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Show THE PIUTE VOL. LEO IS II A MAliYSYALK, WRESTLER. POWERFUL DOG THAT DOWNS A TRAINED MAN. His Owner Proudly Proclaims Him me Canine Wrestler of the Champion World, and HU Title Is Likely to Be Cadisputed. (Special Letter.) ITZS1MMONS fa- mous dog Yarrum, the pugilists companion in training, his running mate, and occasionally his adversary in a friendly bout, is not more ferocious in appearance than Leo, a great Dane belonging to Col. Schult. Leo is black, not tawny, like breed. He is so many of his lion-lik- e wonderfully powerful In his build, and he looks able to fight an Indian tiger to a standstill. However, he has been trained for a different sort of combat. His master proudly proclaims him the champion wrestling dog of the world. It Is doubtful if Leos title to tha canine championship will ever be contested by another dog but a man has recently kept New York music hall audiences in a fever of excitement by a nightly struggle with the enormous brute. Although the fellow is a trained athlete and has the advantage of pair of muscular hands, the victor is always in doubt, and sometimes one, sometimes the other scores a fall. The colonel himself does not attempt to wrestle, and the attendants think he is wise. It is no joke to struggle with a huge animal that keeps up an angry yelping, with his mouth stretched wide open within a couple of inches of ones throat and his long fangs within reach of a vital spot. Not one of the men who work about the theater would undertake the job for love or money. They all predict a tragedy sooner or later, while Col. Schult merely laughs at them and declares that Leo, with all his ferocity of aspect, Is as mild as a lamb. There were two rounds on the stage one night, and the honors were equally divided between man and brute. Leo stood by a line at the right side, wagging his tail, his tongue protruding, his short ears bent forward, intently watching for the appearance of his adversary. A young man advanced toward the center of the stage. counted Colonel One, two, three, Schult. He paused for a second, then shouted Go!" Leo rushed forward at his word of command. Two bounds brought him to within four or five feet of the wrestler and on the third he was on top of him. The man had braced his body for he shock but he was nearly reversed, and the dog with his paws uplifted was pushing and squirming with all his might. It seemed for a moment as though the wTrestler would not regain his equilibrium, but he managed to twist himself straight and got a firm grip around the body of the great Dane. They whirled from side to side, up and down the stage. The man kept lifting the dog and trying to dash him off his hind legs, but the animal struggled bravely, and although the boards creaked under his weight as he was pitched about, he did not fall. Both were panting, and there was an ugly look in Leos eyes and his yelps grew fainter. The man made a supreme effort, tripped the great Dane and fell upon his quivering body with force. Leo had lost the first round. He retired to his side panting, while the man wiped perspiration from his face and hands and chalked the soles of his shoes. There was a brief rest, and Colonel Schult again counted three. The wrestler advanced, shook Leos paw and retreated to await a second attack. Leo hurled himself forward an forced the battle to an even Issue, rhe mans body bent and his eyes bulged in his effort to right himself. The dog realizing his advantage threw all his weight on his antagonist. They spun about for a few instants, and the man sank, with Leo squarely bone-erushl- A PUZZLING RIVER- - The Nicer Wu For Mu; Tear Ae Yimolved Problem For many years the Niger river was the great conundrum of African geography. Nobody knew where its waters reached the sea, but many geographical experts had the wildest theories on the subject. Some of them thought it entered the Sahara and lost its waters in the sands; others that it flowed into Lake Tchad. Mungo Park evolved the fantastic" Idea that it was the upper part of the Congo, and the Tuckey expedition, sent out by Great Britain in 1S16, was instructed to ascend the Congo to the Niger. Some of the most famous African explorers made great discoveries in other directions while thay were really seeking to solve the problem of the Niger The only result of these investigations was a fresh crop of erroneous One of them conjectured theories. that the Niger reached the Atlantic and each, one Lad an opinion of his own. All these speculations were dul recorded on the maps and the cartographic delineation of the Niger from 1781 to 1832 Is something wonderful i contemplate. It would seem to be r simpls matter to keep to the river wbei once It was reached and follow it O' its destination; but that was the verj thing the explorers were unable to do But P. was the German geographe Reichald, in his library at home, wh solved the Niger riddle, some flftee years before the Lander brothers i 1832 proved his assertion true. Even 1'ody knew of the numerous iitte rivers emptying into the Gulf of Beni and they were supposed to be ind; pendent streams of small importano But Reichard said that the long stretch of the coast where these streams reached the ocean was the sea front of . great delta and that the Oil rivers wer. nothing but the subdivisions of the mighty Niger. That was true and w5 now know that the Niger delta is tht largest in Africa. ill-fat- STORY OF THE STARS. NEW INSTRUMENT FOR IT. READ-IN- G The University of Pennsylvania Fine It I Pronounced One of Telescope the Most Perfect let Produced Kelt to the Yerkes. (Special Letter.) HE University of has Pennsylvania dedicated to the cause of science its new astronomical The observatory. ately west of the city limits of Philadelphia, beyond the influence of the smoke and soot of the factories and the vibrations of the steam and electric railroads. The ground on which it stands was presented to the university some years ago for the purpose for which It is now used, by the late Reese Wall Flower, from whom the observatory derives Its name. The, original intentions of the donor were not carried out, how ever, until two years ago when the president director, Prof. Charles S. Doolittle, then professor of mathematics and astronomy at Lehigh university, was called to the similar chair at Under his direction has Philadelphia. been added to the possession of the University of Pennsylvania one of the finest and best equipped institutions for astronomical research in existence. First and foremost in this equipment Is the big equatorial telescope, with its eighteen-inc- h lens, mounted d on a separate building of its own. All of these instruments are from the makers of the big Lick and Yerkes telescopes, and in this, their dome-cappe- croiueter ioi close measurements, a spectroscope with prisms, gratings, photographic attachments, etc. It stands on a pier of solid masonry, sixteen feet in height, seven feet ot which is underground; the whole rests on a solid bed of rotten stone and is totally unconnected with the building which surrounds and shelters It. Near by the home of the equatorial is the transit building containing the mathematical Instruments. In one end of this is a four-inc- h zenith telescope of superior finish and design, which the director uses in carrying on his observations for the determination of the variations of the position of the north pole. The latter does not remain fixed at one definite spot on the surface of the earth, but moves slightly according to a somewhat complicated law. Its whole range of motion, however, can be included within a circle of sixty feet In radius, and, therefore, to determine its path accurately, a long series of most accurate .observations, extended over a long period of time, is necessary. Sm h a series has been carried on by Prof. Doolittle with most accurate results at his former observatory at Lehigh university, and such a series he is now canning on with the beautiful new instruments of his present charge. in the same building are also a four-inc- h meridian circle and a three-inc- h universal transit, both mounted so that their telescopes swing in a north and south vertical plane. For use In observations made with these latter there is a sidereal clock and a chromograph. The clock was on exhibition at the Worlds Fair. One of its most distinguished features is that by means of a little electric motor, operated by a battery of six Gordon ccIIr, it winds itself once every hour, and hence is independent of the forgetfulness of Inan, requiring no attention hut that necessary to keep the battery in runrequirening order. The principal ment placed on a clock for astronomical purpose is that it shall keep ac- ( GREAT COLA AT BANKIPORF. Monument of an Abortive Scheme to Prevent Indian Famines, The beehive-shape- d gola at Bank, pore in Bengal, is an immense masonrj structure, built by the British govern- - 11, 197. NUMBER 19. MORGAN OF ALABAMA. OF CHARACTER SKETCH FAMOUS STATESMAN. Soldier. He Eater an Champion of the Bights of the Colored Brother Ills Foreign Colley. Am Became C'onupttuou T is now twenty and four years months, almost to a day, since John T. Morgan of Alabama first took hi8 seat in the United States senate, lie is now A 73 years of age. member of the con1861 of vention which voted Alabama out of the Union, he showed his faith in the confederacy by entering its army as a private. By successive elections and promotions he rose to be a brigadier-genera- l, and came to the Senate as a Democrat after the reconstruction of his state. He has set continubeing ously, none of his seriously disputed until the last one, in 1894. Then a Populist named Rees, re ceivlng credentials from Kolb, the claimant to the governorship, presented himself at Washington and demanded Morgan's place, but the senate was of the opposite mind, and Morgan remained. From the day of his entrance Into the t'lnber he has been a profound student of foreign affairs, and all his sympathies have gone out to people who appeared to he suffering oppression In When it was any part of the world. not the Irish, it was the Venezuelans; when not the Venezuelans, the Armenians; when not the Armenians, the Cubans. He is a lover of liberty, and impatient of long roads to its attainment when a short cut is possible. He is also a "manifest destiny man, believing that it is the mission of the United States to absorb all the land and w'ater and people on the western hemisphere, as a means of spreading freedom and civilization among a larger share of the race. For this reason erica, and urged all ins flock to go back to Afiica without delay, the senator was so impressed with the speech that he resolved to have the bishop appointed United States minister to Liberia. He broached the subject to Turner, who at first declined to consider it, as he had already recommended some one elm Oh, never mind, said the senator, "you go to see President Cleveland and give him this letter, in which I have told him that you are yourself the man of men for the place. You won't have to do any talking." So the bishop went. Mr. Cleveland received him pleasantly and remarked, "I suppose you have come to talk over the mission to Liberia? "Why, yes, said Turner, here Is a letter Senator Morgan pressed upon me, and Never mind the letter, Interrupted the president. I remember what you told me about your candidate the other day, and that's all I want. What did The you say his name was, again? bishop attempted to explain, but tbs president, supposing he was trying to pour out some thanks, cut him short, All he wanted was the name, and the The next bishop stammered it out. day the Rev. William Hercules Heard was gazetted as minister to Liberia, and Senator Morgan was dumbfounded at the slight the administration had put upon him, till he learned how his letter had never been presented. How Electricity Kill. This subject Is treated of In an in the January number of the "Journal of Practical Medicine, by Dr. Francis B. Bishop. The amount of electricity that will sometimes pass through the human body without producing fatal results is surprising and often unaccountable, while at other times currents Ipsb powerful in every way, for some reasons are often fatal. The alternating current of great amperage, high Voltage and low frequency, is the current that causes the greatest number of accidental, deaths, as well as the current that is used in the etate of New York for the purpose of executing criminals. The continuous current, such as is used in our incandescent street lighting, while not harmless when closely circuited through the body, does not offer the same degree of clanger as soe-(.'flight, or alternating current. Still, electricity, like the old womans gun, without lock, stock or barrel, is usually found to be dangerous. If so, what are we to do In case of accident is the paramount question. First of all, keep cool; do not lose your head, and, with the following rules, do what you can: Do not place yourself In the circuit to help others out, as thus you only add one more victim to the result. Under no consideration catch hold of the wire, unless you are positively certain that you are thoroughly Insulated by rubber boots or gloves, or both. A large, dry silk handkerchief or dry cloth Is the next best thing, and If your own coat is perfectly dry, place that on the ground to step on. Never, under any circumstances, when you are removing a person from a live wire, allow his body to leave the earth; in other words, do not lift him. When the victim has been released from the wire, proceed at once to artificial respiration, being sure that the clothing is well looRened about the neck and waist. Personally, he says, I should advise suspending the patients head down for a minute or two at a time, all the while keeping up artificial respiration, with the tongue pulled well out Nitrite of amyl may be found useful 11 at hand. ar-ti- at GREAT GOLA AT BANKIPORE. ment in 1786, for use as a granary Several of these were to be erecte.i throughout the country, so that the; might be filled with grain in years o' plenty, and drawn upon In years o' After the first was built scarcity. however, the scheme was abandoned as unworkable, and this great structure has remained unused. Spytng on a Princeis. The London Daily News suggest;-tha- t there may be such a thing as us ing the Roentgen rays too much am too often. It is all very well to loot through a deal door, which Sam Welle; protested he could not do, but it i; another thing to pry into the antecedents of a young lady of royal lineage resting for the moment under unjust suspicions. Every one knows that spurious mummies have from time to time been palmed off on the public, and a doubt rose in a Vienna museum as to the validity of one daughter of the Pharaohs in their collection. It occurred to them, in view of the general hollowness of life, that the young lady migh have been manufactured in Birmingham. So they turned the Roentgen rays upon her, and saw at once through her many folded wraps the amulets which the Egyptians placed upon the bosoms of their dead. Their suspicion-wer- e entirely allayed, but, as the newspaper suggests, it is a little hard that even after two thousand years, a lad. should be accused of imposture. How a Fire Wa Set. The following suggestive paragraph about the possible way in which a fire may be started is borrowed from the New York Post: The mistress of the house was seated in the extension parlor in the afternoon, alone and perfectly quiet, when, without warning, a hanging bookshelf broke from its fastening and slipped to the floor. On its way it struck a small table standing beneath it, and knocked over a box of matches, lighting two or three of them. These flew off, one touching the light gauze scarf which had hung from the table, which fell blazing against the The frightened curtain near by. " screams of the mistress brought a ser'.LEO WRESTLING. vant, and ' it took energetic measures on top of him. The dog remained on the pari of the two women to extinstanding over the prostrate athlete guish the rapidly spreading fire. Had the room been unoccupied, as It had until the curtain fell. been all the morning, and would have The Lord Mayor of London Is only been again fifteen minutes later, the elected for one year, hut he may be fire department would have been needed to save the house. for another term. ed I'lllTE COUNTV, UTAH, SATUIUUY, SKITEMIiKK SENATOR MORGAN. every plan like the cutting of the Nicaragua canal or the laying of an ocean cable to South American ports enlists once. His acquaintance with foreign interests has caused him to be appointed to take part in the Behring sea controversy before the Paris tribunal and as a member of various international bodies. He is a man of many purposes. When President Hqyes nominated Fred Douglass for marshall of the District of Columbia, a good many of the old time Democratic senators refused to vote at all on the question of congrmation. Mr. Morgan not only voted with the all on the question of confirmation, hut made a stirring speech, which leaked out to the public in spite of the supposed secrecy of an executive session. After remarking that he was not troubled about the color of the candidates skin, he added: I was a candidate on the DemocratI soic electoral ticket of Alabama. licited the vote of blark men and obtained them to the number of 10,000 and now when the name of the most man of this eminent representative rare is presented for the shrievalty of a district five miles square, shall I go back to the colored people of Alabama, whose votes I solicited and rereived, and tell them I refused to vote for him for no reason except that he is a colored man? No, sir; I cannot perform such an act. I know not what may be the opinions or policy of others in this regard, hut I do know that I have no sympathy with any opinions or policy that would draw the rolor line on an executive nomination, particularly in view of national events that are now transpiring, and which are so full of promise for the future of the coun- his active aid at latest production, they have Introduced every convenience which mechanical ingenuity could devise for the assistance and comfort of the observer. The lens, which is the largest one In the country east of Washington, was made by Brashear in Allegheny, and formed part of his exhibit at the Worlds Fair in 1893. Mr. Brashear is the only man in the world who has developed the art of grinding glass to such a perfection that he can produce an absolutely flat surface. He can grind glass correct to any given outline within one millionth of an inch. It would be natural to suppose that a lens of his make would curate time under all conditions of temperature and weather. At present this dock is running at a uniform gain of less than one-tenof a second per day. To start In a fitting manner the Institution thus equipped on the career of scientific usefulness, the officers and friends of the university gathered on the observatory grounds a few days ago. The provost of the university, C. C. Harrison, introduced the orator for the occasion, Prof, Simon Newcomb, late superintendent of the Nautical almanac office in Washington, and the leading mathematical astronomer of this country. Dr. Newcomb spoke very appropriately on the Problems of Astronomy, many of which will be investigated by the institution for which the address was delivered. The observatory go equipped and directed, and started so well, can not fail in its great purpose of increasing the useful knowledge of mankind. HENRY B. EVANS. th A Long Turntable. The longest turntable in the world was completed recently at East Albany for the New York Central. It is intended not only for locomotives, but for sleeping and long private cars. It is 68 feet In length and its construction required 431 yards of concrete in the center of the table. As evidence of how nicely it is adjusted a boy of 14 years of age turned one of the companys heaviest locomotives on it with but little effort, so perfect Is its mechanical adjustment. THE NEW TELESCOPE, Croquet seems to be really taking he of a high standard of excellence. The one he has made for the Univers- hold again England. They are playity of Pennsylvania has been pro- ing the game more this season than nounced by experts to have no supe- they did last, and important matches rior. The telescope is provided with are announced to take place almost the ordinary eyepieces, a screw mi- - daily for the next two m oaths. try. It must not be inferred that she married an English colonel, but she soon found herself drawn into the sports in which her husband found so much pleasure, and her first visit to New Zealand about fifteen years ago gave her a fine opportunity to learn the charm of hunting wild goats. In- - Mr. Mor- gan had forgotten his race pride or preferences He is as staunch a Caucasian as any in the country, even while littering these words. One of his articles of faith is that. Btrive as their philanthropic white neighbors may to improve their condition, the negroes are bound to remain, in this country at least, a laboring class, and he has always favored measures looking to the to their deportation of ail the home in Africa. Indeed, when Bishop Turner, the Southern negro ecclesiastic, gave vent, two years ago. to an outburst of indignation over what seemed to him the hopeless of outlook of thr negro In Am es Hunt Big Gnine. Mrs. Alan Gardner never hunted till MR8. ALAN GARDNER. dia has since been the scene of many of Mrs. Gardners best efforts. Her list of game is long and varied, and panthers, tigers, bears, lions, stags, wild gcats, wallaby and elk make a truly To Mrs. respectable hunting list. Gardners own gun too, have fallen leopard in the Himalayas, and bustard and antelope in Somaliland, so that, In spite of her modest disclaimer, few will be found to dispute her right to the name of Her sportswoman. Rifle and Spear with the Rajpoots is said to be a very clever book by peo-pi- e who have been in those districts. |