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Sea Shells That Explode.

A contributor to The National Drug
gist describes the curious phenomena
OF explosive sea shells. He saws; Walk
ing along the beach on Mobile bay, a
young woman. n relative of the writer,
picked up a handful of little shells,
left by the tide. and among them sew
eral shells of a small marine small"
the largest of which was probably n
half inch in length and the smallest
some three-eighths of an inch. She
dropped them into her pocket and for
got all about them until several days
afterward, when an unpleasant odor in
her wardrobe attracted her attention to
them.
on taking them out OF her pocket
some fell ON the tloor, and in recover
ing them she placed her foot on one.
The act was followed by an explosion.
quite sharp, and loud enough to be
heard all over the floor on which her
room is. Astonished, she concluded to
try another, and the same result fol-
lowed.
The shells were then brought to the
writer, who on examination found the
mouth OF each firmly closed by a mem
brane OF greater or less thickness.
formed by the drying of the animal
slime. This had probably occurred
soon after removal from the moisture
of the beach. and, the little iuhabltant
of the shell dying. the gases Of decom-
position had quite nlled it's internal
space on exerting little pressure by
blocks OF wood quite a loud explosion
was produced, the fragments OF the
shell being thrown several feet. Sub
sequently, on trying the experiment,
out OF q dozen shells only two failed
10 exDlola
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go into retirement yet. Another ST.
Loulsan who was secretary uf the into
rior Is in his political grave. He Is
John w. Noble and outside tho law
courts in st. Louis he Is never heard OF.
Farther west there Is not so much po-
lltical deadwood. because the country
is young, but down in Mexico Is a man
named Ross who was once q senator
OF the United states and who ruined
his political career by voting against
the impeachment of Andy Johnson. The
last time l heard of him he was stick
ing type in a newspaper office. and the
world would have forgotten his exist
| encc entirely If the reminiscent news
paper correspondent did not find In him
good subject for letter on the de-
cline of human greatness now and then.
The best Illustration that ever came
under my notice showing the depth OF
obscurity into which a public man can
fall was a feature OF the Chicago con-
| ventlon OF 1892. In the decoration of
| the han with the faces of dead Demo-
Gratis the local committee had included
| a portrait OF Allen q. Thurman, the
noble odd Roman" who had been
Cleveland's running mate four years
| before. Some one in the office of one
OF the press associations declared when
he saw list Of the decorations that
Thurman was not dead a dispute
arose. Some OF the best Informed news
paper correspondents present asserted
that he was dead. A man was sent
around to the rooms OF some Of the DEL
egations to settle the dispute. He could
get no Information from the politicians
and only the Ohio delegation was able
to settle fnally the fact that Mr.. Thur.
man was very much alive.
Four years after Allen Thurman had
been candidate for the vice preslden-
cy he was dead to most of the people
of the United States.
So may Hill be If the Extraordinarily
combine succeeds in deposing him from
the leadership Of the Democracy Of the
state of New York.
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STATESMEN OUT OF A lob.

one Abraham Lincoln. there shall he
but one Grover Cleveland"
Richards father. as l said. Is shoot
ing ducks and living on the salary he
saved while in the White House. Thorn
as f. Bayard. who was his secretary OF
state. Is leading peaceful, wholly re-
tired life in Wilmington, Del. and he
tcld me the other day that he was "out
OF politics." Whitney, secretary of the
navy, who spent fortune entertain
ing in the first Cleveland admlnstra-
ton, is busy spending another on
Country estates" and other English
fads and in making money out OF street
railway franchises. He backed Tam
many Hall with his money in the last
campaign, though he had not the cour-
age to support the Tammany ticket
with his vote Whitney is out of public
life as far as n money maker with big
fortune can be when his money making
is allied with politics and franchises.
Tairchild who was secretary of the
treasury has become feeble Mug
wump, who shifts his allegiance with
every new campaign. lie was on the
Seth Low ticket in the last municipal
campaign, but that is not to say that he
| is in public life. In national affairs he
Is not even n lay figure. although in
Justice to him 1t should be said that he
| did not disappear with the promptness
that marked the exit of John G. Car
Isle lately.
| Garland, the attorney general. has
/, become an obscure Washington attor,
ney. Dickinson. the postmaster gener-
al, kept himself ahoat politically
through the assistance of Mr. Cleve-
land from 1898 to 1897, but today he is
almost without political standing in the
state OF Michigan. Villas got into the
senate for a term. but he Is practicine
law now and is half forgotten already
Endicott. secretary of war. might have
gone into a hole in the ground some,
where for all that is ever heard of him
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DAVID b. HILL AMONG HIS LAW
BOOKS.

Gus in political life who have disappear
ed from the public eye as completely
as though they had never been heard
of. Even benjamin Harrison. since he
took himself finally out of politics. has
been a very tame, uninteresting figure.
You have not forgotten how Hayes and
his Chicken farm We're objects of some
derislon to the American people years
age. Hayes reputation has grown
since his death. Arthur was n ghost
of greatness in the short time that
elapsed between the close of his term
and his death. and his friends said
that he died of a broken heart because
of his retirement from public life.
Grant and Blaine We're two men who
could retire from active public life and
still keep their hold on the interest and
affections of the people, They had no
equals.
What became of Roscoe Conklne
when he left his seat in the United
States senate? He became n great law
yer. but as u political quantity he was
represented by zero. Where is Will
liam NJ. Evarts. once secretary of state
and senator from New York, one of
the brainiest men that ever sat in con,
gress? He spends his time between his
city home in New York and his farm in
Vermont, broken in health, though
mentally unchanged. But no one to-,
day asks his opinions of public ques,
| tons. They ceased TO be of interest
as soon as he left the senate. Abram
| S. Hewitt, another distinguished New
| Yorker. nurses his dyspepsia and
breaks out now and then in political
communication to the papers, but he
| is an inconslderable factor in local OF
| national affairs.
| Roswell p. Flower is not wholly q
back number, because Roswell p. Flow
err Is one of the few rich men who are
always ready to aid their party with
campaign funds without an equivalent
| Flower had the fun of thinking him.
self a presidential candidate in 1884 ant
the honor of being elected governor Of
New York. and that is quite enough tC
loosen his purse strings at any time.
Van Wyck's silent campaign for may.
or of New York was not nearly so in.
teresting as Flowers dumb canvass fol
governor. Van Wyck wanted to keeI
still. Flower wanted to talk. But the
condition on which Flower was nomi
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ceded far into the blue depths, with re-
suits as important to science as any
ever secured. The Marian canals OF
Schiaparelli. discovered in 1877, We're not
only demonstrated by the Lowell OBJ
servatory at Flagstaff in 1894 but were
measured and their duplication estab-
lished. Yet Holden of the Lick OBJ.
servatory had ridiculed the claim or
their existence. Professor Douglass, at
Arequipa, Peru, in 1892 was the first OBJ
server to find the canals in the darken-
ed portion of Mars. The work of Mar
tian exploration was continued at Flag
staff under exceptionally favorable con-
ditions. The snowcap at the planets
south pole was observed as 1t grew
larger. then remained at certain
denseness, then melted away again, and
the darkening of the planet was noted
as the shadows crept from the north
pole southwark.
The Lowell observers believe that the
width of the Marian canals (about 200
miles), their regularity and the UNI
doubted scarcity of moisture In the at
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tion of binary stars. His investigations.
which have been mainly in the southern
celestial hemisphere. have embraced
over $4,000 stars. OF the 1900 plated by
him as double stars over 500 are of his
personal discovery. Hundreds of these
binary stars-mere points in the heav-
ems TO the unaided eye-have been found
to circle one about the other and both
about n common center. and Professor
See has spent long nights and days in
calculating the orbits and relative mo-
tions of many of these curious heavenly
orbs. In this interesting work since
becoming connected with the Lowell OBJ
servatory he has been greatly aided by
the latitude of his station at Flagstaff.
for 1t is the farthest south of all the
most important astronomical stations of
the world. those few below the equator
being mainly equipped for Photographic
work. Thus 1t has happened that his
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above the land. In this connection an
interesting possibility is presented by
the Flagstaff observers. not, however.
as scientific hypothesis, but rather as
fancy that has some logic behind it
namely, that Mars is largely arid and
that these broad, regular strips, thou
sands OF miles in length, are masses OF
vegetation, even forests, luxuriantly
growing where water has been artifi-
cially supplied. Thus within the ca
nails of Schiaparelli there may be irri-
cation canals. constructed by the indus
try of Marian hands and fed from stor-
age reservoirs designed by the Marian
intelligence. These observations of Mars
have been suspended, but will be re-
sumed In 1907, when the planet will
again come into favorable position.
1t was in the summer OF 1896 that the
Lowell star gazers were re-enforced by
the services Of DR.. T. j. j. See. He
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AN ARIZONA TELESCOPE.
Wonders Of the Heavens as Seen From the
Big Lowell Observatory Near the
Town Of Flagstaff. "

Astronomer See has told the world
why the stars twinkle. but the world
now has its eyes focused on the high
'alu'udes Of northern Arizona. Why?
because there Is located the Lowell OBJ
seryatory, and 1t was through "a inch
AVIAN Clark lens that Professor r. ]. j.
see the astronomer in charge, gazed,
observed and recorded the etherlc vi
pfatlons that inspired the world re-
nowned author of Twinkle. Twinkle,
Little star" to sing his sweet lullaby.
me telescope is now mounted on the
summit OF a pine grit hill.
tomorrow or next day the lens may
W somewhere else, for Flagstaff is not
Us permanent station. The Lowell OBJ
seNatory mas no fixed residence. To-
eay " rests at an elevation more than
wv rect In an atmosphere clearer and
pllsr than any other astronomical sta
uvn IN the world. Last year 1t was in
aeAeo' before that In Flagstaff. Soon
WI De moved to Peru. The great
as Is already being packed for ship
,, FROM Peruvian mountain tops
Mli return in year or so to Arizona
l1ush probably not to Flagstaff. A
sSn. farther south will doubtless be
,apsen' where the wind movement is
~ uhan upon the hilltop among tho
sn'es and where the wintry skies are
~ cold and more serene. II ia an
,,,nt observatory. but this fact has
s "sn II advantage in many ways SUI
ss-1. 70 those of the regular astro-
S9nieal stations. '
lis
ina sstaolishment in 1894 was due to
pseherosity and astronomical tastes
fou ss'elval Lowell, u grandson of the
gtasrs. OF Harvard Institute and n
slsss u ~ of Harvard college Of the
eonns.a" 90, With ample fortune at his
Of ana' he secured an excellent glass
as,an 'aehes aperture. and with the as.
HasSsses OF A. E. Douglass, a Young
sIs,.a id astronomer and former I Us
gan y OF o. Professor Pickering. he be-.
S,s. .a earnest the work in which he hod
tsur. 'he interest of an ANA
earth Then at Its nearest approacb 10
eon,Inu was the first study. This was rs
u until the warlike planet re-.
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rb. political gossips are trying y,,, 10
ava an occupation Tor seha.o,
nS propose that this emineh. Den'
AN sbell be returned to the mousse VI
.,s,rssentatives, since at present ~
isp has been closed against MN,
~ IA make the next congress ~,
n" notable. they propose that
no'e prvan should stand again for
nan, a. district Mr.. Bryan has put a
MS Wv that part of the plan whicn
Ve'o ~" him He says that he Is not
c ones he a candidate for the mouse.
anu ,a,ht in reaching this determiha-
~ noe in mind the agony OF Thom-
uo1 =" paad when he was candidate TOT
as D. ,,h,,can nomination for presi-
me Mr Reed came very near losing
a w. most admirable part or ms IN
me through fear OF saying or
e',,s ' sa,ne,bing that would in1ure MS
SVm Mr.. Bryan is looking Forward
to 1900. IL, A,honv inst
hut he has the fight of his life on
s ". nands to keep Croker and Murphy
s.s., undermining altogether his dimin-
i.hlnr authority in the Democratic par
" and the place to make that hsh' 10
not in Washington, where ne wouiu pe
orlv one Of big delegation OF new
york congressman. but in New YORK.
ono other distinguished Democrat is
,,.t passing from active political NE
~ ,he moment. 1t would not surprise
at ali to see him on the floor of the
,ousa of representatives two years
serce william II. Morrison Of Illinois,
whose term as interstate commerce
sor,roissloner has Just expired, was
admitted to the supreme court bar re-
emily He said on the day he applied
for admission there that he was going
hoc,t 10 his old home in Waterloo. Ills,
10 take up the practice of law. Some
venrs ago asked Colonel Morrison
wb, he aid not return to congress. He
onsvered that he would be willing to
serve in the house again If he could be
elected for a longer term than two
wears hut the two year term he had to
devote alternately to work in the house
and campaigning in his district, so he
had no time for any other occupation.
II Colonel Morrison determines not to
return to congress, he Will settle very
naturally into the life of his old home,
for he has always kept its associations
alive and visited II at least once q year.
stu II is hard for any man who has
been SO active in public life to drop Into
the comparative stagnation of law prac-
tce in country town. That Is the rea-
son so many old men hold on to public
office or stick to business life long after
their period Of usefulness is past. Next
to the old man who retires from active
business life the most unhappy man
usually is the one who retires from pol
tiles or from ofiiceholding. 1t is not
only the loss of accustomed activities
that is trying to a spirit still vigorous,
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-01-29
Famous Politicians
In Private Life.
n,v;d B. Hill Among His Law Books.
John J Ingalls, as a Reporter
Morrison, Bryan, Cleveland
and Others.

but the want of public attention. the
absence of applause hurts the man who
has been in public service.
ingalls,. who invented the Statesman
out of job phrase, was one of the
few men to hold public attention after
his retirement from office, but even he
Is not heard from often now. He Is
newspaper correspondent in Washing
ton. where once he was one of the three
leading figures of the. government.
Where are the men who were con-
-picuous in Washington when he was
there before?
Grover Cleveland. chief among them,
Is hunting ducks with Jersey farmers
and dandling little Richard in his arms.
And. by the way. l must tell you a
story about Richard and why he was
not called Grover. Four years ago.
when Richard was only a hope, some
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mated was that he was not to open his
mouth during the campaign. He prom
lsed not to. and he broke the promise
only once in Brooklyn. But the extraor-
binary character Of that performance
can be appreciated only by one who
knows how garrulous Mr.. Flower ordi-
narily is.
sat in the lobby OF tho Windsor ho-
tel. New York. one night with n man
who knew Governor Flower well. MIR.
Flower Joined US and began to talk
about certain incidents In political his
Tory. My friend listened and chucltied
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-01-29
Discoveries
Of Antiquities
In Scotland.

,r,, -
-. ~ '',..'. y. We %
N'9 ~ o".,'u''S "'s no' ap i' D"VS
lo'ia' 'pput the runs OIL N'ppur OF me
helds OF Assyria. Scotland supplies her
quota. The district adjoining the town
of Oban has, in late years, yielded both
ANTIQUARIAN and geological discoveries
of particular scientific whine ana i'm
nortorce About ,,,, cor, ,,,o L., IN.
r ., -,
$50 - ''''Vi 10 'u''''"e puI
posVs' al" iii'uie'se preh'storic cave eo"-
tuiilhB colectloh Oh animal ana hu-
man remains and several specimens of
| beautifully shaped implements OF stone
and. bone was uncovered in central
part OF Obnn. and quite recently a ''hnd"
of considerable interest II of lessor i'm.
nortonce vos r,ods Al, c,iIon,ch ,he
a,,,a1,,i.. ..'.....~e ~, ra..s. -
" = 49,
uousan'
"A snort ume after number OF urna
OF baked cay were unearthed ON the
outskirts of the town, and this event
was soon succeeded by fresh discovery.
believed to he the most Significant of
All In % ,.oc,,,, ,iinf a., ,,,1 10 ~ -,
cinltv
In Iure lac, si,-t. s,,,,,iso,,oa M
I ha ~ n IN LAM
,,oro ,r,,,oli,tol,. ,,,t,,,1 H.. ~, oer,r.
NJ Tho ,.oolos,i',i s,,r,.s,, ~, -, go,
In ,,arri,,, ,,,,t t,o dis,r,n, ,,.to 49,, ~
,ha c,,rni,,,,to,, e., ~. ns,,,ni,ss - ~
silifcro,,e rcr,oin, ma hod ,hor,, ~.
snocta1 la, =, snaci,tist NV ,,,rsa,.,. -,
tho rocks bor, ,,,eII dofirod r,n,,ia r,,r,,,
ana roIn nIts v,hiia ,vnr,,hnIns s,,,nas,
wore 'nIniriy discornihln
No dennifa fossii rorr,, ,,.o,, ,,o,.. n,
| 10 ,t,t,t ,,,,,h ~, a,-,,,,,,t,,, -, -,
iova, Of sbnio ~ tha hasa NJ no ,i,cS
ve,dod Cow, r,-,s,,'s,,to,,. .,eot,r,o,' -,
cnnhaiosris
rurtbor o,o,,,tna,,o, os .,,o .,o,,,
bos resuItcd met sattssao,nr,t,, NJ,
,,,ro r,o,,,g,t ,.,,oi,',or. =, aa,,,,oi..,,i,
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800. ~. ~ -. "a -, 1891.
" w .,.a..a
VIZ, ans' VIZ w re ,,a w SIM IN
"i'"' Museums - nc 90 ~ .' wv
~ ''."i,. 'r,s s,',' .. -,
~ - 80, ~ 80 ,, So. -
VI .no eu'l' y. Ut r., 49,,
mems uie ,'is ~ ", ~, ~,
puI seNeiai VI ''icili az, ro i
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neau a'e ai'',os' ,,e,, ,,a,,,i,,,,,
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A Wonderful Work.

The remarkable task is now in prog
ress of accomplishment of digging n
hole 10000 feet deep at West Elizabeth,
Pa, in which 1t is proposed to place a
mammoth boiler and to make steam in
it through the heat generated at that
depth by the earth.
At present the depth of G,350 feet has
been reached, and no obstruction has
been met which promises permanently
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tional congress for applied chemistry,
which is to be held next year at Vienna,
and DR.. II. r. Won Perger has been
elected in his stead.
The earth is held in It's orbit by the
attraction Of the sun. The pull of this
Invisible force is Just strong enough to
overcome the earth's inclination to
move In a straight line. To bind 1t to
the sun with an equal strength by means
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the scarcity and unsuitability OF fuel
the smelling was discontinued. although
the last iron made was OF high quail
ity. 10 cope with this drawback and TO
utilize turf fuel peat drying and press
Ing plant has been laid down.
Professor Holmgren OF the University
of upsala, who recently died, establish
ed the Physiological institute in Sweden.
He was chiefly known through his re-
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-01-29
A New Solder

Francis Woodland OF Sugar Grove, Pa.
has patented a solder which requires no
acid. zine, resin or soldering iron. can
he heated by a match or candle and
unites gold. silver, tin, copper and
metals Of all kinds. The mixture con-
slsts of so parts Of lead and tin and ~
parts OF mercury. combined in liquid
condition, thoroughly mixed and allow
cd % harden
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-01-29

lens has an aperture OF "a inches. with
a focal length of 81 feet, and weighs
about $50 pounds The telescope case is
of steel and its iron pier Of the most
massive construction. Altogether, this
itinerant observatory weighs about 10
tons.
The power of the Lowell telescope in
cludes stars up to the fifteenth magni-
tude, while the Lick telescope, of IS
inches diameter. is rated only to stars
of the sixteenth magnitude.
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tastes. medicines. perfumes and explo-
slves. From l40 pounds of gas tar in
n ton of coal over 1000 distinct shades
OF aniline dyes are made.
Professor A. Bauer has been obliged
on account of Ill health. to decline the
office of president of the third Internal
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OF steel wires of the size OF telegraph
wires nine wires would be required for
every square inch Of the surface Of the
hemisphere turned toward the sun.
An experiment OF an enterprising kind.
says The Pail Mall Gazette. is shortly
to be made in one of the congested dis
tricts of the Irish western highlands,
Nearly half a century ago iron works
We're in operation there. and owing to
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-01-29

When Mr.. Flower went away. he said
to me; For heavens sake don't quote
what Flower said. He had no right to
tell those things to his most Intimate
friend. but he win talk to any one"
In st. Louis few days ago | saw d.
r. Francis, who was secretary of the
interior under Cleveland year ago.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-01-29
MIR. CLEVELAND SHOOTING DUCKS.

, to retard progress Of the experiment
There is no hole in the world like this,
which will be, when the full depth is
attained, nearly two miles from that
part of the earth on which the grass
grows. The shaft of the Red Jacket
mine in Michigan is said to be three
miles in length, but that measurement
by no means refers to perpendicular
shaft, but to one which, after sinking
far underground, branches off in hori-
] Zontal fashion.
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some time in Indian villages in the in
terror. now claims TO have discovered
positive proof that the Pacific coast In
dIans are OF Malay Polyucsian origin.
In recent German tests with aeetylen'
gas for melting metal Temperature
OF 800 degrees centigrade was quickly
reached. and nickel. which previously
required from so to So minutes. wal
melted In 80.
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a youths heart was recently washed
az Parma, Italy, BY an Italian profess.
or. The washing apparatus employed
was one lately invented The boy re-
covered and now seems all the better
for the washing.
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!, LIE i, WORLD OF SCIENCE.

London rrs's of the Royal institute.
sea Is ca,, r'e,nlains that the foam " the
to the fac t', M Is gradually waking up
Thing Coal Is ne can utilize every
saa light his, not only a source Of heat
Out a storehouse Of coiors'