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THE LAKE OF INK. . JURVEL OF ARIZONA, THE Wonderland of America. 1 - M 3 500 Volcanoes of Blac k Mud The Jfarrelous Region Aroiind Cocopali The Earthquake Country lime, Green, Purple and Pin It Mountains. Nearly all of the 3,500 Cocopah vol- ituated near tlie east end of canoes are tjje volcanic area w hich hey occupy. Several large mounds, onfce living vol ranoes, are now quiet Between these LO'. .....lkJ-' -W.nl. hills or lava, rocK anu ueui s, u.xc l.r ot liviner, i active volcanoes. From the sides of the hil s, 50 to 200 waters, come feet above the surrounamg trrih most beautiful springs of clear .ntpr. some so sour, others so gweet, so bitter and so strongly alkaline nal can drink that no living it. These waters course cMps. lavincr a coat of whi Uown the hill- e, pink, pur ! the mineral pie, blue or green, made byj brything with ealts tney cumum, ujwu c whir-h they come in contae In the midst of these hil s is the Lake it scores of water, others nf Ink. There run into gtreams of clear mineral ho that are warm and two that are cold, nnP-fourth of a mile in. ldngth by one envs tne iiiiiuiiu ucuiiuui The lake, n-i.tli wide, lies like a ereml set in , these Cifci ' - C I , v hills, or these "ancient volcanoes This hill is alive with volcanoes, even down to the very edge of he lake. At low water in Lake Pasqualitas it "is di vided from the Lake of Ink by a narrow ridge of hard sulphurous clay, thrown up by the volcanoes, which hare assisted in making this bank. No less than sixty volcanoes, mad, spiteful, noisy little ones, line this ridge. Here came the Indians for leagues and gathered the rich vermilion paint, with which they decorated themselves in times of war in the ancie it past, long, long ago. On the west the volcanoes stand as close together as! they can be placed. For a spaceof a quarter of a mile by nearly one-half mile lh 3 tread of the lone footman rings on the fragile crust, till he stops through fear balancing in his mind whether to advance or retreat, and while pondering as to w hat to do the little "kicker," the liveliest most wicked and spiteful of alLthe groips of volca noes, besmgars him with i :s boiling hot black mud. i , The black, ink-like irate r which fills the lake comesup to within three or four mcnes or tne level or its isnores. its 'temperature near the edge is about 110 degrees, gradually growing warmer as you get down in it, and as you approach lli V vvu IV! VA. IIXJU1 af-lSShV VJSJ ; iasv . fcJ tx it is about 150 and.at a dep h of 250 feet it is 216 degrees. Near the shore on the east, south and west sides the water is only four to six feet in dept i for twenty feet or more into the lake, w lere the shelf breaks off perpendicularly, an,d there no bottom has ever been f oui id. T6 ' the touch the water feels smooth and oily. The ashes and oil which cover the lake, half an inch to an inch thick : The water in the lake is jet black, thou ?h it does not color the skin of those whe bathe I in it. Under a glass the coloring matter, seems to be a minute black j substance held in suspension by the water, w hich adheres to white cloth immersed in t le lake. To the taste the water is warm, salt and bit ter. To the bather the sensation on en tering the water is grand, exhilarating to a wonderful degree, bo much so that a bath of ten or fifteen minut 3s makes one feel as if he were under the influence of the very best brandy.! Mi lions of bub bles formed by the escaping gases keep the surface of "the lake agitited at times till it rolls, boils and foams as if ready to break over its banks and escape, and again only in myriads of s Darkling glo bules, glittering in the sunli ght. When ever the volcanoes rage w ith anger the lake follows, and the sight of its mad dened waters is well worth s eeing. From time immemorial these waters have been used by the diffe :ent tribes of indians.far and wide, at war, or in peace, as the great all-healing rem 3dy following a bath in the hot mud of t le peaceable volcanoes, for all fevers, rheumatism, scrofula and venereal disc ases.- They Jake the invalid and bury him, all but tis ears, eyes and mouth, in the hot volcanic mud, for from tweuty to thirty Routes, then carry! him covered with J?ud, on a blanket, the 50 or 100 feet to tne edge of the lake, and pi t him into the jater, holding his headubove it, for from TW thirt mhtes, th3n rollinghim in his blanket, they carry him a few feet vwrV ?,shade wbich tbyy have pro Za andla7 him on the hot sulphurous anl or rock, and there let him sweat; ioK repeat this in the afternoon "ghtthev move him ol t . At where Mm?iUnd is ot3 so wkrm, and let mm sleon. nr.fl ;f ,:ui. Li , brpnT, fr r"oAie, m-nere he can "reathe the eases of mnnJ i. Borin vi" luv "t-igu- be bfeCf wonderfu1' aid could not LteJed lf ot en. k few white Srthe reme- The Inflio i r Wlthout a tinSle Allure. Se or T als.drink theft water from scene tb;" Cn tiUS strange enthet ' ba,rren waste een yna w 7eat be,ds' a mile or so be and witT "top r he hifhest mound, screecK hand sliad ng the eyes yellof -tr?f. di 7witl that fearful . oo, oo iJ a' ho0' J' HP' HP n a - liui'e L 7hlc)lm jour blood tten they lift Cr ln.lts hannels, and ert Z tiTerVt 866 thf &ods o the U, with thl- If all is Fans, mntf: ul tne hfelf-smothered Ravines of ihl 1 and underground tiS fa mteri4 offender Jpin some othe?t-6adly 1aTa to colne 94 after the x meira old Monarch or some 01 ms consorts answer vnta ft volume of mud, thrown high in the air, as a salute, then! the Indians rush for their regal baths of mud, more than con tented that the desert gods will hear and answer their wildman s prayer. FIGHTING A MAD WOLF. A Dagerons Guest Hidden in a Mexican House. New My room was at the end of a inn? hall. I was familiar with every crook and turu about the house and didn't need a light, so I passed into my room and closed the door. It occurred to me then to take a smoke, so I felt around in the dark and found a cigar and struck a match to light it. The next minute I think you could have knocked mo down with a feather. Away down in the darkness under the bed two fiery eyes shone out like burning coals just for that brief moment that the match was burning and then it went out. Be fore I had time to think the creature was upon me and was springing for my throat, the most savage animal I had ever met. I felt rather than saw what it was. The creature was a wolf , and it was mad. j Several animals afflicted With hydro phobia had been seen in the neighbor hood during the past few months. There is no animal more formidable than a wolf when it has rabies, and I knew with what I had to contend. I had to struggle with a large wolf shut up in a dark room, and that the slightest wound from its sharp teeth meant certain and horrible death to me. As it came to me first I threw out my hands, and by some good fortune happened to strike its neck. I got both my hands about its throat and managed to hold it away from my face," but it was all I could do. I was nervous, I suppose, and the wolf was far stronger than it would have been under ordinary circumstances. The froth was dripping from its mouth, and flew into my face as it struggled. It was the most desperate struggle of my life just to hold that wolf and keep it from my face and throat, at which it constantly leaped in the most furious manner. All the time, from the moment it sprang at me first, I had been shouting and calling at the top of my voice. There was very little hope of doing any good with it, as the servants were too far away, and my room was on the opposite side of the house from their quarters, but that was the only chance. , It was very evident that I couldn't let go my hold for an instant. It was just as evident that I couldn t hold out this way long, and that unless help came after awhile my strength would eventually giye way and the wolf could tear my throat, as it was struggling then to do. And how long do you think thisdtept up? For two hours for two mortal hours by the clock I stood there, fighting for my life with the savage wolf and shouting fo: help every moment of the time. A hundred times I thought my strength was gone and that my arm would surely sink down powerless the next moment, and yet always managed to hold him off a little longer. At last, just as I was almost in com plete despair, one of the servants was aroused by my continued shouting, and came running with his gun in his hand. I managed to hold the wolf until he made a light, and then I held him while the irian put the muzzle of his gun against the wolf's head and killed him as dead as Hector. And then I went to my sister's room and had a spell of something that would have been hysterics if I had been a woman. - Being a man it was nothing but a case of nervous prostration. Globe-Democrat. Economic Weight of a Hog. Experiments made for the purpose of determining the economic weight of a hog show conclusively that he never should be fed beyond eight or nine months of age, and . that the largest profit is found, as a rule, in a weight not to exceed '200 pounds. What is known as the food of support plays a very im portant part in the profit or loss of large weights.. Suppose, .as many farmers say, that a resolution is made to turn the hog when he reaches 300 pounds. He must take from his ; food an increasing amount 'each day to support the weight already gained, or else ' he drops back. The German experiments indicate that two per cent, of the live weight in food must be taken each day to support that live weight. If the hog weighs 300 pounds this amounts to six pounds "of food daily. The only profit is in the food that is applied ; to make new weight; A recent .pig-feeding experiment at the Maine Station illustrates this princi ple excellently. The pigs were taken at ages ranging from five weeks to eight weeks. During the first 100 days of the experiment not far from two pounds of digestible food produced one pound of growth, while during the last fifty days the ratio was four pounds of digestible food to one of growth. Every pound of pork made during the last fifty days cost double to that made in the first 100 days. The lesson taught by this principle is practically stated that the most money can be made from young hogs turned at a- medium weight. Inter-Ocean. The Armorers of Amroz. Near Tripolis, Asiatic Turkey, is a village called Amruz, the like of which is not to be found in any other part of the world. The place is inhabited exclusively by Jews, all of whom, from the shammas to the parnass I and the Rabbi, exercise the calling of smith! From early morn ing till the last thing at night they are hard at work, and when their toil is over all repair to the synagoguej-where the evening prayers are recited. The aged members of the community also take part in the daily work, but, not longer aue lo nanuie Tne nammer, tney occupy themselves by bloiring the bellows. The majority of these people arc armorers, w)io supply the Arabs with their yata gans, swords and other weapons in dispensable to the sons of the desert, but who are too indolent to make them, for themselves. The weapons manufactured by these Jewish armorers are exported as :far as the borders of the Niger, where they are in great demand. , The Mews living in Amruz settled themselves there shortly after the destruction of the Second Temple, at the time when the Komans still held sway in Northern Africa. A CURIOUS BIT OF HISTORY. Why Jewelers' Dummy Clocks Point to the Hour of 8.13. j There are a great many curious things in I the world that are common property. They are noticed and commented upon 1 I 'L": J j 1 t vy uveryuouy Decause ine. oojects are pointed out and all one has to do is to look in the direction indicated by the in dex fingers of some one who has gone before, and lo! the oddity is apparent. Bijit there are myriads of people who pass linusual and interesting things every day of I their lives without knowine it. It re mains for the observant to discover them and make them known. Then the gen eral public wonders why it never before noticed them. There are few who have not seen the ordinary sign of a jeweler an immense imitation of a watch hanging over the rront of the store. But it is safe to say that the number who have since detected anything curi ous in these same signs is very, very small. The reader may ask at once, "Well, what is there remarkable in them? I have passed them scores of times, and I know of nothing strange in their construction." Not to keep the inauirer in suspense. the wonderful feature of these big time pieces that don't go is that on almost every one of them the time indicated is eighteen minutes past eight o'clock. And thereby hangs a tale. On the 14th of April, 1865, at this hour, Abraham Lincoln was assasin- ated in Ford's Theatre, at Washington, by John Wilkes Booth. Since that fatal night every one of these watch-signs that has gone from the factory ot W. L. Washburne, at No. 46 Cortlandt street, the only person east of Chicago who makes them, has shown the hour of 8.1b In all the world there is only one other concern besides this one that makes these watch-signs. It is located in Chicago, and also now turns out signs marking the time as 8.18. Mr. Washburn tells this story of how the first ".Lincoln sign came to be painted: "When J first began to make these clocks fixed the hands in any way that my fancy dictated some at one time and some at another. 1 he nrst watch-sicm was ror r. i. naraum s oia store on r t rw t- i i a r Cortlandt street, which was then the Je rome Clock Company and which has long since passed out ot existence. I don t know how the hands were on it, and, as I have said, I never cared until the night of April 14, 1865. I was then working on a sign for Jeweller Adams, who kept a store on Broadway, across the street from btewart s. He came running in while I was at work and told me the news. 'Paint those hands at the hour Lincoln was shot, that the deed may never be forgotten,' he said, pointing to the sign 1 was making tor him. 1 did so. Since then ; every watch-sign that has gone out of here has been lettered the same as that one. I noticed at the time that it was a good place for the hands anyway, leaving the top and bottom of the dial open for lettering, and this is probably the reason why the Chicago manufacturer fixes his in the same way," New xork World. The Frog and the Farmer, A Frog who dwelt in a Puddle close by the house of a Farmer one evening over heard the Agriculturalist vigorously Praising the Notes of a Nightingale which sang from a tree near by. j "Loves Music, eh?" queried the Frog of himself. 4 'Well, being as he is a good Man and seems to be Built that Way, I'll do my Best to make him Happy." The Frog had not been singing over two minutes when the Fanrier came down to the Puddle with a big Tomato, and nearly knocked his head off and yelled: "If you don't shut up I'll fire the whole garden at you." "Alas! but is this my Reward for Seeking to Make you Happy!" wailed the Frog, as he looked around for the Arnica bottle to Bathe his Head. Moral: "You must learn," replied the Farmer, as he turned away, "that while there may be no great difference between the notes of the Nightingale and the Voice of f he Frog, Man has been granted the Privilege of Choosing Which he shall Listen to." New York World. Electric Lights in Europe. The electric light "is still an expensive luxury in England, yet several small con tinental towns enjoy the light at a very small cost. Where .waterfalls are close to any village, turbines can be turned by the force of the torrent to drive the nec essary dynamos. Twelve Swiss towns are now fitting up the electric light ap paratus. Triberg, in the Black Forest, familiar to tourists for its clockmaking, has been lighted in this way for years past. On the St. Gothard Railway the village of Faida, though only number ing 1,000 inhabitants, uses electric light in the houses as well as the streets, the instalment having cost only $10,000 in $75 shares, owned by the inhabitant alone. London Tit-Bits JEIctrfe X"U Lrvmr. Electricity has been snccesaf allr ap plied to a pile-driving machine in "put ting down the foundation of an annexe to a paper mill near Paxil. As the old section of the mill -was prorided with an electric-light plant lying idleduriug the day, it was decided to use the power for operating the pile-driver. An Edi son motor was mounted in the lower part of the pile-driver frame and trans mitted power to a chain drum fitted with the fast and loose pulleys. By means of a suitable cut-out the current could be diverted from the motor to a resistance box wheu power for hoisting the pile-driver was not needed. The machinery weighed 1,100 pounds, and the height of fall ranged from sixteen to twenty feet A current of sixty-three amperes and 100 volts was employed, and the generator was about 330 feet distant. Tne conductor was a copper wire. 0-2 in in diwpto.. Iron. tilU't'tt ib ALL. The high position aita ned and the universal acceptance and approral of the plea&aot liquid fruit remedj, Syrup of Figs, as the most excel lent laxative known, illustrate the ralae of the qualities on which its eccctss is baed and are abundantly gratifying to the California Pig Syrup Company. Berlin has just decided that wooden pave ments are a failure. Honr a Htadent Maket Maner. Dear Readers I am able to pay my board and tuition, wear good clothes ana have money in my pocket by spending my odd hoars and vacations plating jewelry and tableware and selling platers. 1 have made &) per day; never less than $4. I paid $5 for my plater to H. K. Demo & Co., Columbus, O. 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