Daily Greencastle Banner and Times, Greencastle, Putnam County, 19 May 1897 — Page 2

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LOUDON'S NEW FEVER 1

WHILE K SPEC 1 L \TIO\ HI > - MID IS WISUOWS AM) FLUOKS.

BUILDINGS ALONG THB ROUTE OK THE QUEEN'S PARADE FOR WHICH TREMENDOUS RENTALS HAVE BEEN PAID.

FABULOUS PRICES PAID.

On« Sensible I'nrl Kent* Ills House tor Heservlnii: the Hoof for II Ini self—Trudlnic l pun the Sapponed FooIInIiiiesa ol Amerl- ' ean Mllllonulres. LONDON, /-When the Eng tlsh people take to speeuhiting they more than compensate for their usual conservative prudence, by plunging in beyond their depth. This was histor Ically demonstrated by the famous South Sea Hubble, and more recently by their crazy investments in all kinds of wlld-cat diamond mines in South Africa. Every few years the fever seems to break out and when the speculative microbe gets Into the English brain, the epidemic ramifies with the rapidity of the whirlwind and its effect ; la Just about as eccentric. Just now London is gone mad in •peculating In windows, floors, roofs and houses along the line of the great diamond jubilee parade on June 22 next, when the Queen will ride through a large section of the city in a gorgeous carriage, drawn by eight cream- colored horses. Preposterous sums are being paid for places of vantage by men who ex pect to make fortunes by their deals. . When asked about purchases for these ! places they one and till say: “Why, the Yankee millionaires. They will come here In regiments and will pay any sum for a place to see the show.” It Is almost needless to say that If two hundred thousand American millionaires t'xisted and every one of them came here prepared to pay thousands for a tiny peep hole, there would not ! be enough of the article to meet the supply offered by the speculators. But the common sense view of the situation does not seem to occur to the wildbrained people who only seem to think that everyone in the States Is a millionaire with a mighty desire to see the English Queen on parade. In looking about for the cause of this mental delusion, it is at once apparent that William Waldorf Astor is responsible for it. He has been the laughing stock of aristocratic Loudon for a year or more, because of his snobbish efforts to secure royal recognition. Nothing that might tend to raise him in the esteem of the court circle has been left undone, and the fabulous sums he has expended for this purpose have had their effect upon the public mind. He has been fixed upon as the standard of all American millionaires and they argue that if he Is willing to change his nationality and spend two or three millions a year for the particnlar purpose of winning the favor of the Queen, there ean be little doubt that the average millionaire will think nothing of paying twenty, forty or even sixty thousand dollars for a good place to view the royal lady. As an example of the fabplous sums paid by speculators, a recent case can be cited. At St. Paul's Churchyard, that Is the street fronting upon the cathedral where the ceremonies of the day are to he performed, there la a building, two floors of which are occupied by a dry-goods firm. The •tore Is excellently fiituated for a good view and has been eyed by the speculators since the craze first set

In.

Three months ago a syndicate rented the two floors for June 22d for the sum of £4,000, or $20,000. A few days ago a new syndicate rented them paying the first syndicate £8,000, or $40,000, for the space. The new syndicate now confidently announces that It will have no trouble In renting the floors to American millionaires for

£10,000. or $80,000.

By the exercise of considerable mechanical Ingenuity, three hundred pee-

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that all could see the show, or perhaps a dozen medium-sized families could

be accomodated with comfort. This is merely one instance and

there are thousands like it, hut none quite so extravagant. The line of the parade extends over a distance of six

of New York, many of the ramshackle dwellings have been rented for more than their actual normal value iu the

real estate market.

One small shopkeeper, who has a store in the Borough Hoad and who holds a lease on the house, thereby

miles and there is scarcely a house or | making it Impossible for the owner to

evict him, has rented his house for the

building on either side of the many streets and squares which Is not affected by the craze. Many of the autocrats have caught the fever, too. One earl has rented his town house to a syndicate, rt'serving only the roof for himself and his family. He gets £2.000, or $10,000 for the house, enough to support him in fair style for a year. On the Surrey side of the river, that

is the poor section of the city, cor-

ple might he placed at the windows, so responding with the lower east side

one day for enough to pay his rent for

the next five years.

Many large hotels front on the lino of march, notably the Grand at Trafalgar Square, and seven-tenths of the visiting Americans will view the parade from these places. The other three-tenths may fall Into the clutches of the speculators, hut at the best those scatter-brained worthies are sure to be bitten and bitten badly.

HOW THE MODEL WARSHIPS WILL RE TESTED IN THE BIG TANK.

WAR IN MINIATURE

BATTLESIIFl* MODHL TO BE TESTED

1% THE \E\V TANK.

DESIGNED FOR EXPERIMENT

I the United States have been tested ou | the river, the towing having been done | by launch, instead of by cable, ns will | | be the ease when the tank iscompleted. i Naturally these tests have been unsat- | isfaetory, owing to the Inability to nl- | low exactly for undercurrents and the Impossibility of using a dynamometer

with any great degree of accuracy. The water to be used in the tank

will be pumi>eil from the Potomac and will cost after It has been put entirely

| under cover, at least $150,000.

j The building of the model warships ■ is a task Involving an Immense amount of labor. The ship house In the navy j yard, where they are coustructed, Is filled with huge machines, and to go through It one would Imagine actual warships were In process of formation there. The exact plans used for Lucie Sam’s cruisers ami warships arc followed for the models. One of the most Interesting of those models Is that

WASHINGTON, -The naval authorities are certainly fulfilling the expectations of those who have been prognosticating so favorably concerning them of late. No difficulty of modern seamanship thus far encountered hut has l>eeii met by the most accurate Intelligence, the most Industriously garnered experience and an

almost unerring Judgmfnt. Every-ves- ! „f the indtana.'although the flrstTo be sel that has left the ways under Gov- tested will probably he the miniature eminent inspection has been lu some j Oregon, now being perfected. The lltrespects superior to Its predecessor, tier Indiana was made with an engine

Improvement has followed quick upon the heels of Improvement, and the

inside of It and paddle wheels, so that It could steam itself up the Potomac.

most perspicacious Ingenuity has been i n the model the wheels were preferred evidenced to the latest devices that | to the propeller, because the power now give America the palm as at least i exerted by them can ho measured more

the best equipped, even if not the larg- accurately.

est. naval power in the world. i The American models differ mnterlBut the most recent idea, about tojnllv from those made for the English, be put into practical operation lu the , Italian. French and German navies. Washington Navy Yard, is the testing There paraffine is used almost entirely, tank devised by Convructor Hiehbarn. a wood skeleton being made only on The most Serb us obstacle met with by rare occasions. Just why the foreign the Construction Bureau in the design- constructors do not follow the Arneriing of vessels Is the determination of cn n plan is hardly clear, for the ortla fairly exact speed to he obtained cer8 0 f both the English and French from a vessel of known horse power, mi vies have time and again commendI under water form and displacement. ] e d the Ideas expounded bv Constructor Thus far the data obtained by Com- Hlckham. In fart. Captain Mahan mander Illehborn and his aides have j ii !)s taken occasion, when abroad, to come from abroad, and this Infonna-1 make comparisons and. It is undertion has been necessarily of a more or , stood, gives the preference to the

less Inaccurate character, for the for- American plan.

eign Powers guard vnelr army and ' The building of the model of an navy secrets only too well, and our American warship is begun bv taking attaches secure only vague reports. a number of pine boards, cut roughly The experimental tank about to be cou-1 t o the outlines of the ship, and putting strutted will be 500 feet long and 50 ' them together under pressure with feet wide, with a water space of 475 ' R i U e between them. Thus a solid by 43 feet and a depth of 14 feet. Into block of approximate dimensions is this tank the models of our warships formed. The block Is then planed and will he placed.and a dynamometer will | chiselled until the lines of a great war

tion. England. France. Germany and Italy have had similar tanks in operation. hut the American design will he larger than any of these, and will he vastly superior for experimental purposes. Tlie tank at Haslar, England, perhaps the finest of those In use abroad. Is hut 300 feet long, 25 feet

vessel are reproduced with absolute exactness. The hull being made smooth with sandpaper, the rudder and propeller shafts, of cherry wood, are added. At the same time are put on the “si>onsons," out of which the guns look as from windows of steel. Holes having been bored for the window ports, the little craft is ready to

wide and has a depth of only 10 feet, receive its armament,

above the Haslar tank and running Its The model Is not vet finished, but entire length, is susimnded a platform. ,i 10 Rmls ar ,, mane and nearly all of On the platform is a track and along the other equipments are ready to bo the track a carriage runs. Beneath put aboard. These latter are very the carriage floats the model, which is elaborate, and to produce them has re-

made wholly of paraffine. Of course, paraffine is lighter than water. The carriage tows the model along, and the power used Is registered with absolute accuracy by a dynamometer. Thus Is learned with exactness the speed at which the war ship represented by the model will steam with a given horse

power.

quirod an immense amount of labor. For example, there are a number of boats. Including one steam launch In miniature. Each of these represents three days work for one man. The false bottoms and every rib Inside of them are shown. All of them are of wood, save for the smokestack and rudj dor of the steam launch. The bouts are

Thus far all the models made by ^ swung from davits.

tack's Itooincrang. Or the Story of a Little Boy Who Watt Too Food of Flaying Tricks He's a Brick — Some Talcs ot I'erll.

An Kvcnlng lluejt-

F In the silence of this lonely eve. With the street lamp pale, nickering on the wall. An angel were to whisper me— “Believe— It shall be given thee. Call!''— whom should I call?

And then I were to see thee gliding in Clad in known garments, that with empty fold Lie in my keeping, and my fingers, thin As thine were once, to feel In thy safe hold; I should fall weeping on thy neck and say, “I have so suffered since—since”—But my tears Would stop, remembering how thou count'st thy day, A day that is with God a thousand years. Then what are these sad days, months, years of mine. To thine eternity of full delight? What my whole life, when myriad lives divine May wait, each leading to a higher height? I lose myself—I faint. Beloved, best. Let me still dream thy dear humanity Sits with me here, my head upon thy breast. And then I will go back to heaven with thee.

Jack's Boomerang. Aunt Flora was making some walnut creams that last afternoon in March. She had to crack the nuts very carefully to get them out whole, and some halves of shelves were not broken at all. Jack’s sharp eyes discovered them in the coal-hod. “Oh, goody!” cried he, "they’ll he Just the thing to fool Teddy with tomorrow, Aunt Flo. I'll stick them together and he’ll think they’re regular walnuts.” "I wouldn’t,*’ said Aunt Flo. “Ho is such a little boy, and he will he disappointed. I wouldn’t. Jack.” But Jack would. He picked out shell ? enough to make three walnuts, then ho got the glue-bottle and stuck them together so carefully you wouldn't have known they_ were ever cracked. "Don't they look just good enough to eat?" laughed he. “Now, when they get dry I’ll put them in a paper bag and give them to Teddy in the morning.'' Then he ran out to his play, whistling; and he played so long and hard that he didn’t think of the walnuts again until he came home from school next day, at noon. Aunt B’lora had put them away for him, however. She told him where to find them. "On the second shelf of the dining room closet, in a paper bag," said she. Jack’s face had a sober look. He thought perhaps Aunt Flo didn’t like his joke. "Maybe I hadn’t best fool Teddy,” said he. “Guess I’ll take them out and fool Johnny Wilson. I haven’t been fooled today. Aunt Flo.” But Aunt Flo did not answer, and when Jack got to the dining room he found Teddy there. It did seem too good a chance to be lost. Jack took the bag of walnuts from the closet shelf. "Hello, Teddy!” said he; “have some nuts?” "Oh, yes!” cried Teddy, running to get the tack hammer. He liked walnuts almost better than anything else. “You’re the bestest boy, Jack,” he said. At which Jack looked sober again. I think he felt a little bit ashamed. After all, it wasn’t the best of fun to fool a little five-year-old boy, and his own brother, too. But he gave Teddy the bag. In less than two seconds down came the hammer on the first walnut. It cracked very easily, indeed, and it had the funniest kernel you ever saw in a nut—a bright new dime! It didn’t take long to crack the other two, you may be sure; and there were thirtv centa—enough to buy two whole pounds of walnuts. "Oh, oh!” cried Teddy, astonished beyond measure. "Are they mine? Where did ’em come from?” Jack's face was red as a rose. He was almost ready to feel cross about it; but looking up, he saw Aunt F!o smiling in the doorway, and laughed instead, a little sheepishly. "I guess I'm like the story you told about the man that threw the boomerang, Aunt Flo, and it came back and hit him,” said he. "But I’m glad of ’t Just the same.”—Youth’s Companion.

Hr'* a Brick. When a boy does something that is particularly good or noble his comrades say "He’s a brick!” for to call a fellow "a brick” is as high a compliment as one boy can pay to another. If we stop to think about it, though^ it seems rather strange that a brick should be chosen as a standard for measuring the worth of a boy. There is surely nothing very wonderful or fine about a brick. But, like a great many other sayings that do not appear to have much sense, we shall find, by looking up the origin of the expression, that It started out with a very sensible meaning. In order to get at Us beginning. we have to go back into ancient history for a distance of nine hundred years before Christ—all the

way back to the time of Lycurgus. the great Spartan ruler. Plutarch tells us that Lycurgus had a great many wise and curious notions as to how people should live and how the affairs of *.ho country should be managed. One of his ideas was that there was no necessity for building a wall about a town if the soldiers were properly trained to pr jtect the place. On one occasion an ambassador from a neighboring country came to see Lycurgus, and he asked how it was that he had no walls around the town. "But we have wails,” replied Lycurgus, "and if you will come with me I will show them to you.” Thereupon he took his guest out upon the plains where the army was drawn up in battle array, and, pointing to the ranks of the soldiers, he said: “These are the walls of Sparta, and every man is a brick.” So you see when the expression was first used it had a great deal more sense than It has now.

Tale* of Peril.

While three men were hunting In Idaho, one gave a shout, and the others ran to his assistance. They found him clinging to some vines, that grew ou the edge of a great hole in the ground, at least thirty feet in diameter. After hauling him out, he explained that he had walked into the hole while looking ahead for game, and only saved himself by the met est chance. The hunters came back the next day with ropes and lowered a man into the pit. He reported that it was nearly sixty feet deep, and half-way down was narrowed in like an hour glass, so that any living thing falling into the pit could never get out without assistance. As a proof, the floor of the pit was strewn with the carcasses of bear, deer and lesser game. The luckless animals at different times had evidently fallen into the pit, perhaps while being chased, and, of course, were unable to climb the walls, which inclined toward the narrow opening. Nobody of any sense ever hunts for a grizzly, but when one conies in sight hardly any one can refrain from firing at him. This was the case with two men in Montana, who were going ever the mountains on a narrow trail, when they saw a grizzly on the rocks above. Both men promptly took to shelter and consulted. The grizzly was evidently coming to a spring nearby to drink, and was minding its own business, but one of the men thought he saw a chance, and fired. The bullet' hit the bear in the neck. This merely irritated him enough to make him look around for his tornrentors, and presently he was in full chase. They ran at a lively pace, but would have been caught had they not scrambled up the rocks. The grizzly scrambled up, too, but presently all sounds of pursuit ceased. Looking back, they saw the bear jammed between two rocks. Before he could back out, one of the men ran back and put a ball in the grizzly's ear, and the chase was over. It was such a narrow escape, however, that the hunters solved to avoid grizzlies in future. In Los Angeles, a resident exhibits the skin of a mountain lion, got in a peculiar way. He was riding leisurely among the foothills when a mountain Lon crossed his path, and was slinking away, as it generally does, when he rashly fired at it with a light shotgun he carried. The lion, slightly wounded, came hack in a rage and made a dash at him. The horse shied and the man was thrown, striking his head against a rock, and causing insensibility. When he came to his senses his horse was standing over him, and a dead lion lay a little distance away. He examined the beast, and found its skull crushed like an eggshell. The horse had got a fair crack at him with his heels, and made

an end of him.

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Caremonlal Law* of Savnge*. In a recent lecture on "Primitive Religious Expression” in New Haven, Conn., Professor D. G. Brinton said that ceremonial law is found to exist in every tribe, and is obeyed with surprising punctuality. It Is often absurd and ridiculous, but is obeyed just the same. Among certain tribes it is against this law to roast a pig, only boiling of that animal being allowed; with other tribes no fuel from two different species of trees may be used for the same fire; and in Knmtchatka a certain tribe has a ceremonial law which prohibits the scraping of snow from the boots with a metal knife, and another law which threatens with boils anyone who kills a very young duck. It is believed that punishment for the infraction of any of these laws falls not upon the individual, but upon his tribe. Darwin found very little religion among the Patagonians, but the severest ceremonial laws in vogue.

An Eloplivnt-IIuntlDB Adventure. Selous, the African elephant hunter, on one occasion had a marvelous escape. He was chased by an infuriated elephant, thrown from his horse, which ran away, leaving him upon the ground. Before he could rise the elephant was upon him, and, falling upon his knees, sent one of its sharp tusks through his thigh into the ground, for a moment pinning him there. Selous, while suffering terrible, agony, did not lose his presence of mind, hut pretended to be dead, well knowing that this was his only hope. The elephant watched him closely a moment, then, thoroughly deceived, pulled his tusk out and ran off into the woods, receiving as It went Its quietus in the shape of a bullet, which the hunter’s companions had not dared to fire before, fearing that the animal would fall on him.

Professor Bailey, of Ithaca, N. Y. ha* succeeded In grafting tomato oi potato vines, in this o-ase the toma toes grew to full size, but the pota toes remained small.