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DEEP SEA. FISHING. CATCHING FISH MORE THAN FIVE MILES UNDER WATER. Uncle Sam's Scientists With Hook nd Line Go Down to a Tre mendous Depth On Board tne AiDatross, fEW. people catch, fish at a depth of 800 feet. There are fewer fishermen at a depth of 4500 fathoms, or 27,000 feet. This is a depth of about. five and one-half miles. Uncle Sam is the onlv angler in the world who insists on such deep sea fishing, and measures depths, not by hundreds of feet, but by miles. He has a , boat built specially for the pur pose This vsssel, the United States Fish Commission steamer Albatross comes, into San Diego Harbor fre quently, and is an object of rare in terest to the landsman. l!he Albatross is strictly a Fcientific fishing craft. She cost over $100,000, isiJ34 feet Ion?, and of 1074 tons dis placement, with a brigantine rig. Her business is to follow ocean fish as they migrate from their summer to their winter home, and observe their man ner of life. This work includes the collection of fish, mud and shells from a depth of 27,00!) feet to the surface. The ingenuity of the scientists and tiorifnif-nra Via a roei-irtoil 4 n 4-Va om ployment of the electric light at great depths in order to attract heretofore unknown and otherwise unobtainable fish into the trawl which is let down from the ship's side. In this way small fish are usually caught. Sometimes, when the elec tric light is near the surface of the ocean, large fish are attracted by the illumination. The light seems to make the big fish angry. Sharks, for instance, will dart at the light as if it were a deadly foe. The light is sometimes lowered S00 feet from the surface. At a depth of seventy feet the illumination becomes invisible. When the light is twenty or thirty feet down and huge fish con gregate about it their shadows are cast upward on the surface of the sea, and from the deck of the ship the scene is weird indeed. It is a veritable con gress of monsters of the deep that sometimes gathers about what to them is a wonderful sight., It has been noted that the effect of the electric light upon big fish has been such that as deadly enemies as the shark and the swordfish will Jswim up to the light side by side, and so amazed are they by the wonderful shining bulb that tb?v appear to for get the deadly feud listing between these piscatorial faiu.iies, and they do not rush at each other ia mortal com bat. Other fish that usually fight on sight lie down together, as it were, in this shining presence, as might a lion and a lamb. The operation of sounding or of fish ing, at a depth of tens of thousands of feet requires much skill in both the management of the ship and of the Bounding apparatus. In ordinary deep sea sounding a three-eighths inch steel wire is used. The tension on this wire must be constant, else it will kink. , thus reducing the tensile strength fifty per cent. Ocean currents complicate deep sea exploration. A but lacs cur rent is quickly detected and guarded against, but w'i:en the rope or sound ing line is sweyt under the bottom of the ship by a submarine current, with, perhaps, thousands of fathoms of line out, it requires great skill and patience to clear the line without kinking, and thereby possibly losing a portion of it. When a deep snu sounding is to be taken the sinker is 'lowered to the water's edge. A thermometer and water specimen cu.p are clamped on to the line of wire. An officer takes his station beside the sounding machine. Seamen are at han attending to the guide pulleys. A fireman stands with his hand on the throttle of the sound ing engine, awaitiag the officer's com mand. The record keeper, takes his position beside thtf register, where he can read it reacLly. This register shows the number of fathoms of line paid cut. At the order "Let go !" the iaker nhoots down into the ocean at a speed of ten of fifteen feet per second. The record keeper makes a note of every hundred fathoms of line paid out. The officer of the deck maneu vers the ship in a way that will keep the wire line vertical. The instant the sinker strikes the bottom of the sea, miles below the ship, the sound ing engine is j stopped. The record keeper notes the number of turns in dicated on the! register, and the slack line is hove in by hand until it clears the bottom. Then the sounding engine is reversed and the line is hauled aboard about as fast as it was paid out. One of the curiosities on the Alba tross is a. heavy glass globe filled with water. This hollow glass ball was let down to a great depth in the ocean until the watdr pressure became so great that the; water was literally forced through jthe pores of the glass, and the ball was thus filled. i Mahomet' jianue. According to a dispatch from Con stantinople in ; consequ3nce of the rumors circulated regarding alleged plots organized jSy the Mussulman ele ment which is discontented with tha present Government and especially by the Softas unusual precautions were taken on the occasion of the Sultan's annual visit to the Mosque of Top Capou on the Old Seralgio-Point on the 12th of April. This day, the fifth of Ramadan, is jthe only one m the year on which the . Sultan, as Com mander of j the Faithful, leaves Yildiz Kloak in order to perform the ancient ceremony of unveiling and exposing to public veneration the reliquary con taining one of the Prophet's mantles. It is stated that his Majesty would this year have willingly delegated the duty to a representative, but such a course is impossible, as it is fcr the Caliph alone to expose the relia with his own hands and be the first to kiss it in the presence of the imperial Prince3, the clergy and the high dignitaries of State. As the Sultan was thus obliged to perform the ceremony the greatest precautions werd taken to prevent any untoward incident.- Yildiz Kiosk was literally surrounded by a picked regi ment of Albanian troops, who sedu lously guarded all the entrances of the palace during the Sultan's absence. The route to Old Seraglio Point was lined with soldieis through the entire length, and on the day previous to the ceremony, which is known as that of Hirkal-Cherif (the Kissing of the Man tle), a special commission commanded by a naval Captain and composed of ten officers, under the direct authority of the Minister of Marine, made a minute inspection of the great bridge of Kara-Kieul, which was moreover carefully guarded by sailors. The im perial procession, however, reached the mosque without incident. San Francisco lExaminer. The Crimson Rambler Rose. A remarkably handsome specimen of the Crimson Rambler rose is now in bloom in one of the greenhouses be longing to H. H. Hunnewell, Esq., Wellesley, Mass. There can be no doubt that this rose is a decided ac quisition. It has been thoroughly tested during the long and severe winter just past, and it came through in even better condition than the ma jority of hybrids. It appears to be long to the robust Japanese fatfm of Rosa multiflora, and is hardier than the Polyantha type. It is a rosa of exceptional value as a pot plant, judg ing from the specimeu grown- here. It is trained in pyramidal form and ia completely covered with handsome clusters of deep crimson flowers. Evidently, the current season's bloom is produced on the previous year's growths, : which now are rapidly stretching out and promise to attain five or six feet in length, on an unde veloped specimen. Strong pi acts are said to form shoots from ten to twelve feet long. On a pot plant thes f hoots will be far too rambling in charucter, and in order to keep the plants in con venient shape, for handling, they will need a little training say, into bal loon, fan or pyramid form, according to the ; grower' fancy. Q-ir Jen oa4 Forest. ! WALTfiBQ.BRESHAMDEAJi The Secretary of State Expires Sud denly in Washington City. CAREER IN WAR AND PEACE.' A Fatal CoUap That Surprised and Shocked Hi Family and the Public His Ailment Was Complicated With Heart Failure. Acute Pleurisy ! Pneumonia and Secretary of State Walter Q. Greshani died at 1.15 o'clock a. m. in his rooms at the Arlington Hotel, Washington, after an illness of several weeks. No death could be more' quiet, more calm, or more peaceful. For, two hours preceding dissolution there had been no indication either of a pulse or heart beat. He lay during the time with his head resting on the arms of his daughter, Mrs.. Andrewswhile his devoted wife sat by his side, his hands clasped in hers, his face so' turned that his last conscious gaze should rest upon her. j And so the minutes dragged slowly on Un til the end came. He was conscious to the ilast. He suffered greatly during the preeed jing forty-eight hours after the pneumonic I symptoms were complicated with his diseases,' and was only temporarily relieved by fre quent hypodermic injections. ; But as the end approached his suffering' 'disappeared, and he passed away as quietly as a little child sinking to slumber in the arms of its mother. The illness was due chiefly to a severe cold caught by the Secretary while driving dur ing the unusually damp weather that has marked the season in Washington. The cold was aggravated by a chronic stomach trouble and diseased kidneys, there being, however, no symptoms of Bright's disease. Aa soon as the physicians realized that the end was aDproaching, the heroic measures usual in such cases were adopted. Dr. 'Van Rens salaer was called in and he performed thft operation of injecting normal saline. : It was without avail, for the patient sank rapidly. A telegram wa3 sent to Secretary Gresh am's son Otto, at Chicago, informing him that the end was near, and he hastened to Washington without delay. The announcement of the Secretary ot State's death was immediately communicated to President Cleveland, at Woodley, his coun try seat near Washington. He was greatly shocked by the newS, although it had been xpectgfor some hours. ; Telegrams were sent to Secretary Carlisle in Kentucky and Secretary Smith in Georgia,: and both hastened to Washington. The speech-making campaign of the Secretary of the Treasury was thus brought to a sudden close. MR. GRESHAM'S CAREER His Active Iafe as Lawyer, Soldier, Jurist and Cabinet Officer. Walter Quintin Gresham was bora on March 17, 1832, in an old-fashioned farm house near Lanesville, Harrison County, Ind., about a hundred miles down th8 Ohio River from ex-President Benjamin Harri son's birthplace. His parents were of Eng lish descent. His father, William Gresham, was Sheriff of the back woods county, and he was shot to death while attempting to arrest an outlaw. Walter Gresham was at that tinw two years old, and next to the youngest of a family of Ave chil dren. His grandfather, George Gresham, had been cae of the pioneer settlers of tha State. Walter Gresham's' opportunities for schooling were limited In - his boyhood he followed the plow by day and studied his books at night. His mother was poor, but plucky, and she managed the farm and kept the family together. j Wal ter went to the "district school until he was sixteen years old, and then he obtained a clerkship in the County Auditor's office, which paid his board and expenses and par mitted him to attend the Corydon Seminar for two years. He attended BloomingtOE University for a year, and then returned U Corydon, where he studied law in the offict of Judge William A. Porter. H?" was ad mitted to thebar when he was t went y-twc WALTER Q. GRESHAM. years oldand began to practice Iaw.Gre ham was a Whig in politics, and his part ner, Thomas C. Slaughter, afterward Judgt of the Circuit Court, was in 1856 a delegate from Indiana to the Philadelphia Convention that nominated Fremont Young Greshao began his active political career by stumpina the State for "the Pathfinder." He waj nominated for the Legislature in 1860 as a Republican, and wa3 elected in a strongly Democratic district. When the war broke out Gresham was the! Captain of the military company in CorydonJ known as the Spencer Rifles. He re fused a re-election to the Legislalure and enlisted as a privhte in the Thirty-eighth Indiana Regiment. Almost immediately ht 'was selected as the Lieutenant-Colonel ot that regiment. He saw his first service at Shiloh, r and later he took part in tho 'siege of Corinth. Colonel Gresham met Grant at Vicksburg, and after the surrender Grant and Sherman united in recommending him for a Brigadier-General's commission, which he, received. While in command 'of a division of Sherman's army at Leg jgett's Hill, before Atlanta, General Gresham' ; was shot in the knee, a wound from which; he never Ifully recovered. When Gres ham was ready to go to the - front! again the war was ended and he was brevetted Major-General and mus tered out of the service. He resumed the practice of law at New Albany, Ind. 'When General Grant became President he offered General Gresham the Colleetorship of the Port of New Orleans, and subsequently the District-Attorneyship of Indiana. Both of these offers were refused. General j Gresham twice ran for Congress, and was defeated by Michael C. Kerr. He accepted President Grant's appointment aa United States District Judge for Indiana in 186&, and during the twelve years that he held that District Judgeship not one of his decisions was reversed. President Arthur called him from the bench to be come a member of his Cabinet in 18S3, and since that time Mr. Gresham has been a conspicuous figure in National politics. He took the i portfolio in President Arthur's Cabinet leTt vacant by the death of Postmaster-General Howe. Perhaps tho most noticeable incident of his career as Postmaster-General was the exclusion of the Louisiania Lottery Company from the us of the mail. Near the close of President Ar thur's term, on the death of Secretary Folger, Mr. Gresham wa3 appointed Secretary o! th$ Treasury, j Mr. Gresham, however, longed for a return to the bench, and in the closing ;days of the Arthur Administration he wai appointed Circuit Judge to succeed Judgi Drummond for the Seventh Judicial District This was an appointment for life. He was a candidate for the Republican, nomination for President in 1384, and again in 1 8S9 XXa iu,ioiira 111 .m..-. 4.1 a . lovciTou iti uio3 via tug lirsl ballot in the convention in 1883. . His vofci iruso io no on ine imra. Dauot, ana tnea dwindled tp fifty-nine on the eighth and last.' He refused it is said, the nomination by tha People's Party in 1892. Judge Gresham announced his intention or voting for Grover Cleveland in the last Presi dential campaign. In his letter, dated Octo ber 27, 1S92, and addressed to Major Blufordi Wilson, he announced that he thought a Re publican could vote for Mr. Cleveland with out joining theDemocratic party. When Mr,' Cleveland .was elected he offered him the first place Sin the- Cabinet, and he becamai Secretary ol State. Mr. Cleveland and Mr Gresham were old friends, havingjnet in the White House in 1885. His course as Secre tary of State has ' been in accord with tha policy of President Cleveland. . i Judge Gresham was married in 1853. His Wl f A T .1 r. Ifanfii n n Fill A.. I- .1 A. -III tud ntua ucuiuuuou. JLUCJf unit I WO Cull- dren a son, Otto Gresham, and a daughter;, now Mrs. Andrews. Judge Gresham's peri sonal appearance was that of a handsomtf man. His bearing was soldierly and manlyj He was broad and square shouldered, with a figure that Was athletic and symmetrical 'His hair was thick and of a whitish gray !and he wore it combed back from his fore head. He was somewhat careless in his at-v ire, and apparently paid very little atten tion to it. i KILLED HERSELF AND BABES. Tne Mytterious Disappearance of Mrs. Notxen, of Omaha, Explained. i The bodies of Mra. Ida Xot.zea and her two children have been found in the Missouri River. They were firmly tied together with a stout ropet It is believed. that Mrs. Notzen bound the babies to her and then leaped into the river. ( This clears a mystery that has been hang ing flee since last fall. Mrs. Notzen was a prominent school teacher at Omaha, Neb. When she disappeared she left letters saying that disappointment at not obtaining work that she expected ha 1 driven her to suicide. Mrs. Notzen belonged to one of the b;st families in Omaha. Siie wai a bright woman,, with a strong interest in educational mat ters. Her life was heavily insured, but pay ment has been resisted until now becaus of he insufficient Droof of death. Earthquake Kills Fiftr. Fifty persons have been killed and one hundred ani flftv injured by aa earthquake at Paramythia. Nearly every housa in the town was destroyed. Paramythia is a town of 5033 inhabitants, in tho Province of Epirus, which is a part' of Albania. - Choked to Death on Pot Pie. At Port Wayns Hattie Philabaum. aged five, watchel hersi3ter make a beef pot pie. The little one asked for a little bite and it was giTea her. She choked, and in spite of th- efforts of her! sister in less than ten minutes Ce Lttle one waa del of hemorrhage.
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