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The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-05-20
NOT FIRST ON THE MOUNTAIN TOP
Ubiquitous Advertising Man Had MOI
Neglected the Opportunity.

ubiquitous Advertising Man Had MOI
Neglected the Opportunity.
Some years ago, when the North
western State of Washington was not
SO thickly populated as it is now.
young lieutenant on the revenue cut
ter Rush, then stationed in Puget
Sound, had an experience which he
sometimes relates now, although II Is
at his own expense.
81 was told" he said, that the
neighboring snow capped mountain,
Mount Rainier, had never been CLIMBED
by any white man, or, at least, that
none had ever reached its top. l was
Younger then than / am now, so de-
termined to gain the honor of planting
the first American flag on Ralner
top Several seamen VOLUNTEERED TO &C
company me, and after spending some
days in making our preparations we
set out Three days of weary march
ing and climbing brought us to the
| top. With hurrah we rushed up on
| a large cliff, the highest point and
| then prepared to put up our pole. sud
| denly my attention was attracted to al
| old sstaff stuck into crack. Near It's
| top was nailed a small card, on Whlci
| in plain type. was printed: james
| Ruggles. agent for Thompson's EllNl1
| for that Tired Feeling.
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-05-20

In the borderland between the
r,ocky Mountains and the great plains
If America a number of streams be-
Lave in a remarkable manner. The
water runs for a time over sandy bot
tom az. hen disappears. 1t is be-
vyeved Ivat it continues TO now, very
slowly, of course, some distance be-
low the surface.
A unique instance is now reported
tom Utah by the United States Geo
;ogfcal Survey. There is a creek
which rises in the Uinta mountains,
end which in the summer time loses
itself in a rocky opening, or sink,
fourteen miles from its head. Mr..
Fran, one of the photographers of the
survey says that on almost all sides
the walls rise from the surface of this
rool about seventy-five feet or one
Hundred feet The water has slow,
circular motion, such as might be
produced by inflow at less than
right angle or by suction from below.
Measurement above the pool shows
that the amount of water In the
stream is ninety-six gallons per Sec
snd. The only apparents outlet is .
narrow channel, through which very
little water passes, and even this en-
| tirsly disappears after few hundred
yards. About seven miles away
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-05-20
Denuded by Lightning.

w. w. Reed, wealthy land owner
and oil operator, was walking along
a public highway in Indiana recently
when a severe storm was passing
over. He was carrying an umbrella,
which was struck by q bolt of light
ming and torn to pieces. His clothing
was torn into ribbons and scattered
about the road. He was found a short
time later in nude condition and
thought to be dead. He was carried
into a neighboring farmhouse, where
he recovered, and does not seem to
suffer any bad effects from his
strange experience.
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-05-20
A Wonderful Clock.

To the list of remarkable clocks in
the world, that just completed by
Bohemian in Chicago, who has been
at work on it for nineteen years, will
have to be added. 1t is more than
eighteen feet high, and is fifteen feet
square at the base. A miniature earth
circles around the dial, and turns on
it's axis every twenty-four hours,
while the sun, moon, Venus, Mars, Sa-
turn and other planets are represent
ed in their proper places. When the
clock strikes a door opens, and a pro-
cession of all the presidents of the
United States issues, followed by fig
ures which symbolic its growth.
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-05-20
Only Surviving omeer.

OF the officers of the little ironclad
Monitor, which went into commission
January 80, 1862, and before the 10th
of March had achieved her momen-
tous victory over the Merrin.c, only
one remains. His name is captain
Louis N. Stodder, and is at presen'
supervisor Of anchorages at the port
of New York and veteran or the
United States revenue service. says
the Brooklyn Standard Union. Cap
tain Stodder was born in Boston IN
1888 and entered the navy from the
merchant marine at an early age. and
was in the gunnery school then estap-
ushed in Brooklyn, when in January,
1862, a call was made for volunteers
to work the guns OF the "cheesepox
on a raft" then in an unfinished state
at Greenpoint. John Ericsson's new
tangled concern" as some then styled
it, was the laughing stock OF all the
naval wits who had seen or heard Oh
it, and the prospective guaners were
warned that they were taking their
lives in their hands when they volun-
teered. But men were found and the
vessel was constructed at rate OF
progress probably unprecedented
Within 100 days from the laying Of
her keel the Monitor was launched
with machinery complete, and within
$50 days she had won the victory over
the Merrimac which revOlutionlZed
naval architecture.
The Monitor was commenced II
October, 1861. and was launched Jan
uary 80 1862. Mr.. Stodder was pres
ent on both occasions, and as he re-
NAMED with his vessel until she
foundered off Cape Hatteras the las
day of December, 1862. it will be seer
that he stood By her during her entire
existence.
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-05-20

A remarkable arrangement for in
terviews between solicitors and clients.
prevails at Holloway Prison, England.
The interviews take place in a glass
box within a large room. The solicit
ors and the clients are seated at a
table, where they can discuss the case
with the utmost freedom, without risk
of being heard. The warder who
promenades outside the glass box can
see everything and hear nothing, and
he can especially detect any attempts
to convey correspondence to or from
the prisoner.
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-05-20

DR.. Henry G.. Moore of Wabash,
Ind, has an old battle flag, said to
have been carried by Gen. Anthony
Wayne Mad Anthony during his
campaign through northern Ohio and
Indiana, toward the close of the eight
zenith century. 1t is made of home
spun linen, with thirteen red, white
and blue stripes. and in the corner in
faded letters is the name Anthony
WAYNE. The holes in it's canvas show
it was on the firing line. Its dimen-
sions are four by five feet.
DR.. Moore obtained the flag from
an Indian named Dickinson in 1885.
He was Miami and claimed that the
flag had been in his family for years
descending from an ancestor. Re-
Gently the flag was shown to Mrs, Re
varre, the venerable Indian squaw
aged so, while she was here perfect
ing her, title to the little tract o.
ground on which she lives, and tn,
facts were explained. to her by Chic
Godfrey. Mrs. Revarre's Indian nam
is Kil-so-quah, and she relates tina
after the battle of the Maumee, il
179z, the flag, by Washington's order
was. given to an Indian named She
mock-e-mish by Gen. Wayne himself
as an emblem of peace. He gave 1T t
a relative of Kil-so-quah, and in late
years It disappeared. and Mrs. Re
ware supposed it had been destroy
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-05-20

One of the most curious forms OF
fife hauled up by the nets of the Naples
fishermen are "sea cucumberS'
shaped bodies about the size and shape
of the vegetables of that name, OIL a
pulpy flesh covered with a leathery
Skin, and small calcareouS scales OF
carbonate of lime. They belong to the
same. Family as the starfish ana sea
urchins, and feed on small CRABS ana
otheS floating animal life that tney
can capture. They have no teeth, out
the walls of their alimentary canals
secrete strong juices that Kill and DIS
solve the fibers of the animals Wnlch
have been caught with their sucker
feet and brought to their mouths.
They suck in the sand and mud anu
digest the nourishing particles Whlie
those which are of no use to them are
rejected. Sea cucumbers are very com
mon in the Bay of Naples, and are
often found more than foot long One
variety. known as the "cucumarl plan
ci." has a tail. When the animal Is
alive the tentacles of the tail are so1t
and pliable and adhere to the rock'
but with death they harden like the
arms of starfish and the sp1nes OF sea
urchins, with which we are more IA
miliar.
The Bay of Naples aboands in medu-
sac, or jelly fish, as we call them'oiIe1'
growing as large as two feet in diam
eter and weighing fifty and sixty
pounds. Some of them shine at night
with q greenish light and are known
as 'noctiluca" might lanterns) by the
natives. The jelly fish sometimes
make migrations in great groups
sometimes so large and so thick as te
impede the navigation of vessels. ilke
the floating plants in the Sarasosss
sea of the tropics. These shoals o.
medusae, as they are called, may d.
SO dense that piece of timber PLUNGED
in among them will be held uprlgh
as if stuck in mud, and ordinary no"
boats cannot force their way through
them. Their migrations have neve
been explained. They are irregula
| and occur at no particular season
the year and under no particular III
fluences sThey are not affected by hea
or cold and the currents OF the ocea'
do not seem to control them Whe
the head chief or leader of jelly MS
colony takes notion to move, ne !:
sues his orders which are commun
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-05-20
Fooled tho Boy..

Zone night" said the Captain, "the
Colonel was informed that the sutler
was selling whisky to the men in cans
labeled peaches. He quietly ordered
that the quarters be searched and all
canned goods confiscated. One of our
boys just relieved from headquarters
guard brought the news to our COM
pany, and there was hurrying to and
fro in hot haste to hide the canned
peaches 1t was discovered that our
good old chaplain was out of his lit
tie cabin and in a few minutes
dozen or twenty cans of whisky were
under the chaplain's bunk and the Of
ficer of the guard failed to find them.
''Just as the boys were congratu-
lating themselves ON their narrow es-
cape the chaplain unexpectedly re-
turned to his quarters. and lighting a
candle sat down to read his bible
The boys waited and waited for him
to go out or go to bed, but still he
read. At last he blew out his candle
and, waiting reasonable time, the
boys made reconnaissance in force.
They found the old fellow awake and
guarding a pile of cans which he mad
drawn from under his bunk.
1.-The boys scattered, wondering
what the chaplain would do next.
Later the old fellow jabbed the blade
| of his heavy knife through the top OF
| every can and conscientiously poured
| the contents into the sink. The next
morning the boys found the empty
cans in little gully up the noun
| tain side. The chaplain never sub
mitted any remarks on the subJec1
| and the boys never asked him any
questions. But they never hid any
more canned goods under his bunk -
| Chicago Inter Ocean.
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-05-20
Names Told Too Much.

One inconsiderate father, interested
in affairs of state, named his children.
who CHANGED to be all girls, after the
various presidents in whom he was
interested at the time of the infant S
birth. During their childhood the
girls reioiced in the names of Lincoln,
Johnson and Grant for middle names.
They always wrote their names out in
full. taking great pride in them as
their father had done. Gradually, as
they grew older they wrote only the
initials. and at the present time not
one of the daughters in that family
has any middle name at all.
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-05-20

President William Mckiuley's and
President Hayes parts in the battle
Of Antietam will be marked by a
monument erected by the state of
Ohio. In this battle Mckinley. then
a private. acted as commiSsary to
the Ohio troops. The monument will
stand at the place where he stood
during the tcrcest part of the fight.
At the head of the Twenty-third vas
the late president. then Colonel Ruth
erford B. hayes. on whose staff Mr..
Mckinley was ar aid.
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-05-20
C1xrios Of fbe Sea
of Found Abundant Ouaines ia
the Bays of Naples

escent tint Sometimes it looks like
floating opal. 49,.
Another characteristic is sac filled
with black fluid known as sepia,
which can be discharged instantly into
the water. A small quantity will Gre
ate black cloud sufficient to envelop
the animal and allow it to escape from
it's pursuer. This ink is extracted,
dried and sold to artists 1t is the
sepia with which pictures are painted.
The cuttlefish is quite an article OF
commerce in Naples, for. in addition
to the sepia. the backbone is used for
polishing wood, as tooth powder and
for sharpening the bills of canary
birds.
Both the cuttlefish and the octopus
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-05-20
The Day beyond.


when youth is with us. all things seem
But lightly to be wished and won
We snare tomorrow in dream
And take our toll for work und"ne'
For life is long, and time stream
That sleeps and sparkles in the sun
What need of any haste? we say: E.
Tomorrow longer than to-day
And when tomorrow shall destroy
The heaven of our dreams, in VAIN
Our hurrying manhood we employ
To build the vanished bliss again;
We have no leisure to enjoy,
So few the years that yet remain
So much to do, and, ah! we say -,
."To-morrow's shorter than to-day!
But when our hands are worn and WEAK
And still our labors seem unoiese,
And time goes past us like bieak
Last twilight waning in the West
1T is not here-the bliss we SEEK
Too brief is life for happy rest.
And yet what need of GRIEF, we say
'"To-morrow's longer than to-day:
Boston Waterman.
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-05-20
Ereiburg to Be Flower City.

. The Inhabitants OF Freiburg, in
Baden. seem determined to make
their town, If not the most beautiful
in the world, at any rate unique as re-
CARDS floral decoration. The town
council have decided that all owners
of balconies shall be provided free Of
charge by the town gardener w;:h
trailing creepers, such as ivy, Virginia
creeper, etc, in order that the town
may assume the character of the
flower city
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-05-20
poisonous fluid secreted in the salivary

poisonous fluid secreted in the saliVary
glands.
SO A near relation of the octopus is the
sepia or cuttlefish, which has arms
much shorter than those. of the octo-
pus, but they do business very much in
the same way. The chief characters
tic of the cuttiefish are its ability to
hide itself and to change its color at
will, and in the transparent water of
the bay Of Naples the wonderful play
of tihtsi in the living animal is very
much admired This change in color
rs due to ,4arge' cells in the skin which
sres HI1ad. With frids. As the cells con-
tract 81 exparid the 'colors of the fluids
| change and grow lighter or darker
| like the blush upon the cheek of a
| maidsR. md give Abe animal an opal
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-05-20
Robert T. Lincoln

ern, before his father. Abraham own
ed a home. He was educated in
New England at the Phillips Exeter
academy and Harvard college. He
has been successful lawyer in Chi
cago, secretary of war in the cabinet
of Garfield, the American minister to
the court of St. James, and frequently
has been mentioned as a possible can
didate for the presidep"'' Yet he
never made capital of the fact that b.
the accident OF birth he was the di-
rect descendant of a great and good
pan
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-05-20

Gated somehow from one to another.
and. at the time appointed the entire
colony begins TO move. 1t travels
very slowly, compared with other fish,
but makes several miles day.
The OCTOPUS vulgaris''-the devil
fish of the ancients-is very common
in the Bay of Naples. Examples are
hauled up in the nets every day. 1t
is the guerrilla of fishes. 1t hides itself
in ambush in the crevices of the rocks
and waits for it's prey, and often piles
I'D stones into heap, behind which
it conceals itself until it can pounce
upon unwary and innocent fishes that
pass by The octopus also has the
power of changing it's color and pro
ducing oil sorts of warts and wrinkles
upon it's otherwise smooth skin, so as
to deceive it's neighbors. These traits
of character are not commendable.
The body of the octopus looks like
a round bag and contains its vital or
gans. At one end it has a head ike
that of a toad, with two large inquiring
eyes, ano branching out from various
parts of ne body are eight arms united
at their oase by a web similar to that
in the foot of a duck. Each arm has
two rows of suckers. Hidden by the
arms, and in the middle of the BODY
is the mouth, furnished with pair OF
powerful Jaws and a membraneous
flap which alternately opens and shuts
The arms are used for swimming
crawling climbing and for catching
and holding the prey. 1t eats crabs
fish and other animate objects Whlci
are caught by it's suckers. carried Il
the mouth by means OF the arms ant
| are quickly Killed and dtgested by
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-05-20
19 e afhI|'||| tbEn1ER

number of springs have been discov-
cred One Of them comes up in
hole twenty feet deep and twenty
five feet across. The opinion is ex-
pressed by the geological survey ex-
perts that the water which disappears
in the upper pool flows underground
deep below in the gravels which form
the bed of the stream, and in times Of
rainfall heavier than usual appears
again in part in the large springs be-
low.
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-05-20

While boring for oil the other day
at Engle, N. M, in the heart of the
famous Journey of Death Desert an
artesian we'll of water was struck
which will be more valuable to the
region than an oil well could have
been. During the Mexican war a
detachment of soldiers had to cross
this arid region, and out of 165 all but
fourteen persisted for want of water.
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-05-20

II paid Adelina Patti a pound OF
candy for singing at her first concert, "
says Hermann Grau, the oldest oper-
attic manager in America. 'Eittle Miss
Patti was at that time years of age
and her CONCERT was held in willard'a
hall, Washington, D. c."
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-05-20

1t appears that the greatest veloc-
ity of a rife ball is not at the muzzle,
but some distance in front. An aver
age of ten shots with the German in
fantry rifle has shown a muzzle veloe-
ity OF 2,063 feet per second, with a
maximum velocity OF !2,132 feet per
second of ten feet from the muzzIe.
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-05-20
An Enormous Tusk.

One of the largest tusks ever found
IN Africa was recently brought into
Zanzibar, and since then has been
shipped to London, where IN due
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-05-20

When Robert T. Lincoln dies, he
being the only surviving member of
the martyred presidents family. the
name dies with him. He did have u
son, but the boy crossed the dark
river to the eternal city years ago. MI.
Lincoln is SIS. He was born in tav-
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-05-20

Members of the various Grand
Army Posts in Boston are much inter
ested in the proposed soldiers monu-
ment to be erected by the city -iH
Logan Square, and for which com
petitive plans were received and
prizes awarded by councils. Joseph
r. Craig. president Of the Grand
Army Association announced that he
lad appointed a committee to CO.
Operate with councils to4secure an APP
nropriation to build the monument, .,
pSf V :, S.'s.s'sl 3
Time steals OF without fear OF ar
rest. but the man who steals often has
to serve time.
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-05-20
(dII ll eIdles

ed She readily recognized it when
it was exhibited to her gaze.-lndian'
apolis News.
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-05-20

course it will be made into billiard
balls and fancy toilet articles. This
superb tusk weighed more than 2oo
wounds. 1t took four natives to sup
fort it's weight while it was being
photographed.
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-05-20

Effects of a big feast are almost a.
bad as effects of big drunk.
Each experience a man has make0d
him either better or worse.
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-05-20
mr. SEA -ucIrssE~

grow to large size and many horri-
fying legends are told of them.
Wadsworth semi-weekly dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1899-1904, 1902-11-07
PASSENGER DEPOT
ALTERATIONS

The Winnemucca Silver State says:
A number of alterations are being
made in the passenger depot, which
would seem to indicate that at no dis
tant day this place is TO be made head
quarters for two sets of train Dispatch
ers instead of one, as is now II lcase
A force Of carpenter, is at work q d
the whole interior arrangement Of the
building is being built for Trainmaster
McGovern, who will probably return
here soon, and there will also be an
office for TIE chief d spatcher The
room occupied by the dispatchers. and
operators is being enlarged and the
space heretofore devoted to lonngers
will be made much smaller
Wadsworth semi-weekly dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1899-1904, 1902-11-07
TURNED THE SCHOOL
UPSIDE DOWN

A social was given at the Asss mtly
Hall OF the school house Wednesday
evening which was largely atten led by
the pupils.
During the evening number Of boys
left the hall and went through the
school rooms, destroying every thing
they could and acting the part of hood
lums to perfection.
Black boards were broken and de-
molished, the pendulum was removed
from the clock. the clapper from the
bell and books we're destroyed.
When they had done all the malici-
Gus mischief they could in the building
they proceeded to pry bricks from the
window sils in order to hear them
"plunk" on the ground below.
AS a result Of their fun (1) Principal
Gregory has resigned and seventeen Of
the boys have been suspended.
The boys will be given a hearing
before Judge Bridges tomorrow. AS
they were nearly all high school pupils
and old enough to know better it is not
likely that they will be treated very
lineantly.
The people have long been pestered
by the hoo ilum acts of some ef these
boys and the general sentiment is that
they should be given lesson they will
not soon forget.