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Show y r f -- , - EXPERIMENTS AS TO VISIBILITY 'AND INVISIBILITY. ' WIm iWTHE amazed at the faulty deductions and misconceptions which were jn&de in weather' or on day in damp, Joj-g- y w Rich ihe air ass charge with elec TORPEDOES ABE SAFE. tricUland-ihuade- -- Tbf r Com la Bang of th ItHrchlicbt It I About Tim for (Mi-to- n f Attacked Ship t and Ma k Tbelr Prajrarm. n witS-error- tv " tharyrtJrmle pro-iluoe- in a ,, yjcnj .called' aVurpcy Jleriry father of the poetess, at his "resiJhfiee 406 AVCxt 1- it YbrkVab'd Wdin 4dm and other Atjrtidl y 'ttartivortRyi sources has been enabled to trace tome of the important events in the- three years married .life, of laipp tjaodale, Eiistd man', lj hps be:L.fdund tjtft le Tiad some 'trials, a goqij yi care and the' responsibilities that. UsnhlW - d. ,-- q , ; V18n - work at such times, finding that he makes so many mistakes which he is only conscious of later that his work OMfc INTEREST-luf- f L useless. In s large factory from hi to 10 cent less work la brought out experiments as on per damp days and days of threatening to the visibility storm. The superintendent, in recciv of .nd I odihility M W lArwfiTf50 tFfl errutuf (torpedo 'boats, at time,9nui takes this factor Into calcula night have been uoa." ' ; made 'off Newport by tbe.torpedo boat I Hmm C a a b i b g- .- T ha ' A carious case of house moving was Cushing had been recently witnessed in Oregon. A man repainted with a who owned a residence at Seattle oo.or supposed to be which cost him 93,000 to erect, removed least conspicuous. In the first experi- to Olympia and did not have sufficient ment the Cushing steamed out front funds to build another house. lie shore at night, havlpg a powerful bought a lot and concluded to remove searchlight - from the land directed the building he owned at Seattle. upon, her.' At a distance of 1,000 Everyone laughed at him, but be per- yards she passed out of. eight of those sisted. Rolling the house dow n to the on shore, and this, although it was river he loaded it upon a scow and it light enough 'on the Cushing to read. was Boon at Olympia, a distance of --had it Tor the second e xperime t , w h ioh was about sixty nil lea Then-ti- e to determine the distance at whieh the rolled upon his lot, and, strange tosa, boat- eould bejdetected by the noise of not a timber was strained nor even a her engines and swash of water from piece of furniture broken, although he the piopcllers, the night was very had not removed the contents before favorable, except for moonlight The starting the house upon its unusual first thing observed was sparks from journey. the funnel, and shortly afterward the hew (aiidrlabra far SI. Paul's. swash of water was heard. The An interesting addition has just been search light was then used, but It was tst. Paul's caseveral seconds before the boat was made to the furniture of in the thedral. London, 6hape of two sighted, being then at a distance of colossal bronze eandelabra. copies of 800 yy rds. The report u pon the experiat (ihent. A curious history-attache- s ments observes: Eight hundred yards originals to them. Cardinal Wolsey, is the maximum torpedo range, and a w hen in the hey day of his power, set would make craft great speedy prog' rev. inside of this before guns could be about preparing a sumptuous tomb for himself in the olsey (now the Albejty so still is it trained upon her; quese indvgr. tionable whether the searchlight is chapel at St. (leorge's, it was completed his full came. much of a safeguard against ai at' The sarcophagus of , bluek marble-inten- ded tack from torpedo boats. for th? cardinal ultimately An Aluminum Torpedo Homt. became the resting place of Nelson in The aluminum torpedo boat which the erypptK St. Paul's. The fourgiant Messrs. Yarrow & Co. have constructed candelabra by Torregiuno. designed for the French government was re' for the corners of Moiseys sepulcher, cenity subjected to trial, so certain were presented by Henry VI 11 , to old engineers, naval officers, anih others St. Pant's, being covered w ith gold the Tea leaf, they were valuable, and a cennot olhe'ully connected sel might have an opportunity of ob- tury later they were sold by Cromwell to the authorities of (Ihent cathedral, serving her performance. The says: The boat where they have remained ever since. New York Evening Post. is 6f tUefcond class, being 60 feet loqghlffl feet 3 inches wide, a beam A Burglar Proof ExprM Car. , ffdot 0 inches in excess of the older In the of second class boat. The chief improved car show n in the Hype interest naturally centers in the hull, cages designed to be opened sent for. Cass," said the president, this young man, son of my old friend, says you hate got a place In the war department filled by a Whig which you won't git e him. Secretary Cass explained that the duties of the office were a peculiar kind, and he could get no one to fill the place if the man now in it should be removed. Jackson flared up. By the eternal, Cass do you mean to tell me you have an offiie in yobi4 department filled by a Whig which cannot he filled by a Democrat? Then abolish The office! ".the young man got his pla'-e- . ltlsr answer reporter SIOUX . later to be filled actuary I at - storms large insurance company is obliged to Stop An . ImiVlFHOM ETERNAL. p nothing .lex? than to 'continue 'to aidT w 1th my name and money aoy assocl- tlon1 whose representative is. making pub! Id attacks upon me to which .1 can not reply In print (as' 1 understand) without 'costing try husband his iosI- lion as agency physician here, and who is, ad 1 believe, actively . working qgpipst the cause of, the iadutaaad the cause of truth. ' The residence rot Elaine at Fin , Bhfge continued for about a year and i! hklfi During this time she wrote 00 Jhat it would ridiculous for bn. mC -- atari " lllekorr. ELAINE COODALE EASTMAN IS com C.CTrtl V ' -- Armsli'qnir, VfrRY'HAPP'Y.' mIsbio r iftnkvthat 9 v 4 ' the Ji( kMa iW8s ' Dr. f barlet l'.i mB, (hi ' Ilcra of greatest men this country ever, . k-i WoBadnl number of stork and has.-xuktotvd IIu Mtl bo which wereHykTitm by his iuuU HjuUuk They .Vre'Wcl! r.ecetsW I.' - i was an'Jnthdifrt frienj of Okl HhlCs i St Taiil iwtrq, rtno of them V Hefy ('hamctei lstr,' of the man ,' v . .n ' ' .fallow tiiulflilionfr 'lfift 8hebl 'inVf iXrw Yor ' Coirc'iouWrcS ) Louis jCaKhft--i'fftirajpry,' o'wnfr f fclTbravrtjYsHh liaf'siltpted hfer ark Cev- -' them over tl th tl house' one.diy ltl self fo the environments' in Which the . eral reabxcellcift some Important papers for the prert-sit-- " sons sr hy the world found herself placed; accepted th dent to sign, among them being . to phiio-aa tinf'1brt h?r, 4 thyv 4nterrstrd - du iutitau findings. even .and sophieally, enthusiastically, El sin boisile. jki what Is this, isquimlyjack hijpiids, Jieml at ejcqmej ion, as he was about fo sign JjU'name fruektat the homes of .the .wealthy ami uf tlij to, the SL.T-milvMlriii-- ; F now the cAltlvatgd cftlgtms -It is a lOUrtmartial, answered the a little of mother bright girt proud a? typical Cass. . r of years'61d, the' b iff of b a eoupV fh of Stofair ? cl ;VHlnd!at i YluU have I to do with it In race. Th red man physician with 1 gtowlngpractW the president. id ss me the ana contributor I her. has been, her only leisure city, to officer fetim he It dismisses the enrrent publi- she ' ' followed the rations arotneuU serviee; and the' president ntust sign, of the (Although the country. defied iromptingv of her heart-. , such orders. duties of wife end motherhood con( conventional overcame and and tlie usage Jacksou toyed. with v paper sume much, of her time, yet she has Wsmissed fnitn the by earnest pleadings and. argpicnts been able to said, tnustnglv. Indulge Jute literary tastes the bbj?ctiom that at first naturally . t . i army, eR? Why ' by the preparations of poems, 'prose arose of the members own her among Drunkenness getting drunk aufily to such a union. , It was known sketches, etc., .and to keep in touch down on jiarade, or something with the social world and with the K AIVB eOODAI-- l BASTIIAS. f that ktnd(Lanawiaad. the secretary. that, although a Sioux Indian, her Of the day, Bbe laughhusband was an educated eaalonally for the msgasinea poems or asked man, Who ordered the court? not prose sketches, and her letters to th graduate of two colleges, a physician ing declares that her marriage has i Jackson.- . J Old Fplkt 4 Home told of her peaceof good standing andHinder apiwiint- - beet) a failure, I sing before- - Elaine General Scott, answered Cass. became the bride of I)r. Eastman liter--ar- y ful and comparatively uneventful life. is ho it? inquired the president, . people lu New York had shown There were no words of regret, noth" w ith much inVrest. their appreciation of her genius, not ing to indicate unhappiness or discoInspector-GenerKraun, implied alone by reading her remarkable pro- ntent It was during this period that ' ' Sen ctary Cass. ductions, hut by receiving her as a Elaine's only child, a girl, was born.. What! shouted Jackson. My welcome guest in their homes. Society This, judging from the tone of her perold friend Colonel Kraun' Cass, smiled upon her, but did not spoil her; sonal correspondence at the time, read what that paper says , , she accepted the homage u ith becomheightened her happlnesa. The secivtary read Usual form ing grace, and, although she knew hen it was decided to abandon the of the court niartiisoiitcnce in such when the words had been spoken As agency work, Dr. and Mrs. Eastman cases. . cension church that . transferred her determined to make their home, for 'i'he pjesidont tlien took the jiaper into a bride that many of the congratawhile at least, in St laul, to which andAte across the Ixittom w here ulations were not sincerely spoken, city they removed about a year and a was about to sign his name: she accepted them as if they had been half ago. Soon after taking up their Thu within findings are disapas sincere as were the wishes ex- residence In that city Dr. Eastman was is and Colonel Kraun restored proved, pressed for a happy time which accomrequested to prepare articles for St, to his duty and rank panied them. The honeymoon was Nicholas, the Youths Companion of 1 ie d the jiajier back to SecreMissed In theHattwwtHldhomestcndr "Bfthtdrt and" oilier' publications. Which tary Ghs-.- , an! said with his usual vehky l'arm, among the Berkshire hills, be promptly did, finding his literary hemence. where the soul of the young authoress work pleasant as well a yroiltable. By the eternal! Cass, when yon had first Wen inspired by her poetic Soon after his arrival in SL Faul Dr. and Scott servo your country as well muse. These were happy days'. lJfe's Eastman was appointed secretary of as that man has you can get drunk on battle had not yetleea begun. The the Yonng Men's Christian Association duty eicryday. HR. (UARIAS EASTMAX, literary tastes of the $,ouug couple of the Northwest at a salary of 91,200 A young man from Tennessee, son merit by the government to an Indian made them true comrades1 a year. He also devotes such lelsnr f a friend of General Jackson, came that he w as respected by his -- But the time for energetic action in as the duties of liia practice afford him He agency; Washington for a place. mot ally correct, the work-a-da- y world toon arrived, to lecture and to visit among the Inlooked almut and found what he college associates, class orator at and they made preparations to meet It, diana The Eastmans find their horn (his mentally bright wanted. It was in the war department, and filled by a very efficient Whig, whom Secretary Cass would THE DAUGHTERS OF GOVERNOR-ELEC- T LEVI P. MORTON. pot remote. The young man told' Jackson the situation, and Cass was ' w a to me a r M hat pending these times appeared - U . ii'-s- l, ,h. m Jhgrk (f - bi-da- y Jkrlt-f.JsUireTIi- n, . a-k- , .n. , . and-fallin- -- t' lie-for- - pa-se- Londmes f- C-- J- ' :r; Voltalr. t ' iiwA, V - 1 . wliil young man, eager for instruction, w as perpetually asking questions. -- Deg Ail . . preaux, on occasion,, with impptiunce and considerable barshness, rofyovyd him for indulging in this propansity. Voltaire never forgot the reproof, pnd not.only'gaj e up IJsbahlt at putnng questions, but became more and more averse to answering such' as jwere put to him. In timd he came risp abruptly and leave.the cAA pany of' a' fi-wllflout the faintest questioner suggestion of an 'apology. Ife is said to have greeted ar ..inhabitant of Gen eia, who had furpished hjm With the Idea and model bf the igtorrogating baiUlT,ln,Uje --vDfoiCdu Jteigiur, TORPEDO JiOAT.- with the' remark. . Sir, I 'am very 1 ( well pleased to see. you; but I wish to only fromthe ouisicCe.'by the depot inform yon beforehand, that J know man at the ifat'iSfaf fire provided iWth nothing abb Wliat you Ifca going to whatsA if It msyv be. iArgonaiit. safe anl the 'nioV'A' waluable paTcels,-anthe arrangement is such thatsf if . V?nr "ffi the robbers succeeded in entering the 4 " yAlbuny. boofLiS the ephuifftif on the car, they- - will be exposed to the fire of the messenger from a bullet proof corn Ihortfe of the Delaware' for sturgeon partment in each end of the car, the meat. Doubtless! ho term, frees back messenger being also able to shoot to a time when the (tdson sturgeon The along the sides of the car to protect the fisheries were, really Important. engineer, or tw prevent burglar and meat, uat into long, thUk'ehuulcs,ifi! robbers from making, ap entry. The kept In 00 Id storage, wefc recently an improvement' has --been patented. important article of commerce a few The car has Rouble floor and a Rouble miles a here the head of Delaware bay, roof, and In each end Is s messenger's but the sturgeon fisheries in the Dels compartment, from which ha may ware, a S' elsewhere od the Atlantic shoot along the side of the car from coast, have greatly fallen oft in Imsturgeon is the hated outwardly swinging sections provided portance! The shad fishermen, as he' a ith portholes of through portholes ie enemy pt the destroys their light nets, ... .w r J r . It is said that Voltaire, t nt 44, f 1. I' THE ALUKflNUI kU u: VI. the machinery eonslating' of an ' ordi, nary set of three stage-- compound torand boat a Yarrow water engines pedo tube boiler. Ijq the design the vessel is on the. same general lines as the second class boat recently built by this firm, but the adoption of a lighter material has enabled important alterations to he made in the structure. As to a steel boat of the same compared v type, the scantling has been thickened . about 3 per cent, in spite of which the total weight of the hull has been reduced about r, 1 50 per cent., The had . the - boet weighed builders on a -- crane in "when 5 slung - the docks, the total weight with water in the boilgr being 9 onsfi wL Toward t his total the IhaTI Efself con; tributed two tons; so it may be taken that an ordinary steel second class tor- - pedo post's hull weighs ur tona The material hfiwliieh the, hull is Con- stputled i4 pf eoucse, not pore Ulumiinan, 4 hot , an alloy - oon-isit- in iof i !per cent of aluml-11111f anl 6 per oent of copper.' A large number of experiments have leen made by Messrs. Ysrrow and by the French goveniment, the results of which point to the proportions adopted being found best for the purpose. The chief Teault of Blng the lighter metal hasbeciy (bat, a speed 'of over 20 knots was obtained on the official trial, carried out on Sept. 26 under the supervision of a French naval commission, of which CapL Le Clcrc of the BIROI.AE PBOOr CAB. . was president The At opposite sides of the car, its end. maximum spped of torpedo boats of each messenger1 compartthis class in the British navy is about adjoining more fnil y shown in the smalt, as ment, If knots. ' plain view, are strongly barred com.Wtthr d th Mind. partments or cages, for the reception The psychology of the weather is of safes, etc., each cage being reached suggested by Dr. T. D. Crothers as a by a door in ths aide of the car, having Each cage also promising subject for study. lie says, k lock on the outside. Very few persons recog- - has a door opening Into the body porin Science: size the sources of error that come di- tion of the car, and a passageway is rectly from atmospheric conditions on left on one side of each cage from the experimenters and observers and messenger's room to The central porothers. In my own case I hare been tion of the Oar. d , -- 11 -- v- I 4 .1 Trf , , . ; j , Kecratrt. The Visitor Whos thal fcllow on the platform? ..lie's nothing remark able to look at. The Freak Exhibitor, with pride-- lie isn't, eh?. Why, "sir, that's the man who, when ,hu went .Into an art gallery, never told everybody around him that n't understand art. but Just the same he knew what be liked Morton, (rf Nw York City, Ths eldest daughter, Edith, A bote ire porlniti of 4h fir beautiful daughters of Governor-Elec- t Edith and A lie mad their apt is 24 years old. Tim others, Aik, Helen, Lin and Mary 22, 20, 18 sod 16, jespertirely. ia society, during the social glories of the IUrrisou jnrtityrslion t Vhingtoo. Owing to th death fibriw.hioiier tb yc war biker's-terdaughters have refrained from entering society. . They will mv lo tU executive ipaiisioa it Albany aUh beginning of their .. .; 1 a governor, i w in college,) .and , that he inherited splemjid physique, w h jpb Tie had de; by training and athletic sjjorts w bile a student and in Which he excelled, as he did lu almost everything he undertook. And yet, despite - a knowledge of all this, many persons feared tliat Elaine had made a grave mistake wben she nnited bprself for iJlfe to thW salon of sq Indian chief. Sod they sympathized w ith heraceord-lugly- . Has she made' a mistake? Ti as her marriage saerlflcd, socially coft eidered? Was It tortid her usefulness -- he-di- Chicago Record. A Yas, Job. f we preserved a lot of fruit said Mr, Wickwlre to this summer, the visitor. We? said Mrs. Wickwlre, In surI did every bit of the work prise. myself. Yes. you cooked and canned the fruit my dear, but ymr must not forget that 1 had to put up the sugar. Very Capatrlotle. I am afraid Bunkins hasn't muci. patriotism in his composition, So?" Yes. I happened to say to him that this was the greatest country on earth and the idiot wanted me to ahy I thought so. DORA eooTIAI K KASTMA. aa a brilliant contributor to literature? Would her pen continue to surprise and charm the world of literature with sonnet and sketches, or wonld It be laid aside with her assumption of wifely and matronly responsibilities and cares? In brief, was th girl poet's marriage a failure? These are inIn order to teresting questions. hismar-rlagsttthe time of ?: t Dustman n' vrasboftffng the position of to the Hloux kt IinfiTlfdg Sgenc)"' In 800th Dakota, find It whs to this remote place that he proudly bore his bride after tlicir holiday ia the Hi posiMassachusetts mountains. tion entitled him to comfortable quarters, a few perquisites in th way of horses, supplies, etc., and a salary sufficient to enable them to live In mod crate comfort' This life on the plains Was not a new one to 'Elaine Hey sympathies with the Indian race, which had bee developed by the teaching of some Indian pupils 114 Cart lftj and Hampton institutes in the east, bad induced her ia 1883 to accompany Senator Dawes on a trip through the Indiao reservation. She had been parties larly interested In her observations at line Ridge agency, and it Was there that she determined to devote her lif to the improvemenLo of the Indians of he west She toon after became a government teacher in )ako-ta- , and in !80 she was appointed superin tendeat of all the Indian schools in South Dakota, being stationed at Fine Ridge agency. It wa while atDr, - g e phy-sicio- -- tending to her official duties at this agency! it will be remembered, that she first met her future husband. He had only. a short' time before been graduated from Dartmouth college, and secured 'bis appointment as gov' ernment physician. the in following, year, FebruEarly ary, 1891, Mrs. Eastman withdrew from the Indian Rifrbt association. Her withdrawal 'was durtjto the conflict between herself and husband and Agent Brown. In a letter to president association In Philip C. Garrett of theEastmaa said, Mrs Philadelphia, It seems to jn among other things: e f w lif ia Sk Paul delight fulfil They have Txen co rdia U y , rcoci vrd by society people hi: 8). jsul. and Minneapolis, pud they have made many fi lends among the cultivated families of thowi cities. Dr. Eastman's 'practice' bas Increased stbadily. He U'a hard student,' devoted husband, a proud, father and worthycitlxea. Elaine ia happy and so busy a ith domestic affairs and literary work that she has not yet found tune to accept any of the invitation to visit her old friends in tlupeaM.. It may be Interesting in this connection td mention that SIR.!' Dora Bckdu Goodnle, the'yotihger and efalte tal- ented slstev of Elaine, w ho stil) makes hoe hueie at hky Cotta go, among tbo Berkshire hills with MrL,Godale,, her mother. Js engaged to be married to lrot l"homas8anfird of the university at Bcrkely. Cai. The time" for the wedding ceremony bas Dot t hivtTap-pointe'Mrs. Eastman's baby girl has bee named Kra'Reade, for. this sister. d. y-- .... Be Jimson Ther ( hotly)-- ! want ta sue Dr. , t es, s!r yes sir; Ikwem for 9300 damages. lawyer (briskly) what for? I bought this hot tie of his toot hack drops, paid $1 for 'em and they di in't do a bit of good." 7" Hem! Isn't 5300 rather high damages to claim? Yes, but I suppose your bill w ill ha about 9499, and I want to get my dal. lar back." New York Weekly. Par Cromlam. ' Pore eromtuin has recently been pre pared for the first time by M. Sloissau, in its unalloyed state the metal is soft enough to be easily filed, but in its ordinary st at a R is bard enough to cut glass. |