Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1914-06-11
STRANGE USES FOR WIRE.

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STRANGE USES FOR WIRE.
The telegraph, pioneer of electrical
invention in all new countries, has
had many remarkable experiences ir
linking up the outposts of civilization
and nowhere more than in the Still
half-savage islands of Malaysia, says
a writer in the Wide World Magazine
In Sumatra, for instance, the rebel
li0us Achinese took the wires to ham
mer into slugs for their muskets; in
Celebes unprotected lengths OF the
early lines were torn down and imprO
vised into fish-traps; while in Dutch
Borneo the white porcelain insulators
gave such a striking effect az neck
lace beads for the dusky jungle bellies
that the natives still steal them when
ever opportunity offers.
Some Wire Corsets.
But is has remained for the Dyaks
or Sarawak-Rajah Brooke's remark
able little State in North Borneo-tc
cap the climax by stripping many
miles of telegraph poles of their wire
in order to turn the latter over tC
their tribal "modistes" to manufac
ture into CLOTHES" for their ladies'
Long before the telegraph wire came
the principal article of trade with the
Dyaks of BOrneo was brass wire, some
Of which was used for the making OF
bracelets and anklets, but the bulk
was worked up into a remarkable cor.
set for the women folk. This gar
ment," beginning a little below the
waist-where it fixes the bedang, a
strip Of cotton cloth falling to the
knees-ascends in broadening spirals
to the shoulders. The spirals are
connected up with other pieces OF
wire, which have the effect of depriv-
ing them of all elasticity, and render
ing the contri"ance quite as rigid as
it's modern prototype OF the enlighten-
ed Occident.
Influence Of Modernism.
Under foreign influence it is becom.
ing the custom to make these cages
so that they may be removed at will
for bathing and even for sleeping, but
in the remoter Dyak villages this re
form has not yet begun to make it.
self felt. There a girl, on reaching
maidenhood, has a loose wire corset
Of fashionable shape built upon her,
and to this her figure must grow,
whether it chances to be along its
natural lines OF expansion or not. Only
extreme Enthusiastically only the
shadow Of death ~itself-gives warrant
for the removal of the CALLING grill,
though it is also occasionally done in
other cases. Wire is wire in Borneo,
and though brass trade wire was
more refulgent and "dressy' than tel
egraph wire, as long as the former
cost a picul of damar or five piculs OF
copra for the requisite number OF
spirals, while a dress length OF the
latter could often be had at the ex'
pense Of a little climbing, there was
no question which was going to be
the more in demand. The flexibility
Of the telegraph strand admitted OF a
great variety of treatment, and very
chic effects in weaves and twists
were obtained with it that could new.
er have been approached with the
stiff brass trade wire. ~.
THOUSANDS OF MILES OF BIOS.
-as7ssagE SOM.
A great many of the big trees of
Paraguay-the giants-flower in the
spring and summer, and vast masses
of the most gorgeous blooms are at
the disposal Of the bees. In fact, II
Is difficult for one who has never seen
1t even to imagine these thousands OF
square miles of forest ablaze with
gold and heliOtr0pe, white, yellow
pink and green blossoms during the
Towering season. Curiously enough
the two trees which attain the great
est size, and almost invariably stanu
head and shoulders above the gen
eral mass, bear the most beautiful
flowers. They are the lapacho and
lapacho crespo; the former having
large heliotrope and purple blooms
something like Canterbury bells
clusters of which grow at the end Of
each twig. The lapacho crespo has a
bloom exactly similar in shape, but OF
a rich golden yellow color. Both
these trees array themselves in full
regalia of bloom before a single lea
appears. And it is only after the
flowers begin to fall that the foliage
commences to appear. When all the
other trees have ceased Towering
there remains the bitter orange, O.
which the forests are full, and the
blossom of which imparts to the hon
ey a particularly deliate flavor.
ARNoviTcH HAS RECOVERED.
Minot, N. D., June 10.-William Ar
novitch, the 500 line operator whit
was seriously injured when shot b!
a pair of robbers who broke into thu
depot at Balfour, where he was sta
toned, left the hospital completed!
recovered. For a time it was suppos
ed that his injury would be fatal. Ar
novitch will not resume his position
with the 500 for several weeks.
Elk lodges from Fargo, Grand Fork
Devils Lake and Bismarck are pla-
ming on special trains to the big stat
meeting at Minot the latter part o