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The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1901-04-11
WORK FOR THE CABLE.
Hawaiian Islands Cannot Receive Fresl
Telewrnphlc News.

Hawaiian Islands Cannot Receive Fresh
Teiegraphic News
Honolulu has been visited by q num-
ber Of people of more or less promi-
nence In the United States within the
last month and each and every visitor
says: what you need is a cable to the
mainland" Visitors probably notice
the absence Of the cable more than
those who have resided In the islands
for some time. Man is a creature of
environment and the man who lives
here for a considerable period grows
accustomed to the absence Of a cable,
and, while he may think Of 1t in an
abstract way, 1t gives him but little
immediate concern. On the other
hand, men fresh from the states where
they are in constant touch with every
civilized country on the globe, except
ing Hawaii, by the electric telegraph
or cable, at once notice the marked diff
eerence here. They are accustomed to
daily papers with telegraphic news
from all parts OF the world published
fresh every morning and every eve
ming. II something Of great moment
occurs In Europe before 6 o'clock In
the evening every newspaper reader
IN the states can read about it the
same evening. Coming here where
The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1901-04-11

The Sensitive Kettle
81 don't feel we'll" the Kettle slgheo'
The Pot responded, "EhY
Then doubtless that's the reason
marin,
You do not sing today"
But what's amiss?" The Kettle SOD
bed,
why. sir, you're surely blind,
Or you'd have noticed that the COOK
Is shockingly unkind.
"I watched her make a cake Just no"
If I'd a pair of legs,
I'd run away!-oh, dear, Oh, DEAR
How she did beat the eggs.
Nor was that all-remember, please
'Tis truth | tell to you
For with my own two eyes Sd"
Her stone the raisins, Too!
And Afterwards dreadful sight
| felt inclined to scream!-
The cruel creature took a fork
And soundly whipped the cream!
Now can you wonder that my nerves
Have rather given way?
Although I'm at the boiling point,
l can not sing today"
Felix Leigh in Cassells Little FOLKS.
The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1901-04-11
JEALOUS OF FRANKLIN.
Attempt Made to Prove = Prior Kite
Experiment.

nA8ae ~
Experiment.
Every ~schoolboy knows the story OF
Franklin's kite, but many have never
heard of the jealousy and envy that its
performance raised among the learned
men of his time. Franklin turned his
attention to electricity when almost
nothing was known about it. From his
earliest days he had experimental
upon all n of ~unsolved problems,
building curious machines with his
W hands for carrying out his the
cries. When he undertook to drill a
volunteer regiment in Philadelphia he
succeeded so well that his troops in
sisted upon marching home with him
and firing before his door a salute that
broke several OF his electrical Jars.
In 1852 he made the famous kite ex-
pertinent, proving that lightning and
electricity were one. An Englishman,
Mr.. Collinson, who had correspondent
with Franklin. published several let
tiers describing the experiment. A
copy fell into the hands OF Button. the
French naturalist, who undertook sim
liar experiments that attracted the
attention of King Louis XIV. When an
exhibition was given before the latter
he bestowed so much praise upon the
discovery that French philosophers
grew Jealous. Who was this Franklin.
anyway? America? Philadelphia
Tut. was 1t vel possible for any one
IN hi0anunr fhtnw IN -L--.--
place? Assuredly not He must have
stolen the idea-and with that they
began to inquire whether n French
philosopher had recently been robbed
Of an idea. In 1743 an Able Nollet
had suggested that lightning and cleo
tricity might be similar. but he had
made no more than the bare sugges-
ton and had never attempted expert
ments to further his theory. But the
philosophers bounced upon him In
high glee, insisted that he had been
robbed and raised a pretty hullabalol
about the matter until the able him.
self disowned them and honestly rave
Franklin all credit. This put an end
to such charges In France, but English
photographers awoke and tried to prove
that another Frenchman. M. Romas.
had made a prior kite experiment.
When, however, 1t was shown that his
kite had gone aloft a full year after
the publication of Franklin's letters
the attempt fell through and the world
even to the philosophers-aCesd
that 1t wa quite possible for an Amer
lean to add to its knowledge, sven in
Philadelphia.
The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1901-04-11
Thing. Tina. Need Improving.

We are ~dreadfully slow In some
things. Our clocks keep no better time
than the c~lepsydra of 15S B. c., and are
neither more accurate nor cheaper
than the Ely Terry timepieees Of 1902
1916, which sold for 81 and upward.
The average speed of railroad trains
is but little higher than 1t was half a
century ago; we are using the same
style of locomotives, cars, rails and
ties. The piano Of today makes no
better music than the cabinets" cot
tages," "~piccolos," and other brands
of the early years of the nineteenth
century. They are cheaper; that ID
about all. The same general style of
instrument prevails. A double piano,
with two keyboards reversed, giving
remarkable effects, was played on at
the Covent Garden theater in 1878 and
then forgotten. The ancients slept on
skins, and rheumatism and a hundred
other maladies were unknown. He'll
ogabalus had an air cushion for a bed
In 220 A. D., and water beds have been
In use since India rubber cloth was
first invented, some SO a ago.
Feather beds were used In England In
the reign Of Henry VIII, and wooden
bedsteads were common in Egypt CEN
turtles ago.-New York Press.
The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1901-04-11

The new Washington" says an
English writer in the London Specta-
tor, 'is clean and beautiful. 1t is
doubtful whether any such delightful
residential street as Massachusetts, ave-
is to be found on the globe. Am
erican domestic architecture Is as sue
cessful as public architecture, is expen-
sive and often bad, but In these Wash
ington avenues 1t is carried to the
height OF comfort and beauty. The
green, well watered, fenceless lawns,
the grouping Of gables and oriels, the
pretty porches and exquisite trees and
flowers combine to give a most delight
ful series of pictures. There Is not
the os~tentation Of New York or Chi
cago, but there is more charm"
The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1901-04-11
Monkeys In Their Native Lands.

What boy living In a city has no
followed the train of an organ grind
er, whose pennies are collected by the
funny little monkey in red suit and
red cap? And boys have been follow
ing these queer little creatures ABOUT
for more than 200 years. for II is long
err than that since monkeys were nrst
trained and began to perform their
tricks for the public In England. IL
the boys lived In India who In this
country think a monkey is something
to be admired and followed they would
have to make a business OF chasing
monkeys away instead OF
them. for in that country there are
so many of them and they are very
destructive. The crops have to be
guarded from these little thieves. Tor
sometimes as many al 100 or them
will get into one wheat field n
make a feast of the tender blades.
When chased away by stones and
sticks they seem to consider 1t a joke
and watch their chance to return. In
western India many large gray
monkeys are found and they delight In
sitting on the roofs of the houses
watching with interest all that 9
on in the city. Some of the people
here have a very unpleasant way OF
throwing a kind of pea at the houses
OF their nelghbors with whom they
are not on good terms. n sometimes
these peas lodge between the tiles OF
the roof. The monkeys hin them
excellent eating and pick up and mis-
place the tiles to find them, and then
when the rainy season sets In drip.
drip, comes the rain into the houses.
A monkey called the entellus Is
very fond OF killing snakes. He VIII
seize one when II is asleep, beat It's
head against a stone and when IL Is
dead hand 1t over to the young mon
keys to play with, just as a kitten
will play with a mouse. The Hindoos
consider the monkey sacred and build
temples and hospitals for 1t. They
think II a crime to kill one. and be-
lieve IL any one Is wicked enough to
do SO that he will surely die within a
year. Monkeys may enter the Hin
docs houses and steal and carry away
things unmolested, and indeed 1t Is
counted an honor for a house to be
visited by these mischievous c.ea-
lures. In South America there are
many little black monkeys called spi-
der monkeys, because they look like
spiders as they swing from limb to
limb up In the trees. The monkey
that looks more like nan than any
other American monkey is the black
saki. 1t has very large eyes and pos
sesses a beard. which 1t Is very par
ticular not to get wet when drinking.
1t drinks carefully from Its hands, so
1t will not wet its beard. The small
est of all monkeys has a brown name
like a lions, which stands out In all
directions when the monkey is angry.
The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1901-04-11

Daniel l.. Naone, a native Christian,
who to the disgust of his fellow-natives
was active In bringing about the an
nexation of the Hawaiian islands, has
been done to death by sorcery, the ma
tives say. 1t is true that a "kakuna"
or native witch doctor told him he was
to die. and that all at once he became
i'll, showing signs of paralysis. Medi-
cal attention revived him considerably,
but the kakuna visited him once more
and he rapidly became worse and died,
apparently Of congestion Of the brain.
The natives believe that the kakuna
punished Naone's treachery.-Charles
l.. Rhodes in Chicago Record.
The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1901-04-11

I've KEEP school," said a Kentucky
mountaineer, whose eyes were opened
by a visit to Berea college. "but l can't
say I've ever taught" With more ade-
quate provision for training and an
ever-rising standard of qualification,
the pedagogical profession is taking on
new dignity and power. All the more
important Is it not to rush things, for
the finest results must depend On full
tides of vitality. In twelve states as
sociations Of teachers met during the
recent holidays. Schoolroom work Is
wearing to brain and nerve, and 1t Is
open to question whether 1t is wise to
pack the vacations with shop-work.
however attractive or handsomely
done.
The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1901-04-11

Plans are being made for a party
of scientists to leave Victoria, B. c.,
in June for the big glacier on Mt
F~airweather, where the silent City
Of Alaska" is seen every year about
that time. The expedition Will De
backed by some Californians. Tents.
photograph and surveying appara-
tus will be taken. The mirage, which
stretches for a distance of five miles
across the great glacier is said to be
a representation OF the town OF Bris-
toll, England. and In order to invesu-
gate this the expedition will note the
time and weather when their obser-
vations are made, and all character
isties of the mirage. Then, as soon
as n of their number can get into
communication with the city OF bris-
tol, inquiries will be made by tele-
graph with scientists OF that city OF
the weather conditions prevailing AZ
Bristol when the observation was
made.
The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1901-04-11

there is no telegraphic communication
with the outside world every active
man and woman feels lost. No mat
ter how far away from business cares
one may wish to get he still feels an in
terest in the daily doings OF the world.
Many of the recent visitors can do
much to secure cable communication
for Hawaii by agitating the subject
when they return home. Let them
give interviews on the Importance OF
cable communication TO their local
papers or else write letters to the pa
pers upon the subject. Action, action
Is what wins in these days, and con-
slant action in behalf OF a cable to
Hawaii not only by our own people,
but by every visitor will help to hurry
along the desired result--Honolulu
Republican.
The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1901-04-11
RSMV&

played at this party were the follow.
ing:
Cross questions and crooked an
sEers.
Teakettle.
Barnyard chorus.
Reading from Alice In Wonderland.
Going to. Jerusalem.
Stage coach.
Word making.
A recitation by Miss -
The games in this assortment ara
we'll known but 1t was necessary to
modify some of them to suit the oc-
casion. The reading and the recita-
ton varied the program acceptably.
Knowing that one Of the guests was
a fine eloeutionist, n couple voted
for the recitation, another pair seeing
Alice In Wonderland" lying on a
table near by. bethought themselves
of the reading.
After the program was finished a
vote was taken to ascertain the most
popular selection of the evening. The
recitation came out ahead, Going to
Jerusalem being a close second; its
proposers, on producing their reserve
slip, were each awarded a little prize.
Dainty editions OF Shakespeare's AS
You Like It." and Twelfth Night, or
What You Will" would be appropri-
ate souvenirs for such a party.-Chi-
cago Record.
The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1901-04-11

A man named Chandloux has just
hanged himself at Nevers, France. The
circumstances of the suicide are in no
way extraordinary except for the fact
that the man was the fifth husband Of
a woman, all of whose previous hus-
bands came to a violent end. The first
hanged himself, the second persisted in
a fire, the third drowned himself, and
the fourth and fifth have both been
found hanged, and in each case,
strangely enough, on a pear tree.
The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1901-04-11
Story Of Automatic Cou,,,,..

A Chicago man, recently returned
from a trip through Iowa, brought
rather a tall railroad wreck story with
him. A freight train was rumbling
along when a defective wheel on q car
In the middle of the train threw q car
OF the track. dragging another with
It. The two cars rolled clear and all
the others remained on the rails. The
engineer slowed up as soon as possible
and the detached portion Of the train
came up and coupled automatically.
The train was thus ready to proceed,
which it did. thus leaving the two
wrecked cars In the ditch.
The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1901-04-11

One of the happiest uses served by
that wonderful and many named IN
v~ention, the moving picture machine
appears In a story told In the London
Music Hall. f,
A party OF gentlemen were watching
the pictures. when In n Of the Sodtn
African scenes they recognized an Oh
icer friend. The wife of the oficer on
being told Of this, wrote to the man
ager and asked that this picture
might be put up on a certain evening
when she would purposely journey
from Glasgow. She had not seen her
husband for over a year. but at last
observed him In a group-on the
screen Of a neutrality-suspicious.
Youths Companion.
The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1901-04-11

On the Interoceanic railway Of
Mexico a part of the track has been
laid on ties Of jarrah wood imported
from Australia for this purpose. The
jarrah wood is obtained from n of
the largest tress of the forests Of Aus
tralia, which grows to an average
height of two hundred feet, and is
about four feet in diameter at the
trunk. There is usually an interval Of
$50 feet to the first branch. These
trees furnish timber which is sound in
every respect, there being an absence
Of dry rot, gum veins and other de-
fects that often characterize large
trees.
The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1901-04-11

The peanut seems to be playing the
part of "civilizer" in some Of the for
essr possessions in tropical Africa.
Traders give a negro a bushel of nuts
for seed on condition that he returns
four bushels from his crop, and since
the yield in good years is tw~enty-fold,
the black man generally has a surplus
which he can sell at the rate Of a shill-
ing a bushel. From a single station in
Senegambia there were shipped, in
1898. twenty-nine thousand tons. Small
boys and scientists have long been in
agreement touching the value of the
peanut; now statesmen also will have
to do 1t honor, since 1t seem likely to
lead the native African into the paths
Of agriculture.
The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1901-04-11

A "New-Laid-Egg Society" has been
organized in England. In furtherance
Of Its object collecting depots are being
established It various points. The
formation Of such a union not only
suggests the almost universal propen-
sity of human beings to increase the
varieties and numbers of societies, but
it testiies forcibly to the fact that
recentness in an egg is a form of new
richens which sarcasm spares and
good sense welcomes.
The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1901-04-11
"what You will- Party.

The girl with ideas invented a way
OF playing old games, which is as
good as a new game. and which af-
forded a whole evenings amusement
for twenty persons. ranging In age
from 10 to over 30. In the first place
she prepared thirty long narrow slips
of cardboard and numbered them In
pairs from / to Is. This was because
she had invited thirty persons. As
but twenty came to the party, only
the strips numbered from / to 10
were used.
After the guests were seated. they
were asked to draw straws." Then
they paired according to the number
on the strips they had drawn and the
hostess gave the company ten min
utes in which to choose games to be
played during the evening, each
couple being directed 10 select a game
and write the name on both Of their
strips Of cardboard. They were eau
toned against choosing games which
1t might take too long to play.
After all were ready-the hostess
had to stretch the time limit a little
one strip was collected from each
couple, the two young persons being di.
rected to keep the other for future
reference. The games were now play
I'D in the order of the numbers on
their respective slips. ten minutes
being allowed for each one. 1t was
impossible not to have a variety ant
the pastimes RANGED from grave t.
gay. The list would differ with each
company. of course. but among thos.
The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1901-04-11

At Guildford, England, the quaint
custom OF throwing dice for the
maids money" was observed recently.
A sum was invested by a mayor Of the
borough in the seventeenth century.
from which twelve guineas are given
annually to a servant girl Of good ~
puts who has been in the same service
for over two years. There were two
applicants. The prize was won by
Martha Shingler. who threw seven.
The same dice-box has been used for
sixty years.
The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1901-04-11

Mrs. Elizabeth Iidy, so years old, six
times married and five times divorced.
has been adjudged insane at Peters
burg, Ind. She began her matrimonial
ventures while still a girl, and she
continued through life discarding one
husband after another. hopeful that
she would find an ideal one. A COM
mission decided that this hopeless m
bition was evidence of insanity and
ruled accordingly.
The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1901-04-11

A Philadelphia judge Is reported as
having a most exalted idea of the i'm
portance of his court, for he fined a
physician for contempt because, being
a witness, he had kept the court wait
ing half an hour, while at the bed
side of a patient so i'll that he could
not safely be left. Said the Judge: ut
is better that a patient should die than
that the court should be treated with
contempt"
The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1901-04-11

The barometer shows in Peru no such
irregularities as in u northern lati-
tudes. There is simply a double dur
nal change twice each day reaching a
maximum and twice a minimum. Janu-
airy differs from July, but a day in one
January or July is remarkably like a
day in another.
Among these various Peruvian sta
lions that of Ell Misti. ten or a dozen
miles from the city Of Arequipa, Is not
The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1901-04-11

The superior quickness of American
workmen was s~trikingly illustrated not
long ago, when a number of them were
ssnt to Europe with a shipment of
American locomotives. With previous
consignments only a foreman and his
assistant had been sent, a nd IL ri
labor was relied upon for all the work
save superintendent; but the foreign
workmen were So ielsurely in their
flbits that it took them twice as long
as the same force Of Americans re-
CURED for the task. Hence 1t was
cheaper to send all the men necessary
to set I'D the locomotives.
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served for Third of Century.

Sir Joseph Sykes Rymer, late lord
mayor of York. has been a membe I
that ancient corporation for a third OF
a century. He was sheriff from ~ 70
"a. and has been twice lord mayor.
in 1878, and in 1S99-1900. In The
year 1883 1t was he who presented the
freedom of York to Prince Albert Vic
tor, and last June 1t fell to his lot TO
make the Prince OF Wales a freeman
of the famous historic stronghold from
which the Duke of York takes his
title.
The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1901-04-11

been maintained in connection with
the Peruvian station Of the Harvard
college observatory. With the excep-
ton of the station at Arequipa itself
all are to be given up, the objects for
which they were established having
been In large part attained.
observations have been made con-
t~inuously for more than a decade, and
since the phenomena of climate and
weather are SO much more stable, TAX
The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1901-04-11

The New Hampshire legislature will
'be asked for an appropriation for the
erection on the Capitol grounds Of a
statue OF Franklin Pierce. the only
New Hampshire man who has been
president Of the United States. The
body of Mr.. Pierce rests in Concord,
in the old North Cemetery.
The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1901-04-11

Announcement has lately been made
Of he abandonment Of the remarkable
system of meteorological stations, ex-
tending In a chain from the Pacific
over both Cordilleras Of the Andes to
the valley of the Amazon, which have
The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1901-04-11

William X. Vanderbilt has ordered
a new automobile in France that will
be nearly so per cent more powerful
than his famous white Ghost" His
present machine has a road record of
fifty-five miles an hour, but the new
one will be of forty-two horse power,
and able to go at a rate Of seventy
seven miles an hour. 1t will lost $12,-
900.
The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1901-04-11

ing one year with another, In Peru
than in a country like nj own, 1t is
believed that they will furnish . basis
for a fairly complete knowledge OF the
meteorological conditions prevailing
throughout this region of the Andes.
The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1901-04-11
Meteorological |cience.

able a. being the highest point ~
which continuous meteorological OBJ
servations have ever been taken
10. 200 feet above the level Of the SEA.
The station is on the summit Of the
mountain; $500 feet lower Is the Mont
The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1901-04-11

At the coronation Of Edward VII, tho
duke of Norfolk will be the stage
manager" His ancestors have been
masters Of ceremonies a all corona
:tions for centuries. He is entitled TO
a drinking cup of pure gold, either
from King Edward or somebody else.
The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1901-04-11

Horses in their wild state live to the
age of thirty-six normally. being still
fresh and hearty at that age in the
desert.