter comes, as of necessity the
stills sink deeply into the snow, and
this makes walking a very difficult
matter. This the genius of the post
man has proved sufficient to overcome,
He accomplishes his undertaking with
the aid of thin wooden skate, with
which he skins along the surface Of
the snow and ice without sinking at all.
1t is by no means an easy matter to
balance ones self on stills tied to the
knees. What then must be the effort
of skating on stills?
This French postman makes remark
Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-03-06

gether too familiarg The noise they
make is fearsome indeed-far more so
than the scream of the panther or the
howl of the thoroughbred wolf. None
have ever been captured, and no one
wants to capture them, for their APP
pearance is very nearly as ugly as their
bite. A full grown animal of this sort
will weigh about one hundred pounds
and stands from two and half to
three feet high. They are heaviest
about the shoulders and neck, have a
round shaped head and short, sharp
ears.
The general color of their coats is
grey, but long blackish hairs come
struggling through, giving a disagree
able appearance. Occasionally one of
them will be of a different color still,
and perhaps of fairly good appearance,
but this is supposed to result from the
breeding in of domestic dogs, who have
been known to desert the ranches and
join one of these bands
The cattle, calves, horses and colts,
which meet death through these ami
mails are by no means killed by them
because food is needed, but die from
the effects of the bite, which in every
case produces symptoms exactly SINH
lar to stryehnine poisoning Benjamin
Brown, of Nutrioso, Arizona, has per-
Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-03-06

the best. Our lignum vitae corresponds
the nearest to the tree they like best
The piece for the boomerang is usual
ly cut where a branch curves out from
the tree trunk, for this is the most
natural crook in the trees formation
AS the branch is bent, so is the boom
erang inclined, for it's curve must fol-
low the grain of the wood. You never
see any cross grains on any of these
weapons.
In throwing boomerang the saw
age holds it by one end over his right
shoulder, his body turned to the right,
then without Strengthening the arm he
whirls the body back to front position,
bringing the weapon, with the arm still
bent, with it, then suddenly let's go,
Strengthening the arm at the elbow as
he does so. This adds the force of the
whole body to the momentum of the
weapon, instead of depending entirely
upon that of the arm. 1t will go whirl-
ing around, keeping straight ahead for
certain distance, then gradually
swerve to the left, and at last return
to the thrower
"When a savage wants to kill or dis
able kangaroo, he throws it so 1t will
strike the ground at a stated distance
from him and then begin turning
somersaults until it reaches the kanga-
roo, striking him even then with such
force as to break a leg or kill him, if
it strikes on the head.
"Or suppose he sees a flock of ducks
swimming about on the river He
creeps up softly behind a clump of
trees, throws his boomerang swirling
over the tree tops in a curve line which
he can calculate as well as civilized
gunner sights a straight one, and down
comes the flying stick among the ducks
Topping like a live thing, and killing or
disabling everything within reach of
its wooden wings. 1t really looks very
much like bird in its flight through
the air.
"The savages have many different
varieties of these weapons. The aver
age length is twenty four or twenty
six inches. Such as these are used in
hunting birds, rabbits and other small
game, and none of them weigh over
three-quarters of a pound. There are
immense hunting and war weapons
which are as much as three feet long.
but they are rarely used, and nobody
has sufficient strength to throw them
so that they will return.
do they ever lose their boomerangs?
Not often. They trace them up when
they have flown wild as certainly as
dog follows scent. Every black
knows his own weapon, and every
other fellows too, for that matter.
Each family or clan-it is hardly cor
rect to call them tribes-has a peculiar
carving of it's own by which can tell
in what part nf Australia it was made"
How long does it take a savage to
make boomerang?"
That depends upon how carefully it
is done. If it is to be carved and pol
ished 1t takes a long time, but a plain
one requires only about three hours
hard work The savage will never do
it in that time, though He is too lazy.
He will work at it a few minutes then
stop to rest a few hours, and in that
way he may be more than week in
finishing it,
Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-03-06
MEXTCO'S NIAGARA.


MeNico's Niagara has been harnesssd,
It's real name is the Falls of Juanacat-
Ian, seventeen miles distant from the
city of Guadalajara in the State Of
Jalisco. The River Lerma at the point
mentioned makes a leap of sixty feet,
the fall itself being over 200 feet in
width.
1t is in truth a magnificent cataract,
ana many Americans who have seen it
claim that in some respects it excels
the Canadian fall at Niagara Now its
tremendous power is to be utilized for
driving the machinery Of cotton mills,
which have been removed from Tjal-
pan, a suburb of the City of Mexico.
The current is very swift below the
falls, and six 20-inch turbine wheels
have been installed there, arranged to
works in pairs. They are provided
with a governor which affords a fine
regulation. The aggregate power trans
mitted when all are running is little
over !, 800 horsepower.
Two pairs of these turbine wheels are
ing as a reserve force. Pulleys of 16
grooves each are placed on both sides
of each pair, and over these run hemp
rope, which thus far has been found
more satisfactory than chain gearing.
The runners of the wheels are of
bronze with hammered shafts, and the
gates and lesser parts are of steel
But it must not be understood that
these turbine wheels are right at the
falls In fact they are fully a mile dis
tant, experiment having shown that
greater advantage from the powerful
current could be obtained a mile below
than at the falls themselves. Part of
the power generated by the turbines is
transmitted to Guada1ajara by electric
ity.
Before long the falls will furnish
power for an extensive plant. The
transmission Of the power. however, to
the wheels will be by rope in a manner
similar to that described in the cotton
mill plant Grooved pulleys will be
placed on each side of the four wheels.
The style of wheel differs from the
plant already in operation, but it is a
more condensed form and even simpler
in construction.
The amount of head pressure in this
instance, and also in the first men
toned power plant, is GA feet. Men who
are we'll posted say that the establish
ment of these two plants is but the
opening wedge for the Introduction OF
many like industries into Mexico Hith-
erto, one of the great drawbacks which
has prevented the growth of such en-
terprises in Mexico has been the enor-
NOUS expense involved in procuring
and operating a power plant. 1t is said
that now this impeachment will be to a
great extent removed.
Copyright 1898
Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-03-06

army. Thus it will be possible to utilize
these same balloons for purposes of
war, as we'll as the peaceful duties that
accrue to them in the weather service.
This captive balloon section consists of
a balloon, balloon wagon with cable
drum and cables and accessories for
holding the balloon captive; four tube
wagons and accessories, one service
wagon, a gas generating apparatus, a
compressor for impounding gas in
tubes, and $50 steel tubes in which gas
is compressed to one-one-h -hundredth or
one one-hundred and twentieth of. it's
volume.
So far as the weather service and
balloons are concerned, the combina-
tion is growing in Importance every
day. Within a year it is hoped to have
chain of balloon stations extending
from Washington to the Rocky Noun
tains These will be erected gradually,
but when they are all complete, the
weather department at Washington
will be in better position to tell what
the weather is going to be than it has
ever been before.
The accompanying illustration shows
a balloon with Signal Service operators
in it, but this is not the method that
will ordinarily be utilized in securing
observations. An automatic instrument
has been invented which, when set
after the fashion of an alarm clock, will
take an observation by itself at what
ever second may be designated 1t is
the intention to attach these instru-
ments to balloons and in that way Sc
cure observations at great heights, as
great as it is possible for captive ball
looms to reach with safety.
Copyright, 1895.
Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-03-06

tion have been made, and the details
are being worked out.
The basis for the railway is to be q
huge circular tower of steel framework,
500 feet high, around which like the
thread of a screw the spiral railway
Will run, supported in powerful brack-
cts securely Joined TO the framework
of the tower. The tower viii have a
diameter Of SO feet at the bottom, and
the taper win be so feet to the 400 foot
level giving a diameter at that point Of
SO feet
Around this tower the railroad viii
run, rising 40 feet to the complete cir
Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-03-06
Photopraphing by Fireflies' Light.

Experiments have been made in pho
tographing by the light of fire-flies. A
large number of them were placed in
a small box and confined by netting.
The box was provided with sensitive
plates, and in some instances covered
closely in order to discover the power
of the light emitted by these insects.
1t was found that they have a
quality not unlike the X-rays, and the
plates that were closely covered showed
unmistalable evidences of a photo
graphic process
Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-03-06

grade of the road will be from II to 25
per cent.
Protective devices will be used to as
sure safety, and it is expected that pas
sengers on the spiral railway will be
better protected than those on electric
or steam railway trains. When the pas
sengers are ready for the trip. they will
be seated facing outward away from
the tower, and thus the view will grow
better and broader as the car ascends.
Far away in Canada, up the river to
Lake Erie, down to Lake Ontario,
across one of the most beautiful sec
tions of country to be found in the
Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-03-06

calf belonging to Pollard Pearson of
Nutrioso, was bitten by one of these
wolf-dogs The bite was not serious
one and the calf fled to its mother for
protection, The mother licked the
wound and in few moments the calf
was apparently all right again. Two
days later the calf died with every
symptom of strychnine poisoning, and
the following day the mother met
similar fate.
Copyright, 1898.
Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-03-06

It is not meant that all the French
postmen make their rounds in this
fashion. Only those who serve the
country and the post-office officials
through the great stretch of land that
lies between Bordeaux and Bayonne
are so distinguished. All this land is
covered by a growth of gorse and
broom which makes walking a very
difficult matter. The postmen, however,
have found that there is a way to rem
der it much easier for themselves and
that is by taking stills.
To walk about in this fashion is not
as easy as walking on ones feet in the
ordinary way. The stills are fastened
to the feet of the postmen, and are not
unlike those with which the small boy
makes annual detours To stand still
any length of time on them is of course
| impossible without support, and so a
pole is carried, in much the same way
that the yeoman once lugged about his
quarter staff. On this pole the postman
Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-03-06

world-all this the sye will view with
delight. The cars win never meet or
pass except on opposite sides of the
tower as the two tracks will be erected
on parallel but Independent spirals.
At night the whole structure will be
outlined in electric lights. Up and
down the cars will move, glittering
Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-03-06

able speed as he shuff1es and glides
about from one place to another. Often
times the route which one man has to
travel on foot in this fashion includes
more territory than Greater New York
possesses. The skates, therefore, in
stead of being a hindrance and dan
ger, really make this work easier, and
the postman in the Landes, as this
queer tract of country is called, rejoices
at the coming of winter, for he realizes
that his task will become a consider
able percentage lighter.
Clad in his capote, or sheepskin cloak,
he scurries about over the country until
he has been everywhere that his duty
calls him. Sometimes postmen of a
neighboring territory meet him and
challenge his fleetness, the result being
a tourney.
Many of the postmen who follow this
method of transportation are said to
make as good time as most people
would with a horse and buggy.
Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-03-06
SPIRAL RAILROAD
UP TO THE CLOUDS,

Gle, thus passing ten times around the
tower in reaching the 400 foot level,
where there will be a platform which
will form the terminus Of the line. A
ratchet rail will be used for the cars
to make the climb on the same prin-
ciple as the ascent Of the Mount Wash
ington and Pixies Peak roads. The
Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-03-06

with incandescent lamps, while from
the top of the tower q powerful search
light will illumine the falls, rapids and
exposition grounds. Above this still,
great glass globe will shine with light
from within, all going to form never
to-be-forgotten spectacle.
Copyright, 1898.
Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-03-06
DELIVERING MAIL
ON SKATE Stills,

The modern postman has been
mounted on bicycle, has been given a
horse to ride, sometimes a horse draws
him about, but the queerest of all
methods of .locQmotion. of postmen is
that which is utilized in France, where
the men of letters-and papers-move
about on stills.
Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-03-06

One of the most marked evidences of
modern progress is the fact that
weather observations are now taken in
mid-air. This is accomplished at Fort
Logan, Colorado, where a detachment
of the Signal Corps has a balloon of A.
900 cubic feet capacity. By it's aid OBJ
Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-03-06

til every line of both edges contributes
to the perfect revolution of the weap-
on. Then, when it is whirled, it has
two motions, the rotary one, which is
a result of it's shape, and the forward
one, given it in the throwing. It's a
pity that the base ball players cannot
get onto those black fellows curves
A pitcher who could do it would make
his fortune.
1.-THE quality of wood used has a
great deal to do with the excellence of
boomerang. The Australian brave
win tramp miles to find branch of the
right shape and wood of the proper
density Gnarled trees are at a pre-
MUM there, and the heaviest wood is
Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-03-06
WATCHERS
UP In THE SKY,

system by which Chief Signal Service
Officer Willis L. Moore hopes some day,
and that before very long, to advance
weather representations to such de-
gree that they will be well-nigh infalli-
BILE. Mr.. Moore is the Edison of the
weather service, and believes that all
that has been done so far is only
Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-03-06

tie a piece of curved wood into a fiat
shape so that the ends balance exactly
and if that were all there is to it, any
boy could make one. The hard part of
it is to cut the edges in such way that
they will strike the air at a certain
angle in one part of the curve and at
another in another part and so on un-
Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-03-06

A great spiral railway, the strangest
and most unique affair of the kind ever
planned, is to be the central feature
of the Pan-American Exposition which
will be held on Cayuga Island near
Niagara Falls 1t win be operated by
electric power from the falls them
selves. General plans for this concep-
Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-03-06

the brutes, there was no attempt to ex-
terminate them beyond taking a shot
at one Of the depredators whenever op-
portunity offered.
In these days, however, their short
barks and long dismal howls or roars,
something like a coyote howl intensi-
fled many times, are becoming alto
Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-03-06

haps killed more of these animals than
any other person, and he regards the
task of hunting them as dangerous in
the extreme. While they have never
been known to wantonly attack hui
man being, they will defend themselves
against one quick enough.
Mr. Brown tells one instance where a
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THREE PARTIES GO NORTH.
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