Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 33, Number 8, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 March 1887 — Page 7

THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL WEDNESDAY. MARCH 23 1887.

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A PEEP INTO SPACE.

ilorr the World Aronnd Vu May Ue Inhibited and Their Leading Features. I Philadelphia Herald a we look op Id to the dart vault of the midnight ky, with its multitude of glittering stars and tbe broad, bright moan sailing through them, like the true quaen of the heavens, our natural impression is that these stars are no farther away than the moon, and of much smaller siz. But to the itstronoraer the skies tell a different story. He beholds the starry specks gliding away into interminable depths of space .lie measures them, and finds that each of them is larger than imUons of moons, and ome much larger than even our great sun. "Ve may gain Borne faint idea of its nearer regior-s, but soon find ourselves lost in seek- ' ir g to trace its vast expanse. Little is known to general readers of the. grand dimensions with which the astronomer habitually deals, and a rapid survey of these dimensions may not be without 'interest. We purpose, therefore, to devote this article to some of the figures of astronomy, and seek to produce a faint conceptioa of the immensity of space. Railroad travel at the rate of a mile minute is now an accomplished fact. Yet . ........... tk:.u r nrl it ia rpr!inlr nnt r)n!rjiVklA that it - ihould be much increased, JJut we do not . usually realize that while traveling orer Tthe earth at this excessive speed, we are shooting through space in three different - directions at a rate which reduces it to a tortoise like movement. In one direction we are journeying at a speed of sixteen miles per minute. Yet rapid as this motion is, it also is tortoiselike as compared with the others. For in a second direction we dart onward IWO roiles per minute. In the third direction our steed seems inconceivably rapid. It is difficult to believe that every minute of car lives we shoot 1,100 miles through space, and that we travel eighteen miles between every two ticks of a doer. Yet this is an unquestionable fact, though these separate journeys are made so silently and smoothly thai we never become sensible of them It may seem impossible to move three ways at once and at such rapidity. One might naturally imtgine there would re--sult some dislocation of the individuality. But nature rapidly settles this difficulty by combining the three motions at every instant into one intermediate movement, making of the whole a single complicated spiral iine through space. The first of these movements is tiat caused by the rotation of the earth oa its axis, which produces a motion at the equator of l,0uO mil per hour. The second is the motion of the whole solar system through space. The third is that made by the earth in ita annual revolution around the sun. in which direction it moves more than eighteen mille with every second tick of the clock. But In this journey we run no special risk of meeting witu any of those faal obstructions which render rapid railroading such a serious aßair. Each of the journeying orbs has its own track, and though aatroncmers figure out the possibility of an occasional collision, with probably a mosi disastrous result, jet this is an incident only of the lifetime of a world, not of a man. If tow it be asked, why are these orbs so free from this danger, the answer at once ariseskat the great speed at which they move is unimportant in comparison with Tbe vast extent of op?n space through which their journay is performed. The so'ar system occupies a sphere of space of 5,t,0,Ü0U miles diameter, while the sun audits planets, if reduced to a single sphere, would be less than l,Ooo,u miles diameter. Consequently, tne unoccupied space within thehn-its of our system in sufficient to accommodate 2üö,Cü,0'0,000 of spheres equal in size to the sun and all its planets combined. Or if we leave the central sun out 9f the question, and consider only the planets, the above number becomes nearly 1,000 time3 greater. It may be easily sfen, then, that the planets are in no great danger of being crowded for room. If cow we consider the journey of the sun and its attendant planets through space, toward those shining points of light which we knew as the fixed stars, our ideas ct the dimensions of space become still more expanded. This journey takes place at a speed of 30) miles per minute, and we might imagine that it would not re. quire a very long lioas for our solar railroad train to reach its first station in space. Yet astronomers tell us that it will take 130.C0Q years at this speed to travel as far as the nearest of the fixed stars, and 400,CxM years to cover the distance of the second. These atars, however, are themselves in motion, some of them at least four times as fast as our sun, that when our system hall have reached their present locality the? i'y Lave plunged as far off as ever in O're cirection through the endless void. The stace occupied by our solar system itself seems almost inconceivable, with its 5.C0 j, 000,00) miles of diameter. Bat if we co outward toward the fixed stars, epace becomes illimitable. Of all but very few of these stars it is impossible to measure the distance. Science has gained a Tague idea of the distances of only eight or nine of them, and of several of these very doubtfully. The nearest of these a star in the constellation of Centaur, is tome 20,000, 000,000,000 of miles distant. The most distant is rather guessed at than measured to be some iCO.ötv.vuO.OCiO.Cüö of mile?. From these measurements, we may conjecture that tie rphere of yoid space through which we look when we gaze upon the stars bss an average diameter of perhaps considerably more than 4öO,G0,üöO.OOO.COO of miles. Bat if we seek to gain any deficite idea of such an extent cf space we find it almost, inconceivable. The dimensions of the sphers of our solar system, with its radius of 2. 00,000,000 of miles, would be contained in it more than 200, 000,000. 0CO.C0O times; and it would contain the material contents ol our system a number cf times represented by the figure 4 with 23 ciphers annexed. And yet this takes us onfy to the nearest limits of -pace, and within the reach of about ten out of the myriads of solar spheres, each of which is surrounded by like extent of CcMy space. Ihe nunberof these suns ae, in fat, beyond computation. In the richer parts of itbe mlliy wav, 5,0:0 stars have been found ri'hin the srace of one square j - tiaw 4'r.nrw of increased rower pecetratates space more deeply, and brings : vUista Tiatence new multitudes o tthose solar spheres; whUe nebula, Invisible to the naked eye, are found under the wlescot. e to consist of great groups of S"uns .masted together by their Ulimitar. re-mote-ess. . a. tn the real distance of the fixed stars . -vn ktandard measure of a mile is useless as a means of tiling us any definite concept rn. The cumbers above men are too DrMttnbe readilr handled, and our meas'.Irin ro d needs to te immensely length . enedln order to brin those huge numbers within reasonable dimensions. The speed of a railroad train, or of a cannon ball, is ir nf ecual inutility. If we could imagine a railroad train bo awif t as to 4rT.i from tliAinn to Ncntune. Bome2.S0O, .rtfictint rrilet In twentv-fourhours.it would have to plunge onwari at this speed lor eighteen or twenty years, ere It can reach its next station at the nearest fixed star, our reit neighbor, Alpha Cenuuri r.utwekaveat hand a much superior measuring rod with which to estimate these erand distances. This is the speed 01 a ray nf liht. Llzht travels at the rate of r, ro milt a rr second, reaching the earth from the sun In a little over eight min m. and reaching NeDtune. cur ou:2rmost planet, In about four houra. 2ret this awif t darting beam requires three and a . . W Ik. naa A vArl tar and about ten years to reacn the next distantr while from some of the remote

millions of year 3, for light t3 cross ths mighty interval. There now arises the question, are these vast interstellar spaces really unoccupied, as they appear in oar vision? or msy they be peopled by spheres transparent to tbe light we receive, and therefore forever hidden from our sense.? That they are thus peopled to some extent we are well aware for frequently some huge sphere of matter, often exceeding the sun many thces in diameter, plunges from outer epace Into onr solar system, becomes visible for a short interval in the light of the sun, end then disappears again forever ia space. Theteare the bodies which we call comets. Korne of them revolve around the sun in a fixed orbit; but these are only a few of their immens numbers. Kapler says of them they are like the fish in the sea in multitude. These wandering bodies roam forever through space, only occasionaly paying a visit to some one of the innumerable suns. These visits to solar systems are bat momentary incidents in the histories of the comets. To travel from the nearest fixed star to the earth, a comet requires about S.GOO.OOO years, so that it i3 evident that it can not make frequent calls ou the stellar inhabitants of space. For so many to visit us as are observed by astronomers, it seems evident that the vast regeons of space mnst be thickly populated by these wandering bodies, traveling forever unseen on their interminable journey. "What is a comet? Formerly this question was answered by saying that it was a vast volume of gaseous matter in a state of exet ssivetemiity; but now we are able to give a more definite answer, for it has been discovered of late years that comets are connected with ring-s of meteoric matter, which circle in great orbits around the sun, while with many of them the earth comes into contact. These meteors darting toward us at a speed of perhaps forty miles per second, frequently enter the earth's atmosphere, and would bombard its surface in a cor. slant and frightful cannonade, were they not so heated through friction with the air as to become vaporized and reduced to impalpable dust, which settles slowly down through the atmosphere, and adds gradually to the materials of our earth. Large masses, however, often escape this disintegration and plunee downward upon the surface; becoming henceforward fair food for science. Certain curious results have arisen from Investigation of these aerolites. Staugely enough they are known to be composed of many of the materials found in the earth iron being very largely represented though it is far from being the only constituent of these meteorites, as has generally been supposed. There have been found in them, in fact, about twenty chemical elements, all present in the earth. Of these elements eight are metals being iron, copper, tiD, cic -.el. cobalt, chromium, manganese and molybdenum. Besides these there occur six of tbe alkaline earths, and also the elements of carbon, sulphur, phosphorus and hydrogen. Bat these materials do not occur in the same combinations as in tha earth. Iron, which usually composes about DO per cent, of the meteorites, occurs native instead of oxydized, as in the earth. They are al3D found to contain hydrogen in far greater quantities than similar materials on the earth can be f jrced to absorb it. A natural inference is that they have come from some solar sphere, many of which we now know to possess deBse atmospheres of hydrogen. The fact, also, of the iron being unoxydied, and the minerals resembling in character the basic rocks of the earth, indicates that these wandering masses came originally from the deep-lying regior s of tome solar sphere, being poasioly ejected by intense volcanic disturbanct?, or internal convnlsions simillar to those which have been observed on the sun's surface. Such ejections of matter must have been of excessive vigor, however, in order to give the meteor speed sufficient to resist the attraction of its original orb, and send it on its long journey through space in search of other centers of life and energy. Our sun may have done its share in this labor, during some former stage of its existence, when its energies were perhaps ten fold more rigorous than they now are. Some of the comets which revolve around it may owe to it their birth. Others, as we have every reason to believe, came from distant epace, but had their orbits so change! by the attraction of the great planets that they were unable to escape

again, and have since revolved around the earth. And if the comets, instead of being masses of thin gass, be really groups 01 meteors, eo far apart that tbe they do not obstruct the light of the stars, we can un derstand that the attractions of the planets wm etiecttnem separately, so that some will lsg behind the others. Thus the com pact body may be drawn out into a line of meteors, and in time into a complete ring. buch a process has taken place almost un der our eyes. The comet known as Blela's was seen in l-4'., to be split into two parts. When It came again, in these parts had considerably separated. It has not been seen since: but in 1S72 a great fall of meteors was observed, which seemed to be moving in its orbit. Thus this comet ap pears to have broken up into a meteoric ring. The flashes of lieht, then, which eleam in our upper atmosphere and quickly die out reveal to us secrets of the constitution of the universe which we could in no other manner attain. The seemingly vast void of the heavens is now found to" be full of incesf anlly moving matter. For these mete ors occur In much greater numbers than people generally have any idea of. Frofeasor ewconibe has estimated that, including meteors so small as only to be visi ble In the telescope, 4'X),000lUW of them meet the earth's atmosphere every twentyfour hours, and only for this safety cushion of an atmosphere we would be incessantly bombarded from tbe heavens with missiles fiying roanv times faster than the swife&t cannon-ball. The air, thus, is of some other use than the sup plying ua with breath ing material. sIdc without It tbe earth would be a decidedly uncomfortable residence. These meteors are beiug gradually recog nized as members of rings, of whljh more than 100 have now been estimated. Yet tbe earth, in ita journey around fche sun. toushea but narrow line of space, ot some J.UW milts in miciLUCBS. 11 laiair iu pre sume that the meteoric rings, and the tinr msfci fifl meteors, are en nail r numerous outside of this iine, and that seemingly empty space may be populated with rxatter to an extent far greater tbJkn Wff iormeny had any conception of. Such meteori rincs are in fact, not con fined to the sun. A zoae of meteors of mora than 87.000 miles in breadth circles around the planet Saturn, composing the Tronderlul ring system of that planet, which has excited so much speculation, but which is now generally believed to have this composition. Tnt we must cease considering this sub ject almost at its threshold. The facts of astronomv are BO numerous ana rxirnordinary that we have been ame to give at . - . . , tenuon oniy xo some 01 mo mum n""Teints some few of the inciden ta m tne life of a world-and a (condensed outline Ol ine lopograpuj wj. uuivercai oj-av.c a a m 1 r I T Derided to Return to Work. BiiARoir. ra March 10. The Shenago and Allegheny Railroad coel miners, who have been out on a strue eince me ursi oi the rear for an advance of 5 per cent, in wages, nave aeciaea to return vo won next Mondav at the old rate. The Btriae auectea about C00 men, and caused a suspension of work in six mines. Great destitution is re ported among the families of the strikers. JOnn XI. XXBTtUU. Ul Ali lie J., who received serious lniuriea in the recen disaster at Koslvdale. died at his residence at a late hour Friday night. This makes

the HUi TicUra la Ds&am,

CHICAGO TAILERS.

llij Fortanea Sald to Hat Been Hade la the Itecent fork Deal. lCMco lUiLl There have been for the last fortnfgiit any number of marvellous stories of fortunes made by ''tailers" who canght oa to the Fork deal. N. B. Ileam, Nat Jane3, and eopold Bloom led thi3 latest campaign of the "tallers," and doom himself declares that he- cleaned up $L"0,00u. If Bloom rrrade this much, it is safe to say that Jones and Beam made fully as much, sd thst $500.000 of forage which lay In the path of the manipulators was snatched away froai them by three agile speculative bushwbsckers, who first discovered theiLplaaof campaign and then anticipate'!. "Tailers"' in Eveculation are tbe light-mov'ng, easy. running, non-combative enemies who hang on the rear or embarrass the front of the slowly moving, heavy fighting cliques. The tailers can't run corners and don't want to; tbey don't engineer advances or bring about declines, and they don't want to. They strive simply to anticipate the plans of the big men who do lay out and execute these b:g operations. But for all, the designs of tbe tailers are so modest their existence is not a safe one, and for them to make a mistake is to be lost. There his never been a speculative campaign whose paths have not been strewn with the fortunes of unhappy speculators of this class. Leopold Bloom, who boasts a fortune made out of his knowledge of this present corner, is a notable example of his class. He is a short, stocky Hebrew of less than forty, with a capital of $250.000. all mtde as a tail er. When he believes that he has the secret ef a great manipulation, he trades on a scale to make the crowd wonder whether he belongs to the regulars or to the tailers. It is actually a fact that for a fortnight the crowd actually believed that this pork corner, which took pork from $3 to 4-1, was being run by the three great tailers, Blocm, Jones and Ream. It is also a part of the gossip that these three did for a day or so actually believe themselves that they were in possession of the field. Bloom alone ii credited with holding at one time 75,000 barrels of pork, and with holding at another 85,000 tierces oi lard. He, however, has had the carrow escapes incident to the exciting caieer which, as a speculator, he has ehosen. Until reter McGeoch's lard deal collapsed, that manipulator was considered invincible, and Bloom believed that there was no danger in foraging in advance of the Scotchman's deal. The result to Bloom was a loss of $t0.(KK) over night. Ira Holmes used to be the most remarkable of that clase which makes fortunes out of the secrets of tbe big operators. "When Handy's great wheat deal was closed up Holmes is said to have been ahead $2-30 000. That fortune is the one which the little plunger is credited with beginning upon a aooti", Charles J Singer is said to have made his fortune tailing after an Armour pork deal, w hen Sinper, as broker, bad exceptional facilities for getting the secrets. X. B. Beam founded his fortune by learning the plans of tbe same campaign. Nat Jones made the first $ltO,(HA) of bis present comfortable fortune by studying the peculiarities of that eccentric manufacturer, Truman B. Handy. These are a few of the instances of tbe successes of this class of operators. There are instances of the other sort which are to those I have related as a thousand to one, but they are not talked cfj The Major's Wife. Boston Courier.l Civilians are never quite able to understand the grounds upon which the wives of army o Ulcers give themselves airs of social superiority, but they are keenly alive to the fact. A lady who had been repeatedly snubbed by an old school friend who married a Major, aroused herself to vengeance tbe other day. At a little luncheon party where the subject of the removal of civil officials chanced to come up for discussion, she leaned across the table toward her friend, and remarked with an air of mach solicitude; "I hope these political changes do not affect Major A.'s position." "Affect Major A.'s position," the other repeated in amazement, "ot course not. What tlo you mean?' 4,Oh, I didn't know," the other observed sweetly. "But the wife of a Postmaster wrote the other day in a dreadfully dolefnl strain: and I thought of you at once. It must be so trying to be in the Government service, where to-day you may be all right and to-morrow be nobody." The Majors wife glared at her friend in a rape so great that she could think of nothiDg whatever to say, and the victory for that day at least was not with the army. Better Left Unsaid. (Boston Transcript. A Ifidy well known in Boston society, a person of a matronly and majestic beauty, was making the rounds of the studios a few wetks ago, when the pictorial possibilities ot her hue presence attracted the notice of celebrated, painter of Oriental scenes. "Mrs. Dash." sa:d tbe painter, "have you bad your portrait painted of late years? You-should have it painted as a duty to youraell and your friends, as well as a pleasure to the painter. 1 aon t paint portraits myself, so I speak disinterestedly, although I don't deny It, if it were within my talents, I should like to paint you." filled with the idea, and realizing ner remissness, tie laiy went to the studio of a celebrated portrait painter. "What do you think, Mr. Crayon? Mr. railetsays I onght to have my portrait dene, and he wishes he con'.d paint it. "I should think he would," rejoined air. Cravon : ' l should think he would. He 5 always dinting elephants!" Mr. t rayon meant tnat air. rauei wouia find the portrait an agreeable diversion from his customary employment, and. to this day does not realize, perhaps, that h said1 one of the things that are better- left unsaid. CELEBRATING AT NINETY-ONE. Mrs. Ella Kinlock. a Famous fActres if Year 4 Ago, StUHaJe and Sfeartyw Philadelphia Special.! There will be a family ieuaion to-mor-row at the house 01 airs, j onn urew, in honor of the nindty-firet birthday cf Mrs. Llla Kinlock. Mrs. vrew a motner, wno, half a century tgo, was ote of tbe most beautiful women on the stage. It will be ninetv-one yees ago on lionday since Mrs. Kinlock was torn, but doc. Dtrtnaay win oe celebrated to morrow, bacause some of the members o the famLy whoare on the stage could not be present on any other dav eiceni bundav. Mrs. Kinlock is a caarmizie nine oic ladv. and her maiden name was Lliza Trantner. She wm born in London and beean ier rrofesüvonal career on the atae at an cany age. bne naa a strong, cioar voic. and wnie Binging in iigni operas her handsome lace won tne neari 01 a air. Lane, who w&s a English actor and a man. mger of prominence more than threescore 1 Tfara a?o. Tfcev were married, ana a tier IV -D- - . . death she came to thi3 country, ana m 1 i'rj piayea an engagement at vne v uuuv street Tneater. y m before s'ae left England for Amer. r . . r . - l 1 . I . n a. M I i jca gjjg met Sir. IviniooK, wno was Blot u actor of note. He followed ner to mis country in 1523, and produced a spectacular play at the Walnut called the ''Battle of Waterloo." in which he assumed the character; of .Napoleon Bonaparte. They wer married shortly afterward, and in mi Mr. Kinlock died. She played at the Walnut for years after her husbana'a death and retired from the stage more than hirtv vears aco Mrs. John Drew was seen at her home this afternoon, and said the reunion would he a nniet little familT affair. There will h a hirthdar dinner, and Mrs. Kinlock, who is a wonderfully active old lady, will h hPtu of the table. Her dauzh 4- xv Tnfn 1) vlll sit on her ritrhL

and Mrs, Uitchiags, ths only slater of the

late John Drew, came over from New York last night with her daughter Emma, to be present at the dinner. John Lrer. of Angustia Daly's Company, Mrs. Kinlock'a grandson, will be present with his wife, who was Josephine Baker, and was tor years a popular member of the Walnut Street stock company. Mr. and Mrs. Joha Drew's daughter will be there, too. Tne mother of young Mrs. John Drew, Mrs. Alexina Fisher Baker, who was also a member of the Walnut Street Cjmpany, Is ill in New York and can not be present. Sidney Drew, another grandson of Mrs. Kmlock, is playing in Chicago and can not be present. His sisters, Addie Drew and Georgia Drew, will be there. Georgia Drew, in jrivate life, is Mrs. Maurice Barrymore. Maurice Cirrymore, who is Modjeeka'a leading man, was playing in Baltimore to-night. After the performance he took the train for tbis city to take part in the little birthday party to-day. lie will join his wife and his three chubby children at their grandmother's home tomorrow morning. With Mrs. Kinlock and her daughter, and her grandsons and her granddaughters, and her great-graqdsons and her great-granddaughters, four generations will be represented at the birthday dinner.. Mrs. Kinlock is 'quite active, and time has dealt so gently with her that she looks nearer sixty-one than ninety-one. She walks down to tbe Arch Street Theater occasionally and sits in her daughter's privete box and watches the performance with much interest. Only a few days ago she made quite an extended shopping tour about town on foot, and when she got back home she admitted that she was tired, and thht it was plain to her now that she is not so young as she used to be. She has a good appetite, a retentive memory, and her conversation is a wealth of entertaining reminiscences of the stage in the days when Edwin Forrest was a young man. Mrs. Kinlock is a wonderful old lady. She Is proud of ber daughter and her grandchildren and greatgrandchildren, and they are all very proud of her. Wut This Mind Beading? Arlo Bates in rroUence Journal. A Boston gentleman recently related an experience which he did not teem to regard as either enjoyable or amusing, but which he was willing to own was curious. He went with a friend to call on a young lady who is famous in her particular circle for her powers of mind reading, and the remark with which his introduction was acknowledged was: "I am very happy to meet you, Mr. A. ; you will be wiser not to go.'' He regarded the youDg woman with a look of dazed amazement, and reflected that as he had mentioned to no living being the fact that he was considering the wisdom of removing to Chicago to engage in business, nobody could have given his hostess a hint to speak in this manner. . "Why not?'' he stammered; and then, before she could speak, he added: "lam sure I do not know what you mean." The lady smiled serenely, and motioned him to a chair.

Please be seated." she said. Then turn ing again toward Mr. A., witn tne air 01 enjoying his bewilderment, she wentoa: 1 ou are so heartily out of conceit with Chicago, and you are so fond of the East, that you wouldn t stay. 1 ou would enly force yourself to hold on until you were well established, and by that time you would have worn out your endurance and would give up everything to come back." "Now I d siad that to myself a hundred times," Mr. A. commented, in relating the incident, "But how in the world did she know? I felt as if my whole bactc bone were creeping up to hide under my Bbirt collar; and for my part I think it was horribly impertinent of her to spring that kind of thing on me the first minute I set eyes on her. Anyway it was devilish nap'easant," lie was so overcome Dy tnis reception that he did not recover his self-possession during the entire call. "And there A. sat." he farther unbur dened his soul to me, "apparently thinking It the best joke in the world. Heavens! He's going to marry her, and when he comes home at night she'll tell him how many glasses of punch he has drunk, and all about the girl he admired in the horsecar. Deucedly pleasant time ne 11 nave. Fancy living in the house with a woman who knows what you think as well as you do yourself. Why, I'd rather break stones on the street.' THE GOLDEN YEARS. The Chances a Woman lias to Marry Dar los Her Life. I New York Observer. A man who has studied the various phases of the matrimonial market has come to tbe conclusion that every woman has some chance to marry; it may b one to fifty or it may be ten to one, she will. Representing a woman's entire chance at 100, be has made out the following table to sbow the chance at certain points of time: Between the ages of 15 and -Oyears, 14)i per cent. Between the ages of "0 and 'Zo years, oz per cent. Between tne ages ot ana 6j years, 13 per cent. Between the ages 01 JU ana years, u;a per cent. Between the ages ot 0 ana vj years: per cent. . . . . 1 - Between the ages oi iu ana 10 years, z-rl per cent. Between tne ages 01 i ana w years, ?s 01 1 per ceBt. Between the ages ot 00 am w years, oi 1 per cent. After w it is l-i'J 01 1 per cent., or 1 chance in 1,000. For cleansing and healing foul and indolent Ulcers, Sores and Abscesses and removing the bad odors arising therefrom. and for sloughing, contused and larcerated wounds, Darby's Trophy lactic r luid is un equalled. "I have used uaroy a rropnyiactic riuia . . . in hospital ana private practice ior ten vears. and know of nothing better for sloughin?, contused and lacerated wounds, foul and indolent ulcers, ana as a disinfectant' J. F. Hxvstis, Professor Mobile Med. College. It ia said that Alice Longfellow ia. re-. garded with a degree of love and regard amounting almcat to reverence by the Btuöents of the Harvard Annex. Miss Longfellow is oae of tbe o&tcers of the Socisiy for the Collegiate Instruction of women, and ia often at uie Annex DünaLsg in Cambridge. Trom the Aattpodes. A recent letter from the Sandwich Islands says that Pond's Extract is a favorite remedy there for all kinds of pains, inflam mation and hemmornago. out especially for curing wounda, bites and stings of in sects with which their country abounds. They get tbe genuine Bond's .Lxtract there 100, as me imitators nave nut louuwtu mat i .1 I 1 L f.d. A i 4 far with tneix spurious stun. Don't teglect that cough, and slowly bu surely d rift into consumption. Dr. Ran som'a Hive Byrup and Tula (or Honey Svrcp will certainly cure it. Xlall's IliirEeneirer furnishes the nutritive principle by which the hair is nourished end supported, aTITS. AJi Flu stopped free by Dr. Kllu'i 6ri Nerve Reatorer. bo FlU alter first day's use. Marvellous cures. Treatise and i tnal bottle free to Fit cases. Band to Dr. Kllag, in rob at., Tb li lphl- p. OjflLDFLID. To all who are Buffering from the errors and Indiscretions ot youth, nervous weakness, early decay, loss of manhood. I will send a rod pa that will cure yoa.rHEE OF cnAKQE, This great remedy was discovered by a mU'xnary In South Amerlctfc Send a ael addressed Tc velope to the Est, Jost t, i.tiuj, stcum d, i cvyt.

A REMARKABLE STORY

Of a Bear Hunt on an Iceberg, Wltn Wonderfal Adventures, London Teiegram.l It might be thought that the imsgination of our best &ea novelists and the endless variety of dangers and disasters recorded in the lops of voyages would have exhausted ail the adventures possible to sailors A fresh proof, however has been afforded that Truth is not only stranger, but more original and more inventive than Fiction, if me may feel sure that the tale is true. In that case we do not call to mind any picture of seafaring peril so utterly novel, thrilling and apparently without hope of escape as that which has been published in a New York newspaper recently received. It purports to come from the lips of an old whaler, who, while off Cape Horn, was sent in a boat, with four other hands, to kill, for the sake of fresh meat, two white bears seen on an iceberg. The men reached the berg, shot the two animals, and, putting them on board the boat rowed back for their ship. At that instant a thick snow-storm came on, in the midst of which they lost sight of the vessel, and were therefore obliged to return to tbe berg. Making the boat fast to its foot, the five men climbed upon a ledge, and there cut a cave in the ice for protection from the bitter wind. They also stripped the bears of their skins and spread these upon the floor of their chilly cavern; and, having all this fresh meat, as well as biscuits enough to last a week, together with means to make a fire, their Immediate prospect was not, perhaps, so utterly desperate. Yet the ultimate terror of it could cot be concealed from such intelligent seamen. The account states that at the first these Americans were all sell-possessed and even cheerful; but the writer confesses that when they lay down to sleep the realism of their dismal position well nigh drove the strongest of them mad. "Had 1 begun," he says, "figuring on our chances, I myself should have gone wild." The berg, of course, was all the while driving before tbe strong east wind which almost always blows round the Horn. Their ship, although sure to come in quest of them, might, therefore, cruise for weeks or months without sighting them. They might drift into Antartic circles, never visited by a sail; their berg, slowly melting away where submerged, might at any moment capsize and drown them or come in contact with other floating masses of ice and be splintered to pieces. They would not indeed want for drink, because an iceberg, in forming, has always fresh water on the surface. Yet, even if flesh and blood could stand the savage weather of those latitudes, their food must too surely waste day after day, with no chance of renewal. If, then, we may believe the narrative, it must be confessed that human creatures never found themselves in a more awful strait. True or false, however, the adventure narrated is plausible enough, and we may therefore pursue the fortuces of the five Americans with an interest not much diminished by the doubts which must arise as o their veracity. The men lay down to sleep In the'r icy chamber, wcarices: being stronger upon them thur. hunger or thirst. An hour before daylight tney were abruptly startled from slumber by a shock and crass louder than that of a hundred thunder storms bursting together from the zenith. There wss a grindirg, crushing uproar, mingled with the noise of huge masses tumbling into tbe sea, and the smashing of the great berg rolling on the waves, the fact being that another large berg had come into collision with them, and knocked huge fragments from the one on which they swam. After this the men could sleep that night no more, but watched for day-dawn. When it broke a dismal scene was disclosed to their gaze; the dark and foaming waves of the sea were running high all around them under an inky tky overed with black and ragged clouds. The spray was wildly ilyIrjg over the platform where they sat, and two other large icebergs might be seen Seating in dangerous proximity. Far and near the ocean was covered with tossing-pack-ice, which would too surely prevent, or at any rate hinder, their ship from seeking to come near to them. When tne men gathered again, after exploring their berg, their faces were naturally gloomy, . but they ate and drank a little, managed to kindle a small fire in the cave with bottom boards from the boat, and then slept the morning away. At noon they were awakened by fresh noises, as well as by piercing cold. The stoiniy wind had twisted round their frozen refuge, and was blowing with setrching severity into the cavern, while the foot cf tbe huge raft of ice on which they lioaled was grindingand pounding through, widespread heaving packs ol floe, crushing and splitting those frozen flats with an outcry, the narrator says, "as if thunderbolts were ripping through a thick forest." Fortunately their berg swung round again soon afterward, and put them once more to leeward, when the cold became less severe, and they could eat and sleep. The wind had freen previously Mowing bard from the eastward, but when they awoke the next morning it had changed to the south. The dark sky had furthermore cleared, the day was bright and soft, with a smooth sea; bur the effect of the change was dangerous to thaw the ice, end produce cracks and explosions iu its inner mass. Daring all this time the castaways kept their small fire burning, with as much smoke as possible, their only cbance being that some, passing whaler or some steamship rounding the Horn might spy the unusual sight of smoke rising Itoax a berg and take them off. It was on the second day, according to the published story, that the American sailors started up three white foxes from a shoulder Ol tne oerg. xae narrative say a iocj urn uut shoot them because they fearl the concuBsion mad by their inuskeshots might rrrl.- the, ica. This ia an incident which tries our faith rather 6enojly, since it is hard to sea what the foxes- could find to live uron and these lntelu?ent mariners scarcely needed to fear the explosion of their owa guns, we snoum surmise, aite the Ebosis and noises through which thel? shin of tee had. so far. salely come. Meiawhile. whether the taie be tact or ficticn. it is none the less interest in sr. 'The second i.cht settled down upoa their icy heme with a t?au' null sea and sk?. the wind going round to the we& with the sun taA the cold weather Dleaiantly abating. Tbaeffect, however, of the soft air and the sunshine wasr eally most disasterous, for it is just such sudden changes which break up these floatiBe icecrrcs. or raise the temperature of the sea waves so much that their submergad portions melt away, in which case the unrer Dirt becomes heaTier. and the berg presently turns topsy-turvy. The last calamity did not. indeed, occur r, but while the castaways were toasting their bfsr's meat on the third morning they felt a tremendous Quiver run through the ber 2. and the next moment, with au earsplittine; sound, a whole third of the mass cracked oil and fall into the sea with a frlirhtful splash, covering the remnant left with salt water and SDray. and tearinz away and drowning their boat The loss cr this portion gave to tneir reiuge a strong list to port, while it rocked to and fro with a lei r bie osci lation which miae tnem extect that it might at anv instant capsize. ilv and br. however, it floated Bteadily a?ai?t, and the men were still able to take refuge in their cavern and to keep np their littl fire of boat wood and dried seaweed, sencirg up its column of dark smoke epalnst the blue background of the berg. This was their flag of distress, the last forlorn Bignal which they would be able to mske; and it eventually answered its purpose, for, juit aa the mate was breaking ud and kindling the only bit of planking left them, a steamship was seen suddenly approaching from behind a large iceberg to tbe southeast. She had obsemd afar oil the thin colnmn of smoke ascending from ihe shoulder of the drifting berg, and, being beraU a TTbAler, conjtc;urel that it

must be a signal of distreu. "With this conviction she had been steadily working toward the men for some time before tbey spied her, following the channels in the pick-ice. In an hour after she was first described the castaways thus suddenly lifted from despair to rejoicing were safe and sound on board her, thou jh here, indeed, occurs another little touch in the narrative which inclines n, we must confess, to be skeptical, Says the narrator; "It is not for the purpose of exagierating the perils of our adventure that I tell you we had not Bteamed two miles from that berg wheu it eplit in three portions with thundrous sounds, and every portion turned turtle. Oar ship, ai we afterward came to know, searched for us for the best part of a week, and then, feeling that we must have certainly been lost, put np her helm and was off to a new cruising ground, while we were entered oa the logbook as thousands of others have been.' The story is hereby rounded off, almost too perfectly, with this crowning event of. the ierg's capsizing. Truth has no public to consult in the circulating libraiies, as Fiction has, and does not usually wind up the last pages other third volumes with so neat and symmetrical an effect. Nevertheless, this occurrence also was possible enough, and the American whalemen either went through one of the most horrible and seemingly hopeless adventures on record or else haye had among them a shipmate whose genius for invention is of a first rate order. In the one case the moral of the tale appears to be that no position is ever so desperate ai to preclude hope.

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