Bloomington Telephone, Volume 15, Bloomington, Monroe County, 14 July 1893 — Page 2

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THE ARTS AND SCIENCES.

itricity has be?n found to travel 288,000

m3m per second coder favorable circumstances. The skin of the catfish is now tanned into leather in Germany It is tough, supple and apptsars well. The only slate-pencil mill in the country is said 'vO be at Cautleton. Vfc. It employs seventy-five men an i tarns out 30,000 pencils daily. Carbolic acid is re rom mended for moistening the tools with which metals are worked. The efficiency of the- grindstone is said to be greatly increased by this means. An imitation cuaxaois-skin for domestic use has made its appearance. It is woven, but feels and looks like the true leather, and, moreover, keeps its softness after wetting. Mr. Julian Denison, an employe of the electric light company an New Haven, is said to have invented an automatic carbon-feeder, which will contain seventeen carbons, doing away with the trimmer's work to a large -extent A new heat-indi'cator for domestic ovens resembles a watch-dial, and is marked "bread," "meat," "pastry, "burning," eta It can be attaached to any oven-door by drilling a hole through it to insert the spindie of the indicator. A saucer of quick-lime placed in a bookt?ase will prevent railldew. It must, of course, be renewed as often as it becomes slacked It is equally good for putting in linen-chests, iron safes, or wherever there is any musti-

ness owing to the exclusion of fresh air". , Sunflowers are used in Wyoming; Territory ,,

for fuel The stalks when dry ai-e as hare! as maple-wood and make a hot fire, and the seedheads with the seeds in are said to hum totter than the best hard coat An acre of sunflowers will furnish fuel for one stove for year. One of the largest britannia firms in New England recommends the following to clean silver: One-half pound of sal-soda added to eight quarts of water; when at a boiling heat dip the pieces of silver, and immediate! "wash in soap-suds, and wipe dry with a pieco of cotton flannel. La Nature" gives a solution of boric acid In a hot solution of tungstate of soda to render fabrics and wood fire-proof. The same solution is also said to possess valuable antiseptic qualities, having been used with success in diphtheria and in dressing wounds. It has no odor, but its case is bitter. A valuable kind of dry pocket-glue is now made by combining twelve parts of good glue and five parts sugar. The glue is boilecl unto it is entirely dissolved, the sugar is than put into the ghw, and the mass is evaporated until it is found to become hard on cooling, Lukewarm water melts it very readily. The Appalachian Club, of Bangor, Me., has placed on the summit of Mount Katahdiu a cone of burnished tin, twenty inches in 4eigut and twelve hi diameter, in order to note the distance from which the peak can be seen. It is expected that the cone will reflet the sun's rays far over Maine, and enable oi servers to determine the question. R B. Bunnell, of Bradford, Conn., has invented an automatic lamp which goes by -clock-work. When the right hour comes a cap is drawn over the wick, leaving a sma 1 Maze; the cap is lifted when the lamp is needed again. Several of these are in use in the streets of New London, and go without an y care for several days, a large tank of oil supplying them. Some months ago the floors of many Austrian garrisons were painted with tar, and the results have proved so uniformly advantageous that the method is becoming greatly extended in its application. The collection of dust in cracks is thus prevented, and a consequeut diminution in irritative diseases of the ee has been noted. Cleanliness of rooms has been greatly facilitated and parasites are almost completely excluded. Tfce coating of tar is inexpensive, requires renewal but once a year, end presents but one disadvantage, its sombre color. It is well understood that a cold sensation reac'aes consciousness more rapidly than oae of warmth. The exact time required to perceive each has lately been measured by Dr. Gbldscheider, of Berlin. Contact with a co d point was felt oc tte face after 31.5, on the arm after 18, on th abdomen after 23 and on the knee after 25 hundredth? of a seconi From a hot point the sensation was felt on the same surfaces after 19, 7, tS2 and 70 hundredths of a second , respectively. This great -time difference has an important bearing on the theory of skin sensations. Gelsoline is the name of a new material resembling silk. Two students in Italy have invented an apparatus the object of which is to substitute mulberry fibre lor cotton, and have given it the above name. On removing the bark from the young shoots of mulberry -trees a fibre is found wuich in fineness and tenacity is not exceeded by silk, and the object of the invention is to treat tne bark and isolate the fibre oy a mechanical process. Three English houses are said to have already tnade offers to purchase the entire production -emanatiug from this novel process. The protection of vines against frost was effected in a most novel maimer recently at a -vineyard in Pagny, near the Franco-Uermun frontier. The niht of May 13 the temperature sunk to 3o F. at 3 a. m. At tfaattirrie quantities of tar, which had been distributed to various points in the boxes or poured on 4Ue groumi, were ignited. Dense black cloudw of smoke enveloped the vineyard, which remained for more than two hours while th tar was burning. In the morning it was found that the experiment was a complete success, as not a single shoot was m .jured by the frost, while many vineyards hi the vicinity not thus protected suffered considerable damage, A remarkable and entirely unique line ol cxeriment has recently been carried on by Dr William Spring and his associate, Dr. Vant Hoff, in the study of the effect of pressure on some chemical compounds. These

-observers had noticed that the beautiful blue double.acetate of calcium and copper wai very stable up to about 165 F. ; but, when heaved above that point, it was quite read ily decomposed into the simp.e compounds. The -query arose as to what the effect oC pressure on the salt would be. On subjecting tin solid-double acetate to a pressur of 7,000 at znpheres (105,00U pounds per square inch) by xucans of powerful machinery, the wuoie mass was Uquified, and was found, on examinition, to consist of the mixed salts, vht simple acetates or lime and copper Ana Algeraea Gave Im. "My dear, I can't afford to give it to yea. We must save our mony," said Algernon. "Idoifo see why' said Penelope. 'JL much 'wiser man than you once -said: -Bo not lose the present in vain verplexiti6fl about the future. 1,1

TOPICS OF THESE TIMES. THE CORINTHIAN CANAL. The opening of the Corinth canal, in Greece, on the 17th ult., marked the culmination of one of the most remarkable engineering enterprises ever carried to completion by man. The canal was projected six centuries before the Christian era. and its construction was actually begun by the Roman Emperor Nero in the first century, who. however, soon desisted, and more than 1,800 years passed away before work was again resumed, by the Hungarian revolutionist, Gen. Turr, under a concession from the government of Greece. The canal follows the old lines established by Nero's engineers across the Isthmus of Corinth and is but 6,200 meters in length. It has been entirely constructed in the past ten years, at a Qost of $14,000,000, and steamers can pass through it in less than an hour. It will doubtless be of great advantage to Athens, and will shorten the time from Western Europe to Constantinople and the Orient by nearly a day. The opening of the canal was celebrated with great festivities in which King Georgios I. of Greece and a multitude of distinguished men took part. It is one of the most interesting public works in the world, and is remarkable both on account of its commercial importance and historic associations. EGYPTIAN ENTERPRISE. The land of the Pharaohs, where ancient civilization and arts had

reached a high state of perfection

free land of ours, but are by no means the rule. But the kaleidoscope also turns in a larger field, and tfie changes that result are startling and often sad. How the years roll back to the older class of people as they read of the meeting of the widows of Gen. Grant and Jefferson Davis at Cranston-on-the-Hudson, last weeh. In itself an event of no importance, yet potent for a transformation scene such as no magician ever dreamed of. Time the healer has made it possible and even proper for these relicts of departed chieftains to meet on a footing of mutual regard and esteem. The bitterness of the past has disappeared, and these lingering representatives of the warring elements that drenched the land in blood scarce three decades ago can well exchange civilities and weep their retrospective tears together.

A NEW "PLAN-" James Buchanan, of Indiana. Gen. Weaver, of various localities, Edward Bellamy, of down Eastr and many other visionary philosophers, have from time to time evolved and developed sundry and divers schemes to insure to every man, woman and child, without regard to age; color, sex or previous condition of servitude a free and independent income un trammeled by the laws of supply and demand, the state of foreign trade, or the depressing influences of Wall street gold bugs or western Napoleonic financiers. In later days 'PefferismM has had its swav,. and Kansas lias been a hotbed for the devel

opment of financial dreamers and

lonff before the dawn of the Christian I impracticable reformers. The very

era, relics of which are still in exist- late:5t Phase of this tendency of modence that astonish the modern world J ern touKht is the "plan" of Cyrus and baffle the science of scholar and I Corning, of Topeka. He proposes pnairtPr aft.pr a lansft of mnnv non- ! to increase the circulating medium

turies of ruin and degradation, is apparently awaking to the importance of resuming its relations with the balance of the world, and although it can never hope to resume its ancient place as the most advanced among nations, it can well hope to adopt, and profit by, the progress of modern thought in its many triumphs over matexial things. The Egyptian government, which is of the most paternal character, practically owning and cultivating the soil, is taking steps for the storage of water for supplying the people durhig the low stage of the Nile, so that summer rice may be grown, and is vigorously pushing the reclaiming of desert land in order to extend the cultivation of sugar cane, which is a highly profitable crop. In pursuance of this policy Egyptian . engineers have pushed their investigations to the headwaters of the great river in the great equatorial lakes. It is proposed to build dams at the outlets of the Albert and Victoria Nyanzas and connect them by telegraph with the lower Nile, so that the supply may be regulated with some degree of accuracy. The great annual floods pour down a volume of water that is wasted, even if it does not do untold damage. The project of regulating this flood by means of natural reservoirs held in check by dams at the headwaters is believed to be entirely practical, and if carried out will be another great victory by man over the forces of nature. The same, means would prevent the great and ruiuous floods on the Hong Ho in China, that so frequently destroy untold thousands of human beings, and the terribly destructive visitations that with almost yearly regularity devastate the lower Mississippi region in our own country.

THE WORLD'S FAIR. A NotaMe Picture Indian School Exhibits A Good Point of View Notes. Holland's exhibit in the Art Palace of the Exposition has been described as tranquil, and, at the risk of being accused of want of originality, every writer must use that word in connection with it, as none other suits it half so well, After the fierce, strong lights of Russia, the quaintness of Japan, the gorgeous coloring of Spain, to step into Holland is indeed to rest the eye. At first glance the coloring seems neutral, almost tame, but as one lingers, and linger every one does, the grays and browns, the yellow shades, and the blacks and whites, grow upon one, and some tiny gem is found to possess intense fascination, whiie some of the larger pictures hold one entranced. Joy of Israel's "Alone in the World" is not only the masterpiece of the Holland exhibit, but it has been pronounced the masterpiece of the Exposition, and yet it is such a common story that it tells. Only a dead woman lying on her couch, the poor pale hands crossed in the only idle moments they have ever known, and by foer side the man who loved her and who in losing her lost all. He does not look out at jou with wild despair, but sits with hands upon his knees and eyes which look into a future desolate and drear, but not long, for the couple whom death alone could part have passed down the valley of life together, and the death angel must soon summon him as well as her. Oae hardly notic es a

detail of the interior, hardly the dead woman;, everything centers on

TIME THE HEALER. "Time at last sets all things even" is a very old adage, and a very untrue and misleading one. Unfortunately time does not set all things even, and a very large percentage of the wrongs endured by the human race at the hands of their fellow men are never righted, on this earth, at least. The usual application of the adage is that he who treasures up a wrong and waits will in due time be avenged by the course of events over which he practically has no control. The hope for revenge is a very human desire, and in many cases a very laudable one, but unhappily it cannot be said to be a very satisfactory solution for the wrongs or remedy for the misfortunes that mark the pathway of life. Time indeed brings many changes, and the onward sweeping years reveal a kaleidoscopic change in the conditions of all. Those who in their youth gloried in the sunshine of prosperity, in middle life and old age are often doomed to hardships and poverty and disease, while the child of their pauper tenant, through long years of honest toil and well directed effort, has come to a position of affluence and power that is gall and wormwood to the old-time haughty neighbor. Such contrasts and changes are common enough, indeed, in this

and ignore the Constitution and Federal Government at one fell swoop. Money will abound in lavish quantities. The People's party in the meantime will die, though that is not a necessary tenet of the scheme, but rather a result of its beneficent workings, the transcendent condition of mankind when they shall come under the workings of the '"plan" making all such organizations superfluous and unnecessary. The silver question will also be silenced forever. Interest will be reduced to the actual cost of making loans. The element of capital does not enter into the "plan." Mr. Corning has worked his plan at Bennington, Kan., to his own satisfaction by the aid of a Mr. Bobbins, who furnised the capital that is to be the death of all capital. Mr. Bobbins was a country merchant. His store was transformed into a labor exchange. Exchange checks in the denominations of United States money were issued, money, according to Mr. Comings ideas, having no value except as a medium of exchange. Anything which the people will accep" as money is money. The exchange had everything in stock that farmers want, and would buy everything that farmers had to sell, paying out and receiving the exchange checks as so much cash. Government money received for farm products sold abroad was turned into goods. Exchange checks were used as money in all private trades between farmers. The plan is for managers of exchanges to give bond for the redemption of all cheeks issued by them. The Bennington Exchange has been in operation for eight months, and is declared to be an unqualified success. A similar exchange has just been started at Topeka and arrangements are being made to start others in various localities.

A MUNCHAUSEN WANTED. A startling and blood-curdling horror may be looked for any day in the neighborhood of Lincoln Park, Chicago. It has been a surprise that some enterprising agent of the Associated Press has not before this given to the world an account of it in advance. Such oversights are almost culpable in purveyors of public intelligence. The material for the coming tragedy is furnished by the wild beasts in the cages of the famous pleasure ground. They occasionally break loose and wander at will along the aristocratic thoroughfares of the North Side. The elephant went on a jamboree recently. The sea lion got out of his tub and sailed into the lake. A man was bitten by the wolves accidentally released. A bear roamed into the surrounding wards. All the conditions are favorable for a first-class casualty. A "Winchester rife might comevery handy for World's Fair visitors.

Miss Uraddon has realized Sir Waiter Scott's ambition, to make 100,000 by fiction. She has fiftythree novels standiug to her credit and is still able to supply a new one when it i.s demanded. Time was when Miss Braddon said that if she could make $15 a week .she would be happy.

feet above the surface, '3 a promenade hundreds of feet in length Benches line its sides, and cool breezes blow over it from the lake. From here one sees the city of Pullman to the south, and on clear days, it is said, St. Joseph, about sixty miles distant, in the adjoining State of Michigan. The grou nds below are indeed charming. One looks upon the whole system of iagoons and canals spanned by their many bridges. The buildings themselves from this flight and in the twilight

I are softened in color and diminished in size. The roof promenade . at sunset is a happy change from j the struggling, heated crowd. I - ! Royal Cortissoz, art critic of the j New York Tribune, will contribute j to the July Century an article cm ! "Color in the Court of Honor at the

Fair." The illustrations include engravings of the decorations of the principal domes in the Manufactures Building. To make these pictures, cameras were set on the floor pointing directly upward. From photographs so" obtained enlargements were made which the artists touched up, as the effect of light and shade had not been properly reproduced at such a distance. From these touched-up enlargements, tne Century's illustrations were engraved. The decorations of the domes are by Blashfield. Beckwith, Kenyon Cox, Alden Weir, Shirlaw, Simmons, Robert Reid, and Reinhart.

HOW PEOPLE WASTE ISN'ERGy. Chicago Record. Every hour one may see plenty of people who have worn themselves out

j in the attempt to cover GOO acres in j a day. Only yesterday the visitors

A. PERSPECTIVE F PJXACES LOOKING TOW WOODEN

him in his first hours, of looeliness.

For several years the wise men of the Smithsonian and of the National Museum at Washington have been manufacturing groups of Indians in wax to represent various tribes of aborigines. With great fidelity in detail of dress, utensils and surroundings these Indians should be of scientific and popular interest.

DAIIOMEV DRUM SERGEANT. But the average visitor drifts bv the dummies at a strolling gait and goes down to the corner of the White City to spend half an hour with the boys and girls from Albuquerque, Lawrence, Carlisle, Hampton and other schools. These Indian pupils peg shoes, run sewing machines, cut clothing, make harness and do house work. The building is full of people all day, and the questions the visitors ask would wear out any patience but that of an Indian. The boys and girls are brought here primarily for the good it will do them, and secondarily to give the great American public an idea of the uses to which the public money is put in Indian education. The Indian school has turned out to be one of the most attractive features of the Government exhibit, deserving a place with Capt. Taussig's big war ship, the Fish Commissioners' aquariums and the marines' camp. As between live Indians civilized and wax Indians in blankets the Fair visitors prefer the former.

ARD ADMINISTRATION BUILDING FBOM THE ISLAND. who went toward the plaisance noticed an old gentleman on the steps of a iit'Dle square budding where chemicals are exhibited. He had picked out a quiet corner at the top of the steps and gone to sleep with his head on a gripsack. In order that his rest might be comfortable, he had r emoved his shoes. The people who gathered around him and giggled no-iced that he wore blue woolen socks wTith white toes. He was a sound sleeper, too, for he made A noise like the exhaust of a steam pump, A Columbian guard was going to rout him up, but a man interposed and said: 4 'Let him sleep. He isn't doing any harm." So he remained there nearly two hours and many persons envied him the nap. For people who are fagged out the lake shore is a refreshing place. Men, women and children sit on the stone slope, so near the paved beach that the eager waves sprinkle their shoes. There never was a day so dead and sultry but some breath of cool air came in over the choppy waves. Thursday, when the crowd reached overflow proportions, they sat so thickly along the beach that they seemed to make a seawall. The children threw shells and pebbles into the water, or followed each receding wave only to scamper back to get away from the curling breaker which took its place. It h not an

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A GOOD POINT OF VIEW. New York Post. About o'clock in the afternoon the top of the Manufacturers' Building is a delightful point from which

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NOTES. The fountains throw streams 15Cf feet in the air. The monthly pay-roll of the department emploves when the Fair opened was $225,000. Fifty-two boilers in a row, each of different manufacture, constitute a bank of power, (500 feet front, the greatest in the world. Twenty gondolas manned by Venetian goudoHers, four-state barges, forty-five electric launches, twenty steam launches and six steamboats navigate the interior waters of the Fair.

THE FAIR HEX. London supports forty vegetarian restaurants in which cereals, fruits and vegetables are the only things sold. Miss May Yates the Secretary of the London Vegetarian Society, :is coming to America to convert U5J to that sort of nonsense. The Queen of the Belgians is reputed to be one of the best living performers on the harp. When recently her chief lady in weiting became & nun the Queen, as sponsor, presented the postulant at the altar and then played a solo on ':he harpf to the great delight of the sisters who thronged the convent.

A BONN ST OF THE HWJit. Miss Bascom. wh- has just won tier degree of Ph. D. in geology from Johns Hopkins University,, has had many offers to teach heir specialty in schools and colleges, and has finally accepted a chair in a college in Columbus, Ohio: She-has just returned to Baltimore1 from a scientific trip to the mountains of Virginia. One of the pretty summer waists is made of a pale green chambray trimmed with narrow white washable ribbon. The upper part ia ef-

fectwely draped with a pelernie arranged in folds. About the waist is a belt of green ribboci laid in folds and fastened with a white ribbon rosette. The Maharaneeof Mysore, who has lately died, was a remarkable woman. At i;he age of ten she resolved to obtain the best possible education. She insi sts on joining iier brother in his studies, and mastered Sanskrit, Canarese and Marathi. She could alsc paint and was a fair musician. She was the fourth wife of the Mahalsaj&h, and was for some time virtually the ruler of Mysore. The women in South Carolina Sta:e liquor dispensaries are to receive the munificent salary of $2.50 a week, and work from 7 to 6. A pretty outdoor costume for a little girl is shown in the illustration. The bonnet may be made in muslin, percale, piquSC silk. It has a deep cape and the ruffle which overarches the brow has shirring be yond it in an effect imitating the "okl-tim" calfish. The crown is ftdl

The coat has full: sleeves and a short cuff. The skirt falls in straight folds from the i;op and has a deep ruif e of darned net above it. The materials include all! the lightweight woolens, as also striped or plaid silk, cashmere or the spotted India or China silk. A trailing ribbon decorates the back. ; The; colar is fla t and square.