Terre Haute Daily News, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 15 March 1890 — Page 8

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Tbe Orttt Air Ship Will Be Culled "The Xcwi" and Two B*|»rtw Will *«ke«» A«ee«t Wlll»^3|fV^ tb« A«roaaat.

Wm. Dennis, the aeronaut of this city, who has achieved considerable notriety by his daring feats in mid air and his many narrow escapes from death as a parachute leaper, has jnst completed a mammoth hot air balloon seventy feet high and one hundred and twenty-six feet in circumference. Tbe height is measured from the top of the balloon to tbe bottom of the carriage. This monster air ship will be used by Aeronaut Dennis in giving exhibition parachute leaps.

I'rot. Dennis is now engaged in making a large gas balloon of 28,000 cubic feet capacity. It will have thirty-eight gassets, each of which are three feet in width, making a circumference of one hundred and fourteen feet. It will be twentv-eigbt feet high in the canvas or fifty feet from the top of the balloon to tbe bottom of the carriage. It will weigh in all about one hundred and twenty pounds and will have a lifting capacity of nine hundred and fifty-two pounds. This will enable Mr. Dennis to carry three men in his carriagetwo besides himself—and about five hundred pounds of ballast These figures are all based upon the supposition that the gas will have the power to lift thirtyfour pounds to the one thousand cubic feet. Mr. Dennis says that he thinks the mixtae of water gas and coal gas which is now supplied by the Gas Company of this city will not lift over thirty pounds to the one thousand cubic feet.

This great gas balloon—which will be one of tne largest in use—Aeronaut Dennis proposes to call "Tbe News." The initial trip will be made from this city and the city edition of THK NEWS and one or two reporters will accompany Prof. Dennis on his journey above the clouds. Parachutes wili be taken along »o that in case an accident occurs in mid air the entire party will leap from the balloon and descend to the earth by parachute. Ten thousand copies of THE NEWS will be distributed from the car of the balloon as it ascends into the air and the reporters for this paper will take notes for an article on what they see and feel in their upward flight. The ascent will be made about the 15th Of May. The following paragraphs on balloons and the mishaps of aeronauts will be of interest in this connection:

Daring the Siege of Paris, in 1870-71. when that city was completely invested by the German troops, the balloon was the only means of communication with other parts of the country not tinder control of the enemy. From September 23, 1870, to January 28,1.871, fifty-four balloons were sent out of Paris, carrying two million five hundred thousand letters.

The principle in virtue of which a balloon ascends is exactly the same as that which causes a piece of wood or other material to float partially immersed in water, and may be stated as follows: that if any body {floats in (kjuilibrium, in a Jluid, the weight of the body is equal to the weight of the fluid displaced and in order to reach great altitudes, a balloon must have a capacity of at least ninety thousand cubic feet of gas, of which not more than one-third need be inflated with gas, and most carry at least 000 pounds of ballast. No human being can live at a higher altitude than 37,000 to 40,000 feet above the earth. Notwithstanding a century has elapsed since the invention of the oalloon, little or no improvement has been made upon its original form.

Attempts of man to soar above the earth commenced in prehistoric times. The discovery of the balloon was due to Stephen and Joseph Montgolfier, sons of Peter Montgolfier, a paper mauufacturer at Annonay, a town about forty miles from Lyons, France. The brothers had observed th» suspension of the clouds in the atmosphere, and it occured to them if they could enclose any vapor of the nature of a cloud in a large and very light bag it might rise and carry the bag with it into the air. Being assured of the correctness of their views, after various experiments, they determined to have a public ascent of the balloon on a large scale. On June 5th, 17S3, in the presence of a great crowd of spectators, a linen globe, 105 feet in circumference, was in Hated with heated air, and rose to the height of more than live thousand feet.

The first person who ever ascended in a balloon was M. Francois P&latre de Rosier, who two years later was killed in an attempt to cross the English channel in a balloon. On November 27, 1783, this gentleman, and the Marquis d'Arlandes first trusted themselves to afire uniiuua« Ak rvcro ww v* vw feet. Hie result was complete!^ successful, and the excitement in Pans over

balloon. It rtm to tbe height of §00 mnlei

Hie event was tremendous. Researches on the use of gas for inflating balloons seem to have been carried on in Philadelphia simultaneously with the first experiments in France. When the news of the success of the Montgoltiers reached Philadelphia, Messre. witten house mid Hopkins, members of the Philadelphia Academy of Science, constructed a balloon, attached to cage or ear, and a carpenter, one James Wilcox, was induced to ascend in the balloon. He remained in the air about ten minuted, and final!? cut the balloon in order to prevent his descent into the Delaware river. He was the first peraon that ever made a balloon ascension in this coon-

first balloon ascenmon in England was made on the 25th of November, 1^83* In 1784t the first balloon was sent across the English ehauneUAt tbe close of this year (1784) fifty baltowa mm* had been made, one ©f which attained the *1 tude of 13,000 ftx*.

In im Bianchwd, the first nrofcaaion*1 aeronaut, and Br, John Jeffrie^ of Boston, accomplished the dngerom fe*t of massing the Rngltsh channel hom Dover to France. In making an wcension from Paris, Madame wife of the aeronaut was precipitated to the earth and dashed to puxm. Tim acfey W baltowi taking fire.

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gas balloon ever seen. The mrh*i two to wicker work, thirteen feet in be^ht by twenty in length, containing a printing office? a photographic department, re

freshment room, lavatory, etc. It ascended with nine passengers, including Madame Nadar, it came down in seventeen hours, at a distance of 400 miles from Paris.

To Blancb&td, the French aeronaut, is due the idea of using the parachute as an adjunct to the talloon. Andre Jaques Garnerin was tbe first person who successfully descended from a balloon in a parachute. He made bis first public experiment in Paris. He ascended to a very considerable altitude and released the parachute, which was attached to the balloon, in place of the usual car or basket the balloon arose out of sight and the parachute descended to the earth in safety, The descent occupied ten minutes.

Not long since, Kuporenti, a Polish aeronaut, ascended in a balloon which took fire, and his parachute enabled him to reach the earth in safety.

Mr. Cocking, of London, England, made an ascent to the height of several thousand feet, when he liberated his parachute from the balloon. For a few seconds it very gradually descended, when suddenly the upper rim seemed to give way, and the whole apparatus collapsed, taking the form of an umbrella turned inside out. When about three hundred feet from the ground the parachute became disengaged and tbe unfortunate aeronaut fell and was literally dashed to pieces. iff)

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A Long-felt Want In a Lund Jjvfrnted Voracious Whlla Ant*. E. H. Stryke, a business man ot Queensland, was at the Lelan hotel yesterday, says the Chicago HeralJ., He had just returned from England. "I went to England," he said, to try to make arrangements for the manufacture of a large quantity of metal furniture, and I stopped in New York fox the same purpose. The company I represent wishes to get chairs, tables,lounges and other articles of furniture made o! some metal which will not need to be painted, and can be sold at reasonable prices. It is a hard matter to get any metal furniture light enough to ship long distances, cheap onough to sell in a frontier country, and strong enough to b€ durable But there is a great demand in Northern Australia and a large pari of West Australia for that sort of goods, and undoubtedly some manufacturei will meet it "Most of Queensland, all of Northern Australia, and a large part of West Australia are within the tropics. The thre« countries are infested with those terrible pests, the white ants. A person whe has never lived in tropical Australia can not imagine what that means. White ants eat wood, and nothing but wood. They gnaw out the inside of a block oi wood without once piercing the outside consequently there is no way to tell how or where they are at work. I have known them to destroy a log twenty feet long and two feet thick in a single night They go everywhere and nothing mad« of wood can be kept from them. The first thing the householder knows hii door tumbles down, or he discovers thai his roof rafters are merely shells. The white ants eat up wood furniture, at they do houses. The people of Queensland have tried all sorts of schemes, but have never found anything antproof except metal. They cover their houses with sheet-iron, and theii tables with tin. I believe that if light metal furniture can be made there wil} be a tremendous sale for it all over the northern half of the Australian continent,"

Mr. Stryklo left for St Louis, whert he Is to confer with some manufacturers of granite ironware, to see if it will b* practicable to make lounges and tables out of the material they use for pots and kettles.

l]pw and When to Drink Water. Accordiug to Dr. Leuf, wlien water if taken into the full or partly full stomach, it does not mingle with the food, as we are taught, but passes along quickly between the food and lesser curvative toward the pylorus, through which it passes into the intestines. The secretion of mucus by the lining membrane is constant, and during the night a considerable amount accumulates in the stomach some of its liquid portion Is absorbed, and that which remains if thick and tenacious. If food is taken into the stomach when in this condition it becomes coated with this mucus, and the secretion of the gastric juice and its action are delayed.

These facts show the value of a goblet of water before breakfast This washes out tin* tenafcious mucus and stimulates tbe gastric glands to secretion. In old and feeble persons water should not be taken cold, but it may be with great ad* vantage taken warm or hot This re* moval of the accumulated mucus from the stomach is probably one of tbe reasons why taking soup at the beginning of a meal has been found so beneficiaL

Ut«it Edition of the Dud#. Yesterday I bad the privilege of seeing what I have tittle doubt was aNew York dude on Fifth avenue. Perhaps it may interest some of my readers if I give a careful description of it, without exaggeration. It had on a tittle derby hat with a flat brim, beneath which on one •kin closely crapped hair bristled and on the other was a dear little nose—I could not see its forehead, A high collar and a tie of some quiel color (the .single sign of good taste) divided the head from a tightly-fitting overcoat reaching to about an inch below the waist f^ eost ««i at gray and black diagonal, cat in presumably English style, for it was hidecms. Tbe shoulders wet® padded evidently. Beneath this, trousers a world too wide for any dado's understandta?*, striped b*oadly in white and dark y, led down to ft pair of patent fc ws •boss. Gloves, dark tan in color, a pletod tbe clothing proper of this a rsy creator*. Bat there-wow acc-v .NH*X It carried an insMtae cane, abeus sis inches too long for its «sc, w«?h a sb*p herd's crook handle. In iw .xinth was a cigarette.—[Pitta*burs afceh.

It must be rather an awkward matter to visit the Prince of Wales, as it is said that he is fond of giving hi* weigu.

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TERRE MAUTE DAILY NEWS, SATURDAY, MARCH 15,1890—SUPPLEMENT.

Bow Holland Farmer* Caro for Theta Cows—A. Sad in a Cloaot. The houses in "Holland are mostly briak, square in shape, one story higl with peaked red tiled root The thatched tool which is so usual in Belgium Is hew seldom seen. The houses are usuallj neat looking, both outside and in.

On opening the door you are shows into a large room with kitchen ufcensili in the glory of highly-burnished splendor hanging about a stove or cookinf range, with here a table, a settee, and a few chairs, with a strip of carpet laid or the brick floor.

Banging down this long room is a row of cow stalls on an elevated brick-paved platform, with a trench back of the stalls about two feet wide and two feet deep. This room accommodates from twenty to fifty oows on a well-to-do farm er's place, and was a curious sight to us. These stables and kitchen combined arc scrubbed clean as any ward in some oi our best hospitals.

In the spring, when the cattle are turned out to grass, the stalls are scrubbed and scoured, tbe brick pavements painted and the walls and ceilings whitewashed. Lace curtains are arranged at the windows, often flower-pots or little jard inlets are kept there during the summer, and the room smells as sweet and is at clean as the milk house of the most fastidious farmer's wife.

After the cows are housed in the fall, they remain in until spring. You see no cow yards. The cattle are either in pasture or in their stalls. When turned out, they are blanketed with sail cloth curiously held in place by ropes running under and around the legs.

This large room mentioned above is occupied jointly by the cows and the servants. Opening from it you enter a dining and sitting room, generally carpeted, and, unlike he stable and kitchen, has wooden floors. From this you enter the bedrooms. The beds are generally in an elevated alcove, with doors in front, cutting it off from the room. The bed is generally a bunk. In this province bedsteads are seldom used.

I was shown into a bedroom furnished wish a washstand, a tablt), and some chairs, but there seemed to be no bed, writes a correspondent of the Philadelphia Manufacturer. Investigation of what appeared to be cupboard doors in the wall, only about the size of ordinary sideboard doors, showed the bed in this cupboard or closet, so high rem the ground that steps kept inside for the purpose had to be used to get in. IffllS

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WHERE won EX CAME FROM.

Curious Myth« Concerning the Origin oi Man'* Helpmate.

Woman's first appearance has been a fruitful subject for the legend mongers, says the London Tablet The Phoenician myth of creation is found in the story oi

Pygmalion and Galatea." There the first woman was carved by tbe first man out of ivory and then endowed with life by Aphrodite. The Oreek theory of the creation of woman, according to Hesiod, was that Zeus, as a cruel jest, ordered Vulcan to make woman out of clay and then induced the various gods and goddesses to invest the clay doll with all their worst qualities, the result being a lovely thing with a witchery of mien, refined craft, eager passion, love of dress, treacherous manners, and shameless mind.

The Scandinavians say that as Odin, Vill, and Ve, the three sons of Thor, were walking along the sea beach they found two stioks of wood, one of ash and on* of elm. Sitting down the gods shaped «y«iw and woman out of these sticks, whittling the woman from the elm and calling her Emia.

One of the strangest of stories touching tbe origin of woman is told by the Madagascarenes. In so far as the creation of man goes the legend is not unlike that related by Moses, only that the fall came before Eve arrived. After the man had eaten the forbidden fruit he be cam? afflicted with a boil on his leg, out oi which, when it burst, came a beautiful girl. The man's first thought was to throw her to the pigs but he was commanded by a voica from heaven to let her play among the diggings until sht was of marriageable age, then to make her his wife. He did so, called her Baboura, and she became the mother of all races of men.

The American Indian myths relativ* to Adam and Eve are numerous and entertaining. Some traditions trace back our first parents to red and white maize another is that man, searching a wife, was given the daughter of the king of mu&krats, who, being dipped into the waters of a neighboring lake, became woman. PP4.

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The steamer for Liverpool was aboui leaving the New York dock. The friendi of tbe passengers were bidding a last farewell., A brisk, elderly gentleman evidently a merchant, hastily embraced a Iftdy on deck and hurriedly left th »hip In the crowd on tbe wharf was I workingman, who was leaning against« post looking at the steamer. "Do you see that lady in black

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deck?" asked tbe merchant of tbe party of the second pant. 3 S "All right that's nay wife, and sh« expects me to slay here twenty minute* and shake my handkerchief until tbe steamer is out of sight" "Does she?* "Yea. HJis is the busy season, and Fv*no time to waste. My wife is litUe short-sighted, so she will be non« thft wiser if you wave tbe handkerchief Fli give you a quarter. •But suppose she geta a spyglasa?* "In that case you bury your £aee It the handkerchief and appear to weep. You might shake ooovokirely and pet haps shed «tsar or so. A quarter isi great deal of money these hard timea' *111 have to have an extra dime. "All right? but I think yoo ought to kiss your hand to bera few timce foi the extra diftt.* Then the merchaa looked at his wwteh and disappeared

XTASSBR WOXEX OF MADRltK

ran Thousand Who Dally Ply Their Trade on the Banks of tin Mansanares. Madrid's river of high-s funding name, the Manzanares, is a spatter of wet from the Guadarrama Mountains in winter, a muddy torrent in spring, sand-blown ditch in the summer, and hardly a capaide sewer at any time of the year. It oomes down from the cold, gray heights to the north of Madrid, and winds half way around the city from the northwest to the southeast What water flows through it breaks in sandy shallow*, forming innumerable little islands and curiously bounded strips of land, all accessible by any barefoot boy or girL Ten thousand women soak and splash and souse and beat the linen of Madrid within its scant waters every day. Not an article of clothing is elsewhere washed. No other than these Manzanares iavanderas are permitted to labor as laundresses and for three miles up and down tbe stream, from opposite the infantry and artillery barracks, upon the heights of Montana del Principe, past the windows of tbe Queen Regent's apartments in the royal palace, and circling around away beyond Toledo Gate, the moving dots of red and blue, yellow and gray, comprise this great army of Amazons, with arms and legs on them like tree trunks with voluptuous breasts and shapely necks hard-muscled and bronzed as Turks the most arduous toilers, the wickedest blackguards, and withal the sunniest tempered souls in Spain, There are three grades in this labor. They are the mistresses, or amas, the overseers, or ayudantas, and the lavand eras themselves. All are women. The first are the agents who receive the work from the hotels, great houses, and the city agencies, in huge lots, and are responsible for its safe return. The ayudants or overseers are really the forewomen of from a dozen to a score of lavanderas each and they are responsible for work placed in their hands by the amas. At 5 in the morning, winter and summer, the lavanderas will be seen, many of them with children trundling beside them, creeping along from th*. barrios abajos or lower quarters of the city toward the Manzanares. Near the river is an asilo or asylum, a refuge for their children.

By 6 o'clock you might oount from 5,000 to 8,000 of the strange creatures at work. The entire sloping, sandy banks are covered with drying poles. At tills time of the year the water from the mountains is of icy temperature. But it seems to make no difference with their labors. Here and there huge cauldrons contain boiling water. From time to time a trifle of this is poured in the little hollow where each one toils in the sand and watefr but this seems to be done more from habit than necessity. Each lavandera brings her own huge roll of bread, perhaps a bit of cheese, a claspknife to prevent undue liberties from the straggling soldiery near as well as to use in cutting bread, and, just before noon, they breakfast in huge wooden sheds on salt fish, potatoes and coffee, with a measure of red wine provided by the ama, duplicating this meal at a dinner at I in tbe afternoon.

They eat like animals, atid the moment their food is disposed of the tinkle of the guitar is heard, and you or any kindly disposed passer may dance with them as I did, until the thirty minutes allowed them for food and refresco have expired. On these occasions every one dances, girls of 18 and women of 80, and the scenes along the Manzanares are very picturesque and interesting. But when I tell you that one of these iron-framed wenches must wash and dry ready foi the "starching," which is done by the criadasinthecity, pieces of linen equalling tbe cleansing of seventy sheets, in order to earn 25 cents per day, the poetical sense in it all is with the interested onlooker rather than with the drudging lavanderas of the Manzanares.—[Pilts» burgh Dispatch.

TIIE TYPICAL A VST.

The J£xtr*inec to Which She Will Go Tt Flease the Small Boy. Two elderly ladies, living alone on Selden avenue, are very proud of a certaii 5-year-old nephew of theirs, and when ever he deigns to visit them they loot their individuality and are his devotee slaves while he remains in the house.

The other day, when he returned hom from a morning call upon his relatives, he brought with him as souvenirs of hit visit a great paper bag filled with hickorj nuts, every one of which had been neatlj cracked by their aged fingers, and besidei these he bore ft massive, old-fashioned solid silver teapot and a heavy cut-gla» salt cellar which had happened to please his infant fancy. He displayed bisspoili to his parents, and his father said to hii mother after the Inspection: "I believ* those sisters of mine would climb up ot the roof and getdown the top brick of tbe chimney for the little Imp if he hintel that he wanted it

The remark was intended for her win alone, but Hopeful caught it neverthe leas, and as soon as he had bolted hii dinner he pot on his hat, overcoat, tip pet, and legging and started off tip street

About an hour afterward one of th* anuts rushed up to the house in a sfcati of greftt excitement As ooon as six had caught her breath she explains* that "our boy" had just been to theft house, and with tears in his eyes beggec for tbe top brick In the chimney, ftzic she and her sister feared that the deaj child's mind had been affected. •Well what did you do about it?" UM mother asked, as her tender eyes fiB* with moisture snd she hit her lips til they almost Wed.

Do about It? Why, the poor ho] cried so for it, and we know that

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couldn't hurt himself with it, that wi opened the scuttle, pulled a ladder up ot the roof, and sister went up and got for him. We didn't do anything wrong dad wot*

A new form of entertammg In Part is to take your guests to a moeeusn, bc« plUl or other public institution, see th* nights and talk about them. After they are fully chaiged with new information

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