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$ WIRELESS MESSAGES ACROSS THE ATLANTIC
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"1 "T t" '''11'1'1' i!'v if ;iiin ui of re-
cud time li is cau'-.-d n.cv
I V Interest lirnii-;'i..iit the
(7 world than tii'- .'winu.nirc-im-nt
of Cu-lhlino Miircoiil llsa l he
l;:id received at Kt. .T. li n's, N. I'., v. irc
lev electric (; I In '.'rolll hi f t .1 1 1 fcM
In Cornwall, Liland, it distance of
nbout Vm t: . ,l-f. That Man-mil re
ceived these Mriuii Is evnerally ac
cepted ns ii fact in the sclentiiic world.
The Marciml Htjitlmi l:i Cornwall Is
J most powerful one. An electric
force a hundred times greater than at
the ordinary fr-tat Um Is generated
there. Before lie left England Signor
p.SXVy'?WZ ! A NOVtLTY IN SAIL UQATG.
It IT,... 'lain hlk1 IwllUtttlT itni-'-
Kil ljr SM-.
The queer hulking craft illustrated
U rx It'.-. W:i (".(fl. '.i 'd by Jam- 1'.
Fool with the intention of improving
the fuvtlllh-H fYr bundling .tin- rails
und t-u-erin the IwK'it. 1 pb;v of tlu
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v:irf born
Heal
Ciud'.t h:tii Mareuh
f. 1 V.,1.- A ". 1!7J. lit' I1!. I
t.heiviorc, l.-n yd t wv.it. v-clj-ht years
oil. Ill ISKi, Wlun t.Ut tV,''!)1,?-:W(
y a. old, In- ( aiiA' Into ir.-ouitwn.v.
i'rl.ir to that tlnu- Ik had dciJH:iHlr;itvd
!u Jialy th.1 jo(-d'ulMty oi nU'iirilKi:;:
w'.t.hi i:t wins hy latins of the llort
clr.n wavfH. lit- ,::'l'fri:i:!t;' In hl.
rathe coiuitry it;jm-.'Hl but Mill' t
n.ntl.m. It was lwt tiutll ii vv.tit to
t. ,,i,,twi in i'-t'w. iti'it ti. cvi"i'd pc'. :i- I
tllic and lliian-'lal lakin. Miu-e that
tina' In this i)imtry ntid Hnland 5;'
has received unstinted ncourai:e.ni( nt.
Ill recent success Ut Kl:;ualliiig ves-
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TW juh. of a udeitdl.l Htnto touch. fc-nt
l-y tW Duke f.-r the r.iid'cror. which
hud, however, the hap.- 'f a death's
hv.id. Wiin rtfu-d hy Napoleon."
lit- critUihc 1m luarvih.iM In color
the upiur mrl of the hedy dark Ki' cn
hi'.Uivr. tlw U.wr puinted in red. cthii-t-.tn.
and tvwi id He; driqii'd enr
tiilu. aul tlu fKicliinan'H eat Ik In
v.lvtl of KiK' yr-n "'l i1 v!t1'
om1 f)lu'c. T1m- leHt of the carriace
U ptlutwl tld. jvlckul out witn r.cn,
thtt lind".1 In fundidted with kUU ; the
tup, or fwlliag. r.-ikr-utiu;; the ky.
h'l hluv, with gold viata.
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MAltOOXI, THE WIZARD
Marconi arraued tJiat tlie clodriclan
In charge of Uic station, which is lo
cated at Poldhu, should Iniu pondiug
signals dally after a oertaiu date,
Which Marconi Avas to cable to him
Cpon perfecting arrangements here.
Marconi arrived at St. John's in about
two weeks, lie selected Signal Hill,
a,t the e-ntraBw to the harbor, as on
xperimentlnR station, and moved his
equipment there. The next Monday
-freek he cabled to the Poldhu station
trders to begin sending signals at 3 p.
Ki. daily and to continue them until G
tv m.. these hours being respectively
11 in n m n-nd 2 .1(1 n. m.. St. John's
time.
Durlnir these hours on the following
TVednesday Signor Marconi elevated a
"kite, with the wire by means of which
itfo-nals are sent or received. lie re
taained at the recorder attached to the
-receiving apparatus, and, to his pro
found satisfaction, signals were re
ceived by him at intervals, according
TWIN BAILS ON ON' IS MAST.
liiiKle sail projecting from one side of
the maHt on a long Uom the Inventor
provides a pair of sail equally bnl
aiuvd on either side of the mnt, and
capable of adjustment in tacking or
sailing with the wind to obtain the
maximum speod with minimum strain
on the mast. The nails are set ro
swinging frames secured to horizontal
booms on the mast, with the free odge
of each sail turned toward the mast
and under easy control of the boat
man la the stern of the vessel. 'Instead
of easing on or drawing in the long
main boom of a single sail in tacking
or changing the course, the sailor
I swings the shorter booms of the new
craft around on the mast until they
reach the same angle that the old sail
! would have occupied, when the sails
1 nnt rj11iiKtrd in parallel ohines and
eels at sea is a matter of generat - f . .
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iciiowieage. ,1Tnau-moiiiiv iivii1t th strain
In diseitssing Ms eystoai not lxng , . 'n tlia mnat
pan Slcnor Marconi said: "To Mr.
Hertz, of course, belongs the distinc
tion of having discovered the electric
waves, and by his experiments oe
provl that electricity In its proKrous
through epace follows the lav oi op-
t liil Ai Hr I.jim'H.
(tliiiel Arlhur Lynch, who lias been
i-lwti! u I'urilanunt ftum lahvay
Pin-, mid whowj right to take the s-at
will be t-ouU'Htwl tweause of his servlcn
iur armv. is an Australian by
birth. He 1 aUmt forty years old.
and wus educated at MellMurne Vnl
versltv. Tor u time he was an in
structur of mathematics, ami tnen en
tered tlie s-rvice of the VU-torlau Hall
way iu the engineer's department. Ue
drifted into Jounviillfun, and when tle
war broke out in Houth Africa m went
to the front as a correspondent for a
nsciEHTllllCf;;.,.!
It N iiJiiioiiiK-ed 1 hat coal of good .
M I 1 - t 1.
nia.iiiiiig quality U t- I"' ouii'i in in" j
uim,,! i.f lVl.il mid l'.alali. Ill tile 1 lilt- i
Ipplnes. It Is hIm) .!e ' wed that
the
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ial If superior lu quality to the de-
l'Ax fuand and worked in China and (
India. !
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THE TWENTIETH CEXTUKY.
From New York Tribune.
MABoWl WIEELES3 TELBGBAPH STATION
MACHINE POTATO PEELER.
The Tiibtr! SM Kubbad Off bj Knin
ber of Broahea.
Hbiv 1b the machine which Is In
tended for nso In hotels and boarding
houses, where largo quantities of po
tatoes must be pwhd every day to
bupdIt the demand for the table. It
is a French Wen, invented, by Justin
Blanche, and Is operated tn the follow
ing manner: The vegetables to be
peeled are placed in a kind of barrel,
the inner periphery of which is fur
nished with brushes of special con
struction, while the movable bottom,
which is likewise provided with
brushes, receives a rapid rotary motion
about a vertical axis, causing the
tubers to revolve iu the same direction,
and in consequence of the centrifugal
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The finest tunittolses In the world'
come at present from the Mount Mnai f
peninsula. I'ornierly the inineM off
Persia Mipplied them in abundance ,
but now then) mines are becoming ex
hausted, and concessions have recent-j
ly been obtained from the Egyptian j
Government for working the nncientj
Final mines, which, as hieroglyphics'
carved on the rocks show, were orig-j
lually oprned hy the Egyptian.-. j
In the manufacture of oilcloth ik
means have yet lx-cn devised for utd
lzing Um! waste trimmings. Since til
Ii-intlng machine for the oilcloth mum
1h absolutely to gage, at least one in 1
and a half Inches are lost on each sld.j
of a strip of material. These trim
mfugs are particularly valuable bej
caurn; they contain a conshh-rahl ;
amount of linseed oil; and a metho?
reasonably cheap and economical 1 ,
w.-mted to extract this oil trom WH
trimmings.
Among the chief resources of Spai
are her stores of minerals, which, i-
many phices. have hardly been deve:
oiK'd. Recently the mauuracturers ij
the Creusot ordnance have ouiame
SIGNOB MA.ECONI.
to the program arranged previously
tfith the operator at Poldhu. These
' idsrnals consisted of the repetition at
intervals of the letter "S," which in
Marconi's code Is made by three dots
dr quick strokes. This signal was re-
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peatea so irequenuy uuu tv ycii.cv.uj
in accord with the detailed plan ar
fanged to provide safeguards against
the possibility of a mistake that Signor
Marconi was satisfied that it was a
genuine transmission from England.
Again on Thursday, during the same
hours, the kite was elevated and the
eame signals were renewed.
Should Marconi perfect his system
of wireless messages across the ocean
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Hps. Manv others have maae experi
ments In the same direction as I, but
so far no one has obtained such re
sults at anything approaching the dis
tance as I have done with uenzian
waves.
"Fog has no effect upon the signals,
nor has even the most solid substance.
The waves can penetrate walls ami
rocks without being materially af
fected." "Is It possible," was asked, "to send
many messages in different directions
at the same time?"
"It 1b," was the reply, "but care
must be taken to time the transmit
ters and receivers to the same fre
quency or 'note. "-Js'ew York Com
mercial Advertiser.
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COLONEL LYNCH.
(Boer ally elected to Parliament.)
Paris newspaper. Prior to that he had
been the Paris correspondent of a
London paper. In 181)2 he was candi
date for Parliament in the Galway dis
trict, but was defeated by the auti
rarncllite candidate, Pinkerton.
First McKlnley Memorial.
Accompanying Is a picture of the
monument to the late President win
lam McKinley, unveiled at Tower,
Minn., a few days ago, Ihe first me
concessions for working the Iroi
mines at Cape Calahonda in the pro
Ince of Granada. The consul at Ma:
aga says the ore will probably lj
shipped direct to Cette, in souther
France, where the new Creusot won .
are located. A French company is Ji;
so about to develop the coal-mines i
the Spanish province of Jaen.
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R. T. Greener, United States yoii
merclal Agent at Vladlvostock, hj f
report on the resources .of Manchuri!
says that It 1b one of the most ferti
countries on the globe, and there
reason to believe that it is richer
resources than any other part of ti
t-t-i - . T-i . . t . , rrMirt ffiM.fiol(B t
tending more than 1100 miles alo;
the Argun and Amur rivers and l.
miles Inland, are very rich, but 01,
partially and Imperfectly develops
But owing to unsettled conditions, i
country Is not eafe for foreigners
present.
Useof cracked ice for cooling drii
has long been frowned upon by v,
medical profession, because It ope
up many avenues to disease by rea:
of the microbes it invariably contajj
Fast railroad speed is regularly made
between Milan and Varcsc, in Italy.
By the use of an electric third rail the
IKty miles are coverod in fifty min
utes. Sometimes we only see the worst
side of r. man because his wife gets
the best d iim.
BRUSHES TEE JACKETS OFF THE TUBEB8.
force thus developed, to be constant
ly thrown against the fixed brushes,
which divests them of their jackets,
the tub meanwhile being partially filled
with water to aid in the scrubbing and
cleaning process. The brushes are
made of either whalebone, bristles or
horn, their stiffness Eerving to better
peel tin? tubers.
. i. ..Hnrr nnnn and Is Just placing on the marse..
snan, wmcn is u. uuu, - . f
a base of iron ore and a foundation or j -
plated copper. It Is hollow and au(
three-quarters filled with water, wb
is frozen solid before the egg Is re.j
for use. For cooling a glass oi m
for instance, it is indispensa
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Where the addition or ice woum
lute and spoil it the refrigerating
may be utilized and the milk co
at once.
THE DEATH'S HEAD CARRIACE.
A Strango Vehicle Which Napoleon De
clined to Accept.
A carriage has been preserved In tire
Armory of Schlosa Frledensteiu, Gotha,
which has been called the "Death's
Head carriage." says the Golden Pen
ny. This strango vehicle was built
by order of Duke August of Saxe
Cobure and Alemburg (1804-1822).
Whether it was meant to represent a
death's head Is not quite clear, aa it
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bears no other emmems oi aeam, un
less, perhaps, the "Mors Imperator"
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WISE WORDS.
INSTRUMENT AND APPARATUS FOR SENDING LONG DISTANCE
INSTRUMENT Ai WIRBLESS TELEGIlAPnY USED BY
SIGNOR MARCONI.
THE DEATH'S HEAD COACH.
fnnprPtP. was erected bv the citlzenb
nf Tnuor nnd Soudan. Minn. There ia
a brass plate on each of the four sides
hearlne the following Inscriptions.
"William McKlnley. Born January
20. 18-13. Elected President in ituo.
TiA-plpefe,! President in 1900. Assas
sinated September 0, 1901. Died Sep-
omhnr 14. 1901."
The sturdy miners of boudan anu
their children."
ThA hardv lumbermen of Tower.
"Tho rttliena of Tower and their
children."
the results, of course, will be far-reaching
and wonderfully important. Elec
trical experts have great confidence in
Marconi, and there Is a general belief
that he will "make good" his claims.
The Sycamore flour mill in Upper
Providence Township, Pennsylvania,
which Avas burned recently, Was said
to be the oldest In the country, baviDfi
been built in 1717. .
should be represented by the dia-
dom-llko lozenced wreath. A. Beck is
the only writer who reproduces any
history of the "Death's Head carriage,"
and he says: "After the conclusion or
the peace of Tilsit, the Duke August
and his brother Frederick came to
Dresden in order to meet the Emperor
Napoleon (July 17, 1807), who was
afterwards, on July 23, at the Castle
Friedenstein, where he was festively
received find magnificently entertained.
OonUtDcy.
They had been married but two
months. lie came home one evening
tn find bis wife In tears. She had
found an old scrap book of his tn
which were pasted some poems be baa
written to some one else and pub
lished In the college papers. "I
thought," she said, "you had never
Wwi nnv one but me." And be
ntlv reassured her that eho had
thought truly, and burned up his old
scrap book in the furnace in tne oase
mpnt.
And the next dav he found that she
had distributed on the mantel and the
,irKpr not less than five photographs
nf aa manv former beaux of hers and
i,-Hn,i them, who were in
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town, to dinner the next Sunday. St
Louis Mirror.
The surest way not to prevent
marriage Is to oppose it.
Forgive your enemies and cone
your aversions.
There Rre no respectable sins,
there are no 6hady virtues.
The defects of a great man are
consolations of the dunces.
Willingness to wait and be slier
one of the signs of a strong soul.
Pull may place a man in a resv
sible position, but merit alone k-
him 'there. i
Realize worrying as an enemy w
destroys your happiness. Realize f
it ctm be cured by persistent eui
It is surprising the amount of
chief a "true friend" can accoms
when ehe begins telling her frlenij
the things ehe has heard concei!
them.
Truth la too priceless to U;
with. It lies to-day at the wu.
all commerce and business. It i,
bed rock of every truly adm.
character.
Like every other faculty, con
gense grows by exercise. We
nourish it by keeping in touch
the common affairs of life, by i;
causes and effects, by applying o
telligence to the practical worki,
things, and by carrying into ell
action what appeals to us as
.rVt nn1 rnnsonnhle.
right and reasonable.
Idleness does more to reduce t'i
erage length of human life tha;
full normal exercise of one s j
trial energies. In other words.
men and women rust out than
out. Ease and abundance of h '
things of this life have apparent
tie influence In staying the ha:
decay and death, if the menu-'
physical faculties are restrain:
will or circumstances from user
ployment '
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