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The daily sentinel., 1900-06-25
Remarkable Weather.

During the past four days Grand juno
of the western country, has passed
through aperiod OF remarkable, although
not unprecedented, warm weather. The
following temperatures are taken from
the records Of the U. 8. Weather Bu-
reau:
On Wednesday the highest was 80 d.;
Thursday 100 d.; Friday 50 d.; Saturday
95 d.
The average temperature for the 96
hours ending p. M. Saturday was S3 d.
That Grand Junction was alone in the
thermal belt, the following list OF the
highest temperatures recorded at sew
sral of the Weather Bureaus on Thurs
day the 21st. will show:
Havre. Mont. 1OS d.; Miles City,
Mont. and Yuma, Ariz. 106 d.; Phenix,
Ariz, 104 d.; Helena. Mont 1O2 We'll
liston N. Oak; ElPaso, Tex. Salt Lake
City, and Grand Junction 100 d..
In this connection it may be Of inter
est to note previous periods OF Warm
weather from the records of the us.
Weather Bureaus.
July II to %, 1892 days. the average
temperature was 80 d. and from August
to 7, 6 days, the average was 81 d.
The summer OF 1892 was marked by
uniformly high temperatures, the mer-
curry reaching 96 d.; days in June,
SO d. in July, and 80 d. four times in
August.
In July 1894 the average temperature
of the first three days was 81 d. and
from the to IL, the average four days
was 80 d.; the thermometer registering
100 d. on tho 1st and 10th.
June 16 to 10, 1896, gave an average of
80 d. and maximum Of 100 d. on the
10Th while Jnly 10 to l3, of the same
year showed an average of 50 d. with
maximum of SO d. on the II to 13.
The summer of 1898, was also warm
June 27 to 80, giving an average of "a d.
with a maximum of 100 d. on the 9th,
while July % to 20 gave an average Of
"a d. and maximum of 80 d.. on the
9th.
1t will be seen that the highest tenn
perature at this place in years is 100 d.
which has been recorded five times, viz
July l to IL, '94, June l6, 96, June 81,
'98. and June 81, 1900.
The summer temperatures Of the
Grand valley, are not remarkably high
being less than in many other parts Of
rtru hath or md vJh lilo
our dry atmosphere renders the heat less
oppressive and enervating than in more
torrid climates
The daily sentinel., 1900-06-25
Brunswick REGISTER.

D. P. Yeager, Oregon; Q. N. Harvey,
California; James L. Hamilton, Denver;
A. F. Reeves, Montrsse; F. P. Turner,
Des Moines; o. W. Pierce, Salt Lake;
Mrs. G. O. Peirce and son, indianapolis;
jessie Slaughter, Chicago; w. 8. Han
cock, Leadville; Emma Schultz, Strath-
coma; w. G. Browning, st. Louis; A. w j..
Smith, Minneapolis.
The daily sentinel., 1900-06-25
The Socialist Meeting.

The Socialists camp meeting at the
Park yesterday afternoon was fairly we'll
attended, the seats being all comfortably
filled and quite number of spectators
ioliing on the green sward OF the Park.
The speakers, as per announcement on
the bills OF the event occupied the plat
form and discussed the PRINCIPLES of
socialism. The members of the party
count the meeting q successful event.
The daily sentinel., 1900-06-25
About the Weather.

The maximum temperature during the
past "a hours, 81 degrees.
The minimum this morning was 81 de-
grees.
The forecast for this section il:
Fair tonight and Tuesday.
The daily sentinel., 1900-06-25
Do You Eat and Sleep?

II 80 whereY You can get arst-class
board, with or without room cheap at the
Swaney house. Under new management.
Baths in connection.
The daily sentinel., 1900-06-25

A sister OF Nessrs. F. B. and T. 81 q.
RAIDER, we'll known railway mon, has ac-
copied . position in the @. p. Bliss
company store.
The daily sentinel., 1900-06-25

Mrs. A. j. Moore and family will
leave in the morning for Norris to spend
the summer months.
Graham guardian., 1900-12-07
TAKING PHOTOS OF SOUND.
A Number of Successful Experiments
Have Recently Been Made
by Scientists.

Very much has been done in the way
of obtaining Photographic records of
sound, but perhaps the most impor-
tant memoir on the practical side of
this question is an article by Benja-
min +. Sharpe, says a scientific eN-
change When an unmiXed tone is re-
ceived in He,mholtz resonator, in the
wall of which is inserted a very thin
glass plate, the natural pitch of which
is not too different from the tone, the
plate yibrates to the tone with an
amplitude having an ultimate relation
tn the energy Of the tone. Measure
ment of this amplitude becomes easy
if the vibrating plate is made TO bear
tiny mirror, which mirror forms one
element of a system of mirrors cOnsti-
tutiug a MicheIson's refractometer
So delicate is this means of indication
that a shifting of the mirror half a
wave length of light will cause such a
shifting to one side of the interference
bands that each dark band will take
the position previously occupied by the
next dark band. With telescope and
micrometer each band may with prop
er adjustment be subdiyided into 100
parts, giving means of recording a
shift equal 10 as little as one two-hun-
dredth of wave length. 1t need scarce
lv be said that the rapid shifts thus
produced by tone can only be OBJ
served by some such device as COM
pounding the motion with another at
right angles, when comparison with a
tuning fork and the making of photo
graphic records becomes possible, but
for details, and for some two dozen
of the records thus obtained, we must
refer our readers 10 Nature. The rec
ords show fork tones, tones of mu-
sical instruments, noises and vocal
sounds,
Graham guardian., 1900-12-07
PRAYERS TO INK GOD.
Discovery That Indian Ink La Not
Made in India-Can Now BE
Made by Anyone.

Indian ink is not made in India, nor
do any of the materials used in the
manufacture come from that country,
says London Answers. 1t was first
made in China 1900 years ago by a
Chinese a,chemist. Tientschen by name,
who, while experimenting upon some
nostrum. for the ternal preservation of
life, accidentally produced black sub
stance in the form of liquid paint
or yarnish. This was the first In
dian ink.
Until recently the process of manu-
facture has been a secret: but il has
at Last been discovered and the ink
can now be made by anyone
The black pigment, which forms the
base OF the ink is the SCOT obtained by
burning lac and pine charcoal, This
SCOT is powdered finely and mixed with
fishg,ue, isinglass, or horuglue, and
sometimes, in making the finer quail
ities of ink, pearls are boiled in glue
Sometimes dried OK tongues are
added to give the ink purple tint, and
the bark of the peppermint trees has
been used to produce a ting9 of blue.
The ink is carefully nodded. dried and
packed in worlnwood leaves, with lime
or ashes until wel,-seasoned.
Sepia, the coloring liquid of the cut
fetish. was not added to the ink orig
inally, but as the bes; Indian ink in
use at present has hrownish tint,
it is evident that sepia is used. Sepia
alone is used frequently in China in
preference to the black ink
In China all good" Indian ink is sup
posed to be inhabited by gods, TO whom
prayers are sometimes addressed.
There are so many gods that it is diff
ficult to find lodgings for them all;
they are bileted therefore upon any
convenient article, such as a stick of
Indian ink.
Graham guardian., 1900-12-07
RHODE ISLANDS, HoMING HENs
The Faithful Fowl Takes Food Else
where, But VIII Lay Only tn
Her Native Nest.

About year and u half ago Mr..
x, who lives on the Riverpoint side
Of Cough avenue, in Providence, r. l.,
says the journal of that city, built
henhouse and embarked in the keep
ing of fowls--not the web-footed,
white Wyandotte variety, but just
plain, ordinary hens. A neighbor, Mrs
k, who lives on the Jericho side, in
order to help the young man start hen
housekeeping, as il were, gave him
pullet, which he fed and cared for until
it reached maturity and an age when
it could be expected, in the natural or
der Of things, to pay its board by con-
tributing an egg occasionally TO the
family lartiar il wasn't that kind OF
a bird, however. Like some other BIZ
peds, il preferred the coop of It's birth
to the hcnhouse of its adoption, and,
after feedng on the substance provid-
ed in the latter, the hen would HE her
across the avenue 10 Mrs. ks coop
and deposit her egg in her native nest.
She had been feeding on ks corn
and laying in Mrs. Ks coop long
time before the fact was discovered.
Then she was watched, and day after
day she was seen to run over into Jeri-
cho, lay an egg announce the fact in
the hen vernacular, and then run back
TO whore she found food and shelter in
the RiyerpoiI~ hencoop Of her owner.
This Kiyerpoint hen will lay for no
one but the lady-that-owned-the-h
that-sat-on-the-egg from which this
homing hen was hatched.
Graham guardian., 1900-12-07
WHAT is sEIGNI0RAGE.
For I6 to n.

Mines and Minerals gives the
following definition Of fseigniorage:
"ThIs term, as used in the Unit
ed States, means the profit arising
from the coinage of bullion. The
government does not purchase
gold bullion, but coins it on priv
ate account. There is no profit
from the coinage of gold bullion,
the face value of gold coins being
the same as their bullion value,
but at the present ratio of l6 to ]
the face value of the silver dollar
is greater than its bullion value;
therefore, when silver bullion is
purchased ard coined into dollars
there is profit arising from such
coinage, the amount of which de.
pends upon the price paid for the
bullion. For example, there are
27l Ia grains of pure silver in a
dollar, and there are 4S0 grains of
pure silver in fine ounce. The
coinage value Of u fine ounce is,
therefore Sl.2929. II the fine
ounce can be purchased for 70
cents, the profit of lis coinage (tbe
seigLiorage) is so 1920, and the
profit on the S7l IA grains of pure
silver IN the single dollar is
S0.4586--, which is the difference
between the actual cost of bullion
in the dollar and the nominal val
ne Of the coin. The silver pur.
chased by the Government is car
ried on the books of the Treasury
at is actual cost, aud the seiguior.
age is declared on the coinage of
each month and paid into the
Treasury"
Graham guardian., 1900-12-07
FREAK OF DAN CUPID.
Man Who Knows No
English.

There are descendants of Germans
in Berks county, Pa, who do not un-
derstand a word of English, although
they have lived in this country all
their lives. One of these is Jacob
Neinsheimer, who owns what he calls
the Castle of Lobenstein, on the east
ern slope of Mount Penn, says an east
ern exchange Until recently he lived
the life of a hermit. The hillside lead
ing to Lobenstein is so steep that it
is impossible to use the ordinary
American farming implements drawn
by horses. WeinSheimer's principal
implement is the kind used in very
hilly portions of Germany He calls
it 'karst." 1t is shaped like big
horseshoe fastened to a wooden han
die With this he digs and stirs up
the earth instead of blowing and har-
rowing il. lie also has numerous 9TH
err small hand implements, With these
he raises large quantities of vege-
tables, wheat rye, barley, corn, sugar
cane, sweet potatoes and grapes. He
reaps his grain with a sickle and
threshes it with a mallet.
Cupid's dart pierced the heart of the
recluse short time ago. He was
working for farmer ON the hills in
the neighborhood, when he was intro
duced to a Miss March, from Ohio.
She was some 20 years younger than
he, but that made no difference The
love-making was slow, for the woman
could not speak German and he was
unable to speak English. But the
language of love finally made itself
understood between them. He pro-
posed, was accepted, and now hap
pier couple than Mr. and Mrs. Vein
sheimer would be hard to find.
Weinsheimer is great admirer of
pets, such as dogs and cats. He is the
owner of black fox terrier which he
says he would not part with for 500
in gold. He is perfect terror to the
snakes and has killed more than 1000
copperhead and blacksnakes during
the last five years
Graham guardian., 1900-12-07
IT SHOWED ITS QUALITY.
Mr.. Huntington's switch Engine Did
Not DisnpPoint Him in
Its Power.

Some II years ago, when Coils p.
Huntington was president of the
Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad company,
j, K Murray, of the vice presidents
staff, with Capt. Rogers, a California
railroad official, was with him on his
private car. Capt Rogers had been of
tered the general managership of the
road by Mr.. Huntington, and he was
Going over the line. The train stopped
and switching engine was attached
20 the end Of Mr.. Huntington's car to
pull it out.
At that moment, relates Chicago
exchange. the party on the ear was
breakrasting, and Mr., Huntington was
seated at the table nearest the door,
deity carving steak, The switch
Ing engine had been coupled to the
other end of the car and started off,
and it happened that the brakeman
forgot to uncouple the bell rope be-
tween the car and the rest of the train,
so. as the switching engine pulled the
private car away from the train, the
rope stood the strain until it became
taut and then broke with rebound
that sent one end with terrific force
into Mr.. Huntington's car.
The flying rope with its metal end
grazed Mr.. Huntington's head and
shattered the meat platter in front of
him. He quietly began 20 pick up the
fragments, and Capt, Rogers re-
marked: THAT was narrow escape,
Mr.. Huntington"
The railroad king, with his manner
unchanged replied: 81 don't know,
captain. | WOULD have felt pretty mean
IL one of those new switching engines
of ours couldn't pull bell rope in
baIfO
Graham guardian., 1900-12-07
KILLED A WOOD-CHOPPER

Last Sunday John Taylor, an
employe of the Imperial Canal
Company, shot and killed Mex
lean at the wood camp of the com
pany, just across the line in Lower
California. Taylor was overseer
for the camp and was there Sun
day measuring the wood, which
had been cut by contract, when he
became involved in a dispute with
the choppers. One Of them start.
ed toward him with an uplifted ak,
and Taylor, who is of diminutive
size, evened up things by drawing
his revolver. The Mexican con.
tinuing to advance, he fired, and
the man received the charge in
the body and died the following
day. Taylor got over the line as
quickly as possible and arrived in
Yuma Sunpay evening. His flight
was somewhat facilitated by the
threats Of the choppers to avonge
Graham guardian., 1900-12-07
pUNGENT PARAGRAPHS.

''Is she very stylish?" 81 should say
she was. Her baby is year and half
old now and regards her as an utter
ranger."-Indianapolis Sun.
A Cautious Reply--"Excuse me, but
didn't meet you in Chicago some
time ago?" "Not unless l was there
at the time. ."-Clevelan Plain Dealer.
Blobbs-"Haye you been sick? You
look as though you had been drawn
through a knothole." S,obbs-"Yes;
the doctor pulled me through. Phil
adelphia Record.
Il love you passionately" That's
what you once told several girl friends
of NINE" Eyes, but you see they were
girls that / knew were likely to re-
fuse me."-Heitere Welt.
He-"0! yes. 1 have heard him
sing. l admire him very much" She
Really, you don't mean it? Why,
his voice is awful" He-''It isn't his
singing admire, it's his nerve. ."-Phila-
delphia Press.
''Wotcher tryin' to do there?" said
the highwayman to the man he was
holding up. I'm keeping out GO cents
in silver so I'll have the price of a break
fast and cigar Hand it all over"
said the highwayman. I'm a bi-met-
allist."-Indianapolis News.
Domestic Repartee.-"I understand
you've been finding fault" observed
the help lady with her usual hauteur.
whats that to you?" retorted the
woman or person of the house, with
great brilliancy. "I'm sure you haven't
lost anyl"--Detroit Journal.
First Kentuckian-"I tell you, sub,
laborin' man has no chance at all, sub,
no chance at all" Second Kentuckian
-"Indeed?" First Kentuckian-"Yes
sub. Why, | made splendid confess
sion befo' the cot. but they pahceled
thet reward out to suit themselves, an
| nevah got a cent FIN it, sab, not a
cent.-Baltimore American.
Graham guardian., 1900-12-07
NEVER REApED A REWARD.
and Neglected Amidst the
Plenty of Paris.

On January "a, 1860, NJ. Lenoir. a
chemist, was granted patent for mo-
tor driven by an explosive mixture of
air and gas. He even used electric ig-
milton, obtained from battery and
Ruhmkoef coil, and actuating a spark
ing plug very similar to the sty,e in
vogue to-day. He employed coal gas
at first but in his specification said
that he could use other gases. or even
produce gas at the requisite mo-
ment from hydro-carbon liquids there.
by forcshadowing the employment Of
petroleum. The system of valves. by
means of which the suction Of the
piston drew in the charge of gas for the
next explosion, was also designed BY
LsnOir, and stiil remains the govern
ing principle in explosion engines. SO
that in 40 years that have elapsed since
Lenoir's motor there have been few
radical changes.
In 1862 he produced a car driven by
one Of his motors. and this accom-
pliShed some short trips in the streets
Of Paris, after which, for some reason.
il made no further progress. He
seemed to have no luck. his invention
was premature and beyond the graft
tication of his hobby he had no appre-
citation
Fifteen years went by before an
othermanattempted a motor car again,
and it was not till 1887 that Daimler
produced his first car, which, to do
him justice, was the earliest of the
really practicable vehicles.
Poor Lenoir lived to see the motor in
dustry attain enormous dimensions, to
see honors and wealth heaped on other
men, and died in humble circumstances
without honor or reward.
Graham guardian., 1900-12-07
MANY RETIRING M. p.'s.
Several Scottish Members of ParIin-
ment VIII Not Return to
Their Seats.

Scotland will send more new faces to
parliament when Lord Salisbury ad-
vises her majesty to issue her election
fiat than any other portion of the king
dom, says London paper, Those two
eminent authorities on matters of ma
rine, Sir Thomas Sutherland and Sir
Donald Currie, have signifie6 their in
tention TO retire from public Office,
The latter has aged considerably of
late, but Sir Thomas is the same keen
eyed, healthy looking time-defying,
rubicund complexioned Caledonian
that he has been any time these 20
years past. The career of Sir Thomas
Sutherland is one of the romances of
the contemporary commercial world.
From the representation of the p. and
o. in faraway Hong-Kong he has
worked his way up to the presidency
and supreme direction of one of the
biggest shipping businesses in the
world.
Another Scottish member who will
be missed in the next house is Sir Viii
liam Wedderburn, the leader of the lit
tie band OF earnest Indian reformers,
and retired Indian official of many
years experience, whose knowledge of
al the problems connectedwith the ad
ministgation Of our great Asiatic de-
tendency is quite cyclopaedic. Sir
Charles Cameron, who has for many
years been conspicuous figure in
Scottish science and journalism; Sir
I. Gibson Carmichael, for whom five
years of the weary round at Westmin-
ster have suf1lced, and w. McEwan, the
Edinburgh brewer and benefactor, are
also going on the retired list.
Graham guardian., 1900-12-07

the death of their companion and
also by knowledge Of the primi-
tive but rigorous methods of Mex
lean law and justice. The killing
was purely IN self defense.--Yuma
Sentinel.
Graham guardian., 1900-12-07
Mensmre of Coin.

Money is measured by troy weight,
in which "a grains make penny
weight, 20 peunyweights one ounce
and 12 ounces one pound, The silver
dollar weighs 412M grains, and $1,000,
as near as il can be expressed intelli-
gently in print, weighs 7l,614 pounds,
or a fraction over 71b pounds. In
ayoirdrpois the same would weigh
5s92s, or nearly 50 pounds.
Graham guardian., 1900-12-07

Tea Garden Drips is a sugar
syrup of highest quality, once used
always wanted. Deliciously sweet
makes taffy candy to perfection.
Manufactured by the Pacific Coast
Syrup Co. 707.70S Sansome st.
San Francisco. 3m.
Graham guardian., 1900-12-07
HEALTHY BECAUSE CLEAN.
IcaI Composition an Low Air,
hut Is Purer.

The only reason why mountain air
is healthier than low air is that noun
tain air is c,eaner than low air The
chemical composition of the atmos-
phere differs but little, If at all,
wherever the sample is taken. On
Pixies peak the relation of oxygen to
nitrogen and other constituents of the
atmosphere is the same as at the level
of the ocean. The favorable effects,
therefore, of change Of air are not to
be explained BY any difference in the
proportion of its gaseous constituents
One important difference, however. is
the meteorological one. The air of
high attitudes contains no microbes,
and is, in fact, sterile, while near the
ground and some 100 feet above it mo-
crobes are abundant,
In the air of Chicago and other
crowded places. says the Chronicle,
not only does the microbe i'm
purity increase, but other impurities,
such as the poducts of combustion of
coal, accrue also. Several nyestiga-
tors have found traces of hydrogen and
certain hydrocarbons in the air, and
especially in the air of pine, oak and
birch forests. 1t is to these bodies,
doubtless consisting of traces of es-
sential oils, to which the curative ef-
fects OF certain health resorts are
ascribed. Thus the locality of fir
forest is said to give relief in diseases
of the respiratory tract But all the
same. these tracts of essential oils and
aromatic products must be counted,
strictly speaking, as impurities, since
they are not apparently necessary con-
stituents of the air. As recent analy-
ses have shown, these bodies tend
TO disappear in the air as a higher al
titude is reached, until they disappear
altogether.
Graham guardian., 1900-12-07

Mr.. Clarkson has a thoroughly
equipped harness and saddle shop,
Call on him. 9-tf.
Graham guardian., 1900-12-07
TOO Much TO Expcct.

An excellent story is told of the
weakness in spelling Of an Old Indian
colonel, One day a brigade major APP
preached him with the remark; Very
sorry TO hear that you've been suffer-
ing from gout, colonel" "GouE SID
What do you mean, sir2" roared Tho
colonel. "Why on earth should hays
gout? Never had gout in my life,
confound you!" "Wellfi I'm sorry TO
have offended you, colonel but only
this morning ! received in the brigade
Office your application for leave, and
you distinctly asked for It on the
ground that you had been suffering
from gout." 81 dare say | did" an-
swered the colonel, "but what Of
that? You couldn't expect me to
spell word like rheumatism?
Graham guardian., 1900-12-07
nldn,t Mnnt Nurslnr,

A nurse visiting her patients in a
Cape Town hospital ward found her
fayorite soldier fast asleep, Pinned
to his coverlet was a scrap of paper
on which he had scrawled: "To il to
be nussed today, respectfully j. NJ"
only One Mig Fortress ~ trrmnrIS,
The only fortress of consequence in
Denmark is the capital, Copenhagen.
Graham guardian., 1900-12-07

All kinds of hartcss aud saddle
repairing done o. short notice
and at reasonable prices at II W,
Clarkson. If