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New-York tribune., 1900-05-27

the spectrum of coronium, and a fresh vertical
tion will be sought for Professor Young's OBJ
servation of the Flash spectrum This. by
curing Immediately after totality begins. has
led him to believe that the layer of gases which
turn the lines of the ordinary solar spectrum
from bright 10 dark ones lies down close 10 the
light giving cloud shell of that body
MEASURING HEAT RADIATION
One of the most original and interesting vent
ures on this occasion will be the effort of Pro-
fessor Hale. of the Yerkes Observatory. and Pro-
fessor Nichols. of Dartmouth. to measure the
heat radiation from the corona This will be
done with exceedingly delicate apparatus that
has been employed on stars. The undertaking
is attended with great difficulties. and these
perts do not allow themselves TO hope conf
IDENTIFY for definite results.
A few weeks ago The Tribune mentioned the
plan of William Fl. Pickering, of Harvard, for
photographing the environment of the sun dur
ing totality. for the purpose Of thus discover
ing whether there is a planet or a number OF
planetods inside the orbit of Mercury
n careful study of local conditions during May
for three successive years along the path of to-
tality, conducted by the Weather Bureau in
Washington, has led 10 the conclusion that the
chances OF fine weather on the day of the eclipse
are about two or three TO near the Atlantic
and Gulf coasts and five to one in the interior
on the uplands of Georgia and Alabama Hence
the professional astronomers will he stationed
pretty we'll inland. while many amateurs, for
purposes OF economy. will post themselves
nearer to Norfolk.
HOW ECLIPSE WILL AFFECT NEGROES.
IN THE BLACK BELT PREACHERS WILL USE
1T AS AN ARGUMENT To BRING SIN
NERs To REPENT
Columbia. S. c., May Is CSpeciaD.-As the day for
the eclipse of the sun draws near the greatest IN
terest is being manifested by those living In or
the path of totalfty. Railroads will run ex-
eursons TO points of vantage. and these places will
he visited by citizens in general as well as the
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to control the whole business for the two CONT
nents
Leading animal importers in this city yesterday
said that they had not heard of any trust among
importers and had not been invited to join any,
that they had heard no talk of union among the
animals themselves. and that Karl Hagenbeck
about the largest dealer in wild animals in the
world. that any talk of a worldwide trust that
did not include him would partake of the nature Of
foolishness 1t may be that some persons not yet
grown up who interested In animals Will re-
member this Hagenbeck, and they will easily be-
Heve that he will have a word TO say about the
animal market, and that trained animals in general
will be ready to stand by him.
II is difficult imagine a trust IN wild animals
any way. the trade is hard to control. 1t is
quite open to the enterprise of persons with small
capital Anybody who wants to engage in II can
go out and catch a tiger elephant or a rhi-
noceros and sell 1t anybody who wants to buy
Under favorable conditions a trust can control a
manufactured article. but that is a different thing
from going into Jungle and persuading wild ami
mails that they must not allow themselves to be
caught except by the agents of the trust. Neither
will IL be easy for the trust 10 undersell its small
rivals 1t could. conceivably, cut down the price
IA ton Of elephants. but ii could sell animals
swore that they could afford 10 pay no more. That
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every one else. 1t Is only when the sun is COM
pletely hidden that the corona can he observed.
And more interest is felt both by the initiated
and uniuitiated In this than anything else con-
nected with the phenomenon. So delicate and
faint is this sllvery envelope that il will be
difficult for observers to detect the feathery
character of its structure unless they shield
their eyes from ordinary daylight for several
minutes before the arrival of tOtality- At the
eclipse of 1898. visible only in India IL was per
ceived that certain streamers which reach out
from the corona extended to distance or sew
eral diameters. If one will remember that the
sun is about seven-eighths of million miles
through he will understand what this means
Next after the corona in Importance. perhaps.
come the rosy hydrogen prominences that rise
from the solar surface. Owing TO doubts which
have recently arisen to their composition and
color they will be studied both Ocularly for DIFF
ferences of tint, and spectroscOpically- The
spectrOscope viii be used carefully. on the
corona too, TO determine how far out in that
enormous cloud the substance called coronium-
thought to be the lightest in existence-may be
found Further efforts Will be made 10 locate
the position OF the most characteristic line In
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scientists. Sunday night Will probably witness
many accesSiOns 70 The membership Of the col
ored churches Even in cities where newspapers
read and the eclipse is talked about the ne
groes look upon IL as something almost super
natural, and not TO be lightly discussed IL VIII be
alluded 10 in these churches by the preachers as
a warning against the time when the sun will go
go out forever. In the lower part OF the state
where in some counties the negroes live il, sec
uohs IN which there are practically whites and
where the masses DO not read. nothing Is known
aoout the coming eclipse, except BY the preachers
who travel about and keep partially in touch with
the worlds dongs And the preachers are going
70 use TINS dark morning powerful lever 10
move the sinful who nave hitherto withstOOd their
arguments. In Sundays services special stress
VIII be laid on the destruction OF the world when
the wicked predOmtnate; appeal will De made
70 all 10 come into the Church; hints will be
thrown out about the Lord showing his anger hy
putting out the sun. and that light may be restored
III these sinners repent In time Then the preach
er viii announce that the church will remain omen
TIL II o'clock Monday that he will be there 10 lead
III prayer curing the WorninS n his PRAYERS are
needed: And the Monday morning congregations
Tor many years
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Accordingly the crowd lay in wait for him, and
Bubness crushed his skull with
TRIED TO SHOOT HIS sTEPFATHER.

Toledo. Ohio May 26.-Charles BARLEY, real es
tate dealer in Chicago and owner of considerable
property here. attempted to assassinate his step
father, r. A. Barley at the latter's home in
Grand-ave last night. r. a. BARLEY is of the
largest wholesale grocers in Ohio. and stands high
here in business and political circles. The young
man was excited and his aim wild. The two
men then grappled and the housekeeper ran
screaming to the rear OF the house, attracting
some nejghbors who and endeaVored to
separate the combatants. Young BARLEY still held
the revolver and attempted ii. A second
shot was fired. which narrowly missed the head of
a neighbor. r. r. Gleason. A squad of police ar
rived AT this iuncture and the stepson taken
to the Central Station. but was subsequently re-
leased on bail. Because the stepfather had be-
friended the young mans wife when in trouble he
is said 10 have been insanely jealous. and had
written threatening his stepfat hers life.
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LIVES SAVED BY SECOND TRIAL
IN FIRST DECREE. GET OFF WITH
LESS PENALTY

Pottsvile. Penn May 26-After tweuty-one
hours deliberaton the jury this morning brought in
verdict convicting Andrew Coras of murder in the
second degree. and Joseph Suchousky, John Antony
Peter Stenkavage. Michael Brozuski and Anthony
Machulus guilty Of mansaughter for causing the
death of Joseph Rowskoski. last September at Will
lam Penn. this county. This was their second
trial They were all convicted last November of
first degree murder before Judge Henning A new
trial was granted. which resulted above. RoIIas
Bubness, who struck the fatal blow, was convicted
of first degree murder at a prior session of the
court. The men are all Lithuanans They were
members Of a secret society known as Propenokos
which decided to put RoWskoski out of the way
New-York tribune., 1900-05-27
THE CIGAR SHAPED TRAIN.
AN INTERESTING EXPERIMENT OF THE
BALTIMORE AND OHIO RAILROAD

AN INTERESTING EXPERIMENT OF THE
BALTIMORE AND OHIO RAILROAD
a most interesting and important railway
pertinent is now being conducted by the Balt-
more and Ohio Railroad Company with pas
senger train of peculiar construction. designed
by Frederick L. Adams formerly of Chicago,
but now of New York. The train is variously
designated as the ''wind-splitter,' the cigar
shaped train" and other terms descriptive of
Its design. Mr.. Adams is at loss for an apprO-
pirate name. and describes his invention as a
railway train calculated offer the least pos
sible resistance to the atmosphere. He has con-
structed train with the idea of treating the
air as if it were fluid with the qualities
of pressure and resistance water, and argues
that if high speeds to he obtained with
economy as much attention should he paid to
the lines of passenger coaches as to those of
steamship yacht.
Under the Adams plan of construction there
is a continuity Of lines from the engine cab to
the rear car. All possible obstructions
New-York tribune., 1900-05-27
NOW FOR THE CENSUS MAN.
HE is TO BEGIN HIS WORK OF ASKING
QUESTIONS THIS WEEK.

All the preliminary work for taking the Cen
sus of 1900 in this city has been completed. and
next Friday an army of enumerators will be
turned loose to ferret out every nook and Granny
unearth every resident, ask searching and mys-
tifying questions and absorb facts and data to
make up the sum total of the census. Charles
S. Wilbur who is in charge of the census of
this district has been working like a Trojan to
get his work systematized. He employed an
expedent which. far as is known, has never
been tried before, but which has been COM
mended by census experts all over the world
and will doubtless be largely used in the future
AS the census is taken starting June /, the
New-York tribune., 1900-05-27
WILD BEASTS UNCONTROLLED.

NO TRUST AND NO UNION AS YET FORMED
AMONG THEM.
There seems to he, fortunately, little ground for
the report that the wild animals in this country
forming trust and trying to get the wild
animals of Europe join them in the plan. The
stories told make it appear that it is the trained
wild animals rather than the wild wild animals
who purpose TO combine and therefore it might be
proper call the combination q union, as
being organization of skilled labor, rather than
a trust The report is that Frank c. Bostock has
just been elected president Of the Frank c. Bostocll
Wild Animal Importing and Exhibition Company,
that his brother has large interests in the animal
business in Europe and that an effort be made
New-York tribune., 1900-05-27
INTERNAL REVENUE OFFICE AT HONOLULU

San Francisco, May 26-lnternal Revenue Col
lector Lynch is making preparations to establish
an office in Honolulu. the Hawaiian Islands hav-
ing been added to the District of California In
ternal Revenue laws go into effect in Hawaii on
June Il All deputies a the Honolulu office viii
be selected from citizens of Hawaii. After June IA
goods from the United States must be stamped be-
fore being sent TO the islands
New-York tribune., 1900-05-27
THE VAN DYCKS.

The Van Dycks yinGicated Sir Robert Peel,s
judgment both as an art connoisseur and an
economist. These We're the pair of full Ienp,bs
The Genoese Senator" and Portrait of a LADY.
which Sir David Wilkie purchased at the SninoIa
Palace. Genoa. These pictures are inferior IN
beauty and technique To the Puritan Lord
Wharton. which is in 81. Petersburg vet the,,
are fine examples Of the masters youthful art
when he had received his first impressions of
Italy and had not been overwhelmed with Eng
lish patronage. This pair of portraits was sold
fcr S242J0 after the auctioneer had advertised
them most adrOitly by appealing to patriotic
millionaires to present them TO the nation rather
than 10 allow the greedy Americans to obtain
possession Of them. At these figures Sir Robert
Feel made good bargain IN his day. Indeed all
Inc pictures were sold at advance upon orig
ma! prices. Lawrence's first portrait of Curran
brought $3.50; Collins's Winter Scene on
names $4,000; Landseers "Shepherd's
Ffayer" $3.50; Mulready's The Cousin" 5000
ana canal scene by Van der Heyder $4,000
Inc Louis Seize Tuileries candelabra which the
MOD found too heavy for removal when the pal
ace was sacked, were sold for S13,500. and the
D'aolhs for the Chippendae furniture. the
Dronzes and other art treasures was most spir-
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would do for food animals, but it would destroy
the value of a wild animal such. 1t might be
credited that Tammany Office holders had bought
stock I'm tiger trust. but the rich and the poor
alike may assured the price of polar bears
and zebras will remain about what 1t is now.
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ueu' "A htue Chippendale coffee table brought
10 euheas and a pair of pistols once carried by
Napoleon A. suineas
The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-08-03
OxFORD,s WITTY BISHOP.

Two stories are attributed in the July Railway Magazine to the witty bishop of Oxford. He was once talking to some boys in school and said tOthem: Now, my boys, I dare say you think it's a very fine thing to be a bishop. But I assure you I'm a very busy man. l have to go about all over my diocese, and I haven't time to study like you have. In fact, nearly all my study has to be confined to only one book. It be- gins with a B Do you know what it is?' 'The Bible, sir; the Bible," shout ed the boys all together. "No,' replied the bishop, with a merry twinkle in his eye. It's called 'Bradshaw!'
 The other story is still better. On one occasion, when he alighted from the train at Wheatley. the station for Cud- desden Palace, an officious porter rushed up to him and asked, Any arti- cles in the van, my Lord?" Articles" :" said the bishop grimly. Yes, thirty nine articles" Off hurried the porter, and worried the guard almost out of his senses by the way he searched the van and detained the train. Presently he came back to the bishop with crest fallen expression of countenance There are only seven, my Lord. only seven? Ah you're Dissenter then, I should think
The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-08-03

will show at that popular resort the rest of the week. A party of twenty five came over from the Pequot club house and forty summer residents of Woodmont came up by trolley purpose ly to witness the show. Both parties expressed themselves as being pleased with the performance and showed their appreciation by applauding vigorously all through the seven acts.
 This evening on the ball grounds there will be a fine exhibition of fire works-as fine as has been seen at the shore this summer-and if the weather is good some surprises in that line are promised
 Entries for the baby show of August 15 are coming in thick and fast. and the indications are that the exhibition of the rising generation will be record- breaker. The entries may be made with with M. Mann, 786 Chapel street.
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WILLINGFORD.

The fact that there have been no out, season thus far is not a pleasant one to contemplate, as heretofore every year there has been much pleasure experienced from the weekly musical treat. As far as can be learned there has been no movement concerts.
 The rainfall here for July was 2:39-1OO inches. A year ago 1t was 6.67-10O
 Gentry's pony and dog show is billed here for Saturday, August II, and will show on William street.
 Harry Williams will sail for England Saturday morning on the Umbria.
 Rev J. A. Clark is expected home to-day from q vacation trip In the west.
 E. C. Morse is home from the Adiron- dacks for few days.
 c. ". Morse has returned to Pittsburg, Penn.
 c. l. Parmelee is home from the Adiron- dacks.
 Mis- Mary Mansfield is in Northheld, Mass, for d three weeks visit.
 Mrs w. H. Hodgetts is ill with malarial fever.
 Henry L. Wallace and his nephew, Rob ert Wallace, sailed from England for home Wednesday.
 MT. and Mrs F Fl Warner are visiting friends in Massa chusetts.
 Fraray Hale and family leave to-day for Atlantic City.
 Miss Florence Woodhonse and Miss Nellie Hobson are visiting friends in Reading.
 R. Wallace X Sons are to run their own electric plant and will put in LOGO lights in their factory.
 Yesterday there were 100 inches of water registered in the gatehouse at Paugh pond, which shows decrease of eight inches in two weeks.
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Tranellcrs Guide.
New. York, New Haven and
 Hartford R. R.
June 25,l90O.

FOR NEW YORK-"4O5, .4:5O, x6:1O, 1 x7:0O, 500, *S:10, S:S0, *9:35, x10:3O a. m., "l2:10, 12:15, *1:3O (parlor car linn ited), *1;35, 200, ~2:3O, 800. *4:00 *417, 4:3o, ,"5:10, *5:20,5:35, 6:3o, *71O, "S:1O, S:15, {, Bridgeport accommodation *9:IO, 915 D. m. Sundays-*4:05, *4.50, xS:0O a. m.. *2:3O, x4:SO. x6:15, "7:10, "S:1O, *S:3O, s91o D. m.
 FOR WASHINGTON via Harlem | River-*105, "11:50 p. m. (daily). FOR BOSTON via Hartford and Will limantic-@1O:OS a. m. FOR BOSTON via New London and Providence--*2:10, "2:2O, *11:s5 (parlor, car limited) a. m., *12:O5. "2:47, "4O5, ~4:oo, -S;o5 D. m. Sundays-~2: :1O. "2.2O' a. m. *l2:o5, s4:55, "6:55 p. m. FOR BOSTON via Springfield-*1:lo. xlo:lo, S11:05 a. m, *1:45, ~5:52 p. m. oundays-*1:10 a. m.. "5:52 D. m.
 FOR MERIDEN, HARTFORD, SPRlNGFIELD. etc.-*1:10, GAO. SOO., xlO:O3 fo Hartfordl x1O:1O *11:05 a. m., Iz:oS, "l:45. s1O, 5:00, *5:52, (6:15 to Hartford), 800, 1O;oo, 1l:15, (to Meriden) ?. m' Sundays-l:1O a. n1., 120S, "5:52. S:2S ?. m.
 NEW LONDON DIvISIoN-
 For New London, etc.--*2:10 s2:So, 7:55, 9:3o. 11:o5, *1135, (parlor car limited) a. m.. "12:o5, 100 (to saybrookt Junction Saturdays anly) 2:15, +2;47. N3;2O, (to Newport Saturdays only) &4:0b. 4:15, "4:55, 5:15, 6:15 (to Sayprook Junctlon), *655, 9:1o (Guilford acc.) D. m. Sunday-+2:10 *2:2O, $50 a. m.. l2:O5, @4:55, 6:55 p. m.
 AIR LINE DIVISION
 SFor Middletown, Willimantic. etc.. 7:46 a. m., 12:55 "2:33, 6:O5 p. m. Sum- days-7:15 p. m. Conn ecting at Middle town With the Valley branch and at Wlillmantic with Midland and Central oivlslons and C. V. K. R.; at Turner Vile with Colchester branch. NORTHAMPTON DIVISION-
 For Shelburne Falls, Turner's Falls, Williamsburg, Holyoke, New Hartford ana intermediate stations-750 a. m. and 400 D. m. For Westfleld and in- termediate stations 5:57 D. m.
 For Pennington, New Hartford and points this side-750 a. m., 12:04. 400, 5:57 Q. m. BE3RKSHTRE DIVISION
 TOT Derby Junction. Derby, Ansonia, etc.-7:OO. 500, 9:33 a. m., 12:00, 2:3s. S:5a, 6:s5, 7:5o 11;2o p. m. Sundays S:IO a. m. and 8:30 D. m.
 TOT Waterbury-7:00 500, 9:33 a. n,.. ls:oo' 2;S9. 5:35, 7:5o. 11:2o p. m. Sum uays-S:lO a. m, 6:15 p. m (via Nauga- tuck Junction..
 For Winsted-7:Oo. 9:33 a. m., 2:ss, 5:S5. 7:50 D. m Sundays-s:io a.. m.. 6:l5 p. m. (via Naugatuck Juncticn).
 For Shelton, Botsford, Newtown, Dan- bury, Pittsf1eld. State Line-9:33 a. n.. 3:57 p. m.
 For Albany, Buffalo. Detroit, Cincin- natl' St. Louis, Chicago and the West via Bridgeport-6:10 a. m; via State Line-9:33 a. m., 3:57 D. m.
 For Litchfield and points on Litchfleld 3:57 D. m. " .'
 "Hxpress Trains. xLocal Express.
 c. T. HAMPSTEAD.
 General Passenger Agent
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CHASED BY FORTUNE.

"One of the most valuable mineral de- posits in the Black Hills district was originally discovered by cranky geol- ogist who had to be forced iHto profit ing by his find" said an old, mining man, spinning yarns the other night. "He was Weazened-up little chap named Tullenwood, and. if I remember rightly, he came from Buffalo N. Y. Anyhow, he was professor of geology in some small college up the state and came out west on a vacation. Being an enthusiast, he couldn't rest and enjoy the air and scenery like an ordinary tourist, but trotted off to the Black Hills district to study the geological formation. He proWled around with a long handled hammer for several months and finally turned up in Den yer with an enormous box, full of pieces of rock. One day a practical mining man, with whom he had become acquainted, was looking over the col lection and ran across a specimen that showed free gold to the naked eye.
 Great Scott!' he exclaimed, what mine does this come from? No mine at all,' replied the professor; I found it in such and such a stratum And he launched into a learned dissertation on the geological characteristics of the To- cality. Well, did you stake out a claim?' inquired the other. Certainly not said the professor; I am not a prospector, sir, I'm a scientistn
 "The mining man was astoonished and insisted on having the sample as- saved at once, but the professor wouldn't hear to it. He declared indig- nantly that he couldn't spare the speci- men from his collection. To make a long story short, his visitor slipped up to the room next day, when he hap pened to be out, secured the chunk of rock had it tested and then rushed off, post haste, to the Hills. He found the spot from the professors description, To- cated a claim did a little development work, and later on sold out for thirty thousand dollars cash. He gave the professor ten thousand dollars and had the hardest kind of a job in getting the little man to take it. Tullenwood was red-hot, too, about the loss of his speci- men. Altogether it was the queerest case of fortune chasing a man down
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ANOINTING THE PRIEST,

In the Mexican village of Michoacan there Is a curious and notable custom. When a new priest comes Sometimes from the City of Mexico) to take charge of the curacy, he must submit to a cer- emony handed down from times before the Spanish conquest
 On the day he arrives the head men of the village call at the parsonage, or 'Parroquia," with two boys, one bear ing a basin filled with silver dollars and the other an old solid silver dish, closely covered, and containing decoc- tion of rare herbs. After presenting their respects to the new priest, he is politely requested to disrobe and then to retire to his bed, where one of the head men anoints the upper part of the body, the whole trunk, with the herb decoction.
 If the priest submits to this curious operation with becoming Christian grace and patience, the basinful of sil- yer dollars is presented to him as aims for here in Mexico the clergy have no salary. But if, as has happened, the priest Is indisposed to submit to what he deems foolng and puerile and dis graceful custom, he must return whence he came, for the villagers will have nothing to do with a priest they have not anointed in their own way
 This strange custom was spoken of in the chronicles of the first Franciscan friars sent to the village some three hundred years ago. The Indians refuse to tell white men what the significance may be. Many stiff-necked and reso- lute young priest fresh from the semi nary has been sent to the village, and has returned, because, not submitting to the ceremony the Indians would have nothing of him. Every effort has been made to induce the Indians of the village in question to give up their sin gular ceremony but they would prefer to go back to their ancient gods rather than do so.-Correspondence of the Bos- ton Herald.