# 4 -- i WHAT HAS BEEN DONE DUR- ING PAST 333 YEARS. Steamship. y. 30-Ton Cockle Shelts _ --/Phe Food Supplies of Old Days. Polar exploration has attracted more attention from the world dur- ing the past few months than has been accorded to it in the preced- ing half-century. It is interesting to contrast the Arctic travels of the self-trumpet- ed Peary and Cook, and of our own modest Bernier (who, by the way, has really accomplished far more for his country in adding 500,000 square miles of territory to the Dominion), with the voyages of the valiant explorers of long ago. It is a far cry from the present day, with its specially constructed ships, its scientifis 'instruments, and everything in the way of food, clothing and comfort, to that of the first wayfarers to the frozen north. Clumsy little hulks of amazingly small tonnage served to transport them; and yet in their tiny vessels they fought wind and tide and completed voyages which even to- day would not be lightly attempted. IN TWO SMALL PINNACES. The account of Frobisher's first voyage frem England to the Labra- dor coast in 1576 sounds quaintly, with its smack of Tudor times. The explorer and his crew set sail down the Thames in two little pin- naces. When the ships came abreast of the Tower they discharg- ed their ordinance and dropped an- ehor, for the royal Elizabeth her- ernde tween anche accommodation of the old sailing vessels. __ BRITISH DID MOST. Now that the conquest ef the the ledestar whiclt lured men to the icy north has lost in part its mysterious attraction. The goal for which so many strived has been reached--won, irony of fate, by an American, to whom nevertheless all honor. But the illustrious names of Frobisher, Parry, Franklin, Banks, Back, Ross, Richardson, McOlure and others are imperishably writ- ten on the snows of the Arctic waste--British sailors who paved the way. : he. MONKEY'S POSE SENTINEL. Roll Under Leader and Stenes Dewn on Enemics. Fight Aesop's ape, it will be remember- ed, wept.on passing through a hu- man graveyard, overcome with sor- row for its dead ancestors, and that all monkeys are willing enough to be more like us than they are they show by their mimicry, says the London Times. An old authority tells that the easiest way to capture apes is for the hunter to pretend to shave him- self, then to wash his face, fill the basin with a sort of bird lime, and leave it for the apes to blind them- selves. If the Chinese story is to be believed, the imitative craze is even more fatal in another way, for if you shoot one monkey of a band with a poisoned arrow, its neigh- bor, jealous of so unusual a decor- ation, will snatch the arrow from it and stab himself, only to have lit torn away by a third, until in suceession the whole troop have committed suicide. in their wild life baboons, as well as the langurs and many other monkeys, undoubtedly submit to self waved to themfrom a window. Presently out from the water gate rowed a boat with the Secretary of State on board. He addressed Fro- bisher and his bade the expedition good-speed in the Queen's name. From Gravesend to the Orkney Islands they sailed in a few days; and thence across the stormy North Atlantic in a surprisingly short time. They sighted Labrador on the 25th of July, taking forty-six days to make this passage. A sub- sequent return trip was accom- plished in twenty-four days. The daily account of the voyage reads strangely modern, with its record of soundings, the state of wind and weather, and the observa- tions to determine longitude and latitude. A PASSAGE TO CATHAY. On his second voyage to discov- er the illusory passage to Cathay, Frobisher was better equipped in regard to vessels. One ship was of 180 tons displacement, but the two ethers which made up the flotilla were only small barques of 30 tons burthen. The expedition was vic- tualled for a year and a half. The narratives of Frobisher con- tain some quaint references. The Esquimaux seem to have excited his disgust as they indeed appear to have done with all the early voyageurs. He describes them as resembling Tartars and makes men- tion of their craftiness and treach- ery. The drifting bergs are noted as "great isles of ice lying on seas, like mountains' and the mosquitoes as "certain stinging gnats which bite so fiercely that the place where they bite shortly after swelleth and itcheth very sore." FOUND RICH GOLD ORE. Martin Frobisher and his gen- tlemen discovered gold in Labrador and took some two hundred tons of rich ore back to England with them, and on 'their voyage they went to the length of shipping out a ready-made fort which was after- | wards bolted together in much the same manner as modern factory- made habitations are erected. He did not discover the Northwest Passage, but he pioneered the way for others. and finally after three centuries of struggle by successions of intrepid navigators, McClure sailed through in 1850. RUM WITH RATIONS. In the space of nearly three hun- dred years that elapsed fairly mod- ern conveniences had made Arctic travel somewhat easier and though McClure mentions his men on one severe trip as halting to refresh themselves with biscuit and water, they were equipped with spirit lamps for warming food, though the fuel usually did not give off enough heat to more than make them tepid water for their cocoa. Pemmican, ship-biscuit and oat- meal formed staple foods in those days, while strong navy rum (ta- booed by Arctic explorers as a Ya- tion now-a-days), was doled out at regular intervals. Sir John Richardson had a spe- cially prepared pemmican made from beef in England, and it was not until the supply ran out in the far north that reindeer and _ buf- falo meat was resorted to for this purpose. FRANKLIN'S SUPPLIES. Emergency rations and concen- trated foods were unknown in those days, while dried fruits do not seem to have been much used. Frank- lin's stock of supplies included white flour, awrowroot, macaroni, portable soup, chocolate, essence of coffee, sugar and tea covered with three layers of waterproof canvas,-made up id 85-pound pack- ages. = Modern exploration parties are more luxuriously provided with their specially prepared and diver- sified foods, which prevent the dreaded seurvy ; while the comfort- able interiors of their steam-heated and scientifically ventilated i present a great Ye company and then } the authority of recognized leaders. | There is co-operation between them |to the extent that when fighting in jcompany one will go to the help of another which is hard pressed. In rocky ground they roll down stones upon their enemies, and when making a raid, as on an or- chard which they believe to be guarded, the attack is conducted on an organized plan, sentries be- ing posted and scouts thrown out, which gradually feel their way for- ward to make sure that the coast is clear, while the main body re- mains in concealment behind until told that the road is open. From the fact that the sentries stay posted throughout the raid, getting for themselves no share of the plunder, it has been assumed that there must be some sori of di- vision of the proceeds afterward. Man, again, has been differentiat- ed from all other creatures as being a tool using animal, but more than one kind of monkey takes a stone in its hand and with it breaks the nuts which are too hard to be crack- el with the teeth. decent he A HIDDEN FORTUNE. in House of Old Woman Who Affected Poverty. Stocks and shares to the value of £5,600 were found in the home at Dalston of an old lady of seventy named Mrs. Emma Tomlinson, who | died in the infirmary at Homerton, England, and a search is now be- ing made for the heirs. Mrs. Tomlinson carried on a small business in Dalston lane, where she lived quite alone in a compara- tively large house. Seventeen years ago she separated from her hus- band, who went to Manchester and was lost sight of. There was no family, so far as known, and since that period the woman led a very secluded life, her only associate be- |ing a young woman named Florence Risley, whom she employed to keep her accounts. A few days ago Miss Risley found that she could not enter the home as usual, and on the police forcing an entry Mrs. Tomlinson was dis- covered lying in a passage very ill. She was removed to the infirmary, where she died. The relieving officer found the premises in a very dirty condition, and the old lady herself was much neglected. A search, however, re- vealed hidden away in all sorts of old corners and between the leaves of books, stocks and bonds to the value of £5,600. In addition; a quantity of jewellery has been dis- covered. No will has been found, and an effort is being made to find out whether the husband is. still alive. Found A WOND ERFUL EXPLOSIVE. The Touch of a Fly's Foot Would be Enough to Set It Off. "What would be the consequen- ces of firing a barrelful of nitrogen iodide it would be impossible to say," declares a writer in the Strand Magazine, "simply because the stuff is too awful to be made in such quantities. "It may sound like a joke, but it is nevertheless the truth that the tread of a house fly is sufficient to explode this dangerous material. + is not necessary that a fly should walk over the compound, it has only to let one foot come into contact with the explosive, when the jolt causes it to explode and to blow the insect into the air. 'Another manner in which peculiar property of this explosive can be demonstrated is by scatter ing a small quantity of dry pow der over a sheet of clean paper. It then resembles pepper, and only needs a few sharp breaths of the manipulator--just sufficient to make them roll--to cause each speck to ienite and explode, meantime giv- ing off a long, thin column of dense tL the js made + ro , tO Pre- trogen iodide could be would have to be kept vent danger. By cdn 5 pee Be oa Pole has apparently been made, } purple smoke. If'a barrelful of ni-4 li : MAN W 'off the top TH SA est oo 4 -- N PULL SPEKES OUT OF| BEAMS WITH HIS TEETH. --_-- He Lets His Fellows Crack Build- ing Stone Off Him for a Change, © Several months ago William A. Beaudette, a prominent builder of Worcester, Mass., received a call in his office one morning from a young man, who applied for a job. Asking what he could do, Charles Schmidt (this is the wizard's name) said that he had done a little car- pentering. He was hired at $1.50 a day as a helper. Beaudette had several houses in process of construction and Schmidt was assigned to one of the carpen- tering crews. He went to work as one of the ordinary laborers and gave perfect satisfaction, although he did not claim to be an expert workman. One day, several weeks after he had gone to work, Schmidt was on the top floor of one of the new houses. A carpenter who was at work near him in trying to pull a spike with his hammer broke off the head. The spike was an eighty- penny affair, and was driven two- thirds its length into a heavy beam. The carpenter tried every way to pull the spike out and failed. Schmidt, noticing his fellow work- man's predicament, came over. 'What's the trouble?' he ask- ed. "Can't you pull it out?' "No," said the workman, "nor anyone else."' : "That's easy," said Schmidt, and, getting down on his hands and knees, he seized the spike in his teeth, humped up his back and gave a tug. OUT CAME THE SPIKE. This was the first time, according t> Schmidt, that he ever exercised this power outside of his own home. The earpenter, dumfounded, rushed downstairs with his story. To prove that the other man was not stretching the truth, Schmidt had to do it again, and in this way his gift was discovered. At once he was the hero of the job. For the amusement of his fel- low workmen Schmidt pulled spikes with his teeth. He bit them in halves. Every kind of test was invented to try his ability. So far, although these tests have continued almost daily for the last month, ke has not failed to prove equal to the occasion, and seems to get bet- tcr with practice. Schmidt, who is still drawing his $1.50 a day as a carpenter, will allow anyone to take a sledge ham- mer and drive three of the heaviest spikes to be obtained into a beam. The spikes must be driven in close together, so that he can get the heads of them all in his mouth. He then gets down on his hands and knees, braces himself, seizes the spikes in his teeth, and, crouching as if for a spring, he begins to pull. The muscles of his jaws and neck bulge out in big knots. Just at the moment when the onlookers think they have him stumped at last, he gives'a quick twist with his head, right to left, up and down, and with a scream and groan out come the spikes. Schmidt will allow an eighty- penny spike to be driven nearly its length into a heavy piece of joist and, grabbing it in his jaws, SNAPS IT OFF as clean as if it had been done with a giant pair of nail clippers. Given a pine board and an or- dinary nail, he does not need a hammer. He simply wraps a pockethandkerchief around his fist and drives the nail home. One day at a test of his back muscles, and incidentally the qua- lity of his skull, he had two or three carpenters life a 50-pound stone and balance it on the top of his head. Following instructions, one of the carpenters took a sledge hammer and brought it down sev- eral times on the big granite block. '"'Harder," yelled Schmidt; '"harder--give it to 'er gocd."' Swinging it over his head tie carpenter brought the sledge down with a bang that sent sparks flying. Such was the force of the impact that the rock split and fell with a erash to the floor in two pieces. Schmidt, apparently none the worse for his experience, calmly dusted of his head and went back to work with the rest of the men. One of the most remarkable fea- tures of Schmidt's peculiar make- up are his feet. While they look perfectly normal the strange thing about them is that they seem to be impervious to sharp objects, heat, cold or any other agent. Perhaps the most surprising trick of all, and one which Schmidt has developed within a few days, is HIS NAIL BOARD TRICK. To do this, several nails, a dozen of two if necessary, are driven in- to the floor. After being driven in the heads are clipped off and the ends filed down to a point. Taking off his . shoes, - and stockings, Schmidt mounts a chair or a table, and at a height of anywhere from two to five feet jumps down on the bristling nails. There are -calloused places on his feet so thick that the nails make nc impression. : Schmidt says that if it were the custom, he would be perfectly wil- to walk all winter in the snow foot-coverings of any kind. dt is a young fellow with iz and mild blue eyes. He ear he has i Ca HE vat ie] + 4 that man of very slight build and doe not weigh more than 15 pounds. Through the celebrity he has' ac- made several flattering offers by theatrical managers, who believe that the young carpenter does not begin to realize the full extent of his powers. As yet, he is still drawing his $1.50 a day. ? ee LO@NDON'S MARVELLOUS MAP. Indicates Every House, and Piece of Property in the Metropolis. The Valuation Map of Londen, which is being compiled by the surveyors of the London County Council, is undoubtedly the largest in the world. It was commenced fifteen years ago, and embraces the whole of the area of the Metro- polis, from Stamford Hill on the north to Lower Streatham on the south, and from Plumstead on the east to Putney on the west. This vast area is exactly 115 square miles in extent, and the map is to indicate every house, shop, and piece of property within the boundaries mentioned. The owner of nearly every bit of land has been ascertained, and up to the present over 34,000 separate estates have been discovered. It is expected that another three or four thousand will be added before the work is complete. The gigantic map is made im sec- tions of 25-inch ordinance sheets, the whole work requiring 110 sec- tions. When it is finished and laid out, with its sections in order, the map will be more than 30 feet wide and 20 feet from top to bottom. The whole of the work was esti- mated to cost about $67,500, vue kefore it is finished its cost will have increased to at least $83,250. The map has already saved the Council a sum equal to about three times its cost. Some curious and _ little-known facts about London's landlords have been brought to light. Although the 400 acres owned by the Duke of Westminster, with its rent-roll of $15,000,000 a year, is the wealthi- est estate in London, it is by no means the largest. One estate in South London actually covers an area of nearly four square miles, and there are several estates ex- ceeding two square miles. Other big landowners in London include Lord Howard de Walden with 292 acres, and an annual rent roll of $14,500,000. The 250 acres of the Duke of Bedford's estate bring him in a yearly income of $11,259,006. Lord Northampton owns 260 acres worth $8,000,000 a year. The Duke of Norfolk is re- ceiving $7,500,000 for his Strand estate. Lord Portman's 270 acres return an income of $9,000,000. Earl Cadogan's 200-acre estate is worth $7,500,000, while the Eccle- siastical Commissioners receive $2,- 500,000 in ground rents from their estate in the most fashionable part of Kensington. se WHISKEY BAD FOR VOICE. Caruso Says So, but Does Not Con- demn Use of Light Wines. cants injurious to a being," writes Caruso, the singer, in the Strand Mag "Certainly hundreds and probably thousands. "Tn Italy we habitually drink the light wines of the country with our meals and surely are never the worse for it, though it is impossible to give advice "generally, for much depends upon the indi al "T am inclined to condernn the use of spirits, iskey in particu lar, for it is sur nflame the deli- cate little ribbons tissue which produce the singing tone. "With regard to a sin incline more nouris ngle diet I simpler and kinds of food, though my s are broad in the matter. Still, on the nights when J sing, except perhaps for a sand- wich and a' glass of my native Chi- anti, I take nothing until after the performance, when I have a modest supper of anything which I happen to fancy and which I have proved has no ill effects on me. Experi ence has taught methatitis by no means easy to lay down' any hard ano fast rule . "As far as smoking is concerna- ed, although in moderation I find that the practice is not injurious to me, yet all young singers I would warn against it. Still many great singers have been most inveterate smokers. Mario, for instance, was an inordinate smoker and appar- ently it did him no harm, for he smoked from twenty-five to thirts ordinary sized cigars a day, and in Italy, where real Havana cigars are rarely - obtainable he frequently smoked as many as a hundred Ca- yours a day." o ° 0. 4 boy aste wie HIS OPPORTUNITY. A student tion in the principles o vas asked: : "Why will not a pin stand on its point?' He returned the swer: "In the first: place, a point is defined by Euclid as that which has no parts and no magnitude, and how can a pin stand on that which hath no parts and no magnitude? "Tn the second place, a pin will not stand on its head, much less, therefore, will it stand on its point. "Thirdly, and lastly, it you stick it on undergoing éxa f mina- > oo mechan following an- will, if hard enongh." wis. A fortune awaits the genius who quired Schmidt has already heen} REAL FACES ABOU HARD LIFE STRUGGLE. -- Grim and Tough Lite Makes an Indomitable Pair of the i Little People. North of 65, north of the arctie cirele, north of the lands where any trees will grow, live a race of furry trouserede littl men--and, for the matter of that, women; for there the women wear the breeches in more senses than one. The Esquimau averages some- thing under five feet, five inches in height, has a merry little flat face, with high, prominent cheekbones, and eyes slightly upturned at the outer corners, betraying his Mon- folian origin. He rarely grows any hair on his face, but makes up for it by a plentiful mop of dark black hair on his head. The wo- men--especially the young ones -- do theirs in a most elaborate and very stiff top-knot. THE HAPPY UNWASHED. As to complexion, it is so very rarely that one really sees an Es- quimau's complexion that it is hard to define. As a matter of fact, his real coloring is about that of an ordinary gypsy; but he is usu- ally disguised under a thick coat- ing of smoke frem blubber-oil lamps, combined with the accumu- lations of years of happy unwashed- ness. The Esquimaux are essentially a coast race and it is rare to find a colony of them even as much as 60 miles from the shore. For they have one great and continual prob- lem to face--the question of food. Their bare existence depends on keeping the storehouse filled by trapping and hunting and fishing. For when the long, six months' arctic night sweeps down and bliz- zards which no man ean face and remain alive rage for days--even weeks--at a time, if the tribal lar- der is empty, the next summer's sun will shine on huts and igloos tenanted only by a few shriveled, skeleton-like forms. It is a case of root, hog or die. His house--or igloo, as he calls it--costs him nothing but a little trouble. First, he scosps out a big circle in the snow, eighteen or twenty feet across, and two or three feet deep; round this he builds a wall with blocks of ice or frozen snow, gra- dually sloping inward until the whole has assumed a beehive shape. The cold freezes the blocks to- ras fast as they are placed in sition, and any cracks or crevices are plastered with ow and her- netically sealed. He leaves a small opening in his beehive, just large enough to crawl through, and builds on to this a long tunnel-like pas- and at the end he makes a sharp,- right-angle turn. This is the front door. INSIDE AN IGLOO. 2 sage, Inside the igloo he builds sleep- ing benches, or seats of honor -- banks spow 2 couple of feet high, covered with skins, the rich- ness and quantity of which depends an his social standing. For light he has small troughs full of blub- ber or seal oil with a floating wick, and the result is a good deal more comfortable than it may sound. But when a whole family--and possik a few of the neighbors-- ve been having a prolonged feast inside, and the tunnel of the front door is packed with snarling, fish- devouring huswie dogs, a European visitor might thing that a dash ef eau-de-cologne would improve the itmosphere. Mr. ot se V na a € and Mrs. Esquimau and Master and Miss Esquimau wear their clothes very much they wear their skins, and change them rbout as often. These clothes con- sist mostly of scft underskins, worn with the fur inside. Then breeches and tunic and heavier, coarser skins, worn fur-outermost, and in boots and moccasins. Their e beautifully cured and dressed; the sewing is done with fishbone needles and strong fine sinews for thread, and some of the embroidery work--especially on the young ladies' tunics--is extremely clever. as ar fase turfs ai my The Esquimau is, above all things a hunter, on both land and sea. If he is going to hunt in his kayak, or small skin boat, hé crawls out of his front door with his weapon, calls up the leader of his dog team, and gives him a sound thrashing as « preliminary. This is not done out of cruelty. reminder to the leader that he is in eharge of the rest of the team, Mrs. Esquamau and the family is eeneral until the. moment of his lord and master's return. ~ To see an Esquimau in his kay- ak in a heavy sea:is to see an ex- hibition of the most perfect daring kayak is j shape coverec unlike: an noe. T in dia, I him to sit in and apron, which himself. SEA SQMERSAULTS. In his craft he will face a sea that a whaleback couldn't look at, and to turn complettly over and come up again smiling and buoyant is quite a common trick with him. When he is after seal or sea lion in his boat he watches his chance, and then throws his haj has a long rawhide lin der attached. The bla a drag on the animal' and also acts as the mi ps 7 ; Be ne der acts < aBnovements > a de for the gr 6 jning away, at once give chase to try It is merely a gentle | ithe other day, and watermanship conceivable. The | framework | not} 1 'g20 feet long by 150 feet in breadth. foon, which | nnd a blad- | icompletely 1 ;night 2¢ : | beauti hunter, enabling him t¢, follow the | very; thei en, say, is harnessed to a separate Each one of a team of sev-| |trace, and all the traces are of dif- | = ferent lengths, the leader'e being| -- z= the longest. He starts off, and the others, seeing him apparently run- ty nip a bit out of him--each deg tugging at his trace to try to get a chew out of the next ahead; the onl-- result, of course, being that they put in a fine emount of work on the sledge, and the cunning Esquimau goes on his way rejoic- ing. : CANINE CAPTAINSHIP. The leader of the pack has to fight the other dogs, and lick them into order, to hearten up the ma- lingerer on the trail with tooth and claw; to choose the path over dan- gerous ice; and to safeguard the house in his master's absence. Instances are by no means rare of a team leader, grown old in har- ness, dying of a broken heart after being denied his usual place in the traces. The Esquimau has few failings. He would risk his life for you with- out a thought, but when you go to see him on his native ice floe it is well to be careful over unconsider- ed trifles--such as a knife, or 4 pipe, or a "'bacey-pouch," and above all, matches. . The life of the Esquimau hunter is hard and bitter, but it makes of him the grim, tough indomitable little man who has helped to carry many white expeditions suceessful- ly toward the pole, and to whom many a starving, frozen crew from an ice-nipped whaler owes a deep debt of gratitude. ae. STEERING AN AIRSHIP. Great Diffeultties of a Pilot of the Air. "No one who has not been at a great height in a balloon can have any idea of the difficulty of steer- ing a dirgible towards any given point." So said an experienced pilot of airships to a newspaper correspond- ent recently. t "The most obvious way of navi- gating is to hold a map in hand and to keep track of one's position from moment to moment. This is, you can understand, very tiring. But if for any reason you lose your position you are in a bad case. You see below you a network of roads and houses, a limitless expanse of fields, looking almost exactly alike. Unless you happen across some big place which can be recognized, you really have very little chance of fixing your position again. "You can's think how different a landscape looks from above. The objects which were very prominent so long as you were on the ground, seem to have disappeared. You sail over a high tower and fail to see it at all. As you look down on it, it appears merely a dot in the ground. You can only see the tep of it, of course. "Tn the darkness the difficulty is increased. Count Zeppelin during the voyage which ended up in a sear-tree at Bitterfield, when he was desperately anxious to reac Berlin at the appointed time, is credibly reputed to have spent five hours of the night circling round and round. He had lost his posi- tion. He did not know where he was. Jf he had stopped his en- gine he would either have come down or else the balloon would have risen and he would have lost. gas. He was afraid to steer any course lest it should be the wrong one. He was obliged therefore to mark time until daylight. He lost five hours for lack of a good means of navigation.'"' 1g@2 ie THE GUNNER OF WINDSOR. Soldier in the British Army. The Oldest Gunnér © Samuel Parsons, «.al- though nearly eighty-five 'years o age, is still on the active list, and ov a recent Sunday celebrated his jubilee as the King's Gunner in the great round tower at Windsor Nikola Tesla stax some years ago by an invention which ,\ ing in his brain w tured, make naval sible. By means of ance the pressure of launch a titanic electri by which one man on instantly annihilate the Dreadnought that ever Beas. Since that time the im been following up a somewhat lar train of thought, but more pacific object in vie electric waves are to con sages, not thunderbolts. la's discovery is a new 'wireless," are borne out will make cation to every corner of mere child's play. In place of the air, the e self will be used as a cond sages. It makes the glob like a great wire, and that causing the least disturbi man or his works. Distance obstacle as with air wirele ke used, and messages to @ of the world will become a eheap. Not only this, but ventor states that any man part of the world will be placing to his ear a two dollai ceiver, to hear the opera in_ Melbourne, Vienna or New ¥ DIFFERENT TO WIRE Mr. Tesla says: '"TFhe pr ; involved in this system of t mission are the direeb opposi the Hertz wave wireless tra sion. In the latter, the tra sion is effected by rays akin to which pass through the air not be transmitted thro ground. In the former the waves are practically sup and the entire energy of t rent is transmitted throu ground, exactly as through wire. In my experiments in Cc ado it was shown that a very erful current developed b3 transmitter traversed the globe and returned to its an interval of eighty-four on' sandths of a second, this Jo 21,000 miles being effected without any loss of energ: "Phe earth acts exactly wire in this transmission, bu this distinction that it is a tor far more perfect than an could ever be manufactured | on account of its enormous 81 isolation in space.' Bi rent to any particular place, Tesla gave the following ilu tion. "Imagine the earth to large bag of rubber filled wit compressible fluid, as that by means of a piston in at. a certain point, the fluid forced in and out of the bag. The result will be rh cal vibrations of the whole b: is evident that if another pis placed anywhere, these pulsa will be transmitted to that. -- "Now there is a way of relea: a distant piston throngh a sa lock or combination, so0 that. the piston will operate at the tance ,which is released by the p ticular combination like that c¢ safe. PROVE IT CIRCLED GLOBE Mr. Tesla stated his proofs show that the clectrie tremors se out from his apparatus did actu circle the gle and return to origin. re "{yno of these proofs is vis servation," he stated. 'In erful transmitter it can be perte ly perceived that the electrical fects increase in intensity after lapse of a second, when the refl ' we Castle. He is the Grand Old Man} of Windsor, and he and his wife} are a wonderful couple. The gun- ner is probably the oldest soldier in the British army, and has drawn his full pay for sixty-five years. He was born in the parish of Morval, East Loo, Cornwall, in 1825, and ab the age of nineteen enlisted in the Royal Regiment Artillery. He fought at Inkerman and went over the battlefield of Balaclava af- ter the famous charge. "During all the fifty years I have been on the Round Tower," he said | "there has only to the fle many as five f £ Or never | been an acvident I have had as } torn to shreds in one day, and one morning last year I could not hoist | a fiag at. all, the wind was anc from 1 4 ? ae 9 8QO -- tne |; > He W a when} cl : it wer ore + t I don't have any alarm clock to wake me up." : ? ? 4 sy © » he clock strikes 3.30. ee eer LARGEST ROOM IN WORLD. The largest room in the world under one roof and unbroken by pillars is in St. Petersburg. It is be} is used for military hole. battalion can in. at: Ry! By daylight it displays, la i4 it ¥ + appearare rhe roof a single arch of iron. | density. i knows no obstructions, 1orain : kB Pet jmospneric CONaIIONS releetricity. , | well l normal ed wave train arrives: from the an- tipodes. Anobher evidence is ob- tained by careful measurements 0 electric quantities as potential a Still another proof found in the time which elapses, which corresponds almost exact] with that calevlated. ; KNOWS NO OBSTACLES. We new. mode oof LW ry wireless is affected hy a nothing the earth as a conductor ¢ The. current acts . an aurora borealis a weather conditions, ther cold nor heat infinences slightest degree." : Tosla's. first discovery 4 'ful -prepelttiies "of th conduetor, date fro ' ily expt and | affect in wondel been yy The inventor's plant at Hhe ham comprises electrical machinery of a complex nature, but consti tuting a single unit, the object | which is to pump electricity fi the earth over a circuit to an | vated surface and back in to earth again in rapid sugcessio Mr. Tesla asserts th the num: ber of receiving stations, which be operated from the one plan' virtually indefinite. | Sena aioaene ei = te The world does "owel a: living"--but he is alway to preve his claim.