Bloomington Telephone, Volume 15, Bloomington, Monroe County, 25 July 1893 — Page 2

THE TELEPHONE.

Br Walter Bradfutk.

BLOOMINGTON

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The Mexican silver dollar contains more silver than the standard United States coin of that denomination. This does-not increase its value in the least as a medium of exchange, the coin having been quoted on the New York market at 58 cents for some time past.

Glass brick are made in numerous colors "without straw" in this -Columbian. year, and arc said to be so cheap that they can be profitably used for a variety of purposes. They possess the very. great advantage of being water-proof and practically indestructible.

Policeman Perkins of New York, has achieved notoriety if not greatness and fame by arresting his own wife and escorting her to the station house. His gentle spouse had attacked him with a knife on his leaving home to report for night duty, and afterwards followed him to his post and assaulted .him with an umbrella. The infuriated Amazon weighed 225 pounds and her beloved husband found it'neeessary to blow for assistance to take her to the lockup. Stories come from Berlin that Kaiser Wilmhelm is given to nocturnal promenades about the capital in disguise. He arrays himself in some outlandish toggery and strolls about the poorer quarters of the city, mingles with the crowds and talks with the loungers in the beer balls. He is anxious to hear what the common people will say about him. He craves popularity, it is said, more than any sovereign of Europe. This is all well enough for a young man like the Kaiser, but our Grover at present would have some difficulty in carrying out such an idea. A man of such proportions could hardly be disguised.

The unanimity with which the officers of the British fleet in the Mediterranean lay the blame upon Admiral Tryon for the sinking of the Victoria is a sad commentary upon the fleeting character of fame. Admiral Tryon had the reputation of being the most accomplished officer in the British navy, and that he erred in an order that cost him his own life, together with the lives of hundreds of his brave seamen, seems improbable, although it may be possible. The abuse and censure that has been indulged in against a man of such spotless reputation and phenomenal talents, now that he is dead and unable to defend himself, is not complimentary to the generosity and manliness of the officials of the British fleet. . It is safe to malign a man when he is dead.

Toe mythical Mrs. Toodles has materialized in the person of one Mrs, Kleinberg, of New York, who ii&s a mania or collecting pots, pans, kettles, dishes, and every other article of kitchen furniture which she can buy at a bargain. Peddlers find a constant and reliable customer in Mrs. Kleinberg, and the auction rooms are drawn upon to satisfy her cravings for useless utensils. Mr. Klainberg recently gave his wife money to buy household necessities and take the children on a little excursion, but the dear woman bought six dozen plates instead, and added largely to her assortment of pans and covers. Kleinberg. starving and desperate, recently began to smash up the household gods of his loving ''helpmeet." but she swore out a warrant for his arrest and "held the fort".

Ex-ectricitv is now applied to a new war machine that will lay the gatling gun in piles of old iron if reports of its deadly capabilities are sustained by further trials. Mr. Turpin is the inventor, and his device can be worked by four men on ships, and can be transported by two horses when used in the field. It can discharge 25,000 missills of death at intervals of fifteen minutes, in every direction or angle desired. Ordinary ships and fishing boats, armed with this machine, become valuable for offence or defence without any alternation or important change in their equipment. It is even claimed that the projectiles will pierce the heaviest armor now in use. The inventor hopes to present bis perfected plans to the French Ministry in a short time, and has no4 patented the idea, as he fears thc other mechanics will seize upon the invention and patent it in other countries before he has bad an opportunity to protect his rights.

ing their loyalty to the Republic bu demanded a new deaL all around. They want a Deportment of the West and a Department of the East, each with a separate President and Congress. They consider that the financial interests of the two sections are of such an antagonistic nature that legislation by a composite body drawn from the opposing sections must necessarily result in an injury to one or both. There was a body of talented men something over thirty years ago who became infatuated with the same idea and staked their. lives and fortunes in an effort to give practical effect to their views. The result was very disstrous to the conspirators and a vast

amount of damage was done on both

sides, as many can testify. The Colorado secesssion idea is in the same line but can hardly thave the same d isas trous effects upon the country at large.

Modern methods of architectural construction, especially in large buildings, possess great advantages from an economical point of view, although in many cases robbing the structures of the impressiveness that old-time ideas gave to lofty edifices by -way-of ponderous foundations and lower walls of stone work of tremendous weight and thickness. This change in builder's ideas has recently been of very valuable advantage to Mr. W. D. Maniee. of New York, who for years has owned; a piece of ground 1G feet 3 inches by 56 feet 5 inches at the corner of Pine and William street in that city. The owner was disposed to sell the lot, as its size seemed to prohibit the construction of a build ing that would be at all profitable in so valuable a location, but adjoining property holders thinking the same refused to make any adequate offer. Accordingly Mr. Maniee let the contract for an eleven-story office building, now nearly completed, that will tower above the sidewalk 135 feet, being the taliest building on the narrowest lot in the world. The lower walls are but 20 inches in thickness, tapering to sitf inches at the top, yet by means of iron and steel girders and beams the safety and solidity of the building is insured. The metal skeleton is completely hidden by brick work. The apartments are roomy, light and airy, and easy access is had to them by means of an electric elevator. The building is fitted with all modern conveniences, and will prove a profitable investment for its owner.

The people of Creede, Colo., recently held a mass-meeting and paaftoJ series of resolutions declar-

Just as we expected, Carlisle Harris, the electrocuted murderer, has been located in the 4 glorious hence." A down east medium gives to the world the tapressions of that versatile young man on various sub- , jeots. Carlisle made the trip with out any misadventure and went by the sleeping car route. At least he ; awoke to consciousness and in the full possession of his liberty and j faculties after what seemed to him a brief nap, and speedily got his j

bearings by the aid of two companions Rohle and Pallister, the murderers who escaped from Sing .Sing, and whose bodies were found in the Hudson. Curiously enough, the medium is silent on the important point of the manner of their death, and does not attempt to clear up that mystery. Harris, however, made a complete statement. He avers that he was not injured in the least by the electrocution, and felt no pain whatever He has not seen

Helen Potts and will not, as he has J

no desire to see her, and disembodied spirits, so he says, have the power to repel all other spirits whose company is not desirable. Communication with the Great Beyond is being rapidly opeued up, and it would seem from these heavenly interviews, that have of late been cast upon the credulous and patient public, that a reliable line ot intercommunication will soon be established. Whether this is a desirable consummation or not, is not for us to determine. We must accept the facts (?) as they are given to us by these superior and supersensitive agents of an occult power denied to the common herd. In the meantime the World's Fair is going on; the price of wheat is very low, the silver question is up for adjustment, and the teeming millions seem more than ever intent on the pu:rsuit of the omnipotent dollar and are more than ever indifferent to these vapid emanations from mediums and dreamers, who, in many cases are doubtless sincere, but are so compassed about with fraud and trickery that it is not given to the average mind the ability to discern the truth to separate the genu ine wheat from the ocean of chaff in which it is engulfed.

"Was the fire caused by incendiaries or ''Well e? just mention some of the other nations that are on the Midway; I can't be quite sure'

TOPICS OF THESE TIMES. SENATORIAL NEPOTISM. The earnest admonitions--and shining example of President Cleveland, against the practice of nepotism on the part of high officials, do not seem to have been especially effective in any line of public service, and is especially impotent among Senators,- and under the new law providing members of Congress wilh private secretaries, the public servants in the lower house bid fair to attain distinction in the sumo unpopular role. It is said that a largo majority of congressmen will appoint their own sons and daughters to the new position and thereby ceep the additional salary in the

family. When this shall have been fully accomplished the press of the country of all shades of political belief will doubtless bo filled with deaunciations of the selfish conduct of their representatives. There does not seem to be any politics in the .natter, statesmen of all parties being offenders iu about equal numbers. It is estimated that relatives of Senators alone are already drawing $50,000 per aunum from the treasury. There is no implication of fraud in ibis charge. The salaries tfould be drawn by constituents of the different Senators if the states -.nen did not prefer to confer the faor on relatives. Therefore the pubic service does not suffer in the 'east from the practice, and possibly :n a rca'rrity of cases is benefitted thereby. Public men generally know who they would prefer to trust with confidential correspondence, whtah is the princial duty that devolves upon a private secretary. Naturally, when there is a competent mem: ber of their own family, they prefer to trust them to outside parties. A long list of relatives of Senators who hold positions as attaches of the Senatejmight be given. A few only will suffice. The sons of Senators Gallinger, Quay, Power and Squire are private secretaries to their fathers at a salary of $1,200 per annum. The daughter of Senator Puffer; of Kansas, is a Senate committee clerk at $1,400 annually, and her brother receives the same remuneration for his services as messenger to the same committee. The bewhiskered Senator evidently has little idea of a second term, and is working the position for all it is worth. GERMAN ARMY ABUSES. The abuse of private soldiers by non commissioned officers in the German army, an evil of long-standing, continues with great severity and deplorable results. Suicides occasioned by this odious custom ure still frequently reported. Discipline is carried to a degree of severity that would arouse the most open and determined mutiny among American soldiers. Two years ago Duke George, of Saxony, endeavored to alleviate the condition of the unfortunate privates who may chance to overstep the iron-bound limits set by martinets whose ideas were formed and tiuished when they became clothed with a little authority, and who visited the severest punishments on all offenders, but his efforts were iu vain. The duke declared that this bad treatment Lad degenerated from a punishment into a habit. Beatings were common. One non-commissioned officer drilled his men one winter night in their shirts, and by way of variety made them kneel to him 1,800 times. As a rule the superior officers sustain their subordinates in their barbarities, and the unfortunate privates' only recourse is suicide and death. Such atrocities will make the average American, however much he may admire the uuconquered hosts of the fatherland, as a whole, hope that the spread of free thought will make it impossible for the Kaiser to maintain the huge standing army that has brought power and fame to him and his sires on its present footing. Civilization can not countenance a glorious superstructure erected upon such a foundation, and the very stones of the Potsdam palace might well cry out in anguish at the pangs of countless martyrs whose needless woes are added to the great total of misery that must necessarily arise from the unending and merciless drafts upon the flower of German manhood to maintain a huge standing army, by means of which its lordly tenant hopes to maintain his proud position among the sovereigns of earth. Late dispatches indicate that the Kaiser will carry his point, however, in the Reichstag, although he has been f rced make some very substantial and possibly humiliating concessions to the varied forces opposing the continuance of the standing army on a war footing. THE MISSISSIPPI JETTIES. A work of great importance to the Mississippi valley, and consequently of general interest, is the maintain-

auce of a passage for ocean vessels through what are '.mown a9 the Eada jetties to New Orleans. Lately because of crevasse in different levees along the lower Mississippi at different points, the water in what is known as South Pass has been at a dangerously low stage. This, however, happens every year, and adequate provision has been made to remedy the evil which is annuallv expected. The jetties extend from the mouth of the South Pass, a distance of two and one-half mile, over the bar which formerly obstructed the channel of the river. The estate of Capt. Eads is still held responsible for the maintainance of a depth of water on the bar of not less than twenty-six feet, by a width of two hundred feet, the sum of $1,000,000 having been retained by the Government, five per cent, to be paid to the heirs as interest, and one-half of said sum having been paid at the expiration of ten years from the completion of tin work, the other half to be retained for ten years longer as a guarantee for the maintainance of the work. Thirteen and a half years have elapsed since the completion of the jetties, during all of which time the water-way has been satisfactorily maintained. A force of forty men is constantly engaged in keeping the channel in perfect condition, and a magnificent dredge boat is at all times in readings to clear away deposits of sand which are constantly accumulating, aud are especially troublesome duriug unusual floods. When crevasses occur in the levees, the water, that would otherwise go through South Pass and keep the passage clear, is divided to other channels and the current on the bar becomes stagnant, thus giving an opportunity for the muddy stream to deposit its 4 'silt." This year, owing to unusual floods, such difficulties have occurred twice. The great crevasse at the head of Pass TOutre, was caused by oyster men cutting a passage into the bay. It became a very extensive affair because of the floods and will hav e to be closed by the Eads estate j,t a vast expense. This will be done as soon as the river is low enough for work to be prosecuted effectually. THE NATION'S SHAME. The time no doubt will arrive when this great and prosperous nation will feel able and willing to do justice and render appropriate honor in an enduring memorial at the grave of the hero through whose instrumentality and genius free institutions were perpetuated on this continent by whose valor and perseverance the foes that threatened to overcome were crushed in dis

aster and defeat and the survivors magnanimously permitted to resume I their rights as citizens of the gov- . eminent they had tried to destroy. But that day has not yet dawned. ( The latest reports from New York ; show that work has stopped on the' ! magnificent tomb projected for Gen. j Grant by the millionaires and popui lace of that greatest American city. : Numerous excuses have been offered for the delay that has by lapse of time become a disgrace and reproach but the real reason seems j to be a lack of money in hand. The 1,000,000 fund has been subscribed but it seems that a large portion of it has not been paid in, and the committee having in charge the work of construction are perforce compelled i to suspend operations. New York city has probably one hundred citizens if not more who could singly supply all the money required to finish the superb design partially under way without an particular . inconvenience men, too, whose forI tunes have in most cases come to ; them as a result of the victories won i by the hero of Appomattox, and that the united wealth of the Nation's metropolis will permit the stoppiug of the work of the construction of the tomb of the man whom it should be-their pride to honor to whom, indeed, they owe so much is a disgrace to that city and a Nations shame as well. j ilA LONG FELT WANT." j Dispatched from Home, dated July ' 8, are to the effect that a 'iong-felt waut" of America is soon to be supplied. Iu fact, America is to have a patron saint, and Christopher Columbus, the ancestor of the Duke of Veragua and a man of whom most of our readers possess more or less information, is to be beatified for that especial purpose. The Pope has expressed himself on the matter and it is a 4:go." How Chris ever got along all these years without beatification, and how the wonderful transformation that has taken place j in the Western hemisphere in the , past four hundred years was ever brought about without a patron saint, are among the things "no i fellah can find out."

WHAT WE LONG FOR. Colli W'rvw .HttUe While You W.iit t ISlST Nrhtinc, Some of the rainmakers an:! nti.ons of Aberdeen, S. 1)., have formed what, is td be, known as the International Cold Wave Company, with a capital of l,CO:),000. The organization claims to have, discovered th secret of producing cold waves. For instance, when heat running at 00 to 100 degrees drives in upon the Dakotas from the plain of Kansas or Montana, the company says it will set a conn tor-breeze blowing from the ice fields of the North which will dissipate the hot wave and bring a temperature of about OS to 70 decrees Fahrenheit. The company refuse 3 to make public any part of its secret, but )tlers to guarantee what It proposes to do. WHY INDIA"CL0SEDHER MINTS.

The Rocky Mountain News, of Denver, publishes letters from Sir More ton Frewen, of Loudon, to one of the editors of the News and the other to Lord Lansdovvne. Viceroy to India, in which it appears, according to the statements of Lord Lansdowne, that India suspended free coinage of silver at the time it did because the tone of the American Eastern press left no doubt upon his mind that the United States Congress would, $as soon as it assembled, repeal the Sherman purchasing act, and India found it necessary to be beforehand with the closing of its mints. This is an important addition to the history of the great financial controversy now convulsing the world. CAMP MATTHEWS. The Indiana militia went into camp at Markle, four miles east of Terre Haute, Friday. The encampment will continue one week About two thousand men are in camp. It is the largest military encampment ever held in the State since the war, owing to the formation of new companies at Elwood, Covington, Oxford and Fowlr. Brig. Gen. W.J, McKeee is in

command, and the camp has been cnristoned "Camp Matthews" in honor of the j Governor. The infantry ure encamped on j on an island in Otter creek, five miles I from Terre Haute by rail and six by road. ; This, it is thought, will check the tendency to risk guard house imprisonment by running through the lines to visit the j city. Swimming and boating facilities 1 durii.g the hours off duty are also expected to counteract city attractions. ' M'KINLEY CLAN3 GATHERING. 3 ' The McKinleys will attend the World's : Fair on the 13th of September. The clan will meet in the Kansas Building, and it will be the first reunion since the breaks ing o:" the clan in Scotland, nearly five hundred years ago. Governor McKinley, ; of Ohio, will deliver the welcoming ad- . dross. Thousands will attend the reunion. f-URS MAY BE" CHEAPER.

THJs JNUIt SEX. Mrs. W. J. I)ttd. of Ergland. is 'imous as one of be mofit expert hc-ss analyst in e wortd Her 'hss probieuss are roruriderwl among the best and most difficult published She has competed in many tourua -nents and ha& won many prizes. Mrs, Haird is the wife of Deputy In spector General W. J. Baird, and they have a 10-year-old daughter who has also shown great taste for chess, and has eotnjtosed several remarkable problems. Women have given an aggregate of Kk328.078.Jl8 to institutions of learning in the S-iateof Massachus ettsy of which Harvard has received more than half- P iblic libraries in the State have rece.ved from women, gifts amounting to toS681, l86; pubHe and industrial schools have received $122,(KKK arid kindergarten $344,579. As early as 1664 Bridget Wtyns gave Harvard college 4 and in'niwMme. Hutchinson gave i tj the same institution.. Miss Ella Knowies, who was the Populist candidate for attorney general at the last election in Montana, has been selected by the Republican in that state as counsel in their effort to secure control of the legislature.

At the wedding of a daughter of Theodore A. JHavemeyer, the wealthy sugar refiner, in New York, th-3 entire s airwav of the house was covered with a canopy of lilacs and roses. The ceremony w as performed under a canopy of white satin aod point lace, upheld by columns of white onyx and gold, and in the midst of the upper room was an orange tree laden with fresh blossoms, banked at the base with lilies of the valley. The gifts were not shown at the wedding. NAMED FOR THE IXVAXTA. New York World. New honor has been thrust upon the Princess Eulalia. A bonnet has bm named for her. lt is a tiny affair, dainty and pretty, as the namesake of so clxarming a woman ought to be.

If a rumor from Chili is true the Kehrinfc seal ground.- will shortly find a southern competitor. It is said in Valparaiso that a Dundoe whaling vessel has roturnod from tho Antarctic ocean with wyjou seal kinst and that the captain refuses to tell whore he obtained them. In looking over th: a s of Treasurer Armstrong of Tipton lo.jnty. the bondsmen report 25.3lJ2. Sf of worthless paper, and $l,37a.:VT. which can be realised on. Calvin Armstrong's tirst experience was to invest $2,300 of public funds on the resuit ef the last Presidential election, winning which lie started out as a plunger. AX EXUlXEERIXtiTRIUMPH.

An attractive package in which to sell fruit will add but little to the cost, yet it may increase the price f t 11 1 1 "1. A

DU per cenx. much uopenus on uu condition of an article when it reaches the market.

The Great JBrklge Across the Pecos . Hiver in Tex a. j Harper" Weekly. : Another reat engineering work rocenti v completed in Texas is the i very hih cantilever bridge over the : Pecos River. The bridge, some 360 ! i'eet high, while not the highest in ! the world, is on? of the highest, and f at the same time one o! the iroit i considerable railroad structures ever ! enacted. When the engineers locat- ! ing that part of the Southern Pacific j Railroad came to the Pecos River, I they wanted to go directly across ; with a bridge; bat more timid coun- ! se'.s prevailed, .and instead of taking j

a Hying leap over a canon more than SOU feet deep, it was decided to make a detour of twenty-five miles by ay of the Rio Grande. This was eleven or twelve-yean? a.o. This lougeroute, though the curves were sharp and the grades step, was expensive to build and maintain, and more expensive to operate. It was a heavy tax on through freight, and several years ago it was decided to take the tlyii g leap of the Pecos, and thus avoid the grades and curves and longer haul. The Phoenix Bridge Com pun v did the work. The entire length of the bridge is 2,180 feet ftm abutment to abutment. There, are two cantilevers 172 feet i inches long each, and one suspended lat ticegirder span of HO feet. This suspended span is hung between the two cantilever spans on eight massive bars, and expansion spaces are left at each enJ of several inches where it should join the eanti!ev 1. The intense heat of the summer sun makes this spce for expansion a necessity. Tn addition to these spans there are eight lattice spans of sixtyfive feet each, one plate-girder span of forty-five feet, eighteen plategirder spans of thirty-fivo feet each, and sixteen plate-girder spans of thirty-five feet each. The width of the floor of the completed span is twenty-five feet, part of which is taken up by a walkway on either side of the single track. The bridge has a factor of safety of five; that is. it has a sufficient strength to bear five times the pressure made by a continuous train of the heaviest modern locomotives moving over it. From the ground at the bottom of the canon and on the banks of the river the bridge looks like a slender lattice-work, but it is really, as wi!l be seen from the above statement as to its strength, a very solid and stable structure.

TliK KtTLALTA. The soft crown is of. finely wove goldcloth. It is trimmed in front with an hour-glass bow of pale blue crepe de Chin?, at the back of which is a jet aigrette flanked with two turquoise-studded gold wings. The strings, which tie directly beneath the chin, are of the blue crepe de Chine. The original of this bounet, to deserve still more its Spanish name, was made of orange crepe de Chine, with jet wings and a black feather aigrette. Hut the average woman f Dund the color rather too trying, so i:.ow it is made in a variety of shades. Mrs. R. H. Tyacke, ia conjunction with her husband, has been making the largest bag of bears ever shot in one season in Kullu, in the central Himalayas. She has written a book called, r How I Spot my Bears." Miss Harriet Eliza Green, whodied recently at Oakland, Gal., wasonfof the leading authorities on library (cataloguing. For many years s& had been employed in the Btostoia: public library and the Bfeeton Athenaeum. She was also connected with- the Columbia College Jibhiry, where she gave instructions to stu dents in her department.

WATTEAU UOUSB-OOWN. New York has a population of working women reaching in rounl ligures to about 300,000.