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THE L vagina or AZETTE
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TIIE ‘ OLTA BLO‘VN UP 5 The popular shirt waist continues to
—————-—- iblossom out daily in all manner 01
novel and dainty forms. ‘Tucks are
particularly effective on these waists;
a dainty blouse recently seen of fine
cream batiste, tucked, and worn over
a Slip of pale pink silk formed a very
lovely model for wear with a white
pique or woolen skirt. The sleeves
COL. COLT SUPERVBED THE RE-
MARKABLE EXHIBITION.
Forty Thousand Saw the First Explosion
By the Aid of Electricity—The Secre-
tary of “'m- “’as Present in Castle
The civilized world had a hearty
laugh at the unique proposal that some
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one in authority arrange a naval battle 1
between the United States and Spain
outside the harbor of New York. It
was received as the suggestion. of a.
humorist. And yet there is no reason
Why a fierce encounter between the
naval fleets would not furnish a grand
spectacular demonstration in compar-
the tamest of pastimes.
who would take all risks in order to
witness such an engagement wOuld be
unparalleled. To-day we consider it
ultra-sensational to have two engines
run into each other to show how ter-
rible a railroad collision ma; be, and if
the crowds that visit a wreck long after
it has taken place be an- index to the
public appetite, fully half of New
York‘s three millions would go upon
the water to see a real naval battle.
Fifty-six years ago over 40,000 people
witnessed the explosion of a steamer in
New York harbor by Colonel Colt.
sub-marine history, and'in thesecom-
paratively quiet times caused the ad-
journment of Congress and the suspen-
sion from his duties of no less a per-
sonage than the Secretary of War.
Though Robert Fulton was one of
the first improvers of the torpedo, it is
not generally known that Samuel Colt,
of the Colt revolver fame. was the
father of the modern submarine bat-
tery in the days of President Tyler.
Indeed the use of torpedoes in war
down to the days of Tyler was regarded
with the same nameless feeling of hor-
ror as the Guy Fawkes story produced
for three hundred years in England.
In was considered an'inhuman inven-
tion due to “water-worms, fire-devils,
and submarine assassins.” Fulton
himself was described by a squeamish
writer in the Naval Chronicle, as “a.
crafty, murderous ruffian.” But Pres-
ident Tyler took a different view of the
submarine battery.‘ He had an appro-
priation of $17,000 made to Colt for the
following circumstances.
The Government placed a schooner at
Colt’s disposal in August, 1842, to ex-
periment upon on the Potomac. The
President, General Winfield Scott and
the heads of the various Departments
in Washington took a day off to see
Colt experiment on her. He destroyed
the schooner from an observation
tower on the banks of the Potomac
while five miles distant; a feat which
was then considered a most unparal-
leled an extraordinary triumph of sci-
ence. He asserted that he could ex—
plode a shell under water at a distance
of ten miles by the same methods, and
it was in order to produce such a feat
that Congress voted the appropriation.
Two months later, October 18, 1842,
Colt’s battery produced a still more
notable effect in New York Harbor in
the presence of 40,000 citizens, who
went down the Bay to see it with as
much interest as they now would go
to see a yacht race.
It is worth reproducing the report
19, 1842, of this event, not only to show
the entire success of the experiment
and the manner of reporting the events
of that period, but to contrast the
space afforded and the utter absence
of that vivid description with a similar
spectacular event of the present day
journalism: '
“A vast multitude assembled yester-
day afternoon to witness the explosion
of Colt’s Submarine battery placed un-
der a vessel of 260 tens. 'The North
Carolina, seventy-four, about four
o’clock gave a salute of thirteen guns.
Immediately afterwards the signal for
the explosion was given. The vessel
rose bodily out of the water and then
separated into fragments which were
thrown about seventy feet in the air.
The next moment nothincr was seen of
her except a few pieces of the wreck
which were floating on the water and
of which the boats lying near hastened
to possess themselves. The Secretary
of War was present in Castle Garden."
The name of the vessel was the brig
"Volta.” The experiment was per-
formed under the auspices of the
American Institute, while Colonel Colt
applied the electric spark from a bat-
tery on board the revenue cutter
“Swing.” It is also noteworthy, en
passant, that other papers like the
“Morning Courier and Inquirer,” did
not give a single line to this phenom-
enal triumph of American science;
though the “Courier" dame next day
gave a whole column t ' foreign dis-
patch relating to a fire in Liverpool
which took place on the same day that
Colt’s battery blew up this brig, and
the very explosion of which must have
shaken the windows of the “Courier”
office. The same paper also printed a
detailed map of those streets in Liver-
- . @001 between which the fire occurred;
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:but the editor obviously had no time
lfor a local American event that
‘brought the Secretary of War from
lWashington, and 40,000 of his fellow
lcitizens out upon the water. Need it
{be said that the “Courier" has long
since gone.
3 In the month of April following a
brig of 500 tons was blown 'to pieces
hile sailing at the rate of 5 knots an
our while Colonel Colt the operator
{of the battery was on shore five miles
‘away. Both; Houses of Congress ad-
journed to witness this event which
iWas performed by the arrangement of
groups of torpedoes connected by in-
'sulated-wires and with a galvanic bat-
:tery operated by a method, similar to
that already described;
ison with which yacht races would be ;
The crowds ‘
This was one of the great events of ,
perfection of his invention under the .
made in the Evening Post of October,
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were the regulation shirt waist model.
l A stock of pink silk with an accordeon
pleated bow under the chin gave a.
pretty finish.
Silk waists are much worn at this
‘ season. Taffeta is too warm, but
. many charming styles are of China.
silk fashioned in the same way as the
cotton ones with the exception that the
1 box pleat in the front is more elabor‘
ately trimmed.
A Barbaric Custom.
Although Russia is rapidly advanc-
ing in civilization many barbaric cus-
toms still exist, and that of choosing
a wife is amongst the most turious.
ilt is chiefly prevalent in country dis-
tricts, and is really a game played at
Christmas-time. A prominent person
in a village announces that this annual
feast will take place in his house, and
all the young men and women of the
place flock there at the appointed time.
First there are dances and songs and
[games just as at any other ordinary
party, but when these are :over the
hostess takes all the girls into one
room where they sit upon benches
round the walls, and are completely
muffled up in large white sheets. In
the meantime the young men have
been drawing lots, and when the girls
are all rolled up iii their sheets, and
looking more like mummies than hu‘
man beings, they enter the room one
by one, their order being decided by
the number each draws. It is impos-
sible to distinguish any one girl, and
the young man, having finally made
his choice, unveils her, it being the
unwritten law that he should marry
whomsoever he may pick out. If
either the girl or the man refuse to
marry, they must pay a heavy forfeit.
Strange as it may seem, this extraor-
dinary game of marriage is said to
lead to many happy unions.
Experiments in Inverted Vision,
Professor George Stratton, of the
University of California, has made a
novel experiment in inverted vision by
wearing for eight days a mask fitted
with lenses which invert the visual
image, thus projecting it upon the re-
tina in an erect instead of the nor-
mal inverted position. He soon
learned to refer all objects to their
correct positions, in other words to see
them right side up; but, on removing
the apparatus at the expiration of eight
days, everything appeared to be upside
down at first. He therefore concludes
that the seeing of objects right sia
,up is due to a mental rectification c-
2,thc visual image actually projected up<
ion the retina.
. Unique Work Bag.
A useful bag may be made of two
‘silk handkerchiefs, or two pieces of
silk or any other material about 27
inches square. If plain silk is used,
and a handsome bag is required, the
' inner square may be worked in CI‘OSS‘
stitch or embroidered to make it:
lpretty. One dozen rings about the
; size of a ten cent piece are sewn on at
gregular distances. The corners and
! sides are turned "down equally so as to
.form a circle. When the rings are
i sewn on ribbon or cord is run through
vthem double to draw up and close the
. bag with. Brown holland bound with
; red braid makes a strong work-bag.
Useful Information.
It is highly dangerous to leave a gas
burner turned low unless surrounded
by a globe, and even then a draught of
wind may blow out the flame and leave
the gas escaping. ‘
'3 Cupboards and storerooms should
periodically have the doors set open for
air and light to penetrate, and the
shelves should be cleaned or at least
brushed out once a week.
i, Sponges should never be used for
applying a lotion to an open wound.
. To keep a quill pen soft, have it al-
ways in the ink and do not let it get
dry.
Celery Soup. .
Ingredients—One head of celery, two
onions, one pint of water or stock, one
pint of milk, one bay leaf, one blade 01
mace, six white peppercorns, two table-
spoonfuls of cream, salt.
i' , Method—Prepare the vegetables and
slice them; put them in a saucepan
I“with the stock. bay leaf, maCe, pepper-
corns and salt; cook gently until ten-
der, rub through a sieve, return to the
saucepan, re-tezt. add the milk
59(warm) and tlzen,,:he cream. Do no‘
let the soup 120.: after the cream i:
added.
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Wealth of the Klein
Shrcwd Investors Arc Sure Winners.
116 one 11 Ladue Gold Minind and Devdopment Company
of 13:11:61); fiifiiing opportunity for thebextremely profitable use or addi~
tional working capital in connection with its transportation busmess, the
Company now offer for investment a limited amount of its new SIX per
cent. preferred stock. . _
PRO RATA DIVISION OF ALL SURPLUS EARNINGS.
due was the ioneer of the Klondike.
Josgph La“ was the Thunder of Dawson City. .
obtained a monopoly of the adJagent umber lands. _
purchased the original quartz discovery 1n the Klondike
thought to be the “ Mother I._ode." . . _
,. “ “ established the only saw-mm 1n the Klondike district.
“ “ controls the Canadian patent on Dawson Crty.
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' . ue came east With this basw wealth and interested the mos _
anc“: 113121.153}? class of financiers, foaming] one of the sté‘gngesfté3 Spgaaost‘lpggzggui 60211:”
e _- i ed. His Klon i 'e p aceT 0 arms 500 . ', «.—
5i§i§tszygiogegr$y Zoo Gold Bottom Creek, saw-mill plant, timber rights, and son. of
the best lots in Dawson City have been turned over to the above company.
The above company has since purchaSed the
Fine Passenger S.S. “ MORGAN CITY,”
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1°55 Tie detaéeic’han Francisco or Seattle and Skaguay up to about ftho rst g; 9332;,
wh on she will be put in commission to Sitf héichziizels in connection Wlth our riv . .
(1 four or more freight scows on the u on wet. _
an All. the valuable assets of the company are behind this stock and investors are
c - . am 1e rotection. ‘ _’_ . .: ;
muggy: of gretgrred stock $10.00 per share, payable .50 per cent on:I'Jplicaucr‘liaigd)
balance on allotment of shares. (Right reserved to Withdraw stoc; .. itnout no. cc.
Subscriptions for the stock should be sent ‘
W. H. SPOONER, Agent for R. I. and Conn, 146 Westmirs at
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