The log cabin Democrat., 1908-07-09

rediscovered, says the Taegliche Rundschau, by a Berlin engineer, and preliminary experiments have been conducted at Weissensse castle before Emperor William, who show ed the greatest interest in the pro- ceedings. The art of producing Greek fire seems to have been lost since the Greeks of the Byzantine empire used it against the Scottish chem ist, are supposed to be Saracens. It's constituents, says Ire, asphalt, nl- Ire and sulphur, but the old chroni- clers say that the mixture, what ever it was, had the power of burning fercely even under water, and that nothing could quench it. The invent or pretends to have rediscovered the secret and to have improved upon 1t by his knowledge of modern pyro- technics. He certainly succeeded in generating powerful jets of flame 70 feet high in the center of lake, and he has challenged all the Ber- lin fire brigades to a competition to put out his brennende see (burlng seal as he calls it.
 Albert Richardson and compan- ion, fishermen of Orr's Island, Cas- COG Bay, killed a sea monster 45 feet in length, weighing, 1t IS esh- mated, 15,0O0 pounds, and more closely resembling the proverblal sea serpent than any marine animal ever seen on this coast. The head was like that of a shark, but 1t had no teeth. The body was serpentlne, with a huge fin running the entire length of the back. The tough, wrinkly hide in color and texture was like an elephants. The tail was like a whales. The fishermen, not realizing the scientific value of the catch, cut up the monster to try the oil from his liver, which weigh ed 1,700 pounds.
 Count Zeppelin Wednesday out distanced all worlds records for steerable balloons. He remained in the air 12 hours, traversed the great CT part of northern Switzerland and visited Zurich, Winterthur and Luc- erne, attaining an average speed throughout of 34 miles an hour. His airship displayed splendid qualities of dirigibility and answered the slightest movement of the helm, while its sability was quite up to the greatest expectations.
 Four Columbus, Ohio, men have offered a finger each for $500 to A. c. Balloux of Wheeling w. Va, who lost his digits in an ice cream freez- CT recently. He is in the hospital at East Liverpool, Ohio, and his brother, Jos. Balloux, made the of- fer of $500 a finger on the sugges- tion of the surgeons.
 At Sour Lake, Texas, Monday af- ternoon two oil tanks were destroy ed by fire. Loss $130,000. An ef- fort was made to confne the fire to the tank in which it originated, but oil boiled over and communicated to the other tank containing 55,o00 barrels. and an explosion followed.
 The mapping of the United States by the Geological Survey has been in progress since 1879 and so far some what more than a third of the coun- try has been surveyed, or about 1,050,000 square miles, exclusive of parts of Alaska.
 Gen. David Vickers, veteran of the civil and Spanish-American wars and adjutant general of the Ohio Ma tional Guard, died at Boise, Idaho, Sunday, aged 60 years.
 The safe of the postoffice at Del hi, La, was blown early Tuesday and robbed of about $500 in stamps and several hundred dollars in money. The robbers escaped.
 The Health Department estimates the population of St. Louis at 722,- 900, an increase over the estimate bv the same department of 710,OO0 last year.
 Francis Gonzales, who calls him. self "Presidente of the Liberal Party of Mexico" has been jailed at