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Work on the great East, River Bridge,
ew Tork, is continued vigorously,
awui, uiueuunarea men being employed
at the present time. The work upon
the superstructure will be continued
through the winter, except in the most
severe weather. One thousand tons of
steel are to be delivered this winter,
lne first suspenders for the support of
the roadway were placed in position List
week:. All those for the Brooklyn side
will be in position within a week, and
after that those on the New York side
will be placed. There will be thirteen
suspenders on each of the four cables
on each side of both towers, making 204,
all of which will be put up during the
winter. The lonsA measure 128 feet
Ihcse suspenders arc of steel wire rope,
1 inches in diameter, with a socket at
each end. The upper socket is fastened
by means of a bolt 1 inches in diame
ter to a band of wrought iron five inches
wide and five-eighths of on inch thick,
which is bolted t, the cable. At the
weF tod of the suspenders are two
bolts -lj inches in diameter, through
cast-iron sockets, by which to attach the
beams to the euspenders. After the
beams are in place, the trusses will be
erected. The thirteen suspenders to be
placed this winter will extend nearly
one hundred feet from the piers. The
cables are to be swayed thirteen feet
nearer together than they are now, the
outer Qr.cs being brought six and one
ialf feet nearer the centre. A strain of
twenty two tons will be required to draw
tnem together. They will then be con
nected at intervals with wire rope stays.
Thi3 will secure strong lateral bracing
for the whole structure, and add im
mensely to its ability to resist the winds.
Sixty or seventy.men will be employed
during the winter. If all the work that
is now laid out Is accomplished, about
one hundred feet of the superstructure
on each side of both piers will be com
pleted by spring, except the flooring
plank. Four thousand tons of steel will
be used next summer, in addition to the
thousan 1 tons to be used this winter.
For lthcuuiatisin.
Many persons along the sea coast in
this country recommend and use sand
baths in July and August for the cure
of rheumatism. In Greece, near their
sea coasts, it is one of the sure remedies
used by persons affected with chronic
rheumatism, anchylosis, and chronio
synovitis of the knee joint. The pa
tients bury themselves in the sand or
cause others to cover them with it, eo
with a night cap or straw hat, remains
free. It is a ludicrous sight to see
twenty or thirty such odd-lookiDg heads
sticking out of the sand. In conse
quence of the Weight and the saline
character of the sand, the skin of the
patients becomes so red that when they
emerge from their sandy bed (which
they occupy as long as possible) they
iv HVa hoiled lobsters. Wooden huts,
or tents improvised with oleander and
plaintain branches, are used as bathing
houses, and a piece oi bread, some
grapes and a glass of wine, generally
constitute the meal of a patient.
Fighting a Bull With an Ax.
Richland (Iow) Special. I
While R. D. Hooker, of Richland, was
engaged in chopping pumpkins for his
stock, and was on one knee, paying no
attention to his cattle, without warning
a bull came at him, striking him on the
right side and shoulder and prostrating
him on the ground. Though severely
bruised and hurt, Mr. Hooker got on his
feet before the animal had time to make
a second attack, and, as it rushed at him,
struck it with an ax just under the horn
and above the eye. The blow, however,
seemed to have little effect on the angry
be,ast, stopping it for a moment. It
again pitched at Hooker, one horn 'gor
ing him in the arm and the other inflict
ing a wound on the face. By this time
the case looKea desperate, dui as me ani
mal came at him the fourth or fifth time
Hooker managed to plant a blow on its
forehead that felled it to the ground,
and before it had recovered sufficiently
to renew the attack, he fead got out of its
reach.
The Remedy He Needed.
" for, von cure mv eves?" said a man
tn T)r l.rown.
" Yes "said the Doctor, "if you will
follow mv prescription.
"O rertninlv. Doctor," said the pa
;nf "I will "do anything to have my
PVn8 cured. What is your remedy,
" Vnn must steal a horse," said the
Doctor, very soberly
" ?teal a horse, Locior: saiu ine pa
tient, in amazement. " How will that
cure my eves?'
" You will be sent to State Prison for
five vears, where you can not get whisky,
and during vour incarceration your eyes
u ct wp ." said tne uocior.
The patient looked somewhat incredu
lous, but he did not adopt the Doctor
remedy. .
Mistook the Animal's Ago.
r t Hannersatt. a farmer residing
near nam uj, -
Bi-'hted, went into h barnyard and
iJL-u' v, rsiimpd to be a favorite
m . . . 1 ihm wnn ir nea.1
vearlingpet Bull, approached and
It v... .Ehoms. Mr. Uappersatt
took
was
mistaken two years in the age of the an
imal he approached, and was badly
d theW and cut about the fa
before a farm-hand came and corrected
his error by dragging him out of the
yard.
Ma-vt ropl afflicted with phthisis Pmo
.-nti..,A ne Ir. Ball s Cough Stt -
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Hp 1UQ ri
ocnU a bottle.
N C, SATURDAY, MAY Hj 1SS1.
A TkrtHinj Sketc.
One warm day- in August, moo the
bank of the muddy Colorado, ve chil
drm were-lazily sitting about on the
grooaa. One lister iru stringing beads
token from an old moccnn, and meet
of. the men were sleeping under the
wi jons through the heat of the after
The m great atOlneu upon
eVrything, save for the children'a ehat
t t and a heat rose from the ground
at amote the eyea. Suddenly there
a dreadful scream, echoed, re
echoed, multiplied ; then another, and
another. &s when one etrikee the hand
upoa the mouth, till in one second of
tune the air seemed rent and torn with
jells. In just that second the dose
chapparal had become black with Indi
p -who had crawled, serpent-like, on
hands and knees, till, right upon us, ia
concert they could leap into sight They
wore cloths upon their loins, and had
some feathers wound in their hair, with
hideous paint glowing on face and
breast I gazed in dumb amazement,
benumbed with surprise, and then I
think I awoke to the excitement of the
occasion. The women and fthfldmi,
through an air thick with flying arrows,
were marshaled into one covered wagon,
and there my mother wrapped us all
round with f anther beds, blankets and
comforters. I do not think I was fright
ened, not because of any precocity of
courage, but because of a wild excite
ment that filled me. I half leaned upon
the knee of my sister. She said she was
conscious of no pain, she felt no sudden
pang, but something warm seemed
running down her side, and, looking
down, she saw an arrow which had
pierced her flesh and protruded its flinty
head from the wound. "Mother," she
exclaimed, "I am shot," and fainted.
My mother, the woman whose spirit
never failed her in this or the dreadful
trials which succeeded this disastrous
right, put forth her hand and drew the
arrow backward through the wound. It
was while thus supporting the head of
the girl she supposed dying, it somehow
became known to her that her husband
was lying quite dead and filled with ar
rows under the great cottonwood tree
under which the camp was made. It was
but a few moments more till one of the
men spoke from the front of the wagon.
Said he: "Our ammunition is giving out
and we do not know but it may come to
a hand-to-hand fight Get out the knives
you have in the bed of the wagon."
Through the backward march which fol
lowed it was ever the women who rose
superior to suffering and to danger. The
men lost courage, hope and spirit but
the women never A few moments after
nne, aimed at tne cmei wren tne oinner
bell depending from his belt and saw
hi fall. In five minutes not an Indian
was to be seen, the living dragging with
tham the dead as they went In the mean
time, under cover of the fight our great
herd of cattle had been made to swim
the river, and were safely oorraled in the
Mojave villages. Kate Heath, in Janu
ary California,
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