Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 15, Number 37, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 7 March 1885 — Page 8

Sailing Upon the Frosen Deep. 4*

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AH ICE YACHT.

This winter, during the last cold week towarda the close of it, every form of amuse•enent that frost affords has been exhausted. Ice-boating hj»» attracted attention never bestowed on it before. The races of the many lee yachts on the Hudson have been chronicled ••td read with as keen a zest as it they

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keen boats with sails, upon the open water. ¥he principle on which they move is the mme—sails

propelled by wind.

What is an ice yacht like? Ton will see by *e illustration that the foundation of it ta Amply along strip of wood, with a croaspiece a* the end. At the back end of the wcxxi a large, sharp iron runner is fixed, in shape tome thing like the blade of a skate. This is (Movable, and is the rudder that steers the yacht. A similar runner, except that it is fixed, not movable, is put across each end of the crossplects in front. The structure is filled with sails like a regular yacht—jib and —Innnil The crew man and"steer the flying -*aasel as in the engraving. That is all there fcofit,

Some of these quaint "boats" fly over the loe at a fairly breathless speed. They have keen known to make a rate of 75 miles an fcoor. They are often of large fdze, too, weighing a ton. One recently built at Red Bank, N. J., was 53 feet long, 25 feet between fibs runners. An ice yacht makes the highest •peed when sailing across the wind that is to my,

if the wind is from the north the yacht Will sail tne fastest going from east to west, «r west io east. This winter has witnessed a •antention among ice yachtsmen on the •writs of the "lateen," or triangular sail. It ii represented as follows:

IC* TACHt WITH LATKEN SAIL. But the triangular sail was badly beaten in 1he last contest Experience therefore decides that the ordinary jib and mainsail are heat. Ice yachts can be navigated upon any large river or body of water. They want a dear, long sweep of ioe. This is a thrilling winter sport.

Cormorant Flatting In China. The mild-oyed Chinese know a thing or two about fishing that we are not yet up to. The otter and the cormorant are trained to assist hi catching the llsh in rivers. The otter is taught to drive the fish into the nets, and ho does it as skilfully as a hunting dog drives birds. The cormorant, however, does all the work himself. Tho bird is trained to its occupation with the greatest care. It is brought up in domestication, the eggs being set under bens and hatched by them. The cormorant will catch fish for her master, man, but she will not bother much with taking care of her awn children. The trained bird is taken out In his boat by tfco fisherman. It stands upon 1he edge of the boat till its master gives a signal Than it darts into the water to do its work. It remains out till it gets its load of fish—sometimes a large one, sometimes several small ones. It fills its throat with the small tines. Then the well-taught creature comes hack to tho boat, and the fisherman proceeds to empty it out and take possession of its booty himself. If a fish caught is too large for one bird to land several cormorants join and help bring the haul to the boat

Lake Mlstasstni.

In Canada much interest is felt in the strange and mysterious inland sea visited last summer by a British-American land surveyor, Mr. Bignell. It is situated away up in Rupert's Laud, and is about 800 miles from Lako St John. It is near the great watershed of Canada, which (separates the rivers that flow into Hudson Bay from those running to the St Lawrence. The only white settlement in this unexplored region istyo Hudson Bay company's post The watershed named is itself remarkable for its lack of height Its greatest elevation is nowhere more than six or eight feet, and in places it is much lower than that It is said that one lake actually has two outlets, one toward Hudson Bay the other to the St Lawrenco.

Lake Mistassini itself is an immense body of water of unknown dimensions. It is undoubtedly equal in siae to our great lakes. Mr. Bignell ascended it 120 miles without coming to the main body. It is believed be an expansion of Rupert's river, but that is only guesswork as yet Hero is practically as unexplored a country as the heart of Africaliar more so than at present, indeed. Not many Indians are found, and those apparently belong to a decaying race. They are of the Xontagnaix tribe and are not particularly wicked, but are atrociously dirty, which hi perhaps as bad. These Indians live on fish and fowl frcrn the great lake in the summer, acd sprnd autumn and winter hunting and harping the woods. The timber belongs to the varieties constituting what is know as tin -ub-arctie forest does not amount to much tar marketable purposes. But this is a marvelous region for hunting and trapping. The animals in the vicinity of fee lake are tho caribou, moose, bear, lynx, wolf, wolverine, otter, mink, weasel, hare, red, black, white, silver and cross foxes, awl Mack bears of unnsnal sis* and ferocity. The eltmafe is no* so severe as would be inferred from itv high atitode. A marvelous plant Is iound here, ce'.lad botanfoa&y the karracenid morpurv. It is claimed to be an absolute qpedflc fur th« cure of smallpox. It will eves prevent the pttinf of the skin. A very curtees old troika buryiag-groond was foattl la the vicinity. The tress thersahowts were km* with the skulls of wild animals kefflsd lathe cheat. Thsse ware oflertnfs to the JmmL Upon the fravys «f warriors were

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scattered the tilings that had belonged to Bwm in life—canoes, paddles, weapons, clothing, tobacco and matches. Excellent root crops hav» been grown, and the sofl is believed to be well adapted to agriculture. When the present exploring party now examining the region return larger and more definite information will be got about this strange country. Perhaps here is anew and wondrous of fortune and adventure.

Eleetrte Lighting.

Mr. W. H. Preece, an English traveler who lately visited this country, says that electricity is used far lighting purposes much more in Amwica than in England. He estimates that 90,000 arc-lamps shed their dazzling rays every night in the United States. He drove in New York from the Windsor Hotel to the Cunard steamer one night through four miles of electric lights. He found it a dismal experience after leaving New York to be landed in the dark streets of London. In all our large cities it was the same brilliant illumination by means of arclight lamps. The largest steamers and ferry boots upon our rivers are illuminated, by electricity, too. In Chicago the number of arc-lamps has doubled in the last year. But one of our practices he found to be unpardonable, likewise hideous. That was the fashion of putting wires overhead. He counted 144 wires upon one post in New York. On Broadway there were six lines of poets, and in the city 83 companies carrying wires on poles. It is true there is no more beautiful or bril liant sight anyyhere than the vicinity of Fifth avenue and Broadway, New York, on a clear night Those who have traveled the world over have noted that But Mr. Preece is quite right. Putting electric wires overhead is both hideous and dangerous. There is no necessity for it at all. It has been found by the Eng lish post office that whenever the number of wires through a town exceeds fifteen it is cheaper to put them underground than over-

The remarkable progress made in wine culture in this country in the past two or three years is astonishing, even to those in the business. New varieties of grapes and improved methods of making wine have been introduced, until now there is a uniformity in the product that was consiSered impossible a few years ago. The white wines of California and the red wines of Virginia and of eastern states are winning the favor of the public very rapidly. There is.a great future for American wines.

Facts of Interest.

In watches the best time-keeper of all is the American watch. But none of them are absolutely infallible.

Major Sternberg belongs to a committee appointed by the United States government to investigate disinfectants. He reports that superheated steam is the best article to use for this purpose.

No machine of travel that man ever invented can equal the time of wild fowl. The canvas-back duck makes a speed of taro miles a minute. The broad bill goes at slightly less. Teal can fly at the rat of 100 miles an hour, the wild goose about 60.

Af, Babrin, on the Persian Gulf, an old sailor says the inhabitants dive down under the sea for drinking water. In the bottom of the gulf, about 60 feet down, there are numberless springs of ice-cold, sweet water. This is drawn up in goatskin bags.

Dress for Physical Exercising. It is a great pleasure to note how fashionable physical exercises for girls and women are becoming. Rowing, gymnastics, ice and roller skating, walking and horseback riding are some of the most popular forms. If the fashion only stays in long enough we shall presently have a race of young goddesses in America, beautiful as the ancient Greek women, with all the cultured intellects of higher-educated Yankee girls. It is worth while to note here, too, that these very Greek women secured their beautiful forms by such means as these we are talking of—graceful gymnastic exercises. Bathing, proper food and open-air development of muscle will make almost any woman alive physically perfect

It is encouraging to see how the New York ladies incline to horseback riding in Central Park. Daily, even in the zero weather of this winter, they were to be noticed, their cheeks bright and pink, their eyes sparkling in the cold, sweet air. Note, too, that, winter or summer, a woman never looks better than when on horseback, guiding a spirited animal with a firm hand, enjoying a free, merry gallop over a clean road.

In fact, a woman looks pretty engaged in any kind of physical exercise that develops muscle and grace together. This is particularly so if she wears a becoming dress. For this reason we have been at pains to got for our readers the very prettiest costumes that can be found for horseback riding and roller skating. We pledge our word they are the best. They were designed by Redfera, tho famous ladies' tailor, of New York. The first is the

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bees sheared off, you observe.

The skirt of the habit

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length, and narrow. The weight of the goods holds it in plaoa. The cloth cones in two kinds, Bght and heavy, for cummer and wintar. The habit itmtf lioarti at three pieces, lissqui, shirt, and hroussts. With this skirt, tetitisn, or breaches, are always warn. Ths troaasrs are of dark Sanaa! or woolen goods, to their apper part like a

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•ifnfa.inwin, except tbat they fit toe female Igure. Sometimes they come down long over die «mlrhi and shoe-top, like a man's. But the fang-legged things are not graceful A newer ind far prettier style is to have simply breeches, coming down over the knee to meet the high boot The ladies' riding boot is one the triumphs of present fashions. It Is

like a man's high top boot It is of patent leather, shaped to fit a woman's slender foot, broad-toed and flat-heeled. It extends well up toward the knee, and protects foot and calf perfectly.

The young lady in our illtjstration wears the breeches and top boots. They are very popular in New York. The basque of the hnhft- is plain, with coat sleeve, pointed in front, with short flaps behind. The hat is as shown. We regard this as the perfection of a riding habit

The other dress we lay before our readers this week is

REDFERN'S ROLLER SKATING COSTUME. It was designed especially for this column by the artist. In the original it is of dusky red cloth, but may be of any color preferred. It is neat, short, plain and dose-fitting, being an infinite improvement on the long, entangling skirts and flounces and arm-binding, awkward wraps too often seen. In a skating costume anything that impedes the free motion of feet and arms is slovenly and in bad taste. The costumo here presented is richly braided with gilt cord. The jaunty turban is of the color to match the dress. The muff is of the material of the costume, and is trimme with fur and with the gilt braid. The sleeves are braided to match the skirt. Down the front of the basque is seen a row of tiny gilt buttons. They have the effect of gold beads, almost. These are officers' mess buttons, and are extremely fashionable this spring for trimming. They are used largely in edging vest fronts, collars, basques, etc. ,:V

"A Kald on Smelling Bottieik Doctors are always preparing some sort of scare for the much tormented feminine sex. Nobody is ever comfortable." Hear what a New York physician said of the most popular of the minor fashions of the time: "Our women have abominable tricks," he began. "They lace tightly, they wear French heels on their pinching little boots they underdress the upper part of their bodies add drag about after them yards upon yards of heavy trains they ruin their digestions by overheating and surfeiting themselves with sweetmeats they paint their faces, wear dead women's hair on their heads, put belladonna in their eyes, and last, but not least, they are ruining some of their most delicate nerves by using just such abominations as this," and he thrust the smelling bottle directly under my noae.

The doctor then proceeded to remark that he had just taken the delicate and pungent abomination from one of his lady patients, who complained of an awful headache. The powerful salts in the smelling bottles cook and ruin the fine mucous membranes of the nose, mouth and throat. They are far more injurious than snuff or tobacco smoke. The costly and beautiful little smelling bottle cause headaches, sore throats and—horrors on horrors!—red noses. They quite destroy the fine and subtle nerves of smell. The habit grows like any other, too—like that of snufftaking, for instance—so that the more a girl applies her tip-tilted nose to the wicked little vinaigrette the more she wants to do so. "Use this long enough," said the doctor, "and I'll defy you to distinguish eau de cologne from asafoetida."

Of Draping* and Trimm'.ngs. Full skirts with straight breadths, worn with plain, round waists, are struggling desperately for a foothold again. It remains to be seen whether they will succeed. It has been nearly 20 years since they were tho mode, and they look very odd now.

There never was a time that we remember when metals were so worked into dress trimmings as they are at present Gold, silver and steel fabrics in every shape are used as ornaments and drapery. The handsomest and most brilliant of these metallic effects is produced by drapery. There is a thin fabric or veiling into which the metal threads are woven tin the transparent cloth has a sheen that is indescribable. It is called gold and silver tissue. Apiece of it thrown about the head and shoulders like a scarf, or tastefully disposed about the dress, gives an effect like the moonlight of a midsummer night's dream. All these tissues, gold, silver and steel, are much used for making waists that go with velvet and brocade skirts for evening and reception dresses. The same flashing, exquisite material is made into panels upon the skirt The front of the skirt is covered with bead embroidery or lace of the same metal. The steel tissue is much used with dark blue velvet Pearl beading is also very popular.

There are beautiful and novel combinatknsofoolcr aba Light end dark of the same color are associated with beautiful effect

Another striking oombinatkn Is of old gold, green and scarlet Ruchibgs are not as much worn as they were. The tendency is now in the direction of fiat collars and cuffs.

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Bottle green is also the mods for sferpel

The cheap and beautiful surah sOks will be »g«in Various rtwiai of dusky red wffl be worn this spring, arm far streetooahmes, for gfrhu

The Princess of Wales wears a riding dress similar to the one wa describe, and made by the same taflor. The Princess has one very odd fashion, all her own. She rides an the wTvag sids of a hone, with hsr fast vpon bis right side. Ptat on the side on which other women ride, hsr saddle would hare the hen towards the tafi of the

aturday ^evening mail.

Boys and Girls A Home-Made Banjo.

In a famous book for young people called "What To Do and How To Do It," Mr. Daniel C. Beard tells us how "Uncle Enoe" constructed a home-made banjo. The boys will like to hear about it. Why not the girls, too, in th*** days when girls are beginning to find out they have hands, and hands that can learn the use of tools and make exquisite wood carvings and many other things Uncle Enos was an old blade man who had been a slave. He played very sweetly on a banjo made of "a cigar-box, a broom stick a bit of an old shoe and a piece of clapboard."

If you read this carefully in connection with the pictures you will find out how to make one for yourself. Figure 4 is the cigar box with holes bored throi gh the ends fcr the stick to pass through, lue bottom of the cigar box is the top of the banjo *id the dd is left on, to be opened or dosed at. pleasure. Get a pme board and mark out the plan of the neck upon it, as you see here. The round spots,

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d, d, mark where holes

are to be bored for the keys. The dotted line a

shows where to put the low bridge. A narrow groove is to be cut here for this bridge to fit into.

Upon a banjo are four long strings and one short one. They start all together at the bottom of the instrument The four long ones extend to where the holes for the keys are seen. The short one stops where the dotted line is shown in the diagram. At this point a hole must be made in title side of the neck for the key of the short string to screw into. The short string runs up the left hand edge of the neck, passes over a tiny bridge of its own, where the letter is marked, and fastens to its own key at b.

very gmall slot must be made at for the tiny bridge. Fig. 2 showB the neck, all finished, side and top view. It is to be screwed to its broomstick support. Next is the broomstick. One end is whittled down so a: to go through the holes in the cigar box. I fits dosely and sticks out at the butt of the instrument about half an inch. The other, the top end, is smoothed off flat for the neck to be screwed upon it In the small figures are seen the other parts. Make the keys of hard wood, of the shape shown, with holes through them crosswise, just large enough for the strings to pass through. Bend apiece of tin over the butt end of the cigar box in the shape shown at 8. Then next you see the bridge, Fig." 7, with places for the strings. It may be cut out of soft wood. It goes near the lower end of the banjo, as you see, just in front of the tailpiece. This is apiece of hard wood, with five holes bored in its upper end to hold the lower end of the strings. Unclf Enos made this of leather. At the bottom is a loop of wire which hitches over the butt end of the broomstick. When the bridge is fastened securely, and the strings are put on and drawn tightly, from the wire loop at the bottom to the keys at the top, all these minor parts will be hdd in place.

THE PARTS.

The only money you will need to spend is for strings, about 40 cants. The fifth string is the short one. For this and the first one get E strings. For the second get a much heavier E string for the third get a guitar string. The fourth is the bass string, bai-jo A, made on purpose for the banjo. Be sure that you get this and no other. And new your banjo is done, and you can have all tin music at home that you like.

I Anecdote of Spurgeon. Mr. Spurgeon, the great London preacher, whose fiftieth birthday has recently been celebrated, began to preach while a mere boy. An anecdote, associated with these early ministrations, illustrates the fact that, like most precocious boys, he was not only self-reliant, but a little too free with his tongue:

In the early part of his ministry Spurgeon was asked to preach in a neighboring village, and when he came on the Sunday morning Mr. Brown, the pastor, said to him: "I did not know you were such a boy, or I would not have asked you to preach for me." "WeA," he said, "I can go back." "But," said Mr. Brown, "the people have come from all ports in all kinds of vehicles," then he put his hands under his coat tails and asked what the world was coming to when the boys who-had not got rid of the taste of their mother's milk went about preaching.

However, he did preach, and Mr. Brown planted himapif on the pulpit stairs. Spurgeon read a lesson from Proverbs, and upon coming to the passage, "Gray hairs are a crown of glory to a man," he said he doubted that, for be knew a man with a gray head who could hardly be civil. But the passage went on to say: "If it be found in the way of righteousness," and that, he said, was a different tiling.

When be came down from the pulpit, Mr. Brown said to him: "Bless your heart! I have been thirty years a minister, and I was never better pleased with a sermon but you are the sauciest dog that ever barked in a pot pit," and they were always good friends afterward.

Decapitations.

To "decapitate" means to cat off the bead It is a pleasant amusement to take a certain word, cut off one or more letters from its bead and leave a word meaning something i»hn Some words will bear several such decapitations. Prom the word "drain," for ex* ample, we get drain, rain and in. But who can guess this one: Take a word that means to move suddenly decapitate and leave sour, keen or severe: again, and leave business or eta^aymemt

The little one was the guest of her grandmother, and had bean feasted with the usual prodigality of grandparents to a grandchild When a second dish of podding was placed before the child, the first having been dkh petched with some difficulty, tbm looted first at the steaming dish and then at the grandaaothsr, and with a sigh esid, "flay, a

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State of Indiana. County of Vigo. Jn the j* Baperfor Court of Vigo County, December ..

No. 1407. Leonard 8. Brigge vs. MVilliam Prero, William H. Lewis, et al. Attael»

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