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Barton Grey. THE LOST ENGINE. "I -was speaking tho other day, said tho Jericho station master, "of railroad ghosts trains and engines and such and you didn't 6oem to believe that there are . any such things. Now, just to show you that I -was telling tho truth, I'll tell you about the ghost of an engine that I saw myself, and that lots of other men on this road have seen. J ust wait till that train starts along, and wo havo this hero station to oursol vos as usual." A way train had stopped at the station, and . as tho station master spoko there suddenly fell out of tho door of tho baggago car a man curi ously complicated with a bicycle. Tho man, who was tho bagfjapjo mas ter of the train, had managed to put his foot through ;tho spokes of ono of tho wheels of the bicycle, and man and machine were writhing on tho platform, the ono cursing loudly and tho other giving forth the crackling sound of snapping steel rods. "There," said the station master. "That's what happens twice out of every throe times that a man tries to handle ono of thoso machines. Seems to mo that they were invent ed just to make thinffsmiserablo for tho trainmen. I tried to wheel ono along tho platform ono day, and be fore I knew what was tho matter tho blamed thing had thrown mo and was trying to break my legs and gougo my eyes out. Thoy'ro just liko a coyote. You take a coyoto by tho back of the neck and hold him out at arm's length, and ho'll manage to bito a piece out of tho calf of your leg or some other place that's meb be ten feet away from his mouth. I never yet saw a baprago master that could smash a bicyclo without hurt ing himself worse than the machine. It ought to bo made illegal to send bicycles by rail, and that's a fact." The biiggago master finally extri cated himself from tho bicycle and withdrew into his car to repair dam ages. Tho train whistlexl and went on its way, and tho station master, seating himself by my side, proceed ed with his story : "About ten years ago wo had an engino on this road that you would just havo admired to see. Sho was the Fanny Ellsler that was her name, l)eing named after ono of tho queens of Franco or some other place. Nowadays wo don't think that 60 miles an hour is any vory great speed, but in thoso days tho Fanny, as wo called her for short, was tho only engine in this part of tho coun try that could do her mile in 60 sec onds. Naturally tho road was proud of her, and the men bragged of her continually, especially when they met any of tho. men that worked on the Montana Southern road, that was considered by some to bo a sort of rival of our road, though it was a poor, half bankrupt concern. "Tho engineer of tho Fanny waa an old fellow by tho name of Grid ley. IIo was allowed to bo tho best engineer on the road at that time. Ho used to bo able to do anything with that engine, and he was the only man who could manago her. There was always something queer about the Fanny. She had a trick of getting tired, or of letting on that sho was tired, and refusing to work. She'd bo a-going along at her usual gait, and all of a sudden she would slow down and pretty near quit mak ing steam. No engineer eTtcept Grid ley could manago her when sho got theso fits on. Other men that tried to run her found that the only thing they could do was to wait till sho got good and ready to move on. But Gridley, he would just polish up her brasses a bit, whistling some cheer ful ttmo and now and then saying something pleasant to her, and all of a sudden she would hump herself and travel along as if thero had nev er been anything the matter. After tho sperintendent got to know the Fanny pretty well he would never allow anybody except Gridley to take her out of the yard. Ho used to run her tho length of the road twico a day, except Sundays and when he was taking a holiday. You see, ho was a very peculiar man, was this hero Gridley. Ho never drank a drop while ho was at work, and as a gen eral thing ho would keep perfectly sober for six or eight months. Then his mother, or his wife, or his sister would die, ami ho would ask for three days' leave to go to the funeral and settle up the estate. The super intendent kew as well as Gridley did what was the matter, but ho would always give him his three days, and Gridley would go away and get drunk enough to satisfy him for the next months. Ho and I were groat friends, and many's tho ride I've taken with him on his engine, just to keep him company, when I had a couple of spare hours, and I had a good many of them at that time, owing to not having any permanent berth on tho road, and just keeping myself ready to fill in wherever there might happen to be a vacancy. MOUNT AIRY, N C, THURSDAY; JANUARY 3, 1895. "One morning Gridley comes to me looking about as scared as ever I saw a man look. 'What's the mat ter? says I, beginning to fear that somo serious accident had happened on tho road. "The Fanny is lost, says ha "'What do you mean? says L 'Has your mother been dying again? If that's the case, I'm sorry, for sho died last time only six weeks ago.' 'I went into the engino house at Spartan villo this morning, says he, speaking slow and dazedliko, 'and tho Fanny wasn't them You know, sho goes into the engine houso every night at j 7:30, and Lut night I put her in aa usual and stopped while the fireman banked the fires. When we left,! there was nobody in the place, and, as you know, nobody nev er goes I near it during the night. This morning at 5:151 went down to bring hex out, and sho wasn't them Tho fireman had been about five minutes ahead of mo, and ho was aa much astonished as I was. Well, wo "pettay enough found that sho wasn't anywhere in Spartan villc, and then wo inquired after her by telegraph. There wasn't a blessed station on tho road that seen hido or hair of her. Tho superintendent lias started on a special from Athensvillo and is go ing the wholo length of tho road to sco if thero is any sign of her hav ing been taken out and ditched, but ho'll never find her. 'What on earth do you cal'latb has become of her?' said L " 'Thero was always something queer about that engino, said Grid ley. 'You know what queer ways sho had, such as you never know any other engine to have. It's my belief that either sho wasn't a genu ine at all, but just tho ghost of one, and that sho's gone back to whero sho catne from, or else, if that isn't what is tho matter with her, sho has boon stolo. ' 'How's a man going to steal a locomotive? says I. 4 Do you cal'lato that somo chicken stealer got into tho engino houso at night and car ried thd Fanny off under his coat? " 'NoJ I don't, says Gridley, 'but mebbo somo of thoso chajw of the Montana Southern road luis got tired of hearing us brag alwut tho Fanny and has como up hero and carried her off. " 'Carried her off in a bag or a whoelbarrow?' says I, for I thought Gridleyi was talking nonsense. ..." 'Didn't you ever hear how Tom Sharpo-i-him that was superintend ent of tho Confederate railroad dur ing tho war camo to Ilarjxjr's Ferry ono night with about 400yoko of ox en and j dragged a dozen locomotives belonging to tho Baltimore and Ohio road off across the country till ho struck a Virginia railroad? What's been dono onco can bo dono again. "Therowas no use talking to Grid ley about tho thing, and so I let him havo liis own ideas. As far as I was concerned, I didn't havo any ideas whatever on tho subject.' I didn't bo liovo that tho engino was a ghost, for I had mado too many trips on he? not to bo suro that sho was good honest steel and brass. And I didn't believe that sho had been hauled across tho country by ox teams, for in that caso her tracks would havo been loft on tho road, and them wern't no track visible anywhere. The- thing just seemed to mo to bo a big mystery, and when a tiling's a mystery tho less you think about it tho better. However, I couldn't help thinking about this thing, for tho wholo road talked of nothing elso for tho next week. It even got into tho Chicago nowspapera, where, of course, everybody thought it was only a reporter's lio. The superin tendent spoko to mo about it him self, for I happened to meet him down at Tiberius Center when ho was on tho search for tho Fanny, and I could seo that it was his belief that sho had been stolen. I told htm fair and square that it was a mysto ry, and tliat ho would have to wait till ho rot to a better world before ho would find out tho truth about it. : "Gridley wouldn't tako another engine. Ho said that unless ho found the Fanny he would never touch a lever again, and as ho had nothing particular to do he started in to make up lost timo in drinking whis ky. I didn't see him for pretty near ly two months, and they told mo that he was gone on a hunt for the Fanny and probably wouldn't ever return. But ono day who should come to my boarding houso hero in Jericho but Gridley, looking thin and ragged and dirty. However, ho was sober enough, though bo was more excited than I had ever known biin to be, engineers being men that very seldom ovt allow anything to axcito theni. " 'I've found the Fauny,' says he in a sort of whisjer. " 'Well, I want to knew!" says I, for I was mightily utonUhod. " 'It was tho Montana Southern that stolo her, said ho. 'fehe s down at West Saragossa, not ten miles from hero. I saw her thero yester day myself. They'vo lacquered her brass work black, and they'vo given her a new smokestack, and they've changed her name to tho Pocahon tas, and her own builder wouldn't know her. But I know her just as soon as I heard her puff. She's haul ing tho express on tho Southern road, and she lays up at West Saragorisa at night, and I want yon to como down with mo tonight, and well steal her. " 'Why don't you tell the superin tendent, and let him put in a claim for her?' I a&kcd. " ' Becauso he couldn't never prove that she is the Fanny. The Southern road owns tho judge before whom the case would bo tried, and they'd have a hundred witnesses to swear that sho watn't tho Fanny. No, sir; she has got to be stole, and I know now just how to get her on to our track. " 'How's that? says L "Don't you remember, says Gridley, 'that down the road about 70 miles from hero tho Southern track runs parallel to ours for a spell and only about 20 yards away? When the Fanny was stole, she was taken to this hem place, and tho rails were unspiked and led across to the Southern track. It's easy enough to do, and well do the same. I want you to come along because you know a fireman's duties middling well, and I won't trust any of our firemen on a job of this kind.' "Well, I said I would go, and we took a horso and buggy and drovo over to West Saragossa that after noon good and early, so aa to boo how tho land lay. When night camo on, we went out of town a bit and staid in the woods till about 1 o'clock, and then we crept down to the engine houso and shoved tho Fani y out by putting our backs to her, and when we had got her on the main track we climbed aboard and let her run down the grade, wirch is middling steep just out of tho village, while I worked at the fires and got them to going good and bright. "We had about 65 mites to run, and Gridley said that, according to tho timo table, there was no train that would be in our way unless it might bo a wildcat. That's just what I cal'latod thero would be, and the idea of running full speed along a strange track in the dead of night didn't suit mo as well as some things might We got tho Fanny up to about 45 miles an hour, which was pretty good considering that I was not by any moans a first class fire man. Long before wo got to a sta tion Gridley would turn on tho whis tlo and keep it screeching loud enough to woko tho dead. I shut my eyes every timo wo camo near a sta tion, for I expected that something would bo in tho way or that a switch would bo turned wrong, or that something wonld happen to smash Gridley and me for good and alL But everybody at tho stations thought that wo wcro a special and had everything mado clear for us as soon as they heard tho whistle. "Wo had been running about half an hour when all of a sudden Grid ley sings out, 'Brakes, quicker'n lightning, and ro verso tho engine.' Wo camo to a halt, and Gridley says to mo: 'Thero was a tramp lying asleep with his head on tho track. We've cut him into a thousand pieces. Tho man was trembling, and I began to understand that tho drink had boon tolling on him. 'Let her go,' says ho in another minute 'What's dono can't bo helped. So in a few minutes more wo wcro boom ing along again, old Gridley loaning out straining his eyes ahead and keeping his hand on tho lover. Pres ently ho sings out 'brakes' again and brings tho engino up with a jump 'Another tramp, says ha 'What in all creation do they mean by sleep ing on tho track in this way?' Then I saw that Gridley had tho horrors, and I was mighty sorry I had ever agreed to como with him. "Tho samo thing happened fivo minutes later. Says Gridley: 'Tho wholo blessed track is covered with tramps. I can sco seven ahead of us now.' With that he seemed to get into a sudden rago and turns on his whistle and says to me: '111 stop no moro for them fellows. They are doing it on purpose to hinder us, so that we can get caught. Then he pulled her wide open, and wo swung along, tho fires roaring and tho whis tlo doing its lovel best. "Gridley kept looking out ahead and muttering. "There's moro of em, 'said he without turning to look at ma "Them's more than I can count Women too. They're lying every one right straight across the track. There! I felt her jump when sho struck that fellow 1 Come here, Harry, and take this lever for a min ute while I take a drink. This hem slaughter is more than I can stand.' "I told Gridley to tako his drink and make suro that it was a big one, for I saw that ho had got tho trian gles pretty bad and hoped that whis ky might pull him through till we should get quit of the Southern road. It didn't do him any good, however, unless it was to make him more reckless than he was before. Ho insisted on my shoveling all tho coal into the furnace that she would burn, and before long wo were go ing a good 60 milos or mom "Now, just before we got to the place whero the two roads run paral lel there was a siding that had been built to reach a gravel pit Tho sid ing began at a little station called Pekin, and was, as I should judge, about two miles long. Tho Montana Southern folks had taken tho alarm by this time, and a dispatch had gono to every station on tho rood warning thian that a runaway loco mot ivo was coming and telling them to stop her tho best way they could. The station toaster at Pekin got this order just before wo hove in sight, and ho thought of the old siding. Ho got to work and turned the rusty old switch that had been spiked down, and when ho camo aloni? we shot on to tho side track, and away wo went for tho gravel pit. "Tho truck waa mighty rough, and I begged Gridley to slow her down, for I thovght every minute that we Cure f sr Headache. 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Tho Fanny was swaying from si do to side and jump ing almost clear of the rails when sho struck a particularly rough place, and I don't mind saying that I just went to saying my prayers with every inch of pressure I oonld put on 'em. "It had been a cloudy night, but as I waa praying for all 1 was worth, the moon camo out, and 1 saw that just ahead of us the track camo to an end, and them was a deep hollow of some sort. I made up my mind that I had had enough of that kind of railroading. Yelling to Gridley to jump, I put tho brake hard on and went off into a ditch on the left hand sido of tho road. It was middling fuU of briers, but the bottom was the softest kind of mud, and I didn't sustain no ' mortal Injury -SSdth speaking of. Beforo 1 could pick my self up and get on my legs the en gino was go:ia I got down to tho edge of tho gravel pit as soon as 1 could, but there wasn't the least sign either of the Fanny or of Grid ley. The bottom of the gravel pit was covered with water, but what was worse, as I afterward found out, them was a big quicksand them, which had been the reason why the gravel pit was abandoned. - The Fan. ny Ellsler went down into that quicksand, and for aught I know she has. kept sinking over since, with Gridley 's skeleton standing in the cab with his hand on tho lever. " Well, I camo homo and told tho wholo story to tho superintendent, and. he, knowing about tho quick sand, know there was no uso in searching for tho engina So ho told mo to keep quiet about tho thing, so as not to give tho Montana Southern poo pi o any satisfaction, which ac cordingly I did, but after awhile tho thing got to bo known somehow or other, as tilings always will, no mat ter what you may do." "Much obliged to you for tho sto ry," said I, "but you promised moa ghost story, and I don't exactly see whero tho ghost comes in. "I haven't got to that yet, " replied tho station master. "A year after ward I was down in tho neighbor hood of Pekin, and as I was driving along in a buggy pretty Lite at night I saw an engine como flying down tho old siding and plump into the gravel pit Leastwise I saw it disap pear just as it reached the jumping off place. If that wasn't the ghost of tho Fanny, I'd like to know what it was. Moreover, tho boys along the Southern road told me that timo and timo again they had seen that samo engino come hustling along at 60 miles an hour and disappear into tho quicksand. Now, if that wasn't a ghost what was it?" "I won't undertake to say," said I, "only if there hadn't been anoth er lino parallel to the old siding, and if that line hadn t been in regular uso by ordinary healthy trains and engines, I might feel a little moro sum than I do now that you saw a ghost and not a special ngino on tho Montana Southern road." v . L. Alden in St Louis Republic. The Hero Waa Rewarded. ."A little child kept mo from Iri flint a man once, said C. E. Edwurds, guest of the Southern. "Some years ago I was conducting a store for other parties at Winneconne, Wis. I had a clerk who systematically robbed ma. I finally came up with him and he mado a clean breast of the matter. II said that he had been hired to plunder the store by one of the owners, who was my rival for the hand of a young lady in Fond du Lac His object was to fix upon me the crime of embezzlement and send me to Waupun. I was young and hot headed, and at once went gunning for the heavy villain of my littlo drama. I found him in a store at Fond du Lac, and informed him that his rime had coma The miserable wretch got down on Ais knees and begged for his life, but I was pitiless. As I brought my pis tol down on him his sister, a wee toddler whom I had not before no ticed, threw her arms about his neck. She thought he had knelt down to play with her. That was too much for ma I pitched my revolver Into the river, and threw up my, po sition. But I got tho girL Tha hero was rewarded If the villain did go unpunished." St Louis Globe-Democrat ; Five Saaday Febraarya. It is only possible for February to havo five Sundays three times in each century unless through some chro nological freak tho century comes In with a leap year, with the first day of February a Sunday. The fivo Sun. day Februarys of this century have been those of 1624, 1&52 and 1SS0. The next time this oddity will occur will be in the year 1820. t Louis Republic. Va Fta d "Margaret, how do you liko your new minister?" "Oh, I don't like him at alL He's not bit sensational. He talks on religion all the time." Middle town CN. Y.) Conglomerate. Oacklen's A rat cut solve. Thk Debt Salvx In tha world for Csta Eroist-a. Sores, Ulcers, Malt K hurra. Feier, Fares, Tetter, Charred Uaads, Cbilblasa Corns and ail Skin Eruptions, sod pat tlvely cares Piles, or so pay required. It is faranteed to jrirw IVrfeet eatisfactloo or Booney mefaadrd. Price 25 cents per box. 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Nine out of every ten bears that am reported as weighing all tho way from 1,000 pounds up to 2,300 pounds were killed many miles away from a pair of scales. The largest boar I ever killed, or rather helixxl to kill, was when my partner and I wcro hunting and trapping on the Yak river in north western Montana, in the winter of 1869. We had had very good luck with beaver, marten and lynx and ether land for. Along toward spring we took a pack of grub and blankets on our backs and went up a crock that empties in the Yak. Wo intend ed to hunt in that locality for bear, and, as we always tako tho easiest way to hunt, wo kill an elk, doer or any kind of game wo run across for bait, then wait for tho bear to como. Wo had lots of bait up that creek and killed some moro on another creek. Then our grub was about out, and wo had to go back and pack up enough to last us through the hunt ing. When we got through packing our grub, we began to see where them had been a boar taking tho bait A warm Chinook wind at that timo did tho work, for wo wcro kill ing one now and then. Wo had traps and guns for boar, also four good dogs, so wo wcro kept hustling tak ing care of the bides. I had not been up to the farthest bait for several days. When I had timo to go, D. said that ho would keep mo company, as he wanted to raise a cacho of trapt ho had mado in tho fall when trapping for beaver. Wo had got almost up to tho bait when I saw a bear tracks It was a whale I told D. that most likely tho old boy was handy around tho bait, for tho tracks were fresh. When we camo in sight of tho bait tho bear had cither heard or smelt us, for wo saw that ho had' been eating on tho bait Wo put the dogs on tho track and followed after thorn as fast as we could travel, over windfalls and through underbrush, with snow shoos. Wo havo shoeing away into tho spring in tho mountains. Wo had not gono moro than half a mile when I hoard ono of the dogs howh Then I knew that tho boar was our meat Wo went down to whero tho dogs were, and therowas a bear that was tho grandpa of all tho boars ei ther of us had ever soon. It was a bald faced grizzly. Ho was fighting tho dogs. He would run after ono, when ono of tho others would bito him on his heels. It was laughablo to see him. He did not know what kind of a jack pot ho was in. Finally ho thought it was getting too warm for his roar end, so ho sat up on his haunches. That was tho opportuni ty wo wem waiting for. Wo both turned loose with our 40.90 sharps, and tho bear tumbled all in a heap. We skinned him and found whero ono of the bullets had broken his nock and tho other his shoulder. I had never seen such an animal beforo for size. I asked D. what it would weigh. That was the first bear I had ever wanted to weigh. D. said ho had no idea, but we could try to pull him. Wo could just move him. He waa lying on snow that was pretty solid. We had a stick through his gambrela, so we had a good pull at him. Both of us were over 6 feet tall and weighed over 200 pounds, so wo wem not very weak. We talkod about the weight of tho bear and thought ho would probably weigh bOO pounds. Hishida when stretched measured 10 foot 3 inches from tip of nose to tho tail and waa 8 feet's inches wida When wo went down in tho spring, wo showed tho hide around, and old hunters said that it waa tho largest bear hido they had ever seen. Wo killed 16 bears that spring, but nono of them waa as large by ono third as tho big ona I do not believe that the big one would weigh at the very most COO pounds, and ho was very fat I think he had not been out very long, as it was in April when ho was killed. Now, my no tion is that all these boars that weigh from 1,500 pounds up have been kill ed around a c&mpflm. I would like to hear from any one who ever saw a boar weighed that tipped the scales at 1,500 pounds. A person who had never seen a bear running wild would say on seeing his first that it was the biggest thing ever wrapped up in hide. Tho first bear I ever saw looked aa big as a mountain, but aft er I had killed him he shrunk down to a pmn black one. I could pack him all around, he was so smalL Forest and Stream. Bear placed tn dishes near flower pots will tempt all the snails tn the vicinity, and the next morning they will be found lying alongside dead. Cm! Cm The latest solution proposed for tha London fog and smoke nuisance is and laundry purposes. The anther of the Theime would make its use compulsory. Ha estimates that it would cost only $1T0, 000,000 to buy np the gas companies, and tha cost of the new plant to enable the whole of the f,000,000 tons of coal now burned tn London to be consumed as gas would be $55,000,000 more. Gas as a result would be cheapened, smoke would disappear. 130,000,000 Would be saved outright each year. and London life would be lived in sunlight by day and the lordy glow ox electricity try night Detroit Journal, NO. 21 Palpitation ofthc Heart Shortness of Breath, Swelling of Legs and Feet. 'For about four years I v. .is t nx:t led with palpitation of t!:o t:.-art, shortness tf breath and sw:!.r t f t he legs and feet. A 1 1 ; :: e 1 w 1 faint. I was treated by the l.-.st j hr slciana la Sav∋ah, lia.. wi' h r. re lief. 1 then tried vane, .prl:; without benefit. Finally, I tr;ed Dr. Miles' Heart Cure also hi Nerve and Liver 1M' A"- r bnjirtning t Ud.6 tf-nn 1 J,li l.lirrl 1 continued taklnjr them at. I ara tn w la better health than for raar.v rears. Since my recovery 1 have cairu-d f.fly pound in weit:U 1 boj. thU state ment may be of value to p r sufferer." E. R. SrTTON, War, Ptt n. C. Dr. Y'.Tps TTeartCc ro 1 1 ' J Cn a pr:!!- fru arvn toe that t ho arvt L-ttLi 1.1 u r riu Ail c!rorrt.LA Militant. 6 W-tt f,r ttr tt w!il b a st. ta-r;a M. on Iw'tl of r -. -w by tba W. kLuea aicvlical Co , L.aUart, l&O. For Sale by Taylor A XJnnner. THE EARTH S ATMOSPHERE Altitadcw at Which the Mra Trnpralan Is l.SOO lVrnlWlov Zr. Weather OIsmtvit White nxvutly gave an exhaustive talk on tho Win perarure and the jmuro of th air at different heights, during which h-' said in part : "Tho air which wo breathe and which envelops this whole earth is composed of oxygen S parts, nitro gen 2 parts, and vapor pressure from 100 per cent to one-tenth cf 1 per cent. This air is he'd ujnn tho earth's surface by tho attraction of the earth itself. The tendency c f tho earth's revolution upon its own axis i to throw this air into space, and, ns V.:o attraction of the cart.li for all parti cles of liquid-, gn-M-s or njMd creases as the square of tho ditar.i? increases, the attractive force over comes tho repellent force at all piint within a distance of I a, 000 miles cf the earth's cvntT. Gmoqucntly that point is when tho centrifugal foree equals tho centripetal an 1 tho poir.t where air eerw-s to exist. Beyond that point there is an nh.- lute void, with tho exception of ozone arvl ether. Now wo have roachtl a point where all matter isalwnt What th' temperature of this upaoo is is a mat ter of doubt There, is no motion them "About 200 miles abovo tho earth we find actual, appreciable ai r, whic h can bo measured with tho barorr.e tcr. It contains all the injre-lier.ti of tho air at the earth's surf i'. There is very littlo motion at th;- height Tho temperature is exci-ed-ingly low, being prrjUiLTy about 1, bOO degrees below zero. A t 20 ni il -s abovo tho earth's surf.ieo we Cr.d a different quantity of air, which can be moro easily measured by a ba rometer, ha-, a percept iblo motion, chiefly duo to radiation, and contain" anima!cula- vegetable matter and mineral matter. Tho temperature very low, probably Cj degrev be low zero. "At ten miles abovo tl.. rth'! surface the air ha actually boon measured in quantity, quality, ve-i-tablo, mineral and animal matter. Hem motion Is very p-rrptil lo there being more there than at th earth's surface. It 1- omtinu-illy moving from tho wi-l i'rofi--v.r Hazen of tho wrathr bumau - nt up a balloon made of gold Intern' akin, eruipped with a barograph, thermo graph and a unhina recorder. Th temperature was found to bo 2 de grees below zero, and tho barometric pressure oorrosindel exactly with what it should bo at ten mil's abovo tho earth's surf-ieo. "At seven miles s!ovo tho earth's surface we havo air In all ro.pect-i, so far a chTnieal combin.ifior:-! are concerned, and, with the Mnr'.c ex oeption of rarity. thoarno as at tha earth's surface. Glanhier. tho fa mous aeronaut a-y?ndod in a bal loon to this height and when about 2,000 feet U-low It Trran to 1 en ooneeioua. lmt retained tu:t pn" sion long eno-ngh to pull tho throttle valve, exhant tho air and drop un til he regained consel.juriiA. The d-ig that aeconipaniod him nevt-r re covered. The tenjperature shown by GlaidiioT thermograph was degrees below tj to "At th--3 altitude tho tompTa ture is always the Sam's, whereas at tho earth jsurfaoo tt U cortar.tly changing. This is due to tho tepeg raphyof tb nountry. lititule ar.I mom especially to thoadvar.ee of cy clonic and anticyclonic are.as. "From the expertcrioo of Ghvshier it f ill be aa that a ivrsoa can cj cend nearly seven miles above Lhs earth's surface without looLzg cc u-sciousne-i or seriously en lxngerir: 7 his lifa.' RochOfcbJT Union and Ad vertiser. l"k Xrtl ef CaiptlUa. Poor Young Artist fdiLtyirf a picture) That is an exact eery cf Eaphael's "Madonna, which, ycu will xrmexaber, was sold for 23,0 j0. If ad an And how much do ycu ask for this picture I 'Ten shillings and sixpence." "What is the cause of ruch a dif ference in price?"' "Competition, rr.adan. TLs lid cess is not what it used to ba Hs change. ,
The Mount Airy News (Mount Airy, N.C.)
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