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Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1900-04-20

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Connections leave NewcomeRstewa
via Pittsburgh Dtvfsfen.-For PittsbuHh
and the East, q g am, al 81 am, = II pm, ESs
For Columbus, is 36 am. For tolun1buq, GIN.
cinnati, indianapolis and Ht- Louis, I'll ~ am
and III IS pm. For Columbus and Chisagos
n IS pm.
Cleveland IL Pittsburgh Blyfsfon.--Bor
Cleveland, Canton and Fort Wayne Route
points, Chicago, Pittsburgh and interfnsdthte
points, N 40 am and n 30 pm.
*Daily. tExcspt sunday. fFlas stop.
L. r. LoREE, E.A. FORD,
General Manager, General hsssnsr AssuA
l-l.l9OO-N PITTSBURGH, PENN'A.
For time cards, rates Of fare, through tickets,
baggage checks, and further information ~
agent OF the Pennsylvania Lines.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1900-04-20
An Ordinance

To Assess a Special Tax Upon Lots
and Lands Abutting Upon Certain
Streets in Part of the Fifth Sewer
District, in the City of Marietta,
Ohio, and to Issue Bonds in Antici-
patton CT the Collection of Such AS
SeSsment.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1900-04-20
ONO RIVER RAILROAD
eastern ,lf'rr }
GOING NORTH.

Leave wlliamstown--
d7:47 a. m..,...........to to Wheeling
Fl0:hG a. m.... TO New Martlnsyill,
dl2:45 p, m... to Plttsburg and Eas,
dS:F p. M. Wheeling and Int. points
s5 9, Ohio Valley Express Pittsbure
and East.
*S;5S...... Sistersvllle and Int. points
GOING SOUTH.
+11:07 p. m. Ohio Valley Express tc
Huntington and Cincinnati.
d2:41 p. m.. to Kenovs
-4.23 p. M. to PIT. Pleasan,
d7:09 p. m ..........to Parkersburs
80: so p. IN ............t to Parkersburs
d daily. daily except Sunday.
J.. Il. CHALENOR,
s.. Gen. Fass. Agent.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1900-04-20
For Sale.

A good G room house on Maple
street, $1,750. A new three room
A six room house and lot 45x90 feet on
Putnam street, s2500 A new 4 room
house In good location, $1,O5O. terms
5000 cash, balance at S14 per month.
A six room house on Warren street,
near Fifth, s1,75O. Several lots from
800 to $500, each on monthly pay
ments. Several god pieces of prop
erty fer exchange.
]. A. PlumGr & Son.
Ward-Nichols Block.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1900-04-20
Examination Of Teachers

For the public schools OF Washington Count,
will % held IN the Marietta High School Room
on the second Saturday OF each month exceni
January, July and August.
A. NJ. FARLOW, Barlow. Ohio.
President Board OF School Examiners.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1900-04-20

mo. SkivlNOTON, M. %.
~ Can be consulted AZ residence cor. FIN
and Wooster Sta. Phon 209. All orders lef
responded TO.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1900-04-20
Best Line Between the EAST and WEST.

Luxurious Vestibuled Trains, Pal
atial Ladies' Coaches
Pullman Drawing Room, Sleeping
and Observation Cars.
B. & o. S. w. Dining Cars. Meals
served la carte at Popular Prices.
For Rates. Maps, Time Tables or
Sleeping Car Space. call on any Tick
ct Agent or address
o. P. MCCARTHY,
G. P. A., Cincinnati, o.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1900-04-20
B. & 0. s-w. RY.
T,ME TABLE.

Vi@E TABLE. IA
4 j.
rrains Arrive at and Depart from Uiion
Station. n
ARRIVE WESTWARD. DEPART;
j Os a m-Athens. ch,iiicotbe ~ 49,,
Cincinnat, n,,saa,n' ~ - IN
81 Louis and all pou ts .rs
West, South and S.west .t
i2 90 m-Belpre, Athens, Chill. d 90 a m
"a heothe. and way stations:
2 AZ p m Iicothe, Cincinnati and
sunday Louisville, st. Louis
south. a a NJ
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Il. u. STOEHR.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1900-01-02

greater effect to the falling quicksilver.
the top one being three feet larger
The mercury will run into the upper
bowl from height, and then by little
channels around the edge into the
lower basin. The supply will be so
arranged that there is an almost con-
tinual flow. As it drops into the lower
bowl the mercury viii be conducted
by glass-lined iron pipe to a reser-
voir tank and then lifted by a motor
so that 1t may return by the delivery
pipe to the upper bowl again. The
weight OF the mercury used will be
about two tons. and the piping for the
delivery will be 106 feet long, and that
for the return to the tank eighty feet.
Each tank will hold two cubic feet Of
quicksilver, and the elevator apparatus
will be required to raise about one ton
an hour. Probably the thing that will
attract much attention will be few
ordinary household hatirons. which are
to be fioated in the bottom basin, for
the density Of mercury supports iron
as water does wood.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1900-01-02
Nests in Banana PUNCHES.

All sorts of curious creatures" says
Dr. Morris Gibbs, come to US in
punches of bananas, and 1 know Of
over twenty species Of insects. reptiles
and mammals that have gained free
transportation to our land by slowing
themselves away in punches of this
luscious and popular fruit. 1t is very
common occurrence to find spiders OF
several varieties, all of which are pro-
nounced deadly poison, of course. /
have seen three species of snakes
which were taken in these well-built
places of concealment, one of which
was a greenish-colored boa, all of FIVE
feet long. and two little fellows, and
all alive. Ii is not rare to find active
little lizards which have made the
thick shelter their home, and been
taken over $500 miles into foreign
land. never to return TO their sunny
home in Central America Curious
land crabs also migrate by this meth
cd, and. from foreign lands. are pro-
nounced most yirulent and are killed
on sight Then, too, we often find lit
tie mice with very long tails. which
have made themselves comfortable on
the journey, by preparing soft nests in
the center of the bunch. The great
punches of fruit hang near the ground,
and the wild creatures seek the space
within and thus escape the hot sun, OF
perhaps their enemies What more
natural than for a mouse to build its
nest and rear its little brood in this
retreat? Then the time comes for the
shipping of the green fruit. The big
stem is cut with huge knife, much
like the Cuban machete, and the
punches are carried to the coast where
they are loaded on the steamer for
American ports. Thousands and tens
of thousands of crabs, reptiles. mice
and endless quantities of spiders and
insects are annually brought into our
boundaries in punches of bananas. and
are distributed throughout all civilized
quarters in the Union. Human ALI
ance.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1900-01-02

ascent of Mauna Loa, and thus de-
scribes its wonderful crater:
BY day the cooled crust of the lake
had looked black and even sooty, with
a fountain of molten gold playing up
ward from it; by night it was all in
candescent. with black blotches of col
ored scum upon it, which were per-
petually being devoured. The center
of the lake was at white heat, and
waves of white hot lava appeared to
be wallowing there as in whirlpool,
and from this center the fountain
rose, solid at its base, which is esti-
mated at one hundred and fifty feet in
diameter. but quivering and frittering
as it rose into the air, and falling from
the great altitude to which it attained,
in a fiery spray, which made a very
distinct clatter on the fiery surface
below. When one jet was about half
high, another rose so as to keep up
the action without intermission, and
in the lower part of the fountain two
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1900-01-02
lAUNA LOA AGAIN BELCHTNG Up lava

subsidiary curved jets OF great vol
ume continually crossed each other.
. It is probable that the whole
interior OF this large dome is fluid. for
the eruptions from the summit crater
do not proceed from it, filing up and
running over, but from the mountain
sides being unable to bear the enorm-
GUS pressure. when they give way high
or low, and. bursting. allow the fiery
contents to escape.
Hours passed as / watched the in
describable glories Of the fire fountain,
its beauty of form and its radiant re-
Fiction il the Drecipices. eight hun
bred feet high, which wall it in, and
listened to its surges beating, and the
ebb and flow of it's thunder music.
Then a change occurred. The jets,
which for long had been playing at
a height of three hundred feet. sud
denly became quite low, and for a few
seconds appeared as cones Of fire wal
lowing in a sea Of light; then with a
roar like the sound of gathering wat
ers nearly the whole surface of the
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1900-01-02
ChIoroforming a Lioness.

Professor Gustavo Pisenti, of the
University of Perugia, has lately had a
thrilling experience in extracting a
cataract from a powerful lioness about
three years old The animal was
placed in a suitable cage in the middle
Of the menagerie, and the first difficulty
was the administration of an anaes-
thetic The intervals between the bars
of the cage we're filed up with cotton
wool, and a large packet Of gauze i'm
pregnated with chloroform was placed
in the cage, the door of which was then
closed with q shutter In about a
quarter Of an hour reconnaissance
was cautiously made, and the illus
trious patient was seen lying stretched
out, and apparently in a condition OF
deep coma She was then dragged out
of the cage, and bound and gagged.
She was then placed on a table, but be-
fore the operation could be begun she
suddenly awoke, and struggled violent
~, rolling on to the floor, where the
medical men with admirable GOODNESS,
but not without intense emotion, which
might easily be seen in their eounte-
nances." held her down while the ami
mails head was wrapped in towel
STEPPED in sulphurie ether. The lion
ess, however, managed to free herself
from the gag. and partly from her
bonds, and gave roar, which made the
majority Of the spectators beat hasty
retreat But the ether oyercame her,
and Prof Pisenti win great pluck
dragged her into the cage again. where
the anaesthetie coup de grace was
given by means of another packet OF
gauze STEPPED in chloroform- The
beasts head was pulled out through
the door OF the cage and securely held
in position Prof. Pisenti then operat-
ed with brilliant success. We have no
doubt that the professor had a more
serious time than Artemns Ward
had in getting into the uniform of the
days of his youth, and We congratulate
him heartily on having escaped a coun-
ter-operation by his formidable pa
/ tent. A curious feature Of the scene
was the excitement produced among
/ the other animals-zebras, bisons.
| leopards, wolves, hyenas, monkeys-in
4 the menagerie, who all inhaled some
/ portion of the anaestheties with which
the air was saturated.-The British
| Medical Journal.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1900-01-02
ARE PATIENT AND STEADY.
The Eject of British Military Training
on Egyptian Soldiers.

The Effect of British Military Training
on Egyptian Soldiers.
According to the recent army bill
passed by congress. native troops are
to be organized for the relief of our
own in the maintenance OF law and
order This begins at once the work
of provincial war department. And
the experience of the British occupa-
ton gives few more noticeable exam
pies of the benefits of the white mans
training for native troops. The fell
lah soldier in the days of Ismail was
just about as bad as possible to bear
the name at all. He was maltreated,
impressed. and discharged indiscrimi-
nately; seldom paid. and more seldom
pensioned. His name became such a
byword for cowardice and incapacity
that he grew to believe in his own bad
reputation; for when, under Arab, he
rose against the government in 1882,
he was as worthless as when serving ii.
In the early days of the occupation the
mere talk of plans for reconstructing
the Egyptian army was a subject for
international testing. And even when
it was begun. when British officers led
the fellah in the tragic Soudan cam
paign of 1884, he threw down his gun
and ran, before the smallest force of the
enemy, in spite often of his double and
treble strength. He submitted to
death rather than fight. The result
of training, shown by the record made
by Egyptian troops in the Soudan since
1890, is too well known to require
specification. For patient, steady,
quietly brave service the fellah now
has few superiors He has neither the
dash of his black Soudanese comrade
nor the intelligent quickness of his as
sociate Tommy Atkins. But he stands
his ground like a man against the
most recklessly brave enemy known.
1t is due alone to his long, patient
fight with nature, with the desert and
the characterized Nile, that the Sou
dan has been regained and the former
awful tragedy avenged. The conf
dence and respect, even affection,
which the white officer has inspired in
his black men may be large part of
the secret of the change.-Harper'
Magazine.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1900-01-02

o. earth is full OF lovely things
Which our dear Father. God has made,
OF buds and blooms. and cleaning wings.
And bursts Of light and depths Of shade
o, thick across the purple skies
The wondrous flashing stars are strewn
And bright with cherub- chiIdren's eyes
The glowing world is overgrown.
But never, in the woods at noon.
Or underneath the stars at night.
Or in the low sweet wales Of June.
or on the mountain upper height
o, never thrilled my blood 50 much
And never leaped my heart 50 wild,
AS when bowed my head TO touch
The sweet lips Of my first-born child
y. in the Unspeakable baptism
OF that strange love that DER ne stole
How streamed the sacred. solemn chrism
Thro' all the fibers Of my soul.
And every silent yearning hope
Shot outward into sudden speech.
And when ! view my horoscope
The stars were close within my reach.
Ay. and I know that evermore
have held higher talk with Heaven.
In deeper whispers than before
That large new blessedness was given
l could not part her precious hair
Nor look upon her sacred eyes.
And not within my full soul swear
To mark her steps in Paradise.
l near her low voice in the hall.
Her liquid laugh among the flowers:
And pulse leaps unto pulse. and all
MY life goes seeking her for hours.
Ana when she rises 10 my knee
And lightly nestles toward my cheek
With love that clings so utterly.
clasp her, but 1 can not speak
., mid the tumult Of the town,
The care, the canker ana the doubt,
And when the flaming sun goes down,
And when the holy stars are out;
In the great stiffness Of the night,
And in the front Of garish day.
She wraps me like a robe Of light.
And turns TO spirit all my clay
God bless my child I never knew
Lies vastness until she was born
Cod bless my child. and keep her true
Through all her deeper. widening morn
o. reach Thy hand out. through this
years.
Ana hold her near Thee undeiled;
And give her oil Of joy for tears.
And Father. Father. bless my child.
Richard ReaIf.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1900-01-02

last reports reached this country
~ the steamer Port Arthur. This
!. inner reports that the citizens OF
| threatened city were trying to
1nge the course of the lava with
i. amite.
80. lilo is the second largest town in
- Hawaiian group and the largest
-, upon the Island of Hawaii, for
:, lolulu, the capital city, is situated
~, n the island of Oahu. Hilo con
,,,rls a polyglot population, consist
~ of mixture of Asiatics, Polyne-
,,Hls, Europeans and Americans. The
,ba n slopes gently back from the
IRE of Hilo bay, an excellent har-
a This bay is inclosed by a cres-
ie, ! shaped beach, said to be the most
ntiful in the Pacific.
If he first reports concerning the en-
, destruction of the island of Ha-
ital reached San Francisco about. a
I'M night ago by the steamer Austria
Nd:
rgssf ter leaving Honolulu the ship ran
,lon a remarkably cross sea, which
ln crew thought was caused by
es marine disturbance of unusual
sae, A blush vapor hung over the
;hi@ er four days, and a heavy cloud
d bed like an umbrella came borne
ID the winds from the direction Of
otAa volcano. Speaking of the erup-
pe Chief Officer Lawless said:
he The afternoon we left Honolulu the
K cling papers contained the news
N the lava flow was within ten
rvs of Hilo and travelling steadily.
N interisland steamers were crowd
esSrsFith passengers. Some of the peo-
on We're going to view the eruption.
mo- others were going to see how
81 families and relatives were far
Of
bat n my opinion the whole crest has
'uc' blown off and if the waters of the
Soe have found their way into the era
as then the whole island has been
Of tered. In no other way can / ac-
prSt for the peculiar experience we
nv after leaving Honolulu
lu' the light of the terrible volcanic
~ lions which on occasions have de-
l'' ated Hawaii, catastrophe like
indicated by the officers of the
Ref ralia is by no means impossible.
up island of Hawaii supports the
la grandest of active volcanoes in the
=" "a, Mauna Loa and Kilauea. Near
fauna Loa 1.-THE Great Mountain)
y" =, auna Kea 1.-THE White Mountain)
y, is now an extinct volcano.
W. mountains, rising as they do to
- ievation of upward of 1900 feet,
~ @n fact, when measured from their
'S - bases at the bottom of the sea,
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1900-01-02
MADE FROM A SKETCH TAKEN WHILE cRATERs ARE IN AC

peaks higher in air, but they are us
ually planted on elevated platforms.
where they appear as mere cones of
greater or less size. Regarding the
platforms on which they stand as
their true bases, the cones themselves
and all the lava which have emanated
from them never approach the magni-
tude of Mauna Loa
"Etna and all its adjuncts are far
Inferior while Shasta. Hood and Ra-
nier. if they were melted down and
run together, would fall much below
the volume of the island volcano
Captain Dutton goes on to say that
while some volcanoes, as those of Ice
land, have disgorged at a single out
break equal volumes of lava, the erup-
lions of Mauna Lea are all of great
volume and with average intervals Of
eight years. any one of which repre-
sents more lava than Vesuvius has
outpoured since the last days of Pom
peii.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1900-01-02
ne Greatest Eruption in Modern Years from
the Greatest Volcano in the World

he streams OF lava flowing from
great volcano of Mauna Loa are
in doing terrible damage not only
buildings and plantations,
that they also threaten the city
Hilo. Heavy loss of life is reported.
he first flow of lava was in the
D side, and the stream was to all
learances the largest lava flow ever
messed on the island. II made
id progress, and after destroying
eral plantations and houses, was
posed to have reached the sea.
mother flow promises to be still
re destructive. 1t is said to have
IN within ten miles of Hilo when
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1900-01-02
Montana Man sheds His skin.

A man who sheds his skin in its en-
tirety once year. and who has done
so regularly for the last forty-three
years. is one Of the curiosities that
Butte boasts Of The mani. NJ. Price
a fairly well-educated miner-is at the
present time engaged in the curious
pastime of skinning himself. The
method that he adopts is TO first skin
his hands and face and then strip it
in an immense sheet from his body.
The process of skinning his hands and
face was completed recently. and it
came from the face like a mask. The
skin from the hands resembles a pair
of gloves, and was exhibited on the
streets. The toughness is something
remarkable, and two men tried with
might and main to tear it. They were
not successful, although the skin is
not thicker than the leather of a mans
street glove. Price talks freely about
the matter. although he is rather ten
der about any publication in the news
papers. Many physicians have ex-
smined him during the period of skin
ming, but not one has been able to
solve the problem. In speaking of the
matter Mr.. Price said: My mother
told me that she first noticed the
trouble when l was six months old.
and regularly e-ery year since then
have shed my skin, 1t is a phenom-
enon that no physician has yet salts
factorily explained. although hundreds
have made examinations and investi-
cations. The fact is that 1 shed my
skin, and that is all there is to it.
Regularly on the oath day of July OF
each year l feel the premonitory
symptoms, and on very few occasions
has it missed the Gath of that month
The first thing l feel is nausea, and
then l know that l am in for it. The
skin becomes perfectly dead, and the
perspiration that should come through
forms in blisters under it. and the
whole thing becomes loose. I gener-
ally cut a circle around my wrists, and
with the aid of lead pencil strip it
off whole for the purpose of preserving
it in the shape of a glove. l take ii
OH from my lace IN lut same manner,
but am compelled to remove it from
my hair like dandruff l took a long
walk this morning for the purpose of
getting up a Precipitation, and. as you
see. my whole body is blistered.
will strip it OF today or tomorrow.
1t comes off in great strips, as you can
see by this photograph, which was
taken last year. There is no particu-
lar pain accompanying the operation.
although the new skin is very soft
and tender during the first week or ten
days. 1 have to lay of for about two
weeks each year TO attend to it. Ny
children do not inherit the disease
from me. There is one of them, and
she is 9 years of age, and there has
been nothing of the kind ever no
ticed with her. Several years ago
was in San Francisco when I shed my
skin, and the doctors there preserved
it in its entirety and then stuffed it.
1 am a miner, but my work in the
mines does not affect my condition in
any way that l can see. My general
health is good, even if l do have skin
to throw at the birds. denver Post.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1900-01-02
A nee-nlxe in a Beer cask.

A bee hive in a beer cask was dis
covered by the eoopers of Boake, Rob-
erts & Co., on the arrival at Carpen-
ter's Road. Stratford, East. of a truck
load OF barrels from Burton on Trent.
England A swarm of bees had con-
structed a quantity of comb which con-
tanned honey. Unfortunately large
proportion of the busy insects and
their belongings were destroyed by the
workmen before the managers heard OF
the curious discovery. They at once
took prompt measures to preserve the
remainder of the swarm in new cask.
where the industrious bees have evil
IDENTIFY commenced new home, and
are apparently quite happy.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1900-01-02

AS Vcsuvius, then a much inferior
volcano, buried Pompeii beneath
streams Of lava and extinguished all
life within a certain radius, it is by
no means improbable that Mauna Loa.
the giant among volcanoes, could belch
out sufficient lava TO sink or to com
pletely cover the entire island of Ha-
vail. On the lofty summit of Mauna
Loa is circular crater eight thousand
feet in diameter, its walls being nearly
vertical, with depth of from five TO
six hundred feet.
That remarkable traveller among
women, Isabella Bird Bishop. made an
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1900-01-02

the ioftiest of all known mountains.
overlapping Mount Everest, of the
Himaayas, by from one to two thou
sand feet.
Captain Dutton, T. S. A., an ac-
knowledged authority. who a few
years since made an official survey of
the Hawaiian group on behalf Of the
United States Geological Survey, thus
describes Mauna Loa:
"Mauna Loa (the Great Mountain)
is certainly the king Of modern vol
canoes. No other in the world ap-
proaches it in the vastness of its mass
or in the magnitude of its eruptive
activity. There are many volcanic
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1900-01-02
A Curious Fountain.

Queensland is to be represented at a
London exhibition by fountain of
quicksilver. one of the colony's chief
productions. There will be two ba-
sins, one above the other. These will
be OF iron, enameled black to give IA
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1900-01-02

lake lifted up by the action of some
general internal force. and its whole
radiant mass rose three times, in one
glorious upward burst. to a height, as
estimated by the surrounding cliffs, of
six hundred feet, while the earth tfem-
bled, and the moon and stars with
drew, abashed in far of space"