MASSACRED IN RED CANON. CftlEr.ral. Mill, rtfce Male Narvlvsr la a Part? al Mevea, Tallin* lha Ninrr. A recent Black Hills letter savs : Our discussion of mining locations, prospect ing parties aud other subjects kindred to • mining centre has br<a suddenly changed by the return to the frontier of William Q. Felton, better known as " California Bill," whoee reputatibn BK a scout is widespread on the plains. His return brings to mind the Indian mas sacre of April 16, 1876, known as the Bed Canon massacre, from which in a party of five men and two women, Cali fornia Bill alone escaped. The party, consisting of Andrew Mets and wife. John Bnrgeseer, of Carton, Nevada, a Mr. Orasliam, of Missouri, Mr. Stimp eon, of Colorado, and a colored woman, started from Ouster City for Cheyenne April 14, 1876. They were attacked by Indians in Red Canon two days after ward, and all the above were killod out right, or reoeivod wounds that soon re sulted in death. California Bill received a number of wounds, but escaped. Those wounds, however, have made an invalid of him. Though as yet uot really recov ered, he has returned to the frontier full of fight. He has related the storv of the massacre, particulars of which have not before been published: " I started from Custer City on my way out of the Hills to Cheyenne on the morning of the 14th of April. The first night we spent in Pleasant valley. Next morning we moved on, reaching Big Springs early in the afternoon of the 16th, and there going into camp. I felt assured that the passage through the Bed Canon would be unsafe for a small party, and oonclmled to await the arrival of a larger one that was expected to overtake us. A short time afterward, Metz'n party arrived with two two-horse teams, having Mr. and Mis. Mets, a negro woman from Custer, and a Mr. Stimpson as passengers. They stopped to water the stock at the spring, and laughed at my fear of trouble ahead, saying that they were not afraid of In dians. With this they went on, and at the continued urging of my passengers, though against my own judgment, I hitched up and followed. We traveled together undisturbed in the afternoon, aud went into camp at the head of the canon about five o'clock. Everything went off peaceably daring the night, and early on the morning of the 16th, Easter Sunday, we started down the eanon, seven in number. About hull way down the canon, where stands a giant cottonwood tree, there is a line of low hills, and close to the side of one of them, skulking well down, I discovered ten or twelve of the painted imps, nnder the lead of Sioux Jim, well known at the Bed Cloud agency, waiting for us. This was about ten in the morning, and my party was then about a quarter of a mile ahead of the Metz outfit On seeing that thev were discovered, with a terrible yell the Indians fired at us, putting a ballet through Burgesser's leg and one through my hip. Seeing the attack upon us, the Metz party turned about their teams and endeavored to turn up the canon. Oraspiug my rifle. I jumped from the wagon, and using it as a breastwork, returned their fire with in terest, knocking two of the cowardly scoundrels off their pins, and keeping the dust in a cloud around them, where moat of my hurriedly sighted shots struck. As I began to Are, Graham started to run, and was shot through the stomach. He fell. After several volleya, sending a shower of bullets over our heads and into the wagon, bat doing no further damage, the Indiana disappeared behind a neighboring hill, and thinking they were running after their ponies to cut us off, we mounted the wagon and again started to ran the gauntlet. We had gained only a few soda, however, before the red fiends ss ruddenly appeared on an adjoining j ridge, and gave ua another unexpected volley, plugging me through the left arm into the breast, through the fleshy part of the calf of my right leg, and again through my shoulder. For a moment it seemed ss though I was per fectly riddled with bullets, but I leaped to the ground just as another volley came, one of the ballets striking Bnr gesser in the thigh, knocking him into the wsgon box. Keeping close to the front wheel fnrthest from the Indians, I drove and ran alongside the wagon for half a mile down the canon, when in crossing a small stream the axle broke, and the wagon was left in the mad. There we were, all severely wounded, the Indiana close upon us, and we nnable to move. There was no time for thought, and though rapidly losing courage and strength from many wounds, I quickly unhitched the two lead mules, managed to get Burgesser on one, and while Oraaham. who did not then appear to be severely wounded, ran on down the canon, I mounted the other and sent them forward as fast ss possible. After riding about s mile and a half we met a party of six en route to Ouster, and they took us to the Cheyenne river stage station, where Burgeeaer and Oraaham died on the fol lowing morning. "The mutilated bodies of Metz and his wife and Htimpson and the colored woman were found the next day. Metz and Stimpson bad evidently been shot out of the wsgon. Mrs. Metz and the colored woman must have jumped from the wagon, tried to escape, and been murdered some distance from where the bodies of the two men were lying. The bodies were brought into camp, and all buried side by side, sod on the evening of the !7th of April I found myself the sole survivor of this ill-feted party. " After lying, more dead than alive, for eight weeks at Cheyenne River, "con tinued the scout, "a few soldiers of dept. Eagan's company took me to Fort Laramie hospital. Four months after ward I was sufficiently recovered to return to my home in Colorado; but two years have passed, and the wound in my hips is not folly healed. I'm back again in the Hills, he concluded, with much emphasis, "and though a little the worse for wear, am ready at any moment to mount the eaddle, throw the cartridges into my pet rifle here, and give the red men another chance to get the scalp of California Bill." There are 777 potteries in the United States, paying annually *2,247,781 wages, and turning out products to the nine of $6,046,536. f v, ■* * ' i ... J Mmf; , # The American Reindeer. The artist, Mr. 0. 0, Ward, haa a paper in Seribnrr on " Caribou-Hunt ing," from which we quote as follows : The auimal is very compact in f< rm, poancared of great speed and endnr.. ioe, and is a vory Ishraaelito in its wander ing habits ; changing, as the pest of flies draws near, from the low-lying swamps and woods where its principal article of diet, the Cladonia rangrtferina, or reiu deer lichen, abounds, to the highest mountain fastnesses; then again as the oold nights give warning of the chang ing season, descending to tho plains. Horns are common to both sexes, but the horns of the bucks arc seldom car ried later than the month of December, while the does carry theirs all winter, and use them to defend the fawns against the attacks of the bucks. Both sexes use their hoofs to clear away the snow in searching for mosses on the barrens. In their biennial migrations they form well defined tracks or paths, along which the herds travel in Indian file. I bare often studied their habits on the extensive caribou barrens between New river and the hosd of Lake Utopia, in Oharlotte county, New Brunswick. These barrens are about sixteen miles in extent, and marked with well-defined trails, over which the animals were con stantly passing and re-passing, here and there s pending a day wli toro the liohens afforded good living, then away again on their never-ending wanderings. A friend of mine, who visited New foundland on an exploring expedition, informs me that there the caribou holds almost exclusive domain over an un broken wilderness of nearly thirty thou sand square miles, in a country wonder fully adapted to bis habits, and bountifully supplied with bis favorite food—the reindeer lichen. Tbe caribou in poMessod of much curiosity, autl does not readily take alarm at what he seen. Where hia haunts have been unmoleated, he will uncon cernedly trot up within rango of tho rifle. lam inclined to believe that a great deal of this apparent fearlessness ia due to defective vinion. If thin ia no, he ia compensated by having A marvelous gift of noent, quite equal, if not supe rior, to that of the mooee. And well for tho caribou that he ia thus gifted. The wolf follows the herda throughout all their wandering*. On the plaina or on the hills, where the poor caribou re tire to rear their young, he is constr. ..ly lurking mar, ready to pounce on any straggler, or—if in sufficient numbers —to boldly attack the herd. The woodland caribou is very swift, and cunning in devices to escape his pursuers ; his gait is a long swinging trot, which he performs with his head erect and scut up, and there is no ani mal of the deer tribe that affords better sport or more delicious food when cap tured. The wandering habits of the caribou make it veiy uncertain where one will fall in with him, even in his ac customed and well-known haunts. When once started, the chase is sure to be a long one, and its results doubtful—in fact so much so that an old hunter sel dom follows up a retreating herd, but resorts to strategy and tries to head them off, or at once proceeds by the shortest way to some other barren in hopes of finding them there. The caribou is very fond of the water, is a capital swimmer, and in jumping he ia more than the equal of any other deer. His adventurous disposition, no doubt, in some degree influences the geographical distribution of the species. In the month of December. 1877, a cari bou was discovered floating out to sea on a cake of ice near Dalhouaie, on the Restigouche river in New Brunswick, and was captured alive by some men who put off to him in a boat. It is said that in very severe seasons large numbers of caribou cross from Labrador to Newfoundland on the ice. His admirably-constructed hoof, with its sharp, shell-like, cutting edges, enables him to cross tbe icy floes ; when travel ing in deep snow, its lateral zpansion prevents him from sinking. A Strange Romance. A trump'* qnnr romance is reported from Lebanon, 0., patbetic in it* details and crnel in it* termination. A yourg woman at Westchester, Pa., bad a lover at Wilmington, Del., tome year* ago, <i her father smiled on the suit, until illiam Udderzook wan hanged for bntehering Goes, to get the i nan ranee on his life, and it wa* known that the lover wan a relative of the criminal. Then the father forbade the auitor to come to hia house, which threw the daughter into an insane melancholy, and angered the young man into a course of dissipation. The old man finally sold hia Pennsylvania home and mo red "to Ohio, but the maiden was true, and a few afternoons ago threw herself into the arms of a tramp who came to the door to beg for bread. It was the miss ing lover, who had a sad story to tell of a downward career and of wanderings, in which he bad been to the South Afri can diamond field*. The young woman wan too glad to find her lover to recoil at bis rags or st the story of his diasips tion, bnt when the father appeared on the scene he was possessed with an in sane fnry, and boat the tramp so that his life was despaired of. After going for the doctor, the father became insane, and the danghter waa with difficulty per tuaded to leave the wounded man long enough to allow the doctor to attend him, Hew He AnUnislied the Ball. A Olen Sutton (Vt) oorrospoudent relates that while a young man named Pel kin was ont hunting s few days ago be chanoed to espy a for industriously digging for mioe about a decayed stump. Between himself and the monao-bnntcr, reclining upon the ground, quietly chewing bis cud, was Z. D. Wilson's bull. Cautiously advancing, our hero reached the unsuspecting bovine ; drop ping upon hia knees and carefully rest ing his gnu across the animal's back be pulled the trigger. The aim waa true, and sly Reynard fell dead. Bnt wasn't the bull astonished though I Springing to his feet with a roar, he ran over Pei kie about forty times, and rushed away snorting with terror. The first thing our friend saw on opening his eyes was the bull's tail cleaving the air like me teor. about a mile away, and the dead tot lying upon the grnnndbard by. The sight of die latter reassured him. and securing it, he limped hbmcwartl, re solved that though crest the tribulation be would never again nsea lire boll for sbfogstwoek. 4 jt ' _si y CARPET*. Where Thar Caaa Cram, M'ba Dee Thaw, una llaw Melr. Carpets come from the Kant, says an American paper, and their manufacture dates far back into antiquity. The Babylonians made tbem; they form ed a noted brunch of manufacture in Turkey and Persia before they were known in England. They belong to that Oriental luxnriousnesa of taste which was the exact opposite of the Baxon. The Mohammedan who prostrates himself many times a day upon the gronnd found it convenient to have something on which to kneel and which he could easily carry with him, while a like habit of sitting cross-legged upon the floor made the same material first a comfort, then an ornament to his honse. To these uses wo may probably traoe the custom in all Oriental countries, copied largely by France, of having car- Kta in one piece and then to only par lly cover the floor, or of the use of rugs merely before the principal pieces of furniture. It is only in America, England and Oermany at the present day that carpets are universally used covering the entire floor, and where the plan of waxing floors, as in France, is almost entirely unknown. Those who have painfully walked through some of tho palaces of Europe, shuffling along in felt slippers, or endeavoring to stand upright without tbem, realise the com forts of a well covered floor, as well as the groat addition to the beauty of a well furnished house. It iii somewhat singular that the Eng lish thonld have been so late as they were in discovering tho utility of car- Gt, for while they did not need them H' the set of worship, the climate would nutnrally snggeet such an addition to carmth. Yet we learn from history that as late as the reignn of Queens Mary and Elizabeth rashes were used, even in the palaces, though carpets had t>een imported to some extent from the East Bhakspeare occasionally refers to them, and Bacon, who was contempo rary with him, describes a reception thus ; " Against the wall, in the middle of the half-pace, is a chair placed before him with a table and a carpet before itfrom which it will be seen that the first carpets in use then were the same as we find in the East DOW. mere squares or ruga. At that dav they wore consid ered as luxuries, and for common daily use the English adhered as tenaciously to their straw and rashes as they do now to their roast beef and ale. Not much is known of the earliest Eastern fabrics, bnt as these nations change bnt slowly it is safe to assume that the first carpets were thin tapes tries, made by hand, as they are made at the present day. The process of fast eoing tufts of woolen into a warp with ! the Augers was exceedingly slow and tedions, but this is of small aooonnt in i countries where labor is of so little valne. The same process in France at the present day makes the Gobelin* i tapestries of immense valne, so that they ; rarely, if ever, come into the market, bnt are reserved for royalty. Many years are sometimes occupied in pro ducing some of the more ornate pieoea. Portraits and pictures of birds, animals j and flowers are accurately and beauti fully reproduced, and-wbat is more won derful is, that the artist does his work i with the back of the tapestry toward him. lie can only see what he has ac complished by going round to inspect l it when he stops for dinner or lesves at night. From this tapestry has sprung un doubtedly all onr modern carpets. When the manufacture was takeu up in England, devices were employed to mul tiply the fabrics and to cheapen them. This led to hand-loom and subsequently to machinery and the use of power. Good imitations of Turkish carpets were made at Axminster, and were called after the name of the town. Few people have any idea of the process of manu facture. It is one of the few remaining branches of Turkish industry. The methods of work in the anoient towns of Ouahak, llon]a and Ghoirdofa are of the simplest and rudest descrip tion. A vertical frame supports two horizontal rollers about five feet apart. The warp, of any required length, con sisting of an npper and lower thread, is wound around the npper roller and the ends fastened to the lower one by the girls, who sit cross-legged in a row be fore the frame. Each workwoman has a certain width allotted to her, and pro ceeds to knot the tnfts which form the pile in rows, nsing different colors to form tho pattern. The tying of the tnlts and the picking out of the various color ed wools, which bang in balls over the frame, is carried on with surprising rapiditv, the pattern being worked solely from memory. Yet with the aid of the rude frame, a pair of shears and comb, the workers contrive to produce the most harmoniously colored and cer tainly the most durable carpets in the trade. European taste has done much to foster this manufacture, bnt has never been able to improve it A live lier elaas of goods is produced to meet the American demand than those used by transatlantic purchasers. It would be interesting to follow the growth of this manufacture, and to de scribe the machinery by which it is pro duced, bnt that ia impossible hero. It is only fair to say, however, that no country has made more rapid strides than tni* branch of manufacture. More has been accomplished in one hundred years than in all the centuries preceding. Public taste, united to a desire to eoonomiaa, has led to an im mense production of ingrains, three ply* and Brussels, and this demand baa stimulated the inventive renins of the weavers and artists, until, in colors, designs and quality of frbrie, there ia nothing left to desire. It ia a perfect mystery how goods uniting each qualities of beaut* and of substantial wear can be produced at such prices. The ingrains nan be had as low as the homo-mada " rag " carpet, and the Brussels as low as the ingrains were formerly, while in the latter there is hardly an end to the patterns that may be prod need. The largest ooneeru in Amertoe runs 700 looms end employs thousands of hands. There, is e different form or manner of mechanism employed for every carpet, from the methodical East lake to the elaborate Queen Anne. Wonderful affects are produced in tapestry. 9 I ' MUMmmmmmmmm—rnmrnm ' Mr. Ator, of New York, has an tar come (A 1800 an hoar. Natural Ulster/ Studies—The Baby. " What animal ia this?" " This is a baby. He is now about three years old, and at the wiekedost point of bis earthly career." " What countries does the baby most inhabit ?" " Ho can tie found in every inhabited country on the globe, the ssme as mos quitoes cud boils." " Gau they bo tamed f" " Yes, quite easily. After a little jndlcioua discipline they cease to strug gle, sod become subservient to the will of man." " Does the baby est grass?" " Yea, or anything else. They swal low pocket knives, thimbles, buttons, spools or any other object a little smaller than a teacup. If offered milk they seldom refuse it" " Do they graze during the day, or only at nights?" " They are si ways grazing, paying not the least heed to tiie hour. When not actually eating they generally give utterance to a peculiar cry. Btrong men often jump out of bed at midnight in the coldest weather when hearing thia cry." " What moaning ia attached to thia cry ?" " Men of deepest thought have agreed that it signifies to wake up the neighbor hood una have some fun." "Of what benefit to mankind is a domesticated baby ?" " They are of no earthly acoountlfor the first few years, but by-snd-by they can slide down hill on s cellar door and carry articles out of the house and trade them for a wooden sword or lose them in the grass." " Do you know of any instances where the baby has attacked the household and killed or injured any onef" " Bncb instances have been related by snob eminent naturalists as George Francis Train and Texas Jack, but we don't put much faith in them. How ever, if the baby was maliciouslv and persistently provoked, there ia no know ing what it might do." "Are i hey a healthy animal t" " No. On the contrary, no druggist could make enongh profit in a year to bny him a pair of Arctic overshoes bnt for the presence of the baby in every household. There is hardly an honr in the day that the baby does not demand peppermint, paregoric, milk, sngar, cordial, cod-liver emnlsion, ipecac, or something else costing money. " What machinery is made nse of to compel the baby to take a dose of castor oil? • There are several patent machines for trie purpose, but most people follow the old rale of knocking him senseless and getting tb dose into his mouth be fore he recovers." " Is t e bald-headed baby more do mestic than others t" " Not a bit. He kieaa around after the same fashion, and has even a worse time fighting flies and mosquitoes." " What music do tbey seem to pre fer t" " A baa* dram is their first choice, bnt tbey have a heavy tendency toward the sonnd of the stove-handle knocking the noss off the pitcher with the empt ings in it. This t* all abont the baby." —iM/roit Frte Prrtt. A Washington Nwletj Incident. A Washington society correspondent writes : la the last year of the reign of Mm. Fish, M the wife of the secretary of state, there happened an amnsing in cident, which I will relate to instance the trouble to which the wires of public men are often nnneoeaaarily put, I will call the lady Thomas. Her hna band is a clerk, on small pay, in one of the departments. She made no social pretension, lived in a quiet, humble way, in a very petite bouse in the sub urbs, kept no domestic, and did her own work. All this greatly to her credit Ileing one Wednesday afternoon in the neighborhood of the "Fiah mansion," she proposed to her sister "to go in just for a look and see what the high fly em were doing." At the door the footman presented his aalesr for a card. Ther had none. The assistant servant banded another salver with a blank card and a pencil. The little woman wrote her name and address, thinking it a mere form, and the twain were is sued into the drawing-room, where the courtly Mm. Fiah received them with all the impreeemrnt due a queen. About ten days after this (be industrious housekeeper was mounted on a step ladder in front of her modest little home, engaged in the unpleasant task of washing windows. Hhe noticed coming down the street an elegant carriage, with servants in livery, driving superbly-caparisoned homes. It aame on and presently halted at her door. The footman sprang down, came to the window took a card, and, approaching the ladder, asked : " Does Mrs. Thomas live hers f" • Yes." " Is she st borne?" " No," replied the quick-witted housewife, ss she took the pasteboard and stowed it in her pocket. The story ras too good to keep, and her husband told it in great glee to a friend of ours who gave it to me. Mrs. Fiah was WIT punctilious about returning visits, and. no matter how o been re the person from whom she received the compliment of • visit, she never failed to go in parson and return it. " Pith sad Prist" Word crashed to pulp will rise again —in the paper mill. How many men are born before the world is ready tor them ? " Early to bed and early to rise," but above all ootns early to advertise. Be plain in your speech and dress, particularly if your features are plain. The figure one, when we express "ten" by numerals, is next to nothing. " We come to this eon elusion," ss the last leaf of the book said to a yawning reader. We have always detected a mean spirited man by Ids wholesale denuncia tion of others selfishness.—/fas Fork AWs. Said a mother to her little son: "There I Your toes are out of your stockirga again. Seems to me they wear ont In a hurry." Giving a comical lesr, ha said : " Do you know why stockings wear ont first at the toes?" "No." " Because toes wriggle, sad heels don't" Christmas Corel*. Carol i> said to be derived from nan tare, to aing, and role, an interjection of joy. That quaint writer, Jeremy Taylor, observed that "glory to God in the highest; on earth, peaoe and good will to men." which the angela eenp at the birth of Christ, waa the first Clirist maaoaroL In Bhaks pea re's time carols were sung in the a treats at night dnring Christmas by the waits, who expeoted to receive gratuities for their singing. The " wakeful ketches on Christmas eve " are mentioned by many a writer of old times and customs. After the reforma tion, the singing of Latin hymns waa •boliabed in the churches, and the sweet Christmas cards substituted. There were two kinds of Christmas carols, those of a religions nature, which were sang not only in the churches, bnt also through the streets from house to house, on Christmas eve. and, after that, morn ing and evening until twelfth day; the others are of a livelier character, and adapted to the revel and the feast Borne of these la* ter were also called waaaail songs, an I originated with the Anglo- Normans, who were of a most convivial nature. No Christmas entertainment waa considered complete without the singing of carols, and thence oame the old motto: " No song, no supper," for every one at the table was expeoted to join in the csro'. Bays an English sqnire at his Christmas feast: Not a man bar* aball t? my March boor. Till a Christmas carol be dose sine. Then all clapped their bands and shouted and sung Till the ball and the parlor did ring. Prom a qnftint o'd work we clip tbe following: "The antientest mat< r of the revel la, after dinner and snpper, to sing a carol, or aong. and to command the other gentlemen present to aing with him and tbe oompanie." Home of theee Christmas osrol* had queer titlea enough, and they eeem to have referred to all aorta of subject*. Here ia tbe dedication prefixed to one in the laat century: " Christmas raiol on ' Peko Tea '—a (tarred carol, which, like tea that ia per fectly good and fine, will be moat grate ful and uaefnl all the year round, from Chriatmaa to Chriatmaa forever. Hum bly addreaaed to Queen Caroline and tbe Princess Caroline and the Royal Fami ly. By France* Hoffman. London, 1729." A rurioua piece of antiquity ia the old ChristiiM natui r *t. It waa aomething in thia manner: Tbe oock croweth, ChrUtvM natus r*t —Chriat ia born. The raven aaked, Qi umdo t— when ? Tbe crow replied, //<*c noctr —thia night. Tbe ox eryeth out, I 'bit Übi t— where ? where ? The aheep bleated out, Rrihr trm— Bethlehem. A voice from heaven aounded, Gloria in ezceJzU— glory be on high Another carol represents the Virgin contemplating the birth of the Divine Infant: " lie mother shall he clothed In purple nor in pall. Hut all In fair linen. As were babies all; R- mltbrr snail be rock'd Hot ta e wooden cradle That rocks on Lbs mold. ' Carol ainging continued in all its vigor nntil the eloae of the late century, since when it ha* gradually declined, except in the achoola or churches, where the sweet Chriatmaa carols are chanted by young voioea. But in tbe northern part of England they still aing carols; and even in the great some solitary veteran, who bad not forgotten the merry customs of tbe good old days, may sometimes be beard upon Christ mas eve, singing, in a plaintive voioe, " God rest you, merry gentlemen !" Words of Wisdom. Despise no one, for every one knows ! something which thon knoweat not. Where gold and silver dwell in the heart, faith and hope are out of doors. He who thinks be baa nothing to fear from temptation* is most exposed to a fall The higher you rise the higher ia your boriaon; so the more yon know, the more you will see to know. No single moment in sny life accurate ly represent* the motive and worth of that life; yet who thai judge* others take* more than the set of a moment to judge by. Kindness seems to know of some se cret fountain ol joy in tbe soul which it can touch, without repealing its locality, and cause it to send its waters upward ami overflow the heart. Prosperity has this property: It puffs up narrow souls, makes them imagine 1 themselves high and mighty, and rook down npon the world with contempt; 1 but a truly noble and resolved spirit appears greatest in distress, and then becomes more bright and conspicuous. Tbe tree-frog acquires the oolor of whatever it may, for a ah.art time,adhere to. If yon always live with those who are lame, you will yourself limp, is a Latin proverb. A man ia sure to be influenced by those with whom he asso ciate*. Tbe future success ami prosperi ty of young people depend largely upon their inclination to associate with their superiors in age, got dneea and intelli gence. If we can by honest effort change a way-worn thought to a manly purpose, encourage the halting mind to correct view*, remove all prejadisss, nohisuSe chants desires, and strengthen a noble purpose, oar efforts in life shall not be in vain. Feeble our efforts may be, as the breeee that kisses the mountain summit, yet it may be the morning breath that shall belp on his mission of mercy, virtue and usefulness, sane waiting pilgrim. Reiigteea Htattstim *f Barege. According to Hnbner the following arc the religious statistics of Europe: *. rt. MMr. Off* (1 Sa ewwww. aaws t*mm mm mm £jr£'ma sss us taad, m jam IBM Iflwaaa utt Afi flftt *mr~ 'tier SM*MI2 MMM KM Wflaii msi m taasM '.11"; mm # 4.MMW MM USD MM ' fijAww WMai *** usm | Portugal, Greece, Turkey sad Den mark are not included in this table. -,' v " ' • ; • .'' : ' v A Torpedo-Beat. The aeoond exhibition of tiie Hardy torpedo-boat took plaoe at Pamrapo, N. J., in the preaenoe of nnmerona naval offloera and representative# of foreign govern men te, ami waa a com plete ancoeaa—the operator directing the movements of the deatractive boat half a mile at M by means of an eleo tric current, tranamitted through a wire unreeling from the a tern of the craft. Tbia formidable opponent of the heavy tronclada ia an iron abell, cigar-like in form, and tapering at both roda to a point. In the shell are three chamber*. That in the bow ia prepared to hold dynamite, which will be exploded either by percuKiion or an electric spark. The central chamber of the ahell contain* tanka of carbonic acid and the engine which propels the torpedo. Thia en gine ia driven by the expenaive force of carbonic acid gaa generated under prea aure in the tonka, and drive* a screw propeller. In the chamber in the stern of the shall ia a reel of insulated wire oonnected with a battery on shore. By touching different keya of tbia battery the torpedo ia Dut in motion, turned to the right or left, backed or stopped, as desired. A spark from thia battery can also be used to explode the torpedo, if explosion by contact ia not found to be the better method. The length of the shell ia abont twelve feet, and its greatest diameter nearly eighteen inches. At 1.30 o'clock the signal waa given and the torpedo waa gently lowered to the water. It waa nearly submerged by its own weight. Little red pennants floated from slender roda at the bow and atern. Hardy, the inventor of the torpedo, who has worked for more than twenty years, struggling against discouragements of every kind, in order to perfect his in vention, manipulated the keya of the battery. The boat rested tor an in stant quietly, sod then Hardy touched a key of the battery. A sharp hisa of es caping gaa followed. The water bub bled under the atern of the torpedo and the blades of the screw began to churn tha water. The torpedo moved for ward, at first alowly, then faster and faster, heading straight out to sea, and cutting through the water like a rocket. A broad ripple extending many yards on IxHh aides marked its course. It swerved from aide to side in response to the various keys of the batterv, the trail ing wire running off the reel like a long serpent Half a mile out Hardy pressed another key and the boat ■ topped abort Then it began to turn alowly to the left, and awnng around with a grand sweep, nnder perfect oontroL The torpedo waa ont of sight nnder water, but the line of the little flags at her bow and stern marked her motions perfectly. Coming up from ber sweep to the left, she described s corresponding circle to the right, and returned to the same point, baring cut a figure eight on the water. Then she shot backward and forward, as Hardy touched the keya. " Let her go at fnll speed, Hardy," ex claimed a delighted stockholder. The torpedo obediently started off, hissing through the water, while a slander jet of spray forced by the escaping gas through s bole in the bark of the shell, drenched the little flag in the stern as it felL The spurt of the torpedo ended, it turned docilely and headed for the wharf. The little flag at the bow waa seen plainer and plainer. The bow waa driven nnder water, bnt the stern rose above the surface aa the reel of wire unooiled. Near the wharf the hissing gaa waa abut off. The ahell shot on with its own momentum and came quietly to a stop at Ha starting place. Tfcp HUUee Index. Mention M made of a device adopted on the Now York elevated railroad to supply the place of the mollow-voioed brakeman tn letting the paaaengera know the name* of the elation* the train oomea to. The details of the invention are as followa: A shaft made of wood or iron, one-third of an inch in diameter, runs from end to end of the ear above the windows, and to it is attached a crank wheel that is worked by the oon dnctor, who stands on the platform. The wheel is jnat above the window at the side of the door, and is to be about six inches in diameter. On the shaft is s spool, around which thin canvas or linen-cloth rolls are wound, and on this canvas are painted at regular intervals the names.of the different stations. In the sides of the boxes which moloae these rolls are windows about fifteen inches long and six indies wide. One turn of the wheel by the conductor on the platform revolves the spool in the imii cator-box and place* before the vuAw the name of the station the train will next reach. The model shows three In* dicstor-boxes, one at each end of the car and one in the middle. Over the windows are painted the words " Next Station." The boxes at the end of the car are jnst over the doom. The boxes can be put cm any pert of the shaft and s many of them as may be necessary ; can be put on. When the conductor clones the platform rate he tarns the i wheel and the name of the next station | appears in the windows of all the indies tors. As the train nears a station the ; conductor prills a knob attached to a i wire, which strikes a gong Mar the ten ! ter indicator, and thai warns the pass an - : gen that they are near a station; and when the train starts from the station the gong is again struck. Tba appara tus ess ss spSiini from both ends of the oar sod thus ana man can work two asm. The wheal is tamed In one dirso tion until the and of the mate is reach ed. On tae retain trip the wheel ia worked is the reverse direction. The indicator-boxes am to be of wood, and about twelve inobas square. The names of the stations painted on canvas rollers will bs la plain, bold lsttsra fonr inobas in height. At a dinner recently given by a well known English peer, one of the guests.* very yonag man, made himself ob sexkms by psmiataotiy tiffing down the law an every passible entdect, and talk ing long and Uy. At length be ex- j pressed, is no measured terms, hi hatred of a elaaa of pes >pta whom bo ' called Philistine#. An elderly jp-ntk taas, silting opposite !o him, mildly in+ft cuirod, " And pray, air, hew do you da- P5 fine a PhilieUno r The h*t interposed, saying, "1 will give yon the informa tion. rhftlriines are persons who are J&M inconvenienced by the jaw of an sea." S
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