Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1900-05-03
TIDAL WAVE IN A RIVER.
A Traveller In China Describes the
Great Bore of HanE-Chau a.
Seen by Moonlight.

On one of the many visits to China,
Eliza Ruhaimah Scidmore, author of
"Java, the Garden of the East ETC.,
made visit to the mouth of the
Tsien-tang river to observe the great
bore of Hang-chau-the tidal wave
that sweeps into that stream three
times year. She thus describes the
impressive phenomenon as it appeared
at night:
'The moon was riding at the very
zenith, and it dizzied us to look up to
it. Each one stood evenly within the
the ground. at that moment of the
moons transit, and the bore was due;
but it was a calm night: and it was
threequarters of an hour after our
unaccustomed ears had caught the
first far-distant, muttering undertone
before the White Thing was seen,
CHASTITY line advancing as evenly over
the water, and as quickly, as the dark
shadow of an eclipse sweeps over
landscape. Nearer and nearer it
roared, showing greater and whittier,
until we could see the whole cascad-
ing, bubbing. frothing cont. with
spray drops showering from the crest
higher up in the. moonlight. With
the roar of awful waters the dread
thing came on. raising its white crest
higher and higher as it licked the
edges of the piles beyond which the
junks lay. There were shouts and
yells, and the usual boatmen's pan
demonium let loose on the junks as
the roaring wave approached. A
rocket sized, some frecrackers sput-
tered and gongs resounded, but all
small sounds of earth's creatures were
drowned as the fearful White Thing
crashed past. and a frightful kissing,
a seething, flashing and swirhng Of
still higher pillows succeeded-tho
most sinister sound of water ever
heard-all speeding, rushing, whirling
madly, irresistibly on.
"As the ten-foot wall of foam
reached the edge of the piling and the
junk platform, it foated the junks
loose at the instant. Each junk rode
to the foods fury bow on, and CON
tinued to rise. to lift itself bodily up.
up, along the sea wall before ones
fascinated gaze. In the fierce after
rush the water went swifter and more
swiftly by, until one had dizzying
sense of danger to come, but past
fleeing from. Something held one fas-
cinated to the spot, although in the
fewest minutes, barely a. quarter Of
an hour, two-thirds Of the whole body
and mass Of the flood tide had flung
itself against the wall, and, it seemed,
might continue to rise with the same
force for hours. A salt, fresh smell
| Of the sea, the breath of the oceans
coolest, deepest underworld. came in
with the awful tide. A CHASTITY mist
succeeded. Shreds of vapor scudded
over the triumphant moon. and the
seas curtain fell on one Of the most
sensational, spectacular performances
the. Pacific ocean and the moon ever
make together. Century.
Explosions in AIR.
| Herr Wolff, on behalf Of the Prus-
sian artillery testing commission, has
made experiments at Cummersdorp
to determine the effects produced in
the air BY an explosion. The energy
Of explosion Of q body is determined
by it's weight and its heat Of explo-
sion. It is spent in destruction at the
seat of explosion, in earth tremors.
in the motion Of projected matter.
and in the vibration and motion Of
masses of air. Herr Wolff finds that
there is no bodily translation of air
to distances over some IS meters.
But the translation within that ra-
dius leads to q subsequent wave of
rarefaction, which is propagated with
nearly the same velocity as the pri-
mary wave and accounts for the indi-
rect effects Of the explosion and for
the projection of bodies towards the
orr Chicago Tribune.
When Ignorance Isn't Bliss.
Ignorance isn't bliss when man has
TO make his mark in the world because
Of his inability to write his name