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BBWffE. jg - '' , ..... , - - V 4 Latest Excavation in Egypt. h a n r. St ' ' mmmmm -'aiK.-:.tf s. CI C ! see According to the Express, London had a day of" "blaring sunshine' June 14, which "sent the temperature up to sixty-eight degress." Sheen; ess, EngfanuY though an im- porta nt -r.av.il station and a town of more than 15,000 inhabitants, does not possess a single telephone. Rasa Wedsted, the Finnish giantess, of Helslvig'fors, has now reached the height of seven feet two inches. She is twenty-four years old and is still growing. A bee that works only , at night is found in the jungles of India. It is an unusually large insect. The combs are ofteu six feet long, and from four to six inches thick. The Prince jf Monaco, ,a devotee of deep-sea curiosities, has found lum inous shrimps living at great depth, where all is dark.- . When put in an aquarium they lose their light-giving properties. c- While a small engine weighing fifteen tons, used by the railway contractors, was crossing the Victoria Falls bridge just after nightfall it ran over some thing on the line, says South Africa. The driver pulled up to ascertain the nature of the obstacle, and was con siderably surprised to find an enormous leopard lying terribly injured between the rails. The brute expired in a few moments. It measured eight feet in length, and a marvelous feature of the incident is that the engine was not de railed. In an address delivered before the ' Section of Anthropology of the Ameri can Association for the Advancement of Science, Mr. E. L. Blackshear main tains the proposition that the scarcity , of islands, peninsulas and bays alon most of the coast line of continental Africa has directly exerted a profound influence on the character of the inhab itants of Africa, by isolating them rfrom all the great world movements of history. Deprived of the stimulus of commercial and maritime influences, they have remained stationary and dor mant with regard to the organic life of the human species. His Sunday at Home. An Atchison man who was compelled to spend yesterday at home because of the rain ha I neglected to lay in a sup ply of newspapers, and had to fall "back upon his wife's kind of reading matter to kill time. At 11 o'clock he picked Tip her favorite. When she called him to dinner at 1 o'clock she noticed a wild glare in his eyes. He ato in silence, putting olive oil in his coffee and sugar on his cucumbers, put still she suspected nothing. He returned to his reading after dinner, and at 4, when she was sitting in a chair near him reading "The Dreams of Gladys," and thinking how lovely it was to have a rainy Sunday and her husband all to herself, giving him op portunity to read what she liked and to discuss it with her afterward, he suddenly gave a loud yell, threw down the book, grabbed her by the hair and tried to cut her throat with a hair brush. The man had read her favorite novel through and had gone mad. It required five neighbor men to hold him ill night, but this morning he was some -Quieter. He has had a violent attack only once to-day, and that was when his eyes, wandering around the room, fell upon some of his wife's favorite iterature on the side table. It was nec pessary upon this occasion to give him morphine. Atchison Globe. The Jonah Woman. Street car conductors regard inquisi tive women passengers with supersti tious dread. The other day a fuse blew out in a Broadway car and that car was 'hitched on as a trailer to the one ahead. Presently a woman began to ask questions. . "What would happen," she said, "if the fuse were to blow out in that car ahead? What would become of' us? Would the car ahead of that be able to drag both these cars?" "I don't know," said the conductor. "'But don't worry. We won't have a chance to find out. A double accident of that kind has never happened to a cat of mine yet, and it isn't likely to happen once in a hundred years." 1 Just then there was an explosion ahead and both cars came to a stand still. The fuse had blown out. "Confound that woman," growled the conductor. "That is all her fault. (This wouldn't have happened if she hadn't asked so many fool question She's a Jonah." New York Press. Still Useful. "Since you have installed dynamite guns to check tornadoes and whirl winds," said the Eastern man, "I sup pose you have no further use for your cyclone cellar." "Yaas, stranger," drawled the Kan sas farmer, "them cyclone, cellars is mighty useful sometimes. Here! Here! Look' at that cloud on the horizon! Rim fer th' cellar!" Grasping- the Eastern man by the arm he whirled him off on the run for that refuge, and battened down the dooor just as a rumbling sound as of earthquake filled the air. Was- that a cyclone?" asked the Easterner, wonderingly. "Wuss, far wuss, stranger!" said the Kansan. "Thet was Cholly tie Chxrmp leigh in his 200 H. P, autermobiie try in' to cut down th' record run between N'Yawk and 'Frisco to ten days, ,ty minutes and four and a ha onds."- twen f sec- FAIR WARNING. Don't. you come ter my house, Mister Sorrow, fer ter stay: Ef you does, wid "Halleluiir I'll sing you right away! Atlanta Constitution. FRIENDLY ADVICE. Nordy "I believe I'll get married." Butts "Don't -do it, old man. Get an automobile. You'll find it equally exciting and less expensive in the long run." WOULDN'T DO. "Rolling pin? Yes, sir; here's ono made of glass; the latest thing out." "But, man! that thing would prob ably break and cut my head all to pieces!" Houston Post. THE DISENCHANTMENT. "Did. Chumpleigh marry the widow that he couldn't live without?" "Yes, and now he's wondering how her first husband managed, to live with her." Town Topics. HEARTLESS PARENTS. Mose "Well, Elsie, the new baby is to be called 'John.' " Elsie "O! pshaw! Why didn't they name it Mabel or something like that; they knew I wanted a little sister." Philadelphia Press. MUSICAL MATTERS. "My bark is on the sea," sang the tenor of the male quartet. "It oughtn't to be," said the leader severely. "We're singing in D now." --Council Bluffs Nonpareil. TOO STRENUOUS. "Let's play we're married." "Naw. Mudder told me I mustn't fight." Chicago Journal. VEBT 3XT70IT orrOiSfTfi. "Why does he wish to marry her?" "He says people should marry their opposites." "Why, they are both dark." "Yes: but he hasn't a cent and she has a million dollars." HARD RAP FOR TEACHERS. When I was your age I could an swer any question in arithmetic." "Yes," said the small child to his teacher, "but you forget that you had a different teacher to what I have." Chicago Journal. SOME DIFFERENT. Kind Old Man "Would you lead a different life if you could get out of this jail?" Convict "Well, it's a cinch that I wouldn't be as sedentary in my habits as I am now." Chicago Journal. POOR JOHN. Passenger "Whatever became of the Bulger family?" Bus Driver "Oh, Bill turned out fine. Got to be an actor. Tom's an artist; Mary's a music teacher. But John never amounted to much. It took all he could earn to support the others." Chicago Journal. INTERESTED. "So the politician spent a week on the old farm? Did he put in the time playing games?" "No; he "spent every day out in the beautitul orchard." "What on earth interested him in the orchard?" "Why, the extensive grafting." Chicago News. DIPLOMATIC. "Of course, the earrings are quite pretty," she said, with a just tinge of disappointment, "but the stones are very small." "But, my dear," replied Mr. Proxy, "if they were-any larger they'd be all out of proportion to the size of your e$rs." Philadelphia Press. UOOKING ON THE BRIGHT SIDE. The cheerful optimist had slipped on the ice and broken his leg. "Well," said the friend who had called npon him, as he sat down by the bed, what do you find to be thank ful for now?" "Thankful for now!" exclaimed the cheerful optimist, "what" an extra ordinary question! I'm thankful that I didn't also break the other leg." Somerville Journal. L r 1 The ground arpund the Sphinx has tempted many excavators. The exterior of the graiiite Temple of the Sphinx is still concealed by driftinf I sands and rubbish. AN ELECTRICAL AERIAL FERRY. BY FBANK C. PERKINS. . The aerial ferry at Duluth, Minn., the first structure of its kind in this country, has been completed and is now in operation. The suspended ferry car has a nor mal speed of about four miles per hour, but the electrical motors and driving equipment are capable of propelling the car at twice that speed should it become desirable, and the passage of the canal can be made by the suspend ed ferry car in slightly over one minute. There are tiro electric motors, each of fifty-horse-power capacity, located under the' floors of the- car. These electi'ic motors operate two drums, each of which is nine feet in diameter, and on these drums are wound cables one inch in diameter, extending to the truss and then over idle wheels nine feet in diameter through the inside of the lower chords to tower, where they are fastened, and thus produce the mo- THE RECENTLY COMPLETED tion which causes the car to travel across the canal. The canal was adopted by the United States Government about four years ago, increasing its width from 240 to 300 feet in width, and constructing permanent piers of crib-wprk and con crete. Scientific American. v MEASURING DISTANCES. How tho japaocse Have developed a New and Novel Method of Per forming the Work. The Japanese have developed a new and very convenient way of measuring distances, which has proved very use ful in their war. The common way in the army of measuring great distances THE OLD METHOD. is to station two officers at a distance apart, and make a triangulation; that is, each of them directs his glass at the same angle until the two lines of convergence meet at some point. Then the distance between the officers is measured for the base line, and the real distance found by computation. THE JAPANESE. METHOD. The Japanese have adopted' a horizon tal staff with eye positions and degrees marked off at each end. These are adjusted to bear upon a given point. The angles are read and the distances between them gives the distance of the News Censorship In Russia. : .. . i Foreign newspapers circulating in Russia, the land pf caviare, are exam ined by the press censors before they are offered for sale by the newsboys. When the censor finds it unnecessary to eliminate entire pages, any Objec tionable articles undergo what is known as the "caviare" process before they are distributed. This consists of the daubing over of the condemned. passages with printer's ink, or, as a suffering correspondent has aptly JIM .Mll &&x$$fi -Pwl t-A'.v I object. This staff is so arranged that it can be readily used anywhere, even behind a tree which will shelter the topographical engineer who is makir the survey. RACK FOR THE NURSERY. As the nursing bottle is an essentia feature in the average household, the wonder is that appliances for its effi cient and convenient manipulation are looked upon as curiosities and luxuries, instead of being considered necessities. The only explanation of this phenome non is apparently found in the inherent trait in woman that induces her to go through life without adequate tools and appliances, compelling her to resort to the much-maligned hairpin. It is to the credit of womankind, however, that the bottle holding and draining rack illustrated herewith is the recent patent of a woman of Washington. This nursery accessory consists of a shallow trough having a bottom, on which bottles ma 3' be supported in an AERIAL FERRY AT DULUTH. upright position, and a series of pro jections to support bottles in an in verted position l for draining. Smaller projections offer a convenient means of disposing of the nipples and hooks are provided for thb bottle cleaning brush, FOB BABY'S BOTTIiES. funnel, etc. While a simple arrange ment in itself, it affords a definite place for the nursery bottles and their ac cessories, and accordingly plays an im portant iole in the household that is very disproportionate to the expense. Philadelphia Record. A Woman Farmer. The pluckiest farm woman in this State lives in this county, in the Neo sho bottoms. She is Mrs. Lee Jans sen. Mrs. Janssen has just marketed 1000 bushels of wheat, which she raised. on forty acres. The land was plowed and seeded by herself and her thirteen-year-old son. She also pre pared fifty-five acres far a neighbor. This spring she has planted and-cultivated thirty-five aeres of corn. Mrs. Janssen is a widow, and during the past two years lost even'thing in the Neosho overflows. Chanute Corre spondence Topeka State Journal. A TRICK WITH DOMINOES. ! i 1 I 1 I 1 'M Can youi make one domino support twenty-seven? The picture shows how it may be done. Philadelphia Record. termed it, "a nauseous and dirty mix ture of lamp-black and oil." Sand is then scattered over them, ' and the whole is put in a press. The result is a lattice-nattern. in appearance not unlike pressed caviare, and called by the Russians "press-caviare." New XT "VT The number of persons convicted in Prussian, courts last year for. less majesta was 164,. &a against, 198 in New York. City. The breakfast jack et is so absolutely essential to comfort that it is counted among the first ne cessities of the wardrobe. Here is one that is exceedingly graceful, that is so tasteful and becoming that it is per fectly well suited to informal home wrear and which can be made from a variety of materials. In this instance it combines white India lawn with trimming of embroidery banding, but LATS PSSJGN a little later challie, cashmere;. French flannel and the like will be needed, while for the weeks of warm weather there is a long list of materials which are quite as available as lawn.. Again, the frill at the collar can be- of lace or embroidery if preferred. The jacket is made with fronts and backs. The backs are tucked from shoulders to waist line and are full be low that point while the fronts are tucked to yoke depth only.. There is a box pleat at the centre front and the sleeves are in shirt waist style, but the neck is finished with the- wide roll-over collar that is both becoming, and satis factory for morning weax;. The quantity of material required for the medium size is four yards twenty seven, three and a half yards thirty two or two and a half yaxds forty-four inches wide with one ami a half j-urds of insertion to trim as illustrated. To Dress WeJl. To dress well, even when the income Is large, is not the easiest thing in the world; when the Income is small, dressing becomes an art. The first rule is simple: never, under any cir cumstances, buy a penny's" worth un less you really want it, and know ex actly how you are going to use it. An article you do not want is dear at any price. SMrrod Walt. There is something peculiarly charm- Ver.v Attractive, With a dress of willow green silk, an exquisitely dainty shade, was worn a cream-white horsehair straw. There were shaded blush and yellow roses, foliage tn accord with the dress, and a knot of black velvet. Very Swart. With a pale, undecided blue taffeta in a checked figure- one woman wore a dark straw hat. There were velvet bows, nothing else. U was very smart. ing and attractive about a soft mate rial that is generously shirred. The very pretty waist illustrated combines such treatment with quite novel cut and js in every way to be desired. The model, which is an excellent one for immediate wear, is made of pale blue radium silk, the collar and cuffs being of taffeta, overlaid with applique of heavy lace edged with narrow braid, while the chemisette is all of Valen ciennes insertion. But a little later such light weight wools as chiffon ba tiste and the new weaves of challie and cashmere will be found admirable, the design suiting whatever can be shirred with success. The full elbow sleeves with their upturned cuffs and shaped frills are especially worthy of note, and are universally becoming, while the collar harmonises with them and gives smartness to the entire gar ment. As a matter of course the chem isette can be of many materials. Em broidered muslin is always charming, and there are almost innumerable fan cy all-overs, and again contrasting silk, tucked or plain, is always correct. The-waist is made over a smoothly fitted lining, and itself consists of fronts and back, which are shirred to form the deep yoke. The collar finishes the open neck and the closing is- made invisibly at the front, while the chem isette Is separate and is arranged un der the whole. The sleeves are tucked at their Inner seams, so providing gen erous fulness in the- puffs and also are BY AY WKTON. arranged over a fitted lining. At the waist is a shirred and draped belt. The quantityof material required f or the medium size is, four and a half yards twenty-onej. four yards twenty seven or two and a quarter yards forty four inches wide, with one yard for the belt, five-eighth yards eighteen. incaes wide for chemistte and collar and two and a half yards of lace for frills. Contrasts. . Despite the one-color vogue there are many charming contrasts. With a costume of white chiffon broad cloth was seen a big black lace picture hat, trimmed with shaded pink os trich plumes. In Cream White. A dress of cream white mousseline, with quantities of narrow la rufiies, was fitted with a large hat of pale blue taffeta. This was trammed .with, pink rosea and a blue plume V i -j Kit;'- O: I n 1 i, i f r
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