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Silver Men Still Have Their
Way in the Senate.
THE END NOT YET IN SIGHT
Colorado Senators Boldly Proelnim Their
Policy of Obstruction—At-‘acklng the
Fair-child Commission -Proposed New
Public Building for Elmira. '
IVASHINGTON, Sep. 23. -—The cloture
resolution which was introduced in the
the senate by Mr. Platt (rep, Conn.) was
taken up yesterday soon after the senate
met and discussed until nearly 2. o’clock,
when it went over until to-day in order to
give Mr. Turpie (dem., .Ind.) an oppor-
tunity to speak upon it. The only two
speeches upon the resolution yesterday
.Were made ,by the Colorado ' senators,
Messrs.‘ Welcott and Teller. Mr. lVolcott
said that he would vote against it, but that
he wOuld make no prolonged opposition to
it, and that he thought it could be very
soon brought to a vote. As to, the repeal
bill itself, if his associates shoulddeem
it bestto contest that measurefinch by
inch, he would cheerfully and cordially
join with them, and any attempt to impose
cruel' and unusual conditions would‘be re-
siste by every Obstruction which the rules
perm tted. Mr. Teller was not so liberally
inclined towards the cloture rule as his
colleague, but asserted on the contrary
he would resist by every method, obstruc-
tive and otherwise, the adoption of a_ rule
that would limit debate.
The repeal bill was takean at 2 o ’clock '
and speeches against it were made. by Mr.
George, (doling Miss ) Mr. Hansbrough
(rep. ., N. D.) and Mr. Stewart (tepi, Nev.)
An agreement 11 as proposed by M1. Voor-
' hees, and assented'iio unanimously,-'that
from Monday andflntil further- orders, the
daily session shall be from 11 a. m. to 6
~11. n1. ,
Chandler (rep. , N. IR) intro-
duced a resolution in '3;the senate that may
lead to considemble debate. It calls upon
the secretary of the treasury to mform the
senate by 'what. authority the so-called
" Fan-child commissionis now engaged in,
eXamining the appraiser’s oflloe ' in New
York, how far the work- has prOgressed,
what is its scope, and the intention of the
department, how much money has been
paid out and what is agreed to be paid.
The res‘olutio'n' hlso calls for the corres-
pondence and all other matters bearing
upon the investigation. Mr. Chandler,
after it had been read, asked to have‘ it go
over until some day next week, when both
New York senators were present, at which.
time he said he would call it up.
The session of the house yesterday was
The report of the com-
mittee_ on accounts assigning clerks to
committees was 'adoptcd. A resolution
callin-r for information relative to the or
£01 cement of the Geary exclusion law «as
gzeed to, and the house with" 3.11110-
infiracgpggacgf Ne ,, aork introduced in‘
the house a. 2.1 eappropriating $150, 000
for the e1 ,.uth of a public building at
El! .4, I
"301111: MILLION CANDLE rowan.
Remarkabw Development in the Dinner
of ‘ Search Lights.
. WASHINGTON, Sep. 23.—A remarkable
instance of scicrfliflc development in the
matter of reaching. lights has been brought
to the attention of the United States
lighthouse board at the treasury depart-
ment by the reception from France of 1a
pamphlet describing a new light to be
erected on a lighthouse .03 the
coast of Brittanny.. The lighthouse will
be built on Penmarch Point and will be
known as the Eckmukl lighthouse. It
2 will contain an electric light of, 40,000,000
candle power, casting a beam' which can
. be seen a distance in clear weather of 63
miles and in foggy weather fl. distance of
21 miles. The highest order of light now
in operation 'in thrUnited States light-
house scrvice can only be seen 21 miles in
clear weather. The light on the Eokmukl
lighthouse is of the “lightning flash” or-
der. At the usual height of ordinary
lighthouse towers its li ht canhot actually
be cast more than 23 miles before it
' strikes the horizon, but beyond that point
it Is reflected in the sky for 88 miles.
This light is by far the most powerful
searching and penetrating known to
science, and has been erected at a cost of
about $00, 000.
Gladstone's Thanks.
Sep. 234-33. Gladstone has
'01- letter to his surmrrrtn'" '
v
"‘Tfi-JN,
less re-~
Swellings' m Mthe Neck
Have troubled me for 12 years. Medical attend-
ance and operatIOns on my neck at Mount Sinai
Hospital did not give permanent improvement.
But by taking three bottles of Hood’s Sarsa-
arilla, the swelling has entirely disappeared.
I cannot sufficiently praise
Hood’s Sarsaparilla‘
Tues. FAImnxxorr. 98 Willett St, N. Y. City.
Room PILLS cure constipation. 25’s.
3V3“ \W%B%\ 1/
‘Ido not Eat Pastry
How often you hear this
expression, and the ex-
planation that usually
follows: “I am troubled
with dyspepsia.” The
explanation is not far to ,:
seek. In the past Lard ,.
-- hasbeen usedas the prin-
. cipal shortening in all
pastry, the result—dys-
‘sé pepsia. The dyspeptic
'need no longer be
A troubled, providing
fl
:1
-a
is substituted for lard in : .
- ‘ the preparation of all fOOd.
It is composed strictly of . .2
highly refined vegetable ' .
oil and beef suet When
used as a shortening, it
produces wholesome and ~ 2
? healthful pastry. Ph ,751- i.
; cians and expert cooks 1__
\indorse it. Refuse substitutzs. .
Send three cents in stamps to N K.
Fairbanks: Co. ,Chicago,for handsome ,
Cottolcne Cook Book, containing six ‘
hundred recipes, prepared by nine emf-A _. .
11cm authorities on cooking.
Cottolene' IS sold by all grocers.
.. J l'lade only by ._:_
N. K. FAIRBANKd: (20.,
HI,CAGO and .
' Produce Exchange, N. Y. ‘
224 State Street, Boston.
Worth 3 Guinea :1 Box.
Stubborn tendencies
to digestive troubles
in children will always
yield to a mild dose
Beecham s
Pills
.3 is'
(Tasteless) ’
25 cents a box.
w. 1. noucLAs
$3 SHOE ml'i'h'ip. '
Best Cal! Shoo in the world for the rice.
. L. Douglas shoes are sold everywphero.
Everybody should wear them. It is a duty
33:! 21;: eyyourfiou to at 1216 best value for
00110111 9 your footwear by
purchasing W. L. Douglas Shoes,whloh
represent the best value at the prices ado
Veniced above. as thousands can testify.
A}? Take No Substitute. :8
Beware of fraud. None genuine without W. L.
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Horrible Collision on
Vlabash Railroad.
ELEVEN K2~LL‘Eo-; TWENTY 1111011511.
A Brakeman Opens :1 Switch and Lots 1%
Fast Express Train Plunge Into a Heavy
Freight Which Was Waiting Under
0rd 1‘s on :1 Siding.
KING'BURY, Ind, Sep. 23. —Elevec bod-.
ies resting upon improvised slabs and
tables under the roof of the modest Masom’c
'hall of this Village and a score of injured
registered as inmates of the City hospital
at Peru, 70 miles distant, tell the story
of the latest railroad horror of which this
village was the scene yesterday. The re-
vised-list of dead and injured isas follows:
The deadiare:
J. H. McKenna, butcher, II yde Park,
Mass.
charity school, London, England.
Charles Blrbee, San Francisco.
Alice Reed, East Boston.
Miss Lillie B. Tucker, Boston.
Warren G. Ryder, Phoenix, Arizona.
H. C. Zelle, Germany.
J. D.|Roundy, La Moill, Ind.
John Green, engineer of the passenger
train, Ashley, Iowa. '
J. G. Coulter, conductor passengm train,
‘ *Dctroit.
W. N. Lyon, baggagemaster passenger
train, Detroit.
The injured are:
Frank P. Dow, Fair Haven,
scalp wound. -
Miss M. A. Kelley, Brookline, Mesa,
head cut and badly bruised.
Otto Huck, Hamburg, Germany, bruised
and ankle sprained.
G. S. Hodgson, Dover, N. H.,
knocked out, arm fractured and legs
and back bruised.
Mrs. S. A. Seavy, Somersworth, N. H.,
back injured, general contusion and nerv-
ous prostration.
Mrs. R. H. Burbank, New Orleans, La.,
Wash,
' arms and one leg broken, jawbone frac-
tured, will die.
Mrs. H. W. Rider Phoenix, Arizona, head
out and leg bruised, not serious.
Sim on Canfield, Ironwood, Mich. , bruised
about head and shoulder dislocated.
Mrs. S. Canfield, Ironwood, Mich, left
arm broken, shoulder dislocated and head '
badly cut.
Mrs. D. Dugan, Audenried, Pa., slight
bruises.
William J. Askins, residence unknown,
compound fracture of left leg, left shoul
_der broken; recovery doubtful.
Edward Rush, 13 years old, Londop,
bruised about body, head cut.
William Evans, London, England, aged
14, both legs broken.
Albert Molten, youth, LondOn, England,
right arm injured.
Miss Mattie Hutchins, Phoenix. Aria,
bruised about the head and n ured inter- ~
1 J M" FAMILY GROOERS.
nally; recovery doubtful.
H..O Hill, Somerworth, N. H.,
left thigh broken.
Annie Hill, same address, slightly hurt.
Henry J. Volking, fireman on freight
train, burned and scalde'd about the head
and breast; may die.
Fireman Barber, of Ashley, on passen-
ger train, leg broken and severely bruised;
recovery doubtful.
An instant of forgetfu'lness, or absent
mindedness on the part of a brakeman who
is given the best of reputation by the Wa-
bash offlcers tells the story of the seconds
that preceded the catastrophe. A freight
train had orders to take a siding here and
let a westboundpassengertrain pass. The
passenger train was in- :t'wo sections and
the first section went by on the main track
all right.
supposing that the freight train would
now move, ran back to open the
switch. Before the cars hadlbcgun to move
the second section of the fast express came
west at the rate of 55. miles an hour, and
before the brakeman could turn the switch
dashed to the side track and collided
with the reight train. The proper signals
showing that a second section of the ex-
pregs was coming worn displayed, and Ill).
res Qnsibiliby tor the accident rests wholly
wit the brakeman- who turned the switch
before its arrival.
Relief trains were immediately sent to
the scene of the wreck. All neighboring
towns were called on £01 physicians. The
wounded are being cared for at neighbor: .-
ing farm houses.
Two score men are scouring the surround-
ing country for Herbert " hompson, the
brakeman, to whose neglect the responsi-
bility for the catastrophe is placed. ~
Fourth-class Tostmasters. -
WASHINGTON, Sep. 23.,—Among the lastfl
batch of fourth-class postmasters appeared
the following names.
Connecticut—W. J. Wilcox, Cornwall.
Maine—W. E. Jordan, Corinth.
New Hampshire—J. Bowles, Sugar Hill;
Charles A. Knowlton, Sunapee.
New York—D. W. Barclay,
Plains; J. N. Pink, Hurley.
Pennsylvania—~J. E. Pautsch, Centreport;'
Eugenia Brodhead, Delaware Water Gap;
Coopers
_MissN. K. Baxter, Fayettevflle; Elias E.
B. Sch1ock. Garrett; I. J. Hess, Lime
Ridge; Milton Eennis, Stormville; John
Barrett, sr. , VVanamie. _
Vermont—Miles D. F. Blodgett, Lem-
ingtSn; George. H. Fuller, Montgomery
Centre.
Remarkable Longevity.
PANAMA, Sep. 23.—-Advices from Chili
state that the following remarkable cases
of longevity have been recorded there re-
cently: In Nauva Imperial the death of
Dona Sertrudis Mauriquez at the age 'of
110 years, in Pelocoyan the death of Don
Justo Encina Ossa at the age of 118 years,
while in Santiago the death of Dona Tran-
sita Zuloago at the age of 120 years was
registered.
Congressman Fitch’s Mother Dead.
“WASHINGTON, Sep. 23.—A private tele-
gram received here from Representative
Fitch, of New York, states that his mother
died last night in New York, and he is
thereby detained away from Washington.
Protectionlst Gains.
STocxnoLM, Sep. 23. -—The returns so
far received from the parliamentary elec-
tions show that the protectionists have
gained five seats.
Choleia at Hull.
LONDON, Sep. 23. -A late dispatch from
Hull says th1 ee f1 9511‘ Case's Of chillers have
just been )reportcd
r... the Gamma ' '
Harry French. aged 14, of the London '
teeth
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__=_ —have been troubled with Dyspepsia, arful‘: !
! headaches and a tired reeling constant!
«unable to work malt of the time. I was induce
ANA' 8 BAR APARILLA. and after usingi
three bottles I felt better than I had {or five_
At times 1 could not eat for two or_=_
=l'l1ree dog; It a time—now I feel like a newg.
- man. yh appetite is ravenous—can eat an lng._
=Headnch c all gone, and I can say reeli:
ientirely cured. I can {ally worrcnt
DANA’ S
SARSAPABILLA E
to do all it claims—and to any suffer-incl. I rocom
mendit. Tryit an ndbc convinced. “It’s the:
“‘Klnd That. Cures.”
Yours we truly, WM. BURKE.
Springfield, ll ass.
38:--Mr. Burke is well known' in Springfield,;-__
__=__ especially in sporting circles as owner of the run-=
=ning horse “ Rub ." His testimony is
!rellable. cs ours
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:HlS GAME IS PEDRO
Mello Wants to Restore the
Brazilian Empire.
PROBABLE success OF THE REVOLT
. . .
Insurgent Nlotories Reported—The Gov-
ernment Fighting Dosperatcly for Ex-
istence—Scandalous Stories of Nepotlsm
and Extravaganc'e Under the Republic.
LONDON, Sep. 23. —T11_e British steamer
Clyde. has arrived at Southampton £10m
has reached‘f- England since the' Brazilian
troubles brok’boutr‘ She brought'121 pas-
Rio J anexro
in an interview with the rcpresentativp of
the United Press that there-had beenfpr'; a
long time bad feeling in the aImy 'mId
Janeiro. The greater number unlike 0111-:
cars are uneducated, one of them liplding
a prominent position be111gunabletov1ir1te
The friction in Rio Janeiro engendefed'
many faction fights. Then is no strong
All they wanted was to be left alone. The
general feeling when the Clyde left Rio
J aneiro was that the navy would be victo-
rious.
NEW YORK, Sep. 23.—A special telegram
to the Evening Post says: The News Tag-
blatt has an interview with, a prominent
Brazilian diplomat who has just arrived
there, and Who declares that the revolu-
tion is due to Peixoto’s squandering the
nation’s money and his systematic nepo-
tism. He has wasted untold milliOns of
the public funds. One lady friend of his
alone accumulated ten millions of francs
during his term of office. The failure of
the cotton crop caused discontent and
brought matters to a climax. Admiral
Mcllo, who’ls a sincere patriot, was an Old
friend of Dom Pedro, and aims at the res-
toration of the monarchy, with Prince
Pedro, a son of the Count D’Eu and grand-
son of the deposed emperor, on the throne.
WASHINGTON, Sep. 23.—Coffee mer-
chants in Baltimore, the great coffee centre
of the United States, are very uneasy over
the unsettled state of affairs in Brazil and
several of them have sent to the state de-
partment a request that protection be
given their interests in that country by
this government and asking whether ade-
quate measures had been taken to insure
the safety of some of their ships now on
their way to Rio. While the navy depart-
ment has not been informed of the arrival
of the cruiser Charleston at Rio, it is be-
lieved that the vessel has arrived there al-
ready or will arrive to—day and her pres-
the safety, to some extent, of American
interests.
WHOLESALE ELOPING.
A. Halifax Doctor Runs 03 With Two
\Yomon \Yithln Three Weeks.
'HALIFAX. .N. 8., Sep. 23.'—'Three weeks
ago Dr. George Allan Black, dentist, of
Maitland,
suddenly left town. ’ At the same time
Mrs. Currie‘EWife of a well- to- do business
man,
tives in Truro and her husband’s sister
in Halifax. _She, took her 'eldeSt child
and a goodly sum of m_ ' . with her.
She left the child in T1- ' and then
sloped with Dr. Black.
Yesterday Mr. Currie received a letter
from his erring wife, dated ,,Boston saying
she was very sick and pennll'ess, cOnfeSsing
her sir'l and imploring forgiveness. Dr.
Black had abandOned hér among strangers
and gone off on a sound steamer with an-
other woman.
The doctor narrOwly escaped a coat of
tar and feathers in another Nova Scotia
village recentlyh
Puglllsts Run 3 Foot Race.
Isrnamxsv, N. J. Sep '23. ~Jack
Dempsey, Jim Corbett, BillyDelane'y, Jack
Oliver,\ Seward Smith and Solly Smith,
Island next Monday night, were partici-
pants in an eight mile foot race here yes-
terday. The race took place on the Asbury
Park athletic grounds and was witnessed
by the greater part of the population.
Delaney, alter running two laps quit, the
others belch-1.90.111: Corbett and Sally
Smith, ten and a half mile
. . record In San .Franusco, finish'e (1 close to-
‘ gether, the latter win 11111.; by forty yards,
about a mile ahead of the third m1n,,
Dempsey. Time was not taken.
Cornell’s Celebration.
ITnAOA, N. Y., Sep. 23.—-"‘he special
committee of the Cornell University Trus«
tees having charge of the celeb:z:tion of
the 1w: nty-fl 12:1 and: 've sary of the open-
‘ . ing of the university 0:1 0ct0'ber 6, 7 and 8
, have completed their arrangements.
Hon.
Chauncey M. Depew is to deliver the ora-
- tiOn and Bishop Donne of Albany the m3-
_‘ mori'al sermOn.
' be given to the alumni and distinguished
"' guests. . _ ~ —
A2grand reception will
Chance for the Pennsylvania.
NEW YCRX, Sep. 23 ‘—~‘Commissionsr J.
F. Goddard has decided that the Pennsyl.
vania railroad should be allowed tomake
a‘rate of $18, for the round tlip for its
special excursions tothg'Wo’rld’a fair, Sep.
28, and Oct, ”and 6. This rate is the
same as by 9 Erie and $2 less than by
the New York Central. The reduction is
made to enable the Pennsylvania to utilize
coaches which were used in the seashore
business but which are now idle.
Ugly neg Fish.
HALIFAX, N. 8., Sep. 23.-—Cape Breton
fishermen, as Well as those in Nova Sco-
tie, find the prosecution of fisheries diffi-
cult this fall, owing to' the immense
scheme of dog fish on the coast. These fish
heighten from the shore other fish, destroy
nets and trawl: and palalyze the fishing
generally.
. The Jury Well Again.
BOSTON, Sep. 23,——Juryman Flarity and
the others connected with the Trefethen
murder trial, who were taken sick, were
all well yesterday and the trial was re-
named. . .
Cholera Decroasing.
Moscow, Sep. 23. '—Tl‘1e epidemic has a.-
creased so rs idly here and in the south of
Russia that t 0 schools will be reopened
, in a few days.
'Reaauemmm; * ‘ .
Rio Janeiro and other South American
ports. She .Is the first mail steamer that'
scngers, of whic'h'f'humber 40 we}. from-
A Brlinilia'h on board". stated-‘1 '2
navy. This was especially the case in Rio”
feeling on either side in the northern states. ‘
ence at the perturbed capital will insure
sold off his omce effects and
left for a few days’ visit to roll».
the pugilist who will meet Dixon at Coney __
IN OCEAN’S DEPTHS
_.__.__.h.
STRANGE CREATURES OF THE DEEP
BROUGHT TO LIGHT.
Animal Life That 1211115 to Pieces “Vixen the
Pressure of the Water No Longer Holds
It Together—Tho Bottom of the Sea.
What It Is Like.
plored and mapped out presents a very
difierent picture from that painted for
us by the poets. But a. short time has
was supposed to be the counterpart of
hills and valleys, with precipitous moun-
tains lifting toward the surface and pro-
found gorges sinking to unfathomable
depths.
versified than the land. 2
Here and there, to be sure, islands in
middcean are the summits of enormous
. mountains, rising more or less abruptly
from a - generally level surface, and the
sea lying .over a narrow, depressed re-
. gion in the northwestern Pacific reaches
it's greatest -.depth But this is excep-,
'tional. In its general character the
Nightly undulating plains. An extraor-
dina'ry circumstance that has been no-
ticed with interest and that always cre-
ates surprise when first learned is the
. entire absence of foreign matter in the
deeper part of the ocean’s floor. '
Of all the vessels lost in midocean; of
all the human beings that have been
drowned; of all, the marine animals that
have perished; of all the clay, sand and
gravel let fall by dissolving icebergs; of
all the various 'sub'stances drifted from
every shore by shifting currents, not a
trace remains, but in their place water
from 1,000 to 2, 500 fathom in depth
covers the uniform deposit of thick, blu-
ish, tenacious Slime called globigerina
ooze. A. bit of this under a powerful
lens‘ 18 a revelation Of beauty not readily
forgotten. The ooze is composed almost
entirely of the daintiest, moSt delicately
beautiful shells imaginable.
At depths greater than 2 ,509 fathoms
the bottom of the sea consists mainly of
products arising from exposure,- for al-
most incalculable periods, to the chem-
ical action of sea water, of pumice and
other volcanic matters. This finally re-
sults in the formation of the red clay de-
posits that are considered characteriStic
of the profoundest depths of the ocean.
Carbonate of lime, which 1n the form of
the shells Of foraminifera, makes up so
large a part of the glObi'ge'rina ooze, is
here almost entirely absent,
Sea water is very nearly a universal
solvent, and before "any shell, large or
small, reaches the bottom of these tre-.
up, literally dissolved—a result which
the enormous pressure of the water must
materially hasten. At 1,000 fathoms the
weight of the water pressing on all sides
of an object immersed to that depth 13
very nearly one ton to the Square inch,
or more than 100 times that sustained at
the sea level, and .at the greatest depths
the. pressure isso increased thatit would
seem nothing could Withstand it. In
the sounding apparatus are sOmetim'es,
being drawn up again to the surface,
glass vessels which the metal enclosed
are shattered into fragments.
In the profoundest abysms of the sea.
are strange forms of life that never, save
when broughtup by the trawl, see 'the up«
of the United States’fish bemmission yea
sel, the Albatross, has established the
fact that forms of sea life mhabiting up-%
per waters may descend to about 1, 200
feet from the surface, but that below
this, to a depth of 300 Or 360 fatho'ms,a
barren ~ z‘one intervenes where ~marine
life .- seems absent. B'ut , still" deeper,
strange to say, has been discovered an,
abundant and varied fauna, new to sci-
'ence, living under conditions of tremen-
dons pressure and paucity of the life
duced an eminent zoolOgist to say quite
recently, “What we know of the great-
est ocean depths forbids 11s to expect to
find them inhabited by living organ»
isms.” Here indeed survive forms” of
life the like of which no inhabitant of
the upper World, not even the sun him-
self, has 100‘ zed upon before the dredges
of the Challenger, the Albatross, the '
Blake and similarly equipped vessels
dragged up marine creatures from con-
genial cold and dark.
It might 1.2.9.1..ny be supposed that
these denizens of great sea depths would
be built more firmly and strongly than
surface animus to’resist the pressure of
the element in which they live, but it is
just the contrary. The most universal
characteristic of these creatures is the
looseness and flabbiness of texture they
exhibit. Indeed they seem to need the
excessive pressure of the water about
them to keep their parts together, for
when they are brought to t a surface
they are ready to fall to pieces. It is a
problem, so strangely are some .of them
formed, how they can move from place
to place. Were they not entirely below
the disturbing element of wave action,
ithéy would. to all appearances, be help
see.
Inhabiting these abyssmal spaces,“
completely cut 035 from communication
With the upper waters as we are from
the inhabitants of other planets, we can
'only vaguely speculate on their habits
and judge their manners of life frOm '
their somewhat remote analogies to the
surface species nearest akin to them.
Plant life is entirely absent from their
place of abode, and although they doubt-
less prey upon each other some original
sources of food supply must if coursebo
conJectnred to exist—Cosmopolitan.
"n.. .r n.
When a personage of «high rank dies
in Siam, the king helps bathe the body
and prepare it for cremation and final-
ly lights the funeral pyre;
A cubic inch of gold is worth $210; a
cubic foot. $362, 380; a. cubic yard , 090,.-
797,762. This reckoning bases the value
of gold at $18 per ounce.
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Th'e new submarine world new tax-1 '
elapsed since the bottom of the ocean: .
theface of the earth above water—with »
The ocean flOor is far less 111- -
cecan bottom consists of vaSt flat or -
mendous abysmScit is chemically eaten
fact, heavy metal cylinders let down with .' _
foundbent and collapsed; strongly made '
pe'r light. muss: carried on by means " '1
Sustaining. element of oxygen that in-. '
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