Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 15, Number 38, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 14 March 1885 — Page 8

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Curious Accident to Steamer.

*t:s The Alaska is the longest steamer on the M. She is also the most famous, perhaps. two or three vessels, the Oregon, the America and the Ai«ah-« claim each to be the fastest fumam that cross the ocean. The exact hmth in the matter is not yet settled, howmr. All three seean as near perfection, both to comfort and qualities of speed, as

Steamers can be mada Certainly the Alaska ]iu fast a3 any. Her quickest voyage from •ew York to Queenstown was made in less

week, the exact time being Odays, 18 lours and 37 minutes. The voyage from east lb west requires a little longer time than that from New York to Europe. The Alaska's fast

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fc 6 days, 21 hours and 40 minutes. She is wiled the "Greyhound of the Atlantic." This winter has given the ocean steamers the roughest weather they have encountered in -paara. Some few have been wrecked and lost altogether. The staunchest have suffered More or iff? damage from (be fury of the •rind and wave. There was terrific weather Curing the last trip of the Alaskafrom Queenstown. In the midst of it the magnificent AP broke her rudder, several days out of Sew York. She drifted at the mercy of the una for some time, when fortunately a •nailer steamer was signaled, and came to her aid. The A lank* had kept steam up during all these anxious hours. She took the Bttle ship in tow, literally, and, it being lashed to her, served as a rudder. The big ship ^teamed and the little ship steered, and so the Iwo came into port together. So great was Hie power of the huge ocean steamer that the mailer vessel was brought into New York a «ay ahead of her own time. Besides this, however, it is said the smaller ship received 1000,000 for her services from the owners of Jbe Alaska.

It was necessary to send to Europe for a lew rudder for this ocean greyhound. It was Aippod from the yards on the Clyde, and arrived in New York a few days ago. Meantime was thought best to haul the steamer upon lu dry docks at Brooklyn and give her a thorough examination, to see whether any part of her had been strained or sprung by Ihe violent seas during this memorable voysge. This was accordingly done. She was sat of the water some 48 hoars. The Alaska to the largest ship that was ever upon a dry dock in America. This brief account of her aaanot fail to be of interest to our readers. Ihe illustration shows the mighty vessel as dbe lay upon the Brooklyn dry docks.

TO* ALASKA ON THE DOCK.

like most of our transatlantic vessels, the Alaska is owned in Europe. She belongs to Jbe Guion line, and in 1881 was built on the atver Clyde, in Scotland, headquarters of the world for ship construction. She is 536 feet In length, thus actually being nearly a tenth a mile long. She is a ship of 8,000 tons, aad has 9 boilers, with engines of 11,000 horsepower. Some idea of the force required to jropel hor may be had from the announcoSMnt of the fact that the Alaska carries regularly 76 firemen and coal heavers, and 10 —ilnTimt engineers. She is finished and furnished as no king's palace was in the old time, and is lighted by electricity.

The Tail and Muscles of the hale.

The power of this tremendous propulsory apparatus is almost beyond conception. The weight of a full-grown whale may be appreciated when the reader reflects that the famous elephant "Jumbo" would have to bo multiplied many times before his weigh' would equal that of a large whale. Yet tht. Jgte Capt, Scott, Royal Navv, told me thai when oh the quarter deck of nis own ship he repeatedly saw the whales leaping in mere jplaj so high out of the water that the horizon -was clearly visible under them. Now, Capt. Scott lived to be nearly 1C0 years old, and when he was iu active service the quarterdeck of a man-of-war was at least 80 feet ^above the water add to this measurement his own height (he being rather a tall man), and the reader can then .Mjpreciate the terrific power of the animal's %JL I may here mention that this habit of -springing out of the water is called "breaching" by whalers. Besides the great muscular apparatus which has just been mentioned, tho -whale possesses another muscle which surroandB the body it is scientifically and happily the "panniculws cantMM"—or ^fleshy rag"—and is developed in various -ways, according to the animal. It is with this muscle that the dog shakes his skin when 1» comes out of the water. The hedgehog hm it very powerfully developed, in order to enable it to coil itself into the spiky ball with which we are familiar. The manis, armadillo and echidna also possess it and ms it for a similar purpose. Man has bet very little of It, the chief vestiges being the muscles of the face, which give to the human countenance its changing expression®. Hie whale wants it for two purposes. He wants it to enable him to bend his body—* function easily observed iu the dolphins as they curve their graceful worse through the sea but chiefly he needs

It becawe contracting it ho can make his body heavier than a corresponding bulk of water. This he has no difficulty in doing, aid when he wishes to seek the surface he hat «nly to relax the pressure, when the body re-

I its original aim and becomes light® the proportionate bulk of water. By of this muscle the hippopotamus, the elephant, and the seal can sink thenuelvei below th" surface and rise again without moving a »ib. For want of it man cannot perform tic feat, and the best swimmer in the world wki not be able to ~?-k and rise to tbs *irft»ce without m* jg hand or a a

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Many pumping wells have been worked for Mar* witboot the level of the oil being low* 2nd in the slightest degree the wells in way affected by dischargee from adjotnfountains, proceeding tram greater or toe depth*. The peninsula of Aspberoo is wobabiy buueyoambed with thousands of ofl Sails. of these osUs has already gira a —an I a half barrels of ofl, and jn# ft, pomp .tram the ad a* freely aad inailll] 1" the surface a* whan the drat tapped by thn boring 10 euVtorran^

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supply is reached which is sufficient to last for years. This, as in the case of the Korokeff well, sometimes assumes a permanent character. In America a depth of 1,000 feet 8 thought nothing of in boring for oil a man is not particularly discouraged if he penetrates as far without discovering petroleum. In Baku, bowever, an engineer begins to look for it at 100 feet, and no well has yet got lower than 825. In 1883 two flowing wells in leas than a month upheaved nearly 30,000,000 gallons of oil apiece from a depth of 700 feet, and when they were finally plugged to "cork up" their supply for future use they were still flowing at a rate of about 20,000 gallons of oil per diem. Nobel Brothers have got 14 such wells "corked up" because crude petroleum will not fetch more than a few pence a ton at Baku ju3t now. Yet the deepest of these 14 basins, crammed with oil, is less than 800 feet from the surface. In America there area number of wells in the Bradford region 2,000 to 3,000 feet deep, and one in West Virginia which will soon be 5,000.—[The Region of Eternal Fire—Charles Marvin,

Facts of Interest.

Mr. Hoffman says that in various burial places in Southern California and in the folanfltt of Santa Cruz, Santa Rosa, and San Miguel he has found instruments which he believes were used for tattooing.

Saw mill waste is carbonized in kilns and not in heaps at Boxholm, Sweden. The charcoal thus produced does well, when mixed with some charcoal made from natural wood, for forge fires, but is not so well adapted for blast furnaces.

A New England firm has introduced a new process for galvanizing wire. It is claimed that by thfo new method a thorough union of the coating with the body of the wire is secured, and that in every case a smooth, firm surface results.

Miquel's experiments have shown that the number of microbes in the air was always proportionate to the density of population. In the society of arts lecture Dr. Poor has asserted that epidemic influenza is certainly due to an aerial poison, and that since the discovery of the basillus of phthisis consumption must be regarded as an infective disorder. 5

Colored glass, writes a specialist, is of two kinds: One kind colored throughout the whole subs tan oe and called pot metal, and the other colored only on one side and generally called coated glass. Red or ruby glass is almost invariably coated glass the other colored glasses are generally pot metal, though they are also made in coated glass. Enameled colors in glass are produced by the aid of fire.

Spain, Mr. Juan Gomez Hemas believes, can soon not only make enough steel for home consumption out of her easily worked nonphoiphorus Bilbao ores and Asturias fuel, but for the supply of the wants of England, Germany and Belgium. And there are several reasons for believing that Mr. Gomez Hemas does not take an over-sanguine view of the future of Spain as a steel-making country.

Mr. Johnston reached a height of 16,315 feet on Kilimanjaro, the great mountain of eastern equatorial Africa, and at that elevation found stones and snow, and experienced a cold, driving mist. It appears that the cultivated zone extends to an altitude of 5,500 feet, and the zone of vegetation to a height of 15,000. The account of his visit to this remarkable mountain, as given in detail before the Royal Geographical society, London, is most interesting.

Children's Dress*

BOY'S C08TCint

This la a handsome new spring drees a boy 8 to 12 years old. The jacket and Knickerbocker breeches are of cloth, either navy blue or (me of the lighter shades of blue. The vest is of light brown corduroy. The broad collar, colored necktie and jaunty little hat make a stylish best dress for a youth.

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A pretty costume for a little girL This drew is simpler in design than many of the of plait and wrinkle and ftoaooe by which the Uthe forms of

small daughters are disfigured and bade from their natural development. II is a plaia cashmere salt, trimmed with velvet and velvet ribbon. Rverything has vests now, even little girts* dresses. This one h*« a vest with a puff front. The jacks* is long aad poiated, with revert of vein*, aad MB Iwhtait The rfdrt is stds plaited, with desa feahe fiatttag over, tabs aad skirt both trio—ad wtth leiil ilbbea. Drapery a* the lack ft* end wi

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Spring- Dress

Gome exquisite fabrics are shown fe" this new importations. The reign Of color is on us now. Many of the new fabrics look like fc: gay garden, or brilliant kaleidoscope views. It is a fact, by the way, that many of the figures' for dress goods, carpets and wall papers are actually obtained from the combinations of the kaleidoscope.

Red will enter more than ever into the new spring costumes, and even advance into summer. There are plain wools, as well as satines, in brilliant Turkey red. One fact is to be noted: While the new woolen fabrics come in combination. suits of plain and checked, plain and striped, or figured, there are no combination suitings at all shown in the cotton goods. Satines, batistes, percales and other cotton fabrics have the dress made all of one piece.

Arnold & Constable, of New York, show an ftnnwnaft variety of both woolens and cottons in new styles for the spring and summer trade. iii'i'

WOOZJCH costumes.

There is a revival of black cashmere suits to some extent also plain colored cashmeres will be considefably worn in light weight goods. One favorite fabric among the new goods will be a brocaded camel's hair bourrette, with a fine tinsel stripe running *""ough.

There are many fabrics with rough and fuzzy and yet the goods are soft and loose-textured. Some of these have a rough, bright-tinted stripe alternating with a smooth one, the color of the ground of the goods. Theee are for combination suitings, the skirt striped, the overdress of plain goods. Dark myrtle green, red «nrl the grays will be favorite colors in combination suits. There are many of the broad, bright-colored striped fabrics, as well as of the pin-checks. Red and gray is a favorite combination of color. Get that and you are in fashion. The two colors are very softly nnH harmoniously blended in these combina tion suit goods. In some handsome costumes the waist and overdress will be of gray pincheck, the skirt of broad stripes, red and gray stripes alternating with a pin-checked one to match the overdress.

Plaids will be much worn in children's dresses. Navy blue and red are also another popular combination of color, though this is not so new as the red and gray. Wool plush in a sort of raised large check upon a plain ground is a pretty fabric for combiration with plain goods. This raised wool plush

check, or stripe, on either a light or dark ground is something quite new. As usual, red predominates in the check. This wool plush checked fabric will be popular for wraps, too. It is also pretty for trimming plain suits,

For tailor suits the plain cloths heretofore worn will not be quite so fashionable. They will be replaoed by cheviots and tweeds in pin-checks. The checks and broad stripes, lowever, wherever seen, will not be of the glaring kind that hurt the eye, but soft and so delicately blended that they are really refreshing to look at by way of variety. The art of blending the gay colors so that they will not offend the most artistic sense seems to be perfected in the new dress goods this spring. Brocaded fabrics—the figure woven in the cloth, like silk brocades—is an idea which has been carried both into the new wool and cotton goods this year. In these designs there are some pretty fabrics.

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Is something else new for combination suits It is, in fact, a woolen velvet?—nothing more or less. It has a woolen pile to it like velvet, and comes both in the cut and uncut forms. True to the idea of brightness and color, a tinsel stripe passes through some of the patterns. There are fabrics especially for lawn tennis and roller skating dress% with gay striped skirts of red and blue.

Loose textured soft wool goods under vinous names, as burlap cloth, canvas cloth, etc., will be fashionable. So will our ancient friend that we used to call challit, a smooth, hard-twisted, woolen material. It has its old nnnw still, and comes in design similar to the satines, pretty cream-colored and other grounds with figures printed thereon. Goats hah* cloth is another lustrous, hard-twisted fabric that has reappeared. ,,

Will They Wear It?

Good judges predict that men's fashions in evening dress will shortly undergo a mighty revolution. This is nothing less than a change to the velvet coat, knee breeches, ruffles, long silk stockings and silver buckles of our ancestors. Speed the day! Anything uglier than a gentleman's evening dress of the present day was never invented. That the new movement makes progress is shown by the following from The London World: "Even the ebony black and obstinately persistent swallow-tail coat threatens to pass," says the Paris correspondent of The London World, "for the gentlemen of leisure are gaining ground in their campaign in favor of color. The red coat and breeches were accepted last season in the ceremonial meetings of high society. This season variety is to be obtained by the introduction of the blue coat brass buttons, white waistcoat and light gray trousers, and powdered hair, which latter detail will be considered extra-plan and by the brown coat and brass buttons, shawlpattern waistcoat, brown cloth breeches, garters fastened with a diamond buckle, and square-toed, high-heeled shoes. The black coat will be worn by the pschuttcux only at the theatre and in places where the uncalledfor remarks of the cads might mar the serenity of the spectacle of contemporary calves."

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The new jersey jackets are elaborately and fantastically trimmed with braid and embroidery.

Spring velvets come in all the new shades of mastic, tan, brick red, Russian green, and gray and brown shades.

The wild bushinessof the frizzled bang is until now it is reduced to a modest waved fringe on the forehead.

New silk jerseys are beautifully beaded with jet in various designs, and sometimes in patterns covering the whole garment.

Some of the new cashmere gloves have the frpg wrists embroidered in chain stich on the closed tops, with silk of a paler shade.

Ne«* spring wraps for dressy toilets are covered with embroidery and jet beading, Mmipfai with ruffles of lace, and are in modified dolman mantle forms.

White hair is so fashionable that ladies are ordering white wigs to wear at evening entertainments, or they ^se powder to excess on the puffs wad loops of tb*tr ever growing higher and higher coiffures.

L*ce dresses over sflk and satin, with lace flounces, are in fashion again. Nothing could be prettier. Lace over cream satin or surah sOk forms ooe of the brightest and prettiest evening costumes of the season.

The bonnets this spring promise to be ac CTifanJidi in *hape that few women, even elderly ones, will venture to wear them. H«h will therefore be acen tar street wear mora generally than ever.

A krrely little lace pin far an Easter gift ciuniiiitr a slender bar of gold, on which is perched a tiny, plump little chicken, jart IbHH, in yellow bflUania, with a small ruby for the visible eye, wMdi, with a ning tarn at lha head, mama to be aft the nlta urMlfraB which II

Boys and Girls The Children's Orchard.

1 Our young people, boys and girls both, mind you, will find no work more delightful than learning to graft and bud all kind of fruit trees. The higher the civilization man reaches the more he eats fruit, and the greater varisties he discovers and cultivates. In The

Rural New Yorker lately "Uncle Mark" has been giving the young cousins some lessons in grafting and budding. We reproduce the main points here. It will be a great delight to the young people to perform these operations and then watch their grafts. They will grow as the boys and girls grow, and blossom and bear fruit. Anybody who reads these directions carefully can learn how it is dona. "Grafting,n says Uncle Mark, "is planting a part of one tree or shrub into another that is growing. The growing part is called the stock and the part ut from another tree is called the cion or graft. The work may be done from now until the trees are in leaf, but the cions must all be cut before the leaves come out and kept in a cool, even temperature until wanted, or they may be used before the leaves on the stock appear."

There are several ways. That shown, in figtire 1 is called

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Get a cion of the fruit you wish to propagate. It must have a good bud on it. Cut your stock square across, then split it down one side with your sharp grafting knife. Cut your cion to a long sharp wedge, leaving a little bark on the outer edge. This is to knit and grow to the bark of the stock, exactly as physicians graft a bit of skin over a wound when the skin has been torn off. Plants and people are much alike in some ways. Fit the cion carefully into the split, wrap and tie it around with yarn, and then cover the place carefully with grafting wax. The picture shows the graft with the bud near the end of it, as it has been wedged into the cleft of the stock. Figure shows

ANOTHER METHOD.

A, is the cion B, the stock. With a sharp knife carefully cut a piece of wood each out of A and B, so that the spaces left will fit into one another. Then put A upon and wrap and tie with yarn as shown in C, and cover with wax as before,

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This is taking a new bud from one tree during the growing season and inserting it under the bark of another tree. In Fig. 3 you see how the first part of it is done. The dotted lines on F, maiked//and g, show how much of the bark to cut off with the bud. His the bud after it is cut off. The other part of the figure shows how to hold the branch while you cut off the bud. The next part of the process is splitting the bark of your stock to receive the bud. Split a branch of the stock lengthwise. Make

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other cut across the top of the first one so that the two together will be in the shape of a TRaise the bark at the corners and slip the bud gmoothly under. Cut the upper end of the bark upon the bud piece square across to fit the horizontal cot upon the stock. Wind the yarn tightly at the upper and lower ends, leaving rally the bud itself and its leaf stalk uncovered. Begin to wind at the bottom and fasten the staring above the T. You must work rapidlv, so iimt tb© bud or the cut in the .txk will not dry out. The yarn must be wouad so closely that the air will be kept oat of the cats. Try it, children.

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Ned belonged to a political club of small boys. They wore uniforms and carried torches, and be was the great standard-bearer for Blaine and Logan. His sister bad supposed she could march with them. When her eyes were enlightened bitterness entered her soul. Was she not eight years oidt and that wm two years older than Ned. The little woman rebelled against her lot Between choking aobe die ejaculated: "I eac.t march, nor have a torch, nor anything pretty, nor any good tfawo, just because I am a gMf

When she came to dinner her great darfc ayes were swimming In tears. She refused eannlatkn kindly offered har by her father, •ad turning fiercely spaa him, she exclaimed: "You are not a giri, yam wareagfrl, youaemr eaabaagtH, •em hww what I

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And continuing the balance of the week. All remnants from our last Embroidery Sale, will be remarkably cheap for cash.

At the same time we will make special prices on Muslin ufi Underwear of which we own to-day the cheapest line ever stlM'

Big line of Torchon Laces, Big line of Linen Collars and Jersey Cuflfe. A magnificent assortment of Infante Mother Hubbard1 Cloaks and Children** Mother Hubbard Cloaks and Dresses*

Choice line of Spring Cashemere Shawls and Scarfs, both plain and embroidered. y\ Elegant assortment of Spring Wraps expected to-day.

Big bargains in Satin Kibbons, good quality in all desirable shades just opened to-day. Wait for our grand Hosiery Sale, which will take place as soon as the weather opens.

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State of Indiana. County of VJgo. In tbe Superior Court of Vigo County, December tenn. 1884.

No. 1407. Leonard 8. Briggs vs. -WHilaaa Prevo, William H. Lewis, et al. Attachno en t.

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