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Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1899-01-26
The Cotton Markets.
NEW YORK COTTON MAI,KE'

|N'~N CtNiN WI l. o-N L.
New York. January 25-There was
heavy speculation at the Cotton EN-
change again to-day. The decline of 20
lA-64d. at Liverpool caused active
realizing on the opening call here, with
n consequent decline OF los points Ii
soon became apparent that heavy buy
Ing orders We're in the market and also
vantage of any break in order to cover
their contracts. Prices. therefore,
quickly recovered and the market
showed great activity. Buying on
Southern orders was 4 feature, with
preference largely directed towards
May and August contracts. 1t was
claimed that this buying was for cover
ing short interests that were created
before the boom In cotton commenced.
Other shorts covered freely. Parties
with Liverpool connections sold mod
eratc1y carly ftf-4the- session, but later
they were buying cotton eagerly. The
reaction from the opening decline was
accelerated by indications of smaller
receipts at the ports and the interior
towns for tomorrow: also by unfavor-
able weather reports from the cotton
belt, rain, seet and snow being indi-
Gated for the territory east of the Mis-
sissippi and cold weather west of that
line. Continued stability and activity
in the Southern spot markets, in cotton
cloth markets and in American spin
ming centcrs were also reported, while
advices from Wall street indicated I'M
abated speculative energy in stocks
Throughout the session August con-
tracts led the upward movement and
WAS by all means the most active posi-
ton on the list. AS the market drew
towards the close speculation Increased.
taking the day as a. whole 1T was one
OF encouraging conditions. There was
no let up in claims OF backward farm
work, and scant buying of fertilizng
material. The market was finally firm,
to IL points net higher.
New York. January 25.-Cotton flu
lures opened steady, at the decline;
January, 5.96 February. 5.94: March.
$685. April. SOS; May, Sol; June. Sol;
July, 6.02; August COS; September, 5.9i;
October. &c., November, 594; Decem-
Der. 800.
Futures closed firm; January. COZ;
February. COS; March. Cos: April. ell;
May, 6.15; June. els: July. 617; August
go; Sepicmber 6.07; October. 6.O7; No
vember. COZ December, 500.
Spot closed steady. 1-16 advance; mid
ding uplands csc: middling Gulf.
6 5-16c.; sales. 600 bales.
New York Jan. 25.-Cotton steady;
middling. Gasc. Net receipts. 423 bales;
gross, 1876 bales; sales. 900 bales; stock,
1903, 450 bales.
Total to-day: Net receipts 29.69i
bales: exports to Great Britain. 1881
bales to France. 1000 bales; to the
Continent. 225SG bales; stock. 1.Os9, OS9
bales.
Consolidated: Net receipts. 1862
bales exports to Great Britain, IS, 231
bales to France. 1920 bales; to the
Continent. 1920 bales
Total since September 1st: Net re-
ceipts G5G2,0di bales; exports to Great
Britain. a,60S.S93 bales: to France, 569-
$50 bales: to the Continent. 1855, 1854
bales.
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creamery. 1s@1shc.; State dairy. 1870
lie. Cheese, steady; large white. 10hc
1SE @19c.; Western fresh, &c.,; South
ern, 17s@1Sc. Cotton-seed oil. firm;
prime crude. &c.,; do yellow, 23M@2Ic.
Spot coffee-Rio. steady; No. invoice,
csc; No. jobbing. 7Mc.; mild, steady;
Cordova. 7ls@14c. Sugar-Raw. firm
and tending upward: fair refining, 3M
@3 13-16c.; centrifugal, &c test, 4Hc.;
molasses sugar, 3 9-16c.; refined, steady.
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NAVAL STORES.

Charleston, S. c.. Jan. 25.-Turpen-
tine market firm at 42c.; rosin steady,
unchanged.
Savannah. Ga. Jan. 25.-Spirits tur-
pentine firm, 40c.: rosin firm and un-
changed.
Wilmington. N. c.. Jan. 25.-spirlts
turpentne firm, 39k@4Oc. bid: rosin
firm. 9Oc. and 95c.; crude turpentine
quiet, sl.35 and $40; tar steady,
S1.10.
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NEW YORK MONEY MARKET.

New York. Jan. % Money on call.
firmer at 2hQS per cent; prime mer-
camille paper. 21a@SA per cent; sterl-
ing exchange. steady. with actual bus
iness in bankers bills at NSiia@i.S4A
for demand. and at A.S2h@4.S2A for
sixty days: posted rates, $4.S3ia6li.S5l.;
commercial bills, S4.S1hMl.Si; bar sill
yer, 591sc.; Mexican dollars. A7Mc.: Gov
eminent bonds, firm; State bonds,
strong; railroad bonds. strong.
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1899-01-26

La Grippe is again epidemic. Every
precaution should be taken 10 avoid 1t.
It's specific cure is one Minute Cough
Cure. a. j. Shcperd Publisher AGri-
cultural Journal and Advertiser. Elden.
Me-, says: mo one viii be disappoiut-
cd IN using one Minute Cough Cure
for La Grippe" Pleasant to take, quick
to act.-Burrow. Martin & Co.
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1899-01-26
RALTIMoRE GRA1N MARlEr

Baltimore, Jan. 25.-F'lour, quiet, I'M
changed Wheat, inactive and firmer;
spot and month, 77A @77%c.: February.
713s @T7lac.; Southern by sample, 72I
1Sc. Corn. dull; spot and month. 403s
@40lac.: February. 4Oas@40Ac.; March,
41@4lAc.; Southern white corn, 3SA@
4o&c. Oats. firmer; No. Q white. 80
sales Rye, easy; No. nearby, 61Hc.
No. 2 Western. 63Nc.
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BOND MARKET.
NEW YORK PRODUCE MARKET.

New York, Jan. 25--FIour more act
i've and stronger again; Minnesota pat
cnt, s3.90Gp4.25 Rye -four, firm. Buck
wheat flour quiet. Buckwheat. dun.
Corn meal fr'mer: yellow Western
S4@S5c. Rye. firmer; No. 2, 651ac. fob
Wheat-Spot, firm; No. red. S3lac.
Corn-Spot. firm; No. 2. 1880. Gals
Spot, stronger; No. 2. Csc. Beef, steady
Cut meats. quiet: picked bellies. 5@
5a<c Lard. quiet; Western steamed,
,s5.95@6.00; January, s5971A nominal; re-
d1ned, steady. Pork. firm. Butter,
steady; Western creamery, 14@19c.; do
factory, 13@I4c. sElgins. 1ac.; Imitation
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TRUCK MARKET.

New York, Jan. 25.-Potatoes, steady;
Jerseys. Sl.12hGp1.50: New York. Sl25
@1.62i&; Long sland. s1.75@2.00; sweets,
Jersey. Sl.25Q25O. Cabbage, dull at
S2.00@ $500 per hundred.
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CHICAGO MARKET.
Wheat, Corn. oats. Provisions. Lard. Short
Fills. Etc,

Chicago. Jan. 25.-The Wall street
deal In wheat merrly continued its up
ward course to-day. and some of its
Sayness of spirit touched the traders
in corn and oats. May wheat after a
slight dip carly, closed 1&c higher
Corn left off at an advance of &c. Oats
were benefited ls@9sc.; provisions are
about unchanged.
The lending fntnrns r. nnnll u ral1o...
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GRAIN. HAY. ETC.

mixed. asc.: from store. 4se STORE ''c;
mi MILL FE E p. steady: bran.
$3.50: shipstuff. $3.50.
q T - mixed Soc; white. ssc.
oe HA ny ;oon, 500 per tom No. 2. 'loO
MlLLED RICE-As to g.ades-SM to
POULTRY-Ilve dull; chickens, old, Is
ducks. mud. 2Oc.; turkeys. live. loo:
dressed. l24iSc.
EGGS-Stcady, lie.
BuTTER-Good country, - to I6c.
HAMS-0uiet; smithheld. fancy. Is to
Observation-Disclosures. $l.5o per bag;
new sweets. Hayman. 65Q75c. per bar
CABBAGE-s2.00 per barrel.
ONlONS-s2.O oq250 per barrel.
APPLES-Northern. S350GI.50 per DBL
LEMONS-s3.5o per box
PEACHES-None
t FINE ApP e Ps5 Gse ,o l,c; Florida
cA Al Et9 MA ORANGES : Seedlings
s35G94 90: jamaica. $500 per box.
PEANUT-Market steady: new fancy,
common. 25as.; spanish. Soc. per 6as6 Hei'
MILLED RICE-As to grades. SADIE.
CoCOANUTS-10O to bag. 1926.
GROCERIES,
COEEEE-Market firm; common, SiAG
FLOUR-Market very strong. with up
ward, tendency enc. spring wheat. fancy
ard patent. si.s5; winter wheat. half
patent. $50: winter wheat. best straight.
fnr rood Ia%y ssi Winter !.
winter wheat, super. s30oQS.4O.
MEAL-Per bag 1oo lbs. sl.oo; so lib.
BUTTER-PrIme to choice grades. 24c.;
fair to good grades. 20 10 2lc.; fair grades.
cHEEsE-Hlrher; large fun cream.
lldll1sc.: small full cream. 1lAdl2c~
SUGAR-Market much stronger. Out OF
town prices dependent on delivery rates -
different points. Patent Cubes. 5.23: Pow
dered 52S: Fine Graduated, $40: Stand
ard Granuiated. DO: Confcctioners' y.
tss keystone a. 57s; Am soll;a a. 45s
Franklin u. 4.GO; keystone B, 81: Amer
lean Il. AS: Centennial i, Al: California
Il. 4.S5: Franklin Extra c. IFS; Keystone
Centennial Extra c. 4.2S: California Extra
c. 4.2S: Franklin c. 4.2S.
frmer az the advance: syrup. good TO
choice. 2oG22: lower grade syrup. l2Grl5
rort9 RyG 1871
&c to &c: common. IL TO II.
PROVISIONS.
BULK MEATS-Alarket strong; rib
sides. bFsc.; bellies. eastern. 57sc.; bellies,
western, 5SsM57sc
DRY 'sAIIrED JOWLEs-44c,
PORK PLATES--5c.
HAM POKK-Pcr barrel s1o75
MESS PORk-New. none; mess, old.
5000.
LARD-Pnre butchers. in tierccs. GIsc.:
pure western In ierces, sac; So-lb tubs
and 5O-lb tins. &c. more: compound lard
in ticrccs. 4i4c.; SO-lb tubs and b0-lb tins.
WooL~Unwashed Isc; bulky. to &c.
less: washed wool. Csc: black. l2i5c. to l6c.
HiDES-G. s. ~; green. 65.: cry tint.
"A: drv salt. lli2: damaged 7.
SALT FISH.
HERRING-Now Eastern Gross. per
barrel. S4.00di25: mullcts. 100 kegs. $50:
spots. 100 kegs. S3.7a. mackerel. fat No. :.
FRESH FISH.
Spots. $500 per hundred; croakers. per
pound &C; Taylors. ic. per pound; pan
ish pcr pound 10 &c. baking fish. per
pound. : 10 &C.; founders. per pound. TO
&c; sheepshcad. 10 Sc hluensh. 10 sc
per pound: specified trout. > to &C., large
rock. per pound 10 10 lei2c.. pan rock. }
10 &C. Spanish mackarel. Use.
La Grippe is again epidemic. Every
precaution should be taken Ia avoid 1t.
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NORFOLK MHRkETs.
For Grain. tiau. 0rooGrles, Provision;
SC.

Quotations at Wholesale Prices,
unless otherwisc stated. and prices
"rr MI bJ Get To nuctuationt market
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SECOND FLOOR
tENT
100 Church st. $40.
iiG Churcn st, SIS.
"a Queen st. rooms
above. SIS.
lC0 Botetourt, S75.
Factory building
cor. Water and
Madison. $50.
FLATS.
299 Church st, $40.
Cor. Church and
Holt. 2 rooms, $40.
422 Highland. $3.50.
1lS-120 w. Bramble-
ton ave. Sc ca CHI.
27i James st. Sc.
l25 * elley ave. Sc.
hree carriages.
lcphonc-5l5.
We an offer several
i paying city prop
: solicited.
u stables with threa
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1899-01-26

T, ARGB TRADE Said OF CLOTH
n!shing Goods, Shoes, Ladies' Dresses,
&c. mt our auction house THIS Crhurs-
day. MORNING at 10 o'clock. X. Il,
NORRIS Manager. 1t
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1899-01-26
NEW ORLEANS COTTON MARKET.

New Orleans. Jan. 25.-Cotton futures
firm. January. 5.6S bid; February, $40
M5.71: March. 5.73@l5Ti: April. 57705.79;
May, ISL June. 5.S3@5,S5 July. 5S6G
5.s7: August, 5.S3@5.s5: September. 5,73
ass; October 5.75: November, $3.50
5.77: December. 5,T7@5.7a.
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ERESII FISH.

Spots. 500 per hundred: croakers per
pound &c; Taylors. ic. per pound; pan
iish per pound. 3 to &c: baking fish. per
pound. 10 &C.: founders. per pound. to
&c; sheepshcad. TO Sc ; hluensh 10 sc
per pound: specified trout. . 10 &C.. large
10 &c SnanlsE maekarel. Use.
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W. R. RENTRESS & SON,
General Real Estate and Rental Agents

Is BANK STREET,
FOR
DWELLINGS
House on Duncan
avenue. S2l.
House on Graydon
avenue. S25.
81 Falkland ST.. 500.
30 Brown St. 500 30.
100 Bermuda ST.. Sll.
2l5 Brown ave. $lo.
lS5 Charles ST.. 81.
Si Virginia ST.. $40. 80.
l27 Charles St. s..
4i2 Baxter ave, Sc.
STORES
4l5 Main St
Cor. Church and
CIV r1ntta 600 IN
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HERRING-Now Eastern Gross. per
barrel. s4.OOdt25; mullets. 100 kegs. $50:
spots 100 kegs. S31a. mackerel. fat No. :.
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AUCTION sAIEs-TmIs DAY.

By the Morris Auction House. Al Wash.
ington Street, Opposite New Market
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1899-01-26
NORFOLK TRUNK FACTORY
liz Church ST., near Main.

We guarantee all Trunks, bought of us
ior One Year, and repair them free Of
charge We also print the name and ad-
dress on your Trunk-Graiis.
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EMPRESS cos.
Adams Fix. 1884,
American FIX. III.
T.. S. l:X. ...... %
Wells Fargo ..l26
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Is BANK STREET. SECOND FLOOR
FOR RENT
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PROVISIONS.

WoOi-Unwashcd ISc; bulky. to &c.
less: washed wool CSC. black. l2i5c. to l6c
HIDES-G. s, ~: green. ga: cry tint.
"A: drv salt. lli2: damaged 7.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-12-17

or four miles. In diameter! No one, Of
course, will ''see the moon," but only
moon landscapes. How close will it bring
the moon to the earth? M. Vandeveyver.
of Brussels, assures us that we may view
the evolutions of lunar army corps. "It
will bring the moon within forty miles Of
u.s." Is the most liberal promise of the
Paris observatory, however.
The Midway of the coming exposition,
to be called 1.-THE Street of Paris" will be
strikingly different from the old Street
of Cairo" where the plaintive music Of
the danse du ventre first burst upon the
world. In the old Jardin de Paris the
chahut, or "fine de steele Dance" with
Rayon dor, La Melinite, La Nome Fro
mage and La Goulue. waved its white
lace-edged petticoats as the last gesture
of the dying century. Alas! the fin de
steele dance itself is dead, and its divini-
ties have grown stout and heavy.
Highly expensive entertainments are to
be the special sign of the new Street Of
Paris" and their special sign will be, not
frivolous debauchery, but worthy general
and scientific interest
To take the sea voyage OF the Mareor-
anna will cost So. The Mareorama. I'M
doubtedly. will be hrst-class novelty
Its originator and chief painter is the
worthy artist, Hugo d'Alesi, to whom.
with Cheret, Is due the renewing" Of the
Paris '.afYiche" For years he has been
the high priced poster designer for al the
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velous story Though mirrors. they are
blackened, SO that they reflect only one
line each, as fine as the edge OF knife
blade. In the first blackened plate the
mirror line runs crosswise; In the second
1t runs lengthwise, SO that while the first.
vibrating, reflects successive lines on the
second. the latter reflects only single
points Of these lines upon the selenium
cell.
Transforming the waves of light into
waves OF electricity, the selenium disk
gives them to the wires for transmission.
At the other end the series of electric i'm
pulses, acting on two steel plates, or
lips" cause them to open and close. so
that the band of light between them con-
stantly changes in intensity. The two
mirrors In the receiver, being arranged
like the two in the transmitter, with the
same periods of vibration and the same
narrow lines of reflection, pick out single
points from each band of light and pro-
iect these points with incalculable rapid
ity upon a ground glass plate. on which
they are blended In q perfect picture.
The greatest scientific rival of the dis
tance SEER is the great telescope. News
comes to Paris that the glasses are
ground successfully. The masonry work
is already we'll In hand, on which the
monster will repose Its length, for 1t Is to
be remembered that the grand siderostat
will be far too long and heavy to be held
UP and pointed at the moon and stars.
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and project them upon selenium disk.
sSelenium Ii q rare element, something
like sulphur, which has the singular prop
erty Of Transforming waves Of light into
waves of electricity 50 that II rays of
light be thrown upon q selenium disk
from which wires extend 1t will be found,
on closing the circuit, that current is
set up In the wires. Furthermore and
more important, these rays of light, diff
fering in color and intensity, produce cur
rents which differ in intensity, each par
ticular ray having its corresponding cur
rent. and no two of them alike.
The mirrors are metal plates, fxed on
sounding boxes, and are kept in continued
vibration as long as an electric bell at a
certain pitch Is sounded somewhere in
the apparatus. Furthermore, as these
metal plates and their sounding boxes are
tuned to the pitch of the electric bell, the
two mirrors must vibrate at a uniform
rate-3,0O0 or 1000 times second. And in
the same way the two mirrors in the re-
ceiver must vibrate in unison with the
far-away other pair.
How these MISUNDERSTANDING, say, 1900
times a second-break UP the image into
tiny points of light and transmit them at
the rate of 1900 to the second is mar
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The distinguished ingenieur-constrrcteu
Voirin, has solved It, An immense steel
cylinder. which forms the lower half of
the construction, balances accurately the
upper half when loaded with its passen-
gers. So a comparatively small force is
sufficient to give the whole mass roll or
pitch upon its central pivot. Curved steel
springs. welded together for strength, de-
termine by their changes the direction
and force of each of the ships slightest
movements, from the gentle rise and fall
OF the port of Marseilles to the furious
contortions of tempest. storm at sea
is to be one of the brilliant incidents of
each trip.
On deck there are steamer chairs, the
smell of new paint, deck stewards offer
ing beef tea-everything. The pilot comes
on, they get UP steam, the horn blows.
and the ship sails out into the Mediter-
ranean. past all the beauty spots of the
cote d'azur, in and out OF the Italian
ports. See Constantinople and Alexan-
dria. At Venice-one arrives in the even
ing-there is a scene by moonlight, with
a procession Of gondolas lighted with We
netian lanterns At Naples boys and girls
come on board. selling fruit and other
mementos. Miles of moving panorama
already are painted. The sea breeze is to
be simulated by the passage of cooled air
over a bed of ses-wrack, so that the smell
of the sea will be enjoyed.-Foreign Cor
pespondeuce Chicago Tribune.
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transatlantic steamer at Brest or
-. 49,. tne finish Of a I4ongchamps horse
Mss.. ana. as curious as anything. a
sss-eye view of Paris, taken from a
,sa .oun actually in the air. The best
NJ az this show will be 81 each.
~ principle of the Kaleidoscope de-
aus aus upon the fact that any image pro-
~ upon the retina of the eye is only
no,,. o'enoing Of an infinite number of
W. ANS projected separately from the OBJ
-, seen by separate rays of light. 1t is
~ NECESSARY that all these points reach
~. wv ~ exactly the same moment, The
ro,na WIN stu be perfect though some
oA.e traction of second later than
e.ss,', or though they all come at sue
enor.s intervals, provided they be short
~ ss The persistence Of vision of
pls,e WIN bring them together in a COM
~ picture, Just as 1t makes a circle OF
d sal OF glowing match end when it
s.aeeo swiftly round and round.
.,lrs has found q way of separ-
Al any image that may be formed by
eopnnary Photographic lens into its
TN .~ luminous points. of transmit
eno,, snese points separately. but with
IN. svs rapidity, over wires, and of let
othsr me eye reconstitute them at the
/, snd into the original picture.
telaot.erstore seems that the perfected
fasbtasseop works something after this
1o.h Two vibrating mirrors do the
y resolving the image Into points
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French railway companies, composing ir-
resistible scenes Of the Riviera and the
southern mountain resorts in all their
glorious coloring. An artist utterly I'M
prejudiced, as willing to do art for rail-
way companies as for the Salon, he long
dreamed of revivifying the discredited art
Of the popular panorama. The exposition
has given to him his opportunity. The
Mareorama will be panorama in action.
with which action the spectator will be
mingled.
Having chosen the shores Of the Medi-
terranean, so familiar to him in his poster
work, d'Alesi easily found stock COM
pany to build the great machine which
shall give the illusion Of steamer trip
along them. Paying s. each. the specta-
tors will mount stairway and find them
selves transported suddenly to pleasure
steamers deck In the port Of Marseilles,
booked for Alexandria and return. The
vessel IL already swaying gently with the
rising tide, and, should one fell indis-
posed. he may seek the lower deck and
have cup Of tea in a real steamers din
ing room, or rest In one of a dozen state
rooms. absolutely realistic
How to make the pitch and roll, which
are the terrors Of the sea, was problem.
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UNDOUBTEDLY the most sensational
" Of all the side shows at the Paris
exhibition will be the distance
NM Of the young Pole. Jan Sxczepanik.
No case IL known Of any previous exam
~ ct perfected invention of absorbing
hi~sst to the general public being held
~ more than year simply that it may
= shown with eciat at a great EXPOSE
t1ca. The truth Is that Szczepanik. Sc
duced by an offer Of 5000, 900 francs for
hs Paris exposition, entered into an IRON
ca contract not to show the distance
M" anywhere before that date.
There ID little doubt that Szczepanik's
Invention has solved to perfection the
long dreamed Of problem of sight-at-a-
distance over wires, just as the telephone
transmits sound. Photographs are shown
that have been taken In a darkened room.
nom camera forty miles away. At the
exhibition, where the Picturesque, as 1t
y called, will be exhibited in a building
capable Of seating 5000 people, the views.
u full color as In movement, will be
thrown on screen. as in the case Of an
ordinary magic lantern. There they will
snow, they say, the moving life of Picca-
Gully circus right in London, the arrival
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The length Of the steel tube is to be $50
feet, with a diameter Of five feet. As It
cannot be pointed at the sky, the moon
and stars will be caught by giant mir
ror and thrown into it, When 1t is known
that this mirror, with its movable sur
roundings. will weigh 10000 pounds. and
will have to be operated in a pond OF
quicksilver, some idea of the greatness
of the undertaking will have been gained.
During the total eclipse OF the sun on
May %, 1900--the first visible in Paris since
1S93-admissions to the amphitheater Of
the great telescope will run up to IS each.
Should the canals of Mars be discovered
to be really the work of intelligent crea-
lures there is no telling to what price the
competition of human curiosity may send
up the admissions.
1t is declared that the moon will give at
the focus of this greatest of all telescopes
an image of 1874 inches In diameter. Up
to the present time the greatest enlarge
ments Of focal images have been 1900
times. With the grande lunette they
may, under certain circumstances. be en-
larged as many as 10000 times. This will
be as If the picture of the moon thrown
on "a screen--could any screen be large
enough-would stretch out 234000 inches,