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' Instructions given In
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Now farming, and. ap-
plicants desiring to
join should apply at
once to 1
Prof. Geo. Yoerger,
» ‘ South Norwalk.
. growth known to arboriculturists.
IHE LARGEST LENS.
The Splendid Achievement of an Amer-
lcan Manufacturer. .
' The Clarks have accomplished what
has long been regarded as an impossi-
ble thing, and one which no European
manufacturer of lenses could be induced
to attempt. This is the making of a per-
fect lens of more than three feet across
the face. .No one but this American
ing the twenty-six-inch lenses which
are in use at several observatories on
both continents, one at the naval ob—
servatory {at Washington, through
which Mr. Hall discovered the long-
sought satellites of Mars and many
double stars. The highest power was
supposed to be reached when the Lick
telescope in California was put up with
a thirty-six-inch lens: The difficulties to
be met in the production of a perfectly
clear lens of great size are so many that
‘ the European observers who have
wanted anything above the twenty-six-
inch lens: have had to take the reflect-
ing telescope, which has a concave mir-
ror. It requires, of course, a much
larger reflecting telescope to get the
magnitude of object.
The making of this forty-one and a
half-inch lens, says the New York Com-
mercial Advertiser, is regarded as the
life. It is probable no larger lens will
ever be made. Under existing condi-
tions a larger telescope than “the
Yerkes—the telescope of the Chicago
university observatory for which the
lens is made—would be of -no great
value. To increase the magnifying
power is at the same time to increase
the obstructions to clear vision. When
the object is magnified the atmospheric
agitation is increased to such a degree
that distinctness is virtually sacrificed
when the object glass is larger than
forty-One and a half-inches. It is
more useful than the Lick. Some day
it may be possible to remove the'ob—
stacles to clearness in the case of a
powerful lens, though the only reason
for suggesting it is that Prof. Tyndall
was able to construct a glass by which
the blue of the atmosphere ‘was dissi-
pated in looking through a deep space.
If the Yerkes glass answers expecta-
tions it will enable an experienced ob-
server to catch occasional glimpses of
the Mars canals, which, though drawn
firmly on the Vatican maps, are vague
and wavering and almost imaginary
through any glass. They can be seen
at all only by the trained observer.
The great telescope will be most useful
in the study of double stars, which is
now a matter of special interest to
many observers. .
CURIOUS TREES. 4
Several That Are Valuable, Gigantic and
Historic.
The largest orange tree in the south
is a gigantic specimen which grows out
of the rich soil in Terre Bonne parish,
Louisiana. It is fifty feet high aud fif-
teen feet in circumference at the base.
Its yield has often been ten thousand
oranges per season.
The “tallow tree” of China has a
pith from one inch ’to two feet in di-
ameter, according to the size of the
tree, which is composed of a greasy
wax, which is so highly volatile that
it often catches fire spontaneously,
consuming the tree to the very ends of
its roots. ,
The largest oak tree now left stand-
ing in England is “Cowthorp’s oak,”
ference at the ground. The oldest tree
in Britain is “Parliamentary oak,”
in Clipstone park, London, which is
known to be fifteen hundred years old.
The largest apple tree in New York
state is said to be one standing near
the town of Wilson. It was planted in
the year 1815, and it is on record that
it once yielded thirty-thr ee barrels of
apples in a single season. .
There are four hundred and thirteen
species of trees found growing within
the limits of the United States. The
curiosity of the whole lot is the black
ironwood, of Florida, which is thirty
per cent. heavier than water. Well
dried black ironwood will sink in water
almost as quickly as will a bar of lead.
The “life, tree” of Jamaica is harder
to kill than any other species of wood
It
continues to grow and thrive for
months after being~ uprootedand ex-
‘posed to the sun. a
Mac’s Bejoinder.
The captain of a Cunard liner one day
while crossing the “herring pond,”
found that his ship was not doing the
speed he considered she ought to, and,
putting on his. best frown, he went
down to the room of the chief engineer,
a hard and dry Scotchman and an
amateur violinist. The captain knocked
at the doOr; the gay chords of!) Scotch
swer to his summons, so he burst the
door, open.
“what are you about? I am not at all
satisfied with your engines; we go like
snails, sir.” Mr. Mac made a flourish
with his bow, and, after a 'olly chord,
said: “Sair, my engines
been in Liverpool these three days. It’s
or at this office.
That you can save money
by buyingv‘gour Meats
and Fish at .
r. w. smrn's,
55 fl aln Sires
‘ ‘IOPENIEVENlNCS'
;
your slow old ship that’s at fault)”
Unhappy Comparison.
Ministers cannot be “answered back”
on Sunday, but on week days, some-.
times, the case is different.
" “Why-weren’t you at the kirk on
Sunday?” asked a Scotch preacher of'
one of his parishioners.
“I was at Mr. Dunlop’s kirk,” was
the answer.
“I don’t like your running about to
strange kirks in that way. Not that I;
object to your hearing Mr. Dunlop, but‘
I’m sure you widna like your sheep ,1
straying away into strange pastures.” ,,
" “I widna care a grain, sir, if it was
better grass,” said the parishioner.
“ Queer Comment by in Bishop.
'Of Bishop Bathurst, who was a great
whist player, it is related that on hearfi
ing the name of a new, appointment in i
the chapter there was’wrung from him,
the passionate exclamation: ‘,‘I have ,
served the Whigs all my life and nowj
“they send me down a canon who doeSn’t'
know clubs from spades!”
nus.-.
TH E
manufacturer ever thought of exceedm
same amount of light and the same
crowning work of Mr. Alvan Clark’s,
doubtful if the Yerkes will be‘any ,
which is seventy-eight feet in circum-.
.__Cooke,
reel played on a- fiddle was the only an-j the kitchen door first.
“Mr. Mac,” he thundered,
ould ‘hae'
at?
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A BOTTOMLESS PIT.‘
Exploration of a. Peculiar Cave Formation
_ in France. , . -
Among the niost remarkable of na
ture’s wonders the subterranean pit at ‘
Jean Nouveau, near Vaucluse, France.
which reaches a depth of five hundred
and forty feet, while nowhere more
than twelve feet wide, has only recent-
ly been explored. The French Society
of Speleology- (cave study) erected a
derrick at the mouth of the pit which
begins with a funnel fifteen feet wide
at the top and narrows down to three
feet at a' depth of about. twenty feet.
From here down the crevice in the
rock, for such it is, extends vertically,
getting wider as it extends deeper, un- ,
til at a depth of about four hundred
and seventy-five feet it is twelve feet
wide. At this‘ point the shaft opens
into a roomy cave inthich just beneath
the opening of the vertical pit a thick
layer of clay, containing remains of
bones, both human and animal, was
found. The explorers found no evi-
dence that the place had ever been vis-
ited by man, but tradition has it that
criminals were thrown into the “bot-
tomless pit,” as it was popularly called
in the neighborhood, and the remains in
the cave just beneath the shaft tend to
corroborate this belief. -
The descent made into the shaft was
exceedingly difficult; it established the
fact that there must be a further cave
far below the one now knoWn, but the
crevice through which it is accessible
is choked up with debris and bowl'ders
so that it will be a very dimcult matter
to penetrate further into the cave than
has beeh done. The deepest point
reached in this crevice is five hundred
and ninety-three feet underground.
Great quantities of water rush through
the shaft at every time there is a storm,
' still no trace of water was found in the
cave explored, which proves that some
other subterranean exit mustexist.
USES FOR OLD RAlLS.
A» Great Amount of Barbed-Wire Fencing
Is liIadc of Them.
In speaking of the use of old rails re-
cently, says the Railway Reviewer, an
official of the Pennsylvania railroad
stated the life bf a rail on the Pennsyl-
vania lines west is about eleven years
and on the Pennsylvania railroad only
nine years. The difference is perhaps,
due to heavier traffic on the Pennsyl-
vania railroad. The friction of con-
stantly passing trains wears on the rail
until it must be replaced by a new one.
The company pays twenty-four dollars
a ton—now twenty-two dollars—and
the trails used on that line average
eighty-five pounds to the yard. When
it has passed its useful stage the rail is
replaced. ,
The old rails that are taken out from
time to time are gathered up every
month and sold to junk andvscrap deal-
ers at twelve dollars a ton. It can read-
ily be seen that the company pays only
twelv'e dollars for the use of rails per
ton. The price received from the scrap
man is a good figure, when it is known
that the rails, when sold, are of no use
to the company. Rails that are not
much worn are sold to factories along
the road at eighteen dollars per ton,
where they are used for sidings and an-.
swer the purpose quite as well as new
rails. There are many uses to which
the old rail is put. A great amount of
barb-wire fencing is made of railroad
iron and very often the rails are used as
foundations for large buildings. There
are not many people who know that
the Masonic temple in Chicago rests on
a foundation of steel rails, layer upon
layer, six feet deep.
A CANINE CURlOSITY.
l‘gtovor,” a Big Newfoundland Tramp
Dog of Put-in-Bay.
There is a Newfoundland dog at Put-
in-Bay that is certainly a curiosity. His
name is Rover and he is known at
every house and hostelry on the island.
Years ago he was .named by Mr. Jay
the millionaire banker and
owner of Gibraltar, the clifi-girt little
island that nestles in the bosom of
Put-in-Bay, hardly yet separated from
its parent mother by a narrow line of
shoals. Mr. Cooke had no use for'Rover
and gave him away when he was-quite
young to a family on the island of the
name of Roelfing. In the course of time,
says the BuffaloCommercial; the Roel-
fing family moved away and Rover, who
had grown into fine proportions, was
left alone without a master. Several
‘ times attempts were made to domicile
the brute, but they were of no avail.
He either would not forget his old mas-
ter or else had determined to be true to
his name and lead a roving life. At
any rate, for the past three or four
years Rover has been the tramp dog of
the island, without any home. Every-
body likes him, and there isnot a child
that does not save him a piece of ‘meat
or crust of bread. He makes the rounds
from house to house, and always seeks
He is round,
fat and sleek, and lives on the fat of
the land and is the common property of
the island. ' _
_ Her Conundrum.
It is often hard to determine hit from
“good wit” in the case of children, and
some of their flashes of precocity seem
. notto be unconscious, but rather the
‘ fragment of‘some remembered knowl-
edge. Alittle maid of five, who had
been listening quietly to the puzzles
and conundrums of the older children,
seemed at last to divine the method of
their construction, and, after some
thought, asked: “What could you get
on a very high, steep mountain??? The
answers were ice, snow, rocks, eagles’ .
, nests and the like, to all of which the
little one persistently shook her head.
When asked to tell the answer she tri-
umphantly cried}? “Nothing!” “But
why?” asked ‘ the " others, in a breath.
“Because yOu couldn’t get up there
after it,” was the demure reply.
5‘ A Bamboo Organ.
' A bamboo organ has been built for
the Jesuits’ church at Shanghai, and is
said to surpass organs made of metal.-
As bamboo can be obtained of all dimen-
sions, from the thickness of a pen to
pieces of a foot in- diameter, this natural
material costs little l-more‘than the sim»
ple labor, and the notes are beautifully
soft and pleasant to ,theear. ;
p '.
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The Business Outlook as Given by
' Dun & Co.’s Weekly Review.
MONETARY ANXIETY GONE.
30'? More Than Half the Capacity of the
Iron Trades Is Now Employed—The
.r, Financial Chronicle's Report.
Failures oi’ the “fools.
NEW YORK, Sept. 12.-—R. G. Dun&
Co.’s weekly review of trade says: _
Better prospects and relief from mone-
tary anxiety do not yet bringlarger de-
mand for finished products, though large
buying of pig iron, Wool, leather, hides,
cotton and other materials continue to
show a growing belief that a general up-
the replenishment of dealers} stocks this
fall. Most prices are extremely low, so
that nothing more than an ordinary de-.
mand would advance them. But bank?
failures at New Orleans cause temporary
hesitation, crop eturns indicate disap-
pointment in some cotton and some spring
it unprofitable to sell at present, the num-
operation does not gain, but rather de-
creases, reductions of wages aresomewhat
numerous, occasionally resisted by strikes,
and all these conditions diminish for a
time the buying power of the people.
While many think general improvement
cannot come until the election has re-
moved political uncertainties, others ex-
pect soon to see the result anticipated in
trade. \
The weekly output of pig iron decrease
26,578 tons in August to 130,500 tons
against 217,300 in November, 3 shrinkage
of 40 per cent. Other works still have
stopped since September began. Unsold
stocks increased 62,067 tons in August,:
exclusive of those accumulating in the
hands of great steel companies. Strictly
not half the iron making or iron working
capacity is now employed, and the demand-
for finished products does not grow, but
cially from southern works, have sustain-
ed prices. If the extent of private conces-
sions could be known, perhaps there are
less to secure orders than there were two
weeks ago. The output of Connellsvillc'
coke was 65,997 tons weekly against 166,-
000 Oct. 6 last year, and 5,640 ovens are
at work against 15,511 then, with 10,000
workers now idle. ‘
Leather and Its Products.
The manufacture of boots and shoes is
shipping larger quantities than eyer be-
fore in September, though mainly of low
grade goods, and has not yet finished all
orders for the current season, some shops
having work for one or two months ahead,
especially in women’s shoes, though a
greater number have nearly or quite clos-
ed the season, and many are taking stock.
Leather is sold rather more largely, but
the slight change in the average of prices
is downward, though hides at Chicago are
scarce and rising. Sales of wool for the
week have about equaled the normal con-
sumption for the first time in several
months, not because manufacturers have
more orders or are doing more work, for
'no gain is seen in the demand or output.
The buying is mainly speculative, based
on the belief that prices must advance. No
considerable decrease appears in the encr-
output has been reduced about half for
two months, and a fifth of the year’s pro:
duction remains in the hands of makers,
but they have advanced the price three-
sixteenths during the week. For other
goods there is a better demand, and . man-
ufacturers have advanced prices because
of the rising cost of material, the average
are large. .-
. The Financial Chronicle’s annual re-
port, issued today, makes the last crop of
cotton 7,162,473 bales, the consumption
north and south 2, 695,810, and the exports
4,712,912 during the year. No account
of southern mill stocks is attempted, and
no estimate is yet given of the crop now
coming forward. The government report
is even more gloomy than a year ago,
making the condition the lowest for many
years, and as there is no doubt that the
damage hasbeen seriou's,the price has ad-
vanced to. 8% cents with much speculative .
buying. Wheat declined a cent, but then
advanced, slightly rising for the week.
Western receipts still exceed last year’s,
having been in two weeks 11,229,038 bush-
els against 10,323,288 last year, while At-
lantic exports. flour included, have been
for the same weeks "3, 983,265 bushels
against 2,417,872 last year. Accounts of
disappointing returns in spring wheat 3
states are numerous, but it is difiicult to
reconcile short estimates with heavy mar-
keting at low prices. Corn is almost whol-
ly out of danger, and the yield is general-
ly expected to be the largest, as the price
here is the lowest, ever known.
The Stock Market.
Stocks grew steadily stronger .untll ;
Thursday, although earnings are not stim-
per share, notwithstanding much realizing :
of profits. especially since the failuresin
New. Orleans, Confidence in better things i
the full report for August shows 3.7 per;
cent less than last year and 12.4per cent
less than in 1892. Chicago east bound
tonnageis almost as large as a year ago,
but the west bound movement is moder-
ate. Exchanges through clearing houses
the past week are for five days against six‘
last year. But for two weeks, including-
11 days each year, clearings have been 18. 7
per cent less than last year and 29.7 less
than in 1892. Foreign trade is also light,
imports here last week nearly 80 per cent
smaller than last year, while exports also
showed a decline. ‘
The tide of gold imports still runs
strongly this way, further engagements
which $18,861,250 has arrived. The pros-
pect'led the Bank, of England to raise its;
discount rates from 2 to 2% per cent, andé
'some selling on ' foreign account folloyved'
in stocks. ’ The New Orleans > bank fail!
ares, were followed by unuflual oflerings
.of cotton bills, and the interior demand
' for money also increased, the net outgo
1 being $3,250,000.- Failures for the week
have been 315 in the United States against-
187 last year and 47 in Canada against 34
last year. . ' , _ 7
The Steamer City of “for-caster. _
NEW Yams,- Sept. 12._—The Norwich
line steamboat City, oi." Worcester, which. -
' became - disabled yesterday” her shaft.‘ -~;
breaking when of! Saybrook; was brought
"to the city in tov’vcf two tugsand reached;
her dock atha'lf past 2 thisafternoon. ‘ _'
UAZET'EI'J»
‘ good
ward movement in prices will come With ’
wheat states, prices of corn and oats make '
ber of manufacturing works and mines in . g , . . . .
l .or alimentary, tract IS put 1n motion In
heavy speculative purchases of pig, espe- ~
mom stock of print, cloths, although the '
for all cottons having risen 5.3 per cent _
since Aug. 6, but stocks of many kinds-‘
ulating. The average for railroad stocks. ;~ . .
has risen slightly, and for trust stock's $1 : ‘
seems to be, the chief uplifting force. The; f '
few garnings reported for September are; - ; a ‘
2.7 per cent larger than last year, while' ,
lifting the aggregate to $28,620,000, of ,
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Anyone who under- .
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knews the. need of
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equalize power and keep the machinery
going Wit-h a'steady even motion. .With-
out it the machinery would wrench itself
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machinery of‘tlrehunian -body. :;it needs
to go on steadilyand regularly to, be In
health—not by fits and starts. The
sudden wrenching medicines which peo-'
ple sometimes take toovercome consti-
pation, give a violent strain to the Intes--
tines which weakens. them, so that .the
costiveness ,is afterwards worse than be-
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The “ Pleasant Pellets ” gently stimu-
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CORPORATED SEPT. 1, .1876.
CAPI’IAL. ' ' , ' ° ' . $100!“
Groncn M. Honours. President.
E. L. Bevan. Vice-President.
WILLIAM A. CURTIS. Cashier.
DIRECTORS :
GEORGE M. HOLMES, H. E. DANN,
P. L. CUNNINGHAM, J. T. Pnowrr'r
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