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veterinary sur
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4th of each month
stables. I success
or horses,
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000, and that it would require 85 year*
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 cru3t
aud leave thousands of miles of the in
terior mass still untouched.
The amount of compression at the
globe's cen%c 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 in the earth’s entirety it
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
William Thompson, that this crust
should have a rigidity possessed by no
■ltnnn iiutoiwir.rr
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
2,600 miles in thickness.
There ts 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
66 feet of descent; 4n others one degree
for 75 to 86 feet.
In the Comstock silver mines of N«- i
vada, at a depth of 3,066 feet, water has j
a temperature of 170 degrees, Fahren- t
belt. 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
fp®k-!!Lhne on® ot the standing shaftj i
1 Is moflfaAfi^®00 f**t fa length.
There arelri,1fiHL™1,1«* 260 miles ot
laterat galleries. Coa ar«
required to ventilate the ImmelfaKII^
terranean dty and to keep the temper?
fur© endurable In the lower levels. All
deep mine borings prove how stupend
ously difficult would be the task of de
scending below the mile level.
At the lowest rate of increase in the
temperature in penetrating the earth, the
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
veils, a difficult process. It would defy
the most colossal scheme of artificial re
frigeration to render such depths avail
able 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
iv the Interest of scientific knowledge.
i ODD WILL OF RICH MAN.
Nephew Will Inherit Fortune from
Uncle After Serving Three
Years 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. Travia the sum 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, 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 s.ervice 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 digging a hole 12 miles
deep, provided with air locks and cool
ing apparatus. The work will require
^tvears and cost. $5,000,000. What pa
and effort those foreigners do ex
^^■hKirk; the Chicago Record-Ha^
at the bo t tom
ted
'n
>7o they
suitable, says the^^B
The moccasin is the favo^B
footwear of the lumbermen ^B
Maine, and was first made in Brfl
pry in 1851. At first only one M
two styles were made, but noB
moccasins are manufactured iV
great variety, ranging from slips
pers for women and children—■
soft as kid and embroidered with
beads—to the stout boots and lar
i rigans of the Penobscot lumber
men.
Much of the sewing is still done
by hand, being let out by the piece
to French Canadian families in
the neighborhood of Bangor. All
moccasins are made of a specially
, prepared leather, rendered a gold
i en yellow by a peculiar process of
tanning.
The common moccasin la not
proof against water, but it has
room for several pairs of stock
ings, and that is a strong point in
Its favor. For keening the foot
warm and dry in cold weather the
moccasin has no equal.
The greater part of the mocca
sin leather still comes from the
place of it* origin, Pawtucket,
R I., although a. considerable
quantity is tanned in Bangor.
Some years ago Bangor men es
tablished factories at Red Wing.
Minn., and Racine, Wis.
Tlip dfiin+v both slinrters. which
are not really moccasins, but are
made from soft elk skin, are la
great demand at home and abroad,
and are especially favored by the
ladies of Japan, to which country
Bangor sends large quantities. It
now seems likely that “Bangor’s
k-^’den slippers,” as moccasins are
"hewornby «*■
Manchuria. W
JAPAN’S HKst *^6^LA|b,
H»r Crew Made a Brave Star£ Bui
Couldn’t Stop Her Till Fires
Went Out.
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That the role of Japan as a mar
itime power is a new one ia
brought strongly to our notice by
recalling the quite well authen
ticated story of the first adven
ture of the first Japanese iron
j clad, says Country Life.
She was built in England.
While she was building her erew
were also in England practicing,
in other ironclads how to drive
her. When she was finished the
Japanese seamen took possession
of her, bravely maintaining that
they were fully equal to the task
I of starting her.
i And that, to be sure, they were,
for she steamed out finely. The
trouble only began when she came
I back to port again. Then, when
! they wanted to slow her down and
stop her, they were unable to do
so.
They had to put her out to sea
again aud go on steaming her
about till her fires went out, her
engines stopped for want o!
steam, and she could be towed in
From this to having the best
I mentally equipped crews, perhaps,
of any nation seems a long step,
bat it has been a very rapid one.
Insect Senses.
Naturalists have decided that
many insects have senses which
human beings lack. That of loca
tiou, shown by the wasp, for in
stance, is remarkable. One spe
cies builds its nest in a sandbank
that is only a part of several acres
of such soil, and when it leaves ic
search of food it covers the nest so
carefully that no ordinary eye
could discover its location. That
is to say it is just like all the sur
rounding location, and yet the
wasp flies back to it without hes
itation and^uds it without mak
ing a • There is another
was-p tj^jjflfcerringly locates the
e g g sn d e r
thick ay, and
deposjj sami
cells,
food
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