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The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1899-09-28
NOTES OF SCIENCE.

Shipping World describesa deep sea
diving boat, the invention OF Tuni-
sian engineer, M. Platti del Pozzo,
who is said to have carried out series
of successful trials with it at Cher
bourg. The craft is spherical, three
metres in diameter, and is fitted with
three screws and species of combined
dredge and grapnel, that can be used
to pick up cables and other objects.
SO far the experiments have been car
ried out at depths varying down to ITO
feet. The inventor announces his in
tention of searching for the hull of the
Alabama, which was sunk opposite
Cherbourg by the Kearsarge during
the American civil war.
A very curious fruit has been dis
covered growing wild in Batavia, and
sample has been sent to French
professor of botany at Paris. 1t ap-
pears, says the Scientific American, to
be species Of bean resembling cigar
both in form and color, though only
about an inch in length. But it has a
peculiar characteristic which renders
1t very unique and interesting object,
and this is the exceedingly energetic
manner in which 1t scatters its seeds.
If one of these little fruits be thrown
into a basin of water, it will rest
quietly on the surface for from two to
five minutes; then it will explode with
violence, hurting most of its contents
into the air with noise and splash
like a small torpedo. 1t is hardly
necessary to say that this phenomenon
is caused by the pressure of the elastic
substance of its interior overcoming
the resistance of its hard outer shell.
The fruit usually splits oper lengthwise.
If plucked before maturity and al
lowed to ripen in warm spot, it opens
gradually from apex to base, making,
as it were, pair of diverging horns
starting from the same point. If left
to ripen on the plant--since the pro-
cess is quicker and the internal mois-
ture greater--the opening is sudden
and accompanied with slight noise,
though this is much LEES than that
which takes place when it has been
placed in the water. In this case the
dry but porous tissue of the surface
of the fruit quickly absorbs the liquid,
especially at the grooves caused by
the junction of the two valves or outer
shells of the fruit. The internal It's
sue, being very elastic, exerts upon
the latter tension which soon results
in the violent bursting already de-
scribe. The curious property of explo-
sion is given the little plant for the
dissemination of its seeds, which
would otherwise stand poor chance
of propagating its species.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1899-09-28
Friday for America.

1t scarcely behooves Americans to
be superstitious about Friday, so far
as the feeling would cause them to
look on that day of the week as un-
lucky. Here is the reason why:
Friday, Columbus sailed on his ia
nous voyage of discovery.
Friday, ten weeks later, he discov-
cred America.
Friday, st. Augustine, Fla, the old
est town in the United States, was
founded.
Friday, the Mayhower, with the Pill
,grims, arrived at Plymouth.
Friday, George Washington was
born.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1899-09-28

Pekin now has an electric railroad
running from the south gate of the
city to the steam railroad station, and
it is hoped that permission to enter
the city itself may be obtained soon.
The road was built by German firm
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1899-09-28
Supreme Court Decisions.

Chief Justice BlecRley, of Ga has tried Ty-
ner's Dyspepsia Remedy. His decision:
ATLANTA, Ga, March 14.-Dr Chas o. Tyner,
atlanta, Ga: have used, and am now using
Iyner' 8 Dyspepsia Remedy. IL is a mental as
we'll as physical elixir With its aid ami pair
Of spectaclea l can frequently see the law in
spite OF unsuitable or too much diet. LOGAN +.
bLEoKLEY." Price soc. q bottle at all druggists;
Or sent for price, express paid, by Tyner Dys-
pepsia Remedy Co., As Mitchell St, Atlanta, Ga.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1899-09-28
Beauty is Blood Deep.

Clean blood means a clean skin. No beau
ty without it. Cascarets Candy Cathartic
clean your blood and keep it clean by stir
ring up the lazy liver and driving all impuri-
pimples bails, blotches, blackheads and
that sickly bilious complexion by taking
Cascarets-beauty for ten cents. All drug
gists, satisfaction guaranteed, l0c, Zoe, 5Oc.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1899-09-28

Sir Sidney Waterlow, once lord
mayor of London, who married an
American girl, recently gave park to
the Londoners, and will have the
pleasure of seeing his statue erected
in it in his own lifetime.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1899-09-28
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.

A process has recently been patent
ed by Bradford England syndicate
for removing wool from skins by
means of an electric apparatus.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1899-09-28

After General Shafter had made an
address to some school children in
Grand Rapids, not long ago, he disap-
peared, and the searching party finally
found him in school room signing his
autograph for about 100 clamorous
children,
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1899-09-28

Ask Your Dealer for Aliens Foot-Ease.
A powder to shake into your shoes; rests
the feet. Cures Corns, Buuions, Swollen,
Sore. Hot, Callous, Aching, Sweating Feet
and Ingrowing Nails Aliens Foot-Ease
makes new or tight shoes easy. Atall drug
gists, grocers and shoe stores, Is cts. Sam
pie mailed FREE Adr's Allen S. Olmsted,
LEROY, n Y.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1899-09-28

Edward Bulwer Lytton Dickens, son
of the novelist, has been appointed a
rabbit inspector by the New South
Wales government. He was formerly
a member of the Colonial parliament.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1899-09-28

There are eight inches more rain.
fall annually on the south shore of
Lake Superior than on the north
shore, aud three inches more in the
csses OF Erie and Ontario There is
also greater precipitation on the
eastern shore OF Lakes Huron and
Michigan than on the western.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1899-09-28

Experiments have been going on
with an ingenious machine which
shuts over a mans eye so that the
eyelid as it works opens and closes a
chronograph. SO far the quickest
wink on record is about one-siXth OF
second.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1899-09-28

Electricity has been applied to the
manufacture of glass. Formerly diai-
'culties were experienced in melting
the ingredients owing to particles of
coal and cindsrs entering the erucible,
TO the injury of the product. These
are now eliminated by employing an
electric arc within carbon crucible
to fuse the ingredients. Great econ
omy results. as bat forty per cent. OF
the coal formerly used is required. 4
pot of glass can be melted in fifteen
minutes that by the old process would
require thirty hours.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1899-09-28

Fits permanently cured No fits or nervous
ness after first days use of DR.. Kline's Great
NerveRestorer.$2 trial bottle and treatise free
DIR. r. H. KLINE, Ltd, 93l Arch St., Phila., Pa.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1899-09-28

1t is now proposed to con struct canal con-
Meeting Germany with European Turkey.
The financial success Of Kiel canal has given
rise to this project,
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1899-09-28

The Staten Island Rapid Transit road has
a special car for hoodlnms on Saturday
nights. They axe locked in and not allowed
to disturb the peace of respectable people.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1899-09-28
greater c0!egl5y.

The sra g{la Tor existence is . Goa
Test for caroo1, in tao view OF VI.
Charlie, Rjehas The activities OF lie
depend on the force set free by the
burning OF carbon and hydrogen in
oxygen, these three elements being
Inc essential foods, the oxygen being
abanaant for all Purposes while the
available carbon is only one three
hundredth -tho1saudth as much. Life
is a small quantity OF carbon in very
pomplex and unsa5le combination.
This carbon is continually uniting
with oxygen in slow combustion, pass
ing from one fora to another au} end
Tag in carbonio acid. which the SUMS
heat, through the chlorophyl ofplants,
lecomposos, the carbon reappo1ring,
first in the vegetable, then in the asi-
NAL, and 50 on. There is an inces-
SAINT circulation Of catbon, kept in
motion by the suns heat.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1899-09-28

Fire-engine manufacturing com,
panies have lately begun the construc.
tion OF portable electric lighting ont
fits, consisting of boiler, engine and
dynamo mounted on wheels.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1899-09-28

Married people live longer than the unmar-
ried, the temperate and industrious longer
than the gluttonous and idle, and civilized
nations longer than the uncivilized.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1899-09-28

y paper by Professor G. t. Sever
and NJ. II. A. Floss, read at the gen
eral lnee@ns of the American Lns5i-
tute Of Electrical Engineers, gives
valuable information regarding the
relative economy OF horse and electric
delivery wagons. They have found
that the average delivery wagon COW
ers a distance OF about II, 268 miles
per year, at a cost of 1885 cents per
mile for q two-horse vehicle. An
automobile will cover the same dis
cauce for 2.65 cents per mile less,
equivalents to $29SG0 per year. \
further advantage is the higher speed
Of the electric vehicles, cntplilg the
deliveries to be accomplished with
greater celebrity.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1899-09-28

For the last year our exports of railroad
iron If all sorts were Gl0,2l3 tons against
747, $50 ons for 1896, 55S,315 tons for 1898 and
| N3l 81 tons in 1880.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1899-09-28

Piso's Cure for Consumption is an A No.
Asthma medicine w. r. WILLIAMS, An
tioch, His, A pril u, 1894.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1899-09-28

A dispatch from Paris tells Of some
recent researches concerning cancer
made by Dr. Bra, who finds parasites
similar to those OF cancerin fragments
of diseased wood, particularly apple
wood. The Government gave him
permission to inoculate the forest
trees with cultures of human cancer
and six months later he found spots
of dry rot on the trunks, and one elm
died Dr. Bra forms no conclusion
that animal and vegetable cancers are
caused by the same fungus, but the
similarity is striking.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1899-09-28
Don't Tobacco Spit and Smoke Tour Lin Away.

To quit tobacco easily and forever, be mag
netic, full of life, nerve and vigor, take MOTTO
BAG, the wonder-worlser, that makes weak men
strong. All druggists, soc or 81. Cure guaran
teed Booklet and sample free. Address
Sterling Remedy Co, Chicago or New YORK
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1899-09-28

Among Berlin's cab drivers there are seven
former army officers three former clergy
men and sixteen members of the nobility.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1899-09-28

At Asst, in California. a cistern 104 feet
long by 81 feet wide and "A feet deep has been
made in a hillside for the storage of wine
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1899-09-28

Mrs. Winslow' Soothing Syrupfor children
teething, softens The gums, reduces intiamma-
ton allay pain. cures wind collie. &c. a oottle
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1899-09-28

Now is the Time to Plant Strawberries.
Our free publications tell how to make money
on them. Strawberry Specialists, kittrell, NC.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1899-09-28

Duluth freight handlers now earn IS cents
per hour. In the early sos the rate was once
as high as go cents an hour
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1899-09-28

Ex-P President Pieroia, of Peru, is said to be
posses sed of a fortune estimated at $50, 100000
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1899-09-28

Educate Your Bowels With Cascarets.
Candy Carthartic cure constipation forever
lOc 25c. If C.C.C. fail druggists refund money.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1899-09-28
ton Forever.

To Cure Constipation Forever.
Take Cascarets Candy Cathartlc. loo or 25c
If C. c. G. fail to cure, druggists refund money
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1899-09-28
500 Reward. 500.

General Lord Kitchener, of Khartoum, will
it is said, visit the United States.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1899-09-28

No-To- BAG For Fifty Cents.
Guaranteed tobacco habit cure makes weak
men strong, blood pure. SOC, ST.. All druggists.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1899-09-28

Enthusiastic descriptions are given,
according to the Philadelphia Record,
Of Il new hand fire engine for use in
suburban and country towns where
the public service is not within easy
GALL which has lately been brought
put in England. This machine is
portable, being mounted on pair Of
strong iron wheels, aud can pump
some fifty gallons of water per miua.o
against a head of sixty-fye feet, or,
when used in emergency, can be
Forced to deliver one hundred gallons
per minute. The engine rests on four
ron feet, this position being effected
by raising the handle OF the carriage
and lowering the boiler. It is OF the
quick raising steam type, aal may be
run up to working pressure in few
minutes, which for emergency work
is, of course, Of great importance.
The pump can be disconnected
readily.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1899-09-28

The Importance of mica in cleo
trical and other industries makes the
discovery of new deposits Of this ma
terial matter of some interest. Oae
of the most recent finds OF the mineral
is in Chanting, China. The Chinese
make use of the substance only for
lanterns and transparent pictures, aud
it has been found in several other
parts of the empire, but the industry
has mover been developed. Hitherto
permission has been refused to open
mines, and the samples obtained have
been acquired from the natives on
from individua, prospectors inter aaed
in the subject. The matter now, how
ever, is said to re receiving the a.ten-
ton of European mineraiogists, par
ticularly Germans, and the mines nay
be started under modern methods.
Canada and India furnish tle chief
supply of mica, and there is an ever
increasing demand for it.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1899-09-28
II .s s :s::. s s.s Thempsen's Eye Water

WHEN WRITING TO ADVERTISERS
w kindly mention the fact that you saw
their nd. in this paper.
New-York tribune., 1899-07-24
A QUEER LETTER.
From The New-orlesns Times-DemOcrat.

From The New-Orleans Times Democrat.
The queerest letter | ever saw In my life sald
a Washington newspaper man VINO was IN 'he Guy
recently was shown me at the home OF an Army
officer now on duty in the War Department y
IS written I'm lead on a couple OF thin slabs or
grayIsh-white stone. each about SIX inches long
and two inches broad, and It's story Is rather ro-
mantle When General Crook was chasing the
Apache Chief Geronimo across Southern Arizona In
pany OF infantry and while the main command
pushed west along the ella River he took "A couple
OF troopers and struck out southwark on recon-
noltre.
They had been gone about two weeks, suffering
all manner OF hardshps and living exactly like the
Indians themselves. when the captain decided to
send OF his back with verbal report
He anxious to embrace the opportunity TO also
dispatch a letter TO his sweetheart. who then
not a scrap OF paper OF any kind in the party.
much morsel OF pencil Knowing she was
eagerly awaiting news from the front he raCked
his brain and finally noticed smooth frag-
ments OF limestone that had clipped off from
nearby ledge
That solved the problem. He selected two fiat
pieces, drew pistol cartridge from his belt and
scrawled his letter with the point OF the bullet
Laying the stones face t. face. that the writing
would not be rubbed OFF by abrasion. he tied them
firmly together with strips OF a handkerchief and
inscribed the address the outside Nothing re-
maine1 but to affx the stamps. which the trooper
promised 10 do as soon as he struck camp. He put
the parcel In his blouse. got through in safety.
although he had several harbreadth escapes and
postage. and the date mark is still quite leglble
need hardly say that the lady prizes this strange
epistle above all the souvenirs which now ill her
beautiful Washington home"
New-York tribune., 1899-07-24
WESTCHESTER COUNTY.
MOUNT VERNON.

II has been decided by the police authorizes 70
commit Rosa Matry. the nine year old GIRL con-
victed of larceny last week. TO the Ne"-ioN
Catholic Protectory, and she will receive her sen
tence and be sent away to-day. The niue ~"
has confessed to having stolen four bicycles ana
yelocpedes and yesterday II was learned by Cmei
Foley from another source that she was prooaoY
The child who recently entered the home OF Mrs
G. F. Erskine and stole pocketbook containing
$3.50
special session Of the Common Council VIII
be held tomorrow evening. The question OF 'he
Injunction OF the city against the Union RAILWAY
restraining 1t from completing its line IN sou'h
Fulton-ave. will probably come up.
The contest over the city printing has nnahy
reached the courts and is believed to involve sew
eral neat questions of law The city char'er Oh
Mount Vernon says that the Common Council shall
have the power to designate two official news
papers each year within three months after the
municipal election. In making such selections
each member of the Common Council may oesis-
nate one newspaper and the two papers receiving
the largest number of votes are TO be the official
newspapers provided that they are OF opposite,
be a nullity. on Tuesday night last the Board
four Republicans, voted as follows: The News"
DemocTatie i The Repg6iiean CRePIHelGa"i'
whereupon Mayor F1ske. following precedent St,iI IN
such cases mmssdIae declared The
of opposite party politics to receive the largest
number Of votes, the official organs or the CITY
Colonel John T. Bryant OF "The Chronicle Rec
ord" however. not satisfied. and he immedi,-
ately retained ex-County Judge Mills TO attack
Mayor Fiskes construction of the charter: Both
sides say that II they lose the decision they VIII
carry the case to the Court of Appeals. III TINS
Is done IL may take whole year TO get final de-
csion and in the time all OF the bond safes,
city ordinances and paving and assessment NOTICES
ordered by the Common Council while the question
IS in litigation may be invalidated. Local poh,,
ticians are taking great interest In the case ana
more than twenty Of them attended the hearing at
White Plains Saturday. decision Is eX-
pecfed on Wednesday,
New-York tribune., 1899-07-24
NEW-YORK CITY.

party Of missionaries TO Persia will sail from
this city next Saturday on the steamer Mesaba
Tho party Will consist Of DR.. J. T. Cochran and
his son. Harrison Mrs. S. j. Rhea, Miss NJ. *.
Van DuZee Miss NJ. J. Dean and Miss Lille Is.
Beaber. A farewell meeting Will be held In the
assembly room Of the Presbyterian Building NO.
l56 Fifth-ave.. Friday, at 1890 p. mr and all
friends are cordially invited to be present.
A number of men In the employ Of contractor
were working on four public school buildings yes
lerday. George McVey delegate Of the Piano Var
nishers' Union informed the police. who ordered
the work stopped One OF the schools was at
Broome and Ridge SITS. where ten men were work
Ing At a school at Sixtyeghth-st. and Lexing-
ton-ave. ten more men were laboring Seven men
also found at work on the school in sixty
thrd-st between Second and Third aves.
There were nine excise arrests in the city yes
terday-eight in Manhattan Borough and one In
Brooklyn on the previous Sunday there were hf-
teen arrests.
New-York tribune., 1899-07-24
ABrNDANT CROPS IN PENNSYLVANIA.

Reading Penn July % (speciaD-Reports have
been received here to the state OF the crops
throughout Eastern Pennsylvania. These show that
this will be an especially good year for the farmers
Wheat alone Will be below the average, yielding
about fifteen bushels to the acre. This Is because
OF the ravages of the Hessian fly. Wheat should
realize at least twenty-three to twenty-five bushels
10 the a singular fact in connection with the
work Of the Hessian fly is that while one field has
been partially ruined adjoining one has been
unharmed. Farmers are elated that they will re-
ceve least 81, If not 81 %, for their wheat. The
oat crop is the best in twenty years, and the
same may be said Of rye and The latter, being
plentiful, will be cheap and instead of selling
IT farmers Will feed it in the winter and iatten
cattle the local market and for the large cities
in the East. Potatoes will average nearly three
hundred bushels to the acre but II IS expected that
a good price will be maintained. Every class OF
fruit. save peaches. will be abundant. Good prices
anticipated for farm produce OF every KIND for
at least year. The great boom In the iron busi-
ness has concentrated large numbers OF people
where there are iron and steel plants They have
steady employment and good wages: they become
purchasers OF farm products to largely increased
extent. and the market will be kept brisk.
New-York tribune., 1899-07-24
PEEKSKILL.

The invitations are out for the wedding of Miss
Amy Frances Griffin daughter OF Mr. and Mrs
Marcus Griffin to Elmer r. Wilcox. all OF this
village. 1t will take place at the home of the
brides parents. No. LOIS Cortlandt-st. Tuesday
evening. August !. at 1;S0 o'clock
The funeral Of owen T. Coffin will take place
to-day at St. Peters Protestant Episcopal Church
of which he had been senior warden since 1872
The services will be in charge of the Rev. Will
lam Fisher Lewis rector of the church. Other
clergy also expected to be present. II Is
presumed that there will be large attendance
of lawyers OF this county. Surrogate Skman has
appointed the following committee to attend the
funeral and take suitable notice Of Judge Collins
death: Leverett +. Crumb. of this village; +. Y
Donohue. of Yonkers; Isaac y. Mills OF Mount
Vernon. and Joseph s Woods. OF Mount Yer
non. The two cours in Peekskill will adjourn
this morning out Of respect TO Judge COin's
memory An effort will also be made to suspend
business in the village during the service The
family of Judge Coffin have received many let
tiers and kilograms of sympathy from various
parts Of this State. Peekskill people in large num-
bers commented upon The Tribunes extended and
accurate obituary Of Judge Coffin yesterday. The
excellence Of the portrait commended. With
one exception other than The Tribune all New
York papers accounts of Judge COftin's life and
death were ake-bref and filled with inaccuracies.
New-York tribune., 1899-07-24
MR.. KALTEyB0RyS sUMMER CONCERTS.

The success OF the summer night orchestral con-
certs at the st. Nicholas Garden, Sixty-sxth-st.
and Coumbus-ave., is continued and is gratifca-
ton to many music lovers who compelled TO
pass the hot months in the city. Mr.. Kaltenbon,
the conductor. gives programmes varied nightly
with taste and discretion. and sets apart certain
evenings OF each week for certain special features
Tonight he calls Ballroom Night; every Tuesday
evening request programme is given; every Fri
day evering is a Wagner evening when the last
half of the programme is devoted to selections from
the music dramas and other orchestral works of
the master. original and arranged: every Sunday
night the programme is denomnated sacred.
Tonight Miss Adrienne Remenyi. soprano, daugh-
ter Of the late EdOuard Rcmenyi Will be the solo
performer and the programme will be as follows;
Ahrch lHgahe l-aeoiHO
Fantase, 'liuguenOtS Meyerbeer
String orchestra SLOW Waltz. Volkmann
~ ' Filtration ....................Ste .Steck
S.g,eIua Carmen" .................. ....... Bizet
Niles Remenyi.
overture martina lotoW
Waltz "Vienna Bon-Bons Strauss
Bridal procession 'Lohengrn .............. Wagner
Violin solo-F. Kaltenborn.
Invitation TO the Dance Weber Berlioz
Overture. 'Mlreille Gounod
Waltz 'Krolls's Ballkange lumbye
March, Iannhauser Wagner