Bloomington Telephone, Volume 8, Number 21, Bloomington, Monroe County, 20 September 1884 — Page 3

Bloumington Telephone BLOOM INGTON. INDIANA. WALTER a BRADFUTE, - - ProusHKa

A Dxlxoatb point in accident insurunce has just been, decidod in England. A man fell in an epileptic fit -with his

face against the ground, and, no one being near, he suffocated. He was insured for 12,500 in an "accidental insurance association, and a coroner's jury gave a verdict oFaccidental death," bat the courts held that death was due to disease and not to injury by accidental violence. An army of nearly 6,000 officials at this time watches over the order and safety of the capital of the German Empire. This army is composed of

and grades, 001 nignt watcnmen, Yob firemen, 311 lamp-lighters, 617 functionaries of the street-cleaning department, besides 181 messengers and orderlies attached 1b the special service

of the mimicipaJt! authorities, and 224

tax collectors. Engetcrb Mellvzlle, rememDered

in connection with the various Jean

nette distresses, was with the Schley

rescuing party, and bore a part in the Portsmouth jubilee Monday, To a group of friends he said : "I received a telegram from the Bev. Mr. Talmage, of Brooklyn, opening his tabernacle to me, and offering $15,000 for nine months if 1 would lecture. But Melville doesnt do that, hey? Mellville decent sell the blood and toil of his comrades for $15,000 or any other sum. No not if he hadn't a dollar." The French crown diamonds were frequently worn by Marie Antoinette,

WUV 11111 m AWUIUWOW V7 rwwa stones, as was, indeed, amply shown by mm mm M m 1 .

tne uniorranaie anair ox ine necjuaoe one of the causes, historians have said, of the downfall of the French monarchy. Both the wives of Napoleon L won colored stones in preference to diamonds, Josephine because she was too dark, and Marie Louise because she was too fair. The Empress Engenie made no little use of the French crown jewels, and was the last person A At

PosxAL cabj8 are not in much esteem among the English pnblic When they first came out there was no indisposition to give them a triaL The post office authorities say that in the year ending March 21, 1883, 25,250,000 were issued for home uae, besides 160,500 foreign reply cards. In the succeeding twelve months the issue of home cards lellto 755,940, and of foreign cards to 29,7001 Doubtless many of the stock of the former year remained last year on sale, Meanwhile the demand for single epvds, both thm and stout, as well as for postal wrappers, is well maintained

Tot

cholera scare in France has

saved this year to Americans many millions of dollars, and enabled many of them to see their own country. The hotels of Paris are said to be comparatively deserted. Taking the four weeks in July, the arrivals were 99,424, and the departures 97,629, against 113,132 arrivals in July last yr, and 105,014 departures. Paris has thus had about 14,000 fewer visitors in a single month than came to her during the same period last year. And yet there is no real danger in visiting Paris. But the fear of detention from quarantine has made travelers prefer resting at home and at home resorts.

These are many women planters in Madison Parish, Louisiana, several of whom are mentioned by the Picayune m terms of special commendation. Mrs. M. A Olbbs Uvea on the Heda Plantation, which she manages with great success. Mrs. Sallie Frazier has a small cotton plantation and a fine poultry farm. IKsaLu Lucas is well-known as a practical planter, managing a large estate, and personally superintending a large feme. She spends most of her time in the saddle, and looks after the plows, horses, drains, levees, stock, and milL Mine. Ames, regarded as the best woman in the parish, owns a tract Of 1,000 acres and has 800 in cultivation this year. Sebmawy has more books in its libraries than any other nation. There are over 1,000 libraries in Austria, Germany, and Switzerland, 20 of which contain over 100,000 volumes. France has 6 libraries of over 100,000 books, besides the National library, which is the largest in the world. Great Britain htm only 9 libraries of over 100,000 volumes, and the British museum pays out $10,000 annually adding to its collections. Spain has 30 public libraries, containing 700,000 volumes. The library in Washington contains 513,600 volumes and 17000 pamphlets, and there

ire bus five larger in the world the

French National, with 200,000;

Munich, 900,000, and Berlin with

750,000. A most remarkable American woman died recently in the town of Bloomington, Conn t the advanced age of 77.

This woman, was Julia Brace, whose

name appeals every cyclopaedia, and

whose r 'fr i3 been told a thousand

chaos, ga of 4 years she lost both h and hearing, soon losing,

too. he "f speech, and so for all

her long life she was a blind, deaf

mate, deprived of her most important senses, yet learning to distinguish articles, persons, and even colors by her nice sense of touch. Her tenacity of memory was wonderful. For more than thirty years she was an inmate of the American Asylum for tbe Deaf and dumb at Hartford, and was a subject of sympathy and curiosity to thousands of visitors. Eighty millions sterling that is the amount of unclaimed money waiting for claimants in chancery. What strange tale of human folly, of laying np riches for the moth and the rust, of undiscovered cheating and unpunished crime, those yellow papers in the record office could disclose ! There is the account of "John Hardman, convicted of felony" had he none to grieve for him, that no one claimed what he left behind ? The account of "the creditors of Charles, Duke of Bolton" (year 1781) did they all die unsatisfied ? "Prince versus Rupert The Ten Hogsheads Account, 1811. n They are dead, those old suitors, and their children; and their children's children may have found paupers graves, while the unclaimed thousands were waiting for an owner. .

The latest developments of social philanthropy in London is of a very practicable character. The plan which has recently found favor is for ladies having houses in the suburbs to invite a small party of poor women to spend the afternoon. The guests are usually selected by the city missionaries, and are treated as nearly as possible like ordinary visitors. It is said thiit ladies who are most successful in entertaining such guests are those who try to learn something from their visitors instead of attempting to teach them. If they can be let loose for a few minutes in a front garden unbounded delight is occasioned. There is a passage in the New Testament which recommends hospitality of this kind, and it would seem that experience fully justifies the wisdom of putting it into practice. The Milling World says that George Westinghouse, before he invented and perfected his well-known air-brake, was regarded by a number of his old acquaintances with somewhat approach ing pity because of his alleged lack of "gumtion." His air-brake was a success, and his friends began io think there was something in him ftf ter alL His automatic engine added to his fame and bank balance, and he mounted higher in the esteem of his former friends. A few weeks ago a valuable well of natural gas was struck on his premises at Homewood, near Pittsburgh. The well is 1,580 feet deep, and the flow of gas is tremendous, the roar being al

most deafening and scarcely endurable

to the citizens of the neighborhood.

Two other wells are being put down by

Mr. Westinghouse, and he estimates

that his profit therefrom "will soon

amount to $1,000 a day.

The difficulties with which the Bus-

sian provincial authorities hare to con

tend in their efforts to stamp out the cattle plague are illustrated in a report published in the Russian Echo. The cattle plague is spreading in the Government of Samara. In order to arrest its ravages, a commission was recently dispatched to Nicolaievsk, consisting of a veterinary officer,, police officers, and servants the latter as slaughterers. The peasantry assembled in large numberat the place appointed by the commission ne-r the town. Here large trenches were excavated for the reception of the carcasses of the infected and slaughtered animals By the veterinary officer's command, the cattle of the neighborhood wore driven into an extensive inclosure. So far the various herdsmen and owners showed no inclination to interfere. The examination of the cattle proceeded, and already three animals had been condemned, slaughtered, and their carcasses cast into the pita, when an extraordinary crowd ef frenzied peasant women advanced from the town, malting horrible clangor with all manner of kitchen utensils. Behind the women came the men armed with fire-irons, bludgeons, flails, spades, etc The proceedings of the commission were stopped, and the veterinary offier and his followers barely escaped with their lives from the enraged multitude. The women openly bewailed the escape of the officers, whom they swore they had intended to tear to pieces.

Fast Railroading of Long Ago. It is interesting to know that so long ago as 1848 express trains had arrived at a maximum speed which has not since been exceeded. Below is the copy of a card issued at that time as a memento of the pace of a Great Western train between London and Didcot. The pace here chronicled is at the rate of 67.95, or allowing for starting and stopping, more than sixty-eight miles an hour. We doubt if many of our present expresses are timed to run more than fifty miles an hour : "Great Western Railway broad gujge engine Great Britain which accomplished the fastest journey on record, namely, from Paddington to Didcot, 591 miles, in 47 minutes. The train was the 9 J express to Bristol, and consisted of four carriages and van, and was driven on May 11, 1848." PaH Mall Gazette. A Bust domestic scene Girl in the parlor putting down carpets, mother in the kitchen putting down peaches, and little boy in the pantry putting down jam.

SOME STRANGE EXPLOSIVES.

Dangerous Putttg that Are Easily Jtfnlted

With Astonl lilDg Efl&cts. Flour looks innocent enough, an

overseer remarked, while watching the

removal of some barrels of flour and other grain from a larere warehouse.

"That depends upon how it is

cooked," the reporter suggested.

'Justso. It is dangerous m that

way ; but I was thinking of it as an ex

plosive. Just look across the room.

You see, when the sun s rays come in, that the air is loaded with a fine grain

dust, and if you were provided with

microscopic eyes you would see yourself fairly surrounded with small atoms of grain of all kinds. Now, suppose you take a dried ear of corn and lire it. It burns very slowly, and the chances are that it will go out. Shell it, or take the kernels off, and it burns much quicker. Suppose, now, we grind the corn, it will burn quicker still, say in a minute; but if you pulverize it, reduce it to powder or dust, and ignite it, it goevoff like a flash, and has great ex pan&ive power. That is just the case here. If the room becomes overcharged with dust and is ignited, off it -goes, blowing the house to pieces. "One of the most striking cases oc

curred several years ago in Minneapolis when the Washburn mil 1 caught. Those who knew anything about it just got out of the way quick as they could; powder wouldn't have sent them any faster. Blew up? Well, I should rather think she did. The walls of the mill were solid stone six feet thick, and when the explosion came they were just like paper, and the roof, made of sheet iron, was blown so high from one m.ll that it landed mora than two miles from the spot where it went up. Of course it was helped by the wind? but the force exerted was shown. Men have been blown out through windows, hurled through the air, and the walls of a building completely demolished by a man-s lighting a pipe in a big grainhouse. "A curious accident once happened in Scotland in a large house. A man walked in with a cigar in his mouth, and in a second the room seemed to be filled with fire and a terrible roar, but a minute latter it cleared off. With the exception of a singeing, not a person was hurt, but every one of the four walls was flat on the ground, and the roof had been lifted bodily and dropped two hundred feet away. In such cases there must be a fire first. The dust burns, and a powerful heat is created, and then follows the terrific heat expansive force that nothing can withstand. The explosion in Barclay street several years ago may be accounted for in this way. In the manufacture of candy sugar and starch are used in great quantities. Their dust accumulates and when lighted might easily develop power enough to hurl a building to atoms." "Has the explosive power of different dusts ever qeen determined?" "Yes," the flour man replied. "Prof. Peck, the chemist, has made some experiments that demonstrates the enormous power of sawdust, various flours, starch, and grain of all kinds. In one of the experiments he took three-quarters of an ounce of starch, and, by raising it as dust in the air, ignited in a compartment intended to represent a room. When exploded it threw a box weighing six pounds twenty feet into the air. You can judge yourself of the

power of the material. Half an ounce hi starch ignited in the same way was

shown by the professor to lift the cover of a box, and a heavy man standing on it, three inches. "One of the most dangerous materials is the wheat-dust of flour mills. When burned it goes off like a flash. One of the first movements in making flour is to rattle the wheat, and pass a heavy draught at the same time over it to carry off the highly-inflaramable dust. Yet, despite all care, the air often becomes perfectly loaded with it. Prof. Peck has shown what flour would do by taking a box with a capacity of two cubic feet and placing in a little flour, the light of a lamp entering through a hole in one corner, and the muzzle of a bellows through the other. The cover of the box was nailed on, and a man took his place on it. The professor then' worked the bellows, and the small amount of flour within immediately filled the air in the box as dust, the fac-siinile of a dust-laden mill being produced. The flour immediately ignited from the lamp, and in a second the cover was blown off, and the man lifted several inches into the air, while a blaze of fire burst out from all sides. A number of interesting experiments were per

formed by the same gentleman, showing

that in our large mills and manufactories where dust was likely to be formed there lurked a power as dreaded as dynamite. "Peck states that 1 pound of carbon and 2$ of oxygen, when they combine to produce carbonic acid, will evolve heat sufficient, if applied through a perfect heat engine, to lift nearly COO tons ten feet into the air. Then he assumes that if 40 per cent, of flour is carbon, it would require 2i pounds to accomplish this result." "Why can't an engine be made to run by dust power?"

"Perhaps that is what Keely is working at, or the same principle, but you would need, according to the authority quoted, an engine from which there was no radiation or loss of heat. Perhaps some day it may he accomplished. Some years ago an old fellow created a great excitement by pretending that he had a machine that was fifty times as powerful as any known power, and a huudred times as cheap. His machine was arranged so that after it once started it kept going by successive explosions of bran dust that was blown into a chamber by bellows, and ignited by a gasjet, the expansive force acting on a piston. It was a big scheme, and he claimed that he could run a train of cars all day with a quart measure of flour or bran, but I haven't heard of its being applied yet. Perhaps someone will work it up yet and make a fortune, but I doubt it" N. Y. Sun. llootb acking Ktiqiiette. Thero has beer, lorn? discussion as to whether a laiiy aiv m,W recognize a gentleman while ho u having his shoes blacked on a stret corner. Gentlemen have taken off their hats to ladies under such circumstances, and have received

the cut direct. Ladies tell me that it is no more excusable for a gentleman to put himself on exhibition while his shoes are being polished than it would be for him to stop on the public street an" brush his hair and comb out his mustache while a small boy held a lookingglass before him. The increase in the number of little rooms where one's shoes may be polished out of sight indicates that the ladies are in the right in this case, as they always are. Philar pelphia Pres.?. A Cattle JJrive. With the early starting of the grass in the spring the cattle are on the trail. They have the road brand by which the present owner is known, and are headed northward for their new and distant home. A thousand miles they will travel before they reach thoir destination, and in the windings of the road, and in the course which many a wayward steer will take, no doubt much more. If all goes well, and no mishaps occur, the end may be reached in three months' time, or about the middle of July. In the hands of a careful foreman they will come through with but little loss in flesh and numbers.

The word "drive" is a misnomer as applied to the trail. It is exactly this which should not be done. Cattle once gathered, and headed in the direction of their long journey, should be allowed to "drift", rather than be urged. Walking as they feed, they will accomplish their twelve or fifteen miles in a day with but little exertion to themselves, and with very much less care and anxiety on the part of the herder. This remark is especially applicable to the handling of beef herds, and to the "through Texans" likewise, with the qualification that there are "drags" to every herd which need urging to keep them up to the mark ; and it is among these last that the losses, if any, occur. All excitement of the animals is to be avoided, and the dangers of a stampede are lessened in proportion as the cattle are handled with gentleness and discretion. When a panic does arise, it is then that tbe cow boy himself must be equal to the situation and ride fearlessly to turn the flank of the flying beasts. No fear of a charge of the long h:rns must then affect him, but putting bis " broncho on his mettle, he must ride hard and ride long until the column is headed and the herd is once more brought into line. A successful stampede within a hundred miles of the starting-point may result in the return of the animals to their native heath or, farther on, to their being scattered a broad upon the plains, not all to be found for weeks, if ever. There are several distinct trails over the plains, and the pathways are as distinctly marked as a road could be, pressed by the hoofs of thousands for years past. The essentials of grass and water are to be considered in a region none to well supplied with these requisites, and the possibilities of fencing and occupation in districts which are being rapidly redeemed from their original state. The raids of hostile Indians no longer enter into the question, and the chances are that the full quota of the winter's pur chase will ba safely delivered on the range within a few days of the expect ed time If this is not later than the first of August, the new arrivals will have ample time to become wonted to their new home, and to settle down in a peaceful frame of mind, takiug all the flesh possible before the advent of the wintry blasts. The count and the branding over, the cattle are distributed upon the range, and told to shift for themselves. If the grass is well cured and abundant, they will get in fine condition in three months' time, and be well able to stand the severe cold to follow. If, on the other hand, they do not reach their destination until late in the fall, they are quite apt to be thin in flesh, and if a severe winter comes on, much loss will ensue. It is then, that the large percentage of loss is reported in the returns after a period of heavy storms. Ten per cent, or even more, of loss may have to be charged against a herd of "through" cattle in this condition, while 2 per cent, will fully cover the loss on a well located range occupied by cattle which have been on the same a year or more. As previously stated, the expense of herding a "bunch" of cattle is one dollar per head annually, which includes all charges after they are turned loose on the ranpre until they are delivered as "beeves" at the nearest railroad shipping point If the owner is wise, he will not allow a hoof to be gathered until it has been two years wintered. The temptation is great, when prices are high and cattle are in good demand, to ship steers that have been only one year upon the range. This is a mis take, as the second year is the one that tells both in the weight and quality of the beef; and as to age, no steer will reach maturity until he is four years old. High rates, however, have induced many shipments during the past two years, and the gathering of beeves has been much closer than formerly. George Pomeroy Keese in Harper's Mag amine. How Baron Yon Steuben Changed His Mind. Senator Garrett Davis was an old" school Whig and "unconditional Union man," whose desire to enforce to the law at the point of the bayonet had been suddenly quenched by President Lincoln's Proclamation of Emancipation. The garrulous old gentleman then turned to the right about nd demanded that the reserved rigb a of the South should be protected. This change of base recalled an anecdote which that eminent Knickerbocker, James W. Gerard, used to tell of the famous "Doctor's Itiotw in New York. Among these who went out with the Mayor and the troops was Baron von Steuben, the Revolutionary General, who, when the military was about to fire, lifted his hands in horrified protest "For God's sake, do not " CTS? gan, when a well-aimed missile struck him in the forehead and felled him to the ground. As soon as he could be picked up, he shouted, in quite a different tone: "Shoodt the tamt flcjioundrols, Major, Bhoodt deml" Boston Times. Hk who lives but for himsMf lives but for a little thing, BarjauM,

Paganini, the Genius A young man who has imbibed the notion that he is a genius is apt to lose his balance. The flattery of friends makes him so vain that he imagines that he, at least, may attain without labor. He ignores mental discipline, because it involves hard study. He trusts to his genius to push him up, and sinks. Scores of young men go to pieces at the beginning of the voyage, when they might have entered port with every sail drawing, had they taken their departure from Carlyle's definition of genius: A capacity for infinite painstaking. All Europe hailed Paganini as a genius. During forty years he reigned the monarch of the violin, no rival near his throne. If any one was ever born a violinist, he was. As soon as he could hold the violin he began to play it The worshippers in the churches of Genoa often looked towards the choir to see a child playing on a violin almost as large as himself. His genius was phenomenal. It gave him capacity, and urged him to develop it by intense application. His precocity astonished those from whom he sought instruction: but they were amazed at the zeal and rapidity with which he worked at his lessons. He soon exhausted their ability to instruct and so passed on from one great teacher to another. He went to Holla, the great musician of Parma. The master was ill in bed, and Paganini waited in the ante-room. Some sheets of difficult music were lying on the table, alongside of a violin. The boy Booked at the music, and began playing it. "Who is the great master playing in my ante room?" asked Holla, raising himself to listen. "A mere boy! impossible!" he exclaimed on being told that the player was a mere lad, who wished to become a pupil. When Paganini appeared before the invalid's bed, the master said, "I can teach you nothing. The boy had practised ten or twelve hours a day. He would try a passage over and over again in different ways, with such perse verence that at nightfall he was exhausted by fatigue. He composed as well as practised, writing music so difficult that he could not play it until he had mastered it by incessant practice; Let the reader note the working of the boy's genims. It prompted him to compose a hard task to be mastered by himself. It kept him up to his work day after day, until he had mastered the task. The boy had a capacity for infinite painstaking. The boys genius made him thorough. Faraday used to begin his investigation of a phenomenon by learning all that other scientists had written about it With similar thoroughness young Paganini acquired a knowledge of what other violinists had done or left undone. He would have knowledge as well as art, so that he might not lail through ignorance or plaigiarism. He worked hard to produce new effects and combinations. He sighed for a new world for he had explored the old. His explorations gave him his point of departure. He sailed from it and discovered a new world in which he had no master, no equal, no follower. His art was born with him, but he developed it by study and practice. When he died men said he carried his secret with him to the grave. It may be so; but the intelligent reader of his life discerns that Paganini's ability to master details accounts in part for his success. Youth's Companion. Some Prominent People's Doings, ANTICIPATION AND REALIZATION. "I began life as a lawyer," said Shirley Brooks, "passed my examination before the Incorporated Law Society, with hopes of becoming Lord Chief Justice, of course. I drifted into literature, and ended by writing immoral novels." MANY PARTS, BUT NOT "BOLLAm, "Well," said Webster,wI always meant to be an actor, the part of 'Holla first firing my ambition. I bought a sword for the part, and ran away to go on the stage as a boy. For weeks I was halfstarved; sold everything but the sword. It nearly cost me my life to save it Since then I have been my own master, and had my own theater for many years, and have played many parts, but never 'Bolla.' That's odd is it not? GEORGE SAND'S POVERTY. Though she always worked hard Mine. Sand was always poor. "So you have money difficulties, w she said to Flaubert. "I don't know what it is, since I have nothicg more in the world, (she had disposed of all her lands for her children.) I lve from day to day like a working man; when I shall no more be able to do my days work I shall be shipped to the other world, and then I shall need nothing more." She really felt the want of money. THE TRIUMPH OX AN HOUR. G. W. Lindquist, or e of the survivors of the Polaris Expedition, declares that no Arctic voyager need expect to be made a hero of very long after his return. He holds a master's certificate and was once toasted from town to town, but now, as he laughingly admits, is able to find no better position than quartermaster on a coasting steamer. Nevertheless he is in favor of polar ex peditions and is quite sure that they are productive of good of several sorts. BILLY MANNING'S LAST JOKE. Talk about the ruling passion, Billy Manning joked with his last gasp. The story of his death is full of puns and of side remarks that force a smile. Those who stood about his death bed, sad as they were, laughed through their tears. Several of his old companions in minstrelsy called in to proffer assistance to the sorrowing wife. Calling his wife by name, Billy said, in a voice husky and halting: "Set the gentlemen some chairs and taketheir hats and don't forget my size." Two hours after the undertaker was called in.

The Indiana Dmvemlv.

BLOOMIN&TON,

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College Year begins September 6th. Tuition Free. Both sexes admitted on equal conditions. For catalogue and other information Address, W. W. Sp angler, Lemuel Moss. Secretary , President

It. W. M1EKS,

J. H LOUDEN

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Office over National Bank.

W. P. Rogers, Jos. E. Henley. Rogers & Henley ATTORN1ES AT LAW. BlOOMINGTON, - - IND. Collections and settlement of k tates are made specialties. Office North east side of Square, in Mayor! building. nv5& W. Friedly, Harmon H. Friedly. FRIEDLY A FRIEDLY, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Offiec over the Bee Hive" Store. Bioomington, Indiana Hen r y L Bates BOOT AND SHOE MAKER Bloomington, . . . . . . . 1ki.

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