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The Saint Paul globe., 1899-04-02

driving wheel. The front wheel is thirty
inches in diameter and the rear wheel
the front wheel, and his position requires
him to kick outward in using the pedals
The inventor claims that one Of his
to nTone han sny az 10 otber m bcyc ne e
to g. He processes that a mile minute
will be possible on his machine, and he
intends to have a trial made Of it at the
Manhattan Beach track next week.-New
York Herald.
The Saint Paul globe., 1899-04-02
5lG BASE BALL WAR
EAGUE MAGNATES HAVE DONNED
THEIR WAR PAINT FOR A
FINAL STRUGGLE
WESTERN LEAGUE IS NEUTRAL

Will Re in at the Finish and at
Least "DemRnd IL Few COaitnS
Stations" - Litigation That VIII
Cost Thousands of Dollars Seems
Freeze Out the Weaker Clubs.
The Saint Paul globe., 1899-04-02

are signed by the national officers and
make a neat souvenir suitable for franz
ing.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-06-09
SCIENTIFIC TOPICS.
CURRENT NOTES OF DISCOVERY
AND INVENTION.
"A Million Million-The Probable e of
the Notwithstanding VIM Into Water,
an Experiment-Electricity as a Puri-
hcr-Saluting a Phonograph.
A Million Million.

Prof. Wagstaff, whose very name
suggests a pleasing first cousinship 10
Shakespeare, has lately been amusing
himself and his audience at Gresham
college by speculations as to what
might have happened if the father Of
our human race had given up delving
anu taken to figures. Let us suppose
that Adam had set himself to count a
million million, or, in figures, 1,000,-
ooo,oO0 900. We will imagine that he
could count three in a second, which,
though not exactly rapid ciphering,
VIII be found ample, If taken c%ontinu-
ously. Now. II 5000 years have elapsed
since the gracious amenities Of Eden
formed the cradle Of humanity, Adam
would have been working for S9,216,-
ooo seconds, and have reached a total
of 567,64S,0 900, 900 figures. In other
words, his task Of counting a million
millions would still have been unac-
complished by over 4OO,O 900, OO0, 900 of
digits.
All Of which goes to prove what?
There are many possible conclusions.
The first Is, Of course, that Prof Wag-
stan Is a very ingenious and by no
mean melancholy mathematician, but
that hardly needed proof. A second de-
duction, which we advance with all hu-
mility, is that II Adam had only had
haoitual %recourse to harmless dissipa-
ton of this arithmetical kind, instead
Of b~etraying marital weakness and a
fondness for fruit, his descendants
would have been very much better of
morally and spiritually, though not,
perhaps, in material comforts. And a
third conclusion, e%minently gratifying
to those who refuse to believe that
there is any serious discord between
religion and science, is that Prot. Wag-
staff, no doubt a man of distinction in
scientific a~ttainments, accepts without
any demur Bishop Ussher's chronol-
ogy.
According to the divine, the world
was created in 4004 B. c., and that
added to the 1898 years which have
elapsed since the Christian era, makes
IN round numbers the six thousand
years on which the whole calculation
depends. Some hayward scientists"
have dogmatically affirmed that the
world has been wagging along a good
many more centuries than USHER sup
posed, although there is a serious Diff
ference, 1t is true, in his matter be-
tween the astronomers and the geol-
ogists. So, after all, perhaps if Adam
had been reasonably industrious, he
would have had time to accomplish his
task, unless his brain had given way
under the strain. Most of US have
such vague ideas as to the meaning
OF larger figures that it is as we'll to be
reminded by 50 happy an illustration
how many units 60 to the making of
a million. The only other conceivable
fashion in which such instruction could
be acquired Is to become a South Afri-
can boss" of mines and diamonds, and
that process, much as we may desire it,
Is, fortunately or unfortunately, not
open to the majority of us.-London
Telegraph.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-06-09

myriads of great insects which we
reused and %dislodged was deafening;
while the black clouds of gad-f1ies and
c%ockroaches were very bewildering,
and, to say the least, annoying.
We foundered and fell as we waded
through this sea of leaves and verdi
ure; but rose and scrambled on again,
pausing ever and anon, breathless and
exhausted, to sit and fan ourselves, or
to aid in pulling each other out of this
jungly network, for it resembled that
which sprang by magic spell around
the palace of the sleeping beauty in
the old fairy tale to battle all intrud-
ers for a hundred years.
Hislop, who had not yet recovered
his strength, was among the first to
give in. and declare, when half way up,
that "he could climb no further!"
Two or three took advantage Of this
admission to remain with him for a
time; but I, refreshed by a ripe ba-
mana which had fallen from the trees
at the top, and which l found lust
at hand, pushed on. and being lighter
So oHJ " Luy SOlupdulOuS ROI dSledQ
Of them all.
After half an hours severe toll, dur
ing which my hands and knees were
lacerated Il torn by sharp blades of
gigantic grass, and by the gummy
creepers to which ones very flesh ad-
hered at times, l reached at last the
banana trees, the foliage of which
waved like a gigantic plume on the
summit of this isolated rock.
The banana rises with a stem which
Is about six or seven inches in diam
eter at the root, and from thence
tapers upward to the height of eighteen
or twenty feet, to where the leaves
spring like a bright green tuft, broad,
Wavy, feathery, and dropping, as those
of the palm do.
l uttered a shout-an 40 poean"-
to my companions, announcing that I
had gained the summit before them,
and armed with my only weapon the
lakewood spear, pushed my way for
ward between the smooth stems of the
bananas, till reached the abrupt
brow Of the cliff, from the verge of
which l saw, far down below, the
bright blue stream hat rose on the
slopes of the great mountain, running
through the heart Of the isle and gilt
tering in the setting sun among groves
and ravines, to where it poured in
foam upon the white sandy beach, and
mingled with the mighty Southern sea.
saw also the figures of Chute and
Carlton, as they stood near the rock
which bore the inscription, but they
could neither distinguish me nor hear
my shout, which gave fresh ardor to
those whom I had left halfway down,
and who now resumed their ascent,
ITO be continued.)
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-06-09
Turning Wine Into Water.

Turning wine into water is by no
means a profitable business, but it re-
quires little outlay for machinery, etc.,
in order to make water from wine. A
glass pickle bottle is required, and the
outside of it must be covered with pa
per or painted black. You also require
a walnut and a few feet of very thin
glass tubing.
First partly fill the jar with water
and then cork the bottle tightly With
a large cork, through which two holes,
large enough to admit the glass tub
ing, have been bored. Divide your tub
ing into three parts and place one
through the cork into the bottle, but
not touching the water. Another part
Is to be pushed through the cork and
into the center Of the liquid. Now take
one-half walnut shell, and bore in the
bottom of it a small hole and afnx it
to the top Of the piece of tubing which
is not touching the water. The other
half shell Is to have a similar hole in
the center, and the tubing which goes
into the water is to be pushed through
1t, leaving about one-quarter Of an inch
~protrudtng from the bottom Of the
shell, as shown in the diagram. A
second hole is now to be cut in this
shell and the third piece of tubing in
serted, just as shown in the illus+ra'
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-06-09
"A ANCHOR.
That of the Cumberland Now on

W. h. Macy.
II the port anchor of the American
ship w. H. Macy, now lying at Green
street wharf, could talk it might un-
fold some wonderful yarns. The big
but u%ngraceful mud hook swinging
over the ships bow was onc suspend
ed through the hawse pipe of the Unit
ed States frigate Cumberland. When
1t was made nobody now seems to
know, but it is more than likely that
it began its career of usefulness with
the launching OF the Cumberland. 1t
was On the Cumberland in 1861 when
the war broke out and probably when
the frigate disappeared under the wat
ers of Hampton Roads. Between that
day and the time that the Macy was
launched, which occurred about fifteen
years ago, the history OF the Cumper-
lands anchor is unknown. "Old Cum
berland." as the sailors call the big
anchor. weighs about five tons, which
is nearly twice as much as the average
anchor used by sailing craft. The
stock is sixteen feet long and of solid
oak, which is as sound today as when it
rested on the deck OF the Cumberland.
The ring. through which the cable
passes, is large enough to admit the
passage Of the body Of a full-grown
man, and the lukes are Just three and
a half feet wide. The only signs Of the
anchors past now visible is the name
TT q Cumhorland sta mned ;nto thn
iron. Some of the letters are almost
obliterated. but there is enough left
to identity the anchor.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-06-09
salutinr a Phonorraph.

1t will be remembered that Queen
Victoria spoke a message of friendship
and good will to Emperor Menelek of
Abyssinia after the recent victory in
the Soudan.
The message created a marked i'm
preston on his NASTY. The royal
words were delivered on a Sunday, the
photograph working excellently. The
tones Of her majestys voice were repro
duced with remarkable clearness, and
Menelek was SO pleased that nothing
would satisfy him but to hear the mes
sage at least a dozen times. First he
would listen to the words as they came
from the trumpet Of the photograph,
and then he would use the ear tubes.
When his curiosity and delight had
been satisfied, he relapsed into solemn
silence and ordered the royal salute,
and remained standing while seventeen
guns were fired. Menelek himself has
tried to send a message by the phono-
graph, so that he appreciates the diff
Guilty of securing a satisfactory record.
Scientific American.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-06-09
TWO LITTLE KINGS.
Brought From the Antarctic Ocean t,
New York.

Brought From The Antarctic Ocean to
New York.
Some time ago now, from the far-off
south, two baby kings" were brought
to New York from their island home.
That home is the volcanic islet named
after Governor McQuarie, and lying
hundreds of miles south of Tasmania.
Now must tell YOU that they were
not boy kings, but bird kings, and
their proper name is King Penguins.
They We're so young as to be real
babies when they left the island. Their
parents were with them, but both of
them died on the voyage, so the little
King Penguins were orphans when
they arrived in New York and were
taken to the Zoo in Central Park.
II you had never seen a penguin YOU
would scarcely believe at first sight
that it Is a bird, as they always sit in
an upright position. When we looked
at them from behind they we're more
like little woolly bears than birds.
They are not able to fly, either, like
other birds. as their wings are more
like paddles than wings, though they
assist them greatly in swimming and
diving. which they do splendidly.
1t was a most touching sight to see
those awkward looking little birds in
their first house at the Zoo, sitting
huddled together, and constantly cry
ing for more fish. So young and help
less were they, they could not even
help themselves from the bucketful set
beside them, but went on crying and
waving their long, slender bills in the
air. They often tried, too, to feed
themselves from each others beaks, in
memory of the way in which their
mother used to feed them.
The penguins are a very peculiar
class, and the king Penguins'' are the
largest members. of it. They are all
antarctic birds. coming from the very
far south.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-06-09
The Number Seven.

The most intelligent ritualists are
agreed in common with the Roman
Catholic church that there are seven
sacraments. How they came to fix on
the exact number of seven is not so
we'll known, o do they seem to be
quite sure themselves. Peter Lombard
and St. Thomas did not invent the
sanctity of the number seven, but only
inherited it. When once the assump-
ton had been made that numbers had
some hidden meaning and when the
assumption had been consecrated by
religious tradition, it is easy to see
how scribes and Pharisees builded on
it an imposing but shadowy house Of
cards. Thus, when seven had been
received as the perfect number, it was
inevitable that the six gifts of the spir7
it named by Isaiah should be correcte
into seven; that sever mortal sly
should be classified to be set stray
by seven sacraments. But VIII
more to u present purpose is
quire how the assumption Gang
made. The answer to this +
may be given at once. The sp
of seven rests on the regard paIusS.E
the Oldest astronomical system known
to us, to the seven planets-the sun,
moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter
and Saturn.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-06-09
Walking on Water.

There is a man in Berlin who sur
prises onlookers by exhibiting himself
walking on the River Spree. He uses
water shoes, not unlike snowshoes, they
being about twelve feet long and no
broader than his foot. The shoes are,
however, not broad pieces of wood, but
hollow zinc cylinders, tapering to a
point at each end, the feet being strap
ped to the centers. Along the bottoms
of each shoe five square flaps are hing
ed at right angles to the length of the
shoe. The hinges OF the flaps allow
them to bend backward but not for
ward, so that when he moves one foot
forward through the water the flaps
beneath that shoe swing back and lie
fiat, offering no resistance to the move
ment, while the flaps on the other shoe
remain vertical and resist to some ex-
tent the tendency Of that foot to slide
back. By this means, though every
forward step involves a slight slide
backward, he shufles along with sur
prising speed and safety.-Philadelphia
Times.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-06-09
Flight of a Cannon Shot,

The longest distance ever covered by
a cannon shot is said to be fifteen
miles, but that was probably several
miles within the possible limit, accord
ing to Captain E. L. Zalinski, the re-
tired army officer, who ranks among the
highest authorities in the world on
munitions of war. On the point Of pos
sible range Captain Zalinski says:
Under existing conditions and with
the guns, powder and projectiles avail
able, I believe it possible to fire a shot
a distance of eighteen miles. The dis
lance will be greater when a powder is
produced that will exert a uniform
pressure on the gun throughout the
course OF the projectile from breech to
muzZle."
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-06-09
A WORLD.
Andre's Reported Death the joke Of q
Russian Physician.

If the statement made recently by a
port that Andre and his two compan-
ions had been fQpnd in a cabin near
Krasnoiarsk is lshe result of a huge
joke. 1t is r.cre than probable, since
the Investigations set on foot by the
Russian government have revealed
nothing, that the Inflated explorer
never reached the shore of northern
Asia; it is ever possible that he is yet
alive. The story given out is that a
certain Siberian mine-owner, who lived
in the wilds of the steppe, wished to
decoy out for a brief visit a dear friend
of his, a physician of Krasnoiarsk. He
therefore wrote to him that Andre and
his two companions had come down on
his mine, and that although they
wished to keep their presence secret
for a few weeks, the learned doctor
might enjoy their conversation until
such time as they should choose to
reveal their presence, and Their share
the honor of their discoveries. The
physician, however, smelt the mouse
and replied by the next mail that
Andre and his two companions could
not have come to the mine-owner's
house, since their bodies had been
found in an old cabin near Krasno-
iarsk. Then followed the description
Of their supposed death, the details of
which, in almost identical words OF
the physician, the Russian govern
ment caused to be cabled over the
world. For some reason the mail de-
tectives, who open every letter either
way, failed to catch the first Andre
statement, but did open the report.
that he had been found by the Toun-
gous. Such, at least. is the version
current in the capital of the all-om-
%nipotent car. 1t is possible, however,
that both stories, that Of Andres
death, and then this explanation of 1t,
originated in the brain of some fertile
space-writer. Unless, indeed, h Rus
sian newspapers are different from
those of the rest of the world.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-06-09
Hair Green as Grass.

In the districts surrounding the cop.
per mines of Cornwall, Cuba, Chile and
other places where the ore is abun-
dainty found a curious sight is to be
seen in the shape of men with hair
that is quite green. This is not, as
might be imagined, a fashionable fad
but the grave result produced by the
mems surroundings. The crude ore, in
order to secure a more marketable ar
ticle, is roasted in enormous furnaces,
and it is some strange omanation from
the smelted copper that effects this
chemical change in the hair Of the
miners and turns it as green as grass.
Investigations have proved that the
fumes from the furnaces contain a GER
tain quantity of ~arsenical matter, and
this causes the startling change, al
though the texture and growth of the
hair suffers no intury.-Philadelphia
Inquirer.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-06-09
CHAPTER XXXII.
The Mystery Solved.

All day the air had been unusually
sultry and ~breathlessly hot, even for
the tropics at that season; but when
the u sank westward, when the air
became cooler, and the shadows OF the
island, with its wooded blum and tow
ering blue mountain, across the slope
OF which the light gossamer clouds
lay floating, halfway up, were thrown
far eastward over that lonely sea
which no keel seemed aver to furrow,
we prepared for a further exploration,
or, as Hugh Chute said, ito overhaul
that ere cliff from truck to keelson."
Chute and Carlson were dispatched
to Its base. by the way Of the river
bank, and to where! the cascade pour
ell over the rocks, waking the solemn
echoes of the otherwise silent ravine.
Their Instructions were to station
themselves near the rocks which bore
the Spanish legend-to keep a sharp
lookout on the face Of the, clitf and all
the way up to the grove Of banana
trees that grew Q its summit.
Billy the cabin boy was left in charge
OF the hut and boat, while Hislop,
with the rest Of us advanced toward
the clif, up the slipping bank OF which
Its only accessible point-we pro-
ceeded to climb.
It was, or Is Twelve months can
make no change q hundred and fifty
feet in height. as / have stated, ris-
Ing sharply up from the side Of the
great mountain, and is covered by d
sngle Of wild shrubs that must have
beer growing there since the days OF
the deluge.
The creepers with gummy branches,
the sharp serrated grass, the yellow
gourd vines, the Wild tendrils and
plants Of which weknew neither the
names . the nature. were there in-
tegsvcyen as closely as q herring net.
10 the depth Of seven Of eight feet
from their roots.
Amid this Jungle the hum. Of the
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-06-09

ton. All joints should then be sealed
up with wax. -.. 81. p
Now. If some claret be gently poured
into the shell marked A, the air in the
bottle will force the water up the other
tube into the she'll, B, where it will
find its level and run out of the third
tube. Thus wine is poured into the
bottle and water comes out. The bot
tie must be coated with black or paper
in order that the water inside is not
seen. In the illustration an ordinary
glass bottle is shown in order to clear
ly define the arrangements Of the
tubes.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-06-09
s DICK RODNEY;
Or. The Adventures of ;
An Eton Boy.
RY JAMES GRANT. }

RY JAMES GRANT.

CHAPTER NXX.-(Continued.)
Whoever among us had lone this
was guilty of wanton malice and trea-
soc to the rest of his friends-for
friends we hoped we were, as well as
brothers in misfortune.
We also examined the mutilateG
bread bag. In the side thereof was a
clean slash a foot in length, made by
some sharp instrument, and by this
aperture the biscuits had been abb
stracted by some one who had inserted
his hands through the fragile wall OF
our hut, which, as l have stated, was
composed only of turf and branches.
The theft had been committed in
the night, but by whom?
Was the thief one of ourselves? The
eyes of eacL. seemed to ask the hate
full question of the others, and to repel
their inquiring glances; but soon after
three Of our missing biscuits were
discovered by Tom Lambourne, lying
q few yards apa1s among the long
grass, as IL the abstracter had dropped
them during a hasty flight toward the
woods or the DEVILS Mountain.
''In addition to ourselves there is
some one else on this island" exclaim-
ed Hislop, emphatically; land this &C.
counts for the loss OF the studding-sall
boom; and without delay, this some
one else must be discovered"
We dreaded lest savages might be
concealed in some Of the caverns or
woods, and that they might come upon
us in the night and slay all, or that
they might make off with or destroy
the long boat, our most valuable pos
session.
It was at once resolved that n OF
our number Ito be regularly relieved)
should remain in 1t day and night,
armed with the Ratchet, u only
weapon, and that he should be well
logged II he slept or neglected the
double duty OF watching the hut and
boat, which we're close by each other.
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ease germs, noxious gases, disagreeebie
tastes and odors. The water, upon en-
tering the inlet pipe, is conveyed to the
top Of the flter.where It passes through
a very fine-mesh sieve. with a view OF
catching the larger foreign particles,
and, after leaving the sieve, 1t is
brought into direct contract and forced
to pass through two perforated metal
lie plates. both charged with the cleo
trio current, which cause a thorough
~ioosening and precipitation OF the for
eign inorganic matter and the positive
killing and destruction OF all live MAJ
ter. In order to cleanse the filter 1t
IS only necessary to reverse the stream,
rs il the ordinary types OF filters.
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About LIS, 900 dollar watches were
sold by a single firm of manufacturers
last year. Tie same firm estimates
that the sale for this year will reach
q million. This is a pretty good ad-
vance from the figures of 1894, the first
year that the dollar watch really dawn
ed upon the country. The firm sold 3d.
600 that year. The price of the watch
is surprising enough, but the really
astonishing thing about it is the fact
that a guarantee goes with the time
piece. A dollar watch is one thing. A
guaranteed dollar watch is another.
The dollar watch is really an evolution
of the small clock.
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FullY Exnlained.

Eyes, that was Jobson's store. Poor
Jobson! Splendid site, wasn't it,"
Yes, and a fine building, too" Zone
of the finest in town. And there never
was a finer man than Jobson. Whole
souled, liberal and straight as a string.
To think of the way he went down!
It's too bad. But, of course, you know
he had one ruinous failing?" "Why,
no. What was it," "He didn't adver-
tise.'-Cleveland Plain Dealer.