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ENGLISHMAN WOULD DIG HOLE
TWELVE MILES DEEP.
Would Solve Many Questions Un
kubwn to 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 the
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 years
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 would 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
globe’s center should, to some extent at
least, define the character of the mass
of which it informed. 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 in the earth’s entirety is
about 5.5 times the density of the water
that covers three-quarters of the sur
face.
The assumption of a comparatively
thin crust requires, according to Sir
wmiam inompson, tnat mis 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 rapidwis one degree for each
56 feet of descent; in others one degree !
for 75 to 85 feet.
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In the Comstock silver mines of No- i
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 j
perpendicular shaft goes down 4,900!
feet, while one of the standing shafts j
is more than 8,000 feet in length.
There are in these mines 250 miles of i
lateral galleries. Colossal engines are
required to ventilate the immense sub- j
terranean city and to keep the tempera- j
fure endurable in the lower levels. All
deep mine borings prove how stupend- i
ously difficult would be the task of de- \
mending below the mile level.
At the lowest rate of increase in the
temperature in penetrating theearth.the i
heat at the depth suggested by Mr. Par- ;
sons, 12 miles down, would be 800 de
grees Fahrenheit. This heat, though far
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
wells, a difficult process. It would defy
the most colossal scheme of artificial re
frigeration to render such depths avail
tble for entrance by human beings.
No considerations of commercial ben- i
efit enter into the plans of Mr. Parsons j
in suggesting the 12-mile boring into the j
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 and
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. Travis the sura of $130,000, knowing
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, haviqg
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.
A Hole with a Future.
An English engineer proposes to find
out what is in the interior of the earth.
He will do this by diggings 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- j
hibit, remarks the Chicago Record-Her
ald, U> getting at the bottom of thing* I
REMEMBER WOMAN'S GLANCE
Men May Forget the Color of Her Hair,
But the Power of Her Eye
Is Potent.
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A woman’s eyes are the first objects
to attract a man's attention, and they
are the last things he remembers about
her. Long after he has forgotten the
color of her hair, the dimple in her
chin and the soft, sweet sound of her
voice, the look in her eye remains witn
him, says an authority on the sub
ject
He may not be able to single her
glove out of a pile of keepsakes; he
may have cast her photograph upside
down into the waste basket with a lot
of others; the slippers she made him
may have been worn out by his valet
but still some particular turn of her
glance, some little trick of dropping
her lashes or lifting her brown eyes
will be as clear to him as the daylight
Ten years after love has been laid
away in his little satin-lined casket
that glance will rise like Banquo’s
ghost at the feast and startle him just
at the moment when the man is look
ing most intently into the eyes of an*
other woman. •
It is not the color of a woman’s eyes
which a man first observes or last re
members. Nine times out of ten a
man will turn from the glance of a
pair of soft brown, cowlike eyes to
gaze into the green orbs of the red
headed girl on the other side of the
table, and many a doll-like, blue-eyed
beauty weeps because some pug-nosed,
tawny-eyed woman has lured away her
sweetheart
Ask any man the color of his sister’s
eyes and he will look at you blankly.
“Jove,” he will remark, “I—I believe
I’ve forgotten. But they’re all right
There’s something about them that’B
catchy.” And that js positively all that
can be gotten out or him.
The fact that Becky Sharpe’s eyes
were green or that Cleopatra’s eyes
were yellow never interfered with the
machinations of those fascinating la
dies, nor dulled their reputations as
coquettes. Color, size and shape may
make an eye beautiful, but they never
can give it that something which so
many beautiful eyes lack and so many
homely ones possess, the power to
make a man break a bank or sell hid
overcoat in order to give his wife what
she wants.
When the world was sentimental
men called it "soul.” Then they grew
practical and apathetic and they called
it “character.” But no man will ever
know what it is any more than he will
ever know why he married the particu
lar woman he picked out or why the
cook has left. It is a question as
subtle and elusive as either of these.
WONDERS IN MECHANICS.
Some That Were Worked by Young
Americans with a Genius for
Invention.
A young man who at 21 had been be
fore the mast, had worked in the
chemical department of a mill and had
lectured upon niti ous-oxide gas
throughout the country patented th«
rotating chamber for a pistol. It was
not considered particularly valuable un
til after his first company that made it
had failed and fights in Texas and with
the Seminoles in Florida proved its
worth. The Mexican war made a de
mand for it.
The same mechanic, says t|»e
World’s Work, who did so much for
early ax-making developed details In
revolver-making. The American plan
of not hesitating at the cost of new
appliances was never better shown
than in this big armory. The owner
was probably the first man to suggest
the mining of harbors with torpedoes
for defense, and he was the first to lay
a submarine electric cable. One day a
young man from Vermont came to his
works.
"What can you do?" asked the su
perintendent
“I’m a machinist, a toolmaker and a
diesinker and I can play a horn in a
band,” was the reply.
He went to work the next day. A
few years letter he multiplied by 40 the
value of certain labor in another fac
tory, and by another invention saved
the company $50,000 on contracts al
ready made. Later, with a sewing ma
chine company, he forged shuttles from
one piece of bar steel and cut previous
costs in half. Since that time he has
made forgings by the use of drops
weighing as much as a ton dropping
with dies sometimes six feet upon iron,
steel and copper. An example of his in
ventive genius is the instance of his
forging offhand from a single piece of
copper commutator bars for electric
dynamos after the electrician in charge
had said that such a scheme was im
possible.
Priest and Donkey.
When Archbishop Farley was private
chamberlain to the late Pope Leo, some
20 years ago, he was called upon to meet
all sorts of persons. Many of them
measured wits with him, and few scored
victory. On one occasion a young
Frenchman tried his best to anger the
prelate, then Mons. Farley, by scoffing
at religion and clergymen.. Failing in
this, he resorted to sheer impudence,
saying: “I am informed that in Mada
gascar, whenever they hang a priest,
they hang a donkey along with him.”
The young man laughed, and Mons.
Farley, looking at him mildly, said:
“Well, let us both be thankful, my young
friend, that we are not in Madagas
car” _.
Mach More to the Point.
“Ef yer real interested.” said Dew
con Skinner, "I'll tell ye what I want
fur thet horse.”
“Oh, I wouldn’t be Interested In know
ing thet," replied Farmer Shouda.
“No?”
“No; but I wouldn’t mind knowio*
what ye’d taka."—Philadelphia Pram.
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Henry Bordwell & Co. Any whiskey
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Offices, Cincinnati, Ohio.
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CHARLES GOODRICH,
Caruthersville, Mo.
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