Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 September 1895 — Page 7

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Ammonia and Nitrous Acid.

A French chemist claims to have proved that, on burning in air equal volumes of coal gas and of hydrogen, the same weights of nitrogen are converted into ammonia, and that, on burning 'equal volumes of coal gas and of hydrogen, the nitrogen transformed into nitrous acid will always have approximately the same weight; but on burning carbon monoxide, nearly two and one-half times more nitrogen is found in the state of nitrous acid than in the former case. In the burning of one kilogram of each of these gases, it is stated that the most nitrogen in the state of ammonia, and in the state of nitrous and nitric acids, is found in the combustion of hydrogen, only onefourth of the quantity being found in the case of coal gas, and about onetwentieth in burning carbon monoxide. On burning wood charcoal in air, whether merely dried or heated to redness, the quantity of nitrogen contained in the nitrous and nitric acid collected Is said to be almost equal to that of the product, and there Is not much difference in the result of burning an equal amount of coke. It is remarked that the formation of ammonia during the combustion of coke or charcoal is merely a result of the decomposition of these substances, and thus the weight of the ammonia formed varies according to the degree of heat.

Disadvantage of a Nom de Plume.

This story is being told in London of Anthony Hope, the now famous dialoguer and romancer. He had occasion recently to take in to dinner a lady who knew him only as plain Mr. Hawkins. The hostess afterward asked the good lady whether she had talked to Mr. Hawkins about “The Prisoner of Zenda’’ and “The God in the Car.” “Certainly not,” was the reply. “I don’t think Mr. Hawkins the man to be interested in that class of book.” It is hardly necessary to add that Mr. Hope’s full name is Anthony Hope Hawkins.

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SLOW TO ANGER.

Average American Citizen Submits to Much Imposition. W. W. Watson, of Chicago, waited six months before he complained about a peanut-vender’s whistle on one of the postoffiee corners, though he suffered acutely in mind and body from the piercing shriek it emitted all day long. He lost flesh worrying about it, it stirred every fiber in his being, his ears rang with its sound after he had gone home at night, he dreamed of it, It destroyed his appetite and his temper, and unfitted him for business. But it was not until six months of this torture had passed that he thought of complaining. When he did complain the noise was stopped. There you have the American citizen, all over. He will endure any annoyances rather than make a row about it Fruit peddlers disturb his rest In the early morning and awake him to a day of nervousness and ill-temper. He is interrupted in his progress down-town by an open bridge. His nostrils are filled and his skin blackened with the nasty smoke of noisy tugs. He stumbles along a narrow path in a sidewalk almost wholly covered with fruit baskets that have no right to be there. He-picks his way through mud and filth at the crossings. People dig their elbows into his ribs and step on his toes in the elevator. He lunches in a room crowded to suffocation and nausea; he is served by insolent, careless, unclean waiters, with food dumped upon a thick and greasy plate; he orders coffee and gets a vile liquid that tastes like dishwater. He is importuned by newsboys who cease from yelling only while they make change. He walks in the perilous street around the mortar-beds and heaps of brick and lumber that occupy the sidewalk in front of buildings being torn down or put up, and he is spattered with mud from head to foot. He climbs upon a street ear and hanging on to a strap or clinging to a rail Is crushed by all sorts of people. He is detained in a tunnel by a broken cable and cheerfully walks the rest of the way. In the evening he listens to the strident cries of gamins and hoodlums and to the nerve-wrecking noises of the strolling brass band and the portable hand organ, goes to bed to spend the whole night inhaling the sickening odor of Bridgeport and part of it hearing the wail of the switch engine and the bumping crash of the freight car—and never complains. It ljever occurs to him to complain. He will stand anything rather than complain, even though he knows complaint will end his suffering. The American citizen is the good-na-tured man of the fables. He knows he has rights, but is too easy-going and complaisant to stand up for them. He has a horror of a “scene.” He is afraid of disagreeable prominence. He prefers to slink alone harried, insulted, browbeaten, with shattered nerves. It is easier. But how much longer the city dweller would live, how much pleasanter his life would be, how much healthier he would find himself, if only he had a little more courage and a little more obstinacy. One-half the noises that make him miserable are totfilly Unnecessary and could be stopped if he took a firm stand, and the other half would not be necessary if he set bis ingenuity to work. But be will do neither. Is it any wonder neurasthenia grows common? Is it any wonder the race is degenerating?

Tribe of Wild Men Found.

Four curious specimens of humanity have been confined in Norridgewock jail, accused of sheep stealing, writes the Augusta, Me., correspondent of the New York Recorder. They were arrested in Brighton. They belong to a gang of about forty persons who have no homes, but who have lived until recently near the Canadian* line like wild beasts in the summer and in little or no clothing, and their backs, which have been long exposed to the sun and weather, are covered with a growth of hair fully three inches long. It is hard to make sense out of their conversation, although they have learned to swear so that they are understood. One of the men, a giant in form, is an idiot. His sides are full of small holes, made by a brad in the end of a stick, when he has been yoked to an ox. The day they were placed in jail they had a fight among themselves and tore all the clothing off each other’s bodies. Police are after others of this tribe of wild men.

Tall Men in One Family.

There was a reunion of the Coleman family at Tionesta, Pa., one day last week. Harmon Coleman and his wife are the father and mother, and are of only ordinary stature. But their sons are extraordinarily big men. J. F. is 6 feet 5 inches; Henry, 6 feet 2 inches; William, 6 feet 3 inches; J. E., 6 feet 5 inches; S. W., 6 feet 3 inches; and Frank, the short one of the stalwart family, an exact 6 feet. These meastirements were all taken in stocking feet. The total height of the whole sextet collectively is 37 feet 4 inches.

One on the Clergyman.

A clergyman of the Baptist persuasion, holding forth in a Texas town, recently commenced his sermon, thusly: “My dear friends, I was to talk to you about the infinite power of the Almighty. He created a mighty ocean—and he created a people. He created the solar system—and he created the world —and he created a grain of. sand. My friends, he created me! and he created —a daisy!” The total amount of gold coined at our mints from 1793 to 1892 was $1,582,000.000; of silver, during the same period, there have been $657,000,000; and of subsidiary coinage of all denominations, $24,000,000.

AGED RULER OF A GREAT EMPIRE.

Francis Joseph, Emperor of Anstria and Kins of Hungary—Bora In 1830, and Ascended tho Throne Forty-seven Tears Ago.

OLD WAR MACHINES.

APPARATUS USED BY WARRIORS IN ANCIENT TIMES. Qnaint and Rude Instruments of War —Besieging Towns with Rams, Catapults and Ballistic—How the Rude Machines Were Used. Employed in the Past. For some years past such skill'/and deadly ingenuity has been displayed in

BALLISTAE.

Which wore used for hurling great masses o rock against fortifications.

the invention of war engines and new explosives as to make the war in the future more terrible than it has ever been before. It is curious to consider, in light of these facts, the quaint and rude machines which have been employed for military purposes In the past. War as waged by the Romans was something very different and very much more interesting as a trial of £kill than it is nowadays, and it must have been very much more exciting. There was a chance for life and a chance for the display of personal prowess which the soldier of this era scarcely knows. It w’as at the sieges of towns that the greatest military skill was displayed by the ancient warrior. The town was surrounded by a lofty wall, which, in turn, was rendered doubly secure by it deep trench. So long as the wall could be kept intact, or rather so long as tho enemy could be kept out of the city, the besieged felt safe. In consequence the siege was really a series of attacks by the enemy and of defensive warfare on the part of those in the town.

THE CATAPULT.

This engine was employed to send flights of arrows. shooting them against the defenders of cities as they appeared on the walls.

The ordinary arms, spears, daggers and swords, were, of course, wholly inadequate when It came to attacking stone walls and hence there were invented a number of engines to aid in the conflict. Battering Ram. The first step in a siege was for the enemy to fill up the trench. This was done with earth and rubbish. Then efforts were made to destroy the lower part of the walls and form a breach.

LET SOME MORE DAYLIGHT INTO IT.

—Chicago Inter Ocean.

For this the battering ram was employed. This engine consisted of a long beam to one end of which a mass of Iron was fastened which sometimes weighed a ton. It was so arranged that It could be swung backward and forward by the aid of machinery. To destroy the towers often built on the walls and to break down the ramparts engines called balllstae were used. These were like huge hows which discharged immense masses of rock and stone, hurling them high Into the air. Quite a complicated mechanism was employed to secure force uecessary to discharge the ballistae. Should soldiers or the inhabitants of the city appear on the walls the catapult was brought into use. By means of this machine flights of arrows were discharged. A system of cranks and levers was employed to make the catapult work and it required, moreover, tho services of several men. Besieging Towers. In order to get directly at tho defenders on the walls besieging towers were constructed. On the different stories of these towers soldiers were placed who directly attacked the town’s defenders. By means of bridges the enemy could cross over to the walls themselves and engage In hand-to-hand fighting. The besieged often defended the cities or months and only capitulated when dormed out. One historian .tells of a ioge which was brought to an end only when the course of a river was brought

A BESIEGING TOWER.

Each story bore soldiers and at the top of the wall a bridge was let down, by means of which the besiegers could engage In hand-to-hand conflict with the besieged. Below is seen a battering ram with which breaches were made In walls.

against the city walls, and they were in this way undermined. But in almost all cases capitulation was only a question of time and was sure to result sooner or later.

How Esquimaux Count.

The Esquimaux count their fingers—one, two, three, four, five. Above five and up to ten they use the second hand; thus, six is “the first finger of the other hand.” Above ten, they employ the toes. Thirteen, for instance, is “three toes upon the one foot,” and eighteen “three toes on the second foot” Twenty they describe as a “whole man.” They seldom go farther than this, but they can do so if necessary. For example, they express twen-ty-two by saying, “two on the second man;” thirty-seven by “two toes on the second man’s foot;” forty is “the whole of a second man.” According to Dr. Nansen they cannot, or at least do not, count beyond 100, which is “the whole of the fifth man.” A girl can have more fun dreaming of an impossibility than a man has with the money In his pocket

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A Turfman’s Tale.

A New Jersey man told me a good •tory the other day on one of our foremost turfmen, a man whose name Is perhaps printed oftener than that of any other connected with the racing In America, says a writer In the New York Press. A good many years ago this turfman, who was not then deep *h the racing business, arrived In Jersey City with a trainload of mustangs from the plains of Texas. He knew nothing of the laws of the State, nor of the ordinances of the city. He knew that ho wanted to sell his mustangs, and thought the best way to do it was to sell them at auction. Being somewhat gifted In speech, he determined that ho would be his own auctioneer. The sale started out well. Fair prices were realized. Suddenly It was interrupted by policemen, who demanded a view of our friend’s license. “License?” he said amazed. “What license? I haven’t any license of any kind.” “Well, you can’t sell horses in* tills city without a license. You’ll have to come along. No monkey business with us.” Of course he went along, but he was lucky enough to And a friend at court (a lawyer) who went bail for him In the sum of SSO. Then the lawyer said: “A license costs $250. You are under bonds. Go ahead and finish your sale, collect your money, and skip out Give me SSO to settle the forfeited bond, aud you are S2OO ahead of the game." It was done accordingly. The turfman and his friend met in the St. James Hotel lately and laughed over the Joke.

He Does Not Fly.

Of course the flying squirrel has no wings, and he does not really rise and fly; but good Mother Nature has kindly given him a wide fringe of skin running nearly all the way around his body, which forms a very perfect parachute. When he leaps from bis treetop Into the air, and spreads himself, his parachute aud his broad, flat tall enable him to float down easily and gracefully, In a slanting direction, until he alights low down on the trunk of a tree perhaps fifty or even one hundrod feet distant Then he clambers nimbly up to Its top, chooses his direction, and launches forth again, quite possibly to the same tree from which he started. His flight is simply a sailing downward at an angle of about forty-five degrees, with a graceful sweep upward at the last,-to enable him to alight easily.

It Refused to Be Comforted.

Mr. Henry Irving, the well-known actor, once took a fancy to a beautiful collie dog belonging to a Highland shepherd. The man was very unwilling to part with his dog, but the sum offered for It—s3oo—was a little fortune In his own eyes, and he resolved to sell It. There are two to the making of a bargain, however, as tne saying Is, and when the collie reached London It refused to be comforted. In fact, it was so unhappy In its new life, and Its misery caused Mr. Irving to foci so tincoin£prtable that he determined to restore It to Its old master. Imagine the dog’s Joy, and the shepherd's too, when the creature returned to Its Highland home. One Is reminded of the love of the Arab for his steed In rending of this pretty story.

Too Old to World at Ninety-six.

A delightful story of poor-law administration comes to me from Thlrsk. At Carlton Husthwalte, a small village In that neighborhood, lives a veteran of 90, who was at the battle of Waterloo. For some considerable time he has been on the union books ns a recipient of outdoor relief. But recently a great doubt arose In the minds of the guardians, why the old man did not earn his own livelihood. So the expense was Incurred of sending a medical officer some miles to examine the nonogenarlan, and report whether he was tit for work or not. It is needless to say that he was not. The doctor might Indeed have been more usefully employed in Inquiring into the state of mind of the Bumbles who sent him on such an errand.—London Truth.

Small Fry Swindlers.

Some of the meanest of these are they who set-k to trade upon and make capital out of the reputation of the greatest of American tonics, Hostettar's Stomach Bitters, by Imitating Its outward gulae. Reputable druggists, however, will never foist upon you ns genuine spurious Imitations of or substitute •for this sovereign remedy for malaria, rheumatism, dyspepsia, constipation, liver comSlalnt and nervousness. Demand, and If the eater be honest, you will get the geuulne article.

The Story of a Rose.

Only a rose! It lay between the faded pages of an old book. A man beholding it, looked down the distance and the dark, dreaming of the past years. A woman paused and, bending over It, pressed with quivering lips its crumbling petals. Only a rose! Then, as the evening shadows gloamed over K a voice cried, startling the silence: “Mamnw! Who’s been In the parlor a-foolin’ with this book ? They’ve gone and lost the place where I was readln’ at!”—Chicago Tlmes-Herald.

Hall’s Catarrh Care.

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Russia's Prettiest City.

Odessa Is said to be the prettiest and most European town In Russia. Gold and silver are much more extensively used in the West than In the East On the Phclflc coast the gold and silver almost supplant the paper money as a circulating medium. It is positively hurtful to use ointments for skin diseases. Use instead Glenn's Sulphur Soap. “Hill’s Hair and Whisker Dye,” Black or Brown. 60c. The hypocrite holds up his head a little higher every time he sees a good man make a stumbling step.

The Scourge Scourged.

The scourge of grasshoppers which has been devastating the region round about Brighton, Col., and which a week or two ago threatened to entirely destroy all crops In that part of the State, has been suddenly stayed by a scourge of some kind falling upon the grasshoppers. About a week ago they stopped in their march and died In vast numbers, and in a few days but few remained alive. The local scientists say they died of consumption. Tht authorities of the districts in Minnesota and Idaho afflicted with the grasshopper pest applied for and received a number of the dead Insects from Brighton for the purpose of scattering them among the army of hoppers eating the crops In their districts and in the hope of sppndlug the disease and saving the wheat.

The Modem Beauty

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