Show FOLLOWING CP THE HEATHENS t X Rays Known to the Chinese Centuries Ago i 14 wfl WORKED BY A MIRROR IT WAS MADE OF A COMBINATION f OF TIN AND COPPER Alleged Discovery Made by John Maguire of Magnires Opera 1 House Btitte 1 Which Will Probably Proba-bly Worry the Cathode Ray Sharps a Great Deal Remains of a Lost Art Special to The Herald BUTTE Mont March 2John Maguire Ma-guire manager of Maguires opera house and an antiquarian of considerable note has unearthed what he believes to be a fact that the cathode or X rays were known to the Chinese many centuries ago He finds in the London Philosophical Journal of 1832 an account of a curious Chinese mirror which had the power to reflect upon a screen by the aid of ithe suns rays objects on the back of the mirror the mirror being made of Chinese silver a combination of tin and copper The Journal stated that there were but a few of the mirrors then in existence and that the were evidently the remains of a lost art IS BENNETTS GUEST MONTE CARLO March 21The Prince of Wales attended by Hon Seymour Sey-mour Fortesque was James Gordon Bennetts guest on Saturday on board the latters steam yacht Namouna DEED AT SE < ANEW A-NEW YORK March 29The steamship steam-ship Madlana arrived today from an excursion trip to the West Indies On March 24 Mr W B Smith a passenger passen-ger died of pneumonia He was forty years old and a wellknown druggist of Monmouth Ill The body was brought to port EARTHQUAKE AT RWVLIXS DENVER March 29A special to the News from Rawlins Wyo says A sharp earthquake shock was felt here at 10 oclock last night The waves seemed to travel from the southwest The shock was accompanied by a heavy rumbling sound like distant thunder I WILL SELL A ROAD COUNCIL BLUFFS Ia March 29 Clerk Steadman of the federal court and Master in Chancery Hazelton will go to Glarlnda tomorrow to sell the Humestone Shenandoah railroad at foreclosure sale It seems to be the general understanding that the Burlington Bur-lington will be the only bidder |