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The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-01
Alaska and the Salad

At a recent function in Washington Jchn W. Foster, the diplomat and ex- Secretary of State, vas sent by Mrs. Eos ter to get her some salad. He procured a plate of the dainty and was returning ton about the Alaska boundary. MT Foster has a fad or that subject. He be- gan to talk earnestly. Then he gesticu- lated. The result was that the salad slid gracefully off the plate and landed full magnificent dress The conversation about the Alaskan boundary ended right there. Mir. Foster had more serious things to think about.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-01
Old Travellers Phrase |.
l. ndor Chronicle,

A correspondent has dug aug an cid ''Travelers' Manual of Conversation. ' which supplies some pretty pictures of travel in the early ninets santh century. Thus to the valet-de-place: Have you any curiosities T vour town?' Yes; we have d picture gallery, q library and cabinet of coins " II nm friend .O nat ural curiosities; but have made q note h. ny 2ock elbook of the jail the hos pital. and .he idio1 asylum Conduct me there!" In the pos.chaise the traveller thus exclaims: "Postboy, you are drunk. impertinent. and foolhardyi You run against the post. the Drecipice the ditch!" That is bad enough. But the Lady on Awakening" is taught to cry: Send for the corn cutter and the dentist" They were Spartans, those travellers, who knew not the train de luxe.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-01
Special Information.

distinct. '' w W ~ " '""NS all "s"eS ana numbers
  months subscription and Sunday f ~
  Address Editor Remit postof O NN 4''' This contest will close April 1s The No drawing the dots The tb,ne n ~
 
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  always ~ 'O' NN''H tha winning of thtsep in O NO'N'''N'e '"e this contest the the man 1
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-01
Out of Town Agents.

All subscriptions received from outside of Mont gomery where agents make deliveries and collections, will be credited the agent from such points subscriptions are received Agents will be notified in due time, and full Information furnished subscriptions paid for, and when to begin delivery of papers.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-01

other of the Southern cities.
 Scientific Interest.
 The anthropolugical interest in the Rock Island region comes by virtue of the dicovery in 1SES of the celebrated "Ele- phant Pipes Hear Davenport. which are now preserved in the museum of the Davenport Academy of Sciences. They hae caused as much. if not more, discus sion among ethnClug!sts than the calave- ras skull, or the pithecanthropus erectus. It is asserted that they were found in one of the numerous mounds of this ne!ghhorhood by some Germans, and are Indian pipcs of the ordinary mound type. peculiar in that all three are made in the form of an elephant ur mammoth. 1t they are genuine remains, then IL would seem to indicate that their makers lived at a time when the lQrdly mammoth rOamed up and down the valley of the Father of Waters. but the trouble in this as in a number of other cases. Is that scientists were not present to witness the discovery of these pipes. and it is signih- cant that since their discovery none like them has been found, although ethnolo- gists have spent a vast amount of time and considerable money ransacking the mounds in the same neghborhood, some of which lay within a few hundred feet of the mound from which they are said to have been taken
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-01

several years before the planet will be again so favorably situated for such ob- servations. The secretary of the British Astronomical Association remarks that these phenomena are the most interesting yet observed as they indicate that the planet has either high snow mountains or clouds.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-01

slobular boat provided with delcately Jointed mechanical arms, and with this it is practicable to reach the sea bed at a depth of 100 yards, and to perform any kind of work. In a test near Genoa, the inventor descended to the bottom and returned with the greatest ease.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-01

| rom the greatest heat of ordinary work With metals.
 | Crater-like cones in boiler-scale are ex- | plained by F.. C. Etromeyer a British physicist, as due to unequal heating of scale of varying thickness, and he sug-
 g3sts that similar action may account for the formation of volcanoes and their position near ocean shores.
 Ruminpdon, or cud-chewing in human beings seems to nave been known since lGiS, and 1t is thought that considerably mo'e than 100 casas are now on record. A German physician recently -eported three cases in one family-a father and two sons. The fathar. always a rapid
 eater, began the act at the age of $, and continued It until Ceath at 50. ruminati ton being commenced at fifteen or twenty min- utes after the meal and lasting half an hour to an hour. Food was returned to
 the mouth at intervals of three or four minutes when it was masticated and re- | swallowed. The substances had their nat ural taste, without the acidity they would have had if digestion had begun, and meals were only enjoyed during and after
 this process This case was typical, ex- cept that after death the stomach was
 found to have very unusual hour-glass form.
 Alloys are usually more fusible than
 the least fuslble metal contained, and they tN''AA'oN olWdS IlCANlcA pA uVHStE llidH
 the average of their unc0mbined constit-
 uents remarkable exception to both
 rules Is an alloy of IS S7 per cent of aluminium and S1 .l3 per cent. of antimony
 Both metals melt at about $50 degrees C..
 while the alloy requires a heat of 1,OSO
 degrees C., and the specific gravity of the
 latter Is only 4,21S-instead of of 5225,
 which 1t would be If there were no changes of volume. In other words, TOT
 cubic inches of aluminium and 12 .07 of an-
 timonv produce 23. T cubic Inches of alloy.
 The automatic fire-alarTn has been put to
 medical use by a French inventor. The apparatus is placed under the arm of
 fever patient, and rings a bell, summon ing nurse or physician, if the body tenn perature reaches the danger heat.
 The diving apparatus of Signor Pino, an Italian engineer, consists of kind of
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-01
SCIENTIFIC MISCELLANY
A MYSTERY STILL-THE SIG-
 MAILS FROM MARS.
Arithmetic by Machinery-smoking in Ancient Days-Paint for Fire Bricks-Volcanic Crarers in Boilers-Human Rumi-
 nants.

The new star that flashed out in Per seus at the beginning of the twentieth century seems to be the herald of another revision of our astronomy. Prof. Simon Newcomb shows reasons for assigning this star to the Milky Way, and that a con- servatiVe estimate Is that it's light-trav- cling at ls6,O0O miles per second-must re- quire 3,400 years to reach the earth. The nebula that has spread from this star has reached a diameter of more than four minutes of arc in a few months. Until now the explosions of hydrogen have seemed to explain the blazing up of suns in two or three days to thousands of times their original brightness, but the inGandescent gas from these explosions seems incapable of travelling more than few hundred miles per second, and the Perseus nebula has extended with vastly greater velocity Kapteyn suggested that the flash from the central explosion has been gradually lighting up dark nebula
 Even this explanation has failed for cal culation has shown that the lighting up has progressed with ten times the velocity of light, and, as Roentgen rays and other known radiatlons have no greater speed than light, physicists are asked to find what 1t Is whose motion at such an in- credible rate we have been witnessing.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-01

for promising to be his and tells her he will try to deserve the trust she reposes in him."
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-01

from the greatest heat of ordinary work with metals.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-01

A peculiar sensitiveness to lightning has been noted in fishes. In several recent cases trout and other fishes in tanks and pools have been Killed by lightning flash es. which, however, struck some distance away.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-01


 Although calculating machines have been known since the time of Lelbn!tz, some two centuries ago, the new autarlth of RechnitZer, young Niennese mechan- ician, seems to be the first apparatus ca pa ble of working out unaided any ordi- nary problem in addition, subtraction, multiplication or division. While simple in constructor, the working of the me chanism is not easily described because each part performs several funRtions. The numbers are set down by moving buttons up and down slots until opposite the fig ures in order, and when the two numbers to be multiplied, for instance, are thus arranged in two rows. a large button is moved to the notch marked "multtpltca- tion." The machine. driven by motor or a weight, soon shows the figures of the product, stopping with the large but ton at a notch marked or. Some of the devices, such as that for carrying tens. are said to be quite new. and some processes, like that of trying a quotient and changing for another. if too large, show a marvellous development of auto matic reasoning.
 Whether or not the ancients smoked, is question archaeologists are trying to decide. The prehistoric pipes of clay, wood and metal that are frequently found in Western Europe, seem to give affirmative evidence. and this is confirmed to some extent by ancient writers. He roditus and Pomponius Mela mention cer- tain tribes that became drunk from in- haling the vapor of piles of burning fruit. Pliny testifes that the vapor of plants was used in treating disease, and that tubes were sometimes employed for in haling the vapor.
 Carborundum melts only at temper ature far above that ordinarily generated for smoking ores and metals It Is there fore proposed as coating for fire-bricks, to be applied as a paste with sodium sili- cate, and tests have shown that twelfth-inch coating protects the bricks
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-01
Contest Closes April lst.
Scientific Interest.

seeking then as now. to build in one or other of the Southeln cities.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-01

The luminous flashes-or signals from Mars will be eagerly looked for during the spring and summer, as it will be
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-01


 The matter at first seemed difficult, but one of their number who had a dectded turn for carving, and who had made great many trinkets, such as scartpins and cuff buttons. out of q peculiar variety of muscle shell found in the waters about the island and nowhere else, many of which he had given to the prison officials and guards. It was decided that he should make a set of buttons which could be worn as watch charms or pins, and bear ing live or SIX letters. signifying certain things known only to the conspirators, but which could readily be interpreted to mean something else of a pious and lofty nature in case they were questioned by the prison guards or those whom they expected to meet when they escaped. The guards, being accustomed to seeing him at work on such objects, paid no atten- tinn to this enterprise. and he soon had ach member of the band supplied. EY- was ripe for execution when, or the day following the date he finished the last button. the news arrived that the war was at an end, and that the men would he released fast as they could be pa roled. Thus ended the plot.
 The veteran said that since the war~he had attended many reunions. where he had always displayed this button, but that on one occasion only had he ever met any of his old comrades and fellow conspirators. who, recognizing the button. greeted him accordingly. He also said that he believed this button was the only one in existence. the others having been either lost, destroyed. or thrown away He was saving it, he said. for the Con 9ederate Battle Abbey and Museum which the United Confederate Veterans were
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-01

The diving apparatus of Signor Pino, an Italian engineer, consists of kind of
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1903-06-30
TRAIN FALLS INTO RIVER.
Thirty Killed and Sixty Others Seriously
Injured-A Fearful Accident
In Spain.

Madrid, June % Fourteen bodies
and so injured persons have been
extrioated from the wreck Of the
Bilbao train which overturned Mt
Nejerilla river last night
According to official information
30 persons we're killed and 60 others
seriously injured. Many of tho in
jured will die. OF the 300 passen
engers on the train it is stated that
only six escaped unhurt. The train,
which was composed Of two engines
and Is coaches, was crossing the
bridge when the couplings between
the engines broke. The second on
gine left the track and foil, followed
by the entire tram, into the bed of
the river
Fortunately the water was low.
The nearest medical attendance
was a mile and a half distant. Those
passengers who we're least injured
aided the others and did all possible
until the arrival Of relief trains bring
ing nurses, doctors and soldiers from
Bilbao.
The train fell so feet from the
bridge to the river bed, the coaches
piling up in mass Of splintered
wood and ironwork. The scene il
described rs horrifying. Many corpses
were carried down the stream, which
WAS redeemed with blood. 1t WAS
found impossible to extricate mum
bers of the injured, who were pin
toned under the wreckage. A rail
way guard was arrested in the act Of
robbing the dead and narrowly %
capped lynching.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1903-06-30
MILITIA RULE IN RICHMOND.
A Boy Of Sixteen Shot Merely Because
he Shouted "Scabi"

Richmond, Va, June 26 Lester
Wilcox, sixteen year. old boy, was
shot by a soldier in Fulton, the lower
end Of the oity, about 8 O'Clock to.
night for crying ''soab" at oar, and
refusing to desist when ordered to
do 80. He is wounded in the hand
and hip. The hand is badly man.
gled. The boy was brought up town
on street car and taken to the city
hospital.
Cars have been run regularly on
all lines in the city TO, day and to-
night, and during part of the day
on the suburban line to Barton
Heights, all under military proteo-
ton.
Travel on the cars is still light,
though it was probably heavier to day
than it was yesterday.
The business men are moving to-
ward bringing about a settlement OF
the strike if possible. Trade is suf-
fering severely by reason Of the dis
turbance.
All those who we're wounded yes
terday and the day before are doing
we'll. One or two of them left the
hospital to-day.
VIM Tucker, aged %, a passenger
on Main street Gar, WAS shot to-
night at the corner of Main and Bel
videre streets. He WAS peppered in
the arm and leg with small sho
and was not too badly hurt to walk
to his home after the wound was
sewed up. Who did the shooting is
not known.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1903-06-30
Dlundorbug1.

In using the word "blunderbuss'' we
unconsciously imply sense OF dia-
paragement for the shooting powerr
Of our forefathers contracted with the
precision Of the modern ride. The
word itself has, however. a terrible
enough meaning and disdains all con-
nection with "blunder." "BlundeY-
buss." in fact. as we have It, 10 a
strange corruption-perhaps not alto
gether untinged with the sense and
sound Of "blunder"-of the old Dutch
word "donderbuss." which can be iitar-
ally translated into the English ''thun.
der box" or thunder barrel"
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1903-06-30

Whom Reptiles Inhabited tho EaRth.
At different epochg during the time
known as the secondary period the sur
face Of the earth seems to have been
30 predominantly peopled with reptile
life that it has been called "the age
Of reptiles" The huge iguanodons
stalked or leaped about In the wealds
Of Sussex and Hampshire. or these
iguanodons marvelously complete skel-
etons are to be seen (mounted in att-
tudes of life) in the Royal museum of
Brussels-a sight In Itself sufficient to
induce visit to that capital. Other
smaller reptiles browsed OIL the foliage
Of the then existing plains and were
pursued and preyed upon by fell rep
tilian monsters Of various kinds. The
sea also swarmed with reptiles Och
thyosaurD as aquatic as the whales
and dolphins Of our own day. And not
only were the earth and seas thus peo.
pied. but there were flying reptiles OF
different kinds and Sizes, known as
oterodactyls.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1903-06-30
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The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1903-06-30
A QUESTION OF BATHS.

How an Army officer Evened Up MaS-
ters With an Auditor.
Auditors and comptrollers are this
natural enemies Of mankind" remark
ed an army officer, but more particu-
larly are they the enemies of an army
officer. They take great delight In find
ing reasons why they should not pass
an officers accounts and take advan-
tage Of the least little technicality or
any possible way Of refusing to do so.
Some time ago an officer to get Just
claim that had been turned down by
the auditor or comptroller was COM
PEELED to go to congress, and the print
ing bill for the account was four times
as large as the amount in the first in
stance"
General Weston got the best Of an
auditor when he was In the Seventh
cavalry. and this is the way he tells
the story:
Il was on a horse board at Kansas
City, and before a horse could be ac-
cepted he was sent mile at a very
fast clip to test his endurance. I OBJ
served that the men who were selling
the horses had rider who would take
them SShind a clump OF trees where l
could not see and shortened tho dis
tance. l decided to ride the horses my
self, and l tried about twenty a day.
I would get pretty we'll warmed up
with that kind Of work, and went in
afterward and took a bath. charged
up the bath each day In my expenses.
But the account came back from the
auditor with the Endorsement:
"'One bath n day 10 luxury and not
necessity. One bath week Ia
enough
"And l indorsed right under that, 1T
may be enough for an auditor, but not
for a cavalryman. .'"-Washington Post.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1903-06-30

a man working by the day is paid
for the tune he pnis in st work, but
WHEN that man saves n hollnr fn, biz
days labor it works for him nights,
IA we'll "s days; never lays # ~" nc.
connt OF bad weather and never gets
sick, Int goes right On parni'H ham
an incomo. IT, Il mic" thing !" work
for money, hnt it's much ir,r ln
hav" money working f"r >"" Try
lt-opan n savings nrr"unt WIFI Us
and get some money working for y'n.
Make a deposit in the Savings he
partment today and let it begin TO
work for yon. Interest com puted ut
4 per cent January ! and July of
each year.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1903-06-30
Farmers Institutes.

BY authority Of the Board of Trustees
of Clemson College, Local Institutes
will be held in such counties as send re-
quests, signed by fifteen farmers, be-
fore the fifteenth of June, to j. S.
Newman, Director of Farmers Insti-
tutes, Clemson College, S. G.. The pc.
titioncrs will name the places at which
Institutes are desired and the dates will
be arranged by the college authorizes.
The State Institute will be held at
Clemson College commencing Mo nday
evening August 10th and closing Friday
evening August l4th.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1903-06-30
The First Diamond at EIimborle,

The First Diamond at A1mborAey.
It was not until the autumn Of 1870
that the first diamond was found on
the present site Of Kimberley. There
was shallow, circular depression,
known as Dutoitspan. on the edge Of
which farmer named Van Wyk lived
in cabin plastered with mud. This
hut had no architectural pretensions,
but. In its way, 1t went beyond the
luxury Of Fifth avenue. for the mud
with which 1t was daubed was sprin-
kled with diamonds. One day Van
Wyk's children prospected the plaster
ing Of their home and extracted sov-
eral gems. The farmer and his friends
began digging at the spot from which
the mud had been taken. and found
more diamonds.
Miners swarmed in, and new
camp, called Dorstfontein, sprang up.
In June Of the next year the Kimber-
ley mine proper-one OF the four great
deposits that form the present kim
berley group-yielded Its flrgt diamond.
Cosmopolitan.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1903-06-30
Talent and VocauoR.

Each man has his own vocation. The
talent Is the call. There 70 one direc-
tion in which all space IL open to him.
he has faculties silently inviting him
thithcr to endless excrtlon. He Ia like
q ship In river. He runs against OBJ
structions on every side but one. On
that side all obstruction Ia taken away,
and he sweeps serenely over Gods
depths into an infinite aea. This tai
ent and this call depend on his organ
izatlon or the mode In which the gen.
eral soul incarnates 4teslf In him.--Hm-
eSson,
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1903-06-30
The Age OF tho Harp.

The harp. which was suggested by
the lute is ascribed to Jubal, 1915
b. c.. and was King David'B favorite
instrument. The harp was used by
the Welsh and Saxons, and also by
the ancient peoples Of Ireland. One
Of the oldest harps in existence is In
the Dublin College museum. and orig
inally belonged to Brian Boroihme,
king Of Ireland.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1903-06-30
CouIdn't See the Application.

Dumlcy-She does quote some of the
most inappropriate things at times.
Miss Wunder-What's her latest?
Dumley-l was telling her that
sometimes refrain from Joining in a
discussion for fear Of making fool Of
myself. and she said one could not
''palnt the lily or gild refined gold."--
Philadelphia Press.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1903-06-30

Harvey Logan, the alleged Mon
tsna train robber, escaped from the
Knox County, Tenn, jail on Sstur
day by lassoeing his guard while his
back was turned, tieing him tight,
securing his pistols, and covering
with the pistols all who attempted
to stop him, making good his es-
cape.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1903-06-30
At the Reception.

~ think Daisy is going to announce
her engagement to Dick tonight"
"Did she tell you she was?"
"No. But see how uncomfortable
Dick looks."-HasDerg Bazaar.