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Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-01-21
PREcAoTIoN IN POWDER MILLS
Poeketless Clothing for Employees and Trousers Must Not De Turned Up.

PoeketIess Clothing for Employees and
 Trousers Must Not Be Turned Up.
 The danger buildings of a powder mill are themselves so constructed that not nail head or iron in any shape Is exposed, and the roofs are made slight, so as to give easy vent to ex- plosions. The garments of the work CTS are pocketless, so that they cannot carry knives or matches, or. indeed. anything, and are made of non-infiam- mable material. Even the buttons must not be made of metal. No one IS allowed to go about with trousers turned up at the bottom, because grit is collected in that wa, and the mer- est hard speek of foreign matter in charge of gunpowder is fraught with danger. The entrances to danger buildings are protected by boards placed edgewise, so that when the door Is open nothing in the shape of dirt can work in. This also serves as a check to any one who might thought lessly enter without having first re- moved his boots and put on the over alls that are kept just inside the door. Doors are made to open outward, so as to enable them to escape the more readily, and on the approach of than- derstorm the works are stopped and the operatives repair to the different warehouses scattered over the 300 acres covered by these extensive works. Every week the machinery is inspected and the reports as tc it's condition are printed and filed. In the case of a dan- ger building needing to be repaired 1t must first be washed out before d hammer or other iron tool is admitted to it. When artificial light Is required. as when working at night or in dull weather, the lights are kept outside, being placed on the window ledges. In the case of the works magazine, which is surrounded with water, no light of any kind is ever permitted near It. These are only a few of. the precau- tions against accidents at the works They are sufficient, however, to show how lively must be the sense of dan- ger. Men in powder houses usually have an arranged plan of escape In their minds and at the least unex- pected noise have not hesitated to plunge into the canal.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-01-21
A 0 application of Reiat,onships.

Justlce Thomas McCann, of Lorain, Ohio, within 24 hours joined in holy bands of wedlock Joseph Hartman and his son, Adam to the two Bordee sis ters, Katie and Gertie. An interesting complication of relationships thus arises. Of course, Gertie, who married the father, Joseph Hartman, will be both stepmother and sister-in-law to the son, Adam Hartman. Hence, if Adam and his wife have children Gertie will be grandmother to her nephews and nieces, but Katie, the sons wife, will be aunt to her father in-law's children, and Adam will have to be an uncle to his own half-brothers and sisters. The children Of the father will be aunts and uncles and cousins to the children of the son. The wife of the father becomes her own sisters mother-in-law and father and son be- come brothers-i -in-laws
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-01-21
LAKE IN AFRICAN MOUNTAIN.
Explorer Circumnavigates the Entire
 Sheet of Water.


 At meeting of the Royal Geograph- ical society in London an isteresting report by Poulett Weatherley on Lake Bangweulu, in central Africa. was read. The explorer circumnavisated the entire sheet of water. His party reached the lake in August. 1896. and established a camp at the southeast ern corner, 9,765 feet above sea level. The shores of the lake are absolutely free from shells and the water has no depth He sounded in many places. but never found more than fifteen feet It's surface was usually still, a very strong wind raising the smallest sea. It appears to be nothing but flooded district. MT. Weatherley thinks it was formed by the water from the great watershed of the Tanganyika plateau. The overflow is checked to the west and southwest by a rim of rock, but the east and southeast has no such barrier, and in that direction there is a vast swamp from twenty to forty miles in breadth. The Liposochi and Luena to the north and the Chambeza to the east are the chief contributors to the water supply. With twenty-fiva men he explored the island of M'ba. Wata, about twenty miles long and 1000 yards from the shore. and pro. ceeded toward the outlet of the Luca. pula, ultimately landing at Kirui isI- and. After stay of some time on the island, which they found low, beauti- fully wooded, well peopled and culti- vated, they passed on to Kisi island. This they found not a bit like the island depicted on the maps. It pre- sented a most peaceful, prosperous sight, and in common with the other two islands, Kirui and M'bawala, 1t reared good number of sheep-the broad-tailed kind-and goats. The people appeared to live a life of con- 2lete peace and eontentment. Proceed ing in a northerly direction, the party reached the extreme north-northwest corner of the lake. Continuing their journey along the coast, they diseov- cred a narrow peninsula stretching north and south, having on the west a sheet of water about three miles in width, which extends the whole length of Bangweulu north and south, but is always separated from the lake by the isthmus. There was cotton every where, but not in large quantity, and the bark-cloth tree abounded.-NeW York Post.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-01-21
FROZEN FOOD INDUSTRY.
Remarkable Increase In the Business ss
 the Last Decade.

From the Indianapolis News: Frozen food plays part in the English econ omy that we in this country do not re- alize, although we are all familiar enough with cold storage houses and refrigerator cars. In 1880 London re- ceived it's first consignment of 400 frozen carcasses of Australian sheep. Tn spite of the prejudice against it, the traffic has grown until now there are eighty-eight vessels engaged in the traffic, with a carrying capacity of 6,700,00 carcasses per annum. A single vessel sometimes lands at London TO- GOO carcasses of frozen mutton. At one wharf 10000 to 12,000 of such Aarcasses are handled daily and one warehouse will hold 250,000 of them; all are from Australia and New Zea- land. Sheep were imported into Aus tralia with the convicts to Botany bay a little more than century ago, and with the small population and the vast plains for grazing, focks increased so that in 1867 a farmer is recorded who 1Ol lOuI AOuIlS LII laO sSd1 DO41Cu down daily from 1000 to 1,500 sheep for their tallow and until 1880 it was common i'll Australia and New Zea. land to kill focks of sheep for their hides and tallow, leaving the eareasses to manure the ground, as used to be done with cattle in South America. There is a difference between frozen and chilled meat. The meat that Eng land receives from America is chilled, but that sent from Australia, 13,000 miles away, must be frozen. Australia and New Zealand have twenty-two freezing works in operation, whose total capacity is 7,000,000 eareasses per annum. One of the results of the frozen and chilled meat trade is that people are now able to eat fresh meat who half a century ago could only get it as a l"y'ry. Naturally we are less dependent o such food than England. but the growing use of refrigerator cars and cold storage houses is giving us variety of diet that was impossible a few years ago.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-01-21
ARTIFICIAL LIGHT,
May Soon Wipe Out the Distinctions of
 Day and Night.

Within the next half century arti- fieial light will be so inexpensive, so excellent. and so abundant, says a scientist, that 1t will wipe out the demarcations of day and night He continues: Darkness is one of the forces of nature against which civiliza- ton wages war. It facilitates crime, it impedes travel, 1t puts arbitrary lim- its on human exertion. The time is coming when darkness will be thor oughly conquered. and the great cit ies flooded from end to end with 8 light that will make every vocation of life as easy and as practicable at one hour as another. In this latitude night Is undoubtedly the best time to work especially during the summer. The temperature from sunset to sunrise is cool and equable, there is almost all ways refreshing breeze, and as soon as darkness is abolished the people will gradually and naturally reverse their hours of toll. l venture the pre- diction that noon in 1850 will see the streets of our great cities deserted, ex- cept for few midday roysterers and policemen with sunshades. Respect able folks will be abed and asleep, en- toying that delightful repose which we now associate with an afternoon snooze-something, by the way, that should long ago have given us hint that day was the proper time to rest. Then, when the wonderful incandes- cents of the future blaze forth at dusk, everybody will arise invigorated and alert, and get ready to begin the nights work. It is a beautiful vision. Whenever eonjure it up, could weep for vexation to think that I was born a century too soon.p
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-01-21
ORIGIN OF THE DIAMOND.
fs Explained by the Recent Discovery
 in Kimberly.

in Kimberly.
 The origin of diamonds, which for so long has been a debated question, appears to be explained by a recent discovery near Kimberly. In both the Indian and the Brazilian diamond fields the gem occurs like pebble in certain gravelly strata, but has not been traced back to any rock that gives any indication of it's genesis. After the discovery of diamonds in the rivey sand on some South African riv- CTS, d peculiar material of brownish- buff color, which turned to a dark Diuish tint, was found. It became harder as the miners dug down. The diamonds lay in this material, together with several other minerals, such as garnets, iron ores, augite, olivine, etc. Excavations-begun unsystematically were eventually carried on on such scale that near Kimberly they have reached depth of more than 1,400 feet. Here the rock is about as hard as ordinary limestone. The blue ground is found only in limited areas. The rocks around are of dark shales, banded win hard sandstone, in which sheets or tiykes or basalt or some ma terial which was once in molten con- dition are occasionally found. The blue ground fills sort of shaft of colossal size in these other rocks, and is itself cut up by similar dikes. The opinion of geologists differs as to whether fbn panac v1yaro pr0df,cod ubero they now lie or have been formed of some older rock, which has been shat tered by volcanic explosions. 1t is thought that the mystery has been at last cleared up. About two years ago the manager of a diamond mine near Kimberly picked up a specimen in which smaller diamonds were appar- ently embedded in a garnet This led to an investigation of various bowl ders, one of w1ich was broken open and was found to contain diamonds. The rock is of the description known to mineralogists as "eelogite." It is apparently composed almost exclusive ly of red garnet rock and rather peculiar light green augite. The rock AZ SS0l oOly VI y5IdllluS, duU III dll pIOp- ability was once like garnet in molt- en condition, the diamond being one of it's original constituents. Experts now tend to the belief that the .blue ground" in which diamonds were found is not their true birthplace. The powders are often water-marked, and may have rested for ages in an an- cient gravel at the very bottom of sedi- mentary rocks of the district. In course of time volcanic explosions shattered the rocky floor in which the diamonds were embedded, Of which the powders were only samples, and dis persed it, together with tha overlying materials. It is believed that this is the true explanation of the formation of the diamond-bearing "blue ground" Boston Herald.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-01-21
BOON FOR THOSE DEMENrEp.
Newly Invented strsit-Jacket That
 Will Save Muck Suffering.

Will Save Muck Suffering.
 From Washington Times: J. M. Hooper of Baltimore applied for patent papers on an invention that promises 10 be of incalcGlahle assistance to hos pitals and public and private asylums where insane, delirious or unruly patients are handled The invention is known as q rest sheet and strait jacket and is a com mbination of both, holding the patient securely and com- fortably without even the aid of an at- tendant. All the hospitals have felt the need of just such an invention az has been perfected by Mr. Hooper, and hospital attendants in general will hail with delight the advent of the sheet and jacket that will save both many struggles with 8 wild sufferer and in many cases personal injury of some sort to either the patient or the nurse. The patent is especially to protect in- sane or delirious patients, and can be adjusted to any bed whatsoever. It can be affixed as readily to cot or a sur gleal table, and the patient is held in such way as not alone to avoid per- sonal injury, but also to prevent the exposure of any part of the body. This will be especially advantageous in many cases where exposure to the air is especially deleterious to the suffer- CTS chances of recovery. The pa- tient may be left entirely alone without fear, for the strongest man is utterly helpless when under the sheet. The sheet is made of heavy cotton duck. which can be both laundered and ster- ilized, thus fulfilling all hygienic con- ditions. The sheet fits close around the neck of the prostrate patient, be- ing edged with chamois to avoid chaf- ing. The arms cone through two openings in the sheet and are held down in a chamois lined duck traI ar rangement that gives ease yet security. The feet are strapped in like manner, being covered with an extra flap Of cotton duck to keep off flies and air. This extra flap gives a certain freedom to the feet that would be impossible if placed under the main sheet which is drawn down tight by the fastenings. These are made in such a way as to be impossible to tear out. The head can be turned and the body to some ex- tent, but the most frantic struggles would be productive of no harm on tho part of the patient. Two extra straps can be run across the body if deemed necessary. The device has been in use in the city hospital in Baltimore for the past six months, and is given the highest endorsement.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-01-21
THE STORY OF A PEARL.
Interesting History of One Exhibited
 in Cincinnati.

in Cincinnati
 A pearl valued at S10,000 is on ex- hibtion in a iewelry store window in Vine street. Nor is the pearl with out a history. Mr Smith purchased 1t from Julius Pedrazolli, a descend ant of the royal house of Italy. The pearl is over loo years old and it's story is an interesting one. A party of pearl divers were plying their trade in the waters of the East Indian seas. A sudden eommotion among the work CTS told of the presence of their dead ly enemy, man-eating shark. All but one escaped, and his companions were mortified as they watched the poor fellow struggling in the water, unable to render him assistance. By great ef- fort they succeeded in rescuing the upper part of the body from the vo- racious fish and bore the mangled re- mains to the house of the grief-strick- en parents. The day before the bur- ial this almost priceless pearl was found in the mouth of the dead man. The pearl was sold to Koloko, a na- tive chief, and for many years remain sa in the royal family of the tribe. In 1880 Julius Pedrazolll, an Italian traveller, saw the pearl, and, attracted by its perfect shape and beauty, he bought it from the tribe, together with the crude gold setting and ring madd by the native jewellers. MT. Smith purchased 1t from Pedrazolli and claims that the pearl has no equal in the United States. The pearl weighs 46 grains. and in daylight it's beauti- tu1 hues arc dazzling Cincinnad
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-01-21
Dogs Battle with Cactus.

Otto Kleemann. who lives on Bel mont street, recently acquired a teau- tiful cactus, which he established in his household, unmindful of the fact that his dog held the opinion that his master should have no other pets be- fore him. Now he has no cactus and the dej ted semblance of a dog. The lit.le animal espied the plant soon after it's arrival, and issued challenge, h default of acceptance, he gave battle, but retired at the first shock to recon sider The enemy fad more teeth thar a battalion of bull terriers, and all of them were newly sharpened. He was no quitter. however, and with rising an. ger he renewed the attack. This time his opponent came down, landing on him heavily. and with the touch of d barb-wire fence. The two rolled oyer and over in a death embrace, and the cactus was finally vapquished, torn in- to shreds and scattered about the room. But it was costly victory. The con- queror is punctured in more places than his owner can count. He may live to fight another day, but it will not be with cactus. -Oregcnian.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-01-21
A Singular Case

A singular case has just been decided in Germany after oceupyiIe nearly a year in trial When Prince Bismarck died, two Hamburg photographers bribed a watcher in the room to allow them to take a fash-light picture of the dead chancellor They tried to sell the photograph, but the Bismarck family interfered. The photograph itself furnished the evidence which convicted the persons concerned The men who took the picture did not n0siae a clock on the wall, which was reproS@ced in the photograph, and re- corded the exact moment when the view was taken. It was known who was on watch at that moment, and the faithless watcher gave the names of the photographers. The pictures have been suppressed and the photographers sentenced to jail.
 Unique Violin.
 New York Tribune: A unique violin has been made by a Missouri man. The back is of cherry from table more than century old. which for merly belonged to the Howard-Payne college. In the center of the back are inserted twenty-one pieces of wood from the Holy Land, one being from a grapevine that grew in the Garden of Gethsemane. Around the margin are set in row small pieces Of wood, dia- mond shaped. gathered from all over the civilized world In one end Of the back is inserted a horseshoe made of castor wood, and in the other end is the image of a rabbit carved in cher ry There are, in all, over 150 pieces of wood. and the only tools used in the manufacture of the instrument were a pocket knife and a half-inch chisel. SIS
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-01-21
No Immediate Dancer.

Sandy Waysides (reading) Here's . brand-new microbe jest made it's ap- nearance-', Yawning Yergason-"Den deress no immediate danger. We neyoR oot nuttin' ti!l it'a seconl- hand,
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-01-21
Wedding Houses.

Tn olden times certain towns and villages in England used to possess wedding house. where poor couples. after they had been welded at church, could entertain their friends at small cost, the only outlay being the. pur- chase Of such provisions for their = sss :st .s:s |: tie
 houne 3?k the dey being given frse of
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-01-21
All Scarce with Him.

"They all say that the silver dollar of 1895 is very scarce, remarked squil- dig. Tt is no scarcer with me than the silver dollar of other yintages," re- piled McSwilligen. Pittsburg ChroR- Telegraph
 We'll Informed
 Teacher" Johnny, can you name tho chief product of the Philippine is- lands r JohnnyYs Yss'm. Troublo.~
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-01-21
MORE BACHELORS THAN MAIDS
Unmarried Men Are More Numerous
 Than Are Single Women.

Than Are Single Women.
 From the Cincinnati Enquirer: It appears that people generally are greatly mistaken in their notion that there is an enormous surplus of unmar- ried women in this country. The truth is thai 10 such excess of spinsters ex- ists; in fact, it is quite the other way, the bachelors outnum bering the maid ems. At the present moment there are in the United States 2,200, ,000 more un- attached males than females similarly situated, tEe exact figures being 5,427,- 767 bachelors against 3,224 494 spin sters of ages from 20 years up. Thus it is obvious that if girls do not find husbands it is not for lack of plenti- full supply of the article. What is re- quired, seemingly, is a general migra- tion of spinsters from the north and east to the great and growing west, in parts of which there are ten available mates for every maid. From the last remark, however, it must not be infer red that there is actually an excess of unmarried women in the northern and eastern states. Even in those parts of the country there are more bachelors than spinsters 20 years old and upward, notwithstanding the theory to the con- trary so widely accepted. No state in the union has as many maidens as bachelors-not even Massachusetts, where the figures are 219,25 spinsters, against 226,0S5 bachelors. Massachu- setts is the banner state for spinsters, the bachelors outnumbe~ing them by only two-tenths of 1 per cent Next comes Rhode Island, where the excess of bachelors is ? per cent. The ex- cess of bachelors in the District of Co., lumbia is per cent, in North Carolina g per cent, in New Hampshire g per cent, in Connecticut 20 per cent, in Maine 37 per cent and in Vermont 54 per cent. In Maryland the bachelor surplus is 19 per cent, in New Jersey it is p per cent, i'll New Yock it is 26 per cent and in Virginia it is 14 per cent. All of these are low percent ages so far as the superiority of bache- lors in point of numbers is concerned.
The Wilmington daily Republican., 1900-02-28
A COUNTY
MORGuE.
Trustees of the Poor Make
The First Move.

New Castle County is to have public
morgue. twill be at the house on West
Sixth street near Orange now owned by
tho Trustees of the Poor. AT q meeting of
the Trustees held ut the New Castle
County Hospital To-day on motion OF Mr..
Chandler tho building was taken out OF
the hands Of tho City Committee. by the
Trustees turning the house over for
Inorgue Now Castle county will save 5000
u year. There will be some Improvements
to be made to the building.
For sometime past considerable agita-
I,tion has been going on over public
morgue. Every one agreed that proper
morgue has been Deeded and mGv0 will
he made TO get the Levy Court arrange
for slabs to be placed In tho place. Human
bodies should not be treated like those Of
dead beasts
In case whore post-mortem eXamina-
tion is necessary IT can be made hereafter
without tho public gazing on the body.
Tho corOners may have some objection to
the new morgue as 5000 Is allowed for
rent but the Levy Court will take u hand
In the matter. Some parts of the building
will have to he replaced and SuNsrinten-
dent Mccoy advised tho use OF cement
floor. The matter was referred to the
committee on buildings
ma warrant from::the Pennsylvania Rail-
road Company enclosing check for 1903
for I. plot Of ground condemned by tho
company for railroad purpososwas receiv-
cd.
Superintendent Mccoy advised the put.
ling in of an elevator to carry the food to
the women inmates in the front part Of
the building ho also reported that the
contract for butter had boon awarded to
the Townsend Creamery Company at asa
cents pound.
The population of tho house was report
I'd as being 43 colored and 23G white i'll
ma les.
During the month there were deaths
and birth at the Hospital.