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(5) Enlargement; (S) Fatty Degencra
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Patients often hare no idea their dis
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Here are some of the symptoms:
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Smothering Spells. Pain in Chest, left
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Swelling of Feet and Ankles,
of Face and Lips. Palpitation.
Irregular Pulse.
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ENGLISHMAN WOULD DIG HOLE
TWELVE MILES DEEP.
Would Solve Many Questions Un
know^ P the Scientific World— .
Estimated Cost $25,000,000
and to Take 85 Years.
—
Experiments to be tried in the Wash
ington monument by officers of the geo- !
logical survey to try to determine ths
compressiveness of the earth’s mass,
has awakened widespread interest in
scientific circles. Coming as it does on
the heels of a project broached by
Charles Algernon Parsons, of England,
to bore a hole 12 miles into the. earth,
the scientific world has much food for
speculation.
Prof. Parsons estimates that to sink
a shaft 12 miles deep would cost $25,000,
000, and that it would require 85 yean
to accomplish it. This shaft, cut down
into the earth, would represent the
equivalent of a hole one foot deep In a
mass 666 feet thick. It aould solve
many questions that the scientific knowl
edge of the world has left unanswered,
yet it would investigate only the crust
and leave thousands of miles of the in
terior mass still untouched.
The amount of compression at the r
globe’s center should, to some extent at
least, define the character of the mass
of which it is formed. It is argued that
the great mass of the interior of the earth
is solid. Against the contention that
the planet, under a crust 25 miles thick,
is a mass of fiery liquid is arrayed the
fact of the known density of the globe.
That density *lh the earth’s entirety'is
about 5.5 times the density of the. water
that covers three-quarters of the sur
fnpA
The assumption of a comparatively
thin crust requires, according to Sir
William Thompson, that this crust
should have a rigidity possessed by-no
known substance. The sun exerts such a
strain upon the substance of the earth
that the planet could not maintain its
shape as it does, he maintains, unless the
supposed crust were at least 2,000 or
■2,500 miles in thickness.
There is a gradual increase in the tem
perature while penetrating the surface
of the crust. This increase in some lo
calities is as rapid as one degree for each •
56 feet of descent; in others one degree
for 75 to 85 feet.
In the Comstock silver mines of Ne
vada. at a depth of 3,065 feet, water has
a temperature of 170 degrees, Fahren
heit. The deepest excavations in the
earth are at the Calumet and Hecla cop
per mines in Michigan, where the longest
■perpendicular shaft goes down 4,900
feet, while one of the standing shafts
is more than 8,000 feet in length.
There are in these mines 250 miles of
lateral galleries. Colossal engines are
required to ventilate the immense sub
terranean city and to keep the tempera
ture endurable in the lower levels. All
deep mine borings prove how stupend
ously difficult would be the task cf de- [
mending below the mile level.
At the lowest rate of increase in the
temperature in pocetratingtheearth.the |
heat at the depth suggested by Mr. Par-!
sens, 12 miles down, would be 800 de- I
grees Fahrenheit. This Meat, though far j
from the fusing point of wrought iron,
(3,280 degrees), would render the use ;
of tools, even if the lower borings of the
shaft were constructed as they are in oil i
wells, a difficult process. It would defy
t he most colossal scheme of artificial re
frigeration to render such depths avail
lble for entrance by human beings.
No considerations of commercial ben
efit enter into the plans of Mr. Parsons
in suggesting the 12-mile boring into the
crust of the earth. It is a scheme purely
it the interest of scientific knowledge.
ODD WILL OF RICH MAN.
Nephew Will Inherit Fortune from
Uncle After Serving Three
Tears as a Soldier.
“That he shall serve at least one full
term of not less than three years in
the ranks of the United States army,
at the expiration of which, if his dis
charge shall read: ‘Service honest aud
faithful, character excellent,’ and shall
have reached the grade of a noncommis
sioned officer and bring to the executors
I herewith appoint a letter of com
mendation from the officer under whom
he served, I bequeath to the said George
'O. Travip the sum of $130,000, knowing i
that, after such service, he will have
had enough experience of the world and
disciplinary training to insure the
proper disposal of what has taken me a
lifetime to accumulate.”
Such are the terms of the will of the
late S. Houston, a wealthy man of Chi
cago, made .to his nephew, George O.
Travis, a telegraph operator of Okla
homa. The other day the young man
became of age and appeared at the Unit
ed States army recruiting office and en
listed for the purpose of carrying out
the dying request of his uncle.
Mr. Houston was an old soldier, hav
ing served in the civil war in the Fourth
United States artillery. Unable to con
tinue an army career, Houston, having
no sons of his own, was determined that
his next of kin, his nephew, should be
come a soldier.
Young Travis said it was not neces
sary for his uncle to make that clause
in his will which makes service in the
United States army compulsory for him,
as he had always intended to enter the
army as soon as he was 21.
▲ Hole with a Future.
An English engineer proposes to find
out what is in the interior of the earth.
He will do this by digging a hole 12 miles
deep, provided with air locks and cool
ing apparatus. The work will require
85 years and cost $5,000,000. What pa
tience and effort those foreigners do ex
hibit, remarks the Chicago Record-Her
ald, in getting at the bottom of thinga
MOST POPULAR NUMBERS.
Seven and Thirteen Are Fixed Upon
in the Minds of the Greater
Number of Men.
“Ask a man to pick out some num
ber between one and ten, and you can
tell him nine times out of ten what
number he has selected, though his se
lection is made mentally,” said a man
who, according to the New Orleans
Tlmes-Democrat, is fond of the old
things, “and when you come to think
of it, the task of naming the correct
number is not a difficult one. In the
course of an hour the other day 1
asked ten men to think of a certain
number—any number between one and
ten—and I would tell them what num
ber they had fixed their mind on.
In nine cases out of ten I was correct,
missing it only once. The minds of
nine of the persons seleoted the num
ber seven, and one of them selected
nine. It is not difficult to understand
why the mind should run to the sum- j
ber seven. Even In the oase of the
man who fixed his mind on the num
ber nine, he told me when it was all
over that his mind had flrtft run to
seven, but he quickly changed to nine
without knowing Just why it was that
he changed. Seven is the most prom
inent figure between one and ten. It
la the most popular number in the line,
and is assoeiated with more things
than any other number, and It la quite:
reasonable that the mind Bhould light
on seven. I made another test the
other day with five persons, asklngeach
of them to write some number between '
one and ten, and give it to a sixth per
son. When the slips had been handed
to the sixth man I said: ‘Seven is th#
number on each of the slips.'
“ ‘Correct,’' said the man to whom
iney aaa ueen nanaea, ana me nve
men were a bit bewildered for the
moment by the fact that they had all 1
hit upon the same number, and that Ij
was able to tell what the number was.
It would be quite as easy to name a
number between 10 and.20, though I
have made no tests along this line.^ I
dare say that 13 would be the ' first,
number to flash in the mind, simply
because it is the most talked of, and
the only' number between 10 and 20
that has the widest association. So
you can tell there is no trick about it,
and it doesn’t require any knowledge
of the occult philosophies.”
EXTENDING BOUNDARIES.
Some of Our Larger Cities Have An
nexed Ground Far Into Adja
cent Farm Lands.
According to a recently issued census [
bulletin, the real rank of cities is not ai- j
ways indicated by the order in which
they stand in the tables of population, j
Some great centers have a considerable !
part of their massed population lying ;
outside the municipal boundaries. Bos- 1
ton. is a gogd example; about 1,200,000
people live in sight of the state house j
dome, and less than 600,000 of them are |
governed by the Boston mayor. Other j
cities have annexed far into the farm
lands of the adjacent country, says
Youth’s Companion.
It is customary to speak of the popula
tion of a state, “in proportion to it3
size.” Such a comparison Is seldom
made of cities, although it might not be
uninteresting. Pittsburg, for example,
has a population of a third of a million
on 18,000 acres of ground; New York’s j
population, little more than ten times
as great, spreads over nearly 12 times
as many acres.
Chicago was long famous for Its an
nexation habit, but since 1890 New York
has annexed much more territory than
Chicago’s total area. New Orleans has
a slightly larger area than Chicago.
Each of them covers six times the area
of Baltimore.
Washington, which occupies the Mary
land part of the ten miles square set
aside for a national capital, is a fair
sized city as area goes, for this genera
although It looked abundantly ample for
all the purposes of urban development
when laid out.
In the case of cities, as well as of other
corporations, consolidation is plainly
one of the tendencies of the times. More i
than one-third of those In the United !
States have added to their territory by I
annexation since 1890. Townships and I
counties are occasionally subdivided, by ;
reason of local interests, but the cities |
seem to be steadily pushing their boun
daries outward. There are some eco
nomic reasons for this, but the reason
In many cases has been the desire of
their inhabitants to make a "good show
ing."
In the Bight Boom.
At the latest of the ladies’ clubs a
"pets’ room,” with little stalls for dogs
and cats, lemurs and lizards, all ths
small creatures that a lady flndB neces
sary as companions, Is provided.
One of the most enthusiastic members
was showing her friends of her own sex
over the establishment, and opened the
door of the "pets’ room with proper
pride.
There, in the center of the room, on
two chairs, sat two Immaculately
clothed young men, grave of face, but
with a wicked twinkle In their eyes.
“Don’t you know, this Is the ladles'
’pets’ room?’ ” asked the enthusiastic
member, with some acerbity.
"That’s why we are here," replied the
more serious of the two young men, with
becoming gravity.—Sporting Times.
Longevity of Birds.
Small singing birds live from eight to
eighteen years. Ravens have lived for
almost 100 years in captivity, and par
rots longer than that. Fowls live 10
tp 20 years. The wild goose lives up
ward of 100 years, and swans are said to
have attained the age of 300. The lor.g
life of birds has been interpreted aa
compensation for the great mortality
of their
ANTIQUE FURNITURE AGAIN.
Bedroom Coffers of the Middle Agee
Are In Use Among the
Fashionables.
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The feminine world is again taking to
the use of stately and artistic coffers or
chests, reports the Washington Star.
The dames of the middle agea, who
had no convenient bureaus in which to
store their finery, were dependent upon
the coffer. Some of these historic chests
are marvels of delicate earring, inlay
work and painting. The greabeet artiste
Of Italy did not disdain to decorate these
receptacle*.'
So valuable were some of the coffers
that & great lady was considered well
dowered If she received one on her mar
riage dgf. It was placed in her cham
ber, with the great bedstead and a stool
or two, which were the sole furnishings.
Toward the close of the eighteenth cen
tury coffers were all but discarded. Un
til recently specimens were to be found
only In the museums or old oastlee and
manor houses of Europe.
Now the taste for antique furniture
Is bringing the coffers again into favor.
Two seen recently were made for the
state rooms of yachts. They are both
carved and tinted.
One chest is bnilt of weathered oak,
deeply carved and then stained in green
and red. The design represents mer
maids sporting in the midst of an ocean
forest Seaweeds and shells are the most
conspicuous features in the picture.
The other coffer is of oak, having a
gray finish. It is decorated with a burnt
design. Green an$ mauve stains are
used to touch up thd figures. The sub
ject at Jmese decorations is a Scene at
the court of King Neptune.
RoHrAAm OAfforo OVA licnallw a rlorn ft A
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with flowers, birds, butterflies or some
allegorical or mythological scene. One
small boudoir chest has representations
of Penelope among her maidens upon its
panels. Through ‘open windows the
sprays of the clinching roses are“blown
into the room and the flowers with the
garment* of the women are brilliantly
colored. ■
Scriptural subjects were painted on
some of the antique chests, and these
have been well imitated by modern
workmen. The painted panel is set deep
in the wood and framed by a wide band
of molding. Carved figures, supporting
the corners, and elaborately designed
lids are features of the painted chests.
The most ancient designs are the
heavily carved ones. Those who are
versed in the history of furniture can
tell to a nicety the age of a chest by the
style of carving and quality of the wood.
The earlier Renaissance specimens are
almost priceless, and even copies of
them are expensive. In appearance they
are not unlike a coffin. There is usually
a richly carved base, the long shallow
body above it being slightly curved. The
lid projects over the body, and is less
deeply cut than the sides.
A more modern Renaissance chest,
and a style which is more frequently
copied, is embellished with small panels,
on which appear conventionalized foli
age designs in line work. The shading
is burnt into'the wood.
Gilded and enameled coffers are also
to be seen, but they are eighteenth cen
tury work and represent the period of
decadence.
The modern household coffer is usual
ly lined with silk or an art fabric. Plenty
of tiny pockets are scattered over the
lining, and in these are placed sachet*
for perfuming the contents of the box.
The chests are convenient receptacles
for linen, bedclothes, draperies or gar
ments not in use.
Those who can afford a cedar cheat
need have no fear of moths. Although
these ornamental boxes cost more than
trunks, they will last a lifetime. They
are distinctly decorative, and may be
made to fit any vacant niche In a small
room. The price varies with the style
of decoration and wood. Some are com
paratively Inexpensive, while others,
good Imitations of the carved antique
chest or the gilded and enameled eight
eenth century masterpieces, are valued
as are most works of art.
HIS FIRST WATERSPOUT.
Qreexi Sailor Boy Wanted to See One,
and He Was Quickly Ac
commodated.
A waterspout is one of the first thing!
a green sailor boy wants to see. He has
read about it as one of the wonders of
the sea, and it rouses his keenest curi
osity. He gets the old sailors to promise
to call him when one is sighted. They
promise, winking stealthily at each oth
er, relates an exchange.
The ship gets down into tropical wa
ters, and the boy is told that a water
spout may come along almost at any
time.
One night he is awakened suddenly.
An old sailor shakes him.
“Come on! Hurry up, young feller;
there’s a waterspout on the starboard
bow beering right down on us.”
The boy hastens np the companion
way without waiting to dress, and as
he darts out on aecs ne is tnrown aown
by a mass of water descending on him
like a wet mountain. He struggles to
his feet, gasping, sputtering:
“Wa-a-s tbat-t a wa-a-a-ter epoat?”
The sailors are around him roaring
Then he looks up above the companion
way and sees an empty hogshead. Having
seen and felt the waterspout, he descends
to his bunk, wipes himself dry and turns
in. Next time waterspouts in great num
bers may be reported on both bows, but
he will have no particular desire to ob
serve them.
Baby’s Eyelashes.
Some mothers clip the baby’s eye
lashes to make them grow long. This
may be all right for the baby, but after
maturity has been reached It is perhaps
betetr to rub a little pure ointment or
plain vaseline into the lashes rather
than to clip the ends.—Medical Talii.
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