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Show T I ' ' t 600 to 1,000 iNnttng Charge ef from Pounds of Guncotton. observation min Is a large cylindrical shape, and cantos a bursting charge of from 600 to 1.000 .rounds of guncotton the qaastlty varying la accordance with tx the depth of ww-- v work. As ahown la the cut. the guncotton is jacked in Tajere in copper tanks or cases hating hides In them to permit the admission of water for wetting. The lower central case jias a hole for the reception of the primer f dry guncotton and fulminate of -- iS06 aw W ORSliWVATICTM JMNfe mercury. The rest of the mine space la left for the sake of buoyancy, the sum of which Is equal to a tendency to rise of 10 pounds' pressure. This mine has an effective or destructive area equal to a circle 60 foet in diameter. These mines are generally planted In series of from six to ten, again, radiating like the riba of a palm-lea- f fan, each with a separate cable about 180 feet long Boston Herald. 600-poun-d Model Made by Convicts. There la a remarkable model 1 FLOWERS THAT TELL TIME. MINE OF DEADLY QUALITY. at South Kensington, England. Made to A scale of twenty feet to the Inch, It shows a part of the additions to the dockyard at Chatham a great feat of skill accomplished by engineering convict labor. In fourteen years the penal prisoners excavated the docks, ysade 102,0o0,uo0 bricks for the retaining walls, and did an enormous amount f masonry and other work. Altogeth-- r the enlargement Is one of the greatest feats that can be put to the credit of convicts. In the model which com iriemorates it there are the figures of 19 S - prisoners,- - forty- - superintendents and other officers and fourteen free ten. to the Minute In Closing Their Petals. There are flowers that act aa timekeepers for those whe have by observation studied their ways and habits, end so pnnrtual are they that laboring men In some countries tell from them'-when Hic hour for dinner and leaving work has otne; while In certain district the school hildren are said to he dismiss d shin the goaf's beard t lotus which It does punctually at the same nine every day The gardener to a millionaire lias provided of a t flow r ha h in the bid. with twelve divi sions Eu h of i he divisions, from one to twelve, (Onialns flowers which open or clone at the corresponding hour. Thun the two sace js octupled by a II, made of hawkaccd, which theses at 2 p. m , pret iaely, and so on He had no difficulty In finding flowers to suit the severalhours, and in some cases the figure has been made of more than one flower Amongst the flowers used are the snow thistle, blue chicory, pimpernel, marigold, 8tar of Bethlehem, and evening Brim-rouThe Yellowstone park contains the most unique greenhouse for flower cultivation In the world, the heat being obtained from one of tbe natural hot springs or geysers, the water of which Issues from the earth at a temperature near boiling point. The shortest lived flowers are the dew flowers of the Death Valley in California. Heavy dews are wafted by the winds from the mountains over the parched plain, and an hour of two before sunrise the moist sand, with Us undercurrent of warmth, gives life to the dew flower. When the light begins to glow In the east, myriads of tiny pink flowers burst Into bloom, bugging the sand for the few minutes they are destined to live. The suns rays eonie slanting across the surface, and, as thought a touch of Are had passed over them, the dew flowers wither and disappear. Montreal Herald Punctual A Rubber Neck. The effect of opium In reducing the body to a mere skeleton bas many illustrations among the Chinese 4 yH ft Prn.oI,BJ, bn - He desired to express bis sympathy; place for cheap wit," broke la another That was all. He had always Shed friend. , the man, and now that be was teyort-eBnt I didnt intend to be near death he felt sorry for Of course, we all know that Pete both him and the afflicted family, baa been a pretty lively boy in his "Poor fellow!- he said. They tell day," interrupted still another friend, me that he already has one foot is the but you ought to have some regard " fire for the feelings of his wife. Trouble, folio ed The' wlfir of the I tell you sick man happened to overbear the "Thats wbat comes of cultivating remark, and bhe promptly derikted ones sense of humor at the expense that be was a mean, hateful old thing of ones better feelings, put in the and then hurst into tears. friend who had first taken him aside. Hut, inv iiiar madam be pro- "Of course, we know that you did not tested intend to say anything that would Don t n .ik to me! she excluded. seem harsh and rue!, but d !- exclaimed the "Now, look here! man who had made the original remark. breaking away from them angrily. "Wbat I said was all right and "Don t viii dare say one wprt to proper. Wpat would you have me me! sayT That I am sorry to hear that Then a i initial friend took blm by be has one foot in the grave? That the arm atul li d him to one side. would be a nice, sensible thing to do "IU-allv i man," he laid, "It was when I happen to know that he Is a I m almost tempted to cremationlst and has already bought oiitrageou- think you v. a silver urn to hold his ashes, wouldnt drinking. But, ha rig it all it? The trouble with you people 1 "It aa i n her the time nor the that you are not up to date." -- Reason for White Race Gustav '.:i baud, the ethnologist, i tnve now writes every reasot to believe Hs buh the Mediterrantan and the it. Mir branches of the wMte race are th of the natural irfii'iieii by a cold cthxa'O upon nori. mi ,ir 1 migrating African ill iivcr be the cause of the amount u p : l existing lu ths skin it Menu to me that the of the la t i unavoidable as soon decrea-- e i ss the mi 'ixili to traveling northward. In northern countries, natural selection i lonstantly to harmon-fr- e with r,n ioJor of the snow that of every Ur oil which hunja cr hicn is hunted, ,i by should the blondnets of the north- rii man have a different origin? "Prtmitivi tribes were doubtless fre m-n- 1 a-- American cities. A striking example of the effects of the drug Is Illustrated n Times-Democr- -- i u-- t ZOO Patrdu Ra Iciartry. a ..WEBER COAL CO.. Subscribe Now FOR THS COALVILLE TIMES Ao4 get sQ (be fecal ONLY $1.50 YEAR EEST ADVERTISING MEDIUM fa the COUNTY , Our b Vll Equipped to do AH Hods mi OfiXoe JOB WORK soothing drinks, external appliances and the knife, bathing, abstinence and tranquillity, assisted by a confident hope of benefit He was represented sitting, one band holding a staff, the other resting on a serpents head; a dog crouched at his feet, accompanied by n cock, sometimes by an owl. i "These animals are meant to typify the qualities which a physician should possess, the owl being emblematic ot wisdom, the cock of vigilance, the ier pent ot sagacity, and, besides, of long life. His course a as, evidently, to work chiefly on the imagination, as he relied largely upon the influence of dreamt and visions to furnish the patients with the potency of the power of mind over matter, thereby appearing aa the first instltuter of faith Cure efficacy, which is becoming morn popular and believed In every day. It Is, doubtless, the beat remedy for hypochondria." leoAghreyoA good ea abort oetfem Fries a rt Right THB Coalville Times C GRASS CREEK MINES lf - a someone ant thin' spill a lull pK'K ut An wbeh- tu -l j pin was a kM tttr An think that an lti k 1 d she s tear-aalt or WSnt walk down te We have the very best Coal there Is on the market for domestic or waa if my foot t strops on a iruk 1 know them ttiioirs ts silty- I crees my bonrt. I do But 1 It'i'sa lots o thine Is to at aom folks nitir knew Burges Johnson. I Kieiyhodys Maga-ain1 , AT Jos half as long bnt anyhow, it turn 'em into snakis' An f fcllrr lon t hriieva one-hathe things hr hears A darnin nmllr omra along an' nvi 'ft PlMxhc. GRASS CREEK COAL of Youih - up both hla ears! Our cock shea uprtlhu R JONES steam purposes. 1 e. He Wat Too Lata. An Ozark county man who went to Louisville, Ky last week to attend ths funeral of his uncle drifted ont to a picnic instead, and was later .rrested When he was refor drunkenness. leased from jail tbe next morning ths funeral was all over. Railway Travel In 1SJ0 when the railway was open oil between Liverpool and Manchester, the I.herpool terminus was at Wapplng. says the Liverpool PqsL High Pries for Shorthorn. MY AB3IT3 Lime street tunnel was not completed At ths sals of the famous herd of ALN?. Shorthorn Cattle which belonged to until about six years later. At first the eenlee consisted of three trains the late Mf. W. 8. Marr, farmer, one bull. Bate each way on weekdays and two on 111, Aberdeenshire, Blflht for Lovers of Nature. A New Hampshire item: Tbe sight ton Favorite, realised 1.200 guineas, Sundays, but this was soon found to at a dosen wild deer in tandem fash- and two bull calves 600 guineas re- be insufficient After Lime street staion on the crest ot Croyden mountain spectively. tion waa opened there were alx At tbe setting suit was n picture to trains and six second-clas- s Hard Task for Toachort Stir tbe soul of gay true artlsL trains each wy on week days and two One ot tho most difficult proposiof each description on Sunday.-- " , Athletics tions A Mains schoolmans bas an counThe Journey of thirty-on- e Enlarge Girls Hands.' mllee ocA No. 6 glove y is larger than tered this fall was a bunch of nine lit. cupied nearly two hours, which led to the same size five years ago. The tie Russians, not one speaking a word complaints that the speed was too girls play golf and are athletic and of English, who entered a New Aw great to be pleasant and caused dizzitheir bands have grow burn school last week. ness. On tbe other hand, sanguine 8 Up-per- m first-Clas- to-da- STOVE Meaning of Word Doctor - unzntteR $ t $250 - X MNGr. AT THE MINE THE PRICES Japanese a Loving Race IflJ-lf- - THZY'RS: t LUMP t t - V n-- !' Oar coal ia the beat there !i tor steam and domestic purpose : : : I -- u- e INCQN3 AITtiHW TKNU , MINE! to-da- The Beliefs 3W WASATCH quently decimated by hunger, aa the Canadian Indians are Those hunters who show on the snow a sallow face, black hair and beard, dark eyes, worked at a disadvantage when compared with somewhat lighter complex ioned comrades They were more conspicuous on the white field, and could not so easily approach their distance. In time prey within-strikinof famine, mortality was the greatest in their families. "This eliminating process was repeated generation after generation, always leavihg the larger posterity. However small may fiavo been the difference In the mortality, we know toharacteristic against day that a which such a process la at work, always in the same direction. Is doomed to disappear." re-rn- i L, jPk AT THE3 -- lf N'U C t Poor old r. te always looked ipon yon as a ti'md and I always thoigbt you were on too." "Rut I a- ire you herewith. The Chinaman In question "The signification of the word Moo-to- r U quite Interesting said n writer weighs only eighty-sevepounds, although he Is' over five feet In height In the New Orleans and was originally a man of normal "In Its original Import It means a also. The skin of the face, it win be person so skilled in his particular art Centipede, Banana, Death. seen. Is stretched tightly over the or science as to be qualified to teach . .Elsie Swan. II years old, died In skull, while the bones of the neck are it; or one who bas taken the highest eonvulalona at Mlnonk. 111., a few days painfully prominent The proportions degree In the faculties ot divinity, ago, after eating a part of a banana of the neck add n curious mixture ot law, physics or music. There ie much Local physicians assert the banana comedy to this tragic figure. Naw difference of opinion aa to tbe time was poisoned by a centipede. Tbe York Herald. when the title doctor waa first creatA telegram , fruit came from Chicago. ed. It seems to have been established to the wholesale dealer brought the .Worlds Typewriting Record. for the professors of the Roman law reply that centipedes often came as Tbe world's typewriting record on In the University of Bologna, about ' passengers la bunches ot bananas. actual work has been broken by Mrs. the middle of the twelfth century. fan Francises Cali Margaret Cunningham,"! court sten)g-raphe- r After It was adopted It waa conferred at Trenton, N. 3. Bhe wrote with expense and magnificence and Rare Relics of Early History. 11,089 words of a legal decision requirsolemnity; the time requisite for the Georgs W. Bennett of Abbott, ing the. utmost one-haalx in degree la from three to eleven years. care, and Is the possessor of a silk badge Mains, "Medical science, however, dates hours actual time, and not n worn by bla grandfather, who was a to the time of Plato'! age, B. C. back correction had to be on Ingle made captain In tbe revolutionary war. at tbe 67 pages covered. 429, when Aesculapius knowledge and the dedication of Bunker Hill; also methods of practice prevailed, sad a pteoo of the dress worn by his whose remedies were Incantations, Productive Pumpkin Seed. grandmother,-give- n her by Lafayette From a seed Jerome Jordan single daring bis second visit to the United of Webster, Mass., has produced Just States. 466 pounds of pumpkin. From n single seed of the ordinary garden pumpHis MascoL kin variety he has this season pro1 a flahin with a man wbat duced twenty-threpumpkins on the Onct hadwent l a vine, the largest Individual vegetable An' fancy hooka catgut n fish pc s of atfM-l- , weighing twenty seven pounds. r got a bite from ear V lie unlit Ulc Lobster Would Make Many Meats. Just tu tm didnt laks no stock A llttln on th lalt. A fourteen pound lobster was recr hut wheres his Tea h- - kin In ft an 11 like In knn -cently secured by G. B. Hunt of East-por- t, Oh, 1 Hah Kininis o thniga is true Vt Me. The lobster measured nineom folks ay aiu t sol teen inches from head to tall, the two DJevw- tfem- - a ho- - Jmlr Into th feelers from tne head measuring li tirr for weeks an' weeks ; eighteen Inches and the claws each An' leivc thnut d m if it orr? seventeen Inches In length, and tho An' if yon o i human hair they say it In only width. lot largest six Inches great-grandfathe- r - oooooooooooooooooo speak of my mother, foe a foreigner does not understand that a Japanese mother may be Just as dear to her son as his to him and by the Japanese it is not expected that one should utter ones deepest feeling. That same son fainted with grief when his mother died, and when consciousness returned rose to make light of a "little dizziness," without reference to its cause. To this tiny, 'whenever ho goes home, he carries with him his mothers letters, mounted on a beautiful roll of Ivory and brocade, and on' the anniversary of bar passing beyond his (boh tepreMUia. mortal ken quietly devotes-- a portion to the refined soul brings an exquisite ot the day to meditation and special capacity tor pain scarcely conceivable thought of her. Even to his wife, deby those who are free to give utter- spite the closest bond of love, he says ance to every emotion. , not. "This is the day of my mother's Another man said to me, "I rarely death. The Outloolf. h en S turSWf gobbler which bas succeeded la hatch Ing a dozen chickens. Not being satiated with the work -- already pllahed, the gobbler bas undertaken to raise tbe chicks and la doing as wall as a mother hen could. This Is tbe second attempt of the gobbler to hatch a lot of eggs, the first attempt being a failure. Seventy-nin- e fears ago Cruras possessed a gobbler of equal distinction, the ancient gobbler baring hatched a lot of eggs. Sympathy Up to Date Public denio'ihtratlon of affection Ib most repugn nit to the good taste 4 end It la the s bee nee the Japan-- of this which is so generally mistaken for a lack of genuine feeling. 1 recall one man who was so devoted to hi mother (though I doubt whether be could ever have been said to have "talked about her), that whea eke died, while- he was abroad, hie depres-- . ion was so profound that my husband watched blm with anxiety leak' ha should commit suicide. The stoical training may render more Vf Turkey Hatches Chickens. b Ore I d p nr J'irUTn - s in 1830 expectations were indulged In that in course of time the average rates of traveling would be at least double the ordinary speed cf the sw iftest conveyances drawn by horses. It was anticipated that the general adoption of railways would load to a vast decrease in the consumption of oats and hay by the substitution ot steam engines on lieu Of horses and that portions of tne soil which had been allotted to the growth of such produce might be appropriated to the raising of food suitable to the human sn Important consideration species In the time of the corn laws. It could Sot have been foreseen that the railway system, so far from superseding horses, would lead to an Immense increase in the demand for them. WELL SCREENED DOMESTIC LUMP AND STOVE MIXED... $O OK "n There is no shoveling cr waiting, we have a , SPECIAL CHUTE .. TOfl ts FOR L0ADffiO TEAMS. ' 'GRASS CREEK COAL CO c-( j |