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I 4 I V i i v7" I 1 J v -v V . .,.',..-. -. v a VsV ." $ WIRELESS MESSAGES ACROSS THE ATLANTIC .f t "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 j . v 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- 4r . j Vft A 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. 1 . c;iV,;'5'I 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 . . - 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 1 ial If superior lu quality to the de- l'Ax fuand and worked in China and ( India. ! 1 --m:mmim& OF 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 'iV- - wy.mL h ' -P--s ma 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- , - j l A vrt4rtrt4.T 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 - i 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. ! 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. . ... . i 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 . i j 8 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 1 . m a a. L .- bears no other emmems oi aeam, un less, perhaps, the "Mors Imperator" -. iL tmf ' ' -xS3 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 111 . VA 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 ' i