The Centre reporter. (Centre Hall, Pa.) 1871-1940, December 13, 1894, Image 2

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    IN THE VALLEY,
To day, when the sun was lighting my house on
the pine-clad hill, !
‘The breas: of n bird was ruffled as it perched om |
my wind w sill; i
And a leat was chssed by the kitten ou the |
breeco-swept garden walk, |
And the |iuty Lead i
+ fadah in re
Was stirred on its slender stalk,
Qb, happy the bird at sha rose-tree, unheedin
the threaten ng storm!
And happy the blithd leaf-chaser, rejoicing tn
sunshine wana!
They take po thought for the morrow —they |
know no cares to-day ; :
Apd tre veousand things |
‘That the future brings {
Are a blank tp such as they, |
Put I, by the household ingle, con interpret thie |
booming clouds,
For tbe wind ‘s o hoes” through the keyhole,
and n shedow the housd enshrouds;
And 1 kn w I must quit my mounta’n and go
down 10 the vale below, i
For my house is chill |
On the windy 51°),
When the autumn texapoists blow,
My miod is forever drawing an instruoctive par.
ullel
*Pwixt temporal that perish and eternal things
that awell-
When billows and waves surround me and
waters my soul o erflow,
I descend in hope
rrom the mountain top
To the sheltering vale below.
I go down to the valley of silence, where the
wor dl. are never met ;
I know there is “balan asad healing there for
eyus that with tear: are wet,
And I find, in {ts sweet sociusion, gentle solace
for all my care, .
} oF that valley pure,
With its shelter rure,
Is the Leautiful vale of prayer.
~Chumber's Joarnal
DUTIFUL DA UGHTER.
it was romantic, but impossible.
fhe was the firth daughter of Dr.
Pillingham of Curzen street, Mayfair,
and he the third son of the Earl of
Broadmoor, with an allowance that
Kept him in neckties and cigarettes,
together with a bedroom and ‘‘the
run of bis teeth” at the family man-
gion in Grosvenor square.
Lord Broadmoor had put down his
goutiest foot as heavily as he dared
apd thundered “No!” And as, inad-
dition to his lordship, Lady Broad-
moor claimed Dr. Pillingham's at
tendance for five minutes every
morning at a guinea a visiy they
were not patients to be olended
rashly.
So Miss Dorothy Pillingham
the Hon. Guy de Woking had one
meeting to say ‘wood-by,” after
which they were to meet as strangers
No one yuite knew how they hud ever
met at all
“You will neither write to him nor
hear from him,” said Dr. Yillingham
sternly.
‘Father, 1 cannot promise.”
Dorothy, sobbing
++] don’t care wbether you do or
not: 1'll see vo that,” sald Dr. Pilling:
ham, and from that day every letter
ipto and out of the house was scru-
tipized, and every walk poor Jurothy
ok was in the ccmpany of some one
stern and severe.
“If 1 hear of you communicating
with that girl you go with a shiil-
ing," said the Earl of Droadmoor to
his son.
All right, governor, keep your
bair on. You've got to hear of it
first,” said Guy de Wokiog under his
breath. but his father fortunately did
not hear, and scon after sounded Dr.
Pillingham as to how parental discip-
line worked in the case of Dorothy.
“A charming nature, Lord Broad-
woor,” sald the oid doctor, *'a charm-
ing nature: our affect onate inter
course is uninterrupted. Every morn-
iog she he ps we on with my over-
oat, just as usual, brushes wy hat,
fees that my stethoscope is in its
place--1 used to be continually for-
getting it—and, thougn 1'll be bound
she knows where 1's golog, says not
aword.”
1 am delighted to hear it,” said
Lord Broadmoor. He had pot
watched his son's correspondence,
trusting rather to the watching on
the other side, and also to the fact
that he had never seen Guy read aoy-
thing but a sporting paper, or write
at all, except under compulsion.
Very satisfactory,” sald Lord
Broadmoor, recurring to the subject
ten months later. ‘All blown over
and ended”
He haa been telling Dr. Pilling-
ham of an excellent appointment in
a8 Government oidice which he had ob-
tained for Guay.
++] should not have got him a bil.
let in London,” continued his lord.
ghip, *if they had nut forgotton one ,
aaother.”
I hope be likes his work,” said Dr, |
Pillingham. !
“it's the first thiog he has ever
persevered with. There be goes to
his otce,” sad Lord Broadmoor, as
the front door banged loudly: ‘but he
ought to be eariler all the same. How
late it 1s! You, too, must be later
than usual, doctor, 1 think.”
+] fancy 1 am,” said Dr. Pilling-
,bam. Is her indyship ready to see
7?" aud he followed a powdered
tman out of the room. When he
came downstairs Lord Broadmoor
was standing io the hall. “1 should
be obliged, Dr. Pillingham,” he said,
*4f you would take a hurried written
Boe from me to Lady Honoria shaao-
erothu. to condole with her on Bir
Patrick's accident.”
“Certainly,” sald Dr. Plliingham.
slippiog the liwtie three-cornered
note into the linlog of his hat. “1
will put it bere, with one corner pro- |
Jecting: 1 cannot forget it then.”
“By the way,” said his lordship, |
“1 hope Miss Dorothy does not regard |
me as a terribie ogre.” I
“Tat, tut,” sald Dr. Pillingham.
Khe ha: forgotton everything, and
we have restored her liberty: she has
been quite civil lately tw young Dr.
MeGregor. the never would speak |
to him before. In fact, 1 really
hope” —— |
“Quite so. A very suitable oon. |
nection. Thank you,” sald Lord |
|
i
and
sald
Broadwoor, as he reached his study,
while the footman closed the door on
the doctor. .
» » - * .
. -
Honorla, smiling av the old doctor
graciously as she opened it. dow
different the courtly grace and dig-
niflea style of ourday from the slangy
familiarity of the present time
She gave a sudden grasp and sank
back upon the sofa. *“I'his from
Lord Broadmoor!” she moaned.
The note fell to the floor; the com-
written large, caught
his eye at once.
“My own
cums’
‘To me of all people;” gasped her
ladyship.
“Certainly not,” sald the doctor—
she would have turned the scale at
nineteen stone, so ‘Yittle Dolly Dad-
diecums” was obviously Inadequate.
“Written in a foreign hand, and
meant for whom I know not" she
“Poor Lady 1 roadmoor;
but stay, you must not read it”
“] have read it,” he said, putting
it in his pockey, ‘and you may take
it from me, Lady Honotla, It was not
little Dolly Daddle.
he
puts
it Is
her,"
“Take this to your mistress"
said to the butler in the hall,
ting on his hat, “and say that
the note 1 should have given
Dorothy stood
his consulting
room, pliant and submissive, her
hands folded together.
“And how long, miss,” he ex-
claimed, ‘*has this attachment been
revived? How many of_ these In-
famous missives have 1 borne in my
hat, to and from my patient's house?”
“It's a year since you sald we must
break it off, father, a year yesterday;
you must have carried —exactly,” and
she made a mental calculation, ‘sub
tractiog your month's holiday and
the day you wore your white has un-
expectedly, and allowing for leap
year, 634."
“And this,” he exclaimed, ‘was
your filial sollcitude. You have dis-
graced my name.”
**] changed it yesterday.”
“Whar?”
For the first time for twelve months
he saw her smile
“Allow me,” she sald,
duce the Honorable Mrs
Woking, and at least,
she added, ‘for a whole year you
have never gone out without
stethoscope.” —Baltimore Telegram
later
in
Ten minutes
Guy de
DEFIES HEAT AND COLD.
A New Kind of Giass Usnhurt by Vieleat
Aumospheriec Changes
The new Gerwan glass Is a pew
and singular departure in that line,
disregarding as it does the ordinary
principie that good giass must con.
lent or trivalent metallic oxide, the
oxide of monovalent wetal—an
alkall metal or thalilum-—but while
thus free from alkall can be worked
before the biowpipe, and has a small
coelliclent of expansion. The inven
tor, says the New York Sun, was led
to the production of this compound
glass by studying the state of strain
in ordivary glass vessels and tubes
cooled in contact with air. As a hol.
low ginss vessel, cooled in contact
with the alr, hag its cuter skin in a
state of compression, while the inside
is in a state of tension, 1t is easily
damaged on the inside, but Is resist.
ent on the outside: a hollow glass
vessel, if introduced when cold low
warts alr, bas its outer skin thrown
into a state of compression, but
when it is bot, it Is exposed to cold
alr, its outer s¢in Is thrown nw a
more readily than hot air does
funventor succeeded In throwing the
compress on by
vessel with a thin outer layer of glass
which has a small cvelicent of ex.
pansion. The flasks made of such
line and
the outside with cold water-—glass
dishes too, can be heated over the
naked Bunson flaine
ing. Pressure tubes of this com.
pound glass are also made tn meet
locomotives for five months
— ———
Do White Savages Exist?
the Tundras, or frozen swamps of
No thera Siberia, and who inenthno
would be the first to suggest them.
selves as an answer to the question.
in complexion they are
lightér even than many of the inhabi-
tants of Spain, ltaly, or the Grecian
Archipelago--yvet they are savages of
a type so low In the senile of human
ity that they might almost be de-
scribed as the northern counterpart
of the Fuegans in the South. They
iive mostly on raw flesh and fish, and
their linstitutions are even more
primitive thac those of the savages
of Central Africa Far re
moved from them, however,
region ot Eastern Para. They inhatdt
the district between the { cayall and
Yavari rivers. These are described
by Markham as the most ferocious of
all the tribes of Central South
Ameria. Thelr skins are white and
Unlike most savages they have
“tall and very war like, going quite
naked, armed with clubs, spears, and
blow. guns ™ A peculiar interest at.
tuches to them in consequence of the
belie! that they are the descendants
of Spanish marauders, who are aup-
posed to have lost themselves in the
wilds of Peru iu the time of Pluarro,
A. D. 15627, and 0 have mingled with
savage tribes and so roverted to save
agery.
‘Even: woman devel
thing of a singer when
to put to sleep.
into some.
Hus a baby
A TOWN.
EVERY HOUSE TO BE CARTED
AWAY ON WHEELS.
The Prospective Half- Mile Journey
of a New York Village-~A Whole~
sale Eviction.
village of Katonah will be begun in
a few days about half a mile south of
the present town of the samo name
in Westchester County.
Whether the town of Katonah will
be a new town six months from now
or whether it will be the old town in
a new place is still an open question
Only one thing is certain, and that is
that thirty days after May 1, 1805,
Katonah, if it exists, must not exist
where it is.
Commissioner Daly, of the Public
dangerous, and that it must go. A
board of appraisers was appointed to
ers. The city of New York became
owner of all the town with xX
ception of the Grand Army Hall and
the houses of 8B. O. Arnold and 8. B.
Hoyt. Joth Mr. Arnold and Mr.
Hoyt had built houses on the out-
skirts of the village over 200 feet
from the Cross River, whizh runs
hrough the settlement The Com-
that they might
stay, as they were outside of the dead
line.
To all the
however, the
the ¢
missioner decided
Other
order
property-owners
was
May
days
of eviction
law, ani they were given until
1, 1885, to out. Thirty
after that dare the houses they oceu-
py, and which the
city, will be sold at public auction to
the highest bidder
When the took the
last April. the rent question was not
broached. For six months the own
lived in the premises unmolested.
October, however, were
made to pay rent. They are now
paying rent to the city for the
property the city taken from
them, and up to have not re-
ceived the money for
demnation. Still ti got
and is not worrying ¢
nearly so much as the
erga
ret
now belong to
city houses
ers
Last
they
has
date
due thet con-
ey w it,
this fact hem
uestion how
further
1
i
tii
the town a half mile
south.
ie
Push it along,
‘It’s a good thir 2 ty
yesterday
said an Katonah
when asked ho te
to be moved, &
have to be done.
With ides
Omp
owners has beg
nintive
IW Was
1
this a
ilinge nrop
prog
and twenty-
swe #1
EY Nai
i A a
Way OF Ory
1 formed
cate
n
groun one-half mile
five acres of
south of the 1
been
been
town s
ground
ght have
purchase has
surveyed
this
completed the pi
and
week After
onle will wait
be started
their houses are so! i by the i)
them in i lumber, and tl
village will take wheelsand g
There is a large quantity of work
in sight ‘>r any fair-sized, healthy
house-moving sssociatic will
8 the
stores and barns of Katonah over the
river to the new town
people think it cannot be done.
But all regulated vill
there are a few minds who under
stand that necessity is the mother of
and these have
come forward with a feasible scheme
for the moving.
Their plan is to lay a temporary
track such as is used in railroad con-
struction work from the Harlem
liver Railroad to the house to be
moved, jack the houses on to
ns Ol
mm that
>
guarantee to move residences,
ross site,
Many
well
in ges
invention, people
moved onto the new
Owing to the fact that the road
to the new village is up and down
hill, the old style of moving cannot
lot.
ble to insist on going down hill in-
The moving of the vil-
Inge on flat cars seems the only way
out of it, and this system cannot be
Methodist and Presbyterian
ghurches, which are situated one-half
mile from the railroad.
A scheme to move the churches,
Instead of the railroad, it is proposed
to jack the churches up ten feet, sul-
ficient to drive a dozen horses or so
under them, and by placing them on
heavy stone-wagons braced with steel
rails to eart them the distance,
This plan, while appearing impossi-
ble to some of the villagers, is said to
be practicable, and has been em.
ployed in the Bouthwest, where a not
uncommon sight is to see a four-
room cottage on wheels going up the
main street to take up its residence
on a new fifty-foot lot its owner has
traded for a span of mules.
&. The new village of Katonah is to
be up to date, and needs only a kite-
shaped track to make it an ideal. It
is expected that thirty days after the
order of evacuation is given the new
town will be running in full blast
and the storekeepors doing busiuess
in the samo old way atthe new stand.
The town elaims a population of 700.
The magnitude of the undertaking
ean be better understood when itis
known that between eighty and one
hondred -houses will have to
moved, besides barns, stores and a
couple of blacksmith shops, the rail-
road depot, three churches and a
school-house . | New York World.
A Case of Telepathy.
A singular case of telepathy, or
thought transferrence, or whatever
one might call it, Is related a
of Penobscot County 0.
| ana while returning in the dark his
horse stumbled and fell. Fortun-
ately he was not thrown out of his
| enrriage, though he had a narrow es-
cupe, and the only damage done was
| the breaking of one thill. He was
{able to pateh it up well enough to get
{on and went home. When he reached
{ his house he was surprised by his
| wife opening the door for him and
i saying: "You did meet with an acel-
ident, didn’t you He asked how
{she knew anything of it, and she
| said that she had gone to bed and
was asleep, when she was suddenly
| roused by finding herself in a sitting
| position, and filled with a sense that
he was in some dangerous predicn-
| ment. It had impressed her so that
i she got up to await his return. On
inquiry he found that she had awak-
| ened at the identical moment when
| the aceident had happened to him.—
( {Now Orleans Picayune.
gre
A DIAMOND FINDER,
He Is to Have a Pension for His Dis~
covery.
At a time when the future
portion of t
ruse a leaf from the past,
The Cape Government
plating
founder of the diamond industry in
the country over which ith
is contems-
id 3 i
HOGS JUris-
d the above
diction
of the
A is a photograph
fortunate individual who will
doubtless be the happy recipient.
if actually t
iin
bie yond dispute
n to by numerous wit-
nesses, before H. Reynolds, Esq | J.
PP.. for Windsortown, Vaal River,
5 1 Africa.
the year 1866, Lennard Jacobs,
a Korannalh, wes led by a report that
a German missionary named Kallen
berg, had i Peniel (now
as Bar ‘trek’’ thither
in search of religious instruction. Af.
ter remaining at Peniel for some
months he became dissatisfied, and
tO return $0 but
dissuaded Mr. Kallenberg
him the advan-
within reach of
He also added to
t he had read that
had
3
That he he discoverer
of the first diamont
is a fact which
been swor
tel i ir
seitied In
iv), to
resolved his kraal,
WAS
who pointed
tagos {
of remaining
a Christian mission
his persuasion
1 i tim d wr
geology “la in he old country
expressed h pinion that South
bsesra ld
SIN
Africa
OK,
dian
It was i ] when
discover
wre heard
t was and
whereupon
if he
how to
Mr. Kalle
ind a st
which withstood the
s beat five times or more, he
claude it un diamond.
i and, if it
popped in the ssbes, it was a crystal
and valuelags,
“Why.” said Lennard
have many bright
you speak of, and when I go
will m in the fire."
On his return to his little farm, re-
membering the missionary’s instruc.
he placed several bright stones
his four children had
in the but sll popped
the exception of one which
o heat.
led him to examine it
put it
and rresently he found that
he had not but a great many
valuable diamonds on his farm He
sold them for a song, has remained
poor, and merits his pension.
Was
the other &
bag ea
im iren
y child
stones such as
home 1
3
put Lie
col.
#5 wo
are,
seemed impervious t
‘his little
more carefully to
tests
one,
Over Weird Snow Wastes.
Frederick Funston, nephew of Con-
gressman Funston of Kansas and
Rpecinl Agent of the Agricultural
Department, Washington, D. C.,
and a half on the Yukon and its trib-
utaries in Alaska. He was collecting
has an exhibit at the Occidental
that is of unusual interest. His
| headquarters last winter were at Old
Rampart House, on the Upper Porcu-
pine, an abandoned post of the Hud-
gon Bay Company.
“The most unique experience I
had,”” said Mr. Funston, ‘‘was in
crossing from this point to the mouth
of tha Mackenzie a distance of 300
{miles, An Indian and 1 did it on
snowshoes. We made the round trip
| of 600 miles, besides staying a week
ito talk to some ice-bound whalers,
Lin twenty-two days. The thermom-
eter was once as low as fifty-seven
| degrees below zero, and it was always
| forty, at least. I was the first white
man to make this trip.
“We used web shoes most of the
time, but when we struck s down-
hill place fora few miles wo put on the
Norwegian runners, and then we
went like lightning. The desolation
of those snows wastes cannot be de-
scribed. The cold was also so intense
that we had to keep going. We got
short of provisions and for two days
subsisted on nothing but tea. As
hot tea is the very best thing to keep
out cold, and we drank plenty of it,
we got along very well.”’
Me, Funston floated down the
Yukon in a canoe, entirely alone, for
a distance of 1,800 miles, collecting
plants and zoological specimens as he
proceeded.—[San Francisco Exam-
iner,
The ldo! on the Dial.
Apropos of watches, the latest
fhshion is the photographic watch,
a present.
ment in miniature of any person
whose likeness you can supply to the
manufacturer. The real fad is to se-
Jeet the portrait of your favorite poli-
NOTES AND COMMENTS,
Ix America thers are 250,000 pupils
in public secondary schools, and 200, -
(00 in private schools of the second-
ary grade,
Turkey. The only application of
electricity in that country is the tel-
cgraph. Large sums have been of-
fered the government for electric
lighting and telephone privileges, but
all have been refused.
Carrain J. M. Topp, of Decatur,
Aln., who is now eighty-three years
old, is one of the few survivors of the
ante-bellum steamboats men of the
Tennessee River, Between 1882 and
1870 he made thirty-two trips from
Decatur to New Orleans, in charge of
flats loaded with cotton. It required
six weeks to make the trip. The re-
turn trip was a tedious one, as the
captain and the erew, which consis-
ted generally of eight or ten men,
walked most of the way.
Arroros of the Canadian complaint
that whalers owned the United
States are trespassing in Hudson Bay,
two whaling barks from New Bedford
year in Hudson
Strait bound for Hudson Bay, and a
great many were reported from VAri-
parts of the North Atlantic.
ny of these latter were in pursuit
of sperm whales, whalers
in
were reported last
vy £F
=
Pree
Conn
antic and its tributary i
The sail
are more and
Atl
that steam whalers are
in the North Pacific
maore
£0 81
and the Ar
he En
Oenos
Revonrs to t stockh
BH
wim
$id
giish
Ayres
that there
ers of the
Ruiiwes
pearant 3
the ec tm
Argentine ter
affairs
Wester I
iB BYe ry
improvement
ion of thi
Political
settied
yublic
become
ha i
had
heavy rains
doing well
§
een
more
fullen, shi ep w
the lambing
fs very good one, ar i
in exces
Moreover
Begs
the
n
wool would be
inst year
was extending in the
by the line and the
to Ix iarger than tliat
plans saonted
tries to coma:
weather
of fa
the
steps will be
plan
riners
next confe
Tue pine
forests are in gre
among the
make piantati
of the
standing orders
London, from
many from the
ment, and even bad :
he market price of the cone
pound, which cans
itant when the difficulty
them is considered. The
turesque figure among ti
of the sceds W. Dun:
now eighty-one years old,
passed fifty yeurs of his
doors on the Pacific Coast,
Sierras
ot be called ex
of obtaining
Ce
most i
we collecto
is who is
and has
life out of
that
im-
IT is not generally supposed
eats have a peculiar commercial
portance in certain lines of trade
Marine insurance in some parts of
the country does not cover damag
done to the cargo by the depredation
of rats, but if the owner of the cargo
thus damaged can prove that the
ean recover compensation from the
vessel's owner. Then, again, a ship
that is found ander certain circum-
stances without a living creature on
board is considered a derelict and ac-
cording to certain conditions is for-
feited.
curred, alter all the crew have been
lost, or the ship otherwise sbandoned,
that a live canary, domestic fowl, bat
most frequently a cat, being found on
board, has saved the vessel from
being condemned as derelict. Conse-
quently ship owners, considering the
eat’'s proverbial tenacity of life, as
well as its presence being a bar to
claims of damage
take care not to send a ship to sea
without having a eat on board,
A Westerx man is responsible for
the story that fish have contributed
wild fowl.
carps were planted in the streams
which intersect some of the marshes
of the West, famous as the haunts
of wild ducks.
Western man an examination of the
stomachs of the carps has revealed
the fact that they were gorged with
the roots and seeds of the wild rice,
which was the food that formerly
rendered the marshes so attractive to
fowl. The disappearance of the rice
led to an investigation of the causes,
with the result stated. The fact that
the carps fed upon the roots of the
plants as well as the seeds, precludes
the hopes of any renewal of the
growth. As a foil to this pessimistic
statement, there has rarely beon a
season when aquatic plants have
shown such abundant growth on
many of the smaller bays of Long Is.
Jand, as this one. The duck shootin
on these waters is now most excel
lent, and promises to become better
with each succeeding week.
Ax extraordin statement was
recently made in the Public Aigus
of Philadelphia to the effect that
may bat ot
ofa certain drug. One man with the
aid of six boys and several bird dogs,
it is asserted, socured as many as
10,000 eggs in one section of the
Btate. This is hardly credible, and
| is quoted merely to call attention to
{ the fact that in almost all the States
i of the Union a very large business is
conducted by taxidermists in the
(sale of the eggs of all wild birds to
collectors, who make up s very large
constituency, One taxidermist has
very modestly acknowledged that in
i 8 single season—that of jast ye Ar-—iie
| disposed of 20,000 eggs of wild birds
to amateurs. Under these conditions
it is surprising that a single one of
the feathered species survives. Asa
matter of fact as regards song birds,
none is seen or he ird now except im-
mediately about habitations or
public parks. Two or three years
ago those interested in the preserva-
tion of bird life were gratified by the
passage of the New Brunswick, Can-
ada, Legislature forbidding
in
the tak.
« thin or 74 4 rye i
ing of the eggs of aquatic fowl
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THE TALLEST LADDER.
Spiked Against a Smokestack and
Reaches 456 Feet.
A rt distance from
Cathedral, northward thro
street, the Monkland cs
and the grimiest of
regions is reached. On the left hand
are the well-known St, Rollox works,
of which Sir Charies Tennant is the
head, and which are easily distin-
guished by the great chimney stack
designed by the late Professor Mac-
quorn Rankine. The stack is 456
feet high from the base to the cap-
feet less than the Town
send stack in the same locality, but
Tennant’s stack stands a8 more
elevated part of the city and so to the
onlooker appears taller than its
neighbor. Some interesting opers-
tions were recently carried out in con-
nection with the repairing of Ten-
nant’s stack. A local steeplejack of
note, who has kept the two chimneys
in repair for the past twenty-five
years mounted to the top of the
| stack, adopting a different method
from that used by him about two
years sgo, when he climbed the stack
at Port Dundas. On that occasion
he mounted by means of kite-fiying,
which enabled the necessary ropes
' for the ascent being thrown over the
top of the chimney
On the present occasion he adopt.
|ed a handier, and, on the whole, a
| safer plan. his is known as the
| ladder process, and is much in vogue
among contractors for chimney re-
| pairing. The occasion was the first
| time the method has been used for a
| chimney of so great a height and
| when fully erected the adder was the
| highest in the world. The first sec.
| tion was planted against the chimney
and nailed securely by hooked iron
| pins eighteen inches long and an inch
| thick. Section after section each
{ eighteen feet long was then hoisted
| up, and after being lashed together,
was fastened in the same manner to
the chimney-=the difficult work, as
will be readily understood, requiring
great care and attention. The ladders
used were of yellow pine, and of the
lightest possible make, with flat steps
an inch by an inch and a hall broad.
One advantage of this process is that
the work of repairing does not, as in
the case of a kite, require to wait for
a favorable wind, but can be begun at
any time, and the preliminary opera-
tions thus over, it is simply a matter
of climbing a ladder.—{ Westminster
Gazette.
Tue utter barbarity of Chinese
methods of warfare could not be more
clearly signified than in the la
of the chie! trate of Tien T
fo members of the iad Cross Sr
she rlasgow
manufacturing
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