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CHALDEAN SWORD

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The region n>»out UufTulo and for a good many miles east of that city seems to be a favorable one for seeing the more distinct and remarkable effects of that optical illusion known as the mirage, says the Hartford Times. A surprisingly distinct one was seen between nine and ten o’clock on a recent morning by the people of buffalo. Like a previous one, seen by the passengers in a New York Central train a dozen miles or more east of lluffalo some years ago, the spectacle was at the north. The one seen from the cars showed Lake Ontario, with all its capes and other shore features, including the trees, with remarkable distinctness in the sky, although the real lake at its nearest shore was thirty or forty miles away and wholly invisible. The one seen at lluffalo was the entire city of Toronto, in Canada, on the lake, some sixty miles away. Its steeples, docks and other features were seen, at great distance, with wonderful distinctness of detail. Even the steamers on the lake and a yacht were distinctly shown—the former pouring out the trailing smoke from their smokestacks, and the latter, showing exactly the position of the sails, could be seen careening before the west wind. The lake itself was largely visible. It must have been a very surprising and impressive exhibition. Seen in the sky by the caravan travelers on the desert, the mirage pre sente an appearance of objects reflected in a surface of water; cool lakes, with shady palm tress, mock the hot and thirst-stricken travelers. The heated earth rarefles the lower air faster than it can ascend and escape. The air is denser overhead—contrary to the customary experience; and the flatness of the desert contributes to the duration of the attractive but deceptive apparition. There must be some real lake, in some cases, as a basis for these reported exhibitions. The mirage is caused by the excessive refraction, or bending of light rays in penetrating adjacent layers of air of greater differing densities, not fur above the surface of the earth. This excessive refraction presents, when the lower stratum of air is heated by a very hot sun, an uplifted, distorted or inverted image of some actual object or scene. Along certain portions of the Italian coast it sometimes produces the exhibition of an inverted ship, up in the air—the real ship being distant and Invisible and, of course, right side up. These aerial and marine reflections, often strange and complicated, and known as mirage, “looming,” and the Italian, “fata morgana,” according to the characteristics they present, are all allied to a general law. The schoolbooks have explained the general phenomenon. It is out of the usual course of things for the lower stratum of air to be rarer than the one above it, but it sometimes happens. Suppose the light rays are coming from a distant (and invisible) object, situated in the denser stratum, which in these wonderful exhibitions lies over instead of being beneath the rarefied stratum—as a hill a little above the earth’s surface—the rays come in a direction nearly parallel to the surface, and meet the lower, rarer medium at a very obtuse angle. Instead of passing into that warmer air, the rays are reflected back to the denser stratum above — the common surface of the two strata acting as a mirror. Let the spectator be looking from some eminence, at an object thus situated, like himself, in the denser air, and he will see it by directly transmitted rays; but rays from it also will be reflected—from the upper surface of the lower, more heated air—presenting the image inverted and in a lower position. In the reproduction of distant and invisible objects—as in the case of the city of Toronto, seen so plainly in the sky sixty miles south, at lluffalo — the phenomenon belongs, apparently, to the class known to sailors as “looming.”

the savants of Europe and America a the other day,” said a farmer who lives relic of antiquity rescued from the dust ' n extreme western part of the of the dim dawn of human life in the county to a Utica Observer man, "I saw western world, which promises to at a cloud moving duo north over the once throw light on the origin of man j flcW® antE woods. Ihcre wasn t any on the western hemisphere and prove wind blowing; the air was still and I the open sesame to further reading of , was unable to account for the presence tlie early races of the earth in the far , °f a dark cloud speeding away east. In a rock-hewn tomb in southern across the heavens on such a still,

Mexico there has been found a bronze | bright day.

and hammered iron sword bearing on I “At first I thought it was a cloud of its blade and handle in rich inlaying smoke from the railroads, but then of silver characters of record and rep-j when I first saw it the cloud was in rcsentations of life distinctively As- such a position that it could not possyrian and Grecian. The characters' sibly have come from the West Shore on one side of the blade are cuneiform, 1 railroad, and even if it had there says a writer in the St. Louis Globe- never was a cloud of smoke that hung Democrat; those on the other cannot | so closely together and so long as that be identified; possibly they are Hittite. i did. As I sat in my wagon it appeared The first, fourth, sixth, eighth and to me to be a mile long and perhaps

half a mile wide, but of course that part of it was all speculation, for no one can make a very accurate guess of the size of a cloud. The body in the sky was as dark us the smoke from a locomotive and looked to be quite dense. It traveled quicker than any cloud ever scudded before a thunder shower in this section. When it first

eleventh letters in the easily recognizable cuneiform characters of Chaldean antiquity are exactly alike ns graven upon the blade; the first, fourth, sixth, eighth and eleventh letters in the mystic inscription on the reverse are also identical. It is in the possession of Senor Gonzale M. Moliner, a descendant of one of the oldest and most

illustrious familier of Spain, who is ( attracted attention it was high up in resident in the Citv of Mexico. He! the heavens, but it rose and fell sevwill soon lay it before the Smithsonian j eral times, like the soaring of a bird, institution in person, and until that' Once it was but a few feet above the time it will not see the light of re- j top of some woods. Again it took an search outside of Mexico. The sword ; upward course and continued onward and its scabbard of bronze are massive ! in an unswerving nortli course. It and well preserved. In total length the 1 was about five o’clock that the cloud

sword is twenty-six and one-half inches, ^ passed.

with a blade cf nineteen inches. The! “That evening I noticed a number of roughly hammered iron blade shows: reddish-winged wood ants about on the the crudity of the early days of the I grass and in the roads, it occurred to iron age, but the exquisite inlaying of j mi ' that the strange cloud in motion silver on the bronze bears testimony to might have been a cloud of these flying

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the cunning of the silversmiths who wrought tlie weapon. To all appearances, and according to the inscriptions, it was a royal arm, for on its ample hilt it bears in horizontal lines the crowned head of its evident wearer, while below, in cuneiform characters on the blade, are apparently the title and name of the sovereign. The sword and scabbard weigh twelve pounds, of which the sword alone represents two-thirds of the total. The story of the discovery of this interesting relie is a romance. Seven years ago a curiosity dealer in the City of Mexico purchased it for a few paltry reals from an ignorant Indian from Merida, in the state of Yucatan, in southern Mexico. The dealer supposed it to he nothing more than an old Homan sword, such as were often worn by the Spaniards at the time of the conquest of Mexico. The Indian said he found it in the depths of a tomb which he had penetrated, and that, with a bronze spoon, now also in the possession of Senor Moliner, it was the only thing of interest he had found. The sword and scabbard were incrusted with half an inch of oxidization from their long burial, and on being cleaned up were offered for sale to tourists along with the customary more or less valuable stock in trade of an enterprising curio dealer. For one reason or another it remained in stock until recently, when it by chance caught the eye of Senor Moliner, who has made an intelligent study of antiquities, both in Europe and America, and who at once bought it at a curio sale price. HIS BIG RED EARS. They Prevented Him from Making a Good

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Nothing is so hostile to romance as ridicule. This truth was strikingly illustrated in the case of a college friend of my own. He was a good-looking young fellow, but had, unfortunately, been gifted by nature with a large and red pair of ears, which stood out from his head in a distressing fashion, says a writer in Answers. Ilis sweetheart’s young brothers chafed her unmercifully about this peculiarity of her lover’s. They compared his ears to Chinese fans, and talked up some preposterous story of one of the old travelers about an African race whose ears were so large that they used to wrap themselves up in them during inclement weather. They insinuated that their sister's lover was the sole surviving member of that race. Absurd as it may seem, their fciolish talk resulted in a broken engagement.

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ants. The more I pondered over the phenomenon the more I became convinced that it was a cloud of ants that passed over the country. Such a story was too big for me to tell, although there was proof enough of the fact for my mind, so I held my peace and simply spoke to my family of the strange cloud. Others had seen it, too, yet none suspected what it was and we finally dis-

missed it.

“A day or two afterward I was in Constableville and there the farmers told me they had seen the same thing. There was no doubt about it, either, for a number of them watched the cloud and at that place it passed so low that they caught the insects in their hands. They were the same flying ants. We compared notes and found that it required just an hour for the swarm to move from the place where they were first seen to Constablcville. The distance in a straight line is thirty-one miles. They were in Oneida county at five o’clock and at just six o'clock the3 r were seen in the north. The ants continued northward and nobody has told me where they

stooped.”

AN AWFUL BATTLE. Bcrned on tlie Cheii-Yuen During; the Talu

River Fight.

A British naval officer attached to the Chinese naval squadron which was engaged in the fight off the mouth of the Yulu river has written a letter to the London Graphic in which he gives additional details of the fighting, and

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“On board the warship Chen-Yuen the fighting was awful. The decks and the space around the guns were strewn with human fragments. Three of five men working on a four-ton gun were blown up by a shell from the Japanese warship Naniwa. The fourth gunner was shot while trying to escape from the turret and the fifth stuck to his

post.

“This man fired three rounds at the Naniwa, one shell entering the engine room of the Japanese ship and another smashing her forebridge. The Naniwa then hauled off. The Chinese admiral rewarded the surviving gunner with a present of one thousand

taels.

“A shell glanced from the steel deck of the Chen-Yuen and went through her tower, shattering everj'thing therein. A lieutenant who was in the act of speak ing through the tube leading to the engine room was blown into atoms and his head was left hanging to the speaking pipes. Huge fragments of armor and the teak hacking thereof wore carried on board by the shot, crushing a large number of sailors into a shape-

less mass.

“A European engineer who was in the act of groping about in an endeavor to repair a steampipe was drenched from head to foot with the blood of an assistant who was disemboweled by his side by a shot from the enemy’s ship. “Then Chen-Y'ucn arrived at Wei-Hai-Wei the day after the fight in the same condition In which she left the battle. No attempt has been made to wash tlie blood from her or remove the corpses which strewed her decks. The writer expresses the opinion that if the European rulers could have seen the decks of the Chen-Yuen they would have foresworn war henceforth

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