Wise County Messenger. (Decatur, Tex.), No. 424, Ed. 1 Saturday, May 27, 1893 Page: 3 of 8
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chants and missionaries by the prompt
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agitation that is liable
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point with de
to break out at any
houses.
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On the eastern section as many as
My bed
Such being the case I
in theioom.
surprised and somewhat amused
British Consul Everard’s house.
The
upon
and throw mud and stones.
Andes are crossed by the Cumbre
Pass, 13,045 feet above sea level.
line, have
sixty-five miles of the
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to run into a large band of students,
and these fellows formed the nucleus
sessing
world.
He did so and at a proper moment
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Mail advices from Shanghai con-
tain some curious explanations of the ;
cause of the recent riots at Ichang,
years ago, and reaching from Buenos
Ayres, on the Atlantic. to Valparaiso,
on the Pacific, a section in the heart
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their hatred of foreigners and all for- |
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ARATr CHINFGE RTOTS I When they were once corralled inside
ADV-- VnilWOD —-1"* the customs, officers fell upon them
The vietiy lay quiet for about fif-
which he had removed a bucket of teen seconds, but then jumped up
• earth, but his act was witnessed by with a yell, pulled off the gloves,
an old Chinese woman, who had kept ' jumped over two chairs and clattered
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These riots were only prevented from
ending in loss of life and property of
the small European colony of mer-
livery of green and gold enter my
apartment with much state, bearing
a basin of massive silver, which he
and which are only equalled by some
of the mural paintings in Pompeii :
and Herculaneum, incited the anti-
the present head of foreign naviga-
tion on the great Yangtse river.
into Ichang to undergo the regular
examination for degrees. These fel-
12,000 men are employed, and part of
the line has been already opened for I
traffic.
On the opposite side of the globe,
the Transandine railway in South j
America deserves mention, owing to
of the gun-boat Esk. and the equally
prompt measure taken by the British
consul. The Chinese authorities, as
great wall to the border of Tonquin,
and have been active agents in stir- 1
was required in the cultivation of the
! small farm of less than one hundred
acres. =* 1C 2 ‘ •
Lighting by gas Was introduced.
It may be well imagined that driv-
ing a tunnel in the heights of the
Andes is quite a different matter fom
the same work performed at ordinary
levels in settled countries.
The workmen, even though accus-
tomed to living at great elevations,
have to be acclimatized to the rarified
air and this difficulty is forcibly ex-
‘ ' . They took mon conveniences of life,
wrought upon the had
..__________ . were taken by the devil. Some men
| engineering enterprises. died and returned to life only to find
The highest mountain railway in that they were no longer attended by
______ . _ Europe is the Brienzer Rothombahn na darkening second self,” even
worthy rival to the great Eiffel railway, which was opened in though they walked in strongest sun-
tower, the engineering boast of J November. 1891, and ascends to a light. In Babylon it was a proof of
the summit death to stand a corpse up in
a lease of the land, after many vexa-
The recent article
taotsi to build the
moved a small amount of soil from a 1.... -
grave near at hand. The workman ) the sawdust,
didn’t know it was a grave from
se a wild moh to raging through 1 any left,
the streets of Ichang. says the New ! a nd .560 1 -........ •
circulated by thou Han, the Huna-
nese scholar. I he vile pamphlets,
illustrated by pictures which no one
would have the hardihood to describe
York Sun’s correspondent. It. seems -
that last summer a foreigner cameto eng“82.
Ichang and made a contract with a 1 u
0 melals Are Responsible for Them —
Mandarins Abet Fanatical Up-
risings Against Christian
. Missionaries.
Of this railway, begun
the greatest railway in the
This tremendous system will
Many of Them than its prototype in every way. The
“I hear that you think of taking a material destined for its erection is
series of boxing lessons,” remarked polished steel. The summit will be
a Detroit insurance agent to a bank 1,450 feet above sea level. The tower
i cashier the other day. itself is expected to take about eigh-
••I do. sir.” teen months to build.
“Any particular object?" The tower bridge is another great
-Of course. I’m out late o’ nights London engineering venture which is
and quite apt to run up against loaf- rapidly approaching completion, al-
ers I don’t want to carry a revolver, though the final date of opening for
traffic has had to be shifted forward
tain section the locomotives, for
nium; daguerreotypes and photog- the people believe that it was an at-
raphy, phonography, the stethoscope. tendant spirit." Had you imagined
the "complete sewing machine, the that there were as many curiosities
bicycle, revolver and Gatling gun. concerning such a “shadowy” subject?
tremendous explosives usedin quar- -44-# *
rying, mining and gunnery. About Emeralds. •
" The steam printing press was an The finest colored emeralds are at
invention of Hie early years of the the present time worth $300 a carat,
century, now' developed to the print- The emerald was a well-known gem
of the Andes is unfinished.
of a big band of rioters. ----J _
up her cry, and so wrought upon the had no curtains, there was not a
sympathy of the ignorant populace J looking-glass, there was not a chair
that in a few hours the streets in the loom. Such being the easel
swarmed with wildly excited Chinese, was surprised and somewhat amused
bawling out, “Kill, kill the foreign- at seeing a menial attired in a faded
alzo chloroform, iridium, lithium, “The shadow of a necromancer is in-
mnetum; palladium, potassium, dependent of the sun. Glycas in-
quinine, rubigium, rthenium, stron- forms us that Simon Magnus caused
1 tium. thallium,, ttrium, and zirco- his shadow to go before him, making
ing Impossibilities After
Toiling Years.
DIMculties— ConstructinK Seem-
caused a huge commotion, and came 1 -——---
very near raising a riot, but the Spanish Ine o"Eruiles
British consul's prompt complaint A traveler says: ( urious contra
roused the authorities, and they sup- l dictions arc occasionally found in the
pressed her. Twice after this the higher ranks. I remember sleeping
woman sallied out with her gong. 1 at the house of a decayed noble, who
On the third occasion she happened ; received me with the utmost hospi-
tality. My sleeping apartment, how-
a strict watch upon the dwelling of down stairs without coat or vest,
the hated foreigner. ) “Well," said the other, as he over.
She lost no time in taking advan- ! took him, “you got about half what
tage of the w orkman’s act. She seized j a loafer would give you, and what de
a big gong and paraded up and down you think
the principal streets, weeping and j “I think I’ll take lessons in
shouting at the top of her lungs the ning and begin this very evening,
story of the way the grave of her was the prompt reply. as he sat down
ancestors had been desecrated by the on the curbstone to hold a wet hand-
servants of the vile foreigner. She kerchief to his swelling proboscis.
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yoi$ SHADOW,
Lost Shadows, Doable Shadoof and
Shadows Taken by the DeviL
Her father was a clerk of fame
Of Berthune’s Une of Picardie:
He learned tbe art that none may namo
in Padua, far beyond the sea.
Men said he ohanged his mortal frame
By feat of magic mystery.
For when, in studious mood, he paced
St. Andrews’ cloistered hall
His ford no darkning shadow traced
Uponscotesnnay the Iast Minstrel -
There are legends and legends, but
one of the most remarkable that has
Chinese builder to erect four tene- .
ment houses His business called
him away, and he was unable to i
supervise the work. He had secured
Canadian Pacific rajlway; and the
total cost, inclusive of rolling stock,
etc., is given as £36,765,000, or
£7,680 per mile.
This very low cost is due to the
favorable nature of the ground for
engineering operations, and the ab-
stretch right across the immense ter-
ritory of Siberia, no less than 4,875
miles, or twice the length of the !
missionary riots of lastwinternvalong but I do propose to have some protec-
the Yangtse river at Wuhu. W ugret
and several other points. I hey have
on “Great
emplified in the case of the loftiest
railway tunnel in the world, that be- __________
ing bored through the Peruvian ever been entertained in the minds
Andes near Galeria. This is the of men is that concerning the
highest village in the world, 15,635 shadow cast by the body. Curi-
feet above the sea, or only 100 feet ous myths and remarkable stones
lower than the summit of Mont Blanc, on this score have existed ever since
Near this village a tunnel. 3.84, the human race was in its infancy.
the south
the water.
run- sence of huge parliamentary expenses j iug of many thousands of sheets per when Moses wrote the book of Exodus,
and compulsory purchase of land. | hour. ’ and was used as an ornament by the
which have in our country, made । Flectricity has been reduced and ancient Egyptians, as is proved by
railroads so costly. The first sod of I trahed to the uses of mankind in finding it occasionally among the old
this huge undertaking Was cut by evory conceivable manner. and mummies. Herodotus mentions an
the czar at Vladivostock, May 2. Edison has made its power the won- emerald column in the temple of
1891. der of the age. Franklin caught it, Hercules at Tyre, which emitted a
reduced and utilized it to the uses of light at night; and Pliny in his writ-
with canes and cricket bats and gave ..e. encIN_
' JTXa/S AccomeErSN5‛ xBERrS.noID
this terror was increased when Cap-
tain Ravenhill of the British gunboat Feats Which were Completed Under
Esk came marching up with a small
party of heavy armed blue-jackets.
ThC ele'ctric light flashed upon their
mma-asammamaummauamcmunamummcawmgmmnzurarmo-ma-a--
REMARKABLE VENTURE exatemawaen SS? to
railway is that of Pike’s Peak in Col- catch the hindmost.” is based on one
______ -L . "i.tha sum- of these curious shadow legends,
mer of 1891. This line, nine miles According to the fable, the devil had
long, climbs to a height of 14,141 a regular school at i oledo, Spain,
feet above the sea level, with a max- -Commencement" was inaugurated
imum gradient of one in four. This by the graduating class running
is also a rack rail line: there also dif- through a long subterranean hall.
Acuity was experienced in the higher The devil hid at a place known only
portions from the rarity of the air, to himself. and, if he causht the
There is a mountain railroad in the hindmost.” ever after claimed him or
Catskill mountains, New York state, her as his special property. Some;
7,000 feet long, which is worked by times he only caught the shadow, and
cables driven by a drum at the sum- the persons thus deprived of their
mit, where the steam engines are “second self” were supposed to make
placed. _____ ■ the best astrologers and magicians.
uge century Nearly all East Indian tribes, as well
THE NEXT CENT . as the Malayans and several African
If jt Equals the Present One It Will wit- sects, believe that if a man walks
hh< Wondertul Things along
What will the discoveries and in- river.
ventions of the nineteenth century across
leave to the twentieth? Steamboats will seize it, and thus draw the own-
and railroads, ocean steamer naviga- er to certain death. Several writers,
tion, clipper ships and screw pro- Fiske among the rest, say that the
pellers have been invented; the pow- Zulus have a superstition similar
ers and mysteries of electricity have to that of the old Babylonians, viz:
been developed to the uses of man- That a dead body has no shadow. The
kind. Modoes and the Klamaths of Oregon
implements and machinery to ena- formerly refused to have their pic-
ble farmers to master the tillage of tures taken, for fear that the process
thousands of acres with less toil than would take away their shadows! In
the '’Van folktale the "Witchdalo."
ffera Sabbath,"was elebrated
only H heva A3
Tt of:Scott s poetO quotation fn»m
> opening
j weapons, the beleaguered foreigners
cherd and The cowardly Chinese
mob split and rln W ithout prompt Projects,» which dealt with engineer-
action by the consul and the captain ing proposals of a more or less chim-
of the Esk the mob would have erical character, may be suitably
gained strength and the night would supplemented by some brief notes on
have probably ended in the burning a fw of the greater engineering
of the foreign settlement works which have been quite recent-
After the riot was ended the ly completed, or which are actually ; feet long, is being bored through the and are even current at the present
Chinese mandarin sent assurances of in progress, with every prospect of ; summit of the mountain. 600 feet time in every country on the globe.
— , his distinguished consideration, with their being successfully finished in above the line of perpetual snow. There are legends of lost shadows, of
action of the English officer in charge promises that the rioters should be due course. This certainly may take rank as one double shadows and shadows that
severely dealt With, but that is as To begin at home, says London ‘ of the most extraordinary of railway
far as the matter has gone. No one Tid-Bits, the great tower, which owes
has been punished, and though the its origin to the energies of Sir E. W.
usual, did nothing, contenting them- facts have been reported to Pekin. Watkin. M. P., deserves first place,
selves with the explanation that the , there is small prospect that anyone as al •
mob was too large and too strong for wili be made to suffer. The whole tower, the engineering boast of November, 1891. and ascends to a light,
the local police to cope "i,h 1 secret of th imjunity of the leaders France. height of 5.606 feet at the summit death to stand a corpse up in the
For several months up to last No- of the anti-foreign riots lies in the This tower, which is being erected level. The journey is performed in sunlight and see if it would casta
vember students had been pouring apathy of the provincial mandarins, at Wembley park. where a special : one and one-half hours, and the shadow. John Fiske says: “There
These men are at heart bitter enemies station has been already opened, four- ateepest gradient is one in four. is a family of legends which show
of anything foreign. They hate the teen minutes from Baker-street ■ It is purely a rack and pinion line that a man’s shadow has generally
_____ _______ . the Viceroy Li because he has introduced station, is being actively pushe for- i throughout, and is further remarka- been regarded as a sort of spiritual
place which they honor with their the railroad and the telegraph. They ward. The foundation works have I ble from the short time in which it attendant of the body. ’ • * In
presence, and they are notorious for revile his policy of founding a navy been completed, and the laying out of was constructed. having been begun strict accordance with this idea, not
their hatred of foreigners and all for- | on European lines. They see in every the grounds is so far advanced that
eign improvements. They are all invention introduced a fresh blow at it is expected the park, which covers '
adepts in the Chinese classics, and the supremacy of the old system that 180 acres, will be opened this year,
their chance of securing honors and gave them office and that, if unim- The foundations are composed of huge
official position depend upon keeping paired, to make a | ’ “ _____________
up this standard of classical educa- sons. They loathe the missionaries, from twenty-eight feet to sixty feet,
tion. which has absolutely no bearing whom they regard as the chief of all according to the level of the land,
on ordinary life and affairs in China. | offenders. 'The tower itself will measure 960 lanway --------------------
Early in November correspondents ,geons feet in circumference at the base, and orado, which was opened in the
in Ichang begin to hint at the possi- I BOXING lessons. 1,100 feet in height, or 150 feet higher
bility of trouble, as the young liter- wut the Bank Cashier Dia Not Want than the Eiffel, while it will be larger
ati were particularly savage against
foreigners, many having read the
atrocious attacks on ( hristianity
been carried all over • nina, from the I
of a
in October, 1890. Thus in little over only in classic languages, but in va-
, a year this was finished, though the rious barbaric tongues, thte word
work necessitated the boring of ten meaning ‘shadow’ expresses also the
...____________________ - tunnels, the bridging of several soul or other self."
place for their concrete blocks, which vary in depih | streamlets, and the building of heavy In the story of Peter Schlemih ho
stone dams. lost his shadow in order to outwit
Another remarkable mountain the devil! Even our proverb: “Devil
STUDENTS OF CONFUCIUS
MEAD THE MOBS.
plot-able results to foreigners.
It was a very petty cause
ers!" This was in the afternoon of
December 2. The mob first moved
telegraphy. Field and his associates ings several times alludes to this
employed it. Puck-like, to cable con- charming stone. Egypt contains a
tinents and belt the world with in- vast store of emeralds, and we hear
stantaneous intercommunication. that a famous London gem merchant
Electric lights and railways are has been invited by the government
among the wonders which are in com- to go out, and to examine, and to
the tremendous engineering problems ! mon use. Phonographs and tele- make a bid for the concession. Ho is,
phones are trained mysteries, which therefore, about to depart on this
everybody uses. What will there be business. South America used to bo
for the twentieth century to discover rich in emeralds. When Pizarro dis-
twenty or invent? covered Peru, he found the natives
-----------.. .. , worshipping an emerald as large as
Early Naval Laws Unear ie . an ostrich egg, and the temple con-
A curious discovery was made some taining it was so adorned with emer-
years ago among the archives a alds that several chests full were sent
Southampton of a box containing the to Spain, each containing one hun-
original naval laws of that port as dredweight.
• “or this altitude feetare cut early as the Fourteenth centuur;
off by a three-mile tunnel, and alto- One of them was that if the majoriy she Defended Him.
gether among the mountains there of the sailors of a vessel on the point Ethel—Yes, I believe ho wishes to
are live tunnels, with a total length of sailing were of opinion thatthe marry me.
of over ten miles, while in the moun-i wind was unfavorable, and the vessel Clarissa—Now, dear Ethel, you
was wrecked afterward, the captain must not do the poor fellow injustice.
_______ was responsible for the value of the 1 have never seen the slightest trac
the rack goods lost. of insanity about him.
Then , was himself compelled to hold, be-
they began attacks on the dwellings cause there was no table on which he
of other foreigners and upon the could place that ponderous relic of
churches and mission buildings, the departed splendor of the house.
They were rapidly having their ———..
own way when the frightened for- otween i er,,
eigners retreated to the British cus- Pipkin—W ondor how the loin stenk
toms compound. There the doors came to be knighted?
were barred, but the ringleaders Potts-Ihe king probably admired
among the rioters* scaled the walls the fortitude with which it resisted
and over 100 gained admittance, assault.—Kate Field s W ashington.
tion several times. This bridge, which is
1,1.3, builtonthe“bascule”principle,pre-
“You’d defend yourself, eh? sents a novel feature in the center
“Now mv friend, before youthrow .span, which is 200 feet wide and cut
* ‘ . in halves yhicn are to he raised and
away any money on boxing comeoye Lought flush' with the* towers by
. to the gymnasium with me and make Elchinery concealed within them.
an experiment. When opened for passag
whieh ■ .Whatomon’ «j.. on the nose foot «?■•5
iassage of ves-
iy cross by a
.... ] lofty foot-path, to which access is
i , . .. .0. it tn obtained by staircases and lifts with-
1 donth Iin on in w.k
.^^7^ ietake ..a
. meacoward. 1 11 8° over With J approaches is 2,640 feet. About 31.-
right on. 000,000 bricks, 19,500 tons cement.
They went to a room., on Monroe 70,500 .cubic yards of concrete and
avenue where “the buys” scrap occat 15.000 tons of iron and steel will be
sionally, and there was a scrapper utilized in the structure.
^H to'-ic-ommodate the gent w hen the great Sjbriay railway metal pens and friction matches were which will be found at the
| mitr toaccommodate .he., woment chain—at present being constructed Eml.a. -iinm wae dienoverei: — r T:. -.ii. +hot ant
pressed for time, and in finishing the . " "
dwelling one of the workmen re-
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