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VOL. 2-1, NO. 38. DEER LODGE, MONTANA, APRIL 1, 1893. WHOLE NO. 1038.
G-REAT NAVY REVIEW
WARSHIPS OF ALL NATIONS WILL
PARTICIPATE.
A Naval Spectacle That Will Surpass In
Magnitudle and Grandeur Anything the
World Has Ever Seen-Sonme of the Deo
tails of the Great Display.
School children as well as many "chil
iren of a larger growth" have been
taught to regard the "Invincible Ar
mada" with which the misgnided Philip
II, king of Spain, fondly imagined that
he would be able to effect the conquest
of England as the most formidable na
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UTNITED STATES FLAGSOItP BALTIMORE.
val demonstration the world has ever
seen. This is of course a ridiculous error,
for on many occasions since then there
have been gatherings of war vessels which
would have annilhilated the misnamed
"Invincible Armada" in an hour.
Unquestionably the most imposing
marine spectacle ever seen will be the
naval review in New York harbor, which
will be a fitting prelude ts the opening
of the World's fair. Most of the great
powers will have their best ships at the
display, which will be in command of
Rear Admiral Gherardi of the United
States navy.
The great Spanish armada was made
up of 65 galleons and lnrge ships, 25 ur
cas of 300 to 700 tons burden, 19 tenders
of 70 to 100 tons, 13 small frigates, 4 gal
leoses and 4 galleys, in all 130 vessels,
with a total tonnage of 75,868 tons.
This is less than one-third of the ton
nage which will participate in the great
naval review. One vessel of the new
United States navy, the Columbia or
the New York, could lie at anchor and
permit the entire armada to pepper
away at her for a week without making
a return, and she would not be injured
at all. Any one of our rams could de
stroy the entire armada without suffer
ing any dan age and without discharging
a single gun.
The fleets sent by each of the foreign
countries will be received at Hampton
Roads on April 17 by Admiral Gherardi.
There will be a week for evolutions,
BRITiSII FLAGSHIP BLAKE.
sham battles, etc.. when the warships
will proceed to New York, arriving on
the 20th. The big review will occur
the next day. On the 28th Admiral
Gherardi will give an elaborate dinner
to the foreign officers and other distin
guished guests, most of whom will leave
under escort the same evening for Chi
cago, arriving there in ample time to
take part in the opening ceremonies of
the World's fair.
The estimtats as to the number of ves
sels which will 'form tihe nn:gnificent ma
rine pictiture in the recview vary, sonie
putting it ai low as 50, while others de
clare that there will be 75 of the best
specimens of naval architecture extant.
Among the most celebr:;ted imen-of-war
will be G(eranl. 's two armored cruisers,
the Raiserin Augusta and the Seeadler;
Russia's first class armored cruisers
Diunitri Donskoi, General Admiral,
Nachiluoff. Panmiate Azowa, the battle
ship Emperor Nicholas and the corvette
Rynda. with Vice Admiral Koznakofl
in command; several vessels of Great
Britain's celebrated north Atlantic
squadron, with the flagship Blake
and two belted cruisers; Italy's cruis
ers Etna, Giovanni Bausan and Do
gall; Spain's cruisers Reina Regente
and Infanta Ysabel, and the gunboat
Espana, with the Duke of Veraguna and
his suite on board; France's large cruiser
Arethuse and several other of her most
famous warships; Brazil's ironclad
FRENCH FLAGSHIP ARETHUSE.
Aquidaban and cruisers Republica and
Tiradentes; Holland's first class.frigate
Van Speykl; and the United States ships
Baltimore, New York, Chicago, Char
leston, San -rancisco, Philadelphia, At
lanta, Kearsarge, Bennington, Concord,
Miantonomoh, Bancroft, Vesuvius and
several others which have not yet been
definitely decided upon. It is expected
that Russia will have the largest repre
sentation of any foreign power, although
she has not by any means the largest
navy in the world, being excelled in this
respect by both France and England.
Official figures show that at the begin
ning of last year there were 58,000 men
in active service in the English navy.
She hadl 62 armored vessels, 29 protected
and 282 unprotected, making in all 373
ships. By 1894 England expects to have
77 armored shtps, 88 protected and 336
unprotected-a total of 501 vessels.
France has 61 armored and 198 unar
mored ships, 5 armored and 65 unar
mored s mncgau s and 194 torpedo boats.
She has 76,070 men in her navy. Russia
has 87,080 men on the active list, and
her war vessels comprise 65 armored and
61 unarmored ships, 5 armored and 23
unarmored gunboats and 107 torpedo
boats. It may surprise many persons to
know that, in point of men on the active
lists of the navies of Europe, Turkey
comes fourth, with 86,8390 men; Spain
fifth, with 26,360; Italy sixth, with 16,590;
Germany~ v onth, with 1160; Holland
eighth, with 10,100; Sweden and Norway
ninth, with 8,89; Denmark tenth, with
7,798, and poor little Portugal eleventh,
with but 2,344 men. France also leads
with her naval reserve of 150,000, nearly
three times as many as her nearest rival,
Great Britain, which has but 55,000 men.
It is estimated that 5,000 sailors will
be required to man the American ships
which will be in the naval review, while
there will be about 20,000 men on board
the foreign vessels. The total value of
all the craft will probably exceed $200,
000,000. Thus it is no exaggeration to
say that "compared with the matchless
array of battleships that will parade in
New York harbor the navies of the
world's infancy were the merest toys,"
or "the Persian ships that gathered by
thousands at Salamis, and the Roman
and Egyptian galleys that darkened the
Mediterranean off Actium were relative
ly but insignificant chips on the surface
of the sea." The vast wooden fleets of
England, France and Spain which seemed
invincible little more than 100 years ago
positively excite amusement by compar
ison with the proposed aggregation of
vessels in New York harbor.
During the week devoted to the ren
dezvous in Hampton Roads it is pro
posed to give an exhibition of more than
ordinary interest because of the histor
ical associations connected with the
event which it is desired to commemo
rate. This will consist of a sham battle
between old fashioned ironclads of the
types of the Merrimac and Monitor.
The mimic contest will occur on the
very spot where the vessels really fought
on March 9, 1862.
GERMAN IRONCLAD EIMPRESS AUGUSTA.
Many a naval officer will doubtless re
flect as he stands watching the sport
from the bridge of his steel cruiser that
if it had not been for that fight he might
still be walking the deck of a wooden
vessel which a shot from guns now con
sidered useless would easily sink if it
happened to strike just between wind
and water. There will be salutes of all
descriptions at Hampton Roads, and the
foreigners will be entertained appropri
ately by the officers of the American na
vy. Countless receptions have already
been planned in the cities near by, and
many of them will probably materialize.
If the present plans be not changed.
when the great fleet sails for New York
April 24 it will probably proceed in
squadron order tunder a headway of 7h
knots. On the journey north there may
be some evolutions by the representa
tives of the dii'erent countries. The
ships are expcotcd to anchor in Sandy
Hook bay. On the morning of the re
view, upon receiving the signal, the for
eigners will taike the pIositions assigned
them by Admiral Gherardi, but it has
been decided that they will keep the
starbloard sido of thle channel, the Amer
icans escorting them on the port side.
The procession will then move forward
in double columnl at ia uniform speed
of 7i knots, with a reserve speed of three
knots to guard against emergencies.
ITALIAN CRUISER GIOVANNI BAUSAN.
When the line reaches the Narrows,
both Fe,. ts Wadsworth and Hamilton will
salute with every available gun, and as
each vessel arrives opposite the fortresses
it will probably deliver a rattling broad
side first in the direction of Hamilton
and then toward Wadsworth. It will
be a novel sight, and hundred!s of thou
sands of persons will doubtless see the
sinister tongues of flame leap from tihe
ships' sides and hear the fearful report
that follows. The three caravels made
in exact imitation of Columbus' vessels
-the Santa Maria, Pinta and Nina--will
also participate in the review. They will
be regarded with great curiosity.
Comparisons have very naturally been
made between the coming review and
the two great naval displays given in
honor of Queen Victoria and Emperor
William in 1886 and 1800 respectively.
The former was the queen's jubilee, and
the latter was tendered as a compliment
to William on the occasion of his visit
to Portsmouth, England. If there is no
petering out, the New York review will
eclipse both of them and ought to be as
imposing as the two combined.
It has been decided to entertain the
foreign visitors elaborately in New York
upon their return from the World's fair,
but the plans have not yet been perfect
ed. Everything, however, will probably
be in charge of the chamber of com
merce of that city. This is the best sort
of a guarantee that the receptions and
other forms of entertainment tendered
the distinguished guests will be on a
particularly elaborate scale. The ques
SPANISH WARSHIP INFFANTA YSABEL.
tion of a second naval display just prior
to the departure of the war vessels has
also been suggested, but this has been
opposed on the ground that it will de
tract from the interest in the great event.
HERBERT LESTra.
Land Values Rising In England.
Land in Great Britain sold at consid
erably higher prices last year than dur
ing the two years previous.
"The way to checek a growing evil," said
Rivets, "is to go straight to the root of it."
And with his teeth firmly set he submits
ted his tenderest corn to the caresses of the
chiropodist.-Chicago Tribuu.e .
AN ELECTRICAL WIZARD.
Zilkola Tesla Alloes a Charge of 200,000
Volts to Pass Through Huis Body.
"I am convinced that I can today send
a message to a ship at sea, and that those
on board can understand it. If I can
not, I am willing to lay my head on the
guillotine."
It was Nikola Tesla who made the
above strange remark, and his wonder
ful achievements in the development of
electrical science make his words worthy
of respectfnl con
sideration. He
has already estab
lished the fact
that but one wire
is necessary to
create anelectric
al current and
is now engaged
S= on the problem
of transmitting a
current without
the use of a wire
at all. That he
NIKOLA TESLA. has grasped the
secret of how this may ultimately be ac
complished some of the experiments ex
hibited at his public lectures would seem
to demonstrate.
Tesla produces a distinct and powerful
glow without the aid of wires or globes
and with apparatus remarkable chiefly
for its simplicity. This consists of two
highly charged disks, between which the
light appears without a connecting fila
ment of any kind. In an incandescent
lamp hung on a single wire, but not con
nected with it, he produces a red light
almost blinding in its brilliancy, which
becomes a powerful white on increasing
the frequency of alternations in thecur
rent. Concerning his theory of the pos
sibility of transmission without wires
Mr. Tesla says: "I have already proved
the contrary of what everybody lsdlieved.
I have proved that it is not liecessary to
have two wires to establish an electrical
current. In my machine I have but one
wire. I utilize the air as the other. But
as I now get a return through the air I
believe that I can also transmit through
the earth, thus doing away with even the
one wire. The earth is a great insulated
globe filled with electricity, or the capa
bility of electrical vibration. The only
problem is to awaken this electricity, to
shake this immense earth so as to set this
mighty world force swinging or wag
ging. Of course it will take a great
force to start this motion, but there is
no doubt we can get it. Electricians
thought 10,000 volts was a wonderful
pressure. I have already stirred up hun
dreds of thousands, and the limit is far
off. Instead of 300 vibrations I have al
ready secured 3,000,000 a second. Give
me the machine, and I will make a spark
half a mile long. Now, at Niagara, for
instance, which is destined to be a mar
velous center of electrical force for Amer
ica, enough force can be secured to sup
ply all the needs of the human race twice
over. By shaking the entire earth with
the mighty power to be obtained there
this earth electricity could be started.
With this earth force in vibration the
next problem would be to build ma
chines able to catch and respond to the
earth motion. There would have to be
a synchronism between the electrical
swinging of the earth and the machine.
For example, I hold a glass to my mouth
and speak. The glass is shattered. My
voice to do this must have the same
resonance as the glass. Such I conceive
to be the secret of all nature-resonance.
Then, setting this machine at any point
in the world, the message transmitted
through thi earth can be received and
read at Paris, at Ilonig-lKong--aoywhere.
Distance no longer exists. I am con
vinced that I today can send a message
to a ship at sea, and that those on board
can understand it. If I cannot, I am
willing to lay my head on the guillotine."
Mr. Tesla has also discovered a means
of harnessing electricity so that it shall
serve mankind without injuring him.
To demonstrate this he allows a current
of 200,000 volts to pass through his body
and illuminate a bulb containing sul
phate of calcium which lie holds in his
hand. The bulb glows with a light so
intense as to fill the room with bright
ness and to disclose the great electrician
holding it aloft, unharmed and smiling.
Then he assures the spectators that "this
is nothing."
Nikola Tesla is only about 35 years
old. He is a Montenegrin by birth, but
was educated in Hungary and now re
sides in Now York. Inheriting an eager
inventive genius from his mother and a
fortmle front his father, he has given his
whole energy to the science of electric
ity as a labor of love. He has no com
mercial connections whatsoever, and his
lectures are given purely to stir up inter
est in his loved study. When only about
21 years old, he came to America and
worked under Edison at Menlo Park. In
the discovery of the harmlessness and
free transmission of electricity he has
eclipsed every thinker in the world.
Plo None Filled the Gap.
It is said that the pope is the only
priest in Christendom who never preach
es a sermon. Only once during 300 years
has this rule, if rule it be, been departed
from. This was in 1847, when Pius IX
was pope. Father Ventura, a famous
orator, was to have preached at a church
in Rome. A great crown assembled to
hear him, but at the appointed hour
there was no priest. Presently the pope
arrived. Probably he, too, had conme to
listen to Ventura. Taking in the situa
tion at a glance, Pieo Nono was equal to
the occasion, for he preached the ser
mon.
Aervilng thle reople.
In 1761 the town of Quincy, in Massa
chusetts, wanted a surveyor of highways
who had brains. The most prominent
citizen of the little town at that time
probably was John Adams, who was a
graduate of Harvard college and a suc
cessful lawyer, and who had high ambi
tions, which Were subsequently realized,
as all the world mknows.
The citizens of the town of Quincy re
garded Adams, who was then about 26
years old, as a very capable fellow, and
without asking his leave chose him to
look after their highways.
This service was not of the sort which
the ambitious scholar and able lawyer
wys looking for. He knewthat a faith
ful performance of the duties would in
terfere with his work as a lawyer, but
Adams was a man of high public spirit,
and if his fellow citizens wanted him to
survey their roads it was his duty to
do it. He accepted the office, therefore,
and performed its duties.
The spirit which he exhibited has been
shown by many other famous Ameri
cans, especially in the early days of our
republic. At the present time the dis
like of office seeking is so great that office
holding is looked upon by many people
as a thing to be reprobated, and able
men often scornfully decline to hold an
unimportant office.
Every person's patriotism should be
gin with the town or city that he lives
in, and every citizen should regard his
services as rightfully to be commanded,
for a reasonable time, by the community
among whom he dwells.-Youth's Com
panion.
TO SUCCEED HIMSELF.
Senator Allen of T~ashington, Who Has
Been Reappointed by Governor McGraw.
John Beard Allen, who succeeds him
self in the position of United States sen
atd from the state of Washington, hav
ing been appoint
ed by Governor
McGraw on the
adjournment of
-~ the legislature
after a failure to
elect a successor
to Mr. Allen's
seat, has been
prominently
identified with
Washington
since 1870, when
he went there
J. l. ALLEN. from Rochester,
Minn. He was appointed United States
attorney for Washinton territory by
President Grant in 1875 and held the
office for 10 years with notable success,
acting also as official reporter of the su
preme court of the territory.
Since 1881 he has been a resident of
the city of Walla Walla, and there he
has built up what is probably the most
lucrative legal practice of any lawyer in
eastern Washington, few cases of any
prominence coming up in which he is
not engaged on one side or the other.
He was elected to represent the territory
as a delegate in congress in 1887, defeat
ing a Democrat who had served two
terms.
Mr. Allen was born at Crawfordsville,
Ind., in 184- and was educated at Wa
bash college in his native town. He en
listed in 1864, though not yet 10 years
old, and served through the war as a
private soldier, his regiment being main
ly engaged in Tennessee and Alabama.
At the close of the war he removed to
Rochester, Minn., where he acted for
awhile as agent for a grain firm. Then
he entered the law school at Ann Arbor,
Mich., and was admitted to the bar in
1809, going soon afterward to Olympia,
Wash., where he commenced practice.
SHERMAN'S MARBLE PALACE.
The Ohio Senator Expects' to Occupy Ills
New W.Vs'shington Residence Next Fall.
A great many of the senators and rep
resentatives buy or build houses for
themselves in Washington, and some of
the handsomest residences in the capital
are the property of congressional own
ers. It is not at all a bad thing to do,
even considering the necessary uncer
tainty of official tenure, for real estate
investments in Washingteon are gener
ally good things. Senator Sherman has
proved the truth of this, for when, 20
years or more ago, he bought the prop
erty on Franklin square where he is
now building his new marble palace it
was on the extreme edge of the residen
tial quarter, and since then the town has
grown up around it and two miles or
more beyond it to the manifest enrich
ment of the Sherman excheouer.
The senator says he has a natural bent
for building and thinks he would prob
ably have been an architect or builder if
he had not gone into public life. He
certainly shows excellent judgment in
his purchases of real estate, and his new
house will be an example of his good taste
and appreciation of comfort and con
venience. It has a frontage of about 50
feet on K street and is 100 feet in depth.
It is rapidly approaching completion,
and the senator expects to occupy it next
fall.
The chief characteristic of the interior
of the house is roominess. There is a
very wide and imposing entrance hall,
and on the right of this is the library, a
room 25 feet long, with a large fireproof
vault built in the rear end of it for the
safe keeping of the senator's papers and
other valuables. On the left of the hall
are the parlors, and back of them is the
dining room, all very large rooms and
admirably adapted to the purposes for
which they are designed. The parlors
are beautifully finished in white satin
wood and will be handsomely frescoed.
The dining room has a ceiling of paneled
oak. The choicest hard woods have been
used throughout the house, most of it
having been brought from Ohio, where
much of the work on it was done.
The chambers are large and airy, and
many of them are finished in birdseye
maple, an exceptionally pretty wood for
the purpose. Senator Sherman owned a
planing mill once and knows all about
the different kinds of wood, and his
knowledge and good taste have been ad
mirably displayed inhis selections. There
are about 30 rooms in the new house, in
cluding half a dozen bathrooms, finished
with tiles and furnished with the best
and latest conveniences.
Professor Dewar of the Royal Institu
tion of Great Britain recently gave an
exhibition of turning atmosphere into
water. To change air into a liquid it is
necessary to cool it sufficiently. But the
difficulty in the process is to attain the
extreme degree of cold required. A tem
perature of not less than 182 degrees cen
tigrade below freezing is demanded.
What such a depression of the thetmom
eter implies may be realized from the
fact that it is nearly twice as far below
zero as boiling water is above the same
point. If a vessel containing air has its
temperature abated to this extent, then
the air will condense; trickle down. the
sides and 'accumulate as a liquid at the
bottom.
SOME NEW OFFICIALS
MASSACHUSETTS, NEW YORK ANL
INDIANA HONORED.
Josiah Quincy, Assistant Secretary of State
Ex-Governor Gray, Minister to Mexico
Fourth Assistant Postmaster Genera
Maxwell.
The appointment of Josiah Quincy o:
Massachuetts as assistant secretary o;
state at Washington rouses anew the in
teret in this remarkable and truly his
toric American family-the only Amer
ican family, it is believed, which ha;
maintained an unbroken succession o:
wealth and talent for 250 years. He i1
the sixth Josiah Quincy of eminence
The first was that Josiah Quincy, who it
1730-50 was so active and efficient a;
Massachusetts' commissioner in dealing;
with England, and he was the grea
grandson of the scarcely less famous Ed
mund Quincy, founder of the family
who landed in Massachusetts in 1683.
Of the first Josiah the third son, Jo
siah, was the famous Quincy of the
struggle which brought on the revolu
tion, but he died just a week after the
battle of Lexington. His son Josial
was the senator from Massachusetti
whose frantic opposition to Thomas Jef
rerson excited so much amusement and
indignation. He was the first man tc
advocate the right of secession on the
floor of congress, declaring that if Lou
isiana were purchased and made inte
states the compact was dissolved and
New England should withdraw from
the Union. He died in 1864, aged 92.
His son Josiah was mayor of Boston and
an author of some note. His son Josial
was long a political writer of note.
The present Josiah Quincy was born
in Quincy, Mass., Oct. 15, 1859; was
graduated-from Harvard in 1880 and ad
mitted to the bar in 1884 and immedi
ately became conspicuous as one of the
young Republicans who refused to sup
port James G. Blaine for the presidency.
In 1887 he was elected to the legislature
as a Democrat and has since been re
elected three times. His committee
work in regard to labor, election laws
and tax reform elicited high praise. He
is a bachelor, and a bright particular
star in the inner circles of Boston's most
exclusive society.
As if to emphasize the contrasts of
American life, society and politics, Presi
dent Cleveland on the same day with Mr.
Quincy's appointment named for minis
ter to Mexico Isaac Pusey Gray of In
diana, one of the newest of new men in
all those respects. He was born of Quak
er parents at Downingtown, Pa., Oct. 18,
1828, but was reared chily at New Mar
ion, 0., where he mairied Miss Eliza
Jaqua. He began active life as a dry
goods clerk, then became a merchant at
Union City, Ind., studied law and soon
acquired a lucrative practice.
His political life began with the war,
of which he was an ardent supporter.
He entered the service early as a cap
tain in the Fourth Indiana cavalry, but
retired in 1863 on account of ill health.
He was active as a Republican during
the reconstruction era, and as such was
elected to the state senate in 1868, be
coming the party leader in that body.
President Grant appointed him consul
to St. Thomas in 1870, but he declined
the place, disapproved of the president's
policy, supported Greeley in 1872 and
has ever since been a Democrat.
In 1876 he was elected lieutenant gov
ernor of Indiana on the Democratic tick
et, and as -overnor James D. Williams.
affectionately known as "Blue Jeans,'
died late in his term Governor Gray suc
ceeded for the remainining time. In 1884
he was elected governor after a cam
paign of such brilliancy that he at once
became prominent as an aspirant for the
. presidential
nomination. As
a political man
J', ?, .ager he has few
equals and pos
GRAY.
sibly no superior. F
but for various
reasons he has
failed to receive
the united sup- M.AXWELL.
port of his party as his state's candidate
for the presidency. His life is, in the
broadest sense of the word, democratic,
and his religious leanings are Presbyte
rian. His family consists of his wife and
two sons, both lawyers.
Another comparatively new man ap
pointed on the same day is Robert A.
Maxwell, fourth assistant postmaster
general. He was born in 1840 in Wash
ington county, N. Y.; was reared on a
farm, obtained a common school educa
tion, went to Wisconsin and lived as a
farmer a few years, then became a com
mission merchant in Chicago and finally
located in Batavia, N. Y., where he has
made a fortune as a maltster. In 1881 he
was elected state treasurer as a Demo
crat and was re-elected in 1883. He has
since been active in the party counsels
and has served his fellow Democrats in
many capacities.
Miss Rose Elizabeth Cleveland.
The recent inauguration serves as a
reminder that a person who four years
ago occupied a very prominent place in
the public eye has now practically dis
appeared from sight. Miss Rose Eliza
beth Cleveland has not been seen in
Washington for several years, but it is
stated that she will soon be a guest at
the White House. Miss Cleveland has
been traveling in Europe for the past
two years.
Now they say that the free lead pencils
furnished the school children of Detroit
by the board of education are responsi
ble for the epidemic of diphtheria in that
city. The children get a different pencil
every day, all the pencils being dropped
into a box at the close of school. The
average child using a pencil will put the
point in its mouth very frequently, and
it is not difficult to see that the practice
miiiht becsme very danaerous.
THE SOLAR CORONA.
Professor Schaeberle Travels Thousands of
Mlilesto Properly Observe It.
The journey of Professor J. M. Schae
berle of the Lick university to Chili to
observe the coming eclipse of the sun
on April 16 excites intense concern among
all interested in astronomy, and may be
regarded in current history as a romance
of science. Not only does tl. professor
go almost alone, trusting to hire assist
ants in Chili, but he takee with him a
ton or more of instruments and machin
ery, which must be transported over the
highest mountains in primitive fashion,
and for the means to do this he is in
debted, as the university lacked the funds,
to the liberalty of Mrs. Phoebe Hearst of
San Francisco.
THE CORONA AS IT MAY APPEAR.
When it is added that Professor Schac
berle is already noted for his novel
theories as to the nature of the solar co
rona and that his observations will prove
or disprove his views, the interest is
greatly heightened. As every one knows,
the sun is so much larger than the moon
that the cone shaped shadow of the lat
ter nearly always runs to a point before
reaching the earth, and it is only on
those very rare occasions that there is an
eclipse when the moon is nearest tin
earth that the point of the shadow strikes
the earth so as to make a total eclipse at
that point. Even then the totality cov
ers a very small section, the greatest re
corded width of any total eclipse being
107 miles.
Now, the eclipse of April 16, 1893, will
be total-first at a point in latitude to
degrees south, on the coast of Chili, and
thence in a northeast line across the
Argentine Republic and Brazil, and siu
ilarly in a line across Africa, etc., but it
will last but four minutes in each place.
and one light cloud lasting that long
would defeat all the astronomer's plans,
so a station has been selected so high and
so far inland that a clear sky may be
looked for with certainty, and there Pro
fessor Schaeberle and his assistants will
note every phenomenon and take photo
graphs of sun and moon during the
eclipse as fast as his great photohelio
graph and smaller instruments can be
worked.
The so called solar corona is that pecul
iarly brilliant and many colored light
which extends far beyond the rim of the
sun and can be studied closely only dur
ing an eclipse. It is usually attributed
to a vast gaseous envelope or superheated
atmosphere about the sun, but Professor
Schaeberle maintains that it is chiefly
due to the immense fiery streams poured
out by the sun's volcanoes, which
streams break into molten and vaporous
spray and are instantly drawn back by
the sun's immense attractive power. He
has worked all this out with scientific
detail and drawn complete and very de
tailed maps of the sun as it must look
if his theory is correct, If observation
during this eclipse shows it to look other
wise, then his theory must be given up.
To make the observations all his ap
paratus was transported 27 miles from
Mount Hamilton, where the Lick ob
servatory is, to the railroad; thence to
the coast by rail and to Huasco, Chili,
by steamer, and thence by porters and
llamas it must go to a point on the Andes
many thousand feet above the sea. British
and French astronomers are making even
more extensive preparations for observa
tions in Brazil, Africa and elsewhere.
FOR OLD COLLEGE BOYS.
The Greek Letter Fraternities Will Have
an Interesting Show at the Fair.
The Greek letter college societies have
had space allotted to them and will make
an interesting and instructive exhibit at
the World's fair. This will include a
collection of books, charts and docu
ments relating to
the fraternities,
bound volumes
of their songs,
magazines, an
nuals, etc., and a
complete display
of all their badges
and parapherna
lia. But the chief
feature of the ex
hibit will be a re
production of the
choragic olonu
ment of Lysi
crates, which is
said to be the
most famous -
specimen of Co- CHORAGIC MONUMENT.
rinthian architecture in existence, and
which will be restored in every particu
lar and put in the center of the space do
voted to the exhibit. The monument is
40 feet high, and the walls are black, the
woodwork being all ebonized and ornu
mented in gilt.
It may be well to explain for the
benefit of those who do not know that
a choragic monument was a building
erected by a victorious chorus leader for
the exhibition of the tripod received as a
prize in the musical contests in Athens.
Besides that of Lysicrates to be repro
duced for the fraternities there is an
other still to be seen in Athens, that of
Thrasyllus.
Her Klndness Paid.
A crabbed old bachelor who was in
the habit of calling at a Washington
postoffice for his letters was so much
impressed by the kindly attentions of
the postmistress that he one day walked
up to the counter, and, remarking that'
she was the only person who had spoken
a kind word to him for years, handed
her a parcel which contained a deed for
five acres of land worth $3.000.
Unique San Francisco.
The San Francisco Olympic club pro
poses to re-enact in its big gymnasium
the scenes of the Roman Coliseum.
The performance will be the feature of
an April fair. There will be a grand
entry of emperor and court, and the
gladiators-20 on a side-having chanted
the historic '"Ave Cesar! Morituri te sal
utamus," will take their places and en
gage inmimic battle to the death. This
combat will be followed by other of the
feats of arm common in the Roman
arena. A special libretto will be writ
ten for the performancq.